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table of contents Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Wildwood Revival . . . . . . 19 Pub Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Threats & Promises . . . . . 20 Capitol Impact . . . . . . . . . . 5 Record Review . . . . . . . . 20

This Modern World . . . . . . 5 The Calendar . . . . . . . . . 21 City Dope . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Bulletin Board . . . . . . . . . 26

Student Parking . . . . . . . . 8 Adopt Me . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Summer Garden . . . . . . . 10 Art Around Town . . . . . . . 27 Art Rocks Athens . . . . . . 12 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Thayer Sarrano

Art Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Crossword . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Grub Notes . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Sudoku . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

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Movie Reviews . . . . . . . . 17 Local Comics . . . . . . . . . 30

 GRUB NOTES: Yay/ugh: It’s pumpkin spice season! Terrapin’s Pumpkinfest is out this Friday. � HOMEDRONE: Hear new music from Mothers, Thayer Sarrano and Houston in the Blind.  CULTURE BRIEFS: UGA astronomy professor Inseok Song was part of a group that discovered a new planet.

athens power rankings: Aug. 24–30 1. Women in Athens music 2. Fred Schneider 3. Libby Rose 4. OCAF ďˆą 5. Emily Eisenman Athens Power Rankings are posted each Monday on the In the Loop blog on flagpole.com.

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written about pension benefits. They are not alone in advancing that perspective. On the other hand, they seem to be alone in profiting from its adoption. If you look at their publicly traded stock prices (Aon PLC), what you’ll see is that over the last two years they have doubled! Clearly they are doing incredibly well at increasing the wealth of those who hold their stock in their portfolios. The current membership of the USG The overall USG savings ($6.8 million) Board of Regents reads like a who’s-who of for next year amounts to about $200 for the movers and shakers in Georgia’s busieach of us. I would much rather have been ness community. All very bright and hardable to keep our current plan and absorb a working people with incredible success in slightly higher premium or deductible. That the business world, along with being politiwould have been worth the time and effort cally well connected. How many of them we’re all going to be putting into what will have Aon PLC among their stocks? be annual decision-making on our mediIf, individually, it really works out that cal and drug insurance that for our initial we can get the same or better medical and enrollment far eclipses every other health drug coverage under the new regime, and if care insurance decision I ever had to make. Aon Hewitt can negotiate insurance plans As to Aon Hewitt: They did sign a soleon our behalf and make a profit doing it source, non-competitive and cost-free while providing individual counseling to contract with USG back in March to promore than 30,000 of us this fall, then the vide our “private” insurance marketplace, USG must have grossly failed in its responcounseling for each of us and managing our enrollment in one of the Medigap, Medicare sibility to Georgia’s taxpayers for a very long time. Our chancellor, the members of Part D and/or Medicare Advantage plans. the Board of Regents and bureaucrats in the (A full listing of what will be available is system office jointly share that blame. promised by Oct. 1.) And, stolen shamelessly from Wikipedia: When asked, the Aon Hewitt represen“There’s a sucker born every minute”—a tative admitted that their money was to phrase most come in the form of likely spoken by unspecified fees and David Hannum, in commissions to be BUMPERSTICKER OF THE WEEK: criticism of both rebated directly to P. T. Barnum, an them by the insurAmerican showman ance companies. of the mid-1800s, Their representative and his customers. denied knowledge Send your sticker sightings to letters@flagpole.com. The phrase is often of just how much credited to Barnum they anticipated himself. It means, those monies to be, and expressed no desire to ever know. All of “Many people are gullible, and we can expect this to continue.” that will not only pay for the work that Aon Joe Wisenbaker Hewitt is doing in setting up and operating Athens our private exchange, but will also afford them a level of profit justifying their investment of time and energy. Those are likely to represent very substantial sums, about which no information will ever be shared with us or even USG. And, after several years if everything My attendance at one of the USG-Aon works out, what of the health insurance for health exchange meetings on Tuesday, Aug. the rest of USG’s current employees? How 18 provided a classic example of an effort to could USG not fall all over themselves to lull UGA retirees into complacency by not beg for Aon Hewitt’s leadership there as telling us all of the story. Or, at least not well? That pool would represent the kind of emphasizing the most important part of windfall that would put their earnings from the story from the viewpoint of USG. Early dealing with retirees to shame. What unlim- on, the audience was informed that USG ited opportunity for corporate growth! wanted to be certain that each retiree was Together, USG and Aon Hewitt are sayprovided the same payment for their health ing that we’ll have choices that are almost insurance in 2016 that USG paid for them sure to result in the same, if not better, cov- in 2015. What the USG representative did erage than what we have now. Or, at least, not emphasize is that the retiree may now more in tune with our individual needs. The have to pay more in 2016 for that same miracle of a larger insurance pool and our health insurance, because we are no longer access to a free (though private) marketin the pool with the younger and presumplace are said to ensure that outcome. ably healthier active employees of USG. We have been told that our current medPreviously, active employees and retirees ical and drug benefit use and costs point to paid the same premium for the same health unsustainable growth and costs to USG in insurance plan. Now, the health insurance the future. USG has provided over the past company will be allowed to discriminate few years retirement bonuses to outgoing among retirees depending upon their system presidents totaling millions of dolage, health history, gender and location. lars! Maybe what we are experiencing is Apparently, there are differential costs for simply their way to balance their books. health care depending upon where you Aon Hewitt or one of their subsidiaries receive the health care. (Certainly, health has been providing position papers on the insurance companies will be seeking other unsustainability of benefit packages in the exceptions to increase premiums and their pension plans of governments, universities profits.) Bottom line: If you are older and and other nonprofits for years. They or their have health problems, you can expect to pay work are often cited in planning documents more for your health insurance premiums.

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Questions Remain About USG Retiree Benefit Plan As things stand now, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia has approved changes to our health insurance and plans to contribute in 2016 the same amount to each retiree and spouse’s health reimbursement account account as it paid toward our USG health plan for us in 2015—working out to $2,763 per person. We’ll be able to use that money to pay for insurance purchased through the Aon Hewitt Health Exchange, USG dental or vision benefits, additional deductibles and copays uncovered by our insurance and Medicare, as well as other reimbursable health expenses. They claim that this is going to save USG $6.8 million over what they project would have otherwise been necessary in 2016 under the USG health plan (with greater savings in subsequent years due to even higher projections). At the same time, Aon Hewitt has a sole-source, no-cost contract with USG to provide us a “private” insurance market along with individual onthe-phone counseling during some pre-determined hour of their choosing within the window of our “open enrollment” signup period, assistance in signing up for that plan and further help in resolving medical expense billing errors. The insurance we can buy in the Aon Hewitt marketplace will include an as-yet unspecified number of Medigap, Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage/Medicare Part C plans. Those specifics await federal approval for 2016 plans—promised before the first scheduled counseling sessions. The presentation offered by USG and Aon Hewitt in Athens Tuesday, Aug. 18 was remarkably well done insofar as looking at what we, as retirees, should expect going forward. They took audience questions on specifics and reasonably responded to them. There was, however, no effort made to explain much in the way of what led to the Board of Regents’ approval of those massive changes in the health benefit for retirees. Considering USG’s take on our health benefit funding, USG’s “Health Care Basics” for 2015 provides a nice table with 2015 premium rates for retired employees, showing retiree and employer contributions for various situations involving dependents and spouses, choice of health insurance plan and Medicare enrollment status. Ignoring the Kaiser Senior Advantage Plan (only available in a handful of metro counties and not Clarke), the lowest claimed employer contribution for a single Medicare eligible retiree already enrolled in Medicare is $280 per month or $3,360 per year. The $2,736 we’re told will go into our individual accounts is, therefore, at best 81 percent of that and way lower against any of the other listed employer contributions. I’m just not sure how the arithmetic works out that the total of what’s going into our accounts for next year is the same as USG’s contribution to our insurance for this year.

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USG Is Lulling Retirees Into Complacency

They did not inform us of the amount of dollars USG is saving by casting its retirees adrift from the pool of all employees and retirees of USG. They also did not inform us how many millions Aon is receiving for this added layer of bureaucracy that USG retirees now face in getting health care. Neither USG nor health care insurers will pay Aon, so guess who will pay in increased premiums, reduced benefits or both. We can let you know about difficulties in clarifying charges, payments or receiving health care due to this added level of bureaucracy. For any of us who wondered how the Republican voucher program of health care coverage might work, we now have the opportunity to experience it firsthand. When we were hired, we were promised that we would continue with a pension and with the same health care plan as when employed if we worked enough years. We wonder what happened to those promises. Verbal agreements were once honored in Georgia. Bert Richmond Athens

Library Book Sale Was a Success Last week, the Friends of the AthensClarke County Library hosted their summer Friends’ Book Sale. The purpose of the sale is to raise money for the library, and this summer our goal was $12,000. Most books sold for 50 cents–$2, so that means we needed to sell a lot of books to reach our goal. As it turns out, thanks to tremendous community support, the Friends raised almost $21,000. Money raised by the Friends is used to support many library programs, such as the Summer Reading Program for children, the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program, Chess Club and the Heritage Room, to name just a few. There were 19,000 books at the sale, almost all donated by folks in our community. The sale attracted the usual book lovers who cannot get enough science fiction books, cook books or mysteries, and even a few book sellers who were hoping to find a treasure or two. It was very busy all three days of the sale, especially Saturday, the last day, when you could buy a large grocery bag of books full to overflowing for $10. It just never slowed down! Some of my favorite shoppers on Saturday were a new 4th grade teacher buying books to set up her very own classroom library; a daughter buying large print books and “sweet” romances for her mother’s nursing home because “they can never get enough;” a retiree buying children’s books for local emergency room waiting areas; and a mom buying bags of books for a local daycare center that recently lost most of their books when a tree fell on their roof. To me, the book sale really feels like a celebration of community, and I would like to thank the community for helping to make the Friends’ Book Sale such a wonderful celebration. Thank you, Athens, for donating so many books, for putting up fliers or yard signs, and for running notices in the paper. Many thanks for the hundreds and hundreds of volunteer hours it took to put on the book sale, and a special thank you to everyone who came out and bought lots and lots of books. Now we begin again as we collect books for our spring sale coming up in March. Jean Campbell Chairperson, Friends of the Library Book Sale Committee

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Music, Beer and Bombs

Carter Shows Special Courage

Celebrating Old Friends for Good Causes

The Ex-President Calmly Faces a Battle with Cancer

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Randall and Ike Celebrate Harold Two legends celebrate a third to benefit a fourth: Ike Stubblefield and Randall Bramblett are performing a concert Thursday to honor the memory of their friend Harold Williams and to benefit the YWCO. If Harold were alive and well, you can bet he would be headlining this benefit, too. Ike, during 50 years playing, recording and jamming, has made himself the pre-

Waters, neighbor Carey McGinnes and others, were reminded of all the good times there. Mamie Davis and her band played some music and then Kate Morrissey and her group livened the afternoon. The partygoers bought art by Vietnamese children and raised a total of $2,500 for Chuck’s Project Renew. Even if you missed the party, you can donate by going to Project Renew’s informative website, landmines. org.vn.

You may notice that this drawing by a Vietnamese child is filled with warnings about unexploded bombs, a daily hazard in Quang Tri Province, where Project Renew operates.

eminent master of the Hammond B3 organ, and in addition to playing all over the world has also played all over town since making Athens his base several years ago. Randall, whose energy belies his longevity, has been playing music in Athens and everywhere else since before the B-52s got out of high school; he’s a composer and a multi-instrumentalist who has toured with big-name bands and has headed his own groups and has played frequent shows here. When Stubblefield and Bramblett say some of their musician friends will join them onstage, that could be just about anybody in the musical world, so this is a big and enjoyable event for a good cause. It’s at Live Wire, at Hull and Dougherty streets, at 7 p.m. this Thursday, Aug. 27. Tickets are only $15 and can be purchased online at ticketfly.com/purchase/event/939773 or at the door or at the YWCO. There will be a food truck onsite, and Live Wire has a full bar. What more could you want?

Exit Searcy Well, Chuck Searcy has come and gone and is headed back to his work extricating unexploded ordnance from the heavily bombed area we used to call the demilitarized zone in Vietnam. In spite of his dedication to his mission, Chuck remains as personable and gregarious as ever, and those who joined him for the delightful (though hot) gathering at his home on Milledge Circle, presided over by Dennis

Beer Near Here My old hometown of Greensboro, GA is getting a craft brewery. You couldn’t even buy a beer in Greensboro when I was growing up, not that I would have—the communion Welch’s grape juice at the Methodist Church being my drink of choice. A couple of father-and-son real-estate developers from McDonough are going to build a brewery in the old Mary-Leila cotton mill, a big old brick factory that has been standing vacant down by the railroad depot for decades. It should make a fine location for brewing and tasting and is sure to become a destination for beer lovers, maybe even warranting a spur off the Firefly rail-to-trail path that may someday run from nearby Union Point to Athens. Taylor Lamm will be the brewer, and he’s got degrees and certificates in brewing from impressive schools as well as political science and sociology degrees from UGA. Sounds like the perfect bartender. The name of the operation will be Lake Country Brewing Company (stressing the Lake Oconee connection, of course). I can’t wait to see what kind of beers they come up with. Greensboro is about equi-distant from Augusta and Atlanta and is a pleasant drive through the national forest from Athens. Given the availability of the old cotton mill, this looks like a winning venture. I just wish they hadn’t come up with such a generic name. They should have called it God’s Country Brewing Company. f

When he sat down last week to talk about the cancer that has spread to several parts of his body, Jimmy Carter was very calm in discussing his reaction to the dreaded diagnosis. At first, he recounted, “I thought I just had a few weeks left. But I was surprisingly at ease. “I’ve had a wonderful life,” Carter said, noting the “thousands” of friends, the many supportive family members, and a growing number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren: “More of them come every year.” As he nears the end of his life—the former president will be 91 on Oct. 1—Carter knows that, when all is said and done, family and friends are really the things that matter. It was interesting to learn that Carter is most proud not of the fact that he held this country’s highest office, but of what he’s been able to do in 35 years since leaving the presidency: building houses for the poor, working to eradicate guinea worm disease, monitoring elections, trying to advance peace. “My life since the White House has been personally more gratifying, although the presidency was obviously the pinnacle of my political success,” he confessed. What struck me most about Carter’s statements was that he decided to make one last try at a very advanced age to fight back against the disease that killed his parents and all of his siblings. Cancer is a horrible disease that requires extreme measures if you want to have any hope of controlling it. Most patients who are being treated for cancer quickly learn that the treatment often feels worse than the disease. Consider the options that a cancer patient faces. You will be cut open for surgeries that remove large portions of skin, muscle tissue and internal organs. Your

doctor may even recommend amputating a limb. You will have large needles jammed into every part of your anatomy. If there’s scar tissue from previous cancer surgeries, it will be like trying to push a needle into a brick. You will be blasted with radiation that leaves a painful sunburn and makes you feel like your skin is on fire. You will sit in a chair for hours while poisonous chemicals are dripped into your veins in an attempt to kill the cancer cells. These chemicals are so dangerous that the infusion nurses wear safety gloves. The chemicals used against cancer cells also kill large amounts of healthy tissue and can leave you feeling so weak that you can’t even make it to the bathroom. In some instances, you may vomit and watch your hair fall out. You can have an adverse reaction to the treatments that drives you into a delirium so intense it makes you rip a catheter out of your jugular vein. I can attest to these side effects, because I’ve dealt with the same type of cancer that has invaded Carter’s body. In fact, my oncologist is part of the team at Emory that will be treating him. I’ve been cut, burned and poisoned more times than I care to remember. Carter is now starting to experience some of those same procedures. He has always been a very thorough and methodical person. I have to think that Carter insisted on being fully briefed on what he might encounter if he went ahead with treatment for melanoma. The fact that he chose to take this difficult path as he nears 91 shows that he has a very special kind of courage. As he talked about the “adventure” that lies ahead, Carter remarked: “I’m perfectly at ease with whatever comes… I’ll be prepared for it when it comes.” I believe him. f

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Bike Lanes to Nowhere Plus, the Bishop Park Master Plan and Five Points Development By Blake Aued news@flagpole.com

Dickerson said that Southeast Clarke Community Park doesn’t have “nearly the resources” as Bishop—even though Southeast Clarke is less than 15 years old, and ACC already is planning to build a new dog park and playground there. “I can’t go to sleep at night saying let’s give it all to the Westside when there’s needs on the Eastside as well,” Dickerson said. She also said she wants to focus on revenue-generating activities. “You don’t get money from people throwing the ball around,” she said, although Leisure Services doesn’t turn a profit on any programs; some just lose less money than others. Likewise, Ben Burton Park off Mitchell Bridge Road needs a lot of help, too, NeSmith said. “I know there are needs for other parks, but this is an important park,” Commissioner Jared Bailey said. About 400,000 people visit Bishop Park annually, and Leisure Services officials believe better pedestrian access and signage would boost that number even higher. Commissioner Harry Sims’ answer? A master plan for master plans for all the parks. “Certainly, if we’re spending money on parks, I’d like to take a broader look at that,” Hamby said.

