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Comedian Judah Friedlander (“30 Rock”) will perform a set of new stand-up material plus crowd work at the 40 Watt Club on Tuesday, Apr. 10. Check out a Q&A with Friedlander at flagpole.com.
City Dope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 NEWS: Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Georgia Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Eubanks and Link Square Off in District 3
This Modern World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Democracy in Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
MUSIC: Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Art Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Bill Frisell Trio Comes to Athens
Neutral Milk Hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
MUSIC: Threats & Promises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Record Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
AthFest Headliners Announced
Hey, Bonita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
FOOD: Grub Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Flick Skinny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Caborita and Sakura Reviews
The Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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Another Day, Another Forum PLUS, PIEDMONT’S SPAT WITH BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD AND MORE LOCAL NEWS By Blake Aued and Tré Brown news@flagpole.com isn’t working, Tim Denson said, pointing to the county’s 38 percent poverty rate, lack of affordable housing and stagnant wages. He also took credit for victories like Sunday bus service and living wages for ACC employees. “I have a new playbook,” he said. “It’s a bold playbook, and it works.” Incumbent Jared Bailey said he has been an effective commissioner who focuses on
toned down his attacks on Ovita Thornton, who asked students in attendance for help. “The university is growing,” she said. “Y’all are doing amazing things. But the town around you is dwindling.” When asked about diversity, a plethora of white, male candidates on stage knew well enough not to say much. “There’s no way I will stand up here as a white male and
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The grueling schedule continues. The University of Georgia chapter of the NAACP and the Athens Economic Justice Coalition sponsored a candidate forum Mar. 26 featuring the three candidates for mayor, seven candidates (three unopposed) for school board and 10 of the 14 candidates for six county commission seats. There’s not a whole lot to be gleaned when—even over a three-hour period—each candidate has just a few minutes to speak, but in between the soundbites, a few interesting tidbits emerged. In spite of his inability or unwillingness to pay his own employees, mayoral candidate Richie Knight criticized UGA for not paying a living wage. He also faced a question from Emily Dardaman, the wife of a former employee at Knight’s company, HW Creative Marketing, about former employees suing him over late and missed paychecks. Knight blamed clients who had paid him late. “Being a business, you run into hard times,” he said. One interesting question for Sims and Girtz: Do you regret any of your votes on the commission? “Overall, I’m very happy with the votes I’ve made,” Sims said. “Whether everybody agrees or not is another question.” Girtz, however, said he’s learned a lot in recent years about the history of Athens and how public and private entities intentionally kept African Americans from creating wealth. (Athens had the eighth-highest income inequality in the country in 2014, according to a Bloomberg News study.) He said he wished he’d “pushed a lot harder a lot earlier” on issues of racial equality and affordable housing. Both of the Commission District 5 candidates present—Danielle Benson did not attend—talked mainly about their records. Whatever Athens-Clarke County is doing, it
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constituent services, and reminded the audience that he was involved in civic life long before he became an elected official, helping to build up the downtown music scene. “I’ve made a noticeable difference in the quality of life in this town, and I’d like to continue to do that,” he said. District 9 candidate Tommy Valentine
talk to you about diversity,” District 7 candidate Carl Blount said. “I will say I’ll listen.” District 3 candidate Tony Eubanks had a similar answer. “I don’t know the answers,” he said. “In some cases, I don’t even know the questions.” Another District 7 candidate, Bill Overend, said he wishes he saw the same
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kind of diversity in downtown restaurants on a Friday night as he sees in public schools. “I don’t know how we can increase the black middle class in this community, but that’s what we need to do.” Others answered a bit more aggressively. Valentine urged voters to look at the makeup of his staff. Russell Edwards, also running in District 7, brought up the Baldwin Hall debacle, in which construction workers uncovered slave graves while building an expansion. “The fact is, slaves built this university,” he said, and UGA should acknowledge that history as a form of restorative justice. On the topic of youth, Valentine noted that he, Edwards, Denson, District 1 candidate Patrick Davenport, District 2 candidate Mariah Parker and school board candidate Imani Scott-Blackwell could be the first millennials elected in Athens. (By most definitions, Davenport, 38, is a young Gen-Xer, but let’s not quibble.) Even the elders were impressed by the younger generation’s activism. “I’m very encouraged by the renewed activism, especially among youth,” Bailey said. Edwards urged students to register to vote here, rather than their hometowns. In the District 5 school board race, UGA psychology lecturer and Chase Street Elementary local school governance board member Kara Dyckman repeatedly said she is for “thoughtful change” based on data, while Scott-Blackwell, a senior philosophy major at UGA, said she will “explicitly fight for racial and social justice.” The question is: While the system clearly isn’t working for a lot of Clarke County students, it is working for many parents of Chase students. How much do they want to shake things up? The most interesting response, though, came from a school board member who’s running unopposed—Linda Davis. Davis, alone, was not in favor of a mechanism for teachers to anonymously report complaints. She reminded the audience that laws are in place to protect teachers from retribution, and that individual board members (or the board as a whole) can’t meddle in day-today operations. Candidates broadly agreed that UGA should be more involved in local schools. For Dyckman, that means an informal
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relationship where teachers invite professors to class to talk about what they do. Scott-Blackwell went further: UGA students take opportunities from others in the community, so they have an obligation to get involved in local schools and give back, she said. Carol Williams, who represents District 7, said the district should “heighten awareness of what’s available to [students],” whether that’s college or jobs. Her opponent, LaKeisha Gantt, took a broader view. “We have several nonprofits that are doing wonderful things to expose students to higher education,” she said, but again, not everyone is aware of it. The campaigns roll on with a candidate forum at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Apr. 9 at the ACC Library, sponsored by the Junior League. Mount Pleasant Baptist Church will host a second forum at 6 p.m. Monday, Apr. 16, this one featuring school board and congressional candidates. WUGA 91.7 FM will air a mayoral debate on Tuesday, Apr. 24 at 6 p.m. (with yours truly moderating), and In Touch Management and the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity will host a youth forum Thursday, Apr. 26 at 6 p.m. at the library. [Blake Aued]
What’s Up With the Trees on the Loop? Or what’s down, rather. Many readers have noticed that trees on the Loop are being cut down and have asked who’s doing it and why. It’s the state Department of Transportation, and they say they’re thinning the trees for safety reasons. “We are doing vegetation management along the corridor the last few weeks,” GDOT spokeswoman Katie Strickland said. “Trees can be a hazard for roadways in many instances. Winter weather, along with other storms, can take trees down across power lines and also block routes. We also have seen pedestrians and drivers injured by trees located too close to our right of way.” [BA]
Piedmont and BCBS Can’t Reach Deal A deadline for Piedmont Healthcare and Blue Cross Blue Shield’s parent company, Anthem, to reach a deal on a new contract came and went at midnight Mar. 31. While all hope isn’t lost, for now, thousands of UGA, ACC and Clarke County School District employees, among others, will have to either pay higher out-of-pocket costs or find new doctors. Piedmont Healthcare, which owns Piedmont Athens Regional, sued Blue Cross Blue Shield in February after the insurance company decided it would no longer pay for MRIs and CT scans performed in hospitals, only at less expensive outpatient clinics. The two companies are also locked in a dispute over how much BCBS should reimburse Piedmont doctors. This kind of down-to-the-wire negotiation is common—and sometimes runs on long after the wire’s been broken. In 2016, Piedmont and UnitedHealthCare reached an agreement two months after their contract expired. Both sides have been upping the ante recently. Last week, BCBS sent customers with Piedmont-affiliated doctors new insurance cards listing new randomly chosen primary care physicians. Political pressure
is on, too—Thursday, a Piedmont executive sent letters to state legislators saying that he believes BCBS intends to take Piedmont out of network. Two weeks ago, both Gov. Nathan Deal and UGA President Jere Morehead said they would do whatever they could to get the two sides to come to terms. Members of the United Campus Workers union and other UGA employees gathered at the Arch last Thursday to demand a resolution. “If BCBS and Piedmont can’t work together, then we want [the University System of Georgia] and Gov. Deal to provide us with a way out,” said Annelie Klein. Neither Deal nor the USG had issued a statement at press time. [BA]
Yates Urges Students to Enter Public Service Most only think of Sally Yates as the acting attorney general who stood up to President Trump’s proposed travel ban that targeted those from Muslim countries. However, as she recounted at the UGA law school’s Edith House Lecture Mar. 23, her career was filled with bold moments. An alumna of UGA’s law school, Yates looked back fondly at her time as a student, especially her first year. “There’s something about your first-year section and the boot-camp mentality that you have,” she said. UGA Law stands apart from other law schools due to the comradery among the students, according to Yates. “At a lot of law schools, people are cheering for your failures… [it is] exactly the opposite here.” Although she is known for spending over 20 years of her life working for the U.S. Department of Justice, Yates had no intentions of becoming a prosecutor. She started her career at the Atlanta firm King & Spalding, but her sister-in-law suggested she apply for a position at the Atlanta U.S. Attorney’s Office. “[The other newcomers] had criminal prosecutorial experience,” she said. “I had none.” However, with a lot of research, studying and observing others, Yates quickly rose through the ranks and became deputy attorney general under Eric Holder and, later, Loretta Lynch. Near the conclusion of her time in the Justice Department, most of the leadership were women, which was a huge shift from the start of her career. “When I started at King & Spalding, there was only one female litigation partner,” she said. “We’ve come a long way, but there’s still more to do.” Yates also discussed the events of Jan. 27, 2017, the day the travel ban was announced. Yates was actually leaving D.C. when her chief of staff informed her of the ban via a New York Times article. She spent the weekend figuring out the application and legal challenges of the executive order, and whether or not she would instruct the department to enforce the ban. Yates struggled with the option of simply resigning, saying, “I thought about resigning instead… but that doesn’t protect the integrity of the Department of Justice.” Yates’ decision not to defend the travel ban was praised by Democrats, but led to Trump removing her from the position. Now a professor at Georgetown, Yates encouraged students to consider public service. “We all have an obligation in our lives to some type of public service,” she said, advising young lawyers to use the skills and expertise they’ve learned to better the world. [Tré Brown] f
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Imagine That LEGISLATURE ACCOMPLISHED SOMETHING POSITIVE FOR A CHANGE By Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com Georgia’s legislators gaveled things to a close last week, and for the first time in a while, it was a session that provided some positive accomplishments for taxpayers. For the first time since at least 2002, Georgia will not have “austerity cuts” for K-12 public schools in the state budget for the new fiscal year. Gov. Nathan Deal announced he was increasing the state revenue estimate and amending his budget recommendation to include an additional $167 million for K-12 education. That will ensure the state is fully funding the Quality Basic Education (QBE) formula and providing local school systems with 100 percent of the state’s share in financing for local education. During the Great Recession, as legislators were struggling to balance state budgets, there were years when these austerity cuts for local schools totaled more than $1 billion. Some counties in poorer rural areas cut as many as 48 days of classroom instruction from the school calendar just so they could avoid having to shut the system down. Legislators also took advantage of a revenue windfall provided by the federal tax cut act to cut the top individual income tax rate from 6 percent to 5.75 percent. Deal said it was the first such reduction in the top rate in about 80 years. “If you can’t get re-elected on the things that we did this year, you probably don’t need to be here in the first place,” Deal joked in a brief speech to the Senate on the session’s last night. There was good news for supporters of mass transit, as money was found to float $100 million in bonds for transit construction projects. “This investment will go a long way in reforming and addressing our transit system needs,” Deal said.
