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Will School Lunches Suffer Under Trump?

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The presidential race feels like it’s barely over, and local elections are still 15 months away, but campaign season officially arrived again when young businessman Richie Knight declared his candidacy for Athens-Clarke County mayor last week, joined by a few dozen supporters at City Hall.

Knight said he wants to “see a new generation take over the helm… We’ve been stuck in a rut the past 20–30 years.”

His top priority, he said, is economic development—high-paying jobs to alleviate the city’s 30-plus percent poverty rate.

He said he would focus on recruiting businesses that will pay a living wage, although he hasn’t settled on a figure of what a living wage should be. (It’s $10.17 an hour in Athens, according to MIT.) “We need to have real conversations with employers, not just about coming here, but about what it means to be part of the community, whom they should be hiring, wage amounts,” he said.

Other issues Knight mentioned Richie Knight is in favor of good things that people like. included: and a Q&A session with reporters. But that’s why Knight • “equal rights” for African Americans. (He is in favor of said he announced so early—so he has time to meet with the city-run civil rights committee proposed by the Athens various groups and learn the issues.

Anti-Discrimination Movement.)

Knight studied agribusiness at UGA and has lived in • more resources for the Hispanic community, including possibly declaring Athens a “sanctuary city,” although that’s Athens for seven years. He is a founding partner at HW Creative Marketing, and was recently named the Athens illegal in Georgia.

Area Chamber of Commerce’s representative to the Athens • engaging University of Georgia students in civic life.

• a more transparent government. Knight recently spoke Downtown Development Authority. He also serves on the boards of Extra Special People, United Way and Envision in opposition to the Mayor and Commission’s moratorium Athens. He is a graduate of LEAD Athens and is active in on new downtown bars and apartments, saying it should the Athens Rotary Club, according to his official bio. have been vetted by the public. “I believe in a government With Mayor Nancy Denson term-limited, the 2018 field that no longer makes decisions behind closed doors and is could be a crowded one. Five candidates ran in 2010, the no longer perceived as anti-business,” he said. last time the seat was open.

This being Flagpole, we had to ask him about alternative ACC Commissioner Kelly Girtz said he’ll make an official transportation. He’s “100 percent in favor” of more sideannouncement “later this year.” walks and bike lanes. As for Prince Avenue specifically, “I “I’m not going to be coy, I am certainly intent on runthink there’s a lot to figure out,” he said. ning for mayor, but I have two jobs that need my attention Policy details were scant during his brief announcement

Two popular downtown events that are already run on a shoestring, AthFest and the Twilight Criterium, would have to come up with almost $10,000 apiece if the ACC Commission approves a proposal requiring special event organizers to buy more insurance coverage.

“High risk” events—those where alcohol is served, that require street closures, include electrical equipment and draw more than 5,000 people—would have to buy $10 million worth of liability insurance to receive a special-event permit under the proposal. This would raise AthFest’s costs by $9,500 and Twilight’s by $8,000, the organizations said.

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now,” Girtz said. “People are just getting over their election hangover, and I don’t intend to be their hair of the dog.”

Another rumored candidate, Harry Sims, the dean of the commission with 25 years of service, said he will be announcing his intentions “shortly.”

2014 candidate Tim Denson, president of the progressive political group Athens for Everyone, also said he is mulling a run but is not ready to make an announcement.

His decision could hinge on whether progressives decide to unite around one candidate (presumably Girtz) to avoid splitting their vote like they did in 2010, when acrimony between Gwen O’Looney and Spencer Frye supporters helped propel Denson to victory.

Sources say that Dexter Fisher, director of the UGA Facilities Management Division, may be running as well. Fisher did not return a call seeking comment last week.

Girtz’s candidacy would open up his District 9 seat, representing Pulaski Heights up through the North Avenue/ Danielsville Road area. Ovita Thornton, who represents much of the same area on the Clarke County Board of Education, is likely to run. Another potential candidate is Newtown resident Tommy Valentine, a Democratic activist and UGA PhD candidate in public administration.

Should Sims run, his District 2 seat may be more difficult to fill. Sims was ready to retire in 2012 and only opted to run again after no one else stepped up. His East Athens district is changing demographically, and it will be interesting to see if it remains in African-American hands.

Despite promises of more minority representation, the commission district maps Republicans in the legislature drew in 2012 over local objections could leave Athens, which is 26 percent black, with an all-white governing body.

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Shirley Sherrod, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official who was fired during a bogus Obama Administration scandal, will be the first speaker in a new lecture series named for DeKalb County CEO and Athens native Michael Thurmond.

Sherrod was the Georgia state director for rural development at the USDA in 2010 when conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart posted a video online that purported to show Sherrod detailing how she refused to help a white farmer in a speech to the NAACP. Sherrod was fired. Howeverâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in an early example of â&#x20AC;&#x153;fake newsâ&#x20AC;? going viral online, although the term didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet existâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the video turned out to be misleading and selectively edited, and the Obama Administration apologized to her and offered her a new position, which she turned down.

The inaugural Michael L. Thurmond Black History Lecture Series kicks off at the fifth annual Athens Area Black History Bowl Celebration Saturday, Mar. 4 at the Morton Theatre. The program will honor Willie and Tommie Farmer of the Clarke County NAACP; radio talk-show hosts and parenting experts Valdon and Shirley Daniel; local radio personality Barbara â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lady Bâ&#x20AC;? Sims; and Ivery Clifton, the first black dean at the University of Georgia.

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Channeling their inner Bob Barker, several Athens residents asked commissioners to do more to ensure dogs and cats are spayed and neutered when the commission considered some routine housekeeping on the county animalcontrol ordinance last month. However, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appear that â&#x20AC;&#x153;intactâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;unalteredâ&#x20AC;? dogs are much of a problem. In the past three years, only 24 dogs (nine fixed) have been impounded three or more times, and only 14 dogs (eight fixed) are classified as potentially dangerous, dangerous or vicious, animal control officials told the commissionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Legislative Review Committee last week. The committee nevertheless asked ACC Attorney Bill Berryman to look into the legality of spaying or neutering all animals that come through the county animal shelter. Currently, the Animal Control Division requires adopted animals to be spayed or neutered, but only offers cash incentives for fixing reclaimed pets.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;As it stands, the 2017 AthFest is only expected to profit a little over $1,000,â&#x20AC;? Executive Director Jill Helme said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If the proposed insurance requirements are approved, the AthFest Educates Board of Directors will need to make some tough decisions about what cuts we can make to the festival to make sure the 2017 festival happens without negatively impacting the quality and enjoyment of AthFest.

The bigger question is the future of the festival. While we can probably incur the increase for this one year, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s certainly not something we can afford to do year after year.â&#x20AC;?

Even without the additional cost, Twilight is currently facing an $18,000 shortfall, according to founder Gene Dixon.

ACC Central Services Department staff said they based the insurance requirements on other cities. But Dixon, who puts on bike races all over the country, said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never come across a community thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s required more than $5 millionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; half of what ACC wants to require.

Ironically, when Denson assigned the issue to the Government Operations Committee in July, the intent was to streamline the process for putting on special events. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We started out discussing ways to make it easier for nonprofits to put on these special events, but we ended up making it more difficult,â&#x20AC;? Commissioner Melissa Link said.

The proposal is scheduled for a vote Tuesday, Mar. 7.

Other items scheduled for a vote include building a crosswalk with a pedestrian refuge on North Avenue near Evelyn Neely Drive; accepting a consultantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s report on a public-art master plan for the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission; hiring consultant Toole Design Group for $208,000 to help rewrite the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bicycle and pedestrian master plan; a 104-bed Episcopal dorm on South Lumpkin Street; and an overgrown-lots ordinance that would ban grass over 10 inches high.

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A large number of local people are fed up with Republican rule in Washington, Atlanta and Athens. We want to take back our government, beginning here at home.

This will no doubt bring out a lot of candidates who will make for a lively election season. We should all be aware by now of the pitfalls that can bring if our candidate doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t win (see City Dope again) and we wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go back to the polls to vote for a former rival in a runoff.

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Athens is under Republican rule as surely as Washington, DC and the Georgia state government. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the pre-Trump Republican kind of rule that assures little gets done, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only because thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not (yet) a reliable Republican majority on the commission. No doubt if that comes about, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see a much more active local government.

Unfortunately, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to start thinking about all this again, because the next political season has already been launched with the announcement that businessman Richie Knight is running for mayor in the 2018 election that is still 15 months away. (See City Dope.)

Since the current mayor canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t run again, the next election will have a lot of candidates, so Knight is probably smart to jump out front. Doc Eldridge did that when he first ran, but he at least announced within the same year as the election. It paid off for Doc, because he was well-known enough to scare some people out of the race.

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Docâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quandary back then was whether to run as a Republican or a Democrat, because at that time we still had partisan local elections. Candidates ran in the party primariesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Republican or Democraticâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the winners met in the general election.

Although he was (and is) a Republican, Doc ran as a Democrat because a Republican couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t win in Athens, and his Republican friends could vote for him in the Democratic Primary. When Doc ran for reelection as a Democrat, this system turned around and bit him on the butt. His friend Barbara Dooley was running for Congress in the Republican primary, so that year all the local Republicans voted for her and left Doc hanging in the Democratic primary, where he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t muster enough votes.

To make sure that never happened again, Doc led the charge for non-partisan local elections, so that nobody would ever have to run again here as a professed Republican: Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ask, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell.

We know, of course, that party affiliation is a pretty good indicator of political preferences, especially these days, when

This is critical, because the Republicans will have their candidates in the next election, as they did in the last. Their candidates will of course not be labeled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Republicanâ&#x20AC;?; they may even be labeled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Democrat,â&#x20AC;? but they will have the Republican votes in their pocket. With the expected wide field of progressives, liberals and Democrats, a Republican candidate is virtually assured a spot in a mayoral runoff.

Theoretically, a Democrat should be able to win easily when running one-on-one citywide against a Republican.

In practice, Democrats have not united behind one candidate in a runoff and have tended to stay home after their candidate loses. Many Democrats have also voted for the shapeshifter backed by the Republicans.

So, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got all this new energy to rise up and throw off Republican rule, but the system is now rigged here to favor the phantom Republican. Progressives will have to run smarter and hold on to the realization that the mayoral election will probably go into a runoff, perhaps with a candidate we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t support the first time around. Can we discipline ourselves to unite behind our candidate in the runoff? The Republicans can. f

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have not formulated a town hall meeting yet where the Congressman will be attending due to higher than normal threat for his security. As I am sure you are aware of people protesting in the hundreds at town hall meetings or constituent services across the country.”

Rep. Barry Loudermilk of the 11th District has not held any town halls during the current congressional recess because he is conducting “annual team training.”

Rep. Rob Woodall of the 7th District also hasn’t held any town hall meetings, although he did conduct a telephone town hall where constituents phoned in their questions. The problem with these kinds of meetings is that congressional aides screen the calls and can cut off people who want to ask awkward questions about such issues as the repeal of Obamacare.

The only Republican in the Georgia delegation with the courage and integrity to hold town halls has been Rep. Earl “Buddy” Carter of Pooler. Carter held live meetings last week in Savannah, Jesup, Waycross and Brunswick, where he fielded quite a few hostile questions. He deserves full credit for doing what elected officials are supposed to do: listen to their constituents.

GOP members of Congress have been declaring for years that Obamacare is a “disaster” and must be “repealed immediately.” They now have the votes to do it and a president who will sign their repeal legislation. In light of that, it’s all the more urgent that they stand in front of their constituents and explain to them why their health insurance is being taken away.

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Town meetings are part of a long tradition in America. Since the 1600s, residents of some New England communities have been gathering to vote directly on what their local government will do and how much will be spent in the annual budget. A variation of these gatherings are town hall meetings, where members of Congress go back to their districts to hear what constituents have to say.

Seven years ago, Republican voters crowded into these meetings to express their opposition to the Affordable Care Act. Democrats like Rep. Hank Johnson of DeKalb County took a verbal beating from constituents who didn’t like President Obama’s program.

Seven years later, the shoe is on the other foot. It is now Democrats who are swamping town hall meetings to demand explanations for the impending repeal of the Affordable Care Act. The difference this time is that Republican congressmen in Georgia are refusing to hold town halls because they’re afraid to face the wrath of the people they represent.

Sen. David Perdue has had no town hall meetings and says he won’t hold any. “I do it differently,” he said. “I engage individually and in small groups.”

Rep. Rick Allen of Augusta hasn’t held any town halls. He recently visited a library in Statesboro to host a public briefing on free income-tax-filing services, but he wouldn’t meet with demonstrators asking him to hold a town hall meeting. “As we know, we live in a dangerous world,” Allen explained to a local newspaper.

Rep. Jody Hice of the 10th Congressional District won’t hold town halls, because he’s afraid of the people he represents. One of the congressman’s staffers explained in an email: “I spoke with our scheduler and they

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s called Universal Basic Income (UBI), and pilot programs to see if it really works in practice are being launched this year in four different countries.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s populism that gave us Brexit in Britain and President Donald Trump in the United States. It could soon give us President Marine Le Pen in France. But the fundamental lie of populism is that it can â&#x20AC;&#x153;bring the jobs back.â&#x20AC;? It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even admit where they really went.

Indeed, in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, neither candidate ever mentioned the ghost at the feast. Donald Trump

existing jobs in the United States, 57 percent in Europe, and a stunning 77 percent of manufacturing jobs in China. That could mean a lot more anger, a lot more populism and conceivably even the collapse of democracy.

It is also dawning on the owners and chief executive officers of major enterprises that if half the population are impoverished by long-term unemployment, they will not be able to buy the goods and services that the capitalist economies produce. That could lead to the collapse of their whole business model, so the right wing is now starting to look into UBI too.

The principle of UBI is that every citizen gets a basic income that allows them to maintain a decent standard of living whether they are employed or not. They

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promised to â&#x20AC;&#x153;bring the jobs backâ&#x20AC;? from the foreign countries that had â&#x20AC;&#x153;stolenâ&#x20AC;? them, mainly by ending free trade, while Hillary Clinton promised â&#x20AC;&#x153;a full-employment economy where everybody has enough to raise a family and live in dignity.â&#x20AC;? Neither of them ever mentioned automation.

This is curious, because the great killer of jobs throughout the developed world for the past two decades has been automation: computer-controlled machines replacing human workers. Hundreds of thousand of ATMs have replaced hundreds of thousands of human bank tellers. Seven million industrial jobs in the United States have been eliminated in the past 35 years by automation, while factory production has actually doubled. And self-driving cars will eventually destroy most of the 4.5 million driving jobsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;long-distance trucks, taxis and delivery vans.

It is the anger of millions of people in this situation that broke normal voting patterns and provided the extra votes that gave the Brexit campaign victory in last Juneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s referendum in Britain and made Donald Trump president in November. As automation continues to spread, the angerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the reckless lies of populist politiciansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;will only get worse.

The automation will continue to spread.

The estimated impact over the next 20 years includes the loss of 47 percent of all

may also choose to work in order to raise that standard of living, and that income would be taxed (probably quite heavily), but it would still be possible to get rich. This is about saving capitalism, not ending it.

Why do it this way, rather than just giving the unemployed some money? Because that is humiliating for them, and the humiliation feeds the anger. If everybody gets it, there is no shame in taking it.

Where would the money to fund UBI come from? Part would come from ending all existing government social payments: If you are getting UBI, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need unemployment pay or an old-age pension. But heavy taxes on financial services and on automated factories and services would certainly be needed as well.

