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By Blake Aued and Nate Harris news@flagpole.coma For years, the question has lingered: Mayor the county’s bike master plan.) Sprinkle in Nancy Denson is a Democrat, but is she a majority of African-American voters and really a Democrat? juuuuust enough white Democrats, and she She may not be for long—or at least, unlocked the winning coalition that eluded she may lose her post on the Athens-Clarke Charlie Maddox in 2006.

County Democratic Committee. The comIn defending her record, Denson pointed mittee has scheduled a vote to remove her to the numerous fundraisers she’s held over on Sept. 28, based on allegations that she the years for Democratic candidates, includviolated a bylaw stating that committee ing former Sen. Max Cleland, Secretary of members cannot support candidates from State Cathy Cox and Rep. John Barrow. “I’ve other parties. probably been more active than many of the At issue is a fundraiser Denson hosted people on the committee now,” she said. for Houston Gaines, the Republican canAs for the aforementioned five commisdidate in the upcoming House District sioners, I would describe at least three of 117 special election, at her home in Forest them—Herod, Hamby and NeSmith—as Heights. The event was a left of center, at least who’s who of elected offion state and national cials from both parties in issues. As NeSmith both Clarke and Oconee explained to me on counties, rubbing elbows “Athens News Matters” with deep-pocketed last week (shameless political donors, many plug: the show runs at 1 of them developers. Half p.m. Fridays and noon the ACC Commission— Sundays on WUGA Mike Hamby, Jerry 91.7 and 94.5 FM), he NeSmith, Andy Herod, attended the Gaines Sharyn Dickerson and fundraiser in hopes of Diane Bell—was there. heading off McKillip, It’s no surprise that who’s further to the Denson would support right and angered many Gaines, who managed Democrats by switchMayor Nancy Denson her 2014 re-election ing parties in 2010. bid. In fact, Denson (McKillip considered told Flagpole that had a special election running to regain his old seat but has now not been called—necessitated by Rep. endorsed Gaines—which could backfire on Regina Quick’s resignation to accept an Gaines by tarnishing his reputation as a appointment as Superior Court judge—she moderate.) would have resigned from the committee Edwards contended that when in order to back Gaines. (There is some Democrats back Republicans, “it underdispute over whether the bylaw’s language mines faith in the party,” and it’s “disreincludes special elections, or just regular spectful” to the Democrat in the House general elections.) Like many Democrats, District 117 race, Deborah Gonzalez. she also supported Quick in her primary Gonzalez, though, said she’s unfazed. race against Rep. Doug McKillip in 2012, “I understand,” she said. “They watched although there was no Democrat running Houston grow up.” But “I just hope then.

Democrats understand that a Democrat can “As an American, as a Georgian and an win,” she added. “They need to come out Athenian, I want the best candidate,” she and vote.” [Blake Aued] said.

That’s struck many people as a reasonable position, but ever since she first ran for mayor in 2010, many others have suspected that Denson is a Republican in blue clothOn the heels of an Athens-Clarke ing. “She’s not a Democrat. This just conHeritage Foundation lecture on the hisfirms it for the millionth time,” said Russell tory and context of Confederate monuEdwards, former chairman of the ACCDC ments, the Athens Anti-Discrimination and a candidate for Commission District 7 Movement is asking the ACC Commission against Bell. to move the Broad Street memorial to dead After all—considering that the overlap Confederates and “add another monubetween Republicans and Gwen O’Looney ment—one that represents the future of or Tim Denson voters is about as small as Athens.” They asked Mayor Nancy Denson the overlap between Trump supporters and to put the issue on the agenda for the comRosie O’Donnell fans—the majority of her mission’s Tuesday, Oct. 3 meeting. They’re support likely came from the GOP. Since local elections are nonpartisan, she was able also holding a second meeting to discuss the memorial’s fate on Oct. 2 at 6:30 p.m. at to run as a “lifelong Democrat” but also call the ACC Library. herself the “common sense choice,” a wink “Systemic discrimination, education and a nod at Republicans that developers inequality, poverty and mass incarceration could run wild, and the era of frou-frou plague the black community of Athensextravagances like bike lanes and public Clarke County,” AADM co-founders Knowa art would be over. (To be fair, the SPLOSTand Mokah Johnson wrote in an open funded public art program has continued, letter. “By taking action and refusing to and she appointed a committee to update

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uphold symbolism that lauds white supremacy in our community, we can show that we do not fear the truth, but embrace it.”

Both of them attended the Sept. 20 ACHF lecture, which featured UGA history professor Akela Reason. Since the white supremacist riot in Charlottesville, VA last month, protesters have torn down a Confederate monument in Durham, NC, and the city of Baltimore removed its monuments in the dead of night, sparking a similar debate in Athens.

The monument craze started in the 1890s and lasted until the 1920s, at which point many people claimed to be suffering from “monument fatigue,” Reason said.

There are about 1,000 Confederate monuments, including about 140 in Georgia; some are in the North and some in states that didn’t even exist during the Civil War, she said. Often funded by elites with little to no public input, many monuments were built by local stonecutters—with AfricanAmerican laborers forced to help—but they were so common that statues of soldiers could even be ordered from catalogs.

The dates coincide with the popularity of the “Lost Cause,” a now-discredited version of history holding that Southerners fought honorably for states’ rights and to defend their homes against Northern aggression, rather than to continue slavery. “The South in this period was really dominated by the Lost Cause,” Reason said. “This was a revision. It was a way to survive defeat.”

But Southern states’ secession documents “emphatically” list slavery as the cause for rebellion. Meanwhile, Northerners looked the other way and ignored the South’s Jim Crow laws after Reconstruction, she said.

At the time, Athens was every bit as racist as any other Southern city. Reason showed a newspaper ad from 1911 for the Black Mammy Memorial Institute, a proposed school in Athens to teach African Americans to be better servants, because whites believed standards had fallen since slavery ended.

The Athens obelisk was erected in 1871, ostensibly by the Athens Ladies’ Memorial Association, but probably secretly funded by wealthy men, because during Reconstruction it would have been easier for women to build a memorial mourning the dead than for men to build one in defiance. The association said their goal was a monument “as white and spotless as the cause for which they [Confederate soldiers] died was pure and holy.”

Reason said each monument should be looked at individually. Options include leaving them alone, removing them,

contextualizing them or moving them to another location. Each has its drawbacks.

As far as moving them goes, some are too big, and museums don’t want them anyway, Reason said. She questioned whether African Americans would want to look at them in a cemetery any more than in a park. Gathering them together in one place, as some have suggested, could inadvertently create “a neo-Nazi theme park.” Efforts to add context with interpretive signs or new monuments might be overshadowed.

The ACHF is not taking sides in the debate. “Our goal is to create an environment where open, respectful dialogue is possible,” trustee Kimberly Davis said.

But for Reason, the memorial should come down or be moved to a less prominent location. “Personally, I don’t think the Athens monument should be at the center of Athens,” she said. “I don’t think we’re that community.” [BA]

Georgia Tech Shooting Sign Disgusts UGA Students Hunter Hulsey was disgusted when he saw a sign with a poll in the Tate Student Center Plaza last Wednesday asking if people agreed that the shooting of Scout Schultz at Georgia Tech was “a clean shoot.”

Schultz, a student at Georgia Tech, was shot and killed by police responding to a call of a suspicious person on campus.

Schultz reportedly refused to comply with officer orders to drop a multitool Schultz was wielding. It was later revealed Schultz placed the call that brought officers to the scene in what appears to be a suicide by police shooting.

“It pissed me off, so I took a picture,” Hulsey said. He posted it on Facebook, with several people commenting on their repulsion. “I think we can all agree that the question was inappropriate,” he said. “Using Scout’s death to justify a political opinion about guns or anything is disrespectful to the life they lived.”

Who exactly posted the question is still unclear. By 5 p.m., the display had been “voluntarily removed,” according to Greg Trevor, spokesperson for the university.

“Although the language on this sign was insensitive and offensive to many members of the university community, it is protected expression,” Trevor said in a statement.

“I have seen a lot about the sign being in poor taste, and then some turning it into a free speech issue,” said UGA student Alli Carton. “But to me, it’s not about free speech or where it was, it’s about that, as a university, we should show support for Georgia Tech.”

Carton saw Hulsey’s photo on Facebook and decided to contact the Department of Student Affairs expressing her disappointment. She said she and a couple of her friends are organizing a show of support in the Tate Student Center Plaza on Wednesday, Sept. 27 from 4–7 p.m., in the same spot the sign was. [Nate Harris]

ACCPD Chief Talks CommunityOriented Policing It wasn’t planned this way, but the day after Schultz’s shooting was an opportune time for ACC Police Chief Scott Freeman to brief county commissioners on communityoriented policing.

Traditional policing has failed because the focus on arrest rates, the tactic of random patrols, incarceration as the sole tool for law enforcement and the lack of relationships between police and citizens alienate the public and do nothing to reduce crime, Freeman said at the Sept. 18 work session (rescheduled because of Irma). He pointed to Ferguson, MO, the site of riots in 2014, where “there were systemic issues that should have been caught early on.”

Instead, in ACC, officers are assigned to zones where they get to know residents and business owners, Freeman said. The philosophy calls for treating crime as a symptom and working to solve the root problems.

Examples of community-oriented policing Freeman cited included a reading program for children at Bethel Midtown Village, community cookouts at Athens Garden apartments (where there had been a rash of drive-by shootings), officers helping a victim of elder abuse to move and First Friday basketball games in East Athens, organized by local artist and activist Broderick Flanigan.

ACC started moving toward communityoriented policing in 1995, after an officer shot and killed Edward Wright, a young African American—an incident that still reverberates through Athens’ minority communities, Freeman said. Former police chief Jack Lumpkin, hired in 1997, was the father of community-oriented policing in Athens, Freeman said. Freeman was hired to replace Lumpkin in 2015, and said he is now trying to take the concept “light years above every other department in this country,” with a new strategic plan and rewritten policies (available at athensclarkecounty.com by clicking “departments,” then “police,” then “transparency in policing”).

Although Georgia only requires police officers to undergo 20 hours of training per year, ACC officers receive 66, in areas like de-escalating conflict and implicit bias. But Freeman said he would like to double that number. To provide that level of training and fully implement community-oriented policing, Freeman said he needs 50 new officers.

He’s having trouble keeping the ones he has, though. Twenty-two of 242 officers have left this year—mainly because of money and feeling unappreciated in the current anti-cop climate, according to Freeman—the highest turnover rate in the eight years the department has kept that statistic. UGA students “do not want to even consider us for $36,000,” Freeman said. Since Gov. Nathan Deal raised the minimum salary for state troopers and GBI agents to $47,000, officers have been flocking there from local departments, he said.

The ACC police department is 26 percent black, according to Freeman, which closely mirrors the makeup of the city. But commissioners questioned him on the lack of female and minority representation on his leadership team. Freeman said he put the most qualified candidates into place without regard for race or gender. But “diversity is absolutely a priority,” and he is revamping the promotion process, he said.

Commissioners also pressed Freeman on traffic enforcement—speeding, drunk driving and distracted driving. Wrecks are up, but Freeman attributed that to an increased population. In response to a question about marijuana decriminalization, he said he can’t let that slide, even if the commission passes a parallel ordinance setting just a small fine for possession. “Legally, we have to follow state laws,” he said. “As long as those laws are passed, it’s our job to enforce those laws.” [BA]

Give Input on Athens Development With the community planning process Envision Athens winding down, ACC planners are ready to start writing the latest update of the county’s comprehensive landuse plan, kicking it off with a series of public forums next month.

Planning NEXT, a Columbus, OH-based consulting firm, held a series of widely attended forums, collected thousands of comments online and pulled in data and other government studies, and is in the process of unveiling the results. (One of four presentations is left, at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28 at Clarke Central High School.) The plan will cover not only county government, but the school district, local hospitals, UGA and the nonprofit sector as well.

The comp plan is a separate but related document that the state requires local governments to submit every 10 years. Because of Envision Athens, planners are going about the comp plan—which will guide development and related issues like housing and transportation for the next decade—a bit differently this time. Instead of gathering data and public input on its own, the ACC Planning Department is pulling out the government portion of the Envision Athens plan to use as the foundation for the comp plan. “What Planning NEXT compiled is the jumping-off point,” senior planner Bruce Lonnee told Flagpole.

One advantage of this approach is that the Envision Athens steering committee and the citizens who participated are a more diverse group by race, age, geography and income than typically shows up at a local government meeting, Lonnee said.

But the Planning Department is still taking public input on the comp plan. The first session, Monday, Oct. 2 from 7–8:30 p.m. at Cornerstone Church, will focus on needs and opportunities in the community. The second, Monday, Oct. 9 from 7–8:30 p.m. at Chase Street Elementary School, will be about the future land-use map, examining big issues like whether the county should continue to funnel growth downtown or the rural “green belt” should be reopened for development, and whether new industries should be shifted to Atlanta Highway, where there’s better access to transportation than the industrial parks on the eastern side of the county. The third, Monday, Oct. 16 from 7–8:30 p.m. at J.J. Harris Elementary School, will drill down into specific actions the government can take to meet the comp plan’s goals.

In addition, planners will be posting up downtown and in parks “trying to grab a population of people we don’t typically see at these meetings,” Planning Director Brad Griffin said.

A committee will spend November and December writing a draft of the comp plan, followed by more public hearings, and it will be submitted to the Mayor and Commission for approval, likely in April. [BA] f

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A Duty to Serve AMBITIOUS LAWMAKERS QUIT ON THEIR CONSTITUENTS

By Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com

The Athens-Clarke County Planning Department

invites the community to join us as we present a series of opportunities to learn and participate in the creation of the 2018 Athens-Clarke County Comprehensive Plan. This document is a state requirement that offers a chance for the local government to update various components of the previous plan (2008). By partnering with Envision Athens, the Steering Committee has already received valuable goals, policies, and action items brought forth by the community, but must still obtain feedback regarding needs, opportunities, services, future land use, and a work program.

Staff will provide information about the process and content at each of the meetings, as well as seek input related to the discussion topic from those in attendance. Please consider joining us for one or all of the following evenings as we all look toward ensuring a vibrant future for Athens-Clarke County.

“Needs and Opportunities” October 2, 2017 Cornerstone Church – 4680 Lexington Road. 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.

“Future Land Use” October 9, 2017 Chase Street Elementary – 757 N. Chase St. 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.

“Community Work Program” October 16, 2017 J.J. Harris Elementary – 2300 Danielsville Rd. 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.