In tandem with that funding, legislators passed a bill late on the last night of the session that will make it possible to expand transit services beyond Fulton, DeKalb and Clayton counties and into other metro Atlanta counties, depending upon which ones approve a local sales tax to pay for transit construction projects. House Speaker David Ralston (R-Blue Ridge) and the legislative leadership followed through on promises to help economically beleaguered rural Georgia. Bills were passed to allow the operation of “micro hospitals” in areas where it isn’t feasible to have full-blown hospitals, a think tank to develop innovative health-care policy proposals was created, and $40 million was put in the budget for rural development initiatives. Deal also included $26 million to extend runways at 11 rural airports to accommodate corporate jets. “I don’t think rural Georgia has had a better session than it had this year,” Ralston said. It’s too early know if any of this will reverse the trends that have plagued rural Georgia, but legislators did make an honest effort in that area. The end of the session saw the departure of one of the most remarkable legislators of the past few years. Rep. Allen Peake (R-Macon) spent the past five sessions laboring earnestly for the right of Georgians to use marijuana derivatives to treat various ailments. He succeeded better than you might have expected, persuading the legislature to pass and Deal to sign a bill legalizing the medical use of cannabis oil. But when Peake tried to follow that up with legislation allowing the cultivation of marijuana, he fell short. Peake is headed back to Macon to tend to his business interests. I have a feeling we will hear more from him. f
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Not On Our Side DO BLACK LIVES MATTER TO THE RESISTANCE? By Baynard Woods democracyincrisiscolumn@gmail.com When reporter April Ryan asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders The laws and the court precedents are not on our side. The about the failure of authorities in Louisiana to charge the laws in California are not on our side. The policies and the officers who killed Alton Sterling for selling CDs—only practices at the local level are not on our side,” he said. days after the police-involved shooting of Stephon Clark in But, especially under the Trump DOJ, McKesson Sacramento, CA—Sanders did the thing that white people believes that most change will also happen on that level. have always done to justify killing black people: resort to “There are 18,000 police departments, and most of the “local control” or “states’ rights.” change is local. So we believe that if we get a fraction of “Certainly a terrible incident, this is something that is the largest police departments to create structural change, a local matter, and that’s something that we feel should be that will actually ripple across the other ones,” he said. This left up to local authorities at this time,” Sanders said. ripple effect would work because of the “best practices” Maybe another reporter— doctrine that allows a few maybe even a white reporter, institutes or think There are 18,000 police departments, endowed because, you know, white tanks to design policy not and most of the change is local. reporters can also ask about only for policing, but for most police killing black people— industries. could have backed her up: “You mean local in the same way McKesson both echoes Sanders’ deflection and turns it that Jefferson Davis did or that George Wallace did?” back on her. Still, he recognizes that, in a situation like the But all of the heroes in the White House press corps Gun Trace Task Force trial in Baltimore, where eight cops remained silent. So Ryan asked again. “But how does he were charged by the feds with widespread corruption, no feel about that? He was strongly behind police. He supports one on a local level was equipped to deal with it. “It was police as much as America does. But wants to weed out bad surprising; it was like the layers and layers of people and policing. What does he say about weeding out bad policing city government that had to know about this and chose to when you continue to see these kinds of situations occurdo nothing,” he said. “There was no mechanism at the city ring over and over again?” she asked. or state level that was there to do anything.” Sanders again invoked a states’ rights argument. This is the paradox. The right has, for a long time, seen “Certainly we want to make sure that all law enforcement is the fight as local. They have been taking over school boards carrying out the letter of the law. The president’s very supand other minor positions. But now that Trump is attemptportive of law enforcement, but at the same time, in these specific cases, in these specific instances, those would be left up to local authorities and not something for the federal government to weigh into,” she said. It is as unambiguous as a dog whistle can be. And, in fact, Trump’s Justice Department, run by Klan-loving weed-hater Jeff Sessions, declined to press charges against the officers who killed Sterling back in May. But most of the national press didn’t want to recognize the dog whistle, because to them, Sanders was right. For them, those were “local stories.” And they aren’t interested in local stories. Neither are their white liberal audiences. There was a noted sigh of relief when the dominant Civil rights activists DeRay McKesson (left) and Johnetta “Netta” Elzie. “woke” hashtag shifted from #BlackLivesMatter, which forced us white people to question our privilege, to #Resistance, ing to destroy much of the federal government, the serious which means as long as you aren’t as terrible as Trump then work of the left is going to have to turn largely local, while you are OK. all of the #Resistance pats themselves on the back as they Why, nationally, aren’t we talking in the same way about wait for Mueller to save them. Or Stormy Daniels. the Movement for Black Lives and the disproportionate Meanwhile, local newsrooms are gutted every day. The number of African Americans killed by police? I called up new alt-weekly I helped found lasted only a few months civil rights activist DeRay McKesson, who came to promibefore the funders pulled the plug. And the national news nence for tweeting out the uprising in Ferguson, MO after is just not interested in the local fights, because they are the killing of Mike Brown by Officer Darren Wilson. “When obsessed with Trump. I think about how I have changed in the last three or four “Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with years—like my lens towards analyzing what’s going on is a new and most disgraceful form of bribery,” the great that I now understand better the concrete structures in reporter Jimmy Breslin, who died last year, wrote in 1990. place that exist to almost guarantee officers don’t be held He saw what was happening. “The scandal in journalism accountable,” said McKesson, who now hosts the popular in our time is that ethics have disintegrated to the point podcast “Pod Save the People.” where Donald Trump took over news reporters in this city McKesson said that when he went to Ferguson or with the art of the return phone call.” protested in Baltimore he didn’t understand those strucTrump no longer returns the calls. He doesn’t have to. tures—which are largely local. “When you look at things He has Twitter, and we have all become suckers, obsessing like Stephon Clark’s killing—and, like, it’s not a surprise— over a national soap opera, where the real change—for it is unlikely for the officers to be held accountable even if good and ill—is happening under our noses, in our own you get a good attorney general, you get a good prosecutor. towns. f
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A local award ceremony to celebrate those who make farm-to-school and garden-based learning a success in Athens-Clarke County. This is the first time these awards were given. All award recipients have gone above and beyond to make garden-based learning a success at the school level.
Outstanding Student: Takais Jackson, Clarke Middle School Outstanding Elementary School Teacher: Phillip Smith, JJ Harris Elementary Outstanding Middle School Teacher: Debbie Mitchell, Clarke Middle School Outstanding High School Teacher: Jillian Gordon, Clarke Central High School Outstanding School: Clarke Middle School, Tad MacMillan, Principal Outstanding Administrator: Amy Peacock, CCSD K-8 Science Curriculum Coordinator Outstanding School Nutrition Partner: Anthony Holland, Holland Produce Outstanding Facilities Partner: John Cleghorne, CCSD Exec Director, Plant Services Outstanding Culinary Partner: Manny Stone, Athens Community Career Academy Outstanding Garden Champion Partner: Jacob Kennedy on behalf of Hort2000 Outstanding Farm Partner: Johannah Biang, UGArden Outstanding Business Partner: Taziki’s Outstanding Master Gardener or Extension Partner: Sarah Lockman Outstanding Parent Volunteer: Lili Hill, Whit Davis Elementary Food Justice Warrior: Connie Roberts, Athens Land Trust
Funding for this award comes from a Georgia Organics Farm-to-School “Nudge” Grant. The Athens School Garden Network includes Athens Land Trust, Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful, Athens-Clarke County Extension, and Grow It Know It in partnership with Clarke County School District, UGA Public Service and Outreach, and UGA Extension.