The biggest question is how many people would still choose to work if everybody was getting the Universal Basic Income. If 47 percent of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remaining jobs are being done by automated machines in 20 yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; time, then 53 percent of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jobs will still need to be done by people.

Finding the answer to that question is one of the main purposes of the new pilot programs. They are getting underway this year in Canada (in the province of Ontario), in the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands and in Finland. Others are being considered in Scotland and in Italy. Something big may be starting to happen. f

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By Baynard Woods news@flagpole.com He said he still has film of Flynn skating. “He’s a goofy Unlike Milo Yiannopoulos, who lost everything at once, foot, classic style. Really smooth skater. He skated very retired Gen. Michael Flynn wasn’t entirely ruined when he smooth, very fluid style.” resigned as national security advisor on Feb. 13.

“Aside from the very few mainstream moments, skating “For your information, we are not throwing Mike and surfing have been a very countercultural, subcultural Flynn off the Water Brothers surf and skate team.” That’s thing. Was he part of the culture of it?” I asked.

Sid Abruzzi, owner of the Water Brothers surf and skate “Completely. Absolutely. Yeah, man,” he said. “A friend shop in Newport, RI, and a grizzled old head on the scene. of mine said he bought a guitar, played guitar. He had long I called him when a line in “General Chaos,” Nicholas Schmidle’s recent New Yorker profile of Flynn, slammed into hair. You know what I mean?”

“Was he a burner or anything? Was he smoking weed me like Chris Miller hanging up at Del Mar in 1985. and stuff?” I asked.

“A headstrong teenager, Flynn skateboarded in drained “I can’t go there. I’m not sure what those guys did. But swimming pools and surfed through hurricanes and winter he was, uh, having fun,” he said. “He was a regular guy, storms,” Schmidle writes before quoting Abruzzi. man. Good in sports, athletic. Flawless family… His sisters I felt flummoxed because, to me, skateboarding still and brothers surfed all the time, man.” somehow feels anti-authoritarian by nature. When I was So what happened to turn this a kid, it was a way of reimagining one-time Water Brother into a and reclaiming the ridiculous refuse He’d be skating pretty much potential waterboarder? that made up the late-20th-Century every day, solidly for years.

“What happened was, I’ll tell you American landscape—empty pools, when he sort of flew off the truck. parking garages, curbs and cul-deNot flew off the truck, he’s my buddy. He had a couple sacs. I learned how to scrawl an anarchy sign shortly after things where he had to make a decision in life, I think, I started skating when I was 12. A year or so after that, we and he joined the, I guess, the ROTC,” Abruzzi said. “He were calling the cops who chased us “fascist pigs.” The voice changed his life around, let’s say, and decided to go in the of Thrasher magazine influenced my voice as an alt-weekly military.” writer. But now alt has gone right, and the guy too wack Flynn had a distinguished career. But he got a reputaeven for Trump is an ex-skater. What the hell?

I called Abruzzi because I wanted to hear what Flynn, 58, tion for acting erratically. At the Republican National Convention last summer, he led the crowd in a chant of was like as a skater. I wasn’t really sure why, but I thought “lock her up,” even though Army documents obtained by it might help me understand something about this regime the Washington Post showed he had improperly shared clasand the world. sified documents in 2010. He retired abruptly—some say Abruzzi was happy to talk about Flynn, whose “family under duress—from the Army in 2014, leaving a position lived probably 100 yards from the shop.” as Defense Intelligence Agency director.

Flynn started tweeting stuff like “Fear of Muslims is rational,” and he tried to connect Hillary Clinton with pedophilia and other crimes. He was photographed at a dinner with Vladimir Putin in 2015.

He resigned as national security advisor to Trump after it was revealed he had spoken with a Russian ambassador about the sanctions imposed

by President Obama for interfering in the 2016 election and later lying about those talks to Vice President Pence.

As I was thinking about the loneliness of outcasts and the connections between Flynn the hater and Flynn the skater, I realized that one of my oldest friends and skate buddies has become a far-right Pizzagater making all sorts of wild accusations under a fake name on Twitter.

One of his milder retweets, “Conservatism is the new “His older brother Jack surfed all the time, his brother counterculture,” struck me.

Charlie, his brother Joe, and Michael surfed and skated Maybe for him—or for Flynn—being on Trump’s side all the time,” he said. “Most of his skateboarding was done feels the same way it felt to be a skater back in the ’70s or right around the period of time in the late ’70s… obvi’80s. On one hand, it was a “fuck you” to authority, but it ously riding pools and banks when available in the area—it was also, in our cases, the rebellion of the young white man wasn’t like California or anything—and then skating a lot of the street. And what I call street skating back then wasn’t who thinks he should be free to do whatever he wants. In some ways, our Powell Peralta skeletons were the Pepe the curbs and benches, but housing complexes. They’d build Frog of their day. the road first, the pathway, so there were places with driveSo I shouldn’t have been surprised that Flynn was a ways… and stuff like that. So he’d be skating pretty much every day, solidly for years, him and his guys. I’m older than skater and a surfer. But I’d still like to think that he might he was, but… he had his own crew, guys his age. Most of the have turned out a little better if he’d spent more time surfing waves and less surfing the net. f time they’d surf and skate when there [were] no waves.”

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Indivisible Georgia District 10 member Danielle Bray, a lecturer in the UGA English Department, reads from George Orwell’s 1984. Members of the UGA community read the entire dystopian classic aloud Feb. 21.

Local Liberal Groups Take From the Tea Party Playbook

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resident Donald Trump’s stunning victory has touched off an explosion of spontaneous demonstrations and protests across the country that shows no signs of abating almost four months later. Protests occur almost daily in some cities, and each executive order and cabinet appointment spawns new outrage.

The initial explosion matured quickly, and thousands of groups organized to voice their widespread displeasure with the new president’s policies, cabinet appointments and executive orders. Soon after the election, a group of congressional aides who observed the tea party’s grassroots success first-hand during Obama’s presidency have prepared a “Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda,” and made it available on the website indivisibleguide.com.

The guide was widely adopted by activists for its practical advice for reaching congressional representatives and senators, and inspired the formation of literally thousands of local groups across the U.S. By early 2017, nearly 3,000 “Indivisible” groups had formed, and that number has now more than doubled to more than 7,400 groups across the country, even in rock-ribbed red states like Oklahoma, Alabama and Wyoming. Groups appear on a map on the Indivisible site with links to their Facebook pages. The organization’s Facebook page is followed by almost 150,000 people, and currently lists 395 events and 438 meetings.

Many more follow its news on Twitter as well. The Athens area alone has several separate Indivisible groups, each with different purposes and goals.

Indivisible Georgia District 10 first met in early January and now has more than 450 followers on its Facebook page, which carries the group’s news and schedule of events. The

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organization closely aligns its activities with the Indivisible playbook, working to set up town-hall meetings and sitdowns with surrogates for District 10 Rep. Jody Hice and Sens. David Perdue and Johnny Isakson. It maintains a log of actions undertaken by the group, including phone calls and meetings, on a Google doc that is available through the Facebook page. The log shows more than 300 calls to date on topics ranging from cabinet appointments to Republicans blocking the Interior Department’s Stream Protection Rule, which sought to protect waterways from debris generated by surface mining.

“We don’t allow any Trump bashing on our page, since it’s not productive,” says Toni Reed, a co-chair of the group.

“Our focus is to be a watchdog for our three legislative representatives. We focus day-to-day on what Congress is doing. Our next appointment is with Sen. Perdue’s state policy director in Atlanta, to discuss topics such as Russia, the military and terrorism.” The group is scheduling a second meeting with the senator’s office to cover health care.

Indivisible Athens: This group of more than 150 focuses on national and state legislation alike, aiming at legislation such as redistricting, the so-called “Religious Freedom” bill to allow anti-LGBT and other discrimination and women’s access to health care. It also wants to ensure that Hice doesn’t run unopposed again in 2018, as he did in last year’s election.

Since so many calls to legislators’ offices go unanswered due to sheer volume, members of this group meet Mondays at Hi-Lo Lounge in Normaltown to write and send postcards stating their views on legislation.

A big focus for Indivisible Athens is to set up town-hall meetings with legislators during congressional breaks, a campaign the group calls “Reclaim Recess.”

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Is all of the effort sustainable for the demonstrators and activists, many of whom are new to political activism? “I think the Trump Administration will sustain their level of activity, so nobody will ever feel they can relax their guard,” says Dawn Johnson, one of the organizers of Indivisible Athens.

Together We Will formed mere weeks after the election, and now counts 1,500 followers on its Facebook page, where it posts news and events. It also works with the Indivisible playbook, and adds activism on the local Athens front to its mission, including redistricting. The group also wants to identify and support a local candidate who shares its values for the U.S. House in the 2018 midterm elections.

Like the two other groups, Together We Will focuses much of its energy on environmental matters. When Perdue was quoted saying, “Outside of eliminating the EPA altogether, Scott Pruitt is the next best thing,” the group responded by posting photographs of polluted streams and rivers on the senator’s Facebook page. Members also used online fax services such as FaxZero to send messages opposing the Pruitt appointment.

Other activities include hosting “guerilla art gatherings” to paint “resistance” yard signs. It has also spawned a 67-member social-justice book club that meets monthly at Walker’s Pub to discuss relevant literature. This month’s book is the classic Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin.

“One of our main goals is to remind our representatives in Congress that they represent all of Georgia, not just their base,” says Together We Will organizer Carina McGeehin.

“Georgia is a conservative state, but there are lot of people who have a variety of beliefs, and we want to change the dialogue to reflect those beliefs.” f

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Last month, Arkansas Gov. Asa On the federal level, Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; own Rep. Hutchinson signed into law a bill banning Jody Hice has proposed an all-out abortion dilation and evacuation abortions, used ban with the Sanctity of Human Life Act, in 95 percent of second-trimester procedeclaring that legal personhood begins at dures, effectively cutting off access after conception. Similar bans have been pro14 weeks of gestation in his state. The law posed periodically for the past 20 years and also includes an alarming clause that arms never made it through the House. Perhaps the spouse or parent of a person seeking an more alarming is HB 7, an amendment abortion with the ability to sue the abortion provider, including in cases of rape and that would make permanent the Hyde Amendment, which blocks federal funding incest, in order to prevent the procedure. of abortion and has been renewed annuIn January, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin ally every year since Roe v. Wade (1973). signed both a 20-week abortion ban and a And to no oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surprise and broad critilaw requiring that people seeking abortions cism, President Trump has reinstated the be presented with an ultrasound. In Texas, a federal judge only forestalled enforcement Mexico City Policy, also known as the global gag rule, which blocks of a Texas rule mandatfunding for any ing that fetal remains be A horrifying â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;spousal federal global health organizaburied or cremated with tion that offers inforconsentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bill would a legal injunction. about abortion.

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Also, they didn’t understand—or didn’t want to accept—why people of color weren’t dreading the holidays (because our families aren’t racist), and they certainly weren’t here for any talk of how their momentary inconvenience cannot even stand in the shadow of the subjugation and violence that brown communities have faced in America since we stole it from the natives.

I decided to create the workshop when certain white people bucked at the notion that they would be just fine—that this country is theirs, it was made for them, and though their parents are idiots, they’ll never suffer under racism, because they can’t. There is no space in the conversation about racial justice for the inconvenience of whites, because racial justice is not achieved when the oppressor is accommodated.

Black liberation is not contingent on white comfort, and it is way more important than white feelings.

The white people around me did not understand or want to accept this, but they still wanted to call themselves allies. They still wanted to believe that they were active

in the struggle, though they did nothing tangible to effect change, and even wanted to silence black voices for the sake of uplifting their own “struggle” of sharing the table with their homophobic aunt. If your goal is to be comfortable, then your goal is not a revolutionary one.

So I created the workshop and hosted it through the Athens Free School. It went great. Everyone who attended was passionate and proactive while still possessing the humility to take correction and let their activism and allyship be led by the group that they want to support.

I wanted to do this workshop because white people have power in ways they’re not even aware of, and of course with great power comes great responsibility. If they’re serious about helping, then they should know how. Racism is an American disaster, a social construct as destructive and deadly as a flood, and when people go to provide disaster relief, they don’t just hit the ground running or lie around claiming they’re working when they’re actually not. They allow the people already present and working with that struggle to point them to the areas that need the most help.

They take direction and coordinate their actions to maximize their effect.

Studying up on your whiteness and how it can contribute to liberation is the same thing.

You don’t get to just call yourself allies anymore, white people. It’s a specific role, and it’s a label that you must earn.

I want to thank everyone who attended my workshop, as well as everyone who wanted to come but either couldn’t make it or couldn’t register in time. I’ll be hosting more, but I can’t provide any solid dates for a while. The experience was touching, fulfilling and energizing, but it was also triggering, depressing and exhausting. Spending months reading about problems in racial justice is enough of a bummer, and fielding racists and trolls on social media didn’t help at all. And let’s not forget the people who aren’t trolling at all, but are just so incapable of introspection that talking to a brick wall is more effective.

It’s not the job of a community in grief to teach their oppressors how to be better people, though I’m glad I took the initiative to do this, because I really do think that the pale, crunchy, pseudo-hippie masses of Athens are in desperate need of guidance on this issue. Some of us would rather eat MDMA with swarthy tokens at burner gatherings than do the real work of racial justice, and that’s just as well. But there’ll be more white ally workshops in the future, and you’re invited. f

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Feb. 11, I led a workshop on white allyship at the Athens library. I decided to create this workshop because I couldn’t reconcile the words and behaviors of lots of my white friends with their insistence that they were allies to the cause of liberation for all, and specifically black liberation.

Conversations about racism were constantly being centered around whiteness— i.e., how it makes white people feel, and how it affects them. This behavior became almost unavoidable after the holidays, when most of my white friends were posting #NoDAPL memes and shaming people of color for enjoying the holidays like we always do. The writing was on the wall for my white friends. They couldn’t ignore their families’ racism after Trump’s election, and they didn’t want to face it during their visit home for Thanksgiving.

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Future Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue Will Influence What Kids eat

By Lauren Baggett news@flagpole.com On Feb. 15, The Locavore explored some of the ways President Trump’s choice for secretary of agriculture, Sonny Perdue, could affect Athens farms. But as head of the USDA, Perdue will take on more than just farming policy.

The USDA also oversees a wide range of food and nutrition policies, including the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps), the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) and the National School Lunch Program. Any major changes to these programs will directly affect Athens families, especially the nearly 40 percent who live below the poverty line.

The DGA is the policy behind our ideas about nutrition. The food pyramid, nutrition labels, servings per day recommendations—they all stem from the dietary guidelines. Any food program that receives funding from the federal government must follow the nutrition standards in document.

The USDA and Department of Health and Human Services appoint a Dietary Guideline Advisory Committee of food and nutrition researchers who review and submit feedback on current guidelines.

These agencies then update federal nutrition policy based on the committee’s recommendations.

The federal dietary guidelines get an update every five years, and they change very slowly. So, Perdue’s personal views aren’t likely to show up in the dietary guidelines, but his appointments to the advisory committee could reflect the agenda of the Trump Administration at large.

The makeup of school lunches might see a more immediate policy change. School nutrition standards were overhauled in 2010 with the passage of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. “Schools are required to serve lunches that meet federal meal pattern requirements,” says Tracey Brigman, a dietitian and nutrition professor at UGA. “These requirements align with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.”