Please contact the Athens-Clarke County Planning Department with any questions at: 120 W. Dougherty Street, Athens, GA 30601 706-613-3515 www.athensclarkecounty.com/planning

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On Nov. 7, elections will be held in Atlanta and many other cities across Georgia as voters elect a mayor and city council members.

That is as it should be. Municipal elections in Georgia are usually held in odd-numbered years.

On the same day, nine special elections will be held to elect new members to the Georgia legislature. That is not as it should be. The Constitution of Georgia provides that legislative elections will be held in even-numbered years. It also states and that members of the House and Senate will be elected “for a term of two years.”

The new trend in Georgia politics is to get elected to office and then quit halfway through your term so that you can run for something else. That’s why we have the unprecedented spectacle of nine special elections this November.

In Forsyth County’s House District 26, Geoff Duncan quit to campaign full-time for lieutenant governor.

In Atlanta’s House District 60, Keisha Waites quit to run for chair of the Fulton County Commission. That’s vacant because John Eaves also quit midway through his term to run for mayor of Atlanta.

In Cobb County’s House District 42 and DeKalb County’s House District 89, Stacey Evans and Stacey Abrams resigned to run full-time for governor.

In Clarke County’s House District 117, Regina Quick resigned after Gov. Nathan Deal appointed her to a judgeship.

In Oconee County’s House District 119, Chuck Williams quit because Deal appointed him head of the Georgia Forestry Commission.

In Senate District 6, Hunter Hill resigned to run full-time for governor.

In Senate District 39, Vincent Fort quit to run for mayor of Atlanta.

The one lawmaker with a valid reason to give up their legislative seat was Bruce Broadrick in northwest Georgia’s House District 4. Broadrick is dealing with some serious medical issues, so he has a legitimate excuse to resign early. The other incumbents, however, have left their constituents holding the bag to pay the costs of holding a special election to replace them.

In next year’s General Assembly session, these districts will be represented by newcomers who won’t have time to learn how things work until the session is practically over. As one lawmaker once remarked, “It took me my whole first term to even figure out where the men’s room was.”

There is nothing wrong with wanting to run for higher office. Ambition is part of every politician’s mental makeup. But here’s the problem: Each of those incumbents knew they were running for a two-year term when they qualified to run last year.

The implicit promise was that they would serve that full term if they were elected.

I suspect that most of them knew they wanted to run for another office in 2017 or 2018. That being the case, they should have declined to run in 2016 if they couldn’t guarantee their constituents they would serve out the full term. It’s just not fair to the people who voted for them.

I know this will never happen, but if I could pass one law, it would be this: Any political office-holder who quits early to run for another office or accept a government job should be required to pay the entire cost of staging the special election to replace them. That cost typically amounts to $100,000 or more for a legislative election. Make them pay it out of their personal funds. Perhaps that would persuade people to keep the promises they make to their constituents. f

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HOW DO PEPE-POSTING MEME WARRIORS RESPOND TO ALT-RIGHT VIOLENCE?

By Baynard Woods democracyincrisiscolumn@gmail.com In Charlottesville, VA, when it seemed like the Nazis had been driven from town, shortly before the terrorist attack that killed Heather Heyer, a group of anti-racist protesters gathered in a small park and set fire to several Confederate flags and a big green, white and black Kekistani flag.

I stood in the dirt beneath a tree and watched the two flags wither and curl beneath their own combustion on the dark ground. One was born of the slaveholder insurrection against the U.S. and the other from what some in the message-board subculture call the “great meme war of 2016,” and both, somehow, represent the Trump coalition.

The fictional nation of Kekistan grew out of the Pepe the Frog meme. Pepe became popular after a Boy’s Club comic strip by his creator, Matt Furie, depicted him peeing with his pants all the way down because it “feels good, man.”

The gamers, “men’s rights” activists, hackers, trolls and shitposters who populate sites like 4chan started embracing the Pepe the Frog meme to symbolize, as Dale Beran wrote in a post that went viral last February, “embracing your loserdom, owning it.” Soon, Pepe, who had come to embody the troll ethos, also found an analog in politics.

“Trump, the loser, the outsider, the hot mess, the pathetic joke, embodies this duality. Trump represents both the alpha and the beta,” Beran wrote.

In May, Furie drew another strip, showing Pepe lying dead in a casket. But his creation had by then already escaped him.

At the same time as the far-right elements on message boards began to adopt Pepe, they also began using the letters KEK instead of LOL to indicate online laughter. Then, when they noticed that there was an Egyptian god named Kek, which was depicted as a frog-headed man, these guys—and they are decidedly guys—had a mythology and a god. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s entry on the alt-right’s association with the deity, “Kek was portrayed as a bringer of chaos and darkness, which happened to fit perfectly with the alt-right’s self-image as being primarily devoted to destroying the existing world order.”

To go along with their new half-ironic religion, they created a purely digital (and imaginary) country called Kekistan, and after the election they made Trump their God Emperor. And they started getting flags made.

Now, to free his Pepe from the far right and the racists, Furie has sent cease and desist notices to a number of

alt-right figures, such as Richard Spencer, Mike Cernovich and Baked Alaska.

Baked Alaska, who claims to have been almost blinded by Antifa activists in Charlottesville, tweeted: “Hillary Clinton’s lawyers have been summoned to sue me & others over a cartoon frog meme. Bad idea to start this battle.” The ability to post whatever they want online is the main political issue for many of the shitposters, and so they have called for a new meme war attacking Furie for challenging their use of his creation.

But the two flags burning beside each other stuck in my mind, so the next time I saw some Keksters, at the Mother of All Rallies on the National Mall earlier this month, I asked them about the association of their flag with that of the Nazis in Charlottesville.

I talked to one guy who carries a flag and wears a green robe, but he had nothing much to say before scampering off behind an Eric Trump-looking Proud Boy like a cartoon puppy. Another one wore a T-shirt with a green fist rising up above the word “Kekistan.” Below, it said something about the “normie occupation,” a phrase used to indicate the oppression of the nerd by normal people. With his long beard and cossack hat, it halflooked like he was cosplaying Alexander Dugin, the bearded Russian theorist sometimes called “Putin’s Rasputin.” He said his name was Diogenes, because Diogenes the Cynic was the first real troll.

“I am an ethnic shitposter,” he said. “Which is, essentially, I’m an asshole for the sake of being an asshole.”

“At Charlottesville I saw people burning a Kekistan flag, as well as a Confederate flag and stuff, and if a shitposter is just being an asshole to be an asshole, is that cool?” I asked.

“Is that part of being an asshole, or does that bother you like…”

“Oh, people have the freedom to do whatever they want, so long as they’re the ones who bought it and own it themselves,” said Diogenes. “If it’s their property, like…”

“I just mean to have your thing associated with other things,” I said. “Being associated with what happened in Charlottesville, is that weird or is that…?”

“No” he said. “People are going to freely associate with whatever they want. I mean, it’s unfortunate that they they had to bring an insane racism to it, but there are those people… Some of them do it just to be an asshole, and they think that they’re edgy, and it will hurt people’s feelings.”

He paused. “And it does,” he said, almost admiringly, of the ability of racist remarks to cause emotional pain. “It’s when they legitimately mean it that it becomes an issue, and it’s when they’re trying to make [racism] law that it becomes an issue.”

That really stunned me, but it shouldn’t have. For shitposters like Diogenes, it seems that the big problem with the Nazis is that they aren’t ironic enough in their hatred. f

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By Lauren Baggett news@flagpole.com and a line of spicy pepper or Sriracha infusions round out the amber-colored array.

And of course, there’s tupelo honey, which Johnson says will go fast: “Van Morrison did a lot for the tupelo industry.”

Visitors are welcome to taste any honey at the honey bar in the back of the store.

Over 15 varieties of local and international honeys, displayed in decorative honeycombed glass dispensers, line up along a slab of polished wood. Sampling the honeys, says Johnson, is the best way to underJESSICA SILVERMAN

If you find yourself strolling along the block of College Avenue between Subway and Starbucks, you may spot a new face: that of a shaggy unassuming bear, wearing a skull cap and hugging a pot of honey. The bear is welcoming you to Bear Hug Honey Co., Athens’ newest purveyor of local honey and other bee-related products.

Enter the store, and you’ll spot Sam Johnson, Bear Hug’s owner, probably wearing a shirt bearing (no pun intended) the same charming animal etched on the store-

Sam Johnson behind the honey bar at Bear Hug.

front. Johnson is an eight-year veteran of the honey industry and a UGA graduate.

After receiving his degree in agricultural and applied economics in 2007, Johnson eventually moved to Savannah, where he began working for the Savannah Bee Co. “I was interested in local food, in the farmers market, that sort of thing,” he says.

“Savannah Bee Co. was connected to that.

That’s how I got into it, but then I just fell in love with honey, fell in love with bees.”

Johnson is newly back in Athens, coming from Asheville, NC, where he spent three years helping a honey company get off the ground there. Though Johnson was looking for a reason to move back to Athens, opening a store of his own wasn’t the obvious plan. “I wasn’t sure if this was the right path for me or if [a honey company] would do well Athens,” he said.

When the space most recently occupied

by The Mark’s leasing office opened up, Johnson thought it was his opportunity.

With keys in pocket, Johnson built out the store in about a month, opening in late August.

Bear Hug is bright and open. Glass jars of honey and honey infusions line the entire wall to the left of the entrance.

Johnson carries several varieties of pure honey: orange blossom, buckwheat, sourwood, palmetto and Georgia wildflower.

“These will change as the year goes on,” he says. “We’ll run out of some throughout the year, and we’ll pick up other ones when different plants start to bloom.”

Honey infused with Madagascar vanilla

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stand the nuances of regional honey. Like a wine, honey takes on the flavor of the flowers that bloom around the beehive, so the taste and color of honey can vary widely.

The honey bar is Johnson’s favorite spot in the store, because he loves talking honey and educating visitors about the origin and flavors of each variety. “The cool thing about doing the honey tasting is people can really see how different they are,” he says.

“We have a lot of people who come in who say they don’t like honey, then [we] get them to try the sourwood or the tupelo, and all of a sudden, they love honey.”

Though honey is the main attraction, Bear Hug offers a variety of products that pay homage to the whole hive. You can find beeswax candles, beeswax-based shaving cream and reusable beeswax cloth for storing food. Johnson also worked with Normal Soap Company to create soaps and lotions infused with honey and wax.

Getting to know other local entrepreneurs, artists and chefs has been a highlight of launching Bear Hug, says Johnson. Soon, he hopes to expand his relationship to more local shops and restaurants, as well as add two new infused honeys to the store.

Johnson has high hopes that honey devotees and honey newbies will find their way to Bear Hug. Tasting one honey can change a mind or it can bring back a memory, he says. “The kind of thing we’re trying to do here is offer an experience, be as educational as possible, but also show how important bees are, as well as the beekeepers, who really are creating an art.” f

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WHITNEY ISN’T BURNED OUT JUST YET

By Andy Barton music@flagpole.com

“For

the sake of my sanity, I’m not even going to call it a tour,” Whitney guitarist Max Kakacek says with a laugh. “That’s like a week-long ACL run in my brain,” the Chicagoan adds for clarification and selfpreservation alike.

Kakacek is referencing the sextet’s short run of upcoming shows—the second of which takes place at the Georgia Theatre on Saturday—leading up to an appearance at the Austin City Limits Music Festival in Texas on Oct. 8. He’s potentially losing his mind because, ever since releasing last year’s critically acclaimed Light Upon the Lake, the band’s debut, he’s been swept up in a seemingly nonstop cycle of touring the world to promote it.

Though it’s been a whirlwind of press and shows since the album came out on Secretly Canadian at the beginning of 2016, Whitney’s formulation took a fair amount of time.

After the dissolution of Smith Westerns, Kakacek’s previous band with fellow songwriter, drummer and lead singer Julien Ehrlich, the duo began writing material for a new and completely different project, allowing it to blossom organically. Where Smith Westerns dealt in slick, glossy indie-pop, Whitney took a markedly different stab at freewheeling folk and soulful rock, resulting in a warm and timeless album despite its being mired in heartbreak.

“In Smith Westerns, there was never really a way to

Fact Sheet: Whitney’s Light Upon the Lake BEST TRACK: “Golden Days,” a bittersweet look back on the golden days of a relationship that culminates in a sweeping outro of horns and “na-na-na-na-na-na’s” STANDOUT LYRIC: “I left drinking on the city train/ To spend some time on the road/ Then one morning I woke up in L.A./ Caught my breath on the coast,” the opening lines of “No Woman” that set the tone for an album about picking up the pieces SONG WE HOPE THEY PLAY LIVE: “No Matter Where We Go,” an upbeat tune evoking open-road cruising with one’s partner by one’s side

make that kind of music,” says Kakacek. “I feel like the way that we started Whitney was a reaction to trying not to do that again—recording on tape, having everything have a little more soul, leaving a lot of mistakes in, not going to a big fancy studio.”

The approach has paid off for the band, as the record was included in a bevy of music publications’ year-end lists and has landed it a number of festival gigs, including Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo and Atlanta’s Shaky Knees. The album struck such a chord that it demanded the type of endless touring Kakacek jokingly laments, most recently a nearly 90-day trek from April to July. “By the end of it, we were just so tired that we became that band that went back to the hotel and slept,” says Kakacek.

With so much touring and so much buzz, one’s bound to wonder when there might be time for a follow-up to materialize. As it turns out, when Kakacek is reached by phone, he and Ehrlich are holed up in Rhododendron, OR, fleshing out song concepts in a cabin around Mt. Hood National Forest. “We’ve got a tape machine out here, and we’re just kind of starting the writing process and goofing off and watching Ryan Gosling movies,” says Kakacek.

“It’s usually me and Julien passing ideas around and then trying to make a vocal melody,” Kakacek adds, elaborating on their writing process. From there, they’ll create a “rough skeleton” for the rest of the song, for

instance, where horns and other players should come in for emphasis.

“We don’t write something like, ‘You have to play this even if you don’t like playing it,’” Kakacek says. “We all kind of have, I think, a very similar musical brain throughout the six of us, where we don’t really argue about ideas very often. Usually, once an idea is there, everyone’s like, ‘Yeah, that’s exactly what I would have done anyways.’”

As strides are made towards writing a sophomore album, Kakacek says that, moving forward, finding a healthier balance in regard to touring is a priority.