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ncumbent District 3 Commissioner Melissa Link, who “I can name six studies we’ve done that are sitting on a fended off three challengers to win the seat in 2014, shelf. It takes political will and commitment” to implement faces another challenge this year, this time from longthem, he said. time activist Tony Eubanks. Eubanks, who teaches accounting and tutors athletes at But how will district voters choose their candidate? Link UGA, has been in Athens for almost 40 years and has fond and Eubanks have almost identical platforms. According memories of the rise of what he calls the “creative class” to their responses to Flagpole and other groups’ questionhere. “The thing that makes Athens so cool is there are no naires, they share the same views on most policy questions, jobs to speak of, so a lot of people end up inventing their from marijuana decriminalization to bike infrastructure own ‘outside the box’ jobs,” he said, adding that the city can to a ban or fee on supermarket plastic bags. (They are both do a lot to help retain these creative individuals. supporters.) They both have resumés stuffed with important local volunteer work for environmental, economic development and affordable housing organizations; they both favor transparency in government; and they both live within a few blocks of each other in the Boulevard neighborhood. Link has lived in Athens for 25 years and works as editor of the UGA journal Ethics and the Environment. She has a strong record of service to her entire district, which includes Boulevard, Cobbham, the Hancock Corridor, the north side of Baxter Street, most of the central business district and some of the industrial area near the Loop. Recognizing the dramatic increase of housing prices in her neighborhood—long an alternative bastion for artists and musicians Melissa Link (left) with Deborah Gonzalez and their friends—and what she refers to as the “negative economic and social impacts” of gentrification, Link frets that housing costs will push “the He also has volunteered in citizen groups such as creative class into the suburbs and beyond and [threaten] Complete Streets Athens to advance alternative transportathe creative culture that put Athens on the map.” To countion options, and has worked on updating the ACC Bike and teract the effects of gentrification, she is campaigning to Pedestrian Master Plan. “You hear criticism that we’re just “protect renters from exorbitant rent increases… while trying to get transportation for leisure, for the well-off,” reconsidering allowances for accessory structures” and he said. “But there are a lot of people who don’t have cars “tweaking our single-family housing ordinance.” to get to their jobs, so that’s one way the government can Republican legislators added Boulevard to what was then provide solutions.” a majority-minority district in 2012, and Link has forged Why does Eubanks want to be on the commission? relationships within the African-American community. “Acting on [the city’s] plans takes vision and cooperation. However, some residents have I’ve proven that I have both been left out of the prosperity of through my volunteer activities.” their neighbors in the now-pricey When asked for what they mansions and craftsman cottages consider the most important to the north. policy priority, they both seem to For example, Link seized upon have similar goals. Eubanks told proposed changes to Athens’ the progressive group Athens for future land-use map that would Everyone he would “merge landhave allowed upzoning of “main use planning and transportation street businesses” (think Normal planning because the two are inexHardware) to “corridor busitricably linked… I think what’s nesses,” such as CVS. She reached not business-friendly [in Athens out to the local community and government] is not having clear alerted them to the potential priorities, and therefore not being changes, and the ensuing pressure able to articulate exactly what we caused a committee to remove expect in terms of development.” the upzoning proposal before it Link listed: “Affordable houseven reached the commission. “I ing. Local artists and musicians… pay attention to the development put Athens on the map, and as issues because they affect people,” our housing becomes less and less Link said. “I prod people to attend affordable, many… are leaving meetings.” Athens for more affordable living Tony Eubanks Eubanks has taken up issues situations. If we lose them, we of sustainability, more options lose a huge chunk of our soul!” for pedestrian and bicycle commuting, opposition to high In the end, the decision may come down to style. Link is rise-apartments and support for affordable housing. He outspoken—too outspoken for some, but her supporters poses interesting questions: Why isn’t Athens considered see her as a vocal champion. She sees herself as “an activist “business friendly” when it is experiencing unprecedented infiltrating the system,” as she said during her campaign growth? Has the city created a vision for the way this launch event last month. growth should look? What can we do to help our neighborEubanks prefers to work behind the scenes to build hoods pass “the popsicle test,” in which children can walk consensus. “I’m tired of nothing getting done,” he said at a around the corner, purchase a popsicle and return home recent candidate forum. before it has melted? District 3 voters will choose May 22. f
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hree Democrats are setting their economic justice for all Americans. Winfield sights on the 10th Congressional says this increase in wages, combined with District, competing in a May 22 a guaranteed federal job, would eliminate primary to determine which candidate will poverty and unemployment, increase ecotake on their Republican counterpart— nomic productivity and competition, and most likely incumbent Rep. increase infrastructure and Jody Hice. Whoever comes green investments. out on top among Chalis Winfield was inspired Montgomery, Richard Dien by the string of anti-demoWinfield or Tabitha Johnsoncratic movements sweeping Green has a lot of work ahead the globe and embodied by in a deeply red district that Trump in the U.S. “Our failDonald Trump won by over ure as a whole to tackle these 20 points. problems has created a situaWinfield, a UGA philostion that all of our rights are ophy professor, believes his under threat,” he says. recipe for economic stimulus He based his platform on Richard Dien Winfield will push him over the finish the social and economic Bill line. “Wages have become a of Rights first envisioned by smaller and smaller fraction of the national President Franklin D. Roosevelt and later income,” Winfield says. He plans to counter- championed by Martin Luther King Jr. It act this by proposing a $20 minimum wage isn’t just limited to fair wages; this new Bill combined with a federal job guarantee. of Rights would include access to housing, Winfield came to this number by converthealth care, education and culture. ing what he considers the fair wages of the Winfield plans on achieving these goals 1960s for inflation and economic productiv- by levying a heavier tax burden on more ity, which adjusts to $41,600 annually. wealthy individuals, and by eliminating This major platform plank is the corthe welfare programs that would no longer nerstone of his push towards social and be needed. These measures are going to be
what is needed to overcome the racial and Montgomery also supports more fundgender disadvantages that still exist in this ing for education. “This is not a contest country, he says. between left and right,” Montgomery says. While Winfield is focused on a job “It’s a contest between right and wrong.” guarantee, Barrow County educator Though these candidates seem to have Montgomery believes the pivotal issue is many similar goals when it comes to elimhealth care. “People make a critical mistake inating poverty and expanding health when they think that health care is only coverage, they are critical of one another’s about your physical well-being,” she says. strategy. “If your tactic is to set yourself “It’s about your economic well-being, as a bit apart… you’re not going to be able well.” Jobs, infrastructure to work legislatively to and economic developaccomplish the goal,” ment are all related to Montgomery says, referhealth care, she says. ring to Winfield’s $20 Montgomery has had minimum wage proposal. firsthand experience Winfield disagrees, saying dealing with the problems that Montgomery supin the American healthports “half-measures… I care system. At age 2, her don’t think they will lead daughter was diagnosed towards electoral success.” with juvenile rheumaThe last candidate toid arthritis. With their in the race is Johnsonemployer-based coverGreen, a surprise qualifier Chalis Montgomery age about to end, Hice who put her name on the voted for the Affordable ballot last month. She Care Act repeal that, if successful, would has no website and could not be reached for have left millions of Americans like comment. Montgomery’s family uninsured or paying Despite their differences, the candidates higher premiums and deductibles. will face the same issue after the primary— Hice “has voted against the citizens pivoting towards the general election of the 10th District over and over again,” in November. The district hasn’t seen a Montgomery says. “I’m running for Democrat win in over 20 years, but both Congress because lives are at stake.” believe they can win over voters without Montgomery has worked as an advocate pandering to the GOP base. Montgomery on behalf of families and children across boasts, “When we turn out Democrats, the district. She believes that she can give we win.” Winfield has a similar sentiment: a voice to those who are being ignored by “You’re not going to beat the Republican Hice and whose rights have been under candidate by trying to be more like a attack by federal and state lawmakers. Republican.” f
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Art in Public ‘ART DECKO’ REVAMPS DOWNTOWN PARKING GARAGE By Carolyn Crist arts@flagpole.com As you’re walking or driving downtown next month, stop by the College Avenue parking deck to see “Art Decko,” Athens’ latest art display in the newly founded Vertical Gallery. The stairwell, decked out in a bright shade of blue, will house nine large-scale, 4-by-8-foot panels by local artists. The pieces, currently on display at Creature Comforts Brewing Co. through the end of April, will be particularly striking to see from the street at night when the deck lights are ablaze. “Athens has this tremendous art community, and this is a way to show it off to residents and visitors,” says Linda Ford of the Athens Downtown Development Authority. The
“How we think about the world is shaped by the images we run into on a daily basis,” he says. “If you see art that is unusual but also pleasing, it does you more favors than seeing images that aren’t unusual and somewhat boring.” Along with Anderson, eight local artists will have pieces along the deck stairwell: Fernandes, Ruth Allen, Hannah Betzel, Jared Brown, Dorian Edwards, Will Eskridge, Jacob Wenzka and Jeanne Whatley. Their work was supported through local efforts to boost murals and as part of the public art master plan beginning to take effect across town. “Our community is only as good as all the people who are able to contribute. If you care about your community,
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ADDA worked with the Athens Area Art Council, Athens Cultural Affairs Commission and Lyndon House Arts Center to bring the nine panels to the deck this spring. (Full disclosure: Flagpole arts editor and AAAC board member Jessica Smith was a lead organizer of “Art Decko.”) The new collection will replace the first “Art Decko” installment organized by the AAAC over a decade ago, which featured artwork by local elementary, middle and high-school students at each level of the stairwell. As the artwork aged, the council decided to revamp the space with a fresh coat of paint and commission designs by local professional artists selected from 100 entries. “This is what makes life in town so fulfilling. You can be inspired by parking decks, fire hydrants and bus shelters,” says Didi Dunphy, Lyndon House program supervisor. “These things could fall by the wayside, but our local artists give them a memorable and unique appearance.” This weekend, the murals will appear publicly for the first time, and Creature Comforts will host a special showcase and artist market on Sunday afternoon from 1–6 p.m. for people to see them up close before installation in the deck. The free, family-friendly party will feature live performances by Elf Power, Forbidden Waves and Jeremy Kiran Fernandes, and the Holy Crepe food truck will be on site. “That’s the parking deck I use every time I come to Athens. It’s like the center of my Athens experience,” says Ashley Anderson, an Atlanta-based artist. Anderson created a panel, seen on this week’s Flagpole cover, focused on Neutral Milk Hotel’s album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, which turns 20 this year. (Read more on p. 11.) A Christmas tree sits at its core, with musical instruments, picture frames, candles and snow surrounding it. Ribbons and strings of pearls drop from the tree in the shape of a ribcage, mimicking the surreal, body-related imagery of the album. Depictions of the record’s first five songs surround the tree on the left, and images of its last five songs appear on the right.