Now schools are required to prepare meals that include one serving each of fruits, vegetables and whole grains, while limiting sodium and saturated fats. The Smart Snacks program prevents schools from selling junk food and sugary drinks.

Brigman points out that, although some Republican members of the House have called the requirements burdensome, the

Students eat lunch at Clarke Middle School.

latest research suggests that the program works. Kids are choosing more nutritious foods than they were before the changes.

Manny Stone, culinary arts director for Clarke County schools, has seen the positive impact of providing healthy meals. “The evidence indicates clearly that kids who eat diets that are truly nourishing perform better in school,” he says. “I find the idea of selling, or providing, junk food or nutritionally empty snacks… to be antithetical to our mission for our students.”

Though neither Congress nor Trump has made any statements about school lunch standards, Stone is watchful. “We have all likely heard of President Trump’s professed love of fast food. Hopefully he keeps that out of our schools.”

The future of SNAP is also unclear.

Professor Grace Bagwell Adams studies how health policies impact vulnerable

people—children, the elderly, the poor—at UGA’s College of Public Health. She says restricting benefit programs like SNAP disproportionately hurts these groups.

“Just because the government overnight decides to dismantle a program, that doesn’t mean the need for that program has gone anywhere,” she says.

Again, Trump and Congress haven’t said much about food assistance, but Adams is concerned that if they approach SNAP funding like they’ve taken on health insurance reform, “that does not trend toward investment in policies that are designed to reduce poverty.”

In fact, says Adams, Perdue could have his hands full with a new wave of SNAP applications if people lose other benefits like Medicaid. “When you cut from one program, it often has implications and spillover effects for another program,” she says. f

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Despite its fairly good location (between Utage and Jerzee’s) and the fact that it offers something new to the city, few people I’ve mentioned it to have heard of it or realize that it’s open. The posted hours aren’t

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Need some tealight candles? A new book? Some incense? A couch to crash on while your child takes a class at Canopy?

Local art? A sympathetic ear? Veronica’s has all this and more, packed into a tiny but appealing space that is full of personality and supplies something badly needed for its building: nourishment. It’s open 9 a.m.–6 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 9 a.m.–9 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Sunday. f

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The restaurant is the fourth of its name, joining branches in Decatur, Kennesaw and Alpharetta that have been operating for years. Some of its menu is generically Mediterranean, but some of it is not. All of it is delicious. Various kebabs and other grilled dishes (e.g., kofte, or beef-based meatballs) are beautifully executed, tender and full of flavor. Anything that comes with cacik (tzatziki by another name: a mixture of cucumbers, yogurt, garlic and mint) is worth ordering, or you can get a dish of it, from the appetizer section, served with soft flatbread that is a bit less doughy than pita.

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The bleary-eyed barista who pulled the shots for your Americano this morning? She rocked a sold-out show last night. That fella who slid your ice-cold tallboy down the counter is one of the most versatile drummers in town. Your smiling restaurant server is in talks with a hip Midwestern label to release her band’s debut. Even the lawyer helping you sort stuff out has been known to take the stage now and again.

In Athens, you can’t turn a corner without running into a musician, and it follows that our businesses are chockfull of ’em: behind the counter, in the kitchen, at the desk, on the sales floor. They’re the lifeblood of our economy, on stage and in the office. So, as we celebrate our readers’ favorite local businesses, we also wanted to spotlight a few of the musicians who keep those businesses going. f

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Christian DeRoeck Where do you work? I’m a bartender at Manhattan Café and The World Famous.

What bands are you in? Deep State, Loose Knives and Blunt Bangs.

Favorite thing about your jobs? I’m super fortunate to work at two of the best bars in Athens. I genuinely love my jobs, and one cool perk about working at TWF is that I can book shows there whenever I want.

Least favorite thing? My best shifts are Friday and Saturday night, which are also prime show nights, so it’s

Anna Staddon a delicate balance of trying to book shows during the week and/or begging coworkers to cover my shifts.

Do people recognize you at work? Honestly, I get recognized more for being a bartender. People will come up to

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me at a show and be like, “Hey, didn’t you make my martini last night?” And I’ll say, “You’re damn right I did.”

If you weren’t playing music or working your jobs, what would you be doing? I’d be rolling around in a ditch somewhere, scream-singing “Slow Hands” by Silkworm. Seriously, I have no other marketable skills.

Anna Staddon Where do you work? I’m a server at Ted’s Most Best.

What band are you in? Saline.

Favorite thing about your job? My coworkers may not know this, because most of our interactions involve making fun of each other, but I love them. A lot of my coworkers are members of the same family, and they generously extend that sense of belonging to the rest of us.

Favorite thing about being a musician in Athens? I love feeling the energy and excitement from customers all evening, and then going out to get a taste of it myself, especially during festivals or events, like Ciné’s Experimentique Night, that place a strong focus on collaboration.

If you weren’t playing music or working your job, what would you be doing? I’m really interested in further pursuing cultural anthropology after graduation.

What’s your craziest work story? A thunderstorm brought sleet and sideways wind, requiring us to chase uprooted umbrellas all over the patio and rescue meals from the rain. Once we were inside, the power went out.

The heat of our gas ovens continued to cook the pizzas, and we used it to finish making everyone’s orders. They ate in the dark while my coworker used a manual creditcard imprinter to continue taking orders. My stepsister’s mom and stepdad showed up and socialized with us, while another customer celebrating a birthday party gave us homemade blackberry pie!

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Where do you work? I have my own law firm, The Law Offices of Adam L. Hebbard, LLC. What bands are you in? Adam Hebbard and the et Als, Basketball Team, Mikey Mel and the JDs. Favorite thing about your day job? It is intellectually rewarding, my colleagues are generally great, and I get to help people to boot.

Least favorite thing about your day job? Being self-employed means I’m almost never not at work, and rarely are my clients’ issues confined to regular business hours.

How do your skills as a musician translate to your day job, and vice versa? I do a lot of courtroom and jury work, so public speaking and presentation skills— not to mention a taste for the theatrical—are useful in both contexts. Both jobs require being able and willing to negotiate and compromise with people, whether it’s about band practice or a legal matter.

If you weren’t playing music or working your day job, what would you be doing? No idea. Maybe working at a brewery?

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Where do you work? I serve and manage at The Grit.

What bands are you in? I play drums in Crunchy, with Killick Hinds and Ricky and His Digits. All of my favorite styles: stoner metal, hip hop and wild, jazzy improv.

Favorite thing about your job? The Grit helped introduce me to the music scene. One day at work, me and Phelan LaVelle said to each other in passing, “We should play music together.” Without even discussing it besides that, we rented a space at Nuçi’s and Crunchy happened— and now we’re getting ready for our second tour!

Do people recognize you at work? Yeah, it is super cool and flattering when someone approaches me while I’m working about a show I’ve played. Especially being a drummer, I’m not used to that attention. I blush.

How do your skills as a musician translate to your day job, and vice versa? Being able to see what needs to be done and then doing it in a certain amount of time, in the most efficient way—that’s kind of what serving is, and what drumming is like. But sometimes, drumming is also going crazy and making a mess, and accepting that’s what you’re working with in the moment—much like being a server. Ha! If you weren’t playing music or working your job, what would you be doing? I have a big interest in fitness, and would love to become a personal trainer. I’m trying to do it all now, but I definitely wish there were more hours in a day.

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art gallery to very interested and supportive folks. Our friends put us up at their loft close to the venue. Come morning, we went to get our car and realized there were zero cars on the street. We ended up having to walk all

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the way to the Brooklyn Bridge, with our guitars, to get our car out of the impound. I’ll never forget watching my bandmate Cameron ride in the front seat of the cop car as they went to sort out which car was ours.

Eric Keaton Where do you work? I’ve worked several jobs at the Georgia Theatre, including security.

What band are you in?: I am the founder and lead guitarist for Gimme Hendrix, a local Jimi Hendrix tribute band.

Favorite thing about your day job? I enjoy being exposed to all types of music and meeting people from all types of diverse backgrounds.

Least favorite thing about being a musician in Athens? There’s so much great music here, and so many things to learn, there never seems to be enough time in the day to do everything I want to do.

Do people recognize you at work? Yes. It’s great to know that people from all backgrounds and age groups still appreciate Hendrix’s music.

How do your skills as a musician translate to your day job, and vice versa? It has helped me to be more understanding and patient. Musicians all work very hard at their craft. You put in a lot of time in order to get the sound right, and being in charge of a band means you have to learn to be flexible as well. You learn to develop both business skills and people skills.

What’s your craziest music story? I have a few, but a good one is that one time I played Duane Allman’s goldtop guitar. f

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William Freeman Leverett Where do you work? I hold a few positions at Hendershot’s Coffee Bar: doorman, baker, barista.

What bands are you in? I have a solo project and play in Fake Flowers.

Favorite thing about your job?

Obviously, Hendershot’s is quite a musical environment, and I never feel too pulled away from a creative mental space.

Favorite thing about being a musician in Athens? Everyone knows that everyone knows that it’s pretty cheap to live here, but I’ll say it anyway.

Least favorite thing? Waking up early for the baking shift isn’t too bad—I can be either a night owl or a morning

bird—but it helps for consistency. A couple of baking shifts placed adjacent to some late-night shows in Atlanta will really mess up my internal rhythm.

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Where do you work? I’m a night cook at Last Resort Grill.

What bands are you in? I play guitar and backing vocals in Reap, and I’m also working on a new project.

Favorite thing about being a musician in Athens? The extremely supportive community. I always get the days off that I need to play shows or go out of town. I work with several other musicians, and most of my musician friends also work in the service industry.

Do people recognize you at work? Not the clientele, but new hires do sometimes.

What’s your craziest music story? My old band, The Rodney Kings, played in Brooklyn—we played at an

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orget Superman: The new hero in town is Rev. Conner Tribble.

This unsung yet always singing hero of Athens musicâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;whom you can see costumed as various rock icons and strutting his stuff throughout this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Athens Favorites issue of Flagpoleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has a Clark Kent day job as a cashier at the Barnett Shoals Publix. But when the sun goes down, the uniform comes off, and a littleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or a lot ofâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; glitter goes on.

Tribbleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who is, in fact, an ordained ministerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;can be found around town in a variety of venues saving audiences from boredom and unhappiness, strutting the stage with the confidence of a natural-born showman. It took crashing to earth, however, to make Tribble the hero that he is today.

Before moving back to Athens, Tribble spent more than 20 years playing in New York City. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In New York, I was playing Cafe Wha?. All I did [was], I would be there on a stage, I would go in there and get incredibly drunk.â&#x20AC;? Tribble says he was playing three or four shows a night, five nights a week, making his living as a musician. But his wife at the time, Betina Wassermann, was battling cancer and wanted to move to quieter, less hectic Athensâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Tribbleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s childhood hometown. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you Google a great place to retire, Athens, GA pops up,â&#x20AC;? says Tribble. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And of all the towns in this country, for her to say that isâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; with all due respect, you knowâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I thought, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;My gosh.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; But that was what she wanted to do, and I love her, and that was that.â&#x20AC;? So Tribble packed up and moved.

As we know, making a living solely as a musician in Athens is difficult, so Tribble had to find a day job. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was a professional musician all my life. I never had a real jobâ&#x20AC;Ś So we got down here, I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t walk [from hip replacement surgery], Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m trying to find a job, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;mâ&#x20AC;Ś 60 then. My resume was nothing but rock and roll, rock and roll.â&#x20AC;? After months of searching, Tribble â&#x20AC;&#x153;got a job at Publix. It was a miracle.â&#x20AC;?

While adjusting to this new lifestyle of playing less music and scanning more groceries, Tribble and Wassermann split ways. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The timing was just bad,â&#x20AC;? says Tribble. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were together all the timeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you realize how crazy you are. But bless her heart, you know, Iâ&#x20AC;Ś just realized how I am. I thought, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe she stayed with me as long as she did.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I mean, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m crazy. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just nuts.â&#x20AC;? The two are now close friends.

After the separation, Tribble jokes that he became like a teenager again. He retreated into his apartment, which is decorated with Christmas lights and plastered with pictures of women. A drum kit sits in the corner, and the scent of a fir-tree candle fills in the air. His life became simple: work, music, home.

But Tribble has come to be extremely grateful for his situation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am blessed,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At this point in my life, I just wake up going, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You are so luckyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;Ś Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a very happy old man.â&#x20AC;?

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He adds that this is where he needs to be. â&#x20AC;&#x153;God brought me down here. I can look you in the eye and tell you itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exactly where Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m supposed to beâ&#x20AC;Ś Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m perfectly happy right here in Athens, playing with all of these wonderful people. Who wouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve thought that working in a grocery store [was] what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m supposed to be [doing]? But it is!â&#x20AC;? f

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Classic City Rotary is pleased to announce the presentation of a new award, named in honor of the internationally acclaimed local singer/ songwriter, Vic Chesnutt.

The Vic Chesnutt Songwriter of the Year Award carries a $1,000 cash prize and will be awarded at an event celebrating all Athens area songwriters at The Foundry on May 11, 2017. The evening of music will include performances by all of the ďŹ nalists.

Nominations are now being accepted through March 31 for songs in any genre, written by songwriters living in Athens or the surrounding counties, and publicly released in 2016. See full details, nomination criteria, and a link to the nomination submission page at:

tinyurl.com/RotarySongwriterAward

Sponsorships for the May 11 event are also available. Funds raised will be used to recognize local songwriters, to support Nuçiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Space, and for other arts, music, and community service projects of the Classic City Rotary Club.

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hear; and the artist must live in the Athens START YOUR ENGINES: It appears 2017 is area, meaning Clarke or its neighboring going to be another exceptionally prolific counties (Oglethorpe, Madison, Jackson, year for Athens expĂŠrimentateur suprĂŞme Barrow and Oconee). The judging panel will Killick Hinds. Foregoing the fact that he include a range of music folks with experreleased a short record last monthâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;The tise in various areas. The winner of this White Hair Grows Faster Than the Red Hair, honor walks away with not only the, uh, which sounded more like a demo than a honor, but $1,000 to boot. On a personal considered album, between its guitar-only note, I think this is a very sweet way to instrumentation and heavy-handed digital remember Chesnutt, who died in December manipulationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he appears on three new collections this month, two of which he recorded in a single day, Feb. 12. Killick collaborated with flautist and shaman Beto Cacao for The Art That Gives Us Strength to Face the Tyrant, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s credited to The Art. The six-track album beginsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and mostly remainsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; exceedingly gentle, and the compositions are flute-driven, with Killickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guitar following Cacaoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s path. The breathiness of the playing lends it a steady physicality without overt masculinityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially, for example, after the 4:50 mark of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Outer Space Is Better.â&#x20AC;? All proceeds from sales of this record will be donated to the Athens Immigrant Rights Coalition.

Next up is Zero Depravity, credited to Garfield Minus Hetfield. Here, Killick collaborates with drummer Kathleen Duffield (Crunchy).

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nine tracks of improvisational â&#x20AC;&#x153;punk rock,â&#x20AC;? which is recognizable as such in the spiritual sense of the term but not at all in the vernacular. The most pleasing parts to me are when they get really weird Killick Hinds (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hetfield, New Jerseyâ&#x20AC;?), sparse (â&#x20AC;&#x153;No Relegationâ&#x20AC;?) and into frenzied dissolve 2009. He was both internationally beloved (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zero Depravityâ&#x20AC;?), and much less so on the and far too often taken for granted locally.