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Boulevard residents are still pushing for a truly complete Bishop Park: Commissioners might pump the brakes next week on a master plan for Bishop Park. “I just feel this masChase Street as Athens-Clarke County commissioners ponter plan… has not gotten the public vetting it really needs,” der adding bike lanes to a small portion out near the Loop. Chase Street is due to be repaved, and the ACC Complete Link said at the agenda-setting meeting. “Bishop Park is too big, too important and too loved not to get it right.” Streets policy requires the commission to consider reducWhile commissioners universally like the idea of opening ing four-lane roads to three lanes and adding bike lanes. up the park—especially on the Hawthorne Avenue side— Problem is, only about a block of the part of Chase Street with more gates and paths to connect the neighborhoods that’s being repaved is four lanes. The commission already on either side, other aspects of the master plan are coming voted in 2010 to keep nearby Newton Bridge Road four under scrutiny. lanes, due to concerns from industries in the area, and Chase Street south of the Loop is already three lanes and too narrow for proper bike lanes. But it’s also filled with cyclists and pedestrians. Twice as many students (160) Southern Mill: A couple of years ago, a walk or bike to Chase Street Elementary group of Oconee County developers picked as are picked up by car, Tony Eubanks told up the ball on a decade-old plan to renocommissioners at their Tuesday, Aug. 18 vate the old denim mill off Chase Street agenda-setting meeting. into live/work spaces for artists. Nothing “It’s nerve-racking,” Mike Bradshaw ever came of the project, but recently, said. “I have three small children. I walk plans were refiled, although they were past the Bread Basket every day, and it later withdrawn for tweaking. makes me very nervous.” Michael Smith, a local activist who Between the Loop and Boulevard, owns property near Southern Mill, has Chase Street is probably just barely wide organized a forum from 4–6:20 p.m. enough to narrow the vehicle lanes and Tuesday, Sept. 1 at Hendershot’s where add bike lanes, though they might not we can learn more about the project. Link, measure the five feet width that alternaCommissioner Kelly Girtz, Thinc UGA, tive transportation advocates prefer. College of Environment and Design graduSouth of Boulevard, the road narrows even ate students, WGAU 1340 AM radio host more, but more pedestrian islands could Tim Bryant and others are participating be added. in the forum, which will focus not only on Commissioner Melissa Link, who repThe multi-use field off Sunset Drive is a popular draw for soccer players, and a proposed Bishop Park master plan resents Boulevard, is pushing for staff to calls for creating two similar fields, one in the wooded north end of the park and the other at the site of one of three Southern Mill, but Complete Streets and the revitalization of Chase Street in gendo a study of the entire street, rather than softball fields. eral, according to Smith. simply put forward a plan to three-lane a In particular, some commissioners are concerned about small chunk. A holistic plan for Chase could connect neighCooperative Extension: Commissioners are considering the $20 million price tag and the order in which Leisure borhoods now separated by the Loop, as well as encourage six sites for a new 8,000 square-foot, $2.5 million SPLOSTServices wants to phase projects within the park. (Those revitalization of some of the abandoned industrial areas funded UGA Cooperative Extension office: two on Ben projects will include revamped parking, two new multi-use north of the railroad tracks. Burton Circle, an industrial park off Atlanta Highway; part “I feel like it’s really important that we address the entire fields, a new pavilion and a new, larger gymnasium.) Most of the YWCO property on Research Drive; another Research of the money likely would come from a future SPLOST. street and ensure the safety of the folks who use it and Drive parcel; Gaines School Road property owned by Athens Bishop Park’s facilities are 20–40 years old, and it has encourage more people to use it,” Link said. Regional Medical Center that the hospital is trying to sell; never been renovated. Nonetheless, Commissioner Sharyn A commission vote is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 1.

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and the UGA farm off South Milledge Avenue. Every site has its pluses and minuses. The YWCO has been all but eliminated, since the organization asked for an exorbitant amount of money to locate the tennis center there, and commissioners believe it’s more suitable for perhaps a mixed use development. (The YWCO has wanted to sell its land and move to Oconee County for years.) Commissioners Mike Hamby and Andy Herod, who chair study committees on revitalizing Atlanta Highway and Lexington Road, respectively, are lobbying to locate the center on one of those two aging corridors. “These are public dollars we can use to stimulate some private sector economic development,� Herod said, although the extension office only draws about 200 visitors a week. Commissioner Jerry NeSmith, however, said he’s opposed to taking the Ben Burton Circle property off the tax rolls. And Link said another type of development would benefit Atlanta Highway more than the extension office. Commissioner Diane Bell, meanwhile, wants it located on the UGA property. It’s located near other agricultural functions, has bus service, and UGA has assured her the lack of sewer cited as a drawback by county officials isn’t an issue, she said. All this jockeying is taking place even though the commission is only voting on six sites that deserve further study. They’re not picking a site Sept. 1. Aging in Place: While “aging in place� generally refers to housing for seniors, couldn’t one age in place from 18–22? That’s what Five Points residents—and, it seems, a majority of commissioners—think will happen in a subdivision at the intersection of Springdale and Rocksprings streets proposed by developer Jared York. Although the ACC Planning Commission recommended approval of a rezoning and several waivers earlier this month, county

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commissioners appear poised to reject the plan, in large part due to questions about who will buy and live in the housing units. “I did ask the question, ‘If you’re marketing to seniors, why don’t you go the extra step and guarantee it will be for seniors?’� Hamby said. “And the response was, ‘Well, I just don’t want to take the risk.’ I’m at the point where I don’t think the neighbors are willing to take the risk, either.� Although York has said the 14 attached units will be marketed to buyers 55 and up, he has refused to write a minimum age into covenants. And as Bailey noted, York is the same developer who promised King Avenue residents he wouldn’t cut down a big old oak tree, then did it anyway. The proposed units are two stories and do not include elevators, and handicapped access is limited. “Aging in place� is an architectural concept that includes features like wheelchair-width doors and hallways, no-threshold showers and an open floor plan, NeSmith said. “These are things people need to get old in. If the [development] doesn’t have these things, those architectural standards—no, it is not aging in place.� “To me, these say student crash pads or game day party pads,� Link said. “There’s nothing about this that accommodates people aging in place.� The fear is that buyers will find ways to circumvent ACC’s two-unrelated law and either allow their children and children’s friends to live in the units while in school or rent them out. While Five Points certainly has its share of rental units, York is asking to more than double the density allowed on the property, which could create additional noise, traffic and parking problems for neighbors. “This has all the hallmarks of a bait-and-switch, and I’m not interested in it,� Commissioner Andy Herod said. Winterville Mayor: After serving one term, Emily Eisenman said last week that she will not run for reelection, citing career demands. At least three other candidates—former ACC Commissioner Doug Lowry, Councilman Kenny Hodges and City Engineer George Chandler—are interested in the position, and more could announce soon, Eisenman said. The qualifying period is in late August, and elections will be held the first Tuesday in November. f

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onto campus. Others point to the restaurants and bars that have cropped up in recent years, and the loss of parking on a vacant lot where the landmark bar Allen’s used to stand ou can’t park on the street in some parts of Athens but a medical office building is planned now. (The medical unless you live there. Or you know someone who office will have a parking deck, but it will only be open to lives there. And you pay. patients.) When the Athens-Clarke County government restricted “It is clear that there parking on Five Points streets are people on [the north] beginning with Morton side of the street dashing Avenue, University Drive and across Prince Avenue,� said Hampton Court around the Commissioner Melissa Link, year 2000, the purpose was who wants county traffic to keep students from using engineers to study whether an on-street parking as a free additional crosswalk and bus alternative to university lots stop would help. While Bailey that require expensive perrepresents the neighborhoods mits. Over the years, 15 more on the same side of Prince streets—all of them in Five Avenue as the HSC, Link’s disPoints—have been added to trict is across the busy road. the list of places that allow The HSC has plenty of parkonly residents and their guests ing spots, but the university to park on the street, and only parking system doesn’t exactly if they have a special governdiscourage students from ment-issued permit. parking off campus. Students That could change around can buy either a permit to park the Health Sciences Campus in on the main campus or on the Normaltown, where residents Health Sciences Campus; there got the option last fall to petiis no special pass available tion the government to add for those who have classes on their area to the list of places both campuses. Permits for that require permits to park the main campus are $20, $30 on the street. or $40 a month (depending on “Parking has always been the demand for the lot) and a conflict� in neighborhoods require a nine- or 12-month that abut the University of Parts of Georgia Avenue were recently yellow-curbed due to increasing numbers of people parking on side streets in Normaltown. commitment. Georgia, says Commissioner The HSC offers a similar deal for a permit good only at Jared Bailey, who represents the south side of Prince the Prince Avenue campus. Students who don’t want to pay Avenue adjacent to the HSC. “There’s plenty of parking on $20 a month over a nine- or 12-month contract can pay $1 the campus, but for some reason, some students don’t park Streets are fuller. Whether students are creating the an hour to park. there.� parking congestion, and why, isn’t as clear. Students and faculty with classes on both campuses can Normaltown neighborhoods have grown congested Some neighbors swear they’ve watched students park on also take advantage of the free UGA bus that runs between with traffic since the Navy vacated its 56-acre campus at Satula and Yonah avenues, cross Prince Avenue and walk

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Permission to Permit Parking In September 2014, the Athens-Clarke Commission added three streets in Normaltown to the list of places that could pursue mandatory parking permits if they want. (Three streets in Pulaski Heights are on the list, too, though congestion there likely isn’t caused by students going to class, but rather people looking to avoid paying for parking downtown.) Even when a street is eligible, two-thirds of the neighbors have to agree to limit on-street parking to residents who agree to pay $10 a year for a permit. Visitors to those streets can get a one-day pass with a resident’s help. Jennifer Lewis leaves that option open if parking gets even more precious. But after 15 years in their house on Georgia Avenue, she’s happy to have the problem. “We’re getting hit with both the expansion of Normaltown business and the Health Sciences Campus. It’s a good thing for us,” says Lewis. Painting yellow curbs on alternating sections of Georgia Avenue solved her concern—for now, she says. Limiting parking in other areas may push more students, as well as restaurant and bar patrons, to park farther and farther into neighborhoods, she says. “Right now, do I want to go to the trouble of paying $10 a year just to park in front of my own house? No,” Lewis says. “But if the situation changes, I’d be open to the idea.” In the Buena Vista neighborhood across Prince Avenue, some residents are also grumbling about clogged streets and blocked intersections. To an extent, residents in neighborhoods on both sides of Prince Avenue say they don’t mind parked cars, which slow traffic. But some are wistful for the insulated Navy School, which stayed contained to its campus. “Regardless of what was going on at the Navy School, there was never—I mean never—a parking issue,” Greg Yoder said at a July 7 meeting when commissioners discussed yellow-curbing Georgia Avenue. The university shouldn’t expect the Athens community to provide free parking for students when UGA received the Navy School property for free, he said. As UGA grows, the problem could expand to other neighborhoods. While no Eastside streets are currently part of the parking permit program, UGA’s new veterinary teaching hospital on College Station Road is causing similar problems for residents there. “The students aren’t supposed to park there, but they are parking at Kroger. They are parking at churches. And they are parking in neighborhoods,” Laurin Smith told commissioners July 7. “So, we are suffering from that.” f

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There’s a three-foot black racer under the kitchen table enjoying the cool of the linoleum tiles.

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oblivion by the July light. The racer is unimpressed by our attempts to shoo her out the door, and she’s not the only reptile in our lives who refuses to budge. Scary Snake, down at the pond, lies stretched out on the earthen dam in her “come hither” repose, thick and somnolent from her week of bullfrog binge-eating. She’s only a banded water snake but looks like she could eat your grandmother. At the pond, too, dragonflies the size of small bats land on the points of the flag iris blades. (Let’s learn to do that.) Blue-tailed skinks scurry on the granite steps; the June bugs and wasps

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butterfly weed is showing off its brilliant vines look like a science experiment gone orange like something radioactive which wrong. then comes alive as the hundreds of tiny We know there are some high achievers butterflies all take flight at the same time. out there. You probably read magazines The heliotrope with its bluish-indigo blosabout year-round gardening (heaven help us) and are already planning a fall garden. But us? We sit back with an affordable bottle of bourbon and some blessed ice cubes in an old white enamel cup and watch the sun move from the cedars to the farthest pines on the back pasture— the pasture where the dogs say the cow patties are the most succulent this time of year—and drink in the cacophony of the cicadas, tree frogs and katydids. The insects start at 7:30 a.m. or so; you can imagine just how productive we are at the end of July. Meanwhile Preacher, our neighbor’s black-and-tan, holds forth on yet another sermon on the Book of Job, outdoing even the coyotes in their histrionics. The house is a wreck. Hundreds of pounds of produce cover every surface: tomatoes all over the kitchen counter and dining tables; potatoes on the writing desk; sprays of drying herbs cover the A hornet enjoys an apple. bookshelves. In the night, soms refuses to give in, while the horse we curse as we trip over baskets of field mint, Joe Pye and goldenrod remind us peas waiting to be shelled, and the yellow once again that where we live in Georgia squashes glow in the dark of the bathtub, there is always a garden, even where there the only place left that is cool enough to isn’t. The buckeye seed pods are cracking store them. (The refrigerator is long past open, dropping the shiny mahogany seeds use; we stopped opening the door in late we pocket for good luck, and the sumac (Is there anything more beautiful than wine-red sumac seed heads nodding over the tall spikes of the Indian grass and brilliant yellow goldenrod?) is reaching for the hot, blue sky on the power-line cut. In our sixth decade of life, we have felt a great mellowing of the gardening instinct, a kind of maturity, or exhaustion, growing in us that says, “This is not your own. You may participate, work hard starting seeds in January, carry the seedlings in and out of the house to save them from late frosts. You may use your precious well water for a while to nurture their growth, and you may even share the bounty with friends and family, but all of this belongs to me, Mother Nature.” And she is not a sentimental fool who plants things in rows and tries to control what does not need to be controlled. We will spend August harvesting more tomatoes, the The corn has given up the ghost. poblanos, the watermelons and the knuckle peas that just keep on givJune for fear we might find yet another ing, even when everything else has thrown head of unsold broccoli.) in the towel. And then we will finish that Flower-wise, there’s still a lot to celbottle and return to the screened porch for ebrate, but we do it from a safe distance: a long nap under the fan. f Cosmos is a riot of orange and yellow;

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The Art Athens is well known as the birthplace of R.E.M., Pylon and the B-52s, but less understood is the crucial role students at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art played in helping to establish the town’s music scene. Dedicated to preserving and promoting the artwork and artifacts from those formative years of 1975–’85, Art Rocks Athens launched last year with an impressive group of exhibitions spread between several venues, full of paintings, drawings, graphic arts, rock relics and fashion. This year’s programming will transition off of the canvas and onto the big screen through a focus on photography and DIY film. ARA kicks off with a film screening dedicated to the work of influential experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage on Thursday, Aug. 27 from 7–9 p.m. at the Georgia Museum of Art. The collection of films, introduced by UGA professor Chris Sieving,

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will highlight Brakhage’s explorative techniques and themes, setting a visual context for appreciating the other Super 8 and 16 mm films ARA has in store. “Brakhage made several hundred films over some 50 years, many of which were groundbreaking. As I understand it, he was Jim Herbert’s film mentor,” says ARA executive committee member Blair Dorminey. “Although their work is different in many respects, there is a common expressionist vibe—creativity and experimentation, certainly—and the result is often great beauty and a new way of seeing things.” Herbert, who was Michael Stipe’s professor at Lamar Dodd, went on to direct a series of iconic music videos for R.E.M., cementing his place in Athens music history. Several of his pieces will be incorporated throughout the weekend’s events. On Friday, Aug. 28 from 4–5 p.m. at Flicker Theatre & Bar, ARA will host “Cocktails & Videos,” a happy hour featuring the decade’s best music videos and band footage. An opening reception for “I’ll Be Your Mirror: Images From the Athens Scene, 1975–1985” will immediately follow

from 5:30–8:30 p.m. at Art Rocks Photo & Film @ 5, a pop-up exhibition space located in the heart of Five Points at 1225 S. Milledge Ave. Curated by Sandra Lee Phipps, a professor of photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design’s Atlanta campus, “I’ll Be Your Mirror” is a retrospective photography exhibition that presents a time capsule of Athens’ budding creative culture through five major sub-themes. Portraits identify a handful of active artists and musicians, while images of local landscapes and landmarks help to establish a sense of place. Wild party photos are juxtaposed with intimate shots of Athenians in their private homes and spaces, exemplifying a unique history that, although occasionally mythologized by townies who remark, “You missed it,” is ultimately built upon the stories of characters who have remained genuinely approachable for the past three decades. While attending UGA in the early ‘80s, Phipps met the members of R.E.M. through the art department and collaborated on much of their earliest publicity and album artwork. A selection of her pieces will sit

alongside images from more than 20 photographers, including Terry Allen, Jeremy Ayers, Terry Boling, Nanette Consovoy, Dana Downs, Rick Hawkins and Margo Rosenbaum. Following round two of “Cocktails & Videos,” set for Saturday, Aug. 29 from 4–5 p.m., ARA will present “Art Rocks Reels: Movie Highlights from the Athens Scene, 1970–85” at the UGA Special Collections Libraries from 5–8 p.m. The reception and screening will travel through time, sharing early films by Keith Bennett, Jim Herbert, Laura Levine, Howard Libov and Spencer Thornton, among others. Highlights include the public premieres of Catfish Close-up by Betty Alice Fowler and teenage films by Cindy Wilson. “Many of the filmmakers were already known to me as old friends, and our conversations have been going on, in some cases, for years,” says Dorminey. “[We] did a lot of research, tracking films and placing orders with major archives. We’re amassing a large list of relevant Super 8 and 16 mm film. We couldn’t even scratch the surface of video— that’s mainly for another day.”