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visual arts and making your infrastructure look nicer, it makes our spaces more exciting to enjoy,” says Marc Beechuk, chairman of the ACAC. The nine panels, although entirely different in concept and color, meld together in an interesting way to tell a story about Athens. Whatley’s piece, “Long They Wait,” is part of a series she paints from a bird’s perspective looking down on people on the street. In this work, more than 100 faces in different colors and shapes peer up at the viewer, almost in a state of hope and anticipation. “Hope keeps people going, no matter who you are or what your background is,” Whatley says. “It’s universal, and a part of being human.” With a similar universal sentiment, Eskridge’s piece depicts a commentary on modern technology and nature. Against a blue backdrop of sky, a deer, coyote and whale float upward in beams of light, as if being lifted from the ground by three UFO-like pyramids. Instead of a comical remark on alien abduction, Eskridge means for the piece to resemble Noah’s Ark, saving intelligent animals from a chaotic, technology-driven world created by humans. “If other life forms showed up on Earth, they might not see humans as a threat or as intelligent as we believe we are,” Eskridge says with a laugh. “Instead, they might see animals as the intelligent ones and want to save them.” As the murals move into the deck in May, the artists hope the pieces inspire others as much as they were inspired during the creative process. Betzel, for instance, saw the original “Art Decko” project when she moved to town a decade ago and still remembers how it spurred her to think about art during a time when she took a break from painting. She had a similar feeling while painting a mural at the Atlanta Beltline, when a resident walked by and stopped to thank her for making the city more beautiful. “It’s neat for this to come full circle for me and know that others will come to town and see our pieces,” she says. “Even if it impacts one person, it could do something huge for our community.” f
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Athens Reflects on In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Neutral Milk Hotel’s Landmark Album, 20 Years Later
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hen I listen in to the fuzz and tape saturation, I remember so vividly my curiosity about recording, and the deep love and creativity I shared with my best friends in my old Denver studio, Pet Sounds. When you listen to that record, you are hearing an absolutely romantic experience taking place for the kids making it. We just loved each other so much, and trusted, and dreamed, and worried and debated together every day. From the front, it was a condemned building, boarded up and covered in graffiti; you had to enter from the alley. Inside, it was my lo-fi punk-rock dream studio that The Apples in Stereo shared with Jim McIntyre—basically a bedroom studio that grew to fill a whole building, covered in giant Steve Keene murals. I remember the stream of visiting travelers who played, crashed and four-track recorded in every room, and outdoor cookouts with The Minders (we shared a dodgy, secluded rear parking lot with their duplex). It was pure friendship and maximum creative ambition. We wanted to make an album that sounded unlike anything ever made before, with deep feelings and an experimental aesthetic. Jeff [Mangum] had all these beautiful songs, and the band was so raw and frenzied and wild. As a producer and home recordist, I sincerely believed we could capture our love and joy and pain and honesty on magnetic tape in some sort of mystical/psychic way, and that other kids our age would feel that, and would understand us, and feel comforted. [Robert Schneider, producer]
of NMH/E6, and count it as a real blessing the meaning it has brought to my life. I could go on forever about the production, arrangement, lyrics—my God. But what shines through most is the spirit. [Drew Kirby, Civils]
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he first time I experienced Aeroplane was with my dad in the car. When “The King of Carrot Flowers, Pts. 2–3” came on, I remember him looking at me and saying, “This is sacrilegious.” I don’t know/care if he meant it. I initially listened to it after that as an act of rebellion, but my ass
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he first time I heard Aeroplane, I was driving to Mitch Easter’s studio in Kernersville, NC to mix Son Volt’s Wide Swing Tremolo. A solo car trip is one of my favorite listening environments to dig into something new. It is just magical when the record turns out to be one as great as this one. It has always been a special one to me, truly deserving of the acclaim heaped upon it. [David Barbe]
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o other album has changed my life! It arrived in my life the year before leaving for college, and marked the clear delineation for me between by-the-numbers childhood and a blossoming adulthood that held music, loyalty to friends and DIY spirit as the highest marks of authenticity. The larger E6 movement taught me that waiting around is pointless when you have ideas and ambition: Grab those closest to you, in proximity or spirit, and get to it! Serendipitously, the first full-band Mothers performance was at Cloud Recordings Fest 2015, and there he was, Jeff Mangum himself, standing up front with his eyes closed, taking in the music and the atmosphere and generally scaring the pants off us, until we realized he’s perhaps the kindest, most down-to-earth person to ever unwittingly hold that much influence. I still aspire to the creativity
quickly gained a cult following. There is a place during our personal growth from childhood to adulthood that people explore and try on different hats while looking for answers to who they are. I think it keys directly into that place. After I heard about the Anne Frank connection, I understood more. There are supposedly only so many root stories out there. I am sure a rescue fantasy is one of those. Haven’t we all thought about saving someone from a tragic fate who has a potential for unfulfilled and unrealized talents? Or thought about how history could be changed at certain points along the way where life paths diverge? I would like a crack at a journey through space and time myself. So, don’t try to break the spell by taking this record apart to see how it works. Just let the music wash over you until you get ripped out of your skin by Jeff Mangum loudly singing, “I love you Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, I love you, yes I do.” Then move on past and listen some more. [Vanessa Briscoe Hay, Pylon]
was the first one in tears when I saw them at the Tabernacle when they started playing shows again. [Sebastian Marquez, Dead Neighbors]
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istening for the first time many moons ago, I felt an instant connection to something big right away. What exactly that something was, I really didn’t have the right words for at the time. I am not sure that I do now. With unusual sounds and characters that move on an otherworldly trip through a Narnia-like place, I can see why it
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nce I was really able to listen to In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, I was able to listen to music. All kinds of music. I became a musician when I was instructed by an album to explore concepts, to dismantle truths and to play around with two chords for eight minutes and 18 seconds. It only takes listening to the first track to be sucked into this album. Before this album, no one had posed questions and made statements about conflict and anxiety. I wanted to cry when I understood the lyric “each one a little more than he could dare to try.” Now, years later, I listen to this record and I feel an uplift. The uncomely among us can and do influence others to make better musical decisions, to live in a world that feels irreconcilable and to know that someone before us has felt something, anything at all, that may be more tantalizing and challenging than we could ever imagine. [Gresham Cash, Oak House] f
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Take ’em to Church
With a Heretical Slant, Jim White Explores the Human Condition By Bobby Moore music@flagpole.com
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or his first Athens-area show since the stateside release of his new solo album, Waffles, Triangles & Jesus, in February, alt-country singer-songwriter Jim White needed the right venue. Famed rock journalist and biographer Sylvie Simmons is his opening act, and she plays gentle, acoustic songs that don’t suit the sound or setting of the average downtown Athens dive. “She sings real quiet, plays ukulele and writes very beautiful songs in a Leonard Cohen slant,” White says. “It wouldn’t seem right putting us in a bar.” White presented this conundrum to his Facebook friends, with their advice pointing him to the historic Beth Salem Presbyterian Church in nearby Lexington. Founded in 1785 and in its current location since 1827, the church became the property of Oglethorpe County after its final three members voted to disband in 2015. With the community hosting fundraising concerts to help match preservation grant funding, White’s plans also suited the city’s needs. That’s how the old country church became the unlikely host of his sometimes less-than-holy music. “I’m kind of known for my heretical ideas, so it’ll be interesting to see if I don’t get struck by lightning while I’m singing my songs,” says White, the artist behind such metaphysical album titles as Wrong-Eyed Jesus. Jokes aside, even left-of-center roots music derives from the church. The hymnal set the sound for folk, bluegrass, country and other influences heard on White’s records. Gospel sermons informed the social norms and spiritual ideas often embraced or challenged in modern folk music. Through that lens, even the most unorthodox musical statements in his repertoire are at home at a place like Beth Salem.
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Plus, it’s only a church in building design and historic relevance at this point. According to Lexington Downtown Development Authority co-founder Linda Parish, the city received an anonymous donation to purchase the property after the church ceased operation. Since then, the space has hosted Christmas events and secular functions, including concerts. An intimate setting that comfortably fits no more than 150 people, the church offers both the solemn silence and folk-friendly acoustics needed to accentuate White and Simmons’ music. “Every musical group that comes there talks about how great the acoustics are,” Parish says. Friday’s show is one in a series designed to raise funds to match a Georgia Council for the Arts preservation grant. Parish adds that the church will eventually be rented out by the city for weddings, concerts and other events, creating a possible revenue stream for future preservation efforts. For White, networking to find the right fit for a creative need extends beyond the historic church preservation scene. Upon moving to Athens from his hometown of Pensacola, FL in the aftermath of 2004’s Hurricane Ivan, White only really knew the late Vic Chesnutt. After over a decade of making art and music here, he can call on local friends ranging from the Hog-Eyed Man bluegrass pickers to garage legend Holly Golightly to add their creative wrinkles to his recordings. These regular collaborations allow for a seemingly boundless take on alt-country, making it hard to pin down White’s sound. While much of White’s critically acclaimed material teeters on the edge of madness by examining the human condition’s most vicious downswings, he sneaks in some absurd, comedic songs, too. “Playing Guitars” exemplifies the latter on the new album. It’s simplistic, loose and fun, like something John Hartford might’ve performed in the early days of hippie-inspired newgrass.
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Yet this tongue-in-cheek approach isn’t inspired by Hartford, John Prine or any other cosmopolitan folk icons. Instead, White credits an unlikely source in countrified comedian and sanctified Christian Ray Stevens. “I grew up in the Deep South listening to AM radio, and when the gimmick songs came on, Ray Stevens always got my attention,” he says. “I loved how he built a story and got people laughing. If I don’t put those song on there, my records would be quite somber and dark. I don’t want to be on that journey, where there’s never any redemption.” No one’s been struck by lightning while seeking redemption, so White should be safe. Plus, he’s not there to proselytize, so a little lightheartedness might go a long way. He wants listeners to feel welcome, especially if they also check the forecast before darkening the doors of a church. “People who come up to me the most often are preachers’ kids who say they were raised in the Assembly of God church and they never fit in,” White says. “They were always wondering and always had creative impulses. They say, ‘Thank you for that music that kind of describes that struggle.’ You feel great about it, knowing you helped somebody—particularly marginalized people like that. “It’s tough when you leave the church, and your family— be it your family-family or your church family—look at you with this incredible sadness in their eyes,” he says. “They think you’re going to burn in hell. Then you got to go look for your other family, which is people like me.” f
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In Motion GUITAR LEGEND BILL FRISELL BRINGS HIS TRIO TO ATHENS By David R. Adler music@flagpole.com
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ixty-seven-year-old Bill Frisell, one of the world’s most influential guitarists, recorded his live album Small Town in 2016 at the world’s most famous jazz club, the Village Vanguard in New York. When Frisell arrives to play Hendershot’s in a trio with bassist Thomas Morgan—his duo partner from Small Town—and drummer Rudy Royston, he’ll be in an actual small town, though one with a vaunted and outsize musical history. There’s little doubt his music will fall on receptive Athenian ears. “I played at Nuçi’s Space a few times and one other place, but it’s been quite a while,” the guitarist recalls. Reached in Minneapolis during a tour with Charles Lloyd last month, Frisell had a lot to look forward to, including the release of his extraordinary solo-guitar album Music IS, released Mar. 16. “We’re going into the Vanguard again
There’s a deep vein of Americana, old-time, folk and country influences in Frisell’s work, even as his jazz improviser’s sensibility colors every moment. “My mother’s side of the family has roots in West Virginia,” he says, “and when I first started traveling down there, the feeling I got hearing that sound, it was something. I grew up in Denver, and I guess you could say the wide-open spaces out West, cowboys and all that—maybe those images come to mind. But the reality is, I was growing up in a city. It was the ’50s, and it was like ‘Leave It to Beaver’ or ‘Father Knows Best.’ The pop music on the radio was so mixed up—to me, it was all just music that I liked.” Morgan is 30 years Frisell’s junior and looks younger, but his authoritative sound and penetrating musical intelligence have landed him major sideman gigs with Craig
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with Thomas and Rudy, and I’ll be playing in there for two weeks,” he says, “so by the time we get to Athens, there’s no telling what’s gonna be happening. But we’ll be warmed up, anyway.” On Small Town, Frisell dives into an expansive musical sea, whether he’s swinging Lee Konitz’s post-bebop classic “Subconscious-Lee” or charting unexpected paths through the Carter Family staple “Wildwood Flower” and the Fats Domino hit “What a Party”—or, for that matter, the haunting, harmonically rich theme from Goldfinger. His originals mirror this eclecticism, as well. “We recorded two nights at the Vanguard,” he says, “so Small Town is just a snippet of that. There’ll be another volume coming out, I think next year.” In the duo with Morgan, the instruments sing and tempos sway as the two masters listen intently and react. “In the early ’70s, I’d go see Jim Hall play duo with Ron Carter,” Frisell remembers, “so that’s like a blueprint for me—the ultimate guitar-bass thing.” Adding Royston boosts the intensity, but it’s not so simple. “We’re all still using the same instincts; there’s just more going on,” Frisell says. “There’s this combination of sensitivity and incredible power at the same time. Rudy has never looked at one piece of paper playing with us. It’s unbelievable. I remember the very first time he played in my group, no rehearsal, we were playing ‘A Change Is Gonna Come,’ and I looked over and he was singing the words. It’s just so deep, his understanding of what’s going on.”