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to keeping his memory alive. For tracks that resemble traditional rockers.

Find both of these at killick.bandcamp.com. more information on Classic City Rotary, see classiccityrotary.org and facebook.com/ RotaryCluboftheClassicCityofAthens. To TIME OUT: A new recording is out by the submit nominations, go to tinyurl.com/ jazz-oriented experimental trio Thunder RotarySongwriterAward.

O(h)m!â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the aforementioned Hinds on guitar, pianist Brad Bassler and drummer HEART AND SOUL: Straight-up rock-and-roll John Norrisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;titled Glyphclanger. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a band Falco Brown, which is quite good at single-track, 38-minute recording done live being a straight-up rock-and-roll band, is in Basslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home. While all members have on a path to record three â&#x20AC;&#x153;shortâ&#x20AC;? albums played together in other projects, Thunder this year. (I would call them EPs, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m O(h)m! is a personal favorite largely due to Basslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s piano playing, which is forceful yet using the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s term.) The first of these is the four-song New Old Stock, Pt. 1. From its nuanced and purposeful. The section from cover artâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;clearly inspired by The Monkeesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 4:29â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7:00 is stunning in its clarity and soundtrack to its film Headâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to the actual drive, and sets up the entire recording as a songwriting, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clearer here than on previthing of beauty. Of course, this record is all ous releases how indebted Falco Brown is to of a piece, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bit brutal to chop it up this way. At any rate, take the ride at killick. that which came before. That said, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of credit due to the group for having a bandcamp.com and see if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t agree. stylistic fluency that renders its influences as merely that and not, you know, gods.

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Sushi

Winner

Shokitini

251 W. Clayton St. · 706-353-7933 Runner Up

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readers voted by the thousands for their favorite local businesses in this year’s Flagpole Athens Favorites contest. Congratulations to all the rock stars chosen as lead vocalists (winners) or backup singers (runners up) in more than 100 categories!

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Utage Athens Sushi Bar 440 E. Clayton St. · 706-227-9339

Mexican/Latin American Winner

Cali-N-Tito’s

1427 S. Lumpkin St. · 706-227-9979 1245 Cedar Shoals Dr. · 706-355-7087 Runner Up

Agua Linda Mexican Restaurant & Cantina 1376 Prince Ave. · 706-543-1500 2080 Timothy Rd. · 706-543-0154

BBQ

Winner

Pulaski Heights BBQ

675 Pulaski St. · Suite 100 · 706-583-9600

Restaurants New (opened between Feb ’16–Jan. ’17) Winner

Donna Chang’s

Runner Up

American Winner

Clocked!

259 W. Washington St. · 706-548-9175

1664 S. Lumpkin St. · 706-215-9100 Runner Up Runner Up

Blind Pig Tavern

1040 Gaines School Rd. · Suite 117 · 706-850-4363

312 E. Washington St. · 706-548-3442 2440 W. Broad St. · 706-208-7979 2301 College Station Rd. · 706-850-4919

Craft Public House

Italian

Winner

DePalma’s Italian Cafe 401 E. Broad St. · 706-354-6966 1965 Barnett Shoals Rd. · 706-369-0085 2080 Timothy Rd. · 706-552-1237

Saucehouse Barbeque 830 W. Broad St. · 706-363-3351

Bakery

Winner

Independent Baking Co. 1625 S. Lumpkin St. · 706-850-3550 Runner Up

Ike and Jane 1307 Prince Ave. · 706-850-1580

Asian

Downhome/Southern

Siri Thai

The Place

Winner

367 Prince Ave. · 706-548-7667 1040 Gaines School Rd. · 706-850-3500

Winner

229 E. Broad St. · 706-850-2988 Runner Up

Runner Up

Runner Up

323 E. Broad St. · 706-353-3911

149 N. Lumpkin St. · 706-548-9222

La Dolce Vita

Thai Spoon

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Winner

Porterhouse Grill

Local Coffee House Winner

Jittery Joe’s Coffee

459 E. Broad St. · 706-369-0990 Runner Up

1860 Barnett Shoals Rd. · 706-354-8000 1480 Baxter St. · 706-548-1099 1230 S. Milledge Ave. · 706-208-1979 425 Barber St. · 706-227-2161 297 E. Broad St. · 706-613-7449 1880 Epps Bridge Pkwy. · 706-345-8900

Chops and Hops 2. S. Main St., Watkinsville · 706-310-1101

Seafood Winner

Seabear Oyster Bar

Runner Up

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar

297 Prince Ave. · Suite 10 · 706-850-4367

237 Prince Ave. · 706-353-3050 Runner Up

Local Pizza

Marker 7 Coastal Grill

Winner

1195 S. Milledge Ave. · 706-850-3451

Automatic Pizza

Wings

Winner

1397 Prince Ave. · 706-850-2037

Amici

Runner Up

Ted’s Most Best

233 E. Clayton St. · 706-353-0000

254 W. Washington St. · 706-543-1523 Runner Up

Local Burger

Blind Pig Tavern

Winner

259 W. Washington St. · 706-548-9175 Runner Up

ZoomWorks

Clocked!

312 E. Washington St. · 706-548-3442 2440 W. Broad St. · 706-208-7979 2301 College Station Rd. · 706-850-4919

Vegetarian Options Winner

Grindhouse Killer Burgers Runner Up

1553 S. Lumpkin St. · 706-612-9327

Cali-N-Tito’s

Fries

1427 S. Lumpkin St. · 706-227-9979 1245 Cedar Shoals Dr. · 706-355-7087

Winner

Trappeze Pub

269 W. Washington St. · 706-543-8997 Runner Up

The Grill

Taco

Winner

Taqueria del Sol

334 Prince Ave. · 706-353-3890

171 College Ave. · 706-543-4770 Runner Up

Burrito

The Grit

199 Prince Ave. · 706-543-6592 Runner Up

Hi-Lo Lounge 1354 Prince Ave. · 706-850-8561

Sandwich Winner

Marti’s at Midday 1280 Prince Ave. · 706-543-3541

Taco Stand

Winner

Barberitos Southwestern Grille and Cantina

2230 Barnett Shoals Rd. · 706-549-5481 247 E. Broad St. · 706-549-1446 670 N. Milledge Ave. · 706-549-2894

Runner Up

Big City Bread Cafe 393 N. Finley St. · 706-353-0029

259 E. Clayton St. · 706-549-9008 1860 Barnett Shoals Rd. · 706-549-9954 1880 Epps Bridge Pkwy. · 706-354-0300 1739 S. Lumpkin St. · 706-548-1866 680 N. Hwy. 29 · 706-543-5299

Taco Stand

Winner: Favorite Meal for a Deal Runner Up: Favorite Taco

How long has your business been open?

The first Taco Stand opened in 1977.

What’s your favorite thing about your business?

It has to be the customers!

What genre of music represents your business? Why?

Classic rock, because we are all rock stars!

Who is your music idol? Why?

What would your business’ band name be, and your first album?

Stand Off: Eat Me.

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Jimmy Buffett. “Margaritaville”—it’s simple and delicious.

Home.made Catering

Winner: Favorite Catering Runner Up: Favorite Lunch Runner Up: Favorite Downhome/Southern Restaurant Runner Up: Favorite Chef

Who owns your business?

Mimi Maumus.

What’s your favorite thing about your business?

Brainstorming ideas for dishes.

What’s something you wish more people knew about your business?

That it literally grew out of my home while I worked at another restaurant. It has been a true labor of love.

What genre of music represents your business? Why?

Matt Hardy

New Orleans jazz, because it sounds the best in the dining room and goes great with the food and the vibe.

What would your business’ band name be, and your first album?

Sous Vide and the P. Cheese: Yelp Yourself.

Dessert Winner

Last Resort Grill

184 W. Clayton St. · 706-549-0810

Brunch

Date Night

Mama’s Boy

The National

Winner

Winner

197 Oak St. · 706-548-6249

232 W. Hancock Ave. · 706-549-3450

Runner Up

Runner Up

815 N. Chase St. · 706-354-7901

184 W. Clayton St. · 706-549-0810

Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market Runner Up

The Grit

199 Prince Ave. · 706-543-6592

Ice Cream / Frozen Yogurt Winner

Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt 196 Alps Rd. · 706-208-7223 1860 Barnett Shoals Rd. · 706-850-8336

The Last Resort Grill

Late Night

Meal for a Deal

The Grill

Taco Stand

Winner

Winner

171 College Ave. · 706-543-4770

2230 Barnett Shoals Rd. · 706-549-5481 247 E. Broad St. · 706-549-1446 670 N. Milledge Ave. · 706-549-2894

Runner Up

The World Famous Runner Up

351 N. Hull St. · 706-543-4002 Runner Up

Cali-N-Tito’s

105 College Ave. · 706-208-0031

1427 S. Lumpkin St. · 706-227-9979 1245 Cedar Shoals Dr. · 706-355-7087

Ben and Jerry’s Scoop Shop

Buffet

Special Occasion

Taste of India

The National

Winner

Winner

131 E. Broad St. · 706-559-0000

232 W. Hancock Ave. · 706-549-3450

Runner Up (tie)

Runner Up

2020 Barnett Shoals Rd. · 706-546-8777

1073 S. Milledge Ave. · 706-546-7300

Hibachi Grill Supreme Buffet

Five & Ten

Kid-Friendly Local Restaurant

China Star Super Buffet

Winner

3567 Atlanta Hwy. · 706-316-3382

Ted’s Most Best

Breakfast Winner

254 W. Washington St. · 706-543-1523

Mama’s Boy

Runner Up

Cali-N-Tito’s

197 Oak St. · 706-548-6249

1427 S. Lumpkin St. · 706-227-9979 1245 Cedar Shoals Dr. · 706-355-7087

Runner Up

Big City Bread Cafe

Outdoor Dining

393 N. Finley St. · 706-353-0029

Winner

Ted’s Most Best

Lunch

Winner

Marti’s at Midday

254 W. Washington St. · 706-543-1523 Runner Up

Runner Up

Home.made Catering 1072 Baxter St. · 706-206-9216

ZoomWorks

1280 Prince Ave. · 706-543-3541

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Take Out Winner

Siri Thai Cuisine

367 Prince Ave. · 706-548-7667 1040 Gaines School Rd. · 706-850-3500

BARs Bartender Winner

John Posey at Wonderbar 240 E. Washington St.

Runner Up

Taziki’s Mediterranean Cafe

Catering Winner

Home.made

1072 Baxter St. · 706-206-9216 Runner Up

The Old Pal

1320 Prince Ave. · 706-850-4340 Runner Up

The World Famous 351 N. Hull St. · 706-543-4002

Peter Dale

at The National 232 W. Hancock Ave. · 706-549-3450 Runner Up

Mimi Maumus at Home.made 1072 Baxter St. · 706-206-9216

Margarita Winner

Agua Linda Mexican Restaurant & Cantina 1376 Prince Ave. · 706-543-1500 2080 Timothy Rd. · 706-543-0154 Runner Up

Food Truck / Cart

facebook.com/holycrepeathens · 706-765-7087 Runner Up

Streets Cafe

334 Prince Ave. · 706-353-3890

Bloody Mary Winner

Hi-Lo Lounge

1354 Prince Ave. · 706-850-8561

facebook.com/streetscafe · 706-540-2134 Runner Up

Uniquely Athens Restaurant

199 Prince Ave. · 706-543-6592 Runner Up

Last Resort Grill

184 W. Clayton St. · 706-549-0810

Winner

271 W. Hancock Ave. · 706-410-1043 Runner Up

Terrapin Beer Co. 265 Newton Bridge Rd. · 706-549-3377

Place to Dance Winner

Little Kings Shuffle Club 223 W. Hancock Ave. · 706-369-3144 Runner Up

9d’s

400 Clayton St. · 706-461-0268

Place to Play Games Winner

The Rook and Pawn

294 W. Washington St. · 706-543-5040 Runner Up

Wonderbar 240 E. Washington St.

Happy Hour Winner

Seabear Oyster Bar

297 Prince Ave. · Suite 10 · 706-850-4367

Allgood Lounge

Winner

The Grit

Last Resort Grill

Taqueria del Sol

Winner

Holy Crepe

Runner Up

Creature Comforts Brewery

Saucehouse Barbeque

Winner

232 W. Hancock Ave. · 706-549-3450

at Normal Bar 1365 Prince Ave. · 706-548-6186

Winner

Chef

The National

Local Brewery

Specialty Drinks

830 W. Broad St. · 706-363-3351

Winner

Runner Up

Bain Mattox

227 Prince Ave. · 706-247-7619

Wine Selection

256 E. Clayton St. · 706-549-0166

Beer Selection Winner

Runner Up

Normal Bar 1365 Prince Ave. · 706-548-6186

Trappeze Pub

269 W. Washington St. · 706-543-8997

184 W. Clayton St. · 706-549-0810 Runner Up

Hi-Lo Lounge 1354 Prince Ave. · 706-850-8561

Creature Comforts Brewery Winner: Favorite Local Brewery

How long has your business been open?

Since April 2014.

What’s something you wish more people knew about your business?

Our Get Comfortable initiative supports local nonprofits who each share a mission to end hunger, poverty and homelessness in Athens.

Last year we generated $65,000 in value, and this year our goal is to break $100,000.

What genre of music represents your business? Why?

Jazz. It takes inspiration from so many musical styles to create something greater. It’s also highly creative and artistic, which are two things we hold dear to us at the brewery.

Who is your music idol? Why?

OutKast. They did it their way, and influenced change in an industry.

Matt Hardy

What would your business’ band name be, and your first album?

The Creatures: Crush and Repeat.

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Graduate Athens Winner: Favorite Event Space Runner Up: Favorite Hotel Runner Up: Favorite Spa

What’s something you wish more people knew about your business?

We feel that we are the most diverse event space in Northeast Georgia: a live concert hall hosting national, regional and local bands and songwriters weekly, as well as occasional comedy and storytelling, with fantastic wedding facilities, public and private meeting spaces for small and large groups, outdoor patio terrace space for concerts, events and ceremonies. We host more nonprofit fundraisers in our event spaces than any other event space in Athens.

What genre of music represents your business? Why?

Rock and roll. Our staff is the most dedicated hospitality staff in town, and we always make it a priority to treat all of our clients and guests like the rock stars they are!

Who is your music idol? Why? Matt Hardy

The Rolling Stones, because “It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll,” and we like it.

What would your business’ band name be, and your first album?

Trivia

Winner

Hi-Lo Lounge

1354 Prince Ave. · 706-850-8561 Runner Up

Grindhouse Killer Burgers

The Study Hall ’n’ Oats: I Can Go for That (Service With a Smile).