“Part of the reason that it’s fun is getting to hang out with the people that come watch you play and be a part of the city for a night,” Kakacek says, before harkening back to the band’s free-willed roots. “We definitely want to get back to a point where we’re touring just the right amount—where we still have the energy to hang out with new friends.” f

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Losing Myself to ‘Low Rider’ AN EXCERPT FROM NOBODY CARES WHO YOU ARE , BOOK II

By Larry Acquaviva music@flagpole.com This week, Deeds Publishing will release the second in a five-book set by local musician Larry Acquaviva, an autobiographical series titled Nobody Cares Who You Are: The Life and Times of Aceman, a Widespread Panic Roadie.

The new book, subtitled The Hitchhiking Odyssey, follows Acquaviva as he travels the country, ends up in Athens and links up with Panic during that band’s heady early days.

The author sent Flagpole the following excerpt, taken “from the end of the book, when I meet the Panic boys on Halloween night 1987 for the first time, at the old Uptown Lounge on Washington Street,” he writes. “I had already been hitchhiking for more than a year, and should have died several times over. I was lost, confused and a complete mess, and I was tripping my balls off, but I had finally found what I had been searching for: music, coming straight from the boys of Widespread Panic.”

Read it below, and hang out with the ever-amiable Acquaviva on Friday, Sept. 29 at Flicker, where he will sign copies of his new book and perform with his band The Honey Sliders. [Gabe Vodicka]

I now understood to give in to this power would mean losing myself in the process.

This was not a good spirit calling to me; this was darkness itself, a demon of the most demented kind, asking me to be a part of its world.

While shaking the raw image from my mind, I blocked the demon from my sight; re-opening my eyes, I again saw the boys rocking, and the crowd lost in the sound. I suddenly realized that I was protected, here in the midst of fellow spiritual warriors

At

one point, the Panic boys began playing “Low Rider,” the rock and roll anthem originally penned by War in the 1970s. This song was a step back in time for me, a connection to my own childhood and a song I had always loved. As I listened to the band rock, I stood with my eyes closed and let the sound wash over me. I then began to see a sea of darkness dominate my mind’s eye and felt a wave of calmness lift me upon her delicate wings. Then I saw, as clear as day, a bright red light seep from this darkness and come into view.

As the boys entered that most psychedelic part of the song, the part where the words “Take a little trip, take a little trip, take a little trip with me…” are repeated in a hypnotic cadence, I began to see a form emerge from the blood-red light. There, as clear as could be, I saw a gruesome dark hand appear, and the forefinger call to me in a way that, to this day, makes me cringe when I think of it. The hand—obviously a demon that had resided in my heart— began motioning to me to enter its lair. It was calling to me, asking me to follow it into the depths of madness, beckoning with the forefinger to come closer.

At first, being blinded by its subtlety and power, I moved towards it, sucked in by its allure. I approached, and as the music surged, the hand continued to draw me in, when something came over me in an undeniable eruption of warning: Do not embrace it, do not go to it. Suddenly realizing the power it possessed, I reeled in fear, and forced myself to back away from the demon;

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where I could rest at ease. Again, images like this were just too damned real and too damned powerful to acknowledge any longer, so I gathered my composure, put the experience behind me, and continued to enjoy the show.

Many years later, when talking to Marisa and Dave Schools on separate occasions, both my friends told me that they, too, had similar experiences during “Low Rider,” and both told me that they had also been taken aback by what transpired during that song.

In fact, the entire band had such an unsettling experience that they actually put the tune on the back burner for a while. Then it became clear to me: We had been having an authentic collective experience, the band and those present during the show.

It was a sliver of information that completely blew my mind. f

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By Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com REST IN PEACE: The sad news spread quickly among friends and fans last week that Anthony Little, aka Versatyle tha Wildchyld, died in his sleep Sunday, Sept. 17 after reportedly suffering from an illness for some time. Along with his work as a community activist, Little was a longtime participant and catalyst in the Athens hip-hop scene dating all the way back to the days of the Dreaded Mindz collective. He was most recently featured on fellow rapper Kaliko’s album True Fiction earlier this year. Although he

Anthony Little, aka Versatyle tha Wildchyld

didn’t post very often in recent months, you can find some insight to his thoughts as an artist and citizen at facebook. com/vesatylethawildchyld and hear his music at reverb nation.com/versatylethawildchyld.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: Tickets are on sale for the 25th anniversary listening-party celebration of R.E.M.’s Automatic for the People, which also comes 25 years after R.E.M.’s first-ever listening party, for the same album. There will be a viewing of a video retrospective documenting the album’s recording this night, too. The event, at the 40 Watt Club on Saturday, Oct. 21, is presented by the enthusiasts behind the original Athens online record store athensmusic.net. Proceeds benefit Family ConnectionCommunities in Schools of Athens and AthFest Educates.

A raffle of rare items related to the album and R.E.M. in general will happen, too, as well as the spinning of some unreleased tracks. This all happens from 6:30–8:30 p.m., and tickets are $10. See 40watt.com for info and tickets.

RECENT TITLE: Preorder season is open now for the Pylon Reenactment Society’s Part Time Punks Session. While

digital copies, of course, will remain available online once the preorder is over, the vinyl version will only be available in select record stores and at the band’s shows. The session was recorded during DJ Michael Stock’s show “Part Time Punks” at Los Angeles radio station KXLU FM. One hundred copies of this will be pressed on orange vinyl, prioritized for folks who pre-order the package deal, which includes a T-shirt. If you just order the vinyl, you get the luck of the draw. The package is $34.99, and the vinyl is $14.99. PRS will play a local release show at The World Famous on Friday, Oct. 20, and I suppose you could pick up a copy there, but if you want it hot off the press, go ahead and order it so it will ship immediately after its release date of Oct. 6. Head to chunklet.bandcamp.com to order, and see facebook.com/pylon reenactmentsociety for all other info.

PICK ONE. ANY ONE: Rob Smith (Wieuca, Jack’s Johnson) released a nine-song record a couple of months ago but didn’t tell anyone. So, I’m telling you. It’s titled Here You Go and credited to Cardio, and Smith says he’ll probably keep this name. Individually, the songs are pretty good, but as an album they don’t really coalesce into anything. There’s just too much going on. That said, the driving guitar tracks, like the perfectly titled “If You’re Not a Punk (Shame on You)” and “Tangle of Cords,” are catchy without being too clever. Honestly, though, skip everything here and play the sweetly understated and gentle “Swimming Hole” first, then work your way through the rest. Just click around. Doesn’t matter what order you choose. Check it out at cardio.bandcamp.com.

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record review I Come to Shanghai: Low Pressure (Texachussetts) After moving to Athens from California at the beginning of the decade, exploratory pop duo I Come to Shanghai released Eternal Life, Vol. 1 & 2, a double album full of big ideas. Five years on, the group returns with Low Pressure, a tighter, 13-track effort whose title suggests a modest mission.

In fact, Low Pressure is a leap forward for I Come to Shanghai, which has effectively merged its affinities for breezy guitar-pop and cinematic synth-scapes. Where songwriters Robert Ashley and Sam Frigard’s sensibilities once clashed, now they coexist. Songs like “You’re My Way Home” and “Swept Out in the Storm” are dreamy but unsentimental, proggy but unpretentious.

Despite its cozy lap steel and twinkling melody, there is a nagging sense of unease on Low Pressure. The album’s press materials describe “the idea of paradise falling apart: a band playing on a beach in the middle of a hurricane,” and its lyrics address the futility of creating art in the content age (“I thought I had something to say/ But when the chorus came, I unraveled,” Frigard sings in “Buried in the Sound”).

But with its emphasis on cohesive collaboration, the record serves as its own rejoinder. [Gabe Vodicka]

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Things Are Different Now GEORGIA SHOWS IT CAN HANG WITH ANY TEAM IN THE NATION

By Cy Brown news@flagpole.com Sometime between the flea-flicker that turned Sanford Stadium into a madhouse and the umpteenth gang tackle by Roquan Smith and J.R. Reed in the 31-3 demolition of Mississippi State, I realized this team has some qualities we haven’t seen in a Georgia team for a decade or more. We have swagger and passion and toughness and not just a will to win, but a will to beat the daylights out of our opponents. In short, I realized we are good.

Before Saturday, I’d already realized Georgia is good in the relative sense of the word. The Dawgs beat Notre Dame on the road and handled business against a tricky mid-major in Appalachian State. But those wins only made me think Georgia was good insofar as it’s good enough to win the garbage SEC East.

It’s clear now Georgia is good. Period.

No need for equivocation or qualifiers.

Put these Dawgs up against any team in the country, and it has a legit shot to win.

Between a defense full of head-busters and an offense with plenty of established weapons, Georgia can hang with any team in college football. That’s something we’ve only been able to say a handful of times in two decades.

The offense is different. That much was clear from the flea-flicker from Jake Fromm to Terry Godwin the Dawgs scored with on their first offensive play of the game. A play like that is a result of hard work in the film room and on the practice field. The coaches identified MSU’s secondary as a unit that will bite when they see the run, and got the play down to perfection in practice.

When they deployed it, it created the greatest explosion from the Sanford crowd I’ve seen since Todd Gurley’s 100-yard return against Clemson in 2014. The refs might as well have called the game then and there. It doesn’t absolve offensive coordinator Jim Chaney of all his horrendous play calling in the past, but it does breed confidence that he and Kirby Smart can identify weaknesses in the defense and exploit them.

Special teams are different. Last season, poor play on kickoffs and punts gave opponents good field position, putting the Dawgs in a hole before the offense and defense could work. This season, Rodrigo “Godrigo” Blankenship has 13 consecutive touchbacks. Transfer punter Cameron Nizialek averaged 45.5 yards per punt and didn’t allow a return. Georgia is winning the field position battle on special teams,

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down any hope of a comeback with interceptions on consecutive drives.

Swagger is probably the best word to describe what is different now. Smart came in and preached culture change, and he’s practiced what he’s preached. This is a team I have confidence can come up with big plays in big spots. More importantly, the players are confident they can come up with big plays in big spots. They don’t talk a big game, they play it, and let their play speak for itself.

I said last week that if Georgia wins this game, you can think about running the table. There’s no team left on the regularseason schedule Georgia can’t or shouldn’t beat. I’m no longer thinking it. I’m expecting it. That will probably lead to disappointment, but that’s how excited I am about this team.

Deandre Baker’s interception was one of several big plays for But I’m even more excited for Georgia against Mississippi State. the future of Georgia football.

If this is the kind of team Smart and it makes life so much easier. can build in his second season The defense is so, so different. This is the with a talented group of Mark Richt holdfirst Georgia team I’ve seen since the early overs, imagine what he can do with the stelaughts that relishes hitting. After a few hits lar recruiting classes he’s bringing in being on MSU QB Nick Fitzgerald on the opening brought up in this new, tough, passionate, drive of the game, it was clear he wanted swagger-filled culture of the program. If nothing to do with this defense. It swarms Saturday night is the new standard for how to the ball and lays licks on anything in a Georgia football performs, there is nothing different helmet. And when MSU really this program can’t achieve. started pressing the game, the defense shut Things are different now. f

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Rosemary Mayer moved through a variety of media that Personas, costumes and scripted throw-downs are cleverly ranged from text-based work and drawing to sculpture crafted as an absurd specand installation. Spending tacle that, while humorous most of her life in New York and entertaining, serves a City, Mayer was one of 20 larger mission of promoting founding members of A.I.R. empowerment.

Gallery, the country’s first Drawn to the theatricalall-female cooperative space, ity, female empowerment established in 1972 to chaland DIY aesthetic of the lenge the male-dominated League of Lady Wrestlers commercial art scene. from Dawson City, Canada, “Beware of All Stasiak approached their Definitions” is a survey matriarch, Aubyn O’Grady, focusing on Mayer’s practice about visiting Athens for a from 1966–’73, a turning performance and exhibition. point in her career when she The league was unavailable, began experimenting with but O’Grady encouraged sculptural works of handher to start her own league dyed and draped fabrics. and even provided guiding While the textiles seem to be materials to jumpstart the intuitively hung, accompanyprocess. ing drawings that serve as After recruiting her new blueprints reveal how each stars, Stasiak led meetings sculpture was deliberately to help everyone flesh out designed with shape, color their characters’ strengths, and texture in mind. “The weaknesses, signature Catherines,” for example, laymoves, finishers, catchers translucent, rosy maroon Tumbleweave vs. Mrs. Robinson. phrases, entrance songs and fabric over silky peach tones costumes. Opponents were in a way that adds physical partnered up to collaborate on scripts that elaborated on and visual dimension to the drapery. The exhibition will be the backstories of their fights, and the league looked to on view through Friday, Nov. 10. the WWE, “GLOW” and local wrestling events to inspire choreography. In addition to practicing back slams, collar PRIMARY INFORMATION: Founded in 2006 to increase the and elbow lock-ups, and clotheslining on an air mattress accessibility and affordability of artists’ books and writunder the direction of announcer Colette Arrand, the ladies ings, New York-based nonprofit Primary Information views visited the Landmark Arena in Cornelia for a crash course. publications as a distributable exhibition space capable of All of these efforts culminated in the sumHER Slam, their reaching audiences that galleries may not. The organizafirst-ever wrestling event held in late August. tion’s self-titled exhibition shares a collection of works “SEWW provides an inclusive space where multiple defifrom the catalog and archive that embody its three main nitions of femininity are explored and portrayed by all body focuses: books by contemporary artists, reprinted editions types and sizes,” says Stasiak. “We’ve flipped the wrestling of lost or unpublished material still relevant to today’s disworld upside down—men are now ring candy and party cussions, and works that function as publications but take girls; medieval virgins and cougars have taken over the ring. the shapes of other forms like records or posters.

By subverting sexualized stereotypes of females in the ring, Highlights include Fear Indexing the X-Files, which offers we are taking Judith Butler’s words that gender is a ‘stylhistorical context and analogies for the show’s recurring ized repetition of acts’ quite literally. By performing differthemes; a reprint of the 1913 futurist manifesto The Art ent feminine cliches, we attempt to expose their absurdity of Noise; and DISBAND, long-lost recordings of a group of and the fact that they are constructed by society.” feminist performance artists active in New York’s no-wave Providing an empowering alternative to the media scene from ’79–’82. Curated by Dodd art librarian Lindsey and pop culture’s pervasive depictions of wrestling that Reynolds, the exhibition will remain on view in the Plaza hypersexualize women or sideline them altogether as Gallery through Thursday, Oct. 5. props, SEWW seeks to subvert the male gaze and reclaim the sport. In this body-positive arena, the likes of Mrs. LOSING; KEEPING: Exploring the preservation of memory, Robinson (Stasiak), Dominia Diamond, Catherine Crusader, emotional attachment, physical distance and the pasJoan of Snark, Fireball, Jucifer, Marie Fury, Tumbleweave, sage of time, “Losing; Keeping” is a collaborative exhibiAmazona Prime and Dragon Yer Ass—the last two appear tion between MFA candidate in painting and drawing on this week’s cover of Flagpole—are free to embrace their Annemarie DiCamillo and Los Angeles artist Luke alter egos though theatrical roleplay.