Taborn, Jim Black, Tomasz Stanko, Samuel Blaser and a host of others. He appeared with Frisell on Paul Motian’s Windmills of Your Mind in 2011, the revered drummer-composer’s final session. With Royston and violist Eyvind Kang, he played on Frisell’s When You Wish Upon a Star in 2016. He also joined Frisell in Denver to record cornetist Ron Miles’ highly acclaimed I Am a Man the next year. Speaking about “Wildwood Flower” and other rootsy material he’s discovered through Frisell, the says, “Those tunes, they have interesting shapes. The phrases aren’t all symmetrical, and they come from the melody. It does make it interesting to improvise with.” Eliciting fresh perspectives from himself and his bandmates is one of Frisell’s most enduring artistic strengths. Never stuck in one sonic space, he might pluck odd, celestial Telecaster chords or wail with maximum fuzz-tone (and stranger effects), or he might simply take your breath away unaccompanied on a 1940s Gibson J-45 acoustic, as on “The Pioneers” from Music IS. “The music is always in flux,” he explains. “It’s always moving.” f
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MOVIN’ ON UP: The first-ever Eastside Athens Spring Fling, which organizers say is designed to showcase and promote the often-overlooked Athens neighborhood, is happening at Southeast Clarke Park (4400 Lexington Road) this Saturday, Apr. 7 from 11 a.m.–6 p.m. The day will be packed with music, and featured acts are—in order of appearance, beginning at noon and happening on the hour—Nuclear Tourism, Cosmo Jr., Juan de Fuca, Five Eight, Linqua Franqa and Elf Power. There are a lot of other activities scheduled, too, like a day-long skateboard and BMX expo, yoga, a mobile gaming theater, a kids’ activities tent, an East Athens Business Leaders Association expo tent and more. The whole event is free, but please leave your dog at home, and don’t bring any alcohol. There will be food vendors and a beer tent on site for your convenience. IF YOU BOOK IT, THEY WILL COME: Tickets are on sale now for the Classic City Music Festival, which happens at Southern Brewing Co. Sunday, Apr. 22. Presented by New West Records, this event Elf Power is a jam-packed day of live music and runs from 2–7 p.m. This event is an annual production of the UGA Music Business Program, and it provides an opportunity for students to book, promote, plan and handle all aspects of the production. Proceeds will go to the Music Business Opportunity Scholarship Fund, which assists student interns who cannot afford to pay tuition while working for free at music internships. This is a wonderful way to increase opportunity and level the playing field for hard workers whose only lack is funding. Featured artists include Cracker, David Barbe & Inward Dream Ebb, Kaptivated, Hunter Callahan, Bahinz and the Band, Xanny P, The Powers, AFTM, Room 9, The Pink Stones and others. Tickets are a steal at $10, and kids and students are unbelievably priced at only $5. The event is all ages, rain or shine, and pets are welcome. For more information and to purchase tickets, see classiccitymusicfestival.com. BLACK CELEBRATION: Local musician Will Anderson just released a new EP under his project Sephine titled
computerforest. The six tracks are performed under Anderson’s direction but fleshed out by other musicians— namely Patrick Doherty, Will Wise and Hunter Pinkston. Overall, this was a neat treat, because it hit several referential high points with me, including Roxy Music, M, Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk and even a little indie psychedelia. Standout tracks include “discothèque” and “black flowers (new spring).” Check it out at sephinemusic.bandcamp.com. TURN THE BEAT AROUND: Echobass Records continues its track record of quality releases this month with the 10-track collaboration between Razzi King and Killa Cabbi named Dub Station. The pair deftly incorporate various styles in often slyly effective ways. There are instances of downtempo, tasteful happy hardcore, garage, trance and other associated styles, but in the end, the whole thing is a blissed-out and groovy listen. Grab it at echobass records.bandcamp.com. ENJOY: The UGA AfricanAmerican Choral Ensemble will present its spring concert Wednesday, Apr. 4 at the Performing Arts Center’s Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall at 8 p.m. Although the content of the performance is under wraps, everything advertising it speaks to its being awe-inspiring and having a message. I can attest that this is some of the finest choral singing in the Classic City, so consider attending. For more information, see facebook.com/UGAAACE. ATHFEST ANNOUNCE: AthFest Educates has announced the artists that will headline this year’s AthFest Music and Arts Festival, slated for June 22–24. Friday night will feature co-headliners Linqua Franqa and Dirty Dozen Brass Band, while Saturday’s closer is local folk collective Family & Friends, who will use the occasion to celebrate the release of their new full-length, Felix Culpa. Jangle-pop icons The Connells and Athens’ Elf Power will wrap up the weekend with Sunday performances. In other AthFest news, this year the Creature Comforts and Terrapin breweries will host official festival performances for the first time. For more info, see flagpole.com. [Gabe Vodicka] f
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Partials: Glossolalia EP (True-Blue) The debut EP from pop-minded sextet Partials focuses thematically on society’s relationship with machines. The title itself means “speaking in tongues,” and throughout the record, by way of song titles and lyrics alike, language provides a connective tissue between the buzzing and whirring of electronic automatons and the flesh and blood of humankind. What’s more striking here than the clear thread between messaging, though and more supportive of the concept as a whole—is the band’s balance of synthetic and organic elements, which results in a tight, dynamically arranged six-song collection. That equilibrium is on full display in the certified banger of an opening track, “Fear of Silence,” where a pulsating synth bass, steady kick drum and the clack of auxiliary percussion lay the groundwork for singer Adriana Thomas’ lyrical juxtapositions. She sings of being “silent and dead” while trying to “keep myself alive,” before the introduction of an angular riff split between two guitars propels the song into its invigorating chorus. The funk and Afrobeat influences present make Talking Heads a go-to reference point, but contemporaries like Foals, Sylvan Esso and Lucius provide more appropriate models for how an “alternative” band like Partials could utilize its potential and find crossover success in the modern day. Comparisons aside, though, Glossolalia is a thrilling listen that should translate easily across audiences. [Andy Barton]
Partials play Nowhere Bar on Friday, Apr. 6.
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It Was Casual, But I Want More ADVICE FOR ATHENS’ LOOSE AND LOVELORN By Bonita Applebum advice@flagpole.com Dear Bonita, I had a casual hookup a while back. The person was an acquaintance, not a close friend— someone I see around here and there. Talented and attractive, for sure. I’d always thought they were hot, so I was really tickled once we finally got over the hump (ha ha) and had our meeting of the minds. Good times, good times. Now that we’ve done our thing, I can’t really get this person out of my mind. It was made pretty clear at the time that this was just a one-night casual thing, but that’s not really sitting well with me. This isn’t my first onenight stand by a long shot, but it’s probably the first time I’ve gotten a crush after the fact. We traded numbers, but we’re not talking or anything, and I’m nervous to reach out about a date after having already slept with them. It’s just not what you do. Why not? Why can’t you date a person you’ve already had sex with? I get where you’re coming from, though. The socially accepted modus operandi for relationships usually doesn’t start with a casual encounter, but I know plenty of couples who are years-deep into fulfilling relationships that started that way.
When I think of how these people made that happen, it was about communication. These are couples who did talk to each other after their fling, got to know each other and decided to try it out for real. You may be at a disadvantage now that you’ve been out of contact with that person for a while now—that silence can mean something, but don’t take it too personally. There’s no harm in reaching out and asking about meeting for a drink or some food. The worst they can say is no, and you seem pretty realistic about that possibility. I say shoot your shot, homie. Either you’ll get a date, or you won’t. I have a secret. I am what most folks call a “conspiracy theorist.” I believe that 9/11 was an inside job, and that the USS Cole was a false-flag attack used to prime us for the upcoming police state that
we currently live in. I believe that lots of these domestic terrorist attacks are false flags. But I don’t believe that the general public are shills or sheeple, and I want to educate people on these events and share my knowledge so that people can prepare themselves to rise up against tyranny. But Athens is very liberal, and so are my family and coworkers. I hear folks talking about tinfoil hats and making fun of folks who are trying to spread the truth and wake everyone up. You’re always telling people how to come out of this closet and that closet. So how do I come out about my truth-seeking ways to those I care for? The nation is at a turning point right now, and I want to see my family safe, but I don’t want to be called a lunatic for my beliefs. I have an old friend who got married, moved to the desert and started stockpiling arms, food and children out of nowhere about 10 years ago. She just did it. I knew her views—the first time I met her husband, he was wearing an Alex Jones “Tyranny Response Team” shirt—but I never commented on them, because that’s their business, and
they’re not racists. Suddenly, one of my best homegirls was living her truth, and you’re right—for most people who write in, that truth is more about orientation and gender expression. But your personal worldview is also part of your identity, and I agree that you should be able to express that freely. I say just speak your truth. Say what you believe to be true, and share what you think is most valuable and life-changing for those whom you care about. People might not share your views, but I hope they’ll be able to see that your intentions are good and true. The people who care about you will not ridicule you for your beliefs and will see that you’re coming from a place of concern and love. I agree that the nation is at a turning point, and I think we’d all love to have a friend with a bunker right about now. f
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An evening of poetry and music with
PAUL MULDOON
Pulitzer Prize winner and former poetry editor of The New Yorker With special guest
Multi-instrumentalist David Mansfield (Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, T-Bone Burnett, Lucinda Williams) Willson Center for Humanities and Arts 30th Anniversary Closing Celebration
Friday, April 13 Doors 7 pm, show 7:30 pm 40 WATT CLUB FREE Co-sponsored by Flagpole willson.uga.edu • avidbookshop.com • athenscine.com
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Caborita Gives It a Go PLUS, A FIVE POINTS LOCATION OF SUSHI FAVE SAKURA By Hillary Brown food@flagpole.com PARTY TRIANGLES: It is a cliché that the defia chicken-and-cheese-laden chip, and the nition of insanity is doing the same thing nachos are a mess, but a mess is sort of over and over again while expecting differwhat you want from nachos. ent results. That doesn’t have much to do The kitchen seems to rely on its frier with actual mental stability, but it applies more than it should, and fried yucca as an to the restaurant industry fairly well. The space in the Arbor building on Mitchell Bridge Road that most recently housed Kumquat Mae has hosted a slew of restaurants since it was built: a second location of Harry Bissett’s, the Iron Grill, Los Coyotes, Four Brothers Sports Tavern and now Caborita Cantina and Grill (1155 Mitchell Bridge Road, 706-8507300). That’s a lot of restaurants, even by the standards of the industry, which is notorious for quick flame-outs. Caborita seems like the kind of place that would do well there: full bar, plenty of space, non-threatening Americanized Mexican food, big laminated menu, waitresses who ask if you want “guac.” Maybe it will, and maybe it won’t; proximity tends to be the driving factor in making a decision about which restaurant of its type to choose. Caborita Cantina and Grill It has a lot of ingredients that it needs to succeed, but I’ve thought that appetizer is too oily, although the chipotbefore. Generally, the further it gets away le-ranch dressing that comes in a ramekin from anything actually Mexican, the better for dipping is a totally solid cultural fusion. it does. Your basic burrito supreme—covSometimes this means dishes come out ered with shredded iceberg lettuce, diced more slowly than one would expect— tomatoes, sour cream and sauce—succeeds especially if one is spoiled by Taqueria La pretty well. Ditto for the greasy but fairly Parrilla, which always emphasizes speed. A tasty flautas, stuffed with shredded beef chicken tortilla soup, for example, includes and chicken, and the fajita chicken nachos. strips of freshly fried tortillas but seems The scoop of guacamole atop the latter is delayed because of it. You can order more too cold to address very successfully with traditional Mexican-style tacos on corn
tortillas (one, not two), dressed with cilantro, chopped onion and lime, but I’m not sure why you would. Some of the fillings are decent—the al pastor, for example—but cornmeal-crusted fried shrimp don’t seem to fit or have much flavor. You can also get a passable torta as a lunch special. Is anything super exciting? No, but it has fried cheesecake, burgers, a wide array of margaritas, an extensive appetizer section that includes both samosas (described as “crispy small party triangles”) and wings, a lot of tables, live music some evenings and a regular “Taco Thursday” special. It does catering, delivers through Bulldawg
(1225 S. Milledge Ave., 706-850-2027), transformed from the former Half Moon Outfitters into a wood-covered, cherry-tree-bedecked space. It’s a very similar situation in that, once you walk in the door, you forget everything outside, and it explains why the construction took a long time. The menu seems to be exactly the same, split among hibachi—a little more than half the space is devoted to big-hooded hibachi tables—sushi and sashimi, noodle dishes and a few other things. The lunch-special bento boxes aren’t the most exciting, and it’s always disappointing to get salmon in a chef’s-choice selection of raw fish, but generally the offerings are refined and well executed. You will likely leave hungry if all you order is the sashimi lunch (nine pieces of chef-chosen raw fish, soup and salad), but add on the age tofu (a beautifully arranged ziggurat of lightly fried squares of subtle, creamy tofu) and you may be more sated. Sushi is not an easy way to get full for a deal, unless you hit up Utage’s all-you-can-eat special. As usual, you’ll probably have your best luck sitting at the sushi bar and having a conversation with the chef rather than relying on a faceless order, but the fish is nice and fresh, with the kind of sweetness you should expect. Sakura is open for lunch and dinner every day, but closes in between them on weekdays. On the way out, it offers a bowl of Dum-Dum lollipops to cleanse your palate.