Retail Naughty Business Winner

Smoke / Vape Shop

4124 Atlanta Hwy. · 678-661-0700

Smoker’s Den

Sexy Suz

Winner

1553 S. Lumpkin St. · 706-612-9327

Karaoke Winner

Hi-Lo Lounge

289 College Ave. · 706-546-8787 Runner Up

Elations

Runner Up

Modern Age

4100 Lexington Rd. · 706-552-1492

1086 Baxter St.· 706-549-6360

Store to Buy a Gift for Her

1354 Prince Ave. · 706-850-8561

Winner

Avid Bookshop

Runner Up

Shokitini

251 W. Clayton St. · 706-353-7933

493 Prince Ave. · 706-352-2060 1662 S. Lumpkin St. · 706-850-2843

College Bar Winner

Runner Up

Allgood Lounge

Native America Gallery 195 E. Clayton St. · 706-543-8425

256 E. Clayton St. · 706-549-0166

Store to Buy a Gift for Him Winner

Runner Up

Avid Bookshop

Silver Dollar 262 College Ave. · 706-353-3093

493 Prince Ave. · 706-352-2060 1662 S. Lumpkin St. · 706-850-2843

Place to Watch the Dawgs Play Winner

Silver Dollar

Runner Up

Onward Reserve

262 College Ave. · 706-353-3093

146 E. Clayton St. · 706-543-0106

Runner Up

Local Clothing Boutique

215 N. Lumpkin St. · 706-850-7670

Community

Winner

Georgia Theatre

Uniquely Athens Bar

260 N. Jackson St. · 706-316-2067

Winner

The Manhattan Café

Runner Up

Cheeky Peach

Runner Up

Normal Bar 1365 Prince Ave. · 706-548-6186

160 W. Clayton St. · 706-353-1322 ZoomWorks

337 N. Hull St. · 706-369-9767

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Place to Buy Local Art & Handmade Goods Winner

Frontier

Uniquely Athens Store

Live Music Venue (200+ Capacity)

Avid Bookshop

Georgia Theatre

Winner

493 Prince Ave. · 706-352-2060 1162 S. Lumpkin St. · 706-850-2843 Runner Up

Junkman’s Daughter’s Brother

Runner Up

Community

Thrift / Vintage Store Winner

Agora Vintage

233 E. Broad St. · 706-255-2623 Runner Up

220 W. Broad St. · 706-543-4454

Music Recording Studio Winner

Chase Park Transduction The Glow Recording Studio

Place to Buy Wine

1655 S. Lumpkin St. · 706-543-6989 3685 Atlanta Hwy. · 706-316-2337

285 W. Washington St. · 706-549-7871

Pets & Kids Vet Clinic Winner

Hope Animal Medical Center 1150 Mitchell Bridge Rd. · 706-546-7879 Runner Up

Runner Up

260 W. Clayton St. · 706-316-0130

Five Points Bottle Shop

40 Watt Club

160 Winston Dr. · 706-227-0680

Atomic

Winner

215 N. Lumpkin St. · 706-850-7670 Runner Up

193 E. Clayton St. · 706-369-8079

260 N. Jackson St. · 706-316-2067

Winner

www.theglowrecordingstudio.com · 706-347-3323

Live Music Venue (Less than 200 Capacity) Winner

Caledonia Lounge

Boulevard Animal Hospital 298 Prince Ave. · 706-425-5099

Pet Groomer Winner

Bark Dog Spa

1850 Epps Bridge Pkwy. #307 · 706-353-1065

256 W. Clayton St. · 706-549-5577 Runner Up

J’s Bottle Shop 1452 Prince Ave. · 706-353-8881

Place to Buy Beer

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Hendershot’s Coffee Bar

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How long has your business been open?

Since 1999.

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What’s something you wish more people knew about your business?

We provide additional services beyond basic veterinary care. We have acupuncture and chiropractic therapies, laser surgery, endoscopy, dental radiology and many more things that go beyond the basic scope of veterinary care.

What genre of music represents your business? Why?

Jazz. With jazz, you have the basic chords and rhythms that make the core of the music, but you add in the off beats and minor chords with personal touches, and you have the extras that make each song special and smooth. At Hope, you have your basic veterinary medicine, which we perform very well and is our core, but you add in our additional services and our amazing staff, and you have a business that is special and provides a unique experience.

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My sister Deborah Fuller and I, Jan Hudgins, own Flowerland. My mother passed away in 2005, and since we had worked there all our lives, she left it to us.

What’s your favorite thing about your business?

The people. We meet so many different kinds from all walks of life and from all over the world. We love the diversity in Athens.

What genre of music represents your business? Why?

Probably classic rock. We were more into that music then, when we were younger. And we still love it.

What would your business’ band name be, and your first album?

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‘I Swear I Saw This’ at ATHICA Plus, Parallel Play at The Finishing School

By Jessica Smith arts@flagpole.com Returning to Athens after nearly a decade away, artist Mike Calway-Fagen has quickly found his bearings and fully immersed himself in the local art community, both on and off campus. Last fall, he joined the faculty of UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art as an assistant professor and area chair of the sculpture department. Balancing a career as an educator with his own creative practice, he is also an experienced writer and curator.

His first major curatorial role back in town is “I Swear I Saw This: the line as witness,” a group exhibition currently on view at the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art. Inspired by Michael Taussig’s book, I Swear I Saw This: drawings in fieldwork notebooks, namely my own, the exhibition seeks to examine the experience of witnessing and becoming the other that occurs when one writes, sketches or sculpts in response to an observation.

Each work on view was created specifically for the exhibition, and harrows in on the line as a focal point. A poem by Jacob Sunderlin marches across the wall in confident blank letters, each word falling into a single-file line. Nearby, a small black-andwhite drawing by Christina Tsui connects sketches of rectangular planks with delicate threads of ink.

Courtney McClellan’s multimedia piece resembles a lecture podium, substituting a photograph depicting rows of seats for an audience. Jon Swindler’s installation features a patchwork of alluring patterns connected by boldly colored lines, collectively serving as the sails for representational wooden boats beneath. Perhaps the exhibition’s most literal interpretation of a line, one of George Belcher’s pieces is a very tall, solid black rod leaning against the wall.

“The book and exhibition think about the line—the line’s ability to describe, in depth [and] with acute sensitivity, phenomena,

feeling and, generally, the external world.

When one draws, one must become the contours and textures of what is out there,” says Calway-Fagen. “This requires heightened sensitivity, a willingness to forgo the imposing force of interpretation, a slowing down and ultimately witnessing. Consider it

There! Photographs in the Spirit of Jeremy Ayers.” Curated by John English, the exhibition seeks to honor the late artist through images by photographers who share his keen eye for capturing offbeat characters and communities.

In addition to his role as an instructor, Calway-Fagen will be the director of a new exhibition space on campus called The Finishing School. Located at 215 S. Thomas St., the gallery will predominantly present the projects of individuals from outside the university, and will offer “an opportunity for students to invest in their community, experience how an artist-run gallery functions and the cultural gravity of such a DIY space,” he says.

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an empathetic form of observation, where what you are is also what you behold.”

A group poetry reading orchestrated by Sunderlin will be held on the exhibition’s final day, Sunday, Mar. 5 at 4 p.m. The lineup includes Fluke Mini-Comics and Zine Festival organizer Robert Newsome, who will read from his professional-wrestling zine Atomic Elbow, as well as creative writing PhD students Bridget Dooley and Jaydn DeWald.

ATHICA will temporarily close until Saturday, Mar. 18, when it reopens for “Out

The Finishing School’s inaugural exhibition, which opens to the public the evening before “I Swear I Saw This” closes, is titled “Parallel Play” and features new works by Andrew Boatright, Kojo Griffin and Kirstin Mitchell. Though resulting in visually distinct creations, their artistic approaches share physical processes guided by conceptual and material experimentation.

Presenting their works in close proximity, the exhibition compares and contrasts the practices of three artists working “parallel” to each other.

The show is co-curated by Atlantabased visual artists Candice Greathouse and Curtis Ames, who hold MFAs from Georgia State University in photography and drawing and painting, respectively. The duo has presented several multimedia and video-based installations together over the past five years, and curation appears to be a natural extension of their collaborative mindset and shared interests in conceptual and process-based works.

Comfortingly familiar yet undeniably grotesque, Boatright’s sculptures resemble flesh hanging loosely and stretching tautly across anthropomorphic armatures.

Reflecting inquiries into the shifting physical and virtual boundaries of society, Griffin builds layered assemblages that appear as mazes or puzzles. Mitchell, who often incorporates performative elements into her work, has recently shifted into making sculptures of man-made materials that feel organic.

“They all deal with some kind of gesture in their works. You can see the hand of the artist—it’s raw, visceral, and emotive,” says Greathouse. “All artists are attempting to elaborate on something about the human condition and how we navigate this world.

Even if they are raising questions and not trying to solve problems, it’s a dialogue.

They do this with different results, but the processes can be similar. With these three artists, drawings and sketches help to inform or accentuate the larger works, operating as a hypothesis.”

Greathouse, the former creative director of MINT Gallery in Atlanta, recently served as a juror for the “2017 Undergraduate Curated Exhibition” at Lamar Dodd last month. She will return to Athens in spring to guest-curate “Domestic Structures: Atlanta & Athens Artists” at ATHICA, which opens Saturday, May 6 and features works by InKyoung Chun, Meta Gary, Brittainy Lauback, Elizabeth Lide and Jess Machacek.

An opening reception for “Parallel Play” will be held on Saturday, Mar. 4 from 7–9 p.m. The exhibition will remain on view by appointment through Wednesday, Mar. 29, and visitations to The Finishing School can be arranged by emailing thefinishingschool. exhibitions@gmail.com. f

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By Jon Hogan music@flagpole.com Brooklyn-based filmmaker Jorge TorresTorres’ Phantasm Revision is a bold gambit that edits all five parts of Don Coscarelli’s horror series Phantasm into one film, boiling more than 400 minutes down to 89. He returns to his native Athens for the film’s VHS release party at Flicker, complete with a Q&A and bands Lipperscapes and Rat Babies. The evening will also serve as the debut of Dain Marx’s Phantasm action figures.

Gear up for the event with Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, another horror story about other-dimensional beings menacing suburbanites that makes a kinky prelude to the party.

pursues Michael over five films to induct him into his evil army, but his reasons for this pursuit are never really revealed.

Whether such an explanation exists in the footage that did not make the cut is unclear.

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This edit represents Barker’s work the achievement of a never shies away long-held goal of the from characters filmmaker. whose sexual prac“For many years, tices lie off the I wanted to re-edit beaten path, and a franchise into Hellraiser is no a single, visceral exception. At the experience, and it start of the film, wasn’t until I saw all Frank actually purthe Phantasm films Angus Scrimm as the Tall Man sues the Cenobites that I realized that it could be done,” Torres-Torres explains. “I’ve so he can experience “pain and pleasure, always wanted to see a film where the actors indivisible.” Julia’s betrayal of her husband for Frank creates the film’s strongest visual actually age, but not just age a couple years. metaphors linking sex and violence. As the I want to see a real child become an adult story flashes back to the first time Frank within the film’s 89-minute length.” and Julia had sex, footage of her husband By collapsing time on a series where the Larry moving a mattress in the present— same actors, more or less, appeared in each grunting and thrusting—is intercut. The feature, Torres-Torres creates a rarity that cuts quicken as Larry gashes his hand on was last experienced in Richard Linklater’s an errant nail at the moment his wife cliBoyhood. The audience sees time reflected maxes. When a drop hits the floor, Larry’s in every gray hair, weight gain and wrinkle. blood becomes the catalyst for his brother’s In making the series a document of time’s regeneration, enabling the continuation of passing, Phantasm becomes real in a way his masochism. that transcends every shitty special effect.

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GET OUT (R) Popular comic Jordan Peele, the young, 2017 has been dubbed the Year of Horror, thanks to several uninspiring but shorter half of the excellent â&#x20AC;&#x153;Key & Peeleâ&#x20AC;? successful efforts. With Get Out, the genre duo, conjures the scary, satirical spirit of finally has its showpiece. the late, great Ira Levin with his racially charged take on The Stepford Wives.

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Oh, and Missy is a therapist who specializes in using hypnosis to break bad habits, which she uses on her daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unsuspecting, smoking beau. And all this happens before more rich, old white people show up for a random yearly party that only seemed to be missing Minnie and Roman Castevet. A cameo by Katharine Ross or Paula Prentiss would have been icing on this Levin-loving cake.

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busy professional daughter after the death of his beloved dog. Living in Bucharest for work, his daughter, Ines (Sandra HĂźller), is not quite pleased with her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unscheduled visit, as she is in the middle of a huge deal that would solidify her place at her high-powered consulting firm. After a rather lukewarm visit, Winfried returns as the made-up persona Toni Erdmann, a life coach with bad teeth and worse hair (or bad hair and worse teeth; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to decide from scene to scene).

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Empty Bowl Luncheon

Classic Center · 11:30 a.m. · $30 The Food Bank of Northeast Georgia’s 19th annual Empty Bowl Luncheon raises awareness and funds to help end hunger by offering a lunch of sandwiches and soup served in hand-painted ceramic bowls, many of which were recently decorated during a Valentine’s Day volunteer event at the Georgia Museum of Art. Attendees will also have an opportunity to bid on silent auction items, including bowls customized by UGA football players.

The food bank distributed close to 12 million pounds of donated and salvaged surplus food through 225 partner agencies in 2015, and works with programs including Food 2 Kings, the Mobile Pantry Program, Feeding a Family and Agency Distribution. [Jessica Smith]

Tuesday 28 CLASSES: Computer Class: Excel 2013 (ACC Library) Register by phone or in person at the reference desk. 10 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, www.athenslibrary.org/athens CLASSES: Dance as Exercise (Farmview Market) Darrell Hope leads a class in dancing with both choreographed and freestyle moves.

Ages 10 and up; ages under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

5:30–6:30 p.m. $10. www.farmviewmarket.com EVENTS: AADM Black History Presentation (ACC Library) The

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Georgia Theatre · 8 p.m. · $15–17 From NoiseTrade to NPR’s Tiny Desk, on-the-rise folk-pop trio Joseph intertwines tight harmonies and honest lyrics to produce a sound that is uniquely its own. Twins Allison and Meegan Closner joined together with older sister Natalie Closner Schepman to self-release Native Dreamer Kin in early 2014, with a simple and straightforward sound. Two years later, these Portland-based sisters released their second album on ATO Records, I’m Alone, No You’re Not, which ranges from anthems of courage to ballads of unconditional love. The group’s sound has developed from the simplicity of voices and acoustic guitar to something poppier and more produced, though its message is no less raw. [Abigail Sherrod]

program includes open discussion with guest panelists Life the Griot, Wendel Byrd, Twanna Mattox, Oveta Thorton and more. Live performances by Squalle, Repunza and poet Tifara Brown. 6 p.m. FREE! www.aadmovement.org EVENTS: First Time Home Buyer’s Workshop (ACC Library) From financing, to finding a home, making an offer and closing, this workshop will cover the process from beginning to end. 6:30 p.m. FREE! pamela@3treerealty.com EVENTS: Introduction to Model Trains (Winterville Center for Community and Culture) Lewis Collier of The Memory Station gives

The Growlers

40 Watt Club · 8 p.m. · $16–20 California-based rock and roll group The Growlers inhabit a complex musical landscape that takes some effort to categorize.

“Beach goth,” like the Orange County music festival the band has curated for several years now, seems to do a fair job juxtaposing its many sounds, but even that tag leaves much to the imagination. In addition to the garage and pop influences that the group wears on its sleeve, its most recent album, City Club—out on The Strokes frontman Julian Casablanca’s Cult Records, no less—flexes a little dub and new wave muscle, and is rounded out by The Growlers’ most polished production to date. Try to pin them down this Friday evening at the 40 Watt.

[Andy Barton]

an overview of model trains. 6 p.m.

FREE! wintervillecenter.com FILM: Bad Movie Night: Boardinghouse (Ciné Barcafé) A telekinetic playboy who inherits a murder house and fills it with young women must wage psychic warfare against the evil forces that possess the house. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenscine.com GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) Trivia with host Caitlin Wilson. 8:30 p.m.