McCusker. Created over a two-year period, the project The self-titled exhibition features a wrestling ring in began as a series of prints and grew in responses of paintthe center of the gallery surrounded by portraits, cosings, sculptures and books. Described by the artists as a tumes, props and other paraphernalia. Stasiak will offer a “nonverbal dialogue” conducted to preserve the memory of Lunchtime Gallery Talk on Wednesday, Oct. 11 at 12 p.m. each other, the exhibition offers images and objects reflectin Gallery 101, where the exhibition will remain on view ing the spectrum between companionship and abandonthrough Thursday, Nov. 2. The ladies of SEWW will enter ment. “Losing; Keeping” is on view in the Plaza and Bridge the ring for a second round on the evening of Saturday, Oct. Galleries through Thursday, Oct. 5. f

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Anna Pieri as Janet Horne in The Last Witch

THEATER | SEP 26–OCT 1

MUSIC | SAT, SEP 30

MUSIC | SUN, OCT 1

UGA Fine Arts Theatre · $12–16 · 8 p.m. (Tue–Sat), 2:30 p.m. (Sun) Set in northern Scotland in 1727, The Last Witch is based on the historical account of Janet Horne, the last person to be legally tried and executed for witchcraft in the British Isles. After being scorned and ridiculed, the eccentric widow (played by Anna Pieri) chooses to capitalize on the circulating rumors that she possesses supernatural abilities. The community’s growing fear places the lives of Janet and her teenage daughter Helen (Melanie Sheahan) at risk. Written by Rona Munro and directed by Ray Paolino, UGA Theatre’s production draws parallels to the demonization of powerful women within patriarchal culture. [Jessica Smith]

Caledonia Lounge · 9 p.m. · $5–7 Blending speedy, melodic pop-punk with hardscrabble gutter-rock, Athens band Burns Like Fire has spent seven years toiling at local clubs and on the regional touring circuit. That hard work shows, with each of the group’s releases proving both more potent and polished than the last. BLF’s latest effort, the Always in Trouble EP, features six tracks of in-your-face rock that also show the band hasn’t lost its sophomoric sense of humor (see: “Hands Up Dicks Out”).

Celebrate the EP’s release Saturday at the Caledonia, where the bill also features Nashville band El Escapado, as well as Caulfield, Cuddlefish and Blue Bodies, all standouts on the local scene. [Gabe Vodicka]

Georgia Center · 1 p.m. · FREE! Co-presented by WUGA and JazzAthensGA, the free, outdoor Athens Jazz Festival returns Sunday with a full, family-friendly lineup of local artists designed to showcase the strength and variety of Athens’ thriving jazz scene.

Sunday’s performers include traditionalists Period 6, Latin-inspired drummer Louis Romanos, smoky combo Trio Deluxe, bop ensemble Tiny Jazz Arkestra, smooth dudes John Dunn and Jazzman and more. As a bonus, this year there are associated shows all weekend leading up to the festival. Friday at The Globe, you can catch the Laura Coyle and Trey Wright Duo, and Saturday’s show at Hendershot’s features the Whitehall Jazz Band. [GV]

The Last Witch

Tuesday 26 CLASSES: Computer Class (ACC Library) “iPad/iPhone Basics.”

Registration required. 10 a.m. 706613-3650, www.athenslibrary.org/ athens CLASSES: Swing Night (Dancefx) A one-hour lesson is followed by a two-hour dancing session. No experience or partner necessary. Every Tuesday. 8–11 p.m. $4–6. www. athensswingnight.com FILM: Latin American Film Series (Ciné Barcafé) Watch Neruda (Sept.

25–28), Endless Poetry (Sept.

25–28) and Finding Oscar (Sept. 28) in celebration of National Hispanic

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Heritage Month. $7.50–9.75. www. athenscine.com GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) General trivia with host Jamie Pisarich. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-8508561 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: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) Westside and Eastside locations of Locos Grill and Pub feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.locosgrill.com

GAMES: Bingo (Ted’s Most Best) Win drinks, sweet treats and gift cards.

Every Tuesday on the patio. 5–7 p.m. FREE! www.tedsmostbest.com GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, 2301 College Station Rd.) Every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern KIDSTUFF: Preschooler Storytime (Oconee County Library) Stories, songs and crafts for preschool-aged children and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Preschool Storytime (ACC Library) Stories, songs, puppets and more. Ages 18 months to 5 years. 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens

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KIDSTUFF: Teen Talk with Jayln (ACC Library) Teens can talk about what’s bothering them. Ages 11–18.

4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens KIDSTUFF: Lego Club (Oconee County Library) Create Lego art and enjoy Lego-based activities. Legos provided. Ages 3–11. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Teen Anime Night (Bogart Library) Teens in grades 6–12 can watch My Neighbor Totoro and make candy sushi. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart LECTURES & LIT: Super Special Release Party (Avid Bookshop, Prince Ave.) Avid’s own bookseller/ manager and author Caleb Zane

EVENT | SUN, OCT 1

Jacob Wenzka

Pixel & Ink Studio · 4–6 p.m. · FREE! “Monochromatic: the Art of Jacob Wenzka” is a collection of paintings and prints, several of which depict hyper-detailed floating cities with towers stretching in every direction. Sunday’s closing reception doubles as the release party for The Girl Who Kept Night in Her Closet, a new children’s book written by Bart King and illustrated by Wenzka. The duo, whose past collaboration Juniper Gets Wet inspired Canopy Studio’s recent aerial arts production, will offer readings and signed copies of books and prints. While at Pixel & Ink, visitors are encouraged to climb the stairs to Trio Contemporary Art Gallery and view the current group exhibition “#colortheory.”

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Huett releases his debut novel, Top Elf. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com LECTURES & LIT: Midcentury Modern Architecture (UGA Jackson St. Building) A lecture will be presented by associate professor Wayde Brown, architect Joseph Smith and photographer Robin Hill.

6:30 p.m. FREE! achfonline.org MEETINGS: Envision Athens (Multiple Locations) Envision Athens unveils its “draft action plan” at four open houses. See City Dope on p. 5. Sept. 26 at 11:30 a.m. at the Lyndon House. Sept. 26 at 4:30 p.m. at Cedar Shoals. Sept. 28 at 4:30 p.m. at Clarke Central and Cedar Shoals.

MEETINGS: ACC Democrats Happy Hour (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Discuss issues at the county, state and national level at the water cooler end of the bar. 5:30–7 p.m. www.clarkedemocrats.com SPORTS: Table Tennis Matches and Training (East Athens Community Center) Beginner to advanced skill levels welcome.

Tuesdays, 6:30–8:30 p.m. & Saturdays, 1–4 p.m. FREE! www. ttathensga.com THEATER: The Last Witch (UGA Fine Arts Building) UGA Theatre presents Rona Munro’s tale based on the true story of the last woman legally executed for witchcraft in England. See Calendar Pick on p.

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Wednesday 27 ART: AAAC Lunch & Learn: Artist DIY Marketing (Lyndon House Arts Center) Bring your lunch to this lecture discussing self-promotion and marketing strategies. Speakers include painter Will Eskridge, members of Pixel & Ink and Trio Contemporary Art Gallery, and Alyssa DeHayes, publicist with Riot Act Media and founder of Arrowhawk Records. 12–1 p.m. FREE! (members), $15 (non-members). athensareaartscouncil@gmail.com, www. athensarts.org ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Docents lead a tour of “Modern Masters from the Giuliano Ceseri Collection.” 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Life Without Flowers (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn about ancient plants like mosses, liverworts, ferns and horsetails. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. $50. www. botgarden.uga.edu COMEDY: Tip Jar Comedy (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) Local comic stand-up hosted by Travis Williams. 8 p.m. FREE! thewilliamsproject@gmail.com EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Creature Comforts Brewery) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods, crafts and live music by Radio Rangers (Sept. 27). 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net FILM: Latin American Film Series (Ciné Barcafé) See Tuesday listing for full description $7.50–9.75. www.athenscine.com GAMES: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, Washington St.) Play to win. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, 2440 W. Broad St.) Compete for prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Bingo Bango (Highwire Lounge) Drop in and win prizes!

8–10 p.m. FREE! highwirelounge. com GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ’O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Dirty South Trivia offers house cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie, Eastside) Every Wednesday. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.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: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) Gather a team and compete. 8 p.m. saucehouse.com GAMES: Connect 4 Tournament (Wonderbar) Play the classic game and win prizes. 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/wonderbarathens GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m.

FREE! www.willys.com KIDSTUFF: Preschooler Storytime (Oconee County Library) Stories, songs and crafts for preschool-aged children and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Cooking with Jayln (ACC Library) Learn basic cooking

skills with limited ingredients to whip up a tasty snack. Ages 11–18.

4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens KIDSTUFF: Preschool Storytime (ACC Library) Stories, songs, puppets and more. Ages 18 months to 5 years. 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: PRISM (Oconee County Library) PRISM is a safe space for all teens who share a common vision of equality. Grades 6–12. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ oconee KIDSTUFF: Out of School Program: Halloween Express Mini-Camp (Lay Park) Participants will make Halloween-themed crafts, create snacks and play games. Oct. 27 & Oct. 30. $30–45. 706-6133596 KIDSTUFF: Adulting 101: How to Not Punch People (Oconee County Library) Get tips on skillful conflict resolution. Grades 6–12. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ oconee KIDSTUFF: Library Adventures (Bogart Library) A storytelling program with hands-on activities.

Ages 3.5–8. 11:30 a.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Children of all ages are invited for bedtime stories every Wednesday. 7 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Preschool Pals (Bogart Library) Preschool aged children will learn social and language skills through songs stories and crafts.

Ages almost 3–almost 5. 10:15 a.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Avid Bookshop) Author Alex Lemon will discuss his latest book Feverland: A Memoir in Shards with Sabrina Orah Mark. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com LECTURES & LIT: Credit Health Program (ACC Library) Matt Goren and Michael Gene Thomas, hosts of WUGA’s radio show “Nothing Funny About Money,” present a program on financial health. 7 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens LECTURES & LIT: Author Meet and Greet (Avid Bookshop, Prince Ave.) Meet author Alan Gratz in celebration of his latest book, Ban This Book. 4 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com PERFORMANCE: UGA Symphonic Band (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) The ensemble focuses on classic band repertoire as well as new music. 3:30 p.m. FREE! www.music. uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Faculty Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) David Zerkel (tuba) and Anatoly Sheludyakov (piano) perform songs

by Brahms, Mahler, Schubert and more. 8 p.m. www.pac.uga.edu THEATER: The Last Witch (UGA Fine Arts Building) See Tuesday listing for full description Sept. 26–30, 8 p.m. & Oct. 1, 2:30 p.m. $12 (w/ UGA ID), $16. www.drama.uga.edu

Thursday 28 CLASSES: Homemade Dog Treats (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Learn how to make wholesome treats for your dog. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison CLASSES: Medicare Explained (ACC Library) Kristi Bates from GeorgiaCares will give up-to-date information to get the most out of Medicare. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens CLASSES: Knit Happens (Oconee County Library) Beginners can learn how to knit and intermediate knitters

can get help on projects. 2 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee COMEDY: Laugh Athens Comedy Presents (The Foundry) Laugh Athens presents Matt Owens, Brian Moote and Davi Crimmins with special guest Patrick Moote. 8 p.m. $8–13. www.thefoundryathens.com EVENTS: KnitLits (Bogart Library) Knitters of all levels are welcome.

6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/bogart FILM: Latin American Film Series (Ciné Barcafé) See Tuesday listing for full description $7.50–9.75. www.athenscine.com GAMES: Music Trivia (Saucehouse Barbeque) Meet at the bar for a round of trivia. 8 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/saucehousebbq GAMES: Rock, Paper Scissors Tournament (Wonderbar) Win prizes. 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/ wonderbarathens GAMES: Duplicate Bridge (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Beginner and experienced players welcome. 6:30 p.m. ejstapler@gmail.com GAMES: Literary Trivia Night (The Rook and Pawn) Tonight’s book-themed trivia also offers an #AvidGivesBack book sale benefiting the Athens Area Arts Council. 6–9 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com KIDSTUFF: Pajama Storytime (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Bring your pajama-clad kids in for storytelling and readings by special guests. 7 p.m. FREE! 706795-5597 KIDSTUFF: UGA EcoReach (ACC Library) Play Predator/Prey Tag with the UGA EcoReach team. Ages 11–18. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Lego Club (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Create Lego art and enjoy Lego-based games. Blocks provided. For ages 8 & up. 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-7955597 KIDSTUFF: Fall Craftival (ACC Library) Celebrate everything you love about the fall season. Ages 2–8 and their caregivers. 3:30 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens MEETINGS: ACC Democratic Committee (ACC Library) Meet Stacey Evans, one of the candidates for Democratic Governor of Georgia, at this month’s meeting. 6 p.m.

FREE! clarkedemocrats.com MEETINGS: Envision Athens (Multiple Locations) See Tuesday listing for full description Sept. 26 at 11:30 a.m. at the Lyndon House.

Sept. 26 at 4:30 p.m. at Cedar Shoals. Sept. 28 at 4:30 p.m. at Clarke Central and Cedar Shoals.