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ARA will conclude with a brunch at The Pine on Sunday, Aug. 30 from 12–2 p.m., followed by a second installment of film delving more deeply into rarities next door at Art Rocks Photo & Film from 1–6 p.m. “Art Rocks Reels: Super 8 and 16 mm Auteurs of the Athens Scene, 1970–1985� includes works by the likes of Steve Allen, Lauren Fancher, Michael Lachowski, Michael Paxton and the Rat + Duck Playhouse. Various filmmakers will be present to introduce their films, and Richard Neupert of the UGA Film Studies department will lead a roundtable discussion. Likely due to the tremendous amount of coordination required in organizing the inaugural year’s series of exhibitions, many people fell under the impression that ARA was a one-off event. From the beginning, however, ARA set out to establish itself as 501(c)(3) nonprofit that would continue to showcase the artists and musicians who helped place Athens on the map. “We’ve always planned to continue; there’s a lot to be done, and a lot that would be fun to do,� says Dorminey. “In January, we’ll be screening more film, and we just may have another, smaller exhibition in conjunction with it. As for ARA 2016, we haven’t yet decided whether to move up a decade, 1985–1995, or to jump to the decade of Elephant 6, or to do something unexpected. In any case, we may be looking at expanding ARA into Atlanta, and possibly taking some things on the road, if we can find the necessary national funding.�

The Rock Many of Athens’ most celebrated musicians were drawn to the town by UGA’s art school. But the art/music connection is even deeper than that, says Jason NeSmith, a member of ARA’s executive committee and the frontman for Athens-based indie rockers Casper and the Cookies. “The first contact I had with Athens or any underground music was visual,� says NeSmith, who grew up in Atlanta and recalls seeing flyers for punk rock shows plastered on the telephone poles near his house. In fact, NeSmith says it was visual media that attracted him to Athens. “I remember seeing the video for [R.E.M.’s] ‘So. Central Rain’ for the first

time, and suddenly Athens was what everyone was talking about,� he says. “And that didn’t stop for the next 18 years; so many of the best new bands were either from Athens or were influenced by it. I tried to get that wild feeling in Atlanta, and found a tiny circle of great friends. But then I saw shows by Mrs. Atkins and the Olivia Tremor Control, and realized the real thing was still 70 miles northeast. So, I finally just moved here.� The musicians playing this year’s ARA showcase include some of the most notable to come out of Athens from 1975–’85. Among them are B-52s frontman Fred Schneider, who will perform solo for the first time in nearly 20 years at Live Wire on Saturday. “We were down one headliner with the deadline bearing down on us,� explains NeSmith. “I contacted Fred fully expecting a no, but he enjoyed last year’s events and wanted to be a part of it. With that positivity, we were able to put a group together for him.� Other performers include Glenn Phillips, who will headline The Foundry on Friday with a group that also includes the B-52s’ Cindy Wilson. (“It’s not everyday you get to see two major pioneers of such different styles come together,� marvels NeSmith.) Flat Duo Jets guitarist Dexter Romweber also appears on Friday’s bill. New wave pioneer Kevin Dunn will play Live Wire Saturday, as will the Pylon Reenactment Society, an all-star band fronted by Pylon’s Vanessa Briscoe Hay. Saturday’s show also features a new local rock group, The Fantastics. “We are looking to the future of Art Rocks Athens and widening our self-imposed time frame,� says NeSmith about the choice to showcase a current group as part of what is ostensibly a celebration of the past. “In that spirit, we wanted to bring in a great new band. There are dozens, but [at the] top of my list was The Fantastics, who prove to me that whatever it is that makes Athens special, it’s still here.� Indeed, NeSmith says, despite its constant ebb and flow, the vibe that characterized Athens’ early scene remains intact. “Those bands don’t often have any grand scheme to get famous, just to have fun and do something unexpected,� he says. “That’s kind of the spirit of Athens to me.� f

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Clay and Creativity ‘Perspectives’ is A Return to the Earth By Madeline Bates arts@flagpole.com unique work. There’s something universally meditative about the cool The Hall Gallery will squish of mud on your skin. It is a physical connection with display “Once Upon a the Earth and a reminder of days gone by when, as a child, Time,” a collection by local it was acceptable to cover yourself in dirt simply for the joy clay worker Isabell Daniel. of it. When we set aside our modern adult aversion to getDaniel is a Georgia native ting our hands dirty, we can tap into that youthful, primal currently living and workpart of ourselves that remembers the Earth and unleash ing just south of Athens in our innate, playful creativity. Farmington, but her work Why do some people grow up and continue playing with is influenced by the colors, the Earth, as potters do? At what point does play become textures and pottery techart? “Perspectives” provides imaginative answers to these niques absorbed through questions, as well as several opportunities for attendees to her worldwide travels. During her time as a professor at the learn about working with clay. University of Georgia—where she also received her masOne of the Southeast’s largest pottery exhibitions, ter’s degree in ceramics—Daniel lived and taught abroad the 13th annual “Perspectives” is hosted by the Oconee for months at a time in Japan, a land known for its delicate Cultural Arts Foundation in Watkinsville and will run from Friday, Aug. 28–Wednesday, Sept. 16. The invitational show ceramic products and ancient techniques. Her collection in this year’s “Perspectives” is based around the ideas of time and pottery sale features original handmade work by 50 of and storytelling, embodied through a series of figurative Georgia’s best contemporary potters. As per tradition, there will be an opening gala and preview sale featuring light refreshments, finger Mike Schmidt food and an outdoor performance by soulful jazz group Period Six on Friday, Aug. 28 from 6-9 p.m. Admission is $20—higher than in years past, but hopefully a sign of a bigger and better-than-ever event. Attendees will get early access to the show and sale, which features thousands of pots, vases, bowls and non-traditional clay objects. The general exhibition will commence the following day, Saturday, Aug. 29, and will be free and open to the public every day (including Sundays and Labor Day) from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. OCAF is located in the repurposed school known as the 1902 Building, which once housed the Watkinsville Gym, now called Rocket Hall. Classrooms and hallways in the building have been converted into galleries and creative workshop spaces in which OCAF hosts public art classes year round. It seems appropriate that such a storied building would host an event dedicated to celebrating a traditional craft, but like the building itself, many of the featured artists have taken a terracotta clocks. The clocks are constructed like stringed puppets, with individual moving parts that create faces, unique, modern approach to pottery. hands and other abstracted elements of the human form. The bulk of “Perspectives” will fill Rocket Hall to the brim with an extensive selection of 5,000 purchasable pots. On each figure, the clock face is placed where the heart should be, a visual reminiscent of the Tin Man from The “Participating Potters: 2015,” an exhibition on view in the Wizard of Oz. Daniel’s whimsical work is sure to stir every Main Gallery, includes two or three pieces by each of the viewer’s inner child. 50 selected potters for a condensed, “best in show” option. The Members’ Gallery will feature work by Akira Satake, These pieces are typically utilitarian objects like bowls, a Japanese native currently based in Asheville, NC, a cups, plates, vases and pots, but many artists choose to city with one of the country’s premier pottery communicreate less traditional, decorative pieces. Two such artists ties. Satake’s work blurs the line between art and nature will be featured in smaller galleries devoted solely to their

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through the use of natural forms and textures. His naturalistic work evokes textures such as water-worn wood and rough-hewn carved stone. These textures are often created through methods that incorporate natural media such as wood ash used in firing for coloring. Satake also creates work that speaks to his Japanese heritage, with the more refined, minimalistic forms and patterns popular in traditional Japanese ceramics. His selection represented at “Perspectives” creates a beautiful bridge between the natural origins of traditional pottery and modern aesthetics. In addition to the exhibitions and pottery sale, “Perspectives” will host an artist workshop, demonstrations and gallery talks throughout the month: Workshop: Satake will lead “Beauty in Imperfection” on Saturday, Aug. 29 and Sunday, Aug. 30 from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. The artist will demonstrate hand-building and throwing techniques used for making bowls, pots and vases, and give tips on creating rich surface textures inspired by nature. The two-day workshop costs $165 (including lunch), and spots can be reserved online at ocaf.com, by phone at 706-7694565 or in person at 34 School St. in Watkinsville. Pottery Demonstrations: Participating potters will lead free demonstrations of wheel throwing and hand-building techniques on Saturdays from 1–4 p.m. in the Rocket Hall Courtyard. The lineup includes Atlanta potter Rick Berman on Aug. 29, Good Dirt studio owner Rob Sutherland on Sept. 5 and Watkinsville artist Alice Woodruff on Sept. 12. Gallery Talks: Michael Pitts will lead free discussions in the Main Gallery on Sunday, Sept. 6 and Sunday, Sept. 13 at 1 p.m. The well-known Georgia potter will highlight various pottery styles, finishing techniques and firing techniques, using pieces on display as examples. f

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Neighborhood Eats Joel Penn Takes the Reins at Heirloom CafÊ By Hillary Brown food@flagpole.com It’s been four years since Heirloom CafÊ and Fresh Market (815 N. Chase St., 706-354-7901) opened in a renovated gas station in the heart of Boulevard, and the restaurant has done a fine job becoming part of the Athens community. A fair amount has changed since 2011, too. The market component came and then went. (I miss the terrific egg salad.) A full bar and craft cocktails were added. The delicious breakfast was sadly unsustainable, but its offerings are still available on weekends for a very popular brunch. Joel Penn, formerly of The National, is the latest to take the reins in the kitchen, and he has made some long-needed changes to the menu. There’s something to say for being able to order a favorite whenever you want, but customers also need to be willing to try new things, and it’s the responsibility of chefs to push them toward doing so. Yes, you can still get the lentil-pecan burger, the pimento cheese sandwich and the meatloaf sandwich, but there is much that is new. Penn has a great affinity for tangy, spicy, pickle-y flavors, which complement pastry chef Johanna Nicol’s reimagined American classics nicely. It’s a bold move to put a fancy version of chicken mull—the aggressively simple chicken soup native to the Athens region—on your menu, but Penn’s is successful; its origins are easily recognizable, but it improves on the potentially weak points of the dish, with buttermilk and a great house hot sauce. A chilled summer squash soup is nothing like what one might expect, with notes of curry powder and lovely surprises of peanuts and pickled strawberries hidden within. A vegetable wrap that has since rotated off the menu was both bitter and virtuous but also delightful, not apologizing for but celebrating its thinly sliced raw brassica. Most wraps are terrible. This one was lovely. The bread is a bit of a weak spot, sourced from H&F Bread Co. in Atlanta. H&F is well thought of, but the baguette for a lamb sausage banh mi interfered with the sandwich instead of complementing it, and the white bread that comes with an otherwise superlative hot chicken has too dense a crumb (it falls apart under pressure) and an underlying sweetness that calls attention to itself. You cannot eat the hot chicken like a sandwich, despite the two pieces of bread that come underneath it, theoretically enabling you to pick it up in the usual fashion. Give in

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to your fancy-pants instincts and carve it up with a knife and fork, making sure to get some of the buttermilk yogurt on the side and a bit of one of the bread-and-butter pickle slices. It’s sophisticated without getting too far away from the real thing, just like the mull, and although it will not make your ears ring, it has a combination of heat and complex spicing that will keep you interested. A black-eyed pea hummus in the “snacks� section of the menu, which comes with housemade crackers, is perfectly executed: not so thick that your dipping implement shatters; made with more delicate, slightly floral pink-eyed peas; and with a gentle hint of citrus that lightens up the whole thing. The deviled eggs, often served too cold at restaurants, are spot on, too, with little that is extraneous apart from the small salad underneath them; why get weird when you have great eggs? The vegetable plate, at dinner, is a better idea than an entree. It’s plenty substantial, and it has a lot of variety, but the components don’t play all that nicely together. A cucumber salad with mint, apple and benne seeds is refreshing but too vinegary, and it doesn’t mesh at all with a sort of Thai eggplant treatment, heavy on peanuts and not all that much of a sales point in favor of the vegetable. Fried whole okra, a summer vegetable succotash and a piece

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of cornbread in the middle are unassertive. It’s an opportunity for experimentation, though, and Penn’s experience with The National’s “power lunch� is evidence he has the chops to improve it. A pan-roasted trout with Carolina gold rice, edamame, peanuts, hot sauce and buttermilk is cooked beautifully. Nicol’s desserts are playful but desire to please. A frozen chocolate mousse with peanuts, salted caramel and marshmallow cream is uncompromising and friendly at the same time, like a fancy frozen Snickers bar. The ice cream sandwiches made with Il Gelato’s product in the middle and Nicol’s cookies (e.g., mascarpone gelato with red velvet cake rounds and spiced pecans around the edges; rosemary gelato with buckwheat sable and orange sugar) are the same combo of cute but not cutesy, simple but not simplistic. If you are looking for something light to drink and do not want to commit to a cocktail, follow your waiter’s enthusiasm and opt for a Famosa, a Guatemalan lager served with lime. The growth and change that should be natural and often end up stunted in restaurants afraid to alienate their core customers are a very good thing here. Heirloom is open for weekday lunch, happy hour and dinner Tuesday through Saturday and weekend brunch, with a full bar and a good patio. f

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Horror and Intrigue How to Die: Serial Killer or the CIA? By Drew Wheeler SINISTER 2 (R) This lackluster followup to one of Blumhouse’s most effective horror films feels like a real ‘90s throwback to the days of DTV sequels. The original film was pretty much terrifying, thanks to the gruesome 8 mm home movies detailing the imaginative deaths of entire families. They unnerved audiences as much as they did Ethan Hawke’s whiskey-swilling true crime novelist, Ellison Oswalt. However, the scariest aspect of this sequel is that it took almost three years to slap together. Returning from the first film is Oswalt’s pal, played by James Ransone, literally cited as Ex-Deputy So & So in the cast, who lost his job in the wake of the Oswalt family murder. Now a private investigator, Ex-Deputy So & So travels around the country attempting to foil Bughuul’s child-stealing, family-murdering schemes. When PI So & So meets Courtney Collins (Shannyn Sossamon), an on-the-run mother of nineyear-old twins Dylan and Zach (Robert Daniel and Dartanian Sloan), his typical plan of burning down the house is revised to a more traditional stick-around-and-

Dylan, who is having none of their homemade Faces of Death, chills no more than Bughuul. The idea that these images are used to condition children provokes an intriguing post-film discussion that no one will actually have. AMERICAN ULTRA (R) A surprising blast, American Ultra feels like the movie Ruben Fleischer keeps trying (and failing) to make. Nima Nourizadeh’s followup to the rather dreadful Project X is one of the more pleasant cinematic surprises of 2015. It expands on the ultraviolent comic book ethos of the Millarverse brought to the big screen in Matthew Vaughn’s adaptations of Kick-Ass and Kingsman: The Secret Service with none of those movies’ built-in audiences. It also helps rebrand Jesse Eisenberg in advance of next year’s appearance as supervillain Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. And screenwriter Max Landis is able to build on his reputation after the success of Chronicle (unlike Josh Trank, whose rep tanked along with his Fantastic Four reboot).

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Mike the stoner (Eisenberg) discovers he is a sleeper agent after the CIA, represented by Topher Grace, decides to kill him. Mike cannot remember what he had for breakfast but happens to be a secret agent savant, dispatching his enemies with spoons and cups of noodles. He is Jason Bourne if Jason Bourne smoked a bunch of pot. Eisenberg makes a rather believable secret secret agent. He even makes his relationship with that coldest of fish, Kristen Stewart, seem real. She almost seems like she cares about him, too. Almost. The adult cast—Connie Britton, Tony Hale, John Leguizamo and Bill Pullman—is swell, though “Justified�’s Walton Goggins, whose grin is as big as his personality, is the actor begging some creative filmmaker to make the most of his talents. The depth he adds to Mike’s primary adversary, an evil agent appropriately codenamed Laugher, was not necessary but contributes blissful complexity to the movie’s morality. f

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Travelin’ Band Oak House Heads Out on Tour By Dan Mistich music@flagpole.com

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hough Athens’ music scene is full of talented players, many bands don’t tour much. In a town where many musicians are struggling to get by, work and other commitments can make it unfeasible to book shows in locations that are further than a weekend’s drive away. Led by Gresham Cash on vocals and guitar, Oak House is a relatively new Athens outfit that is ready to roll the dice and hit the road despite the odds. Although the group has already ventured to New York for a handful of performances, the band’s upcoming tour of the east coast with comrades Tedo Stone is its first fully-fledged run in support of Plastique Cash, Oak House’s impressive debut, inspired by avant-arena-rock acts like Radiohead and Arcade Fire.

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Oak House’s first tour coincides with a change in the band’s lineup. Cash says founding member Slade Adams “had to move on to his calling as a Hungarian violin instructor,” and that the group will continue on as a threepiece for the time being, with Connor Sabula on bass and Wes Gregory on drums. “I don’t think we have lost any intensity or mood in our live show,” says Cash, noting that the band’s touring setlists will pull from 20 or so new songs that may wind up on the group’s sophomore release. (Cash says the songs “will surely sound more representative of the current three-piece.”) Athenians will get the chance to hear some of this new material at Oak House’s unofficial tour kickoff show on the Georgia Theatre rooftop Aug. 31. Although Cash con-

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fesses that Adams’ departure “does make some songs [from Plastique Cash] difficult to perform” live, he remains confident that the band’s sound won’t be jeopardized. Crafting that sound—an eclectic approach to pop music—was more than a little bit intentional. “I do not feel moved by pop, but I do appreciate many things about [it],” says Cash. Discussing his wide-ranging influences, Cash emphasizes that he likes “pretty music” as much as he appreciates “a good James Brown or Robert Plant scream.” Although the singer’s voice at times channels Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Cash says his main focus is in “a beautiful melody, and [using] my voice as a part of the song, rather than the driving force of the song.” Cash adds that his “songwriting style generally depends more on an attempt to make [listeners] feel something through the music, rather than telling [them] what to feel in the words.” Cash looks forward to what the upcoming tour has in store for Oak House. “When it comes down to it, I love to perform music live,” Cash says. “I hope that people enjoy watching me and my band. I hope they enjoy the music, and that it compels them in one way or another. And if people want to buy it, then that’s great.” f

WHO: Oak House, Tedo Stone WHERE: Georgia Theatre Rooftop WHEN: Monday, Aug. 31, 9 p.m. HOW MUCH: FREE!