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Morton Theatre · 1 p.m. · FREE! (w/ ticket) The fifth Athens Area Black History Bowl features Michael L. Thurmond, DeKalb County CEO and author of Freedom: Georgia’s Antislavery Heritage, 1733–1865, and Shirley Sherrod, Georgia’s first black state director of rural development for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and author of The Courage to Hope: How I Stood Up to the Politics of Fear. Honorees include Willie and Tommie Farmer of Clarke County NAACP; radio personalities Barbara “Lady B” Sims and Valdon and Shirley Daniel; and UGA’s first black dean, Ivery Clifton. The program includes recitals, a film screening and a talk by writer Earnest Thompson.

A reception follows at the First AME Church. [Jessica Smith]

The World Famous · 9 p.m.

One of several ongoing series that serve to highlight the range and depth of the Athens hip-hop community, The World Famous’ First Tuesdays events feature a hand-picked, specially themed selection of local talent. The March installment features artists highly influenced by 1990s hip hop. Performers include the versatile Son Zoo—a Space Dungeon affiliate and longtime Athenian formerly known as Warren Peace—and Trav Williams, a rapper, lawyer and activist with a focus on criminal justice reform. The night will also feature a set from local poet Mia Smith. Tuesday’s show will be guest-hosted by Athens MC Kaliko, and scene lifer Chief Rocka will also appear. [Gabe Vodicka]

Black History Bowl

GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Nic every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706354-7289 GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) Hosted by James Majure. 6 p.m. FREE! www.therookandpawn.com GAMES: Johnny’s Trivia (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Win house cash prizes every week. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-354-1515 GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) (2301 College Station Rd.) Every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Taqueria Tsunami) (Downtown) Surf

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p.m. FREE! www.reblossomathens. com LECTURES & LIT: The Rest of the Story Book Club (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) Discuss works connected to the ongoing and upcoming exhibitions and programs at the library.

Followed by gallery tours. 5:30 p.m.

FREE! russlib@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Kiese Laymon Reading (Ciné Barcafé) The UGA Creative Writing Program presents Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com LECTURES & LIT: Garden Travels with Director Wilf Nicholls (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) UGA professors Jim Affolter and Cathy Pringle will speak on their experiences teaching college students on excursions across the world. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.uga. edu/botgarden MEETINGS: Classic City Toastmasters (Holy Cross Lutheran Church) Practice public speaking skills in a supportive environment. 12 p.m. FREE! 1779. toastmastersclubs.org PERFORMANCE: Lara St. John (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Violinist Lara St. John will be joined by jazz pianist Matt Herskowitz for a program called “From Jazz to Gypsy Bookended by Ravel.” 8 p.m. $36. www.pac.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Music Therapy Musicale (UGA Robert G. Edge Recital Hall) Students and faculty from the UGA Music Therapy Program will perform pop, rock, blues and classical music. 8 p.m.

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Wednesday 1 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Docents lead a tour of highlights from the permanent collection.

2 p.m. FREE! georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Reflexology Therapy Class (Winterville Center for Community and Culture) Learn new techniques. 6:30 p.m. wintervillecenter@gmail.com CLASSES: Wigs 101 (Bump & Grunge Burlesque, 750 N. Chase St.) Dee Flowered teaches a class on wigs for performers. 7:30 p.m. $15. bumpandgrunge.org CLASSES: Tabata Boxing (Winterville Center for Community and Culture) Tabata is a workout that mixes cardio and strength training.

5:30 p.m. $10. wintervillecenter@ gmail.com COMEDY: “The Good Stuff” Stand Up Comedy (The World Famous) A monthly comedy showcase featuring local performers, and hosted by Jake Brannon and Shaunak Godkhindi.

9:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ theworldfamousathens EVENTS: Guided Trail Hike (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Take a guided walk on the trails to discover the beauty and variety of the center’s ecosystems. Followed by refreshments. 9 a.m. FREE! www. athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreeknaturecenter EVENTS: Empty Bowls Luncheon (The Classic Center) Eat a simple lunch of soup and a sandwich to raise money for the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia. Handcrafted pottery bowls decorated by volunteers are available to eat from and take

Mitch Clayton and (L-R) Jennifer Phelps, Stella Bray and Lyle Bray star as Willy Wonka and Oopma Loompas in Rose of Athens Theatre’s production of Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. Performances will be held at the Seney-Stovall Chapel on Friday, Mar. 3 and Saturday, Mar. 4 at 7 p.m. home. See Calendar Pick on p. 37.

11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. $20–30. www. foodbanknega.org EVENTS: Maptime Athens (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) A casual meet-up for map and cartography enthusiasts. Andrew Fialka will present “Of Methods and Madness: Historical Applications of GIS.” 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com

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5–7 p.m. FREE! www.piedmont.edu/ events CLASSES: Media Literacy Workshop (ACC Library) Local journalist Mary Jessica Hammes will cover the modern phenomena of fake news in a discussion titled “Real, Fake or Biased: How to Be a Discerning News Consumer.” 7 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens CLASSES: Zumba (Winterville Center for Community and Culture) This aerobic fitness program features movements inspired by Latin American dance. 5:30 p.m. $10. wintervillecenter@gmail.com CLASSES: Line Dance Class to Benefit Project Safe (Athens Moose Lodge, 185 Ben Burton Rd.,

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5–9 p.m. $12. www.sobrewco.com EVENTS: KnitLits (Bogart Library) Knitters of all levels are welcome.

6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/bogart GAMES: Music Trivia (Saucehouse Barbeque) Meet at the bar for a round of trivia. 8 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/saucehousebbq GAMES: Duplicate Bridge (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Beginner and experienced players welcome. 7 p.m. ejstapler@ gmail.com GAMES: Johnny’s Trivia (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) See Tuesday listing for full description 8 p.m.

FREE! 706-354-1515 KIDSTUFF: Dr. Seuss Birthday Party (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Celebrate the 113th birthday of Dr. Seuss with his best books, snacks and activities. 5 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison KIDSTUFF: Dr. Seuss Birthday Party (Oconee County Library) Celebrate with Seuss stories, crafts and birthday cake. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Seussical Science (Bogart Library) Celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday with science experiments, games and snacks. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart LECTURES & LIT: Edith House Lecture (UGA School of Law) The Women Law Students’ Association presents U.S. District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the 35th Edith House lecturer. Jackson will present “Reflections on My Journey as a Mother and a Judge.” 3:30 p.m.

FREE! www.law.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Poets of Winterville (Winterville Center for Community and Culture) The group supports and encourages writing of original poetry. All ages and experience welcome. 6:30 p.m. FREE! wintervillecenter.com MEETINGS: Oconee Rivers Audubon Society (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Conservation director Adam Betuel will speak on “Avian Conservation Initiatives in Atlanta: Project Safe Flight.” 7 p.m. FREE! www.oconeeriversaudubon.org OUTDOORS: Nature Ramblers (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) (Meet at Shade Garden Arbor) Learn more about 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. 9:30 a.m. FREE! www.botgarden.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Thursday Scholarship Series: Gershwin Gala (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) The Hodgson Wind Ensemble will play works by Christian Lindberg and George Gershwin. Gershwin masterworks will be performed by Evgeny Rivkin, Washington Isaac Holmes and Monica Murphy. 7:30 p.m. $6 (w/ UGA ID), $20. pac. uga.edu k continued on next page

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Mar. 3, 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m. $15. Mar. 4, 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. $5. www.folk-finearts. com ART: Opening Reception (Hip Vintage and Handmade) Atlantabased artist Karen Adams shares a collection of her paintings. 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m.

FREE! hipvintagehandmade.com ART: A Journey In Quilts 2017 (Oconee County Civic Center) The Cotton Patch Quilters present an indoor quilt show featuring 200 quilts, a raffle, a scavenger hunt for kids, local vendors and more. Mar. 3â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4, 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 p.m. & Mar. 5, 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. FREE! (children), $7. www. cpquilters.org EVENTS: Georgia Tiny House Festival (Ooh La La Lavender Farm, Eatonton) (Eatonton) Activities include tiny house tours, workshops, talks, live music, vendors, food, a pet corner, camping and more.

Mar. 3, 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. FREE! Mar. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5, 9 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. $20/day or $35/two-day pass. www.unitedtinyhouse.com EVENTS: Morning Mindfulness (Georgia Museum of Art) Join instructor Jerry Gale for a meditation session in the galleries. Meet in the lobby. 9:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10:30 a.m. FREE! branew@uga.edu, www.georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Lucille Release Party (Terrapin Beer Co.) Visit the brewery for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Walking Deadâ&#x20AC;? poster giveaways, the tapping of a Lucille Blackstrap Molasses Stout cask spiked with Korean chili paste, and zombie makeup. 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7:30 p.m. www. terrapinbeer.com EVENTS: Athens Rock, Gem, Mineral, Jewelry, Fossil and Related Crafts Show (The Classic Center) Southeastern Mineral Specimens present a crafts exhibitor show. Mar. 3â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4, 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 p.m.

Mar. 5, 11 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 a.m. $5. darklighter@bellsouth.net EVENTS: 25th Annual Hellebore Days (Piccadilly Farm) (Bishop) See a spectacular display of thousands of hellebores (Lenten Roses) in full bloom. Piccadilly Farm offers 20 types of hellebores including mixed colors, doubles and special colors.

Mar. 3â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4, 9 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. FREE! 706765-4444, www.piccadillyfarm.com FILM: Phantasm Revision (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Jorge Torres-Torresâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Phantasm Revision condenses all five Phantasm films into one single feature. After the screening, watch performances by Lipperskip (Jason Trahan) and Rat Babies. See Story on p. 35. 7 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com THEATER: Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (Seney-Stovall Chapel) A musical adaptation of Roald Dahlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classic novel. Mar. 3â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4, 7 p.m. $8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;16. www.roseofathens.org THEATER: M*A*S*H (Elbert Theatre, Elberton) See the stage adaptation of the comedy about an Army surgical compound during the Korean Conflict. Mar. 3â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4, & 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1, 7 p.m.

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3, 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m. $15. Mar. 4, 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. $5. www.folk-finearts.com ART: Opening Reception (UGA The Finishing School, 215 S. Thomas St.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parallel Playâ&#x20AC;? features new works from Andrew Boatright, Kojo Griffin and Kristin Mitchell. Curated

by Candice Greathouse and Curtis Ames. See Art Notes on p. 33. 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m. thefinishingschool.exhibitions@gmail.com ART: A Journey In Quilts 2017 (Oconee County Civic Center) See Friday listing for full description Mar. 3â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4, 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 p.m. & Mar. 5, 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. FREE! (children), $7. www.cpquilters.org CLASSES: 3D Printing (Oconee County Library) Sign up to use the 3D printer to print your own design.

2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee CLASSES: Mid-Victorian Era Dance Lesson (ACC Library) Learn popular dances of the period including The Virginia Reel and Soldierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Joy. Participants are encouraged to dress comfortably.

1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens CLASSES: Goddess Revival (Earthsong, 255 Chulitna Way,

EVENTS: Athens Rock, Gem, Mineral, Jewelry, Fossil and Related Crafts Show (The Classic Center) See Friday listing for full description Mar. 3â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4, 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 p.m. Mar. 5, 11 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 a.m. $5. darklighter@bellsouth.net EVENTS: Athens Canine Rescue Percentage Day (Southern Brewing Company) Enjoy beer samples and pet some puppies. Classic City â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Cue will be on-site providing snacks for humans. 2:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7:30 p.m. $12. www.sobrewco.com EVENTS: Athens Area Black History Bowl (Morton Theatre) The celebration will include youth recitals and a screening of Arc of Justice: the Rise, Fall and Rebirth of a Beloved Community, a short film about the work of farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rights activist Shirley Sherrod. Shirley Sherrod and Michael Thurmond are this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s special guests. See Calendar Pick on p. 37. 1 p.m. aabhbowl@gmail.com EVENTS: Athens AfricanAmerican History Tour (Athens Welcome Center) (Multiple Locations) Rosa Thurmond leads a tour that departs from the Athens Welcome Center. In addition to bus tour commentary, the group will step off to two of the following locations: H.T. Edwards Career Academy, artist Harold Rittenburyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sculpture yard,

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ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Annelies Mondi, deputy director, leads a special tour of works by Lin Emery in the sculpture garden. 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Gardening Class (ACC Library) This month’s topic is “Soil Health.” 6 p.m. FREE! atedrow@ uga.edu EVENTS: Rabbit Box (The Foundry) Storytellers share true-life tales. This month theme is “Getting Even.” 7 p.m. $7. thefoundryathens.com 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) See Wednesday listing for full description 9 p.m.

FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-548-1920 GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie) (Eastside) Every Wednesday. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com GAMES: Bingo (Highwire Lounge) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) See Wednesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) Gather a team and compete. 8 p.m. saucehouse.com GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) (2440 W. Broad St.) Play to win. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com KIDSTUFF: Wednesday Library Adventures (Bogart Library) See Wednesday listing for full description 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Teen Tech Week: Robotics (Oconee County Library) Play will all different types of robots.

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1 p.m. $5. ejstapler@gmail.com 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.

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KELSEY KOPECKY Singer-songwriter out of Nashville, TN. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 OPPOSITE BOX Genre-bending experimental rock band from Chattanooga.

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Highwire Lounge 11 p.m. $1 (headphone). www.highwirelounge.com SILENT DISCO Dance the night away with wireless headphones and two channels of music. One of them is a request line!

Hotel Indigo 5 p.m. FREE! www.indigoathens.com JULIE HOLMES Local singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist who specializes in acoustic jams.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 JIVE MOTHER MARY Rollicking Southern rock band from Burlington, NC. The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 REV. TRIBBLE AND THE DANCING MAGNOLIAS Local group led by Athens rock fixture Rev. Conner Mack Tribble. See story on p. 20.

The World Famous 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens WANDERWILD Local indie rock project led by local songwriter Matt Martin.

FAYE WEBSTER Folk singer-songwriter from Atlanta.

KIFFY MYERS Local multi-instrumentalist and Roadkill Ghost Choir member.

Friday 3 Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $8 (21+), $10 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com DEAD NEIGHBORS This local band plays shoegaze-inspired garagerock.

SCOOTERBABE Scrappy, jangly local emo group playing a stripped-down set.

TWIN STUDIES Atlanta-based shoegaze/dream-pop band.

SALINE Local four-piece â&#x20AC;&#x153;shoegreaseâ&#x20AC;? band.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com RAT BABIES Psychedelic two-piece thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a part of the underground scene in Athens for over 10 years.

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40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $16 (adv.), $20 (door). www.40watt.com THE GROWLERS â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fuzzy genius and working-class logic mix easilyâ&#x20AC;? for this California-based garage-rock outfit. See Calendar Pick on p. 37.

The Foundry 8 p.m. $7 (adv.), $10 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com THE ORIGINAL SPLITZ BAND This bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impressively wide range encompasses classic Motown, funk, disco and both old-school and contemporary R&B. Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $20 (adv.), $25 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com CHERUB / THE FLOOZIES / FREDDY TODD See Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s listing for full description

Highwire Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge. com LIVE MUSIC Rotating local jazz and bluegrass bands play every Friday and Saturday night.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 REVEREND TRIBBLE AND THE DEACONS Good old-fashioned rock and roll with a sprinkle of good-

40 Watt Club 10 p.m. FREE! www.40watt.com ‘80S DANCE PARTY Dance to your favorite tunes from the 1980s.

The Foundry 8 p.m. $7 (adv.), $10 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com HOLMAN AUTRY BAND Described as “a little bit of Hank, a little bit of Metallica and a healthy dose of Southern rock.” Fans of bands like

The Office Lounge 9 p.m. 706-546-0840 MONDAY’S ALIBI Local band specializing in ‘70s and ‘80s rock and roll.