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 THEATER: The Last Witch (UGA Fine Arts Building) See Tuesday listing for full description Sept. 26–30, 8 p.m. & Oct. 1, 2:30 p.m. $12 (w/ UGA ID), $16. www.drama.uga.edu

Friday 29 CLASSES: Sound Healing Circle (Healing Arts Centre, Sangha Yoga Studio) Gina Breedlove instructs on how to use your voice to create peace in the world. 5 p.m. $15–25. www.healingartscentre.net CLASSES: Postures for Peace (Healing Arts Centre, Sangha Yoga Studio) All-levels Hatha yoga with k continued on next page

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THE CALENDAR! Swami Asokananda. 7 p.m. $25 suggested donation. yurtyogaathens. com CLASSES: Computer Class (Bogart Library) Sign up for one-on-one help. 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart EVENTS: The Butler Kicks the Bucket (Rocksprings Community Center) Enjoy a murder mystery dinner party. All guests will be assigned a character prior to the dinner, and costumes are encouraged. Ages 20 & up. Registration required. 6:30 p.m. $20–30. 706-613-3602 EVENTS: Connect to Protect Preview and Pairings (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Listen to discussions on gardening, enjoy refreshments, peruse native plant pairings and collections. 5–7 p.m. $20. www.botgarden.uga.edu EVENTS: Byron Herbert Reece: A Centennial Celebration (Oconee County Library) Jackie Elsner will sing Byron Herbert Reece’s poems in the tradition of Old Country ballads. Attendees are asked to bring a cobbler or sweet dish to share in a Mountain Berry Desert Potluck. 3 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ oconee LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Meet local author Larry Acquaviva for his book Nobody Cares Who You Are: The Life and Times of Aceman, a Widespread Panic Roadie, Book II: The Hitchhiking Odyssey. A reading by the author and Andrea Acquaviva will be followed by live music by VG Minus and The Honey Sliders. See story on p. 10. 8 p.m. FREE! larryacquaviva@charter.net LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Avid Bookshop) Meet Kristen Iskandrian in celebration of her novel Motherest. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com THEATER: The Last Witch (UGA Fine Arts Building) See Tuesday listing for full description Sept. 26–30, 8 p.m. & Oct. 1, 2:30 p.m. $12 (w/ UGA ID), $16. www.drama.uga.edu THEATER: Deathtrap (Athens Community Theater) The Town & Gown Players present Ira Levin’s Deathtrap. A thriller author who has lost his mojo will do anything to get it back. See Theater Notes on p. 11.

Sept. 29–30 and Oct. 5–7, 8 p.m.

Oct. 1 and Oct. 8, 2 p.m. $8–15. www.townandgownplayers.org

Saturday 30 CLASSES: Master Bookmaking Workshop (Lyndon House Arts Center) Margot Ecke leads a workshop. Held in conjunction with the exhibition “All That Remains is Nowhere: A Sampling of 21st Century Book Arts,” which features a collection of simple book structures, sculptural work and conceptual book art by various artists including Brian Hitselberger, Eileen Wallace and Ecke. Register online. 12–4 p.m. www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure CLASSES: SAFE Women’s Self Defense (American Blackbelt Academy) Learn how to disable an attacker. Ages 12 and up. 10 a.m. $15–30. 706-549-1671 CLASSES: Garden Photography Basics (State Botanical Garden of Georgia, Visitor Center) Learn about the equipment, composition and other skills to enhance your flower photographs. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. $50. www.botgarden.uga.edu EVENTS: Open House (Double Helix STEAM School, 580 Tallassee Rd.) Learn about the Double Helix School, serving 4th–8th graders.

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2–4 p.m. FREE! doublehelix.businesscatalyst.com EVENTS: Bumpkinfest (Southern Brewing Company) Celebrate the release of a beer brewed inside of a giant pumpkin. 12–7:30 p.m. $12. www.sobrewco.com EVENTS: Rivers Alive! (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Georgia’s annual volunteer river cleanup event that encourages civic involvement in the preservation of Georgia’s precious water resources. Includes free breakfast and live entertainment.

Bring a water bottle and work gloves, and wear long pants and closed toe shoes. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www. athensclarkecounty.com/riversalive EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods, crafts and much more. Live music by Scott Baxendale and the Folk Society Band. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: West Broad Farmers Market (West Broad Market Garden) Shop for fresh and affordable produce and prepared foods.

The market also includes kids activities, cooking demonstrations, educational booths and entertainment. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! www. athenslandtrust.org EVENTS: Athens Recovery Fest (Georgia Square Mall) This annual festival celebrates recovery and provides hygiene kits, interview clothing, raffle items, scholarships, free Hepatitis C screenings and raffle items. Performances by Lexington Jam, Convince the Kid, Fat Arm Daddy and Mister Tie Dye. 2–6 p.m.

FREE! 706-369-5714 EVENTS: Athens Black Market (Max) The market supports local minority business vendors. Offerings range from soul and caribbean food vendors, clothing, artwork, kidfriendly items, youth vendors, live performances, games and and more.

12–5 p.m. ugalive.com/athensblack-market EVENTS: Zhou Night (The National) Shay Lavi of Let’s Eat takes over the bar for a late night pop-up featuring Middle Eastern-inspired tapas and cocktails. 10 p.m.–12 a.m. reservations@thenationalrestaurant.com KIDSTUFF: Super Special Story Time (Wall of Books, Watkinsville) Author Julie Landon will read The Little Voice. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706335-2665 KIDSTUFF: Girls Night Out (Lay Park) Bring a flashlight and take a nighttime adventure out to Washington Farms for their corn maze. Ages 12–14. Registration required. 7:30–10 p.m. $17–22. www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure KIDSTUFF: Family Day: The Science of Art (Georgia Museum of Art) Check out 19th- and 20thcentury drawings from the Ceseri Collection, them try out different drawings, materials and techniques to create your own work of art. 10 a.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org KIDSTUFF: Anne of Green Gables Country Picnic (ACC Library) A country party based on the beloved novel. Light snacks provided. For ages 6–11 and their caregivers. 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ athens LECTURES & LIT: Writer’s Circle (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, Hargrett Library) Writers may bring pages of their work, any genre, for group feedback. Each meeting will highlight books from Hargrett’s Collections. 2–4:30 p.m. FREE! artzar@gmail.com

LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Wall of Books, Watkinsville) Retired professor of Ecology at UGA Dac Crossley celebrates his book, Escape from the Alamo. 2 p.m.

FREE! 706-335-2665 OUTDOORS: Vulture Festival (ACC Landfill) Join the ACC Recycling Division, Bear Hollow Wildlife Trail and the Oconee Rivers Audobon Society as they celebrate nature’s clean-up crew, the vultures!

Activities include a guided bird walk, a “Birds of Prey” presentation and a vulture-themed costume contest. 8 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3512, www.athensclarkecounty.com/ recycling PERFORMANCE: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (The Pub at Gameday) The Athens Showgirl Cabaret presents performances. Dotte Comm from Atlanta makes a guest appearance.

10:30 p.m. $3. www.athensshowgirlcabaret.com SPORTS: UGA vs. TN Screening (Southern Brewing Company) Watch the game on two big screens. Today is also Bumpkinfest, which stars a beer brewed inside of a giant pumpkin. 2:30–7:30 p.m. www. sobrewco.com THEATER: Romeo & Juliet (The Tasting Room at Jittery Joe’s Roasting Company) Rose of Athens Theatre presents a one-night performance of a touring show. 6 p.m. $7. www.roseofathens.org THEATER: Deathtrap (Athens Community Theater) See Friday listing for full description Sept. 29–30 and Oct. 5–7, 8 p.m. Oct. 1 and Oct. 8, 2 p.m. $8–15. www.townandgownplayers.org THEATER: The Last Witch (UGA Fine Arts Building) See Tuesday listing for full description Sept. 26–30, 8 p.m. & Oct. 1, 2:30 p.m. $12 (w/ UGA ID), $16. www.drama.uga.edu

Sunday 1 ART: Closing Reception & Book Release Party (Pixel & Ink Studio) “Monochromatic” features paintings and prints by Jacob Wenzka. This is the release and signing party for The Girl Who Kept Night in Her Closet, a children’s book written by Bart King and illustrated by Wenzka. See Calendar Pick on p. 14. 4–6 p.m.

FREE! www.pixelandinkstudio.com EVENTS: Give Peas a Chance (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Celebrate National Vegetarian Day by learning simple and fast veggie meal ideas. Ages 16 & up. 3 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/madison EVENTS: 108 Sun Salutations (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Celebrate the change of season with a Sun Salutation of 12 linked yoga poses. 5:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. www.botgarden.uga.edu GAMES: Netrunner Open Play (Tyche’s Games) All are welcome to join in. 12:30–4:30 p.m. FREE! www. tychesgames.com KIDSTUFF: Tail Waggin’ Tutors (Oconee County Library) Reading aloud to a dog creates a relaxed, non-judgmental environment that helps kids develop their reading skills and builds confidence.

Register for a 15-minutes session.

Grades K-5. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-7693950 KIDSTUFF: Clown Show (Rubber Soul Yoga) Rubber Soul’s clowns perform a family-friendly show. 4 p.m. $5 per family. rubbersoulyoga. com PERFORMANCE: Russian Folk Instrument Orchestra (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) The program will feature popular and folk selections performed on traditional

GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) See Tuesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) See Tuesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! www. locosgrill.com GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) See Tuesday listing for full description 6 p.m. FREE! www.therookandpawn.com GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) See Tuesday listing for

his latest book, My Shadow Book.

6:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop. com LECTURES & LIT: The Georgia Gerrymandering Tour (ACC Library) Georgia Common Cause provides a brief history of gerrymandering in Georgia, a discussion of current problems with our redistricting process, and a training session for citizens interested in pushing local redistricting reforms. Presented

by Indivisible Georgia District 10

Athens Tree Room with a live DJ and photo booth. All skill levels and family-friendly. 6 p.m. $20. www. m3yoga.com CLASSES: Warm-Season Grasses of the Georgia Piedmont (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn to recognize common grass species of the Georgia Piedmont. Bring a hand glass. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. $50. 706524-6156 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Creature Comforts Brewery) See

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instruments such as the bayan and domra. 3 p.m. $25. pac.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Oneness: Songs for Peace & Unity (Healing Arts Centre) Gina Breedlive leads a concert. 8 p.m. $10. www.healingartscentre.net THEATER: Deathtrap (Athens Community Theater) See Friday listing for full description Sept. 29–30 and Oct. 5–7, 8 p.m. Oct. 1 and Oct. 8, 2 p.m. $8–15. www.townandgownplayers.org THEATER: The Last Witch (UGA Fine Arts Building) See Tuesday listing for full description Sept. 26–30, 8 p.m. & Oct. 1, 2:30 p.m. $12 (w/ UGA ID), $16. www.drama.uga.edu

Monday 2 FILM: Flicker Film Society (Flicker Theatre & Bar) The Flicker Film Society returns with “31 Days of Darkness,” all through October. The kickoff party will screen Dead Alive with a Bloody Mary bar and snacks.

7 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com GAMES: General Knowledge Trivia (Beef ’O’ Brady’s) Win house cash and prizes! Every Monday night. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-8501916 GAMES: Dirty South Trivia: Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Team trivia contests with house cash prizes every Monday night. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Highwire Lounge) Test your general knowledge for prizes. 8–10 p.m.

FREE! highwirelounge.com GAMES: Duplicate Bridge (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Beginner players welcome.

1 p.m. $4. ejstapler@gmail.com KIDSTUFF: Monday Funday (Bogart Library) Songs, finger plays, wiggles and giggles for ages three and under. Caregivers will recieve pointers for building literacy and language skills. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Winterville Center for Community and Culture) Meet Georgia author, naturalist and activist Janisse Ray. A reception will follow a reading and talk. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org MEETINGS: ACC Comprehensive Plan (Cornerstone Church, 4680 Lexington Rd.) Discuss “Needs and Opportunities.” 7 p.m. FREE! www. athensclarkecounty.com/planning

Tuesday 3 CLASSES: Adulting U (ACC Library) Adrienne Hamil of Heirloom Cafe leads a program on meal prepping on a budget. 7 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 COMEDY: OpenTOAD Comedy Open Mic (Flicker Theatre & Bar) This regular comedy open mic features established comedians and newcomers alike. 9 p.m. $5. www. flickertheatreandbar.com FILM: Schloctoberfest: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and Nosferatu (Ciné Barcafé) Watch Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1920) and Nosferatu (1922) in a double feature with a live score

by THE INVINCIBLE CZARS. 9 p.m. www.athenscine.com FILM: Flicker Film Society (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Local artist James Greer presents a screening of The Void. 7 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Nic every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706354-7289

GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m.

FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie, Eastside) Every Wednesday. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com GAMES: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, Washington St.) Play to win. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.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: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) Gather a team and compete. 8 p.m. saucehouse.com GAMES: Bingo Bango (Highwire Lounge) Drop in and win prizes!

8–10 p.m. FREE! highwirelounge. com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (The Foundry) Play movie trivia before watching a cult classic. 6 p.m. FREE! www.thefoundryathens.com KIDSTUFF: Library Adventures (Bogart Library) See Wednesday listing for full description 11:30 a.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Preschooler Storytime (Oconee County Library) Stories, songs and crafts for preschool-aged children and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee OUTDOORS: Guided Rambles (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Volunteers will lead a guided walk on the trails. 9 a.m. FREE! www. athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreeknaturecenter PERFORMANCE: ARCO Chamber Orchestra (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) The ensemble will perform Bach, Igor Kholopov, Mozart and Efrem Podgaits. 8 p.m. $22. pac. uga.edu THEATER: Animal Farm (SeneyStovall Chapel) George Orwell’s satiric fable adapted for the stage.

Oct. 4-7, 8 p.m. Oct. 7-8, 2:30 p.m. $12. www.ugatheatre.com

LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 26 Town & Gown Players present Deathtrap at the Athens Community Theatre at 8 p.m. on Sept. 29–30 and Oct. 5–7, and at 2 p.m. on Oct. 1 and Oct. 8. Pictured above is Don Smith as Sidney Bruhl. full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern GAMES: Bingo (Ted’s Most Best) Win drinks, sweet treats and gift cards.

Every Tuesday on the patio. 5–7 p.m. FREE! www.tedsmostbest.com KIDSTUFF: KidsKnit (Bogart Library) Leran to knit with Ms. Deborah.

Ages 9–13. 4 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Preschooler Storytime (Oconee County Library) Stories, songs and crafts for preschool-aged children and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Mommy and Me at the Zoo (Memorial Park, Bear Hollow Zoo) Hear stories, make crafts and meet animals. Ages 1–6. 10 a.m. $3–4. www.athensclarkecounty.com/ leisure LECTURES & LIT: Book Launch (Avid Bookshop, Prince Ave.) Local author Jordan A. Rothacker launches

and the ACLU. 6 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens PERFORMANCE: Rote Hund Musik (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) The graduate chamber ensemble will give a Halloween-themed performance. 6 p.m. FREE! music.uga.edu SPORTS: Table Tennis Matches and Training (East Athens Community Center) Beginner to advanced skill levels welcome.