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This is No Bonnaroo Wildwood Revival Grows Responsibly By Paul DeMerritt music@flagpole.com

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ver the last two decades, the exponential rise in the number of music festivals following in the footsteps of giants like Bonnaroo, Coachella and Lollapalooza has coincided with a divergence from the spirit festivals are supposed to embody. Fans clamor for a kind of post-Woodstock communal experience, yet the idea is propped up by corporate sponsors, massive amounts of waste and the illusion of infinite growth. On a sleepy piece of pastoral paradise 20 minutes outside of Athens, the contradictions of the music festival boom are being reconciled. Libby Rose, a videographer and festival veteran, saw the perfect opportunity to revive an environmental, community-focused ethos when her family acquired the 30-acre Cloverleaf Farm, located on the outskirts of Arnoldsville. “I had gone to so many festivals across the country, and saw so much that was missing, and so much I wanted to leave behind,” Rose says, pointing to overpriced, greasy food, long lines and exorbitant water prices as festival staples she wanted to avoid with her new event, Wildwood Revival. The tiny festival celebrated its inaugural year last July, attracting roughly 300 attendees through social media and word of mouth. The small but fervent crowd enjoyed a display of modern country and folk amidst the sort of backdrop where those genres were born. Established groups like The Whigs and The Whiskey Gentry played in the farm’s open-air barn, providing an intimate experience without sacrificing the luxuries of professional sound. Wildwood’s first installment was successful enough that a two-day edition was organized last November. As the event enjoyed modest growth over only a few months, Rose’s vision of an environmentally focused festival was put to the test. Sure, she could provide free water, Mason jars, compostable plates and a plastic-free environment, but would attendees care enough after drinking all day and night to clean up after themselves? Amazingly, Rose’s lofty ideals proved to be successful. “When we went to clean up the campsites when everyone left, we literally found two Mason jars,” Rose says. “I think people respect the land and the farm because it’s just a different setting in general.” Rose’s experience working at the small-scale Pickathon festival in Happy Valley, OR provided a template for her

current endeavor. Pickathon is notable in that it still features some staples of larger festivals, like internationally acclaimed artists and crowds reaching a few thousand, but also an air of sustainability and community support, with a volunteer team devoted to composting, local food vendors and solar panels on top of the main stage. Rose incorporated many of those ideas into Wildwood Revival. Even more so than the artists, the festival’s nonmusic amenities make the experience unique. This year, Wildwood boasts an extensive artisan market, featuring everything from local printmakers to butter makers; Sunday morning yoga; and food sourced from farms less than a mile away. Subtleties like a wiffle ball game and the opportunity to get a 19th Century-era tintype portrait create a communal atmosphere absent from larger festivals. “We wanted it to be like we’re inviting 500 friends over to do what what we’re doing any weekend,” Rose says. “It was about creating that community aspect on a larger scale.” Still, Rose insists that music remains the focal point. This year, Wildwood features an understated yet impressive lineup of bands riding the threshold between mainstream acceptance and underground success. Indie-folk outfit Tall Tall Trees, Nashville-based blues-punks Blackfoot Gypsies and alt-country group American Aquarium top this year’s bill, along with a host of rising acts. Roots revivalist Joe Fletcher returns to Wildwood after playing last year’s

November edition. His delicate, slow-burning acoustic compositions lend themselves to Cloverleaf’s rural isolation. “It doesn’t feel like a festival as much as it feels like a Southern music party,” Fletcher says. “The origin of the music my band and other acts on the bill play comes from porches, like the house at Wildwood Revival.” As the festival’s popularity continues to grow (this weekend’s event is sold out), Rose faces the same dilemma confronting so many other festivals: how to square the dueling goals of growth and sustainability. In the future, she hopes to be able to afford bigger name acts like Shakey Graves and Jason Isbell, include multiple stages and add more acreage to the festival grounds. All of these goals seem difficult to achieve without at least some environmental concession. But Rose remains optimistic. “We’ll never be a Bonnaroo, because that’s just not what we’re after,” she says. “ I know the demand and prices for tickets will be higher as time goes on, but every year we want this to feel like a family reunion.” f

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Mothers Hits the Road Plus, More Music News and Gossip By Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com

DOUBLE DIPPIN’: At the risk of repeating some news, let me turn your ears again toward Fall Break Records. I’ve written about this cool little label before, but they’ve just coordinated releases of a couple of previously available items that deserve another glance, Mothers especially from all the new eyes in town. First, Richard Gumby’s Hardrive is an eminently listenable thing where each successive song is my new favorite. Perfect indie psychedelia in the best sense of each term. Next, Dead Neighbors’ self-titled noise-jangle album is probably the most suited for its cassette release, both with regard to its shockingly accurate, utterly unintentional 1980s musical touchstones and rock production. You can search for each of these separately, but you’ll save time by heading to fallbreakrecords.bandcamp.com or fallbreak records.com. TRY AND STOP HIM: Songwriter Ethan Mullenax released one of the best singles of the year last month (“Rainy Day Affections”), and now he’s just released a new EP, I Try and Stop Myself. It’s difficult to characterize this new music as

a stylistic change for Mullenax, because he never strictly adheres to any style. It is fair to say, though, that these songs feel more off-the-cuff. I can’t speak for the compositions, which might have been lying around his head for a long time, but Mullenax does concede that the idea behind the EP was to rid himself of his internal editor. Anyone remember when Radiohead released music you actually wanted to hear? If so, you’ll dig opening track “Unpleasant.” My tastes fall more toward “Stagger,” which reveals what Miles Davis’ Sketches of Spain would have sounded like if it was directed by Herbie Hancock instead of Gil Evans. I also predict that by the time you hear “Manifesto,” you’ll have a new favorite song. And, yeah, I hate continually comparKristin Karch

IS IT NOT OBVIOUS?: It’s no secret that the shooting star of Mothers, and its creator Kristine Leschper, is approaching rocket speed. The band will hit the road this month both on its own and in support of of Montreal. Save for an appearance this week at Creature Comforts and an Atlanta show at Smith’s Olde Bar on Sept. 16, the group will be far away until the beginning of October. In addition, Mothers recently released “No Crying in Baseball,” the first single from its upcoming Drew Vandenberg-produced debut album, due next year. Although I bristled at Mothers’ expansion into full-band territory at first, having been an enthusiastic supporter of Leschper as a solo artist, I must say that while initial steps in this direction seemed unfocused and superfluous, the group is now doing grand things within this configuration. I worried that a band arrangement would dilute the all-of-a-piece aesthetic I’d been so drawn to when it was solely Leschper’s visual art and music; it hasn’t. Audiences are responding in a big way, and I couldn’t be happier for all concerned. You can keep up with all things Mothers via facebook.com/nestingbehavior and kristineleschper.tumblr.com.

ing things, but when a song instantly makes me imagine Will Hart (Circulatory System) collaborating with Richard Thompson, I just can’t help it. Jump on this at ethan mullenax.bandcamp.com. SMOOTH MOVES: On Sunday, Aug. 30, The Foundry will host a special edition of the Segar Jazz Affair, the monthly smooth-jazz showcase hosted by WXAG radio DJ Dwain Segar. This concert is billed as a celebration of the fiveyear anniversary of both Segar’s arrival in Athens and his radio show. Music will be provided by John Dunn & the Jazzman Band, who will play two sets, at 6 and 8 p.m. In addition, there will be live poetry from Life the Griot and artwork on display by Broderick Flanigan. [Gabe Vodicka]. f

record review Motherfucker: Confetti (Sick Room) The cover of Confetti, the debut full-length album from local punk trio Motherfucker, shows a mysteriously bloodied hand surrounded by colorful, star-shaped confetti. It’s hard to think of a more fitting image for this album: a brutal and violent act, covered up by a candy-coated blast of color and light. Confetti comes in at a tight 28 minutes and 15 seconds, but the band’s intention is clear: to fuck shit up and put a smile on your face. The album is defined by its memorable hooks and vocal refrains, a risky choice in today’s rock landscape. But Motherfucker is arguably the most skilled currently active punk group in Athens, and the group’s ability to craft catchy, single-ready tunes is stronger than ever. The new album notably lacks the Tae Kwon Do EP’s psych and experimental elements; still, there are plenty of exciting, brash, outthere instrumentals to enjoy. There is also a welcome blues-rock element, which should serve as a listener-friendly entry point for newcomers. Personnel-wise, drummer Erika Rickson is still the driving force behind the band’s intensity, but guitarist Erica Strout and bassist Mandy Branch adjust well to the band’s quicker, punchier new sound. [Nathan Kerce]

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the calendar! calendar picks PERFORMANCE | Wednesday, Aug. 26

Monirah Hashemi

ATHICA · 7 p.m. · $5 The Athens Area Arts Council and the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art co-present an evening with international playwright and performing artist Monirah Hashemi, who lives in exile in Sweden from her homeland of Afghanistan. Hashemi will perform a workshop version of “Sitaraha—The Stars,” a onewoman production delivering the heart-wrenching stories of three women and their wartime experiences during separate historical periods in Afghanistan. Though their destinies are marked by oppression and grief, Hashemi transforms their perseverance through expressive song and dance. The performance will be followed with an audience discussion led by AAAC President Nance Daniels. [Jessica Smith]

Tuesday 25 CLASSES: The Law of Attraction and Manifestation (Body, Mind & Spirit) This ongoing class teaches many techniques for utilizing the power of your mind to create wonders in all areas of your life. 6 p.m. $5. 706-351-6024 CLASSES: Marketing Bootcamp (Chamber of Commerce) Beginners and experienced marketers can engage in an interactive discussion about inbound marketing strategy. 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. $99. www. startstrategic.com

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Unknown Mortal Orchestra

ACC Library · 6 p.m. · FREE! The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission recently named Creature Comforts · 8:30 p.m. · FREE! Todd Bressi as Public Art Master To commemorate the opening Planner, responsible for stratof its Athens location, multiegizing a long-term vision for national hipster haven Urban creative place-making projects. Outfitters has partnered with the As an urban designer, public art Slingshot Festival, Nuçi’s Space consultant, writer and educaand Creature Comforts to put on tor, Bressi has two decades of a blowout bash in the brewery’s experience in consulting with parking lot. The show is headgovernment agencies, private lined by acclaimed Portland, OR developers and community psych-pop band Unknown Mortal groups across the country. His Orchestra and also features lecture “Transforming the City, local standout Mothers. The One Community at a Time” will free drinks will flow until they describe his experience as the don’t, and a selection of local director of muraLAB for the “makers and doers” will display Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, their wares indoors. To claim a leading mural program. The your ticket to the all-ages event, lecture marks the beginning of download the UO app on your the planning process, which will smartphone and show it to an continue through spring, and employee at the Clayton Street community input is vital. [JS] store. [Gabe Vodicka]

CLASSES: Madison County Needlecrafters (Madison County Library, Danielsville) The Needlecrafters will be demonstrating how to knit, how to crochet and other crafty skills. All ages and skill levels are welcome. 1–3 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/madison COMEDY: Casual Comedy (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) Dave Weiglein hosts this month’s installment of Casual Comedy. 9 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee.com EVENTS: Produce Stand (ACC Council on Aging) This mobile produce stand sells fresh, sustainable and locally grown fruits and veg-

etables sourced from the community gardens at ACCA and UGArden. EBT cards accepted. 11 a.m.–2 p.m. www.accaging.org EVENTS: Tuesday Produce Stand (West Broad Market Garden) Shop for fresh produce out of the community-based urban garden. Offers double dollars for EBT shoppers. Held every Tuesday. 4–7 p.m. 706613-0122, www.athenslandtrust.org FILM: Bad Movie Night: Provoked (Ciné Barcafé) When Big Mama and her gang hold office workers hostage, one woman takes matters into her own hands. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com

MUSIC | Friday, Aug. 28

MUSIC | Aug. 28–29

40 Watt Club · 9 p.m. · $16 Eclectic indie rockers J. Roddy Walston and the Business have toured pretty much constantly since they started out way back in the early aughts; this Friday’s Athens show will be the latest of many for the now Richmond, VA-based band. The group’s most recent outing, 2013’s Essential Tremors, combines riffy Southern rock swagger with a punkish spirit and a healthy shake of wild-eyed, oldschool soul. The Business’ highoctane live show, centered on Walston’s upright piano panache, is truly something to behold. Fellow Virginians Sleepwalkers will open the show with a set of their cheeky, layered psych-pop. [GV]

Go Bar · 9 p.m. (Fri.), 7 p.m. (Sat.) · $10 (wristband) Women are firmly in charge of Athens music. By my unscientific estimation, roughly 98 percent of the most exciting local sounds are being made by females. For proof, check the two-night Chillith Fair, curated by Shade’s Phelan LaVelle, featuring established acts New Sound of Numbers, Sea of Dogs and Erin Lovett, as well as up-and-comers Wanda, Dark Daughter, Jock Gang, Jo RB Jones, Saline and more. In addition, LaVelle promises “a photo booth, tarot, snacks courtesy of The Grit and hot dogs from Broad River Outpost.” Proceeds will benefit the Athens Area Homeless Shelter. Wristbands can be purchased from The Grit and at the venue. [GV]

J. Roddy Walston and the Business

GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) General trivia with host Caitlin Wilson. 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: Monthly Poker Tournament (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Come out and play Texas Hold ‘Em for prizes and bragging rights. Last Tuesday of every month. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com GAMES: Dirty Bingo (Mellow Mushroom) Hosted by Dirty South

Chillith Fair

Trivia. Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.dirtysouthtrivia.com GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (The Savory Spoon) Compete to win prizes. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-367-5721 GAMES: Geek Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) Compete in happy hour trivia. First prize gets a $30 gift card. 5:30–6:30 p.m. FREE! www.therookandpawn.com GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) Westside and Eastside locations of Locos Grill and Pub feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Dirty South Entertainment Trivia (Choo Choo

Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Compete for house prizes and free beer. Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.choochoorestaurants.com KIDSTUFF: Preschooler Storytime (Oconee County Library) Stories, songs, crafts and fun for preschoolaged children and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Kids Night (Buffalo’s Café) Featuring a balloon artist, coloring contests and photos with Buffy the Buffalo. Every Tuesday. 5:30– 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-6655 k continued on next page

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Wednesday 26 ART: Watercolor Materials (OCAF, Watkinsville) Kie Johnson teaches a class on how to select watercolor materials. 10–11:30 a.m. FREE! www.ocaf.com ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Join Brittany Ranew for a look at the “Ralph Chessé” exhibition of paintings, puppets and works on paper. 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Video Editing for Beginners (ACC Library) Learn the basics of video editing using Adobe Premiere. Registration required. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, www. athenslibrary.org/athens CLASSES: Flower Arranging Unit 1 (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Upon completion of this five-unit series, participants will receive a Basic Design Certificate from the Garden Club of Georgia. Registration required. 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $45. 706542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden CLASSES: The Buddha’s Teachings (Body, Mind & Spirit) Bring more inner peace to your life. Every Wednesday. 6 p.m. $5 suggested donation. 706-351-6024 COMEDY: Dave Stone (The World Famous) A former Beard of Comedy, Atlanta native and former Los Angeles resident Stone has provided voice work for Adult Swim’s “Squidbillies.” He is currently on his 15-city “Ramblin Van Tour,” and will be joined by Jake Brannon, Caroline Schmitt and Shaunak Godkhindi. 10 p.m. $5. www.facebook.com/ theworldfamousathens EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Creature Comforts Brewery) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, crafts and live music from Larry Forte and an open mic. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www. athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: St. Mary’s Produce Stand (St. Mary’s Hospital, Cafeteria Patio) Shop for fresh fruit and vegetables from farms in the Athens Land Trust’s farmer network. 11 a.m.–2 p.m. www.athenslandtrust.org EVENTS: Popcorn Bar (Olive Basket) Create healthy but decadent popcorn using olive oils and toppings. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-521-5060 EVENTS: Branded Butcher Pop-Up (The Old Pal) Sample small plates from chefs Matthew Palmerlee and Trey Rayburn. 6 p.m.–12 a.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/theoldpalathensga GAMES: Dirty Bingo (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Hosted by Garrett Lennox every Wednesday. Prizes and house cash. 8 p.m. FREE! www. grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, Both Locations) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.blindpigtavern.com GAMES: Entertainment Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Dirty South Trivia offers house cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Bingo Bango (Highwire Lounge) Weekly themed games. House cash and drink prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Movie Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Hosted by Jeremy Dyson. 9:30 p.m. www.facebook. com/lkshuffleclub