Sunday 5 Beef ‘O’ Brady’s 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 OPEN MIC Sing loud, sing proud.

beyond, backed by Saved by the Band.

Go Bar 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-5609 GARY EDDY Local psychedelic singer-songwriter plays a solo set.

TOM VISIONS BAND Post-mystical, electronic, psychedelic music from Visions and his group.

HEAT SUREENS Alias of Sean McDonald, who makes experimental ambient music.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 DJ WHOM Local DJ playing a mix of hip hop, ‘90s and 2000s music.

The World Famous 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens FIRST TUESDAYS Monthly event featuring local hip hop acts. This is a ‘90s-themed edition featuring Son Zoo, Trav Williams and poet Mia Smith, plus Chief Rocka and guest host Kaliko. See Calendar Pick on p. 37.

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Wednesday 8 Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 LEAVING COUNTRIES OPEN MIC JAM Bands are welcome, backline is provided and the jam rocks until 2 a.m.

The Office Lounge 6 p.m. 706-546-0840 REV. CONNER MACK TRIBBLE Tribble is a Georgia rock and roll fixture. Every Friday!

8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke!

Saucehouse Barbeque 7 p.m. FREE! www.saucehouse.com HIBBS BROTHERS Featuring Rob Hibbs on acoustic guitar and Garrett Hibbs on mandolin, showcasing originals and covers.

Saturday 4 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com YIP DECEIVER An infectiously fun blend of feel-good pop, R&B grooves and noise-bending electro from Athens.

WILLIAM MATHENY Morgantown, VA-based rock singer-songwriter.

CASPER AND THE COOKIES Local legends playing eccentric and energetic pop-rock.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com DONG KANG Experimental trio with hints of avant-prog and jazz.

PUMPKINSEED Tennessee-based experimental rock trio.

JOHN THEFRUITMAN Atlanta-based lo-fi acoustic singer-songwriter.

the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd can’t go wrong here.

EASTVILLE BELLE New local country/Americana outfit.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $35 (adv.), $40 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com CHARLES ESTEN & CLARE BOWEN Two stars of ABC’s hit show “Nashville” perform solo and as a duet.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com STICKS AND BONES Local rock group featuring Barry Marler (Dreams So Real), Jamie Derevere, Darrin Cook and Bo Hembree.

Highwire Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge. com LIVE MUSIC Rotating local jazz and bluegrass bands play every Friday and Saturday night.

11 p.m. $1 (headphone). www.highwirelounge.com SILENT DISCO Dance the night away with wireless headphones and two channels of music. One of them is a request line!

Live Wire 8 p.m. $5 (adv.), $10 (door). www. livewireathens.com PETE RG Los Angeles singer-songwriter with a rich baritone voice.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 DYNAMO Nashville-based instrumental fusion band.

Cali ‘N’ Tito’s Eastside 7 p.m. FREE! 706-355-7087 THE LUCKY JONES Rockin’ rhythm and blues from this local band.

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Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com ANTLERED AUNT LORD Fuzz-pop project fronted by local songwriter Jesse Stinnard.

PEYOTE COYOTE Florida-based psych-pop outfit.

Monday 6 Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! hendershotscoffee.com OPEN MIC Showcase your talent at this open mic. Hosted by Larry Forte.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 BLUES NIGHT WITH BIG C Nobody in Athens sings the blues quite like Big C. Expect lots of soulful riffs, covers and originals.

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Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. $39. www.georgiatheatre.com AMOS LEE American singer-songwriter whose musical style encompasses folk, rock and soul.

On the Rooftop. 10 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com THE ARTISANALS Charleston, SC indie rock band led by songwriters Johnny Delaware and Clay Houle.

The Globe 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 THE HOT HOTTY-HOTS Mary Sigalas, Dan Horowitz, Steve Key and surprise guests play swingin’ tunes from the ‘10s, ‘20s and ‘30s.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! hendershotscoffee.com TYRONE JACKSON TRIO Local jazz trio featuring Tyrone Jackson on keys, Joel Powell on bass and Chris Burroughs on drums.

The Office Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn.

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.

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bulletin board Deadline for getting listed in Bulletin Board is every THURSDAY at 5 p.m. for the print issue that comes out the following Wednesday. Online listings are updated daily. Email calendar@flagpole.com.

Art AAAC Grants (Athens, GA) The Athens Area Arts Council is seeking applicants for its quarterly $500 grants. All local artists, arts organizations or arts-based projects are welcome to apply. Deadline Mar. 15, June, 15, Sept. 15 and Dec. 15. info@athensarts.org, www.athens arts.org AthFest Educates Grant (Athens, GA) Individuals from nonprofit organizations, public schools or government agencies serving you in grades K-8 can apply for grants.

Grants can be used for music and arts based non-consumable equipment, programs and experiences, and professional development for educators or youth specialists.

AthFest Educates awards up to $25,000 per grant cycle. 706-5481973, director@athfesteducates.org, athfesteducates.org Call for Artists (Farmington Depot Gallery) (Farmington) Now accepting applications for the Festifool Festival artist market on Apr. 1–2, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Email for details. farmingtongallery@gmail. com, www.farmingtondepotgallery. com Fold Unfold (Lyndon House Arts Center) “Fold Unfold” invites skilled makers to weave functional bedding on manually operated looms for an installation. Coverlets should be informed by overshot geometric patterning popular in the South, and should use a modernist color scheme of black, white and gray.

Confirm participation by Mar. 1.

Submission deadline May 1. foldunfold2017@gmail.com Indie South (Athens, GA) Indie South is now accepting artist vendors for multiple events. Eclectic Bazaar at Creature Comforts on Mar. 25. $85. Springtacular on May 22–23. $185. ww.indiesouthfair.com Marigold Festival Featured Artwork (Winterville, GA) The Winterville Marigold Festival is seeking artist submissions for artwork that will be featured on the poster, T-shirt, souveniers, advertisements, festival program and more. A group of entries will also be selected to display work at the May/ June art exhibition at the Winterville Center for Community & Culture.

Deadline Apr. 2. Festival held May 20. www.marigoldfestival.com “Out There! Photographs in the Spirit of Jeremy Ayers” (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) Photographers are invited to submit three works for consideration of this exhibition, which seeks to represent the spirit of Jeremy Ayers. Color and black-and-white photos accepted.

All levels of experience and geographic locations welcome. Submit images online. Deadline Mar. 1.

Exhibition runs Mar. 18–Apr. 22. $15 entry fee. Financial need available. tinyurl.com/submitoutthere, www.athica.org Public Art Master Plan (Athens, GA) The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission is seeking

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feedback on the proposed Public Art Master Plan for Athens. Contribute your ideas and input online before the Mayor votes Mar. 7. www. athensculturalaffairs.org/acac-seekscommunity-support-public-artmaster-plan Seeking Artists Seeking artists to display their works. Email contact@ donderoskitchen.com Seeking Artwork for Live Forward (Athens, GA) The Athens Area Arts Council is seeking submissions of donations of artwork for Live Forward (formerly AIDS Athens). Artwork will be hung in counseling and exam rooms, hallways and waiting areas. Artwork must be framed, uplifting and by an Athens artist. Donations are tax deductible. Email to arrange a donation. Deadline May 1. jessica@ athensarts.org Seeking Local Artists and Crafters (Hip Vintage and Handmade) Seeking submissions from local artists and crafters for the shop’s Maker’s Market shelves and monthly exhibitions. Originality and quality of goods is key. Visit website to submit photos of work. hip. vintage@outlook.com, hipvintage handmade.com

Auditions Old Time Radio (Memorial Park) (Quinn Hall) ACT will hold auditions for their “Old Time Radio” series Mar. 6 & 7, 6–9 p.m. 706-613-3628, www.athensclarkecounty.com/act

Classes Active Dreaming: The Essential Workshop with Robert Moss (Healing Arts Centre) Robert Moss will lead participants through active dreaming and shamanic lucid dreaming. Mar. 18, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. & Mar. 19, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $275. shannon@heart pathstudio.org Art Classes (Lyndon House Arts Center) Courses for adults include Painting with Charles Warnock, Metalsmithing with William Stephanos, Watercolor with Katherine Dunlap, Digital Photography with Cassie Hawkins, Enamel Jewelry, Zen Seeing Zen Drawing, Jewelry with Amanda Scheutzow, Printmaking with Amanda Burk and Handbuilt Pottery.

Classes begin in March. Register online. 706-613-3623, www.athens clarkecounty.com/leisure Artist Workshops (KA Artist Shop) “Creative Journaling for Adults with Hope Hilton” Mar. 7 or Apr. 4, 6:30–8 p.m. $20. “All About Color: Impressionist Painting with Will Eskridge” Mar. 14, 6–8:30 p.m. $45. “Watercolor Painting for Beginners with Katherine Dunlap” Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3 and 10, 6–8 p.m. $90. www.kaartist.com Beekeeping for Beginners (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) A seven-part series covers the fundamentals of beekeeping. Topics include beekeeping basics, care

and feeding of honeybees, ABC’s of assembling a beehive, spring hive management, installing bees, products from the hive, and overwintering your hive. Sundays through Aug. 13. $35/class, $215/series. www.botgarden.uga.edu Breastfeeding Class (By Your Leave Family Resource Center) Anna Salzman hosts a class for expectant parents. Third Mondays. $25 per couple. 706-340-6856.

Cameo Cutter Class (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Sharon McConnell will show participants how to use a Silhouette Cameo cutter to make designs in a two-part class. Tuesdays, March 7–14. www. athenslibrary.org/madison Career Coach (ACC Library) A Goodwill’s Virtual Career Coach will assist patrons with job applications and resumes. First Tuesdays, 1–3 p.m. and last Thursdays, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. www.careerconnector.org “Drawing Strength” Sketch Classes (Winterville Center for Community and Culture) Practice line drawing techniques. Materials provided. Thursdays, Mar. 2–23, 6–8 p.m. $10. 706-742-0823, wintervillecenter@gmail.com G.E.D. Tutoring (First Baptist Church) Professional educators offer idividualized tutoring for adults. Meets every Monday and Wednesday, 12:15–2:15 p.m. FREE! 706-548-6600, www.firstbaptist athens.org Gentle Yoga (Winterville Center for Community and Culture) Gentle yoga uses breathing exercises, restorative postures, stretching and more to reduce stress and calm the mind. Thursdays, 5:30–6:30 p.m. $7.50. 706-742-0823, wintervillecenter@gmail.com, www.winterville center.com Hot Yoga (Fuel Hot Yoga) Classes in hot yoga are offered seven days a week. Beginners welcome. Student discounts available. 706-353-9642, www.fuelhotyoga.com NAMI Family to Family (First Presbyterian Church of Athens) NAMI Family to Family is a free, 12-session educational program for family, significant others and friends of people living with mental illness.

Mondays and Thursdays, Mar. 20–Apr. 28. www.nami.org Pilates (Winterville Center for Community and Culture) Strengthen your core, legs, glutes and back.

Bring a mat. For adults of all ages.

Tuesdays, 6–7 p.m. $7.50. 706742-0823 Quilting Classes (Crooked Pine Quilts) Amanda Whitsel offers classes in quilting and sewing for all levels and ages. 706-318-2334, needleinahaystack7@yahoo.com, crookedpinefarm.blogspot.com Salsa Dance Classes (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Cuban-style salsa dance classes (Casino-Rueda) with SALSAthens. No partner necessary. Beginners welcome. Every Wednesday, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $10 (incl. drink). www.facebook.com/ salsaathens Yoga (Athens Five Points Yoga Studio) Classes are offered in Iyengar yoga, flow yoga, gentle flow,

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“Michael Ellison: Urban Impressions” is currently on view at the Georgia Museum of Art through Sunday, May 21. hot power flow, restorative yoga and alignment yoga. Check website for weekly schedule. www.athensfive pointsyoga.com Yoga (Rubber Soul Yoga) Ongoing classes in Kundalini, Hatha, gentle yoga, laughing yoga, acroyoga, karate and one-on-one yoga as well as guided meditation. Check website for schedule. Donation based. cal clements@gmail.com, www.rubber soulyoga.com Yurt Yoga (Yurt Yoga Athens) Small classes offered in all levels of classical yoga are held in a beautiful natural environment. 706-548-3625, www.yurtyogaathens.com

Help Out Call for Volunteers (Nuçi’s Space) The Athens Human Rights Festival is looking for volunteers to help with fundraising, publicity, organizing speakers and performers, the tabloid, social media, stage building and more. The 39th annual will be held downtown on May 6–7.

Meetings are held every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. 706-202-9169, www. athenshumanrightsfest.org Hands On Athens (East Athens, Hancock Corridor and New Town neighborhoods) Hands On Athens seeks skilled volunteers to assist low-income homeowners with maintenance and repair projects.

706-353-1801, handsonathens. weebly.com Mentor Training (Chamber of Commerce) The Clarke County Mentor Program matches adult volunteers with students in the Clarke County School District. Mentors are role models who visit their mentee for one hour per week for one year. mentor@athensga.com, www.clarke countymentorprogram.org OCAF Thrift Sale Donations (OCAF, Watkinsville) Donate furniture, electronics, toys, clothing, books, tools, antiques and other items to the annual OCAF thrift sale. Donate items on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 a.m.–2 p.m. or 5–7 p.m. and Saturdays, 9 a.m.–2 p.m.

The sale will open Mar. 17–18. 706769-4565, info@ocaf.com Readers Needed (Learning Ally) Learning Ally is looking for volunteers to train as readers to help create audio textbooks for people with print disabilities. 706-549-1313, scourt@learningally.org Tutors Needed (410 McKinley Dr.) Athens Tutorial Program is seeking volunteer tutors for grades K–8.

Sessions are scheduled Monday– Thursday, 3–6 p.m. 706-354-1653, athens.tutorial@gmail.com

Kidstuff Art Classes (Lyndon House Arts Center) Now registering. Art classes include Art Time (ages 4–6), Homeschool Artists (ages 6–11), Stop-Motion Animation (ages 11–15), Wild Intelligence Art Camp (ages 8–12), and Drawing in Pencil, Pen and Ink (ages 7–11). 706-6133623, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ lyndonhouse Knee-High Naturalists (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Spend time outdoors with your little ones. Every other Wednesday, Mar. 1–May 10, 3:30–4:30 p.m. $24–36. www.athens clarkecounty.com/leisure Sportstime (Multiple Locations) Players will be introduced to basketball, football, golf, kickball, lacrosse, soccer and more. Ages 3–4. Mondays, Mar. 15–Apr. 19, 4:45–5:30 p.m. at Trail Creek Park. Tuesdays, Mar. 14–Apr. 18, 4:45–5:30 p.m. at Southeast Clarke Park. $65. www.athensclarkecounty. com/leisure Spring Break Camps (Multiple Locations) “Wild Intelligence Spring Break Camp” for ages 8–12 will be held at the Lyndon House, Mar. 7–8 or Mar. 9–10, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $95–141. “Spring Explorers: Ready, Set, Race!” for ages 4–12 will be held at Sandy Creek Nature Center.