Tuesdays, 6:30–8:30 p.m. & Saturdays, 1–4 p.m. FREE! www. ttathensga.com

Wednesday 4 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: Flow Into Fall Yoga Class (M3Yoga, 159 Oneta St., Unit 5, Suite #50) Enjoy yoga in the

Wednesday listing for full description 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net FILM: Flicker Film Society (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Justin Pruitt presents a screening of Tobe Hooper’s demented sequel Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. 7 p.m. FREE! www. flickertheatreandbar.com FILM: Cult Classic Wednesday (The Foundry) Watch The Big Chill on the big screen. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.thefoundryathens.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Gather a team. Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. willys.com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ’O’ Brady’s) See Wednesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916

Creature Comforts Brewery 5 p.m. www.creaturecomfortsbeer.com SUGAR STILL Hard-touring acoustic duo from Chicago.

The Foundry Terrapin Tuesday. 7 p.m. $5. www. thefoundryathens.com JOE WILLEY & THE MOVING MEN Fiddle-based folk music from the local songwriter and his band.

EMILY HORTON Graduate student playing “simple piano and guitar songs.”

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $30 (adv.), $35 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com MAC DEMARCO Quirky Canadian indie singer-songwriter and multiinstrumentalist with a smooth-rock sound.

THE GARDEN SoCal punk duo consisting of twin brothers.

On the Rooftop. 10 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com OGINALII A name meaning “friendship” in Cherokee, this tightly knit band features a mix of grunge, honky-tonk and Zeppelin-esque rock.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJS GOOD GIRL & STRAWBERITA Playing pop, hip hop and R&B hits from the ’90s.

Nowhere Bar 9 p.m. 706-546-4742 TUESDAY NIGHT CONFESSIONAL This series, hosted by Fester Hagood, showcases acoustic solo sets from talented singer-songwriters from Athens and across the country.

Wednesday 27 Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC A weekly open-mic jam hosted by Louis Phillip Pelot.

Backline provided!

Creature Comforts Brewery Athens Farmers Market. 5 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net THE RADIO RANGERS Acoustic folk and country act from Cumming.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com BLUE BODIES New local punk band.

WHEN PARTICLES COLLIDE New England-based rock duo.

The Foundry 7 p.m. $5. www.thefoundryathens.com THE BEST OF UNKNOWN ATHENS A monthly singer-songwriter showcase hosted by Liam Parke.

This month features Jack Reed, Benjamin Floyd Simpson, Layne Denton, Carla Le Fever, Campbell Harrison and Andy Rogers.

Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 6 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com KATHERINE BALL A taste of Southern gothic blues.

7 p.m. $20. www.georgiatheatre.com DREW HOLCOMB AND THE NEIGHBORS Popular Americana band from Nashville.

DEVON GILFILLIAN Nashville-based blues and soul singer-songwriter.

MIKE KINNEBREW Singersongwriter with a meaninfgul, melodic sound.

The Globe 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 HIP HOP OPEN MIC A weekly battlestyle open mic that uses silent-disco headphones to encourage audience participation. Performers can bring their own beats, or the house will provide backing.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DONNY KNOTTSVILLE Local hiphop artist combines modern and traditional rap styles.

KAE’EL Georgia artist creating dancecentric hip-hop and R&B. CASA VETTE A mix of electronic, ambient and hip hop.

Iron Factory 8 p.m. FREE! 706-395-6877 BLUES JAM Hosted by Jesse Mariah.

Bring your voice and instruments.

Locos Grill & Pub 6 p.m. FREE! 706-549-7700 (Timothy Road location) RICK FOWLER BAND Original, guitar-driven blues-rock group.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 MC FUNK JAM The house band kicks things off, followed by a jam with MCs on the mic and YOU on guitar, keys, bass, drums or horn. k continued on next page

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

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 CRANFORD HOLLOW Americana outfit based out of Hilton Head Island, SC.

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.

The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 REV. TRIBBLE AND THE DANCING MAGNOLIAS Local group led by Rev. Conner Mack Tribble.

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The Old Pal 10 p.m. FREE! 706-850-4340 DJ QUINCY Local musician John Swint spins a dance party.

The Bar-B-Que Shack 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-6752 BLUEGRASS JAM Bring your own instrument! All pickers are welcome every Thursday.

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com STEEL GALLERY High-intensity rock group from Marietta.

RUHAA Local rock band with alternative and blues influences.

ACTUS REUS Atlanta-based metal band.

40 Watt Club 7 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com NUCLEAR TOURISM Local rock group playing covers and originals.

THE PIERRES New alt-rock group from Athens.

10 p.m. $2. www.40watt.com DJ JUICE WAYNE Come get jiggy with this local DJ spinning ’90s hits.

The Foundry 9 p.m. $12 (adv.), $15 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com THE HIGHBALLS Put on your bangle bracelets and tuck in those shoulder pads! Athens music vets The Highballs will perform a totally awesome set of ’80s dance hits.

DJ RE>RON Spinning an all-vinyl set of indie, punk and more.

DJS IMMUZIKATION & TWIN POWERS Two of the Booty Boyz spin the newest jams and old faves.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com GRASSLAND Traditional and progressive bluegrass group formerly known as Grassland String Band.

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

Iron Factory 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-395-6877 JET PHASE Local grunge-influenced indie-rock band.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub DJ MAHOGANY Popular local DJ spins freaky funk, sultry soul,

Saturday 30 Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net SCOTT BAXENDALE Guitar dynamism from the owner of Baxendale Guitars. Classic bluesy riffs and a lot of soul.

FOLK SOCIETY BAND Local group playing folk tunes.

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com BURNS LIKE FIRE Stewed, screwed and tattooed punk rock band from Athens. See Calendar Pick on p. 14.

EL ESCAPADO Punk rock group out of Nashville.

CAULFIELD High-energy local garage-rap band.

CUDDLEFISH Local self-described “snot-punk heartthrobs.”

BLUE BODIES New local punk rock band.

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Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 LEAVING COUNTRIES & FRIENDS Local band playing a fusion of folk, country and Southern rock, with jazz influences.

The World Famous 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens SMOKEDOG This local band plays noisy, burned-out experimental rock.

Y.O.D Party-starting Athens alternative hip-hop collective.

Catropolis. This event also serves as a release party for frontman Larry Acquaviva’s new book. See story on p. 10.

THE VG MINUS ’70s-styled powerpop/punk band from Athens.

Go Bar 11 p.m. FREE! 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by local karaoke fanatic Dr. Fred and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock and roll, indie and much more. Every Thursday!

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com CHRIS BURROUGHS TRIO Jazz ensemble led by Atlanta drummer Chris Burroughs.

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!

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $7. www.hendershotscoffee.com WHITEHALL JAZZ COLLECTIVE Local jazz pianist Greg Hankins leads his sizeable group through an eclectic set of music.

Iron Factory 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-395-6877 GENKI GENKI PANIC Instrumental horror-surf group from Chattanooga.

THE FLAMETHROWERS Athensbased surf-rock band.

FORBIDDEN WAVES Surfy local garage-rock combo.

Max 10 p.m. FREE! 706-286-0339 DJS CHIEF ROCKA & Q Local DJs spin Top 40, hip hop, funk, soul and more.

Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors play the Georgia Theatre on Wednesday, Sept. 27.

WE’RE WEIRD A collaboration between local hip-hop performers Blacknerdninja, LG, Profound and Squalle.

TIGERDOG Riffy indie-rock band from Charlotte, NC.

Friday 29 Butt Hutt Bar-B-Q 8 p.m. FREE! www.butthuttbarbecue. com JIM COOK Cook is joined by Bill Whitley and Charles Sewell for a set of electric blues jams.

Iron Factory 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-395-6877 RENO ROBERTS Solo folk singersongwriter.

SOCIAL CIRCLE Athens-based softpsych-pop project.

DK Detroit-born, Athens-based hiphop artist.

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com THE DARNELL BOYS The Darnell brothers play country blues originals backed by upright bass, singing saw and junkyard percussion.

THE ENTERTAINMENT CRACKERS Americana band out of Atlanta.

CICADA RHYTHM Acoustic guitar and upright bass duo playing bluegrass-tinged indie-folk with paired vocal harmonies.

Iron Factory 9 p.m. FREE! 706-395-6877 PARADISE PATIO A bumpin’ deephouse outdoor dance party hosted

by DJ Zelium.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar. com THE HONEY SLIDERS Detroitinfluenced rock band from

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Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 IMMATERIAL POSSESSION New, Atlanta-based duo.

FEMALE IMAGINATION Local experimental act.

JIMENA LOREDA Surrealist artist and puppeteer.

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

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!

DePalma’s Italian Cafe 7 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1237 (Timothy Road Location) JIM COOK High-energy solo blues performer with strong vocals, slide guitar and “swamp stomp.”

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $22 (adv.), $25 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com BEATS ANTIQUE “Dancetronica” trio performing its Creature Carnival spectacle.

ASADI Persian trap performer.

On the Rooftop. 11 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com FIONA SILVER NYC artist who uses her buttery voice to blend genres from rock and roll to electric soul to “ukulele blues.”

former members of Smith Westerns.

See story on p. 9.

KWEKU COLLINS Young, melodic hip-hop artist from Chicago.

On the Rooftop. 10:30 p.m. www.georgiatheatre.com BOOTY BOYZ DJs Immuzikation, Twin Powers and Z-Dog spin dance hits into the night.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $10 (adv.), $15 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com SPACE JESUS EDM group described as “the feeling you get when you travel through a wormhole in a fresh pair of Jordans.”

THRIFTWORKS Berkeley, CA-based electronic producer.

ESSEKS Brooklyn-based producer and visual artist.

PARROTICE Dubstep and hip-hop producer from Tennessee.

On the Rooftop. 11:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiatheatre.com ANDY BRUH Local DJ Andy Herrington spins and mixes dubstep, EDM and bass music.

The Globe 7 p.m. $7. www.jazzathensga.org LAURA COYLE & TREY WRIGHT Vocal and guitar duo playing classic jazz and bossa nova, with a dash of Dolly Parton, Paul Simon and other songwriters.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 HARRY CAREY Reunited version of this raucous Athens rock group fronted by songwriter Jim Willingham.

ANCIENT WHALES Fuzz-rock band led by songwriter and vocalist Enoch Bledsoe.

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Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 CLASSIC CITY JUKEBOX Local allstar rock and roll cover band.

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. 706-546-0840 DANIEL GRAHAM Atlanta-based rocker with alternative and prog influences.

Southern Brewing Company 4:30 p.m. www.sobrewco.com DJ SO BREW Spinning funk, soul and rock vinyl. Bring your own records!

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com BANDED Dynamic local trio with an uplifting message.

LEAVING COUNTRIES Louis Phillip Pelot performs tasty sets of funky Southern folk rock ’n’ roll.

VFW 8 p.m. www.vfwathens.com HUNTER GRAYSON Playing classic country music.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com MULTIPLE MIGGS High-octane local harcore band.

RAT BABIES Doomy, psychedelic, long-running local two-piece.

TEARS FOR THE DYING Atlantabased death-rock group fronted by Adrya Stembridge.

The Foundry 6 p.m. $6 (adv.), $8 (door). www.thefoundryathens.com REBEL UNION Local country duo with influences like Miranda Lambert and Sugarland.

RYLY Singer-songwriter promoting his first EP. Front Porch Book Store 6 p.m. FREE! 706-742-7735 JOE CAT Local troubadour whose influences range from Steve Earle and Townes Van Zant to Johnny Cash.

Georgia Square Mall 2 p.m. FREE! 706-369-5714 ATHENS RECOVERY FEST Featuring performances by Lexington Jam, Convince the Kid, Fat Arm Daddy and Mister Tie Dye. 9 p.m. $15 (adv.), $17 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com WHITNEY Melancholic indie-rock group out of Chicago featuring

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 LADY LOVE & THE LOSING STREAK Rootsy, riffy rock quartet from Atlanta.

Sunday 1 ACC Library 3 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 ATHENS TANGO PROJECT Local group playing Argentine tango.

The Foundry 7 p.m. $18 (adv.), $22 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com MORGAN JAMES New York-based soul singer known for her work with Postmodern Jukebox.

ANSLEY STEWART Local singersongwriter playing rock, blues and classical.

Georgia Center for Continuing Education 1 p.m. FREE! www.wuga.org ATHENS JAZZ FESTIVAL The family-friendly, outdoor fest features music from DJ Segar, Big Band Jazz, Trio Deluxe, Tiny Jazz Arkestra, Louis Romanos, Mary Sigalas with Jakob Deat, John Dunn and Jazzman and Period 6. See Calendar Pick on p. 14.

Grindhouse Killer Burgers 1 p.m. FREE! 706-612-9327 DJ OSMOSE Spinning an all-vinyl set of funk, soul, roots reggae and more.

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9 p.m. $25. www.georgiatheatre.com WAKA FLOCKA FLAME Atlantabased rapper known for hits like “O Let’s Do It” and “Hard in Da Paint.”

The World Famous 8 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens FIRST TUESDAY A monthly hip-hop showcase hosted by Montu Miller and Chief Rocka. One-year anniversary show!

The World Famous 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens SLOW CAVES Synth-punk group from Colorado.

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Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OPEN MIC Showcase your talent at this open mic night every Monday.

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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.

Tuesday 3 The Foundry Terrapin Tuesday. 7 p.m. $5. www. thefoundryathens.com DEAD HORSES Milwuakee-based Americana trio.

Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 9 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com SUNNY SOUTH BLUES BAND Local band combining a blues and soul spirit with riffy rock and roll.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 VAMP CAMP New local experimental ensemble.

DAGMAR VORK Athens-based DIY musician, songwriter and visual artist.

Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 8 p.m. $5. www.georgiatheatre.com CLAVVS Atlanta-based indie-pop and trip-hop duo.

VINCAS Local downer-punk band featuring snarling guitars and doomy, psychedelic flourishes.

A DRUG CALLED TRADITION Atlanta trio fusing shoegaze, krautrock and psych influences.

The Globe 10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 HIP HOP OPEN MIC A weekly battlestyle open mic that uses silent-disco headphones to encourage audience participation. Performers can bring their own beats, or the house will provide backing.

Locos Grill & Pub 6 p.m. FREE! 706-549-7700 (Timothy Road location) THE HACKERS No info available.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 PADGETT & POULIN Local guitar virtuoso Chris Padgett teams with violinist Adam Poulin.

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

Porterhouse Grill 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT The longest standing weekly music gig in Athens! Enjoy

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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 Dec. 15. info@athensarts.org, www. athensarts.org ART DECKO: CALL FOR PROPOSALS (Athens, GA) Art Decko is a public art mural project located in the stairwell of the College Avenue Parking Deck. The Athens Area Arts Council is seeking eight artists to create original paintings on 4’x8’ wood panels. Panels will be provided, and artists will be compensated $500 each. Fill out the proposal form and design template online. Deadline to apply is Nov. 1. Decision notifications Dec. 1.