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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: 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: Crafternoon (Oconee County Library) Drop in for an indie-inspired craft. Bring in any vinyl records you’d like to play. Ages 11–18. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Preschooler Storytime (ACC Library) Ages 2–5. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens LECTURES & LIT: Oconee Democrats Book Group (Chops and Hops) This month’s book is Anthony Shadid’s House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East. Shadid is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. 7 p.m. FREE! oconeebooks@gmail.com MEETINGS: Tech Happy Hour (The World Famous) 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 PERFORMANCE: Monirah Hashemi (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) Monirah Hashemi, an international writer and performing artist currently living in exile in Sweden, will present a workshop version of her one-woman show, “Sitaraha—The Stars,” which follows the stories of three women who have experienced war during three historical periods in Afghanistan. See Calendar Pick on p. 21. 7 p.m. $5. athensarts.org

techniques. Learn about the historical origins of martial arts and practical self-defense techniques. All ages and skill levels. Feel free to bring a lunch. 12:15 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens EVENTS: Nature Ramblers (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn more about the flora and fauna of the garden while enjoying fresh air and inspirational readings. Ramblers are encouraged to bring their own nature writings or favorite poems and essays to share with the group. 8 a.m. FREE! www.botgarden.uga.edu EVENTS: American Red Cross Blood Drive (ACC Library) Before donating, eat iron-rich foods and drink plenty of non-caffeinated fluids. 2–7 p.m. FREE! www.redcrossblood.org EVENTS: Athens Science Café (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Sonia Hernandez presents “Wild Cities: Taking Care of People and Creatures.” 7 p.m. FREE! athenssciencecafe.wordpress.com FILM: Zoolander (UGA Tate Student Center, Theatre) Male Model Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) is

KIDSTUFF: Teen Studio (Georgia Museum of Art) Teens will explore the politically engaged work of Mexican printmakers in the exhibition “El Taller de Gráfica Popular: Vida y Arte” then experiment with printmaking techniques. Pizza and drinks provided. 5:30–8:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org KIDSTUFF: Crochet Kids Class (Revival Yarns) A beginning crochet class for the kiddos. RSVP. 3:30 a.m. $15. www.revivalyarnsathens.com KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime (Oconee County Library) This special storytime is for the youngest readers-to-be and their caregivers. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Pajama Storytime (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Bring your pajama-clad kids in for storytelling and readings by special guests. 7 p.m. FREE! 706795-5597 LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Ciné Barcafé) Hear UGA professor Barbara McCaskill speak about her new book, Love, Liberation and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen

contemporary class. 4 p.m. FREE! www.dancefx.org CLASSES: Illustrator for Beginners (ACC Library) Learn how to create graphics with vectors using Adobe Illustrator. This is ideal for logos or artwork you want to print in multiple sizes. Registration required. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650, www.athenslibrary.org/athens EVENTS: Morning Mindfulness (Georgia Museum of Art) Join instructor Jerry Gale for a meditation session in the galleries. Meet in the lobby. 9:30–10:30 a.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Public Health Awareness (Georgia Square Mall, Food Court) The Clarke County Health Department provides information on public health with handouts and giveaways. 12-4 p.m. FREE! www.publichealthathens.com EVENTS: Pumpkinfest (Terrapin Beer Co.) Get a head start on celebrating fall with a tapping of a special Pumpkinfest cask, brewery tours and Pumpkinfest packages to-go. 4:30–7:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com

Thursday 27 ART: The Importance of Public Art (ACC Library) Todd Bressi will present “Transforming the City, One Community at a Time,” to launch Athens-Clarke County’s public art master plan process. See Calendar Pick on p. 21. 6 p.m. FREE! www. athensclarkecounty.com/leisure CLASSES: One-On-One Computer Tutorial (ACC Library) Personalized instruction available for various computer topics. 9–9:45 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, ext. 354 CLASSES: Small Business Class (UGA Small Business Development Center) This seminar is on “Doing Business with the University of Georgia.” 10–11:30 a.m. FREE! www.georgiabdc.org/ce/ombd CLASSES: Windows Basics (Oconee County Library) Learn how to navigate Windows and understand files, settings and accounts. Registration required. 2–4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee CLASSES: One-on-One Digital Media Center Tutorial (ACC Library) The new Digital Media Center is now open! Get individual instruction for graphics, audio or video editing projects or learn to convert albums and cassettes to DVDs and CDs. 9 a.m. & 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens EVENTS: Knit-Lits (Bogart Library) Knitters of all levels can knit together. Ages 16 & up. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart EVENTS: Lunchtime Learning (ACC Library) Master Ken Blumreich demonstrates traditional martial arts

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“Stories Told in Bits and Pieces: Collage Works by Susan Pelham” is currently on view at the Steffen Thomas Museum of Art in Buckhead, through October. brainwashed by fashion designer Jacobim Mugatu (Will Ferrell) to kill Malaysia’s prime minister. 8 p.m. FREE! (w/ UGA ID), $3. union. uga.edu FILM: Art Rocks Athens: Films of Stan Brakhage (Georgia Museum of Art) Kick off Art Rocks Athens with a screening of films by the experimental filmmaker. See Story on p. 12. 7 p.m. FREE! www.artrocksathens.com GAMES: Trivia (El Azteca) Win prizes every Thursday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-2639 GAMES: Lunch ‘n’ Learn (The Rook and Pawn) Spend your lunch hour learning a new game. This week’s game is Carcassonne. 11:30 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! www.therookandpawn. com GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Gather a team and compete for prizes. 6 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub GAMES: Entertainment Trivia (Butt Hutt Bar-B-Q) Hosted by Dirty South Trivia. Every Thursday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8511 KIDSTUFF: Afternoon Movie (ACC Library) The film has not been picked yet but suggestions are welcome. Ages 11–18. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens

Craft in Cultural Memory. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com LECTURES & LIT: Broad Minds Book Club for Feminists (Oconee County Library) This month’s book is Yes Please by Amy Poehler. 12 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee

Friday 28 ART: “Perspectives” Opening Gala and Preview Sale (OCAF, Watkinsville) Meet this year’s participants in the “Perspectives: Georgia Pottery Invitational,” a large show featuring 5,000 functional works. Featuring food, drinks and live music by the Period Six. See Art Notes on p. 14. 6–9 p.m. $20. www. ocaf.com ART: Art Rocks Athens Exhibition Reception (Art Rocks Photo + Film @ 5, 1225 S. Milledge Ave.) Art Rocks Athens presents “I’ll Be Your Mirror: Images from the Athens Scene, 1975–1985.” The photography exhibition features portraits, party shots and more. See Story on p. 12. 5:30–8:30 p.m. FREE! www. artrocksathens.com CLASSES: Mia Michaels Master Class (Dancefx) Emmy award-winning choreographer Mia Michaels leads this intermediate/advanced

EVENTS: School of Social Work Open House (School of Social Work, 279 Williams St.) Learn about the school’s various programs, meet faculty, take short guided tours of the 157-year-old building, and enjoy ice cream and refreshments. Flanigan’s Portrait Studio has curated a display of youth art. 4–6 p.m. FREE! ssw. uga.edu EVENTS: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (Kumquat Mae Bakery Café) Join the Athens Showgirl Cabaret for a Back to School Show. Divas include Kellie Divine, Alice Divine, Jenn Sparx, Ms. Lori Divine, Sasha Nicole Stephens-Jones, Daniella Vess, Dakota Bruce, Dee Lishous, Semaj and Onyx Coxring. 10:30 p.m. $3. www.facebook.com/ athensshowgirls FILM: Avengers 2 (UGA Tate Student Center, Theater) Tony Stark, Thor, the Incredible Hulk and the rest of the Avengers must reassemble to battle Ultron, a technological terror threatening the future of mankind. Aug. 28–30, 6 p.m. & 9 p.m. FREE! (w/ UGA ID), $3. www.union.uga.edu FILM: Art Rocks Athens: Cocktails & Videos (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Watch classic Athens music videos from 1975–’85. See Story on p. 12. Aug. 28–29, 4–5 p.m. FREE! www. artrocksathens.com

GAMES: Friday Night Magic (Tyche’s Games) Win prizes. 5:30 p.m. www.tychesgames.com KIDSTUFF: Music Club (ACC Library) Hang out, eat snacks and talk about music. For ages 11–18. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Authors (Avid Bookshop) Hear local authors J. Frank James, Robert Emmett and Jacinta Howard read from their work. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com MEETINGS: Healing Circle & Meditation (Body, Mind & Spirit) Experience different modalities and forms of meditation. Every Friday. 6 p.m. $5 suggested donation. 706351-6024

Saturday 29 ART: Pottery Demonstration (OCAF, Watkinsville) Atlanta potter Rick Berman demonstrates various techniques. Part of the 13th annual “Perspectives: Georgia Pottery Invitational.” See Art Notes on p. 14. 1–4 p.m. FREE! www.ocaf.com ART: Pottery Workshop with Akira Satake (OCAF, Watkinsville) Potter Satake will demonstrate both handbuilding and throwing techniques for making tea pots, ikebana vases and sculptural objects in this two-day workshop, “Beauty in Imperfection.” Participants will also learn how to create interesting surfaces inspired by nature. Part of the 13th annual “Perspectives: Georgia Pottery Invitational.” See Art Notes on p. 14. Aug. 29–30, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. $165. www.ocaf.com ART: Symposium on Contemporary Southeastern Native American Art (Lyndon House Arts Center) The Lyndon House’s current exhibition “Return from Exile” features works by 30 artists of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Muscogee and Seminole tribes. The symposium includes three panel discussions with artists and scholars as well as guided gallery tours. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3623 CLASSES: Introduction to Electronics (Four Athens) Learn the basics of hardware hacking. Build elementary circuits on a breadboard and visually review fundamental electronics equations and principles. 1–3 p.m $25. www. hackyardathens.org CLASSES: Open House (Chase Street Yoga) Try a yoga, Zumba or Bodyshred class. Registration required. All Day. FREE! www.chasestreetyoga.com CLASSES: Protecting Plant Diversity (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) This course surveys threats to biodiversity worldwide, examples of rare plant research, techniques for restoration and reintroduction and ways to make a difference in protecting rare plants of Georgia. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. $105. 706-542-6156, www. uga.edu/botgarden CLASSES: Introduction to Arduino (Four Athens) Students will learn the basics of both building fun and simple circuits and writing code. Intended for beginners, hobbyists, enthusiasts and even children. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. $20 (class only), $49 (full kit). www.hatchathens.com CLASSES: Knit 2 Class (Revival Yarns) Review casting on, the knit stitch, the purl stitch, stockinette and garter stitch patterns. RSVP. 10:30 a.m. $30. 706-850-1354, www. revivalyarnsathens.com EVENTS: Groovy Nights: Battle of the Decades (40 Watt Club) Take a trip through the decade that taste forgot. This year’s theme is ‘70s vs.

‘80s. Participate in raffles, dance ‘til you drop and compete in the Groovy costume contest. Proceeds benefit Project Safe. 8–11 p.m. $25. www. project-safe.org EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts. This week celebrates tomatoes with a cooking demo, taste test and kid’s activity. Live music by Paul Lombard (8 a.m.) and Red Oak Southern String Band (10 a.m.). Chef Hugh Acheson will sign copies of his newest cookbook, The Broad Fork, after demonstrating recipes composed of ingredients from the market (10 a.m.). 8 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www. athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: UOWN and Friends: A Day at the Beach (Sandy Creek Park) Enjoy paddleboarding, swimming, bocce ball and more. Bring food to grill. 11 a.m.–3 p.m. $2–7. www.uown.org EVENTS: West Broad Farmers Market (West Broad Market Garden) Featuring fresh produce, honey, crafts, soaps, baked goods, cooking demos, children’s activities and live music. Every Saturday. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. www.athenslandtrust. org EVENTS: Oconee Farmers Market (Oconee County Courthouse, Watkinsville) Locally grown produce, meats, grains, flowers, soaps, birdhouses, gourds and more. 8 a.m.–1 p.m. www.oconeefarmersmarket.org EVENTS: Classic City Roller Girls vs. Soul City Sirens (The Classic Center) The CCRG skate against the Soul City Sirens from Augusta. A portion of the proceeds benefits Extra Special People. 7 p.m. $12 (adv.), $14. www.classiccityrollergirls.com EVENTS: Full Moon Hike (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Bring family and friends along to enjoy the mysterious world of nature at night. Includes a two-mile hike through the wooded trails and in the garden. 8 p.m. $5/person, $15/family. www. uga.edu/botgarden FILM: Avengers 2 (UGA Tate Student Center) See Friday listing for full description Aug. 28–30, 6 p.m. & 9 p.m. FREE! (w/ UGA ID), $3. www. union.uga.edu FILM: Created Equal Film Series (ACC Library) View Slavery by Another Name. Followed by a discussion with Douglas Blackmon, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens FILM: Art Rocks Athens: Cocktails & Videos (Flicker Theatre & Bar) See Friday listing for full description Aug. 28–29, 4–5 p.m. FREE! www. artrocksathens.com FILM: “Art Rocks Reels” Opening Reception (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) Watch Super 8 and 16 mm films created by local musicians in “Art Rocks Reels: Movie Highlights from the Athens Scene, 1970–1985.” Part of Art Rocks Athens. See Story on p. 12. 5–8 p.m. FREE! www. artrocksathens.com KIDSTUFF: Zoo Day 2015 (Memorial Park) Attend “Zooniversity” at the Bear Hollow Zoo. Children can master zoo keeper skills and earn grades on their zoo keeper report card. Other activities include arts and crafts, concessions, exhibitors and discussions regarding zoo animals. 10:30 a.m.–4 p.m. $2–3. www.athensclarkecounty.com/ bearhollow KIDSTUFF: DIY Floam (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Make

your own Floam using recycled Syrofoam. For ages 6 & up. 3 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison 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 LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Avid Bookshop) Meet Scottish author Helen McClory in celebration of her first fiction collection, On the Edges of Vision. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com SPORTS: UGA Volleyball (UGA Intramural Fields) The UGA Volleyball team play their first home tournament of the season. 1 p.m. FREE! www.georgiadogs.com

Sunday 30 ART: Pottery Workshop with Akira Satake (OCAF, Watkinsville) See Saturday listing for full description Aug. 29–30, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. $165. www.ocaf.com EVENTS: Sunday Center Market (The Classic Center) Find artists, farmers, crafters, food trucks, live music, kids’ activities and more in the Classic Center’s new 440 Foundry Pavillion. 11 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! www.classiccenter.com EVENTS: Art Rocks Athens Bloody Mary & Biscuit Brunch (The Pine) Join Art Rocks Athens for brunch. See Story on p. 12. 12–2 p.m. www.artrocksathens.com FILM: “Art Rocks Reels” (Art Rocks Photos + Film @ 5, 1225 S. Milledge Ave.) Art Rocks Athens presents “Art Rocks Reels: Super 8 and 16 mm Auteurs of the Athens Scene, 1970–1985.” See Story on p. 12. 1–6 p.m. FREE! www.artrocksathens.com FILM: Avengers 2 (UGA Tate Student Center) See Friday listing for full description Aug. 28–30, 6 p.m. & 9 p.m. FREE! (w/ UGA ID), $3. www. union.uga.edu GAMES: Trivia (The World Famous) Every Sunday. 9:30 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/theworldfamousathens GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, 2440 W. Broad St.) Every Sunday. 6 p.m. FREE! www.blindpigtavern.com GAMES: Netrunner Open Play (Tyche’s Games) New players welcome to this fantasy card game open play. 12:30–4:30 p.m. FREE! www. tychesgames.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 GAMES: Trivia (Brixx Wood Fired Pizza) Test your skills. Every Sunday. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-395-1660

Monday 31 EVENTS: Athens PROBE College Fair (The Classic Center) Meet reps from regional post-secondary institutions, colleges, universities and technical institutions. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.gaprobe.org EVENTS: Classic City Wrestling (Flicker Theatre & Bar) View old school wrestling on the big screen. This night features the Great American Bash 1989, plus a tribute to “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and special giveaways. 9 p.m. FREE! tcoletaylor@gmail.com GAMES: Rock and Roll Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Get a team together and show off your extensive music knowledge! Hosted by Jonathan Thompson. 9 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub

GAMES: Spelling Bee (Highwire Lounge) Test your spelling and win prizes. No bees on site. 8–10 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com GAMES: Team Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Win house cash and prizes! Every Monday night. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: League Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) Six teams will compete in a five-week trivia battle for annual memberships and gift cards valued at nearly $500. Email to sign up. 8 p.m. FREE! rookandpawnathens@ gmail.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 KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Children are invited for bedtime stories every Monday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 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

community-based urban garden. Offers double dollars for EBT shoppers. Held every Tuesday. 4–7 p.m. 706-613-0122, www.athenslandtrust.org EVENTS: Produce Stand (ACC Council on Aging) This mobile produce stand sells fresh, sustainable and locally grown fruits and vegetables sourced from the community gardens at ACCA and UGArden. EBT cards accepted. 11 a.m.–2 p.m. www.accaging.org EVENTS: Micro! (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) After hearing a few instrumental songs by local songwriters, Thinc UGA and UGA College of Environment & Design representatives will discuss the Southern Mills Project and a future land use plan created for the neighborhood. At 5 p.m., Tim Bryant will moderate “Micro!” a community conversation on how local creators can contribute to the revitalization of industrial neighborhoods. 4 p.m. FREE! 706380-5256 GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) See Tuesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Todd Kelly

led by docents. 2 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org ART: Visiting Artist Lecture (Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S151) Henrik Drescher’s editorial illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and Rolling Stone. He has also written and illustrated several books. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.art.uga.edu CLASSES: Fixing Mistakes Class (Revival Yarns) Learn how to backknit, pick up drop stitches, change purls into knits, unravel your work, create life lines and tighten saggy stitches. RSVP. 3 p.m. $15. www. revivalyarnsathens.com CLASSES: RunFit (Horizon Physical Therapy, Watkinsville) This hourlong training session is designed to increase strength, core stability and balance while targeting weather muscle groups that often cause running-related injuries. 4 p.m., 5 p.m. & 6 p.m. $25. 706-548-7300 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Creature Comforts Brewery) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods, crafts and live music. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net

provided. Ages 11–18. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Chess Club (Oconee County Library) Ages 7 & up are invited to play. All experience levels welcome. 5–6 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Storytime Open House (Bogart Library) Find which storytime is best for you by dropping in for crafts, snacks and program info. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Teen Advisory Board (Oconee County Library) Teen Advisory Board (TAB) is a group of teens who gather at the beginning of every month to discuss and plan upcoming events. Ages 11–18. Registration required. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES & LIT: Word of Mouth Poetry (The Globe) Open mic poetry readings. The featured reader this month is Laura Solomon. 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ athenswordofmouth MEETINGS: Photo Sharegroup (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) The Photo Sharegroup meets at the Garden to share digital images of outdoor photography. Email for more information. 6:30 p.m. FREE! lpetroff@chartner.net, bc.akin@ charter.net MEETINGS: Tech Happy Hour (The World Famous) See Wednesday listing for full description 6 p.m. FREE! www.fourathens.com/happy-hour

LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 25 Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com ETIENNE DE ROCHER West Coast transplant plays “a unique style of indie rock.” MIRACLES OF MODERN SCIENCE Jersey-based pop group that uses mandolin, violin, cello, standup bass and drums.