Food and is open 11 a.m.–10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m.–11 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
WHAT UP?: Donderos’ Kitchen won the 2018 School Lunch Challenge, meaning its chicken fajitas and roasted sweet potatoes will be added to the Clarke County School District’s 2018–2019 menu. Check out photos from the event at flagpole.com. Don’t miss the International Street Festival, featuring food from all over the world, plus cultural displays and performances from UGA and community groups, this Saturday, Apr. 7 on College Square. f
CHERRY TREES: Sakura’s original location, on Atlanta Highway, tucked away in the Academy Sports shopping center, has long been a delightful surprise, the general unpromising exterior giving way to a lovely and expensive-looking interior. The same is true of the new location in Five Points
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Wednesday, April 4, 7 pm Seney-Stovall Chapel 200 N. Milledge Ave. FREE Presented by the Willson Center, the UGA department of English, the Creative Writing Program, Emory University, the Consulate General of Ireland, Atlanta, and Flagpole willson.uga.edu
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in a “Halo”-esque galactic conflict where your avatar is in actual danger? Why go to the movies with your best pals, virtual or actual, all of whom are online, when you can hang out in your favorite movie? The OASIS allows all of those opportunities and more. But the death of Halliday has left the By Drew Wheeler movies@flagpole.com OASIS’ ownership up for grabs, available to the first person who finds three Easter READY PLAYER ONE (PG-13) Nostalgia has In the world of Ready Player One, most eggs purposely hidden by the reclusive diglong proven a shortcut to the heart of an people would rather exist in a virtual realital-world builder. Gunters, or egg hunters, audience. Show us something beloved from ity known as the OASIS (Ontologically like 18-year-old Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) our past, and we melt into the fanboys and Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive and Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), the mysterious girls of our lost youth. Bestselling author Simulation). Spend a few moments in beauty upon whom he is crushing hard, Ernest Cline keenly understands the innate the stacks (think vertical trailer park) of hope to find the eggs before the army of desire to resurrect what we once loved 2045 Columbus, OH, and you will not Sixers employed by evil megacorporation and lost, and it has fueled his two popular wonder why everyone wants to escape. Innovative Online Industries (IOI) can. If novels—the one upon IOI, led by its unscrupulous which Steven Spielberg’s CEO, Nolan Sorrento (Ben Ready Player One new movie is based and Mendelsohn), gains conhis lesser second book, trol of the OASIS, invasive Armada. (Cline also wrote advertising and massive the script for the Star Warsmonetization will darken specific flick Fanboys.) Cline the bright, open, online knows his audience; one worlds in which everyone assumes he is part of it. has chosen to spend their On the page, Ready waking hours. Fortunately, Player One is a prime examWade is one of the foreple of how to do nostalgia most scholars in everything right. The references are Halliday, so his chances of indigenous, not obligatory, winning are better than This mayoral debate is so compelling. to the narrative (whereas average, assuming Sorrento Armada is overstuffed with does not kill him first. so many unnecessary Easter eggs they Created by visionary game-maker James As expected, the OASIS created by grow irksome). The movie, Spielberg’s most Halliday (played by Spielberg’s new go-to Spielberg is vibrant and welcoming. The crowd-pleasing in over a decade (at least guy, Mark Rylance), the OASIS offers peofilmmaker falls back on his blockbuster since 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom ple the opportunity to be, do or look like instincts that gave us the movies upon of the Crystal Skull, which is open to more anything they want. Do you want to be an which much of Ready Player One’s ’80s debate than it should be) employs major over-muscled superman or hang out with appeal is based. Yet the film may have been changes from the book to ensure a primarthe actual (virtual) Batman? How about more interesting in the hands of a younger ily successful transition to the screen. travel to a nightclub sans gravity, or fight director who grew up adoring Spielberg’s movies, not the actual 70-plus-year-old who gifted them to the world. While Spielberg may not deliver a new product to be adoringly devoured decades later, at least he guarantees Ready Player One will not disappoint on arrival, which it does not. Overjoyed audience members extolling the film’s timeless virtues are likely to be rare, but dissatisfied customers will be even rarer. Fans of strict adaptations may question the necessity of some changes made by Cline and fellow screenwriter Zak Penn (sorry, WarGames fans), but everyone else should get the gratifyingly reminiscent movie experience for which they paid.
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Virtual Virtues PLUS, A CHARMING FRENCH DOC
FACES PLACES (PG) What a charming time you will have traveling with acclaimed French New Wave filmmaker Agnès Varda (Cléo From 5 to 7) and photographer-cum-street artist JR! The 89-year-old and her youthful ward—he’s 33 at the time of filming—roam all across France looking for people and stories to inspire the massive portraits that they will plaster upon the best empty wall they can find. The documentary uniquely combines insights into rural France and its dual artists. We learn as much about Varda—and a little about JR— as we do about their subjects. By the final trek to visit Varda’s old friend and fellow New Waver Jean-Luc Godard, expect to be just emotionally involved as they are. Faces Places speaks to the universality of listening and respecting a person’s personal story, be they the daughter of a coal miner or a legendary artist from one of cinema’s most revered periods. Who else wants a sequel with Varda and JR plastering the walls of other countries with his gorgeous, touching works of massive art? f
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calendar picks MUSIC | WED, APR 4
Japanese Breakfast
ART | FRI, APR 6
40 Watt Club · 8 p.m. · $13–15 After a handful of lo-fi cassette releases, Michelle Zauner’s solo recording project, Japanese Breakfast, entered the national spotlight in 2016 with the release of Psychopomp, a collection of dreamy indie-rock tunes centered around the death of her mother and the grief that ensued. The album was re-released by Bloomington, IN label Dead Oceans before Zauner began work on her expansive follow-up, Soft Sounds From Another Planet. Released last year, the full-length displays a step up in terms of production quality, with Zauner’s textured, shoegaze-y guitar work grounding otherwise heavenly songs about interpersonal relationships. Maryland’s Snail Mail and Atlanta’s Art School Jocks open Wednesday’s show at the 40 Watt Club. [Andy Barton]
Tuesday 3 CLASSES: Email Basics (ACC Library) In the computer training room. Register by calling or stopping by the Reference desk. 10–11:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, ext. 354. www.athenslibrary.org/athens CLASSES: Water-Bath Canning: Apple Jelly (Morgan County 4-H Office, 440 Hancock St. Madison) Make and take apple jelly. 10 a.m. $40. farmviewmarket.com
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Emerges: Collaborations Southworks
ATHICA · 6–9 p.m. · Donations encouraged Dedicated to showcasing new talent, “Emerges” presents contemporary works by artists who are developing unique voices. Curated by PhD candidate in art education Kira Hegeman and Lamar Dodd instructor Jon Vogt, the 11th installment explores domesticity, materiality and collaboration through a site-specific installation. Working across a variety of disciplines—textile, print, metal, sound and sculpture—participating artists Megan Burchett, Maddie Zerkel, Jonathan Quinn Nowell, Forest Kelley and Alexis Spina were presented with the challenge of playing off of each other’s contributions. On view through May 13, the exhibition is part of “Beast It,” the gallery’s series of experimental performances and installations. [Jessica Smith]
COMEDY: Open TOAD Comedy Open Mic (Flicker Theatre & Bar) This regular comedy open mic features established comedians and newcomers alike. 9 p.m. $5. www. flickertheatreandbar.com EVENTS: Three Minute Thesis (Ciné Barcafé) Masters and doctoral students present their research in three minutes. 7 p.m. FREE! www. athenscine.com EVENTS: Tuesday Tour at 2 (UGA Special Collections Library) Take a guided tour of the exhibit galleries of
OCAF · 6–9 p.m. · Donations encouraged From painting, photography and printmaking to jewelry, sculpture and ceramics, the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation’s annual juried “Southworks Exhibition” welcomes a wide variety of media submitted from across the country. On view in the Members’ Gallery, this year’s accompanying Director’s Choice Exhibition, “Fold + Facet,” features three artists specializing in their chosen materials: Eleanor Annand, Justin Turcotte and Emily Rogstad. Selected by Margot Ecke, Annand builds sculptures out of printed and dyed cut paper, Turcotte creates glass vessels by iron, and Rogstad assembles jewelry with a keen eye for irregular shape. Both exhibitions will remain on view through May 4. [JS]
the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies. Meet in the rotunda on the second floor. 2 p.m. FREE! jclevela@ uga.edu FILM: España en Corto: Spanish Short Film Festival (Georgia Museum of Art) View award-winning short films directed by up-and-coming Spanish filmmakers. Apr. 3–4, 6:30 p.m. FREE! georgiamuseum.org
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Media Circus
Trio Contemporary Art Gallery · 7–9 p.m. · Donations encouraged Curated by artistic director Tatiana Veneruso, Trio’s new exhibition “Media Circus” celebrates all things mixed-media. Works by more than two dozen artists will be featured, including 70dot, Kenneth Aguar, Rose M. Barron, Shawn Campbell, Jordana Dale, Meredith Elder, Lisa Freeman, Vivian Liddell, Lift It Down, Julia Wynn Safer, Taylor Shaw and Anna Lee Shultz. If you miss Friday evening’s opening reception, be sure to mark your calendar for “Artwerk,” happening May 12. The fashion show will present designers’ one-of-a-kind garments and accessories made from non-traditional materials. The gallery is also currently accepting submissions for its next exhibition, “CatFest,” through May 1. [JS]
GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Nic every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706354-7289 GAMES: Dirty Bingo (Mellow Mushroom) Win prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! www.mellowmushroom.com GAMES: RPG Night (The Rook and Pawn) Learn the basics of Malandros. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. therookandpawn.com GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) Westside and Eastside locations of Locos Grill and Pub feature
MUSIC | SAT, APR 7
The Messthetics
Caledonia Lounge · 9 p.m. · $10–12 As godfathers of the Washington, DC punk scene in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Fugazi provided a sonic and spiritual blueprint for generations of underground rock bands to come. Nearly 17 years after Fugazi’s last studio LP, two-thirds of that influential group—drummer Brendan Canty and bassist Joe Lally—have reconvened as The Messthetics, with guitarist Anthony Pirog rounding out the lineup. The Messthetics’ self-titled debut, released on DIY staple Dischord last month, is a raw, angular blend of noise, punk, math-rock, prog and more. The instrumental trio brings its dynamic live show to the Caledonia this weekend, with support from locals Motherfucker, as well as Atlanta acts Dead Now and The Purkinje Shift. [Gabe Vodicka]
trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia at Johnny’s (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Cash prizes! 8 p.m. FREE! 706-354-1515 GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) Hosted by James Majure. 6 p.m. FREE! www. therookandpawn.com GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) General trivia hosted by Jacob and Wes. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) (2301 College Station
Rd.) Every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern KIDSTUFF: Teen Social Justice Meetup (ACC Library) The Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement hosts an after-school meet up to teach teens how to self-advocate and get involved. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Live Lambs (Bogart Library) Participants will meet sweet baby lambs, make wooly crafts and hear sheep stories. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart
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KIDSTUFF: LEGO Robotos Workshop (Oconee County Library) Learn how to build working LEGO robots. Ages 7 and up. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Meet the Author (The Story Shop, Monroe) Meet bestselling children’s author Mez Blume for a detective party and book signing. 1 p.m. FREE! mezblume.com/events KIDSTUFF: Teen Peepapalooza (Bogart Library) Create a scene from a book or movie with Peeps. Grades 6–12. Registration recommended. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/bogart LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Normal Books) Meet bestselling children’s author Mez Blume in celebration of her book Katie Watson and the Painter’s Plot. 5 p.m FREE! mez blume.com/events LECTURES & LIT: Adult Book Club (Bogart Library) Pick up a copy of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See at the front desk and meet book lovers at the new book club. 1 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart LECTURES & LIT: How a Bill Becomes a Law (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) (Room 277) With Dr. Anthony Madonna. 12:30 p.m. FREE! jhebbard@uga.edu MEETINGS: Classic City Woodturners (Lyndon House Arts Center) This month’s demonstrator is Jim Talley doing off-center, multiaxis turnings. There will be a raffle and 2018 dues will be collected. 6 p.m. www.classiccitywoodturners. com
Wednesday 4 ART: Artful Conversation (Georgia Museum of Art) Curator of education Callan Steinmann leads a discussion on Beverly Buchanan’s sculpture, “Medicine Woman.” 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Video Editing for Beginners (ACC Library) Learn the basics of video editing using Adobe Premiere. Registration required. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, www. athenslibrary.org/athens EVENTS: Get Comfortable: Milestone Moment (Creature Comforts Brewery) The brewery celebrates milestones with its Get Comfortable campaign. Meet representatives from six nonprofit partners. 5–10 p.m. www.ccbeerco.com FILM: España en Corto: Spanish Short Film Festival (Georgia Museum of Art) See Tuesday listing for full description Apr. 3–4, 6:30 p.m. FREE! georgiamuseum.org GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Gather a team. Every
Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. willys.com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) (2440 W. Broad St.) Compete for prizes. 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. www. saucehouse.com GAMES: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) (Washington St.) Play to win. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Dirty South Trivia offers house cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 KIDSTUFF: Spring Cleaning Crafts (Bogart Library) Make something with the library’s art supplies. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Stop Motion Animation (ACC Library) Learn how to make your own movie using stop-motion animation and Hue Animation Studio. Meets the first Wednesday of every month. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ athens 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: Girls Who Code (ACC Library) Learn more about coding. 4:15 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens KIDSTUFF: What’s That Song?: Music Trivia (Oconee County Library) Guess popular songs based on snippets from the lyrics in a Jeopardy-style trivia. Grades 6–12. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Preschool Storytime (ACC Library) Attendees will share books, songs, puppets and rhymes. Ages 1.5–5. 9:30 a.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Children of all ages are invited for bedtime stories every Wednesday. 7 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens LECTURES & LIT: Word of Mouth Poetry (The Globe) Open mic poetry readings. This month’s featured reader is Jonathon Brown. 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.facebook. com/athenswordofmouth LECTURES & LIT: “Frank’s Nightmare” (Bogart Library) Historian Bill Cosgrove will reveal the mysterious WWII story of a
former Athens resident, Lt. Eugene Cook, who was the pilot of the jinxed B-17 Flying Fortress from the 91st Bomb Group, “Frank’s Nightmare.” 1 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/bogart LECTURES & LIT: Poetry Reading (Seney-Stovall Chapel) T.S. Elliot Prize winner for poetry and Inaugural poet laureate of Belfast, Sinéad Morrissey will read with special guests LeAnne How and Daniel Mulhall. 7 p.m. FREE! willson.uga. edu OUTDOORS: Guided Nature Ramble (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join naturalists from the community on the trails at Sandy Creek. 9–11 a.m. FREE! scncinc@ gmail.com PERFORMANCE: UGA African American Choral Ensemble (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) The group presents their spring concert of songs that celebrate, honor and originate the African-American experience. 8 p.m. FREE! www.music. uga.edu
Thursday 5 ART: Gallery Talk (Lyndon House Arts Center) Artists from the 43rd Juried Exhibition will discuss their work. This week’s artists include Avery Rowan, AC Carter and Meera Naqvi. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.accgov. com/exhibits ART: BFA Dodd Design Reception (Lamar Dodd School of Art) Exit Show Reception for Graphic Design, Interior Design, Art Education and Scientific Illustration. 6–8 p.m. FREE! art.uga.edu ART: Creature Comforts Tap Takeover & Art Party (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) Live music by Old School Presents… Roshambo. Creature Comforts hosts a party for “The Broadside Exhibition Project: verse 1,” a series of illustrated poems by collaborating poets and artists. 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com CLASSES: Mandala Workshop (Georgia Museum of Art) “Awakening the Divine: A Mandala Workshop,” includes a history of mandalas and a chance for participants to create their own with Debra Alvis. Reservations recommended. In conjunction with “Images of Awakening: Buddhist Sculpture from Afghanistan and Pakistan.” 5:30 p.m. FREE! sagekincaid@uga.edu COMEDY: Comedy Show (The World Famous) Open mic comedy. 9 p.m. facebook.com/theworldfamousathens EVENTS: Rural Healthcare Symposium (UGA Dean Rusk Hall) (Larry Walker Room) Key topics
include rural healthcare administration, mental and behavioral health shortages. transformative ideas in rural health, and the intersection of rural health and rural economic development. 9 a.m. FREE! www.law. uga.edu/events/49608 EVENTS: Senior Potluck (Winterville Center for Community and Culture) Bring a dish to share. musical entertainment by Christian Moncriol. 12:30 p.m. FREE! wintervillecenter@gmail.com GAMES: Duplicate Bridge (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Beginner and experienced players welcome. 6:30 p.m. ejstapler@gmail.com GAMES: Music Trivia (Saucehouse Barbeque) Meet at the bar for a round of trivia. 8 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/saucehousebbq KIDSTUFF: UGA EcoReach (ACC Library) Hands-on activities about the environment. Ages 11–18. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ athens KIDSTUFF: Littlest Family’s Big Day (ACC Library) Participants will listen to Margaret Wise Brown’s Little Fur Family and make a craft to go in this woodland stoyrtime. Ages 3–8. 3:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Blackout Poetry (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Teens will make magnetic poems and blackout poetry using Sharpies and recycled books. Ages 12–18. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/madison LECTURES & LIT: PhD Dissertation (Georgia Museum of Art) Rachel Sanders presents her dissertation “[Text]ure: Weaving Together an Understanding of New Literacies” as a pop-up exhibition. 5–8 p.m. FREE! texturewksh@ gmail.com LECTURES & LIT: Ethics in the Age of Partisan Warfare (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) (Room 271) Princeton University professor and CNN analyst Julian E. Zelizer will talk about the topic of ethics in Congress. A light reception will follow. 4 p.m. FREE! www.rbrl.blogspot.com MEETINGS: Oconee Rivers Audubon Society (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Betsy KurimoBeechuk speaks on “Secretive Marsh Birds.” 7 p.m. FREE! www.oconeeriversaudubon.org PERFORMANCE: UGA Spring Dance Concert (UGA New Dance Theatre) View contemporary and classical repertoire from UGA’s department of dance. Apr. 5–7, 8 p.m. Apr. 7, 2 p.m. $5–16. www.pac. uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Jonathan Biss (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) The
award-winning pianist will perform an all-Beethoven program featuring the Piano Sonata in No. 23 in F Minor, Apassionata. 8 p.m. $39. pac. uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Repertory Change in Motion (UGA New Dance Theatre) The UGA Department of Dance presents a collection of original works created by faculty and guest artists for dance students. Apr. 5–7, 8 p.m. Apr. 7, 2 p.m. $5–16. dance.uga.edu
Friday 6 ART: Opening Reception (OCAF, Watkinsville) The annual “Southworks National Juried Exhibition” features 90 pieces from across the country. “Fold + Facet” spotlights artists Eleanor Annand, Justin Turcotte and Emily Rogstad. See Calendar Pick on p. 20. 6–9 p.m. FREE! www.ocaf.com ART: Media Circus (Trio Contemporary Art Gallery) “Media Circus” celebrates all things mixed-media. See Calendar Pick on p. 20. 7–9 p.m Donations encouraged. www.trioathens.com ART: Opening Reception (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) “Emerges: Collaborations” features work by Megan Burchett, Maddie Zerkel, Jonathan Quinn Nowell, Forest Kelley and Alexis Spina. See Calendar Pick on p. 20. 6–9 p.m. Donations accepted. www. athica.org CLASSES: Friday Night Dance Party (UGA Memorial Hall) A beginner East Coast Swing lesson will be held at 7 p.m. followed by social dancing. No partner or experience necessary. 7–10:30 p.m. $3 (students), $5 (non-students). ugaballroom@gmail.com CLASSES: Computer Classes (Oconee County Library) “Intro to Word 2010.” 2 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/oconee EVENTS: UGA Horticulture Club Plant Sale A spring plant sale features landscape, herbaceous, perenial, annual, herb, vegetable and house plants. (Corner of College Station Rd. and Riverbend Rd.) Apr. 6–14, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. www.facebook. com/ugahortclub EVENTS: UGA College of Vet Med Open House (UGA College of Veterinary Medicine, 501 D.W. Brooks Dr.) See varius animal exhibits including exotics, a petting zoo, a doggy kissing booth, teddy bear surgery and more. Learn about vet students and take a hospital tour. 9 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! vet.uga.edu/ openhouse EVENTS: KnitLits (Bogart Library) Knitters of all levels are welcome.