Mar. 8–10, 9:30 a.m. $20–30. www. athensclarkecounty.com/leisure Teen Tech Bookmark Design Contest (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Teens can enter a bookmark they’ve designed around the theme “Be the Source of Change” through March. www. athenslibrary.org/madison UGA Bug Camp (UGA Poultry Science, 110 Cedar St.) Participants will get a hands-on feel for entomology. Mar. 9 & 10, 8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. $35–65. blog.caes.uga.edu World of Wonder Park (Southeast Clarke Park) The new playground includes ten slides (including the three-story Slide Tower), a Biba Activated Playground (augmented reality gameplay experience), climbing rock wall, two-story Dynamo Apollo Spinner and a rope web climber. Swing areas include standard swings, co-ride parent/ child generational swings and swings for individuals with mobility impairment. 706-613-3801

Youth Sports Program Registration (Multiple Locations) Now registering. Youth soccer programs for ages 6–12 take place at Southeast Clarke Park. Mar. 15–Apr. 29. $65–98. Tennis for ages 5–16 at the Athens-Clarke County Tennis Center and Bishop Park. Mar. 21–Apr. 26. $60–90. www.athens clarkecounty.com/leisure

Support Groups Alanon 12 Step (Athens, GA) Recovery for people affected by someone else’s drinking. Weekly meetings are held at various times and locations around Athens. 478955-3422, www.ga-al-anon.org Alcoholics Anonymous (Athens, GA) If you want to drink, that’s your business. If you want to stop, we can help. 706-389-4164, www.athensaa.org Athens Autoimmune Support (Sips Espresso Café) A support group for anyone who suffers form an autoimmune condition. Meetings are twice a month, Wednesdays. ryan@themindfulnutrivore.com Dudes Helping Dudes (Nuçi’s Space) A weekly support group for anyone who identifies as a man.

Park in the lot across the street on Williams Street. Thursdays, 6–7 p.m. (Not meeting Feb. 23 or Mar. 2.) Park across the street. tinyurl. com/DudesHelpingDudes, www.brainaidfest.com 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 New Mamas’ Group (reBlossom Mama Baby Shop) Meet other parents with babies. Tuesdays, 10 a.m. www.reblossomathens.com

On The Street AARP Foundation Tax-Aide AARP Foundation Tax-Aide volunteers offer tax assistance Mondays, 1–5 p.m. (Oconee County Library); Wednesdays, 1–5 p.m. and Fridays, 9–1 p.m. (Athens-Clarke County Library) ; Tuesdays 9–1 p.m. and Saturdays, 9–1 p.m. (Kroger on Epps Bridge). aarp.org/taxaide Adult Softball (Southeast Clarke Park) The season begins Mar. 6. $500/team. www.athensclarkecounty. com/leisure

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HENDERSHOT’S COFFEE BAR (237 Prince Ave.) Sue Grilli is a contemporary artist sharing her creative journey through mixed media, watercolor and collage. Through March.

HIP VINTAGE & HANDMADE (215 Commerce Blvd.) Karen Adams works in oils, charcoal, watercolor, mixed media and sculpture. Opening reception Mar. 3. Through March.

JUST PHO…AND MORE (1063 Baxter St.) Artwork by Michelle Korrie.

Through Mar. 13.

K.A. ARTIST SHOP (127 N. Jackson St.) “Love in all its Many Forms” is a group exhibition celebrating love. Reception Mar. 16. Currently on view through March.

LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) “Nicole Pietrantoni: The Falls” shows printmaking work by the assistant professor of art at Whitman College. Opens Mar. 3. Closing reception Mar. 23.

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.

LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) “Upstream II” continues an exploration of African American artists’ experiences through the works of William Downs, Jerushia Graham, Njambi Mwuara, Broderick Flanigan and Meaza Nigatu. Through Mar. 2. • In the Lounge Gallery, see photography

by Wilma, a well-known singer and neuromuscular massage therapist.

Reception Mar. 23. Through Apr. 20.

MADISON MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) “Emissaries of Peace: 1762 Cherokee and British Delegations” presents the story of Lt. Henry Timberlake and Cherokee leader Ostenaco as they journeyed to each other’s countries in 1762 as Emissaries of Peace. The show includes memoirs, period artwork, artifacts and more. Through Apr. 9.

MASON-SCHARFENSTEIN MUSEUM OF ART (567 Georgia St., Demorest) Gregor Turk’s “Power Projection” incorporates imagery and cultural markings into his art, sculpture, photography and mixed media constructions. Opening reception Mar. 2. Through March.

MULTIPLE LOCATIONS (Athens, GA) “We Are the Other: A Photographic Portrait of Athens, Georgia” is a city-wide photographic project by visiting artist Wing Young Huie. Organized by the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission, the project will be hosted at the Athens-Clarke County Library, Athens Community Council on Aging, Cedar Shoals High School, Clarke Central High School, Ciné, Georgia Square Mall, Lyndon House Arts Center, The Sparrow’s Nest, State Botanical Garden of Georgia, Tlaloc, Strickland’s and Willson Center for Humanities & Arts.

OCONEE CIVIC CENTER (2661 Hog Mountain Rd., Watkinsville) “A Journey in Quilts” features over 150 quilts. Mar. 3–5.

OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (OCAF) (34 School St., Watkinsville) “The Oconee County Schools Youth Art Month Exhibition” highlights works by over 250 young artists. Opening reception Mar. 2.

Through Mar. 23.

RICHARD B. RUSSELL JR. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIES (300 S. Hull St.) In the Hargrett Library Gallery, see “Necessary Words & Images: 70 Years of the Georgia Review.” • In the Russell Library Gallery, see “On the Stump: What Does it Take to Get Elected in Georgia.” • In the Brown Media Library, see the “Steele Vintage Broadcast Microphone Collection.” • “A Championship Tradition: The NCAA Tennis Tournament in Athens” marks the 29th time the tournament has been held in Athens since 1972.

THE SURGERY CENTER OF ATHENS (2142 W. Broad St.) Paintings by Anna Desio. Through March.

TERRAPIN BEER CO. (265 Newton Bridge Rd.) Photography by John Griffiths. Through March.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF ATHENS (780 Timothy Rd.) “Living in Nature” presents photographs by John W. Schell. Through March.

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA OCONEE CAMPUS GALLERY (1201 Bishop Farms Pkwy., Watkinsville) The “Faculty Biennial” includes a wide variety of media and styles. Through March.

WHITE TIGER (217 Hiawassee Ave.) New paintings, drawings and block prints by Cooper Holmes.

WINTERVILLE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CULTURE (371 N. Church St., Winterville) Presented by the Winterville Arts Council, “Beginnings” includes works by Lisa Freeman, Will Eskridge, Chris Taylor, Cheryl Washburn, Jacob Wenzka and more.

THE WORLD FAMOUS (351 N. Hull St.) Permanent artists include RA Miller, Chris Hubbard, Travis Craig, Michelle Fontaine, Dan Smith, Greg Stone and more.

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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 Foyer Gallery, “Seven Elements of Art” features sculptural works by Lawrence Steuck, Leonard Piha and Lorraine Thompson. • “Transitions: Vessels for Sam” features clay sculptures by Alice Woodruff, who views the exhibition as a journey towards reconciliation with life following her son’s suicide. • Paintings and drawings by Audrone Kirschner focus on botanicals as they transition back into pods and seeds. Through Apr. 21.

ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (ATHICA) (160 Tracy St.) Curated by Mike Calway-Fagen, “I Swear I Saw This: The Line As Witness” features artwork by George Belcher, Courtney McClellan, Jacob Sunderlin, Jon Swindler and Christina Tsui. Closing event Mar. 5.

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

CITY OF WATKINSVILLE (Downtown Watkinsville) “Public Art Watkinsville: A Pop-up Sculpture Exhibit” consists of sculptures placed in prominent locations around downtown. Artists include Benjamin Lock, William Massey, Stan Mullins, Robert Clements and Joni Younkins-Herzog. “Artscape Oconee: The Monuments of Artland” features eight newly commissioned art panels and six refurbished panels of paintings.

THE CLASSIC CENTER (300 N. Thomas St.) “Highlights” includes artists from the Classic Center’s permanent collection: June Ball, Greg Benson, Dianne Penny, Henry Ransom, John Ahee, Ana Anest and Lamar Wood.

CREATURE COMFORTS BREWING CO. (271 W. Hancock Ave.) “Love On the Side” is an extension of K.A. Artist Shop’s exhibition, “Love in all its Many Forms.” Through Mar. 4. • “Creature Moments” features paintings, drawings and handwritten stories created by safe members in response to the brewery’s beer. Mar. 7–18.

DONDEROS’ KITCHEN (590 N. Milledge Ave.) Artwork by Kathy Broyles.

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EARTH FARE (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) Artwork by Margaret Scruggs. Through March.

FARMINGTON DEPOT GALLERY (1011 Salem Rd., Farmington) Owned and staffed by 14 artists, the gallery offers works by artists including Matt Alston, John Cleaveland, Peter Loose, Michael Pierce, Dan Smith, Cheri Wranosky and more.

THE FINISHING SCHOOL (215 Thomas St.) The new gallery opens with “Parallel Play,” which includes works by Andrew Boatright, Kojo Griffin and Kirstin Mitchell. The show is curated by Candice Greathouse and Curtis Ames. Opening reception Mar. 4. On view Mar. 1–29.

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Artwork by Stacey Piotrowski. Through March.

GALLERY@HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Ultra Bright” includes works in fiber, photography, paper and painting by Barbette Houser, Laura Noel, Jessica Smith, Vivian Liddell, Logan Shirah and Drema Montgomery.

Through Apr. 8.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.)“Artists of the New York School” contains paintings, sculptures and works on paper by artists who worked in abstraction in the 1950s and ‘60s. Through Mar. 19. • In the Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden, “Driving Forces: Sculpture by Lin Emergy” presents four large kinetic sculptures. Through Apr. 2. • “To Spin a Yarn: Distaffs, Folk Art and Material Culture.” Through Apr. 16. • “Advanced and Irascible: Abstract Expressionism from the Collection of Jeanne and Carroll Berry” includes pieces by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Hedda Sterne and more. Through Apr. 30. • “Expanding Tradition: Selections from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection” showcases over 50 works by African American artists. Through May 7. • “Michael Ellison: Urban Impressions” shares a selection of block prints produced by the Atlanta-based educator and printmaker. Through May 21.

GLASSCUBE@INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Satisfaction System” is a sitespecific installation by Garrett Hayes that suspends circular forms woven with scrap denim, rope and Electro-Luminescent wire. Through Apr. 15.

Spring Book Sale (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Thousands of books will be available for bargain prices, as will books on tape, CDs, VHS tapes and records.

Proceeds benefit the Madison County Library. Mar. 10–18. www. athenslibrary.org/madison Spring PROGRAMS (Athens, GA) Athens-Clarke County offers a diverse selection of art classes, recreational activities, sports and holiday events are offered for both children and adults. www.athens clarkecounty.com/leisure Summer Staff (Athens, GA) ACC Leisure Services in now hiring approximately 100 positions ranging from camp counselors, lifeguards and pool staff. www.athensclarke county.com/jobs f

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Call for Performers (Winterville, GA) The 2017 Marigold Festival is seeking family-friendly entertainers and musical acts to perform on the children’s stage.

The festival is on May 20. Email for details. aha.AthensHasArt@gmail. com Call for Submissions (Athens, GA) The Athens Writers Association is seeking funny songs, poems, non-fiction essays and short fiction from local writers of all ages for its third anthology scheduled to be published in summer or early fall of this year. Email submissions with subject heading “AWA Book Submission.” Deadline Mar. 12. katherinecerulean@gmail.com. www.athenswritersassociation. wordpress.com

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Beginners welcome. RSVP. Sundays, 1:30–3 p.m. athenspetanqueclub@ gmail.com, athenspetanqueclub.wix. com/play Athens Street Hockey (YMCA) (Hockey Rink) Players of all skill levels can play in a local hockey rink.

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30–8:30 p.m. athensfloorhockey@gmail.com Avid Book Clubs (Avid Bookshop) Book clubs include Young Readers, Graphic Novel, YA for Not-so-YAs, Small Press, Paperback Fiction, Social Justice, New & Notable and the Classics Book Club. Visit website for monthly selections and meeting dates. Join by email. 706352-2060, avid.athens.rachel@ gmail.com, www.avidbookshop.com

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Churches Should Assist Immigrants Advice for Athens’ Loose and Lovelorn

By Bonita Applebum advice@flagpole.com Hi, I am not well versed in local politics or activism, but have been undergoing a sea change over the past three months. I was moved by the New York Times article describing the plight of the immigrant mom in Denver taking refuge in a church. I would like to suggest a movement recommending that all concerned illegal immigrants identify one or more local, friendly churches that would be willing to allow them to take refuge there. The rest of us would help with food, clothing and legal assistance and publicity, to get this stupid removal policy stopped.

Taking refuge in a church is so reminiscent of medieval times, and just what the current administration deserves. What do you think? I think it could go viral.

Sincerely, Helen Wenner

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Also, you don’t have to be well versed in local politics to have the kind of personal impact an act like this would make. There’s no entrance exam for activism. Just start chatting up friends in your congregation, and take it from there. You can do this!

I recently realized that my newish girlfriend and I really only get intimate when she or both of us have been drinking. Is that weird? I try to initiate when she’s sober, but she never goes for it. I like her, and I can see this relationship going places, but this part doesn’t feel right to me. I just feel sort of icky realizing that I’ve been having sex with an always-drunk person for months now, and I really wanna ask her why she won’t sleep with me when she’s sober.

Should I bring this up?

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Helen, Isn’t that what the Christian church is supposed to be? I think it’s a marvelous idea, and much closer to the classic image of the church as a shelter for those in need.

I don’t think most congregations are brave enough to stand up to the law in such a way, but then again, I stopped going to church when I was about 12 years old, after church leaders decided to cancel the youth choir’s trip to Six Flags Over Georgia and instead give that money—which we kids had spent months raising—to our pastor as a gift. So, yeah, I have my issues with the church, but I know plenty of Christians whose hearts are bursting with love and who are eager to make a positive impact in some way.

I assume you go to church, so I’d recommend talking with members of your congregation and your pastor about outreach to the immigrant community. You can start by sponsoring an undocumented family, providing food or under-the-table jobs and giving them the basic support they’ll need to prepare in case the crap really does hit the fan.

Absolutely, bring this up.

It’s a real red flag that she doesn’t want to have sex when she’s sober. Your level of sobriety doesn’t seem to matter, but hers does. I’m not a psychologist, but I worry that she’s got some sort of anxiety or self-image issue where she doesn’t really feel like a sexual being when she’s sober and in her own head. Or perhaps she feels like she “needs” alcohol to relax enough to have really great sex.

Either way, drunk sex should not be a constant in any relationship. That’s a recipe for disaster—mark my words. It’s hard to relax sometimes when you’re being intimate with others, but no one should be selfmedicating herself into a sensual headspace every time she gets it on.

Do you two party a lot? Did you meet while out on the town or intoxicated? There are a lot of questions to ask here. Make sure you’re both sober when you talk about this, and be compassionate towards this obviously anxiety-driven behavior. f Need advice? Email advice@flagpole.com, use the anonymous form at flagpole.com/getadvice, or find Bonita on Twitter: @flagpolebonita.

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