Finished panels are due Mar. 15. artdeckoathens@gmail.com, www. athensarts.org/art-decko-call-for-art

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 (Hip Vintage and Handmade) Local art and crafts vendors needed for Handmade Holiday Market. 10x10 spaces are $35. Dec. 2, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. www. hipvintagehandmade.com INDIE SOUTH FAIR (Multiple Locations) Accepting artist and vendor applications. Sunday Holiday Market at Monday Night Brewing in Atlanta. Deadline Oct. 16. Event on Dec. 10, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Visit website. www.indiesouthfair.com

art around town A LAFERA SALON (2440 W. Broad St.) Photography by Wendy Garfinkel.

AMICI (233 E. Clayton St.) Susan Pelham’s collages are inspired by Magic Realism, Surrealism and nursery rhymes. Through September. • Amitabh Verma offers an exploration of colors and forms through computer art and hand-painted silk. Through October.

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-CLARKE COUNTY LIBRARY (2025 Baxter St.) See a special quilt from the Mothers Dream Quilt Project. Through Oct. 4.

ATHENS ACADEMY (1281 Spartan Lane) In the Bertelsmann Gallery, see three-dimensional mixed media assemblages by Barbara Odil and paintings

by Ainhoa Bilbao Cebrero. Through Oct. 6. • In the Myers Gallery, view “Horace Farlowe: Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures.” Through Oct. 27. • In the Harrison Center Foyer Gallery, this year’s permanent exhibit is “Animals: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings.”

ATHENS ART AND FRAME (1021 Parkway Blvd.) Heidi Hensley’s paintings depict colorful and eclectic scenes of Athens and UGA. ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (ATHICA) (160 Tracy St.) The “Third Annual Juried Exhibition” features over 30 works selected by Harry H. DeLorme Jr. of the Telfair Museums in Savannah. Through Nov. 12.

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

CINÉ BARCAFÉ (234 W. Hancock Ave.) The “Schlocktoberfest Art Show” presents pieces inspired by horror films. Opening reception Oct. 6. On view Sept. 30–October.

CIRCLE GALLERY (UGA College of Environment and Design, 285 S. Jackson St.) “Warren H. Manning: Landscape Architect and Environmental Planner.”

Through Oct. 6.

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, Harold Rittenberry and Joni Younkins-Herzog. • “Artscape Oconee: The Monuments of Artland” features a total of 20 paintings on panels installed around town. Artists include Claire Clements, Peter Loose, Andy Cherewick, Lisa Freeman, Manda McKay and others.

THE CLASSIC CENTER (300 N. Thomas St.) “Warm Days, Cool Nights” celebrates summer vibes through Ariel Lockshaw’s pool paintings, Frances Berry’s minimal golden hour photos, Wade Sheldon’s nautical night skies and Hannah Ehrlich’s cloud compositions. Through December. • Jackie Dorsey’s solo exhibition in Gallery II features watercolor portraits of musicians, artists, chefs and other familiar faces of Athens. Through December.

CREATURE COMFORTS BREWING CO. (271 W. Hancock Ave.) “Bartram Trail Farm Photography” shares images from a Winterville farm co-owned

by Jones and Scott Brandis, who supply many local restaurants with fresh produce. Through Oct. 1.

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OPEN STUDIO MEMBERSHIP (Lyndon House Arts Center) Local artists can now access studio facilities through a new open studio monthly membership program.

Studios include ceramics, jewelry, painting, fiber, printmaking, photography and woodshop/sculpture studios. Up to 32 hours per week. $65/month or $175/three months.

706-613-3623, www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure STATEWIDE ART COMPETITION (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Seeking student artwork to use on items in the garden’s gift shop.

Open to GA students in ninth grade or above. Winners can receive up to $1,000. Deadline Dec. 1. www.botgarden.uga.edu

Auditions IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Rose Hall) Audition for a live radio play.

Oct. 16, 6 p.m. roseofathens.org

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ARTIST WORKSHOP (Lyndon House Arts Center) Bookmaking led by Margot Ecke. Registration required.

Sept. 30, 12–4 p.m. www.athensclarkecounty.com/7745/MasterClass-in-Book-Arts-with-Margot-Ec ARTIST WORKSHOPS (KA Artist Shop) “Exploring Creativity.” Oct. 3, 6:30–8 p.m. “Colorful Impressionist Painting.” Oct. 4, 6:30–8:30 p.m.

“Modern Calligraphy.” Oct. 8, 2–4 p.m. “Silk Painting.” Oct. 22, 1–5 p.m. “Calligraphy Club.” First Thursdays, 5:30–7 p.m. www.kaartist.com BUILDING CONNECTIONS (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Wild Intelligence leads an eight-week nature connection course for adults.

Begins Oct. 4, 5:30–7:30 p.m. $155. www.wildintelligence.org CLASSES (OCAF, Watkinsville) “Portait Painting in Oils with Abner Cope.” Saturdays, Oct. 7–Nov. 18, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. $190. In “ABC’s of Writing for Children,” author Gail Karwoski discusses constructing picture books, categories of kids’ books and more. Saturdays, Oct. 28–Nov. 11. $120. www.ocaf.com

DONDEROS’ KITCHEN (590 N. Milledge Ave.) Artwork by Caroline LaRousse.

Through September.

EARTH FARE (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) Artwork by Patrick Sprague. Through September.

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) “Power Profiles” of cultural figures are illustrated by Klon Waldrip. Through September. • A Halloween-inspired art show organized by Dan Smith presents spooky, scary works by a handful of local artists. Through October.

GALLERY@HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Spotlight 2017” features artwork by Erin McIntosh, Paul Collins and Christina Foard. Through September.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “Modern Masters from the Giuliano Ceseri Collection” includes 19th- and 20th-century works on paper by masters of the medium. Through Nov. 12. • “Louise Blair Daura: A Virginian in Paris” includes paintings, drawings and prints. Sept. 30–Dec. 10.

GLASSCUBE@INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Rainbow Cube” is a site-specific installation by Candice Greathouse and Curtis Ames. Through October.

HEIRLOOM CAFÉ (815 N. Chase St.) Davy Gibbs presents “Empires,” a collection of large color photographs focused on the changing face of the Southern economy. Through Nov. 6.

HENDERSHOT’S COFFEE BAR (237 Prince Ave.) Paintings by Will Eskridge.

Through September. • Artwork by Tobiah Cole. Through October.

HIGHWIRE LOUNGE (269 N. Hull St.) Nature photography by Jonathan Shuster. Through September.

HIP VINTAGE & HANDMADE (215 Commerce Blvd.) Fiber art by Katherine Crossan and Margaret Agner. Through September.

JUST PHO…AND MORE (1063 Baxter St.) “Stilled Life” includes drawings and paintings by Emily Morrison and Mikaila Guerra. Through September.

LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) “Primary Information” is a New York-based nonprofit organization founded to publish affordable artists’ books and writings. Through Oct. 5. • “Losing; Keeping” includes collaborative works by MFA candidate in painting and drawing, Annemarie DiCamillo, and Los Angeles-based artist Luke McCusker. Through Oct. 5. • “SEWW” includes photographs of the South East Women Wrestlers, a local group of artists who participate in theatrical role-play. Through Oct. 27. • “Rosemary Mayer: Beware of All Definitions” shares works by the post-minimalist and feminist artist. Through Nov. 10.

LOWERY GALLERY (2400 Booger Hill Rd., Danielsville) The gallery celebrates “24 Years of Art” with Giclee prints, originals, photographs and sculptures by over 24 artists including Claire Clements, Ben Rouse, Peter Loose, Kip Ramey and more.

LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) Held in celebration of the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation’s 50th year, “Captured in Time” presents a collection of photographs from Growing Up in Athens. “Unidentified Houses of Athens.” Through Nov. 1. • “Aurora: An Installation by Zane Cochran” includes 40 suspended structures that glow and fade as visitors explore the gallery. Gallery Talk Oct. 7. Currently on view through Oct. 13 • “The Game Show” includes playful pieces by Esteban Patino, Curtis Ames, Mike Landers, Lea Purvis, Meg Aubrey, Noah McCarthy, Nicole Jean Hill Paul Pfeiffer, Hope Hilton and Kaleena Stasiak. Through Oct. 17. • “All That Remains is Nowhere” includes conceptual book art from Brian Hitselberger, Eileen Wallace and curator Margot Ecke. Through Oct. 13. • “Connecting: Stairways to…” is a site-specific installation by Thom Houser that explores the many types of connections that occur while using stairways. Through Oct. 21. •

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“Pilates,” Tuesdays at 5 p.m. “Belly Dancing,” Wednesdays at 7 p.m.

“Mahjong,” Thursdays at 1 p.m.

“Gentle Yoga,” Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. “Ballroom Dancing,” Thursdays at 6 p.m. 706-742-0823, winterville center@gmail.com, www.winterville center.com CLAY CLASSES (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” classes ($20/person) introduce participants to the potter’s wheel every Friday from 7–9 p.m.

“Family Try Clay” classes show children and adults hand-building methods every Sunday from 2–4 p.m. $20. 706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net DANCE CLASS REGISTRATION (East Athens Educational Dance Center) Offering classes for beginners through advanced students.

Classes include ballet, modern dance, tap, urban soul and more.

Children, teens and adults. 706613-3624, www.athensclarkecounty. com/leisure DIGITAL MEDIA CENTER CLASSES (ACC Library) “Aftereffects for Beginners.” Sept.

27, 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens GUITAR STRUM AT HIP (Hip Vintage and Handmade) This is a group guitar lesson for adults taught

by Caroline Aiken. Bring a guitar, tuner, paper, pen and list of songs you’d like to learn. Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m. $15. www.hipvintage handmade.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 LOVE YOUR BODY AGAIN YOGA (Healing Arts Centre, Sangha Yoga Studio) Gentle movement for participants who want more flexibility, more energy, less tightness and improved self-image. All levels welcome. Mondays, 12–1 p.m. beginning Oct. 2. $15/drop-in, $66/six classes. www.healingartscentre.net PERSONAL SAFETY & SECURITY WORKSHOP (PROTECTIVE REACH) (Contact for Location) This four-hour self-defense class incorporates lectures and scenario based exercises. Tactics include selfdefense spray, kubaton and grappling release. Sept. 30, 5:30–9:30 p.m. $75. www.protectivereach.com PHOTOGRAPHY & MORE (Craig Gum Photography Studio, 160 Winston Dr., Suite 10) Classes are held every first and third Tuesday of the month. Subjects vary. jeremy adambarton@gmail.com SEWING CLASSES (Community) “Workshop: Redesign,” Oct. 15, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. $55. “Pattern Making Class” is a four-week course. Begins Oct. 25. $125. www.shopcommunity athens.com SPANISH CLASSES (ALCES) ALCES offers beginner and intermediate classes in Spanish. $75 per month, plus materials. 706-549-5002, alcescenter@gmail.com TAI CHI (Rubber Soul Yoga) Tai Chi, Yang style, traditional long form.

Collections from Our Community presents “Zig Dot Zag,” works by the Athens Fibercraft Guild’s “Challenge Project” participants. Through Oct. 28.

MADISON MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) A partnership between the Madison Artists Guild and the Morgan County Primary School, “Farm” celebrates the agrarian lifestyle of the rural South through paintings, photography and sculpture. Through Jan. 4.

MAMA’S BOY (197 Oak St.) Susan Pelham’s collages are influenced by Magic Realism and Surrealism.

OCONEE COUNTY LIBRARY (1080 Experiment Station Rd., Watkinsville) “Women of Watercolor” features watercolor paintings by local artists. Through September.

PIXEL & INK STUDIO (766 W. Broad St.) “Monochromatic” shares paintings and prints by Jacob Wenzka. Several are from the upcoming children’s book The Girl Who Kept Night in Her Closet. Closing reception Oct. 1.

RICHARD B. RUSSELL JR. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIES (300 S. Hull St.) At the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript gallery, “Celebrating 50 Years of Ecology at the University of Georgia,” traces the history of the UGA ecology program from the arrival of Eugene Odum as a lecturer in 1940 to today. Through Oct. 14. • “Spirited: Prohibition in America” is a traveling exhibition and part of the NEH On the Road program. Through Oct. 20. • “Golddigging in Georgia: America’s First Gold Rush” tells the story of Georgia’s antebellum gold rush through nuggets, historic maps, photographs, postcards and other artifacts. Through Dec. 5. • “Covered with Glory: Football at UGA, 1892–1917.” Through Dec. 22.

SOUTHERN BREWING COMPANY (231 Collins Industrial Blvd.) Artwork by Sam Balling. Through September.

THE STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GEORGIA (2450 S. Milledge Ave.) “Meet Your Neighbors” features large-scale photographs of insects, birds, plants, reptiles and amphibians by Jena Johnson and Chuck Murphy.

Through Oct. 8.

THE SURGERY CENTER (2142 W. Broad St.) Weaving by Dreamweaver teacher Erika Lewis. Through October.

TERRAPIN BEER CO. (265 Newton Bridge Rd.) Artwork by Amanda Burke.

Through October.

TRIO CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY (766 W. Broad St.) “#colortheory” is a group exhibition celebrating the visual impact of color in all of its forms.

Through Oct. 15.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF ATHENS (780 Timothy Rd.) Jennie Snare shares a collection of acrylic still life paintings depicting objects in front of a home window with interesting light. Through September.

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA OCONEE CAMPUS GALLERY (1201 Bishop Farms Pkwy., Watkinsville) “Jeanne Whatley: Flight Path” is a series of paintings. Reception Sept. 20. Through Oct. 11.

VIVA! ARGENTINE CUISINE (247 Prince Ave.) Artwork by Antoine Stewart.

WHITE TIGER (217 Hiawassee Ave.) Ben Thrash makes portraits and figure drawings, and Jamie Calkin creates ink and watercolor paintings of scenes around Athens. Through October.

WINTERVILLE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY AND CULTURE (371 N. Church St., Winterville) Several local artists interpret the theme “Ripening.”

Through September.

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

All levels welcome. No experience necessary. Thursdays, 9–10 a.m.

770-630-1252 WOMEN TO THE WORLD (PALS Institute) The PALS Institute provides training in GED preparation, literacy, EFL, business and computer skills to women. Women to the World covers the cost of materials and testing fees. 706-548-0000, survival@womentotheworld.org YOGA (Athens Five Points Yoga Studio) Classes are offered in Iyengar yoga, flow yoga, gentle flow, hot power flow, restorative yoga, alignment yoga and meditation.