Maradeen plays Nowhere Bar on Thursday, Aug. 27. build skill levels. For ages 7–18. Registration required. 4–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, ext. 329 LECTURES & LIT: Last Monday Book Group (ACC Library) This month’s discussion is on Portrait of the Atonement by Ian McEwan. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ athens LECTURES & LIT: Nature Writing Group (Athens Land Trust) This month’s featured guest is Stephen Corey, editor of The Georgia Review. 5:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation. patricia.priest@yahoo.com

Tuesday 1 CLASSES: Social Security Presentation (ACC Library) Financial Advisor Jess JensenRyan hosts “Social Security: Your Questions Answered.” Registration required. 11:30 a.m. FREE! 706583-8834 EVENTS: Students 2 Startups (UGA Science Library, Lobby) This twice-annual event is designed to connect students with the Athens tech startup community. Refreshements provided. 4:30–6 p.m. FREE! www.fourathens.com EVENTS: Tuesday Produce Stand (West Broad Market Garden) Shop for fresh produce straight out of the

every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-7289 GAMES: Dirty South Entertainment Trivia (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Jump on the trivia train! Compete for house prizes and free beer. Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.choochoorestaurants.com GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (The Savory Spoon) See Tuesday listing for full description 7 p.m. FREE! 706-367-5721 GAMES: Geek Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) See Tuesday listing for full description 5:30–6:30 p.m. FREE! www.therookandpawn.com GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) See Tuesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! www. locosgrill.com GAMES: Dirty Bingo (Mellow Mushroom) Hosted by Dirty South Trivia. Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.dirtysouthtrivia.com KIDSTUFF: Kids Night (Buffalo’s Café) See Tuesday listing for full description 5:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-6655

Wednesday 2 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) See highlights from the permanent collection during a tour

EVENTS: Creative Club (Broad 9A) Part workshop, part TED-style talk, part happy hour, Creative Club is an opportunity to pick the minds of local professionals. This month’s featured speaker is chef and entrepreneur Peter Dale, who will discuss his background and lead a Q&A. 7–9 p.m. $5. www.broad9a.com GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) See Wednesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Dirty Bingo (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Hosted by Garrett Lennox every Wednesday. Prizes and house cash. 8 p.m. FREE! www. grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, Both Locations) Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.blindpigtavern.com GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) See Wednesday listing for full description 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Bingo Bango (Highwire Lounge) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! www. highwirelounge.com GAMES: Entertainment Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 KIDSTUFF: Wii Zumba (Oconee County Library) Learn the basics of Zumba. Water and healthy snacks

The Foundry Tailgate Tuesday. 7 p.m. $5 (adv.), $7 (door). www.thefoundryathens.com GEORGIA REDCLAY Southern rock band from Georgia playing a mix of originals and covers. Georgia Theatre 7:30 p.m. $15. www.georgiatheatre. com BILLY BOB THORNTON AND THE BOXMASTERS Rhythmic rootsrock band led by the famous screen actor. See Calendar Pick on p. 23. TODD NANCE AND FRIENDS The local songwriter teams up with a group of collaborators. On the Rooftop. 10 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com PERCY SLEDGEHAMMER New local cover band playing soul and R&B classics. The Manhattan Café Loungy Tuesdays. 9 p.m. FREE! 706369-9767 DJ NATE FROM WUXTRY Spinning an all-vinyl set of soulful tunes perfect for a slow dance. Every Tuesday! Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 S-WORDS AND FRIENDS Local band playing funky pop-rock with a touch of Southern jam. The Pub at Gameday 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-2831 OPEN MIC NIGHT Bring your guitar, poetry or monologues! Slots are 15 k continued on next page

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THE CALENDAR! or 30 minutes, depending on attendance. Sign up early by emailing openmicatgameday@gmail.com. State Botanical Garden of Georgia Sunflower Concert Series. 7 p.m. $15. www.botgarden.uga.edu GROGUS This long-running local ensemble plays jazz and salsa accentuated with reggae, hip hop and Afro-Cuban styles. This is a tribute to founding member Carl Lindberg.

Wednesday 26 Blue Sky 5 p.m. FREE! 706-850-3153 VINYL WEDNESDAYS Bring your own records and spin them at the bar! Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 LEAVING COUNTRIES OPEN MIC JAM Contact louisphillippelot@ yahoo.com for booking. Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com SCOOTERBABE Scrappy, jangly local noise-pop group. FAKE FLOWERS Athens- and Atlantabased shoegaze-inspired pop band. STAY AT HOME DAD Local solo electronic artist. Creature Comforts Brewery Athens Farmers Market. 5 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net LARRY FORTE Local painter and songwriter performs and also leads an open mic session. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com CHIEF SCOUT Bracing local rock band led by Trey Rosenkampff. THE SEA LIFE Indie rock quartet from Washington, D.C. DEN-MATE Songwriting project of D.C.-based artist Julia Hale. The Foundry 8 p.m. $5. www.thefoundryathens.com GRAND New, Athens-based alternative-pop four piece. PRETTY MUCH Local five-piece whose music is like “Radiohead meets Robert Plant meets Herbie Hancock.” I GUESS New local rock band featuring a former member of Monsoon. JESSE BAKER Singer-songwriter with smooth acoustic grooves and tribal sounds. Georgia Theatre Wax on Wednesdays. On the Rooftop. 10 p.m. FREE! www.georgiatheatre. com WAX ON WEDNESDAYS Local DJs spin all-vinyl sets every Wednesday through August. This week features DJ Mahogany. Hosted by DJ Osmose. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 BATHROOMS New local punk band featuring members of Cancers, Shaved Christ, Little Gold and more. HARSH WORDS Fast hardcore group featuring members of Shaved Christ and Gripe. THE RODNEY KINGS Scuzzed-out local garage-punk trio. Hi-Lo Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! www.hiloathens.com KARAOKE WITH THE KING Sing your guts out every Wednesday!

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Live Wire 8 p.m. FREE! www.livewireathens.com FRESH JAM OPEN MIC Each performance gets 10 minutes. Drums and guitar amps are provided. Then, stick around for an open jam! Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 MC FUNK JAM Funk all night. The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 KARAOKE With host Terry Covington. Every Wednesday! Porterhouse Grill 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT The longest standing weekly music gig in Athens! Enjoy an evening of original music, improv and standards.

Thursday 27 Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. 706-369-3040 LEAVING COUNTRIES AND FRIENDS Featuring Bo Hembree on guitar, Jason Bradberry on bass and Louis Phillip Pelot on drums. Every Thursday!

KAYLA BERRIE Local jazz-inspired singer-songwriter. Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $21. www.georgiatheatre.com COREY SMITH Singer-songwriter who combines emotional country influences with rough, soulful vocals. THE RAILERS Nashville-based country band. On the Rooftop. 11 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com BOOTY BOYZ DJs Immuzikation, Twin Powers and Z-Dog spin dance hits into the night. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by John “Dr. Fred” Bowers and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more.

6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-7424 (Five Points location) IAN ROWLAND Local progressive funk musician plays a solo set.

Friday 28 Bar Georgia 10 p.m. 706-850-9040 JOHN BOYLE Singer-songwriter in the vein of Willie Nelson, John Prine and Bob Dylan. He’ll be joined by Adam Poulin. Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. 706-369-3040 LOVERS AND LIARS Nashvillebased alternative rock band.

The Grotto 10 p.m. 706-549-9933 LANDON TRUST Local singersongwriter performs an acoustic set of soulful Americana.

Buffalo’s Café 7 p.m. $10. www.buffaloscafe.com THE SPLITZ BAND This band’s impressively wide range encompasses classic Motown, funk, disco and both old-school and contemporary R&B.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com KENOSHA KID Centered around the instru-improv jazz compositions of guitarist Dan Nettles, Kenosha Kid also features bassist Robby Handley

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com PLEASURE POINT Local hip hop/ noise-pop group formerly known as Cottonmouth. FAKE PALMS Noisy pop band from Toronto.

Cindy Wilson (The B-52s). See story on p. 12. DEXTER ROMWEBER Legendary Georgia garage-rocker Romweber (Flat Duo Jets) plays trashy, bluesinfluenced rock and roll. Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $21. www.georgiatheatre.com COREY SMITH / THE RAILERS See Thursday’s listing for full description Go Bar 9 p.m. 706-546-5609 CHILLITH FAIR Featuring music from Waxing Sun, Unmarked Vans, Wanda, Jo RB Jones, Saline, Shade, New Sound of Numbers and DJ Blowpop. See Calendar Pick on p. 21. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $10. www.hendershotscoffee. com KYSHONA ARMSTRONG Soulful singer-songwriter with a rootsy, bluesy sound. DWAYNE SHIVERS “Indie blues duo” from Brooklyn. Iron Factory 10 p.m. 706-395-6877 SWEET KNIEVEL This four-piece jam band plays a variety of musical styles ranging from melodic

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com SON & THIEF Melodic and lush local indie rock band. COMPASS & ROSE Atlanta-based indie-pop group. BRICE CRITES Singer-songwriter from Flowery Branch.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com THE LAST THURSDAY Songwriter Don Chambers presents a night of music, guest musicians, spoken word, film, magic and a variety of other surprises. This month features former Athenian Bill Taft. 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com KICK THE ROBOT Power-pop trio from Atlanta with infectious energy. THE SUMMER SONICS Local alternative rock band. THE SWEET HEART BEETS Local funkadelic rock group that incorporates sax and harmonica. The Foundry 8:30 p.m. $7 (adv.), $10 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com WRENN Up-and-coming local pop singer who experiments with jazz, Vaudeville and more. SAM BURCHFIELD The Atlantabased singer-songwriter plays a set of his folk-pop tunes.

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The Office Lounge 6 p.m. 706-546-0840 REV. CONNER MACK TRIBBLE Relocated back to his old stomping grounds of Athens, Tribble is a Georgia rock and roll fixture. 9 p.m. 706-546-0840 QUIG AND THE BOYS Local rock band playing old, new, blues and rock with a twist.

Saturday 29 Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net PAUL LOMBARD Local blues singer. (8 a.m.) RED OAK SOUTHERN STRING BAND This Watkinsville-based band plays rootsy Americana tunes. (10 a.m.) Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com SCOTT LOW & THE SOUTHERN BOUILLON The local Americana singer-songwriter leads his rootsy, rocking band. CALEB CAUDLE New Orleans-based songwriter playing soulful altcountry and roots-pop. JOSH PERKINS & THE VOODOO CREW Full-band project from the local musician and studio owner. Cloverleaf Farm 12 p.m. SOLD OUT! www.wildwoodrevival.com WILDWOOD REVIVAL A unique, two-day festival celebrating music and Southern culture where guests can get off the grid. Featuring music from American Aquarium, Tall Tall Trees, Cicada Rhythm, Blackfoot Gypsies, Strung Like a Horse, Christopher Paul Stelling and many more. See story on p. 19.

Creature Comforts Brewery 8:30 p.m. FREE (with app download). www.urbanoutfitters.com UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA The Portland, OR psych-pop band plays an outdoor concert to celebrate Urban Outfitters’ grand opening. See Calendar Pick on p. 21. MOTHERS Local songwriter Kristine Leschper and her band perform gorgeous, haunting folk-rock. Flicker Theatre & Bar 11 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com NEIGHBOR LADY Rock group led by local singer-songwriter Emily Braden. BUFFALO RODEO Progressive indie rock band from Bowling Green, KY. DREAM CULTURE Atlanta-based psychedelic dream-pop group.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 SMOOTH DIALECTS Soulful R&B/ funk band from Chattanooga.

Dickey’s Barbecue Pit 6–10 p.m. FREE! 706-850-7561 KARAOKE Sing your heart out.

The Ravenna Colt plays Flicker Theatre & Bar on Friday, Aug. 28. and drummer Marlon Patton. Tonight’s show features special guest Rick Lollar on guitar. Live Wire YWCO Benefit. 7 p.m. $15. www. livewireathens.com IKE, RANDALL AND FRIENDS Ike Stubblefield and Randall Bramblett join forces with special guests to celebrate the life of Harold Williams. Lumpkin Street Station 7 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ LumpkinStreetStation BO & ADAM & SCOTTY Three local musicians play a happy-hour set. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 MARADEEN Five-piece rock group from Nashville, TN. The Office Lounge 8 p.m. 706-546-0840 REV. CONNER MACK TRIBBLE Tribble is a Georgia rock and roll fixture. He hosts an “all-star jam” every Thursday. Your Pie 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-355-7048 (Gaines School Rd. location) YOESHI ROBERTS Singer-songwriter playing uplifting “acoustic music that feels good.”

FEATHER TRADE This local band plays lush, moody post-pop. HAND SAND HANDS Experimental, highly psychedelic electronic sounds from Jonathan Miller. Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com GUMSHOE Lean, darkly evocative rock songs with vivid imagery, courtesy of frontman Andy Dixon’s weirdo-as-Everyman lyrics. THE RAVENNA COLT Americana alter ego of former My Morning Jacket member Johnny Quaid. DJ ROCKMASTER MARK Spinning sounds. 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $16. www.40watt.com J. RODDY WALSTON AND THE BUSINESS High-energy rock and roll band from Baltimore, MD influenced by soul and country music. See Calendar Pick on p. 21. SLEEPWALKERS Eccentric psychedlic pop group from Richmond, VA. The Foundry Art Rocks Athens. 9 p.m. $12 (adv.), $15 (door). www.thefoundryathens. com GLENN PHILLIPS BAND Longrunning, eccentric Georgia rocker. His band includes special guest

psychedelic rock and roll to funk and beyond. Little Kings Shuffle Club 1o p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub DJ MAHOGANY Popular local DJ spins freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta faves. DJ WHITE SATIN Local DJ spinning pop, disco, house and hip hop. Live Wire Friday Afternoon Beer Club. 5 p.m. FREE! www.livewireathens.com DJ OSMOSE International touring DJ and Athens resident lays down an all-vinyl set of funk, soul and reggae. 8 p.m. www.livewireathens.com LUCIDEA Progressive electro-jam band from Atlanta. PHIL.HARMONIQ Atlanta producer who specializes in electro-house. BRUNEAUX Alias of Georgia producer and mash-up specialist Matt Bruno. Lumpkin Street Station 7 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ LumpkinStreetStation BROOKE TAYLOR Atlanta-based singer-songwriter. 11 p.m. www.facebook.com/ LumpkinStreetStation THE GEORGIA FLOOD Atlanta-based indie-blues band.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com BAGHOUSE Long-dormant experimental group that spends time exploring instrumental jazz, ambient and post-rock. ODD TRIO One of Athens’ finest original jazz ensembles, this innovative group often incorporates looped audio into its compositions. 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $25. www.40watt.com GROOVY NIGHTS This year’s theme is ‘70s vs. ‘80s. Participate in raffles, dance ‘til you drop and compete in the Groovy costume contest. Proceeds benefit Project Safe. Front Porch Book Store 6 p.m. FREE! 706-372-1236 HELEN DODGE Soulful acoustic music that occasionally dips into psychedelia. Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. SOLD OUT! www.georgiatheatre. com THE DIRTY GUV’NAHS Rootsrockers from Knoxville, TN. This is the band’s “farewell tour.” Go Bar 7 p.m. 706-546-5609 CHILLITH FAIR Featuring music from Erin Lovett, Sea of Dogs, Laura Carter, Dark Daughter, Jock Gang, Pamela and her Sons,

Wild of Night, Black Paradise, Crunchy and DJ Mahogany. Plus an early-evening yoga session with Nicole Bechill. See Calendar Pick on p. 21. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com CHECK THE SIGNS Uplifting local family band. KEMP JONES, LEWIS JONES & CONNELLY CROWE Three local musicians team up. Highwire Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com LIVE JAZZ Jeremy Raj is bringing together the best that Athens jazz has to offer. A trio of incredibly talented musicians play to a great crowd every weekend. Iron Factory 10 p.m. FREE! 706-395-6877 VOODOO VISIONARY Improvisational funk/rock group from Atlanta. Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub DJ REINDEER GAMES Athens DJ mixes trap, hip hop, moombahton, ‘90s hits and indie dance tunes. Live Wire Art Rocks Athens. 8 p.m. $15 (adv.), $20 (door). www.livewireathens.com FRED SCHNEIDER & SUPA-FINE The B-52s singer plays a rare Athens show. See story on p. 12. PYLON REENACTMENT SOCIETY The songs of the legendary Athens band, as performed by Vanessa Briscoe Hay and an all-star cast of locals. KEVIN DUNN Legendary guitarist and songwriter, a fixture on the Southern new wave scene of the 1970s and ‘80s. THE FANTASTICS New local garagerock band. Lumpkin Street Station 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/ LumpkinStreetStation POOR MAN’S FANCY Jammy, funky rock group from Statesboro. THE BREAD BROTHERS Garage-y local “funkabilly” band. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 S-WORDS AND FRIENDS See Tuesday’s listing for full description The Office Lounge 9 p.m. 706-546-0840 MIKE WATSON BAND Atlanta-based blues/Southern rock.