6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/bogart EVENTS: Morning Mindfulness (Georgia Museum of Art) Participate in a guided meditation session in the galleries. Meet in the lobby. 9:30– 10:30 a.m. FREE! sagekincaid@uga. edu, www.georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Hatch Hackathon (Chase Park Warehouses) (The Hatch) Work individually or in teams to make something in under four hours. Most projects are tech, art or craft focused. Bring your own supplies. 5–9 p.m. FREE! www.hatchathens.com EVENTS: Greenway Expansion Celebration (Greenway trailhead) A ribbon cutting ceremony marks the next phase of the North Oconee River Greenway. 3:30 p.m. FREE! www.accgov.com/greenway GAMES: Planeswalkers for Diversity Meeting and Magic (Tyche’s Games) Play Magic in a welcoming atmosphere. 6 p.m. www. tychesgames.com KIDSTUFF: Quilled Earrings (Bogart Library) Make colorful designs and shapes with the art of quilling. Ages 9 and up. 2:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Spanish Storytime (ACC Library) Share books, songs, rhymes and activities en Español. Ages 3–8. 3:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Paint Night (East Athens Community Center) Ages 5 & up. Painters will be given an example of what to paint. 6:30 p.m. $10–15. www.accgov.com/leisure KIDSTUFF: Anime Club (ACC Library) Join other 6th–12th graders to watch, read and talk about anime and manga. 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 PERFORMANCE: UGA Spring Dance Concert (UGA New Dance Theatre) See Thursday listing for full description Apr. 5–7, 8 p.m. Apr. 7, 2 p.m. $5–16. www.pac.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Repertory Change in Motion (UGA New Dance Theatre) See Thursday listing for full description Apr. 5–7, 8 p.m. Apr. 7, 2 p.m. $5–16. dance.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Drag Show (The Pub) With local troupe The Kourtesans. This performance is also a talent show. First Friday of every month. 10 p.m. www.facebook. com/kourtesans THEATER: Othello (UGA Fine Arts Building) Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy pits the conniving Iago against his trusting friend Othello. Apr. 6–7, 11–14, 8 p.m. Apr. 8 & 15, 2:30 p.m. $12–16. www.ugatheatre.com THEATER: Urinetown, the Musical (Cedar Shoals High School) Cedar Shoals High School presents a musical satire on corporate greed, k continued on next page
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Saturday 7 ART: MFA Opening Reception (Georgia Museum of Art) Join the Masters of Fine Arts candidates for an exhibition of their work. 5:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org ART: Paint Your Pet (ARTini’s Art Lounge) Proceeds benefit Athens Canine Rescue. Registration required. 7–10 p.m. $50. kate@ artinisartlounge.com ART: Southern Star Studio Open House (Southern Star Studio) The pottery studio features work by Maria Dondero, Lori Demosthenes, Chona Leathers, Allya Maerz, Regina Mandell and Kerry Steinberg. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! mariadondero. com CLASSES: Mushroom Log Inoculation (McBride Family Farm, 64 Beaver Trail, Winterville) Participants will take home a jar of new spawn and an inoculated log that will produce fresh shiitake mushrooms. Ages 12 and up. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. $50. www.wildintelligence.org CLASSES: Shape-up Saturday (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Move and shake with library assistant Mia Townsend. 11:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/madison EVENTS: International Street Festival (Broad St. & College Ave.) International Student Life at UGA presents a festival showcasing various student groups and community organizations through cultural displays, live music and dance performances. 12–5 p.m. FREE! isl. uga.edu EVENTS: Handicrafts and Yard Sale (Winterville Center for Community and Culture) Multifamily yard sale of gently used treasures. 8 a.m. 706-742-0823 EVENTS: Link Fest (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Meet Melissa Link, ACC District 3 Commissioner, at her re-election campaign concert. Music by Clay Leverett and John Neff, LG & DJ Country Boy, and Kompromat. 6–8:30 p.m. melissalinkathens.com EVENTS: Meet and Greet (Allgood Lounge) Meet Lakeisha Gantt, candidate for Clarke County Board of Education District 7. 4–6 p.m. FREE! www.electlakeishagantt.com EVENTS: Anniversary Party (The Office Lounge) The Office Lounge celebrates its 9th birthday with live music by Dwight Wilson & The Classic City Soul, food and more. 6 p.m. www.facebook.com/officeathens EVENTS: Pets Supply Plus (Pet Supplies Plus) The ACC Humane Society hosts low-cost vaccinations and a pet care clinic. 1–4 p.m. www. petsuppliesplus.com EVENTS: Sheep to Shawl (Robert L. Bridges Park, Statham) There will be several demonstrations including sheep shearing, blacksmithing, soap making, beekeeping, basket weaving and more. There will also be live animals, food vendors and handmade crafts. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! lhgstathamga@gmail.com EVENTS: UGA Horticulture Club Plant Sale See Friday listing for full description (Corner of College Station Rd. and Riverbend Rd.) Apr. 6–14, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. www.facebook. com/ugahortclub EVENTS: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (Go Bar) Watch the house cast plus Farrazz from Atlanta. 9
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p.m. $3. www.facebook.com/athensshowgirls EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods, crafts and live music. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Eastside Athens Spring Fling (Southeast Clarke Park) Celebrate the Eastside with yoga, The Classic City Roller Girls, food trucks, skateboarding and BMX bike demos. Live music by Nuclear Tourism, Cosmo Jr., Juan de Fuca, Five-Eight, Linqua Franqa and Elf Power. 11 a.m.–6 p.m. FREE! athensspringfling.com EVENTS: Be Bold Bash (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) (The Pit) Sigma Alpha Iota hosts a benefit concert with music by J My DJ, comedy, face painting, outdoor lawn games and more. Proceeds benefit Extra Special People. 3–7 p.m. $7–10. EVENTS: United Hands of Change Forum (Green Acres Baptist Church, 2085 Barnett Shoals Rd.) The purpose of the forum is to build unity between all people with Christian teachings. Lunch will be served. 9 a.m. FREE! unitedhandsofchangega@gmail.com EVENTS: Chess & Community Conference (The Classic Center) (Grand Hall) This youth chess tournament also features a writing contest, art show and local vendors. Shane Sims and Kevin Dious will speak. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. www.chessandcommunity.org EVENTS: Spring Banquet (Flinchum’s Pheonix Lodge, Whitehall Forest, Athens) The Oconee River Chapter of Trout Unlimited presents a fundraising event featuring silent and live auctions, bucket raffles, giveaways, a catered dinner and fellowship. 5:30 p.m. $15 (students), $25. sghilliard@gmail.com GAMES: Shadowrun RPG (Tyche’s Games) Visit Seattle in 2071, when magic and megacorps clash. 12 p.m. FREE! www.tychesgames.com KIDSTUFF: YA Movie Afternoon (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Watch a movie for National Poetry Month and enjoy snacks. Ages 14–18. 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/madison KIDSTUFF: Movie Matinee (Bogart Library) Watch Wonder. 2:30 p.m. FREE! ww.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Nature’s Trading Post (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Trade one or two objects found in nature for points or other nature objects in the center’s collection. 11 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Family Day: Mindfulness and Mandalas (Georgia Museum of Art) Participants will make their own mandalas and look at Buddhist sculptures from Afghanistan and Pakistan. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org KIDSTUFF: Australian Outback Adventure (ACC Library) Participants will listen to Mem Fox’s Possum Magic, then learn about the animals and food of Australia with crafts and snacks. Ages 4–8. 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens LECTURES & LIT: YA Author Panel (Avid Bookshop) Authors Laura Silverman, Rachael Allen and Lauren Karcz will talk about their most recent works, as well as what it means to be a female writer of YA. 6 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com LECTURES & LIT: YA Day of Yay! (Avid Bookshop) (Prince Ave.) Celebrate young adult literature with
a costume contest and a “masked” book sale. Proceeds will benefit a local organization. 10 a.m.–8 p.m. www.avidbookshop.com MEETINGS: BoomAthens Meetup (ACC Library) Several residents and BOOM contributors will discuss their experiences in a panel discussion called “My Vietnam Decision.” 2–4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens OUTDOORS: Adopt-A-Stream Volunteer Training (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Participants will be trained to help monitor the health of a nearby stream. Register by Apr. 5. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. 706-613-3615, www. accgov.com/sandycreeknaturecenter OUTDOORS: Naturalist’s Walk (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join the SCNC staff for a walk around the
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Sunday 8 ART: Sunday Spotlight Tour (Georgia Museum of Art) Docents lead a tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 3 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org ART: Art Decko Showcase (Creature Comforts Brewery) View completed paintings for Art Decko with a special showcase including an artist market. Live music by Elf Power, Forbidden Waves and Jeremy Kiran Fernandes. Art Decko is a public art project that will bring large-scale paintings to the College Avenue Parking Deck in May. See
THEATER: Othello (UGA Fine Arts Building) See Friday listing for full description Apr. 8 & 15, 2:30 p.m. $12–16. www.ugatheatre.com
Monday 9 GAMES: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Highwire Lounge) Test your general knowledge for prizes. 8–10 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com GAMES: Draft & Drafts: Magic Monday (The Rook and Pawn