Check website for weekly schedule. www.athensfivepointsyoga.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 YOGA CLASSES (m3yoga, 159 Oneta St., Unit 5) m3yoga offers theraputic, rocket and vinyasa flow classes.

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FREE IT (Free IT Athens) Volunteers wanted to refurbish and recycle computers. Free IT Athens provides technology resources to Athens residents and organizations. www.freeitathens.org/volunteer GALLERY VOLUNTEERS (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) The gallery is seeking volunteers to assist in opening the gallery during exhibitions, preparing exhibitions, photography, graphic design and more. volunteers@ athica.org, www.athica.org SEEKING MENTORS (PALS Institute) Women to the World offers programs for obtaining a GED, computer literacy, language and job-skill training. www.womentotheworld.org

Kidstuff ART PASSPORT (Lyndon House Arts Center) The Art Passport is a new free booklet that provides an interactive visit for families and children.

Get your passport stamped each time you visit an exhibit, or feel free to draw on its pages in response

and McBride Family Farm. Check website for dates, times, age requirements and tuition. www.wild intelligence.org YWCO PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAM (Athens YWCO) Technique Tuesdays for ages 2–12 includes singing, dancing, rhythms and rhymes. Explore acting, improv, costumes, mime and puppetry.

Through December. wootenwoopets @gmail.com, www.ywco.org

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 ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE MEETUPS (Multiple Locations) “The Athens Polyamory Meetup” is

Each circle involves meditation, sound healing, and Reiki treatments.

Second and fourth Thursday of each month, 7–9 p.m. $10 suggested donation. kelli@followingwisdom. com, www.heartpathstudio.org

On The Street BOO-LE-BARK ON BOULEVARD (The Tasting Room at Jittery Joe’s Roasting Company) Register your canine friend to walk in the costumed dog parade. $20 per dog. www.barkonboulevard.com CAUSE + EFFECT (Athens, GA) Cause + Effect, a progressive film competition and festival hosted by Alliance for a Better Georgia, is seeking short films focused on social, political, environmental or economic issues facing Georgia. Winners receive a $1000 prize. Submissions accepted through Oct. 15. Winners will be screened at Ciné. FREE! www.causeandeffectfilm.org COMMUNITY SURVEY (Athens, GA) The ACC Leisure Services Department is seeking public

Lisa Congdon’s artwork is featured in “All That Remains is Nowhere: A Sampling of 21st Century Book Arts,” currently on view at the Lyndon House Arts Center through Saturday, Oct. 7. Curator Margot Ecke will lead a book making workshop on Saturday, Sept. 30 from 12–4 p.m. held every Saturday at 6 p.m. $5 yoga classes are offered to all veterans, and a “Community Warrior” membership offers reduced rates for local educators, active military members, firefighters, health care professionals and law enforcement.

Check website for classes. www.m3yoga.com ZUMBA AND BOOT CAMP FITNESS PROGRAMS (East Athens Community Center) Zumba for ages 16 & up is held Mondays through Nov. 6, 6–7 p.m. and Saturdays through Nov. 11, 10–11 a.m. $5–7.50/class. Bootcamp covers circuit training and intervals to improve the heart and muscular health of participants of all fitness levels. Wednesdays through Oct. 25, 7–8 p.m. $5/class. www.athens clarkecounty.com/fitness

Help Out ANIMAL SHELTER (Athens, GA) Volunteers are needed to help socialized adoptable cats and dogs, participate at adoption events around town, and assist at the spay/neuter center and general shelter. www. athenshumanesociety.org DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS NETWORK (Athens, GA) Seeking volunteers to drive veterans to their medical appointments and assisting in the office with scheduling and dispatching. Contact Donna Ingram, volunteer coordinator, at 1-800-8365561 ext. 5959 or donna.ingram@ va.gov FILL THE PLATE FUNDRAISER (The Fresh Market) To help fight food insecurity among children, the store will host a fundraiser where guests can make donations at check-out to support No Kid Hungry.

Donate Oct. 4–31. www.thefresh market.com

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706-613-3623 COSTUME SWAP (Oconee County Library) Bring in your used costumes before Sept. 30 and come back on Oct. 1, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. for a new-to-you one. 706-796-3950, www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDS CLASSES (Treehouse Kid and Craft) “Saturday Morning Craft.”

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First Saturday of the month, 1–4 p.m. (ages 9–14). Eight-week sessions require reservations and include “Homeschool Art School” on Tuesdays, 2:30 p.m. (ages 6–10); “Visioneers” on Tuesdays, 4 p.m. (ages 9–14); “Baby Art” on Wednesdays, 10 a.m. (12–24 mo.), “Art Schools I, II and III” (various ages); and “Fun Fridays” at 4 p.m. (ages 4–6). Visit website for descriptions and to register. www.treehousekidandcraft.com SCENE-SATIONAL SCENE STUDY (Rose Hall) Rose of Athens Theatre presents classes for homeschool and after school. Fridays, Oct. 6– Nov. 10, 10–11 a.m. (homeschool) or 4:30–5:30 p.m. (after school). academy@roseofathens.org, www.roseofathens.org TEEN TUMBLING (Bishop Park) Registration is underway. For ages 12–15 from beginner through advanced levels. Mondays through Nov. 27, 6:30–8 p.m. $10–15/class. www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure WILD INTELLIGENCE NATURE CONNECTION PROGRAMS (Multiple Locations) Weekly, monthly or year-long programs.

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for those who identify as poly or poly supportive. Held first Thursdays, 7 p.m. at the ACC Library. “Athens Area Lifestyle” is for those interested in non-typical relationship dynamics. Third Thursdays. Email for location. athensalt@yahoo.com ATHENS DEBTORS ANONYMOUS (Covenant Presbyterian Church) Manage money problems. Sundays, 1 p.m. 949-235-2508 ATHENS TNG (Athens, GA) Athens The Next Generation is for ages 18–30 who are interested in nontypical relationship dynamics. Meets third Friday of the month. Email for location. athenstng@gmail.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.

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White’s plight of the aging beta male certainly needs Stiller, who has this sort of charming discomfort on lockdown. (Brad Now that Uber is banned, I’m gonna be rich! actually makes a better Walter Mitty for Stiller than Walter Mitty did.) Too bad White could not figure star’s charisma that Brad remains sympaout another way to convey Brad’s inner thetic while whining about his first-world monologue; while key to communicating problems to a pretty Harvard undergrad in his fractured state of mind, the voiceovers a bar he should not be in alone late at night. are grating. White more successfully conThankfully, the movie avoids some of the veys the wins and even more injurious more clichéd pitfalls associated with most losses Brad plays over and over again in the stories about middle-aged men in crisis.

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Justin Theroux) keeps trying to conquer the city of Ninjago, but is continuously foiled by a team of colorful ninjas. Unbeknownst to Garmadon, the Green Ninja is the son he abandoned years before, a sweet kid named Lloyd (v. Dave Franco) who has channeled all of his frustrations with his absentee father and the awful treatment he receives as a result of being the son of a big bad into learning the Ninja Way from his uncle, Sensei Wu (v. Jackie Chan).

Despite a strong voice cast, the ninjas not named Lloyd—Cole (v. Fred Armisen), Jay (v. Kumail Nanjiani), Kai (v. Michael Pena), Nya (v. Abbi Jacobson) and Zane (v.

Zach Woods)—are interchangeable. The movie’s logic may suffer from the ninjas taking Garmadon with them as they search for the weapon needed to defeat him, but it needs this loquacious Darth Vader wannabe—Theroux’s not-quite self-aware villainy is the movie’s sole standout. An act as simple as calling his son “L-Loyd” never gets old, while most of the gags thud unfunnily.

But kids love ninjas! Shockingly, the city of Ninjago does not even coexist in the same universe as The Lego Movie or its Batman variation. Instead, the filmmakers needlessly conjure up a live-action frame reminiscent of The Neverending Story. Far from a no-go, Ninjago simply arrives missing some vital bricks. f

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KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE (R) Somewhere during the nearly two-and-ahalf hours of The Golden Circle, the clever, hyper-stylized spy action so smartly tailored in Kingsman just becomes tedious. In his second mission, Eggsy (Taron Egerton) must foil a plot to legalize the world’s illicit drug trade by global kingpin Poppy Adams (Julianne Moore).

As satire, The Golden Circle falls prey to its own glibness. It is hard not to read this movie and its portrayal of a criminally uncaring president—exceptionally well played by Bruce Greenwood—through the lens of the current political climate; that cold dose of reality sucks some of the fun out this wild, subversive ride. The whiz-bang opening car chasecum-fight scene, paced by Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy,” might be the movie’s high-water mark.

Writer-director Matthew Vaughn does not lack for visual creativity, and he jams all of his considerable vision into this movie featuring robot watchdogs, a kidnapped Elton John (those gags are the movie’s most consistent), more of Jeff Bridges stuck in cowboy mode, a dancing Channing Tatum (whose prominent trailer placement feels like a bait and switch when Pablo Pascal of “Narcos” appears), a human meat-grinder, 24-carat gold tattoos, the destruction of a massive Bondian chalet, electrified lassos, a lot of Fox News (even in England?) and Mark Strong singing John Denver ditties. The story frame simply does not seem big enough to fill out the filmmaker’s stylish, bespoke conceits. Fans of the first Kingsman certainly get what we expect; strangely enough, something different may have been better.

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By Bonita Applebum advice@flagpole.com What is the best way to deal with cliques and borderline favoritism in the workplace?

of work, my first recommendation would be for the staff to start getting together as an entire group. Have game nights or There are always groups of friends cookouts, or put together a softball team. among the staff of any business. I’ve met Not everyone can come to every event, some of my closest confidants through but management should at least be demwork. People are gonna clique up and pal onstrating the intention of building group around—it’s human nature. It only gets camaraderie. weird when management gets involved and If you think certain staff members are starts demonstrating preferences among getting away with stuff because of their their staff. That’s when relationship to manfavoritism—or the talk to Making friends is part of agement, appearance of it, at another manager or the human experience, the very least—rears that manager’s manits head and causes about it. Making but workplace squads can be ager problems on the busifriends is part of the detrimental to morale. ness floor. human experience, Maybe some think but workplace squads it’s easy to discipline or exercise managecan be detrimental to office morale if teamrial power over their friends, but it’s really building is not a priority for the entire staff. not. I found out the hard way when I hired a good friend for part-time work once, only Hey Bonita, to have them become the worst employee I wrote in over a year ago asking how to I’d ever had. Thank goddess they quit on the deal with my best friend’s girlfriend not liking exact day I was going to fire them, because me. Unfortunately, my bestie was given an I always choked when it was time to talk ultimatum, and we are no longer friends. It’s through these issues. sad, but the pain has dulled a little over time, and your advice really helped me. Anyway, my erstwhile bestie and I were ride-or-die for about 13 years—we kind of grew up together.

Now, I have a new best friend, and we’ve grown super close.

We’re roommates who hang out every day and are each other’s No. 1 cheerleaders.

She’s the extrovert to my introvert, and pretty much the only reason I go out. However, she’s moving out of the country in December. I’m happy for her opportunities overseas, and don’t doubt we’ll stay tight, but am I going about this friend thing the wrong way?

Is it unhealthy to have one “everything” friend as your confidant/creative partner I couldn’t help but be gentle with this instead of several? person whom I knew more intimately than my other employees, and that often meant I’m sorry that it didn’t work out with I wasn’t as direct with my needs as their your old bestie, but I’m glad my advice manager, or I was more forgiving of certain was helpful! It’s risky to have just one misdeeds. At the time I didn’t think of it as super-tight friend instead of a literal social favoritism, because this jerk was driving me network, but it’s also what works for a lot nuts, but now I can only call it that, because of people. I think you know what works this person was working a lot less than for you—having a ride-or-die instead of the rest of the crew while getting the same a bunch of peripheral types who perhaps compensation. you can’t really trust. You’re perfectly able Cliques create a much worse type of to have friends, but you like to have just a favoritism, because when management couple at a time. And that’s fine! I have no breeds personal relationships with staff, it doubt that you’ll find a new homie or get communicates an unspoken value judgment closer to an acquaintance once she moves and can lead the excluded staff members to away and makes that space available to feel… well, excluded. A staff is gonna work someone else. f its best when there’s a spirit of teamwork Need advice? Email advice@flagpole.com, use the and everyone is on board with that, and it anonymous form at flagpole.com/getadvice, or find takes more than just saying it.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

DREW HOLCOMB AND THE NEIGHBORS DEVON GILFILLIAN MIKE KINNEBREW

DOORS 7:00PM • SHOW 8:00PM

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

WHITNEY

KWEKU COLLINS DOORS 9:00PM • SHOW 9:00PM

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

BOOTY BOYZ

DOORS 10:30PM • SHOW 11:30PM ROOFTOP • 21+

SHADOWBOX FALL 2017 TOUR

BEATS ANTIQUE W/ ASADI

MONDAY, OCTOBER 2

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

WAKA FLOKA FLAME

DOORS 8:00PM • SHOW 9:00PM

DJ WHOO KID

DOORS 10:00PM • SHOW 10:00PM

FIONA SILVER ROOFTOP AFTER BEATS ANTIQUE NO COVER • 21+

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3

SUNNY SOUTH BLUES BAND DOORS 9:00PM • SHOW 10:00PM ROOFTOP • NO COVER • 21+

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4

CLAVVS VINCAS A DRUG CALLED TRADITION

SPACE JESUS

THRIFTWORKS, ESSEKS, PARROTICE DOORS 8:00PM • SHOW 9:00AM

10/5 10/5 10/5 10/5 10/6

DOORS 8:00PM • SHOW 9:00PM ROOFTOP • 21+

COMING SOON

STEVE COUGHLIN & PROBABLE CAUSE * COM TRUISE / NOSAJ THING SUNSQUABI @ 40 WATT RETROGRADE * THE GEORGIA FLOOD *

10/6 10/6

UGLY GOD T HARDY MORRIS @ PORTERDALE GYM 10/7 GANJA WHITE NIGHT 10/7 BOOTY BOYZ * 10/10 MODU MOCTAR* * = ROOFTOP SHOW

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DePalma’s Downtown Date Night 3 Courses 1 Bottle of Wine $50 per Couple including gratuity

Every Tuesday Night!

Downtown Location Only • 401 E. Broad Street • 706-354-6966

home of doctor Bulldog

& the $99 office visit 8am-midnight 7 days a week

across from Brumby hall

494 Baxter St. Ste. C • 706-715-4696 • bulldogurgentcare.com $99 Office Visit includes evaluation by a provider. Procedures, tests, and medications may be extra.

Payment is required at time of service.