Sunday 30 Cloverleaf Farm 12 p.m. SOLD OUT! www.wildwoodrevival.com WILDWOOD REVIVAL / American Aquarium / Tall Tall Trees / Cicada Rhythm / Blackfoot Gypsies / Strung Like a Horse / Christopher Paul Stelling See Saturday’s listing for full description The Foundry 6 p.m. $10 (adv.), $12 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com THE SEGAR JAZZ AFFAIR WXAG radio DJ Dwain Segar curates a night of smooth jazz, featuring music from John Dunn and the Jazzman Band.

Iron Factory 8 p.m. FREE! 706-395-6877 UNIVERSAL SIGH Athens-based jazz-fusion/funk-oriented rock band that strives to create a unique musical experience with every show.

Monday 31 Bar Georgia 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-9884 MONDAYS ON THE MIC Showcase your talent! Don’t play? Enjoy some peanuts on the couch and let your ears be filled with lovely tunes. Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 9 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com TEDO STONE Rootsy, Atlanta-based Americana band with a touch of psychedelic fuzziness. OAK HOUSE A mix of prog, folk, indie and everything in between. See story on p. 18. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 GENETIC OUTCAST Sexual noise karaoke with voice memos, samples and soundbytes as sweet as candy. REALISTIC PILLOW Local synthheavy experimental pop band. HALF ACID Greg O’Connell experiments with synths and talk boxes. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OPEN MIC Showcase your talent at this open mic night every Monday. Hosted by Larry Forte. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 WORKINGMAN’S MONDAY Enjoy the music of the Grateful Dead. Hosted by Bo Hembree.

Tuesday 1 The Foundry Tailgate Tuesday. 7 p.m. $5 (adv.), $7 (door). www.thefoundryathens.com SERYN Six-piece, multi-layered folkpop band from Denton, TX. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 SPENCER RICH Local singer-songwriter performs a solo acoustic set. CHRISTOPHER WITHOUT HIS LIVER Songwriter Chris Ingham plays a set of acoustic music. COLBY CARTER Mouser frontman performs a solo set. WEREWYATT Local songwriter Wyatt Strother pays quirky lo-fi rock with bright, bouncy flourishes, unique instrumentation and emotive lyrics. The Manhattan Café Loungy Tuesdays. 9 p.m. FREE! 706369-9767 DJ NATE FROM WUXTRY Spinning an all-vinyl set of soulful tunes perfect for a slow dance. Every Tuesday! Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 S-WORDS AND FRIENDS See Tuesday’s listing for full description

Wednesday 2 Blue Sky 5 p.m. FREE! 706-850-3153 VINYL WEDNESDAYS Bring your own records and spin them!

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Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 LEAVING COUNTRIES OPEN MIC JAM Rock out every Wednesday at this open mic. Full bands are encouraged. Contact louisphillippelot@yahoo.com for booking. Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com MOTHERFUCKER Hard-hitting, virtuosic local rock and roll band. MULTICULT Noisy post-punk band from Baltimore. WAITRESS Athens-based noise-rock project with a raucous sound. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $3. www.flickertheatreandbar. com DUDE MAGNETS Noisy indie-rock chaos. DEAD NEIGHBORS This local band plays grunge- and shoegazeinspired rock. SWAMP Melodic and wiry local indie rock band. SPACE MERCHANTS Psychedelic rock band from Brooklyn, NY. The Foundry 9 p.m. $5. www.thefoundryathens.com NIFTY EARTH Local electronic-based outfit that also incorporates live instrumentation. Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 8 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com SHILPA RAY New York-based artist playing goth-infused post-punk. LOS CANTARES New local desertrock supergroup featuring members of Old Smokey and Moths. On the Rooftop. 10 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com WAX ON WEDNESDAYS Local DJs spin all-vinyl sets every Wednesday through August. Hosted by DJ Osmose.

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Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com SEAN KIELY BAND Folk outfit led by the New Jersey-based singersongwriter. Hi-Lo Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! www.hiloathens.com KARAOKE WITH THE KING Sing your guts out every Wednesday! Live Wire 8 p.m. FREE! www.livewireathens.com FRESH JAM OPEN MIC See Wednesday’s listing for full description Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 MC FUNK JAM See Wednesday’s listing for full description The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 KARAOKE See Wednesday’s listing for full description Porterhouse Grill 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT Enjoy an night of original music, improv and standards.

Down the Line 9/3 BRIDGES / THE TUTEN BROTHERS / JACOB DAVIS MARTIN (40 Watt Club) 9/3 TECROPOLIS (Live Wire) 9/3 THE URI BAND (Nowhere Bar)

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Art 9th Annual Holiday Hooray Market (660 N. Chase St.) Indie South Fair is now seeking artists for the ninth annual Holiday Hooray Market. Two booth sizes available. Accepting fine, folk, craft and vintage vendors. Market held on Dec. 5–6. www.indiesouthfair.com Call for Art (Athens Art & Frame) Seeking local artists working in any type of flat media to exhibit in the shop’s new gallery. Send up to five jpeg images to tony@athensartand frame.com Call for Entries: “Georgia Small Works Exhibitâ€? (OCAF, Watkinsville) Works can be in any medium, 2-D or 3-D, with a maximum size of 14â€?x14â€?x14â€? (including frame). For ages 18 & up living in Georgia. Deadline Oct. 3. Exhibit runs Oct. 9–Nov. 13. $20–25 (jury fee). 706-769-4565, www.ocaf.com Cause + Effect (Athens, GA) Cause + Effect, a new Georgia progressive film competition and festival hosted by Alliance for a Better Georgia, is seeking short films focused on social, political, environmental or economic issues facing Georgia. Winners receive a $1000 prize. Submissions accepted Aug. 26–Oct. 11. Winners will be screened at CinĂŠ in November. FREE! www.causeandeffectfilm.org Exhibition Proposals (Lyndon House Arts Center) The center reviews proposals for future art exhibitions twice annually. Exhibitions can be by local, regional, national or international artists, exchange exhibitions from other states and countries, invitational or juried exhibitions, themed exhibitions or exhibitions of historical works owned by local collectors. Due dates are Sept.

20 and Apr. 20. Email proposals. nancy.lukasiewicz@athensclarke county.com, www.athensclarke county.com/6657/exhibitionproposal-form Indie South Fair Pop-Up (Broad 9A, 160 Tracy St.) Indie South Fair and The Broad Collective will cohost indoor pop-up fairs the third Sunday of the month. Email for an application. $50. indiesouthfair@ gmail.com Juried Holiday Market (OCAF, Watkinsville) Seeking artists for an annual holiday market featuring over 70 fine artists and crafters. Deadline Sept. 8. Market on Dec. 4–6. 706769-4565, www.ocaf.com Lickskillet Artists Market (Lyndon House Arts Center) Currently accepting local artist vendor applications for a market on Oct. 24, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. $30–40/booth. Download application from website. lhartsfoundation@gmail.com, www. lyndonhouseartsfoundation.com Request for Artist Proposals (Downtown Athens) The Athens Downtown Development Authority is seeking an artist to design downtown’s decorative seasonal banners. $2500 budget for four vertical banner designs. Banners must be 30 inches wide by 84 inches long. Artwork can be created digitally or made in any medium which can later be scanned or photographed. Must be a resident of Athens-Clarke County or a surrounding county. Deadline Nov. 2. Proposals must be mailed to 246 W. Hancock Ave. Email for more information. christi@downtownathens ga.com Seeking New Artists (Farmington Depot Gallery) The co-op gallery currently has space for new artists to join as members. Email for details. farmingtongallery @gmail.com

Classes “So You Want to be a Columnist� Class (OCAF, Watkinsville) This course will walk, talk and write you through the basics of writing columns, opinion pieces and blogs. Tuesdays, Sept. 15–Oct. 6, 6–8 p.m. $60–70. www.ocaf.com Acting for Film (Film Athens Film Lab) George Adams teaches “Actor’s Gym: The Road to Becoming a Professional Actor.� Topics include creating dynamic characters, working as an actor in film and television, and the creative and business aspects of film. Register online. Wednesdays, 6:30–8:30 p.m. $75/ month. www.filmathens.net/edu Art Classes (OCAF, Watkinsville) In “Techniques in Watercolor,� instructor Kie Johnson teaches the basics of brushes, paints, papers, color theory, glazing, negative painting and more. Wednesdays, Sept. 9–Oct. 21, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. $180–190. In “Design with Layers in Watercolor,� Kie Johnson leads a class in how to develop paintings using various layers of transparent watercolor. Sept. 25–27, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. $145–155. “Portrait Painting in Oils with Abner Cope� uses live models for creating portraits. Wednesdays, Sept. 30–Nov. 11, 5:30–8:30 p.m. $180–190. www.ocaf.com Art Classes (KA Artist Shop) “Art Club for Teens� is held every Friday, 6–8 p.m. Classes are offered in modern calligraphy for beginners and intermediate students, DIY envelope making, envelope addressing and modern calligraphy using watercolors. Check website for workshop schedule. www.kaartist.com Art Classes (Lyndon House Arts Center) In “Life Drawing Studio Session,� instructor Mark Helwig

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“Peace Trainâ€? and other paintings by Charley Seagraves are currently on display at Hendershot’s Coffee through August. will lead open studios for drawing from a live model. Thursdays, Sept. 10–Oct. 15, 6:30–8:30 p.m. $83 (ACC resident), $125 (non-ACC resident). “Printmaking with Michael Levineâ€? is a class that dabbles in a variety of techniques including dry point, relief, monotype, collagraph and more. Fridays, Sept. 11–Oct. 16, 1–3 p.m. $83 (ACC resident), $125 (non-ACC resident). 706-613-3623 Bodyshred (Chase Street Yoga) This whole-body, metabolic conditioning workout alternates three minutes of strength, two minutes of cardio and one minute of core. www.chasestreetyoga.com CINÉ Yoga (CinĂŠ BarcafĂŠ) Margaret Thomas leads Lunchtime Yoga for all levels. BYO mat. Wednesday and Fridays. $5–10. margaretdthomas yoga.blogspot.com Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clayâ€? classes ($20/person) introduce participants to the potter’s wheel every Friday from 7–9 p.m. “Family Try Clayâ€? classes show children and adults hand-building methods every Sunday from 2–4 p.m. $20. 706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Intro to Rails Programming (Four Athens) Instructors will be available inside and outside class hours to teach Ruby on Rails. This 10-week code class meets Mondays and Thursdays, Sept. 14–Nov. 19. www.fourathens.com/railscode Learn to Play the Bagpipes (OCAF, Watkinsville) Beginner and intermediate classes available. Mondays beginning Aug. 31, 6 p.m. $40. 706-769-4565, www.ocaf.com Printmaking Workshops (Double Dutch Press) “Multicolor Screenprinting: Two Parts.â€? Aug. 26, 6–7:30 p.m. & Sept. 2, 6–8:30 p.m. $70. “Monotypes: Drypoint Etching on Plexi.â€? Sept. 16, 5:30–8:30 p.m. $45. “Multicolor Reductive Woodcut:

Three Parts.� Sept. 19, 26 & Oct. 3, 2–5 p.m. $85. www.doubledutch press.com Quilting (Sewcial Studio) Quilting classes for beginner to advanced students cover both traditional and modern projects. sewcialstudio@ gmail.com, www.sewcialstudio.com Summer 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. 706-613-3624, www.athensclarkecounty.com/dance Tai Chi (Rubber Soul Yoga) Patty Riehm teaches this ongoing class in Yang style with long form. No experience necessary. Thursdays, 9–10 a.m. Donations accepted. www.rubbersoulyoga.com Traditional Karate Training (Athens Yoshukai Karate) Learn traditional Yoshukai karate in a positive atmosphere. Accepting new students. No experience necessary. See website for schedule. Classes held Sundays–Thursdays. FREE! www.athensy.com Women’s Writing Circle (Heartspace, 2350 Prince Ave.) “Vision Board Retreat: A Nourishing Pause� guides participants through crafting a mandala-inspired vision board. Aug. 29, 1–4:30 p.m. $25. “Writing for Well-Being� meets Sept. 10, 10–11:30 a.m. $15. “Awakenings� meets Wednesdays, Sept. 16–Oct. 21, 6:30–8 p.m. $80. www.heidiatheartspace.wordpress. com Yoga (Rubber Soul Yoga) Ongoing classes in Kundalini, Hatha, gentle yoga, karate and one-on-one yoga as well as guided meditation. www.rubbersoulyoga.com Zumba in the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) A dynamic fitness program

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

Help Out 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) Over 130 local agencies seek help with ongoing projects and special short-term events. www. handsonnortheastgeorgia.com

Kidstuff Art After School (OCAF, Watkinsville) These two-day workshops include “Fun with Recycling,� “Clay Face Jugs,� “Tie Dye Party,� “Selfies in Clay,� “Magical Mystical Creatures� and “Clay Monsters & UFOs.� Tuesdays and Wednesdays through Sept. 30, 3:30–5:30 p.m. $40–50 per two-day workshop. www.ocaf.com Baton (Bishop Park) The Classic City Majorettes offer instruction in dance-twirling, strutting, marching technique and more. For ages 5 & up. Tuesdays, Sept. 8–Nov. 10, 5:45–7:45 p.m. $65–80. 706-6133589, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ leisure Skateboard Workshop (Lyndon House Arts Center) Roll out in style with your own unique skateboard. Design and decorate your own deck with decals, paint, drawing and more. Ages 9 & up. Sept. 12, 1–4 p.m. $29–40. Scholarships available. 706-613-3623

Support Groups 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 Life After Diagnosis (Oasis Counseling Center) An ongoing support group aimed at helping

those with chronic or life-threatening diseases. Tuesdays, 4:30–6 p.m. $15/session. 706-543-3522, www. oasiscounselingcenter.com Reiki (ARMC 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. Wednesdays, 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. afternoons. sanon@gmail.com, www.sanon.org

art around town AMICI (233 E. Clayton St.) Black-and-white ink drawings of animals by Carlee Ingersoll. Through August. ANTIQUES & JEWELS ART GALLERY (290 N. Milledge Ave.) New paintings by Mary Porter, Greg Benson, Chatham Murray, Candle Brumby, Lana Mitchell and more. 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. ATHENS ACADEMY (1281 Spartan Lane) In the Harrison Center for the Arts & Preschool’s Lobby Gallery, “Mentor/Mentee” features the work of professors and students of the Lamar Dodd School of Art at UGA. Through June 1. • In the Bertelsmann Gallery, jeweler Sylvia Dawe presents handcrafted designs in sterling, copper, bronze, brass, found objects and mixed media. An additional show displays the photography of UGA Continuing Education Center students. Through Oct. 9. • In the Myers Gallery, view the “Troy University Faculty Show.” Through Nov. 6. ATHENS ART & FRAME (1021 Parkway Blvd.) A selection of watercolors by Mark Willis, who draws inspiration from botanical art and English watercolor. Through August. 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.) Paintings by Jim Barsness. Through Sept. 22. CIRCLE GALLERY (285 S. Jackson St.) “Afloat” displays works that explore the notion of journey and the memories of new-found places. RG Brown is a professor emeritus of art at the Lamar Dodd School of Art as well as a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Landscape Architecture. Through Oct. 2. THE CLASSIC CENTER (300 N. Thomas St.) In Classic Gallery I, “Peaceable Kingdom” presents animals by Will Eskridge, Lawson Grice, Jená A. Johnson, Susan Pelham and Cheryl Washburn. • In Classic Gallery II, “Flight” examines feathered and flying friends by Margaret Agner, Will Eskridge, Jená A. Johnson, Maria Mueller and Susan Pelham. Through September. EARTH FARE (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) Artwork by Steven C. Neal. Through August. 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 Matt Alston, John Cleaveland, Peter Loose and more. • Mixed media sculptures by Barbara Odil. Closing reception Sept. 11. FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Artwork by Jesse Stinnard. Through Aug. 29. • “Three” features new work by Matt Blanks. Aug. 31–September. Opening reception Sept. 4. GALLERY@HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Summer Vacation” includes works by Adam Forrester, Winnie Gier, Jourdan Joly, Michael Levine, Georgia Rhodes and Smokey Road Press. Through Sept. 24. GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “Art Hazelwood and Ronnie Goodman: Speaking to the Issues” confronts social and political issues such as homelessness, poverty and war. Through Sept. 13. • “El Taller de Gráfica Popular: Vida y Arte” includes posters, flyers, calavera newspapers and fine art portfolios by the Mexican printmaking collective. Through Sept. 13. • “Ralph Chessé” features paintings, puppets and works on paper by the artist. Through Oct. 4. GLASSCUBE@INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Scatterfield” by Zane Cochran is a large-scale interactive installation with 3,000 LEDs capable of producing over 16 million different colors. Through December. THE GRIT (199 Prince Ave.) Paintings by Andy Cherewick. Through Sept. 13. HENDERSHOT’S COFFEE BAR (237 Prince Ave.) “Peace, Y’all” features a dozen paintings by Charley Seagraves. Through August. HIGHWIRE LOUNGE (269 N. Hull St.) Lift it Down presents “You Don’t Tell Me,” a variety of illustration, collage and soft sculpture by Eddy Lezama and Laura Maria Ramirez Giraldo. Through September. JITTERY JOE’S EPPS BRIDGE (1880 Epps Bridge Pkwy.) Artwork by Hope Hilton and Maddie Zerkel. LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) In the Suite & Plaza Gallery, view the “Foundations Exhibition.” Through Sept. 10. • In Gallery 101, “Video 101: Dani Levanthal” screens “54 Days this Winter 36 Days this Spring for 18 Minutes,” a 16-minute montage of footage captured throughout each day. Through Sept. 11. LOWERY IMAGING GALLERY (2400 Booger Hill Rd., Danielsville) The gallery features paper and canvas giclee prints by Athens artists as well as artists’ renderings of Athens. Jamie Calkin is the featured artist through December.

SLPAA (Campus View Church of Christ) Sex, Love and Pornography Addicts Anonymous is a 12-step program for sexually compulsive behaviors. Every Monday, 7:30–8:30 p.m. 706-372-8642 Transcending Trauma (Banyan Tree Center) This counseling group supports the needs of individuals with experiences of trauma including domestic violence, sexual abuse, substance abuse-related trauma and traumatic loss. Discuss coping skills, grounding exercises and maintaining healthy relationships. Call to register. Thursdays, 6:15–7:45 p.m. 706-850-7041, www.athenscounseling.com

On The Street Bridge (Athens Bridge Center) Open Duplicate Bridge Games are held Tuesdays at 1 p.m., Wednesdays at 7 p.m. and Fridays at 1 p.m. Non-Life Master (Beginner) Duplicate Bridge Games are held Wednesdays at 1 p.m. Party Bridge is held Thursdays at 1 p.m. All games $5. 706-2484809 Seeking Performers (Rashe’s Cuisine) Seeking musicians, singers, poets and performers to entertain at the restaurant. Call or email to schedule an event. 706-850-4164, rashecuisine@gmail.com f

LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) 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. • “Return from Exile: Contemporary Southeastern Native American Art.” Reception Sept. 10. Currently on view through Oct. 10. • In the Lounge Gallery, Michael Benedetti presents a collection of prints influenced by ancient symbols, comics, art nouveau and science fiction. Through Nov. 8. • “Forty of Something: Collections from Our Community” currently features a display of 40 Victorian hatpins from the collection of Tatiana Veneruso and 40 pieces of art glass from the collection of Claire Clements. Through Sept. 19. MADISON COUNTY LIBRARY (1315 Hwy. GA-98, Danielsville) Outdoors, an upcycled metal owl named “Stoneheart” by Steve Sweetster overlooks the garden area. Indoors, Yvonne Crowe presents a collection of watercolors and inspirational messages. Through August. • “Me’chanted” by Melissa Steele is an exhibit of large mixed media collages made from recycled materials and inspired by the metamorphosis of butterflies and dragonflies. Through August. MADISON MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) “Recapitulation, 1963–2015: Drawings and Sculptures by Susan Cofer.” Through Aug. 30. MAMA BIRD’S GRANOLA (909 E. Broad St.) Artwork by Cameron Bliss Ferrelle, Chris Taylor, James Fields, Don Highfield, Barbara Bendzunas, Kayley Head, Melissa Long, Jonathan Carter, Gerald Turner, St. Udio’s Iron Works, Lea Lacy, Catcophony, Tiny Tank Tech, Hooks & Gems and Georgia Elite Jewelry. OCONEE COUNTY LIBRARY (1080 Experiment Station Rd., Watkinsville) Margaret Agner exhibits a collection of large silk wall hangings, paintings, pastels and printmaking (monotypes, nature prints and linoleum cuts). Through August. • In the Art Cubes, view a collection of sculptor Jenna Johnson’s 3-D pieces. Through August. OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (OCAF) (34 School St., Watkinsville) The 13th annual “Perspectives: Georgia Pottery Invitational” features thousands of pieces by 50 Georgia potters. In the Main Gallery, “Participating Potters: 2015” features two or three of the best pieces by each potter. In the Members’ Gallery, view a solo show by Akira Satake. In the Hall Gallery, “Once Upon a Time” displays unusual terracotta clocks by Isabell Daniel. Opening reception Aug. 28. Through Sept. 16. RICHARD B. RUSSELL JR. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIES (300 S. Hull St.) “Cooking the Books” is an exhibit of handmade books celebrating the tastes and colors of food. Through August. • An exhibition celebrating The Pennington Radio Collection features tube radios, external speakers and other artifacts from 1913–1933. Through December. • An exhibit featuring original manuscripts, engravings, maps and natural specimens are presented in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of John and William Bartram’s natural history expedition. Through Dec. 23. SEWCIAL STUDIO (2500 W. Broad St. #305) Hand-dyed art quilts by Anita Heady. Rust and over-dyed fabric on canvas by Bill Heady. SIPS (1390 Prince Ave.) Stefan Eberhard’s “Crystalscapes” reveal photographs taken through a microscope of substances such as caffeine, folic acid, vitamin C and vanillin. Through August. STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GEORGIA (2450 S. Milledge Ave.) “Nature, Illustrated” by Chuck Murphy includes a wide variety of birds, bugs and blooms. Through Oct. 4. STEFFEN THOMAS MUSEUM OF ART (4200 Bethany Rd., Buckhead) “Stories Told in Bits and Pieces: Collage Works by Susan Pelham” displays collages influenced by Magic Realism, nursery rhymes, parables and other literary works. Through October. SWEET SPOT STUDIO GALLERY (160 Tracy St., Mercury A.I.R.) The gallery presents paintings, ceramics, sculpture, drawings, furniture, folk art and jewelry from artists including Fain Henderson, Veronica Darby, Michelle Dross, John Cleaveland, Rebecca Wood, Nikita Raper, Natalia Zuckerman, Briget Darryl Ginley, Jack Kashuback, Barret Reid and Ken Hardesty. • A solo show features new works by Jason Whitley. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF ATHENS (780 Timothy Rd.) “Metropolitan Footprints” includes abstract landscape paintings of cities by Amanda Cameron. Through September. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA, OCONEE CAMPUS GALLERY (1201 Bishop Farms Pkwy., Watkinsville) “Tease it to Jesus” is a portfolio of letterpress prints organized by Margot Ecke of Smokey Road Press. Sept. 1–Oct. 1. WHITE TIGER (217 Hiawassee Ave.) Artwork by Kristin Karch. • Watercolor images by Jamie Calkin. Through September. THE WORLD FAMOUS (351 N. Hull St.) Permanent artists include RA Miller, Chris Hubbard, Travis Craig, Michelle Fontaine, Will Eskridge, Dan Smith, Greg Stone and more. • Mixed media prints by NYC-based artist and former Athenian Greg Stone. Through August.

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Historic home on 5 acres in Athens! 4959 Barnett Shoals. Guest cottage as well as main house. Old cinderblock dairy barn as well as two other wooden structures. Beautiful country setting minutes from Athens. Agricultural/residential zoning plus special use as B&B. Donna Smith Fee, (706) 296-5717, KWGA (706) 316-2900.

Parking & Storage Parking places for rent across from UGA. $30/mo. (706) 354-4261.

For Sale Antiques Archipelago Antiques: A major source of estate antiques, art, jewelry and retro treasures since 1989. 1676 S. Lumpkin St. Open daily 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. (706) 3544297. Lexington Vintage. Whimsical marketplace: vintage finds, l o c a l a r t , a rc h i t e c t u r a l salvage, upcycled furniture, gift & home decor. 1743 Lexington Rd., behind A&H Sales & Service. Look for the big rooster!

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3 Blocks from UGA & Downtown Newly Renovated Fitness & Gameroom Pool with Sundeck & Grilling 1 to 4 Bedroom Flats/Townhomes Goodie Two Shoes & Mama Bird’s Kitchen 909 Broad Street · Athens, GA 706.227.6222 www.909broad.com

Businesses

3D Printing company for sale! Spend one week in person with an Athens based Senior Mechanical Engineer and businessman learning how to make money on your new 3D Printing/3D Design business that you can operate from anywhere in the world in just one hour per day! I’ll be happy to meet with you in person at Starbucks downtown or by telephone. You buy the company and I train you until you are making a profit. This isn’t a class. You will actually be training on your new company, developing your marketing program, learning how to negotiate for maximum profit, learning how to avoid the pitfalls and mistakes most printers/ designers make. My goal is for you to see your first profit before leaving our session! Contact us at Engineering@ ProductDesignSources.com for our information package.

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”G eorgia G ives Good Game” bumperstickers, beer & coffee mugs, keychains. National Champions 2015 and #1 in TV ratings! www.tinyurl. com/2015SECchamps

Yard Sales Awesome Yard Sale! Aug. 29–30, 8 a.m. 385 Cleveland Ave. Vintage Clothes, American Apparel T-Shirts/Hoodies, Cool Mens, Womens & Kids Clothing, Shoes, Music/Recording G e a r, S c r e e n - P r i n t e d Posters, Books, CDs, DVDs, Cars, More! Got stuff to sell? Sell it with Flagpole Classifieds! Cars, b i k e s , f u r n i t u re , m u s i c equipment... Place an ad today at classifieds.flagpole. com

Music Equipment Nuçi’s Space needs your old instruments & music gear! All donations are taxdeductible. Call (706) 2271515 or come by Nuçi’s Space, 396 Oconee St.

Music Services DJ: music, lighting, more. New exciting entertainment for weddings, festivals, events. Free consultation. Special rate Fraternities & Sororities. (478) 414-6830. www.weddingrhythms.com, www.rogersentertainmentllc. com, Facebook: Er nest Frank Rogers. I n s t a n t c a s h is now being paid for good vinyl records & CDs in fine condition.Wuxtr y R e c o rd s , at cor ner of Clayton & College Dwntn. (706) 369-9428.

Services Cleaning Peachy Green Clean Co-op, your local friendly Green Clean! Free estimates w/ rates as low as $39. (706) 248-4601, p e a chygre encleancoop. com. She said, “My house is a wreck.” I said, “That’s what I do!” House cleaning, help w/ organizing, pet mess. Local, Independent and Earth Friendly. Text or call Nick for a quote (706) 8519087.

Printing Planning a calendar for 2016. Businesses / Nonprofits. We offer complete Design & Printing Service. Local. 25 years experience. (706) 395-4874.

Psychics Professional Psychic. Problem Solver. Advises in all matters in life. Stop worrying about everything. Let me give you answers! (706) 548-8598. Call for free question by phone.

Jobs Full-time Cook needed at Inoko Express, 3190 Atlanta Hwy. Apply in person. Must be avail. 20–40 hrs per week. No kitchen experience n e c e s s a r y. N o p h o n e please. Hiring Front and Back of House Staff. Experience preferred. Apply in person Tues.–Fri. 24 Greensboro H w y, Wa t k i n s v i l l e , G A 30677.

Drivers and Cooks needed at Locos Grill and P u b , 2020 Timothy Rd. Driver must have clean driving record. Apply between 2–4 p.m. or online www.locosgrill.com/ employment. Dual Licensed Massage Therapist/Esthetician – Urban Sanctuary Spa. Experience w/ massage, skin care, facial waxing, body waxing, Email resume to candicecourcy@yahoo. com or apply at 810 N. Chase St. Athens. Dual Licensed Esthetician/Nail Tech – Urban Sanctuary Spa. Experience w/ skin care, facial waxing, body waxing, natural manicures & pedicures. Email resume to candicecourcy@yahoo.com or apply at 810 N. Chase St. Athens. Line/Prep Cooks Needed.The Georgia Center has several positions available 20–40 hrs./week. Pay DOE/Minimum 3 years in full service restaurant. Email resumes to robh@uga.edu.

Opportunities Cooks and Dishwashers Taqueria Tsunami Is pleased to be opening our second location in downtown Athens on East Clayton, Just in time for football season! We are looking for fun, energetic, individuals with a team player attitude to add to add to our opening crew. We are now accepting applications for cooks and dishwashers! Cooks and dishwashers apply in person at Epps Bridge Taqueria Tsunami location between 2-6 PM Cooks- one year experience preferred Dishwashersno experience necessary Taqueria Tsunami - Located in Epps Bridge Centre 1791 Oconee Connector Suite 755 Athens, GA 30606 Honey’s Salon seeking FT stylist for booth renter’s position. Prefer applicants with clientele. Please contact owner w/ resume at lorityner@ gmail.com or call (706) 254-4008 for interview.

Part-time Line cook and servers needed. Apply in person, M–F, 4–5 at George’s Lowcountry Table, 2095 S. Milledge Ave. No phone calls.

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Banquet and Restaurant servers needed. Customer service experience preferred. Flexible scheduling: a.m., p.m. and weekend shifts avail. Email resume and availability to: jobs@georgiacenter.uga. edu. Entertainment company in search of a local P T g r a p h i c d e s i g n e r. Need to have design experience in Adobe CS6 design programs. Please m a i l re s u m e s t o t ro y @ foundryent.com. Get paid to type! SBSA is a financial transcription company offering PT positions. Create your own schedule. Competitive production-based pay. Close to campus! Must be able to touch-type 65 wpm & have excellent English grammar/ comprehension skills. Visit our website to apply: www. sbsath.com.

Graduate Athens is hiring PT front desk, housekeeping, barista, server, banquet s e r v e r, e n g i n e e r a n d security. Apply online: www. graduateathens.com/careers. Licensed Esthetician – Urban Sanctuary Spa. Experience w/ skin care & facial/body waxing. Email resume to candicecourcy@ yahoo.com or apply at 810 N. Chase St. Athens.

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21 Fusion 24 Big ___ Conference 26 "Dear" one 27 Ceremonial splendor 28 Fertilizer ingredient 29 Go over 30 Far from ruddy 33 Place to be picked up? 35 Improve (var.) 36 Cookie for dunking 37 Curb, with "in" 39 Separate 41 Article of faith 44 Electrical unit 46 Dig in 49 "___ of Eden" 51 Under state? 52 Iron 53 Flowering shrub 54 Amorphous creature 55 Heavenly food 58 Coniferous tree 59 Appear dark and threatening 61 Chipping choice 62 Unsubstantial 64 "___ we having fun yet?" 65 Parked oneself

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sexually, y’all had a great start. You mention I used to be extremely sexual, racking up it was stress that initially fizzled out your plenty of partners during and after college. sex drive, and you also say you might resent That’s chilled out a lot in my 30s, especially your partner for starting out so strong in in the last five years, but I’m having a really bed but failing to deliver nowadays. hard time with sex right now, one that I never I think you should start with calming expected to have. Basically: I have no sex drive! down your life a good bit. Is there still I can barely muster up the energy to watch stressful stuff going on? Alleviate your porn, much less touch myself or have sex with outside stressors as much as you can. This my long-term partner. I worry that he (we’re hetero; I’m a woman) will open up more mental and emotional space for just feeling sexy. I think your may have triggered this. When we first started dating, we were crazy about each other, having anxiety about having a low sex drive might be throwing you off, too—I can’t count sex almost everyday and sending the nastiest how many orgasms I’ve (awesome) text messages “missed” (women, you and emails to each other I really miss my know what I mean) when we were apart. In the last three years, sexually vivacious self. just because I was so concerned about having our sex life has basically That girl was so much fun. one. fizzled out. When we do I think it’s more rarely have sex, it’s usuabout warmth and mutual respect, as ally only one partner who finishes. opposed to just sex. Sort out any stressful This sexual dysfunction started when we stuff that’s bugging you in your life, forgive made a big move that was extremely stressful. your boo for being a horndog in the past, During that time, we barely had sex—maybe and turn on a hot movie. Instead of porn, once a month for about five months, and try watching a movie that is both erotic and always at my insistence—and I was assured passionate (think The Pillow Book more than that it was “just a phase” caused by stress. The Devil in Miss Jones). Reflect on those Years have passed since then, but our sex life first two years of your sex life together, and is still lacking; his desire doesn’t seem to have remember what it was about your partner increased, and mine has basically dropped to that drove you crazy. If that doesn’t work, a nothing. counselor or sex surrogate might actually be I’ve considered asking to just have a plaa good idea. tonic, asexual relationship with him. I’ve wondered if my current lack of sex drive is based in I’m pregnant. I’m keeping it. But I’ve got resentment for being sexually starved in our three potential fathers. I am in pieces. What relationship in the past. I also have considered do I do? basically forcing Baby Mama

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myself to masturbate on a schedule (like three times a week), to attempt to rekindle my sex drive. Am I beating a dead horse here? Should I just get my junk removed? Do I need counseling?! I really miss my sexually vivacious self. That girl was so much fun. Forget the porn and the whack-it schedule. I think this is more mental than physical. You and your man have been together for five years now, and I can see that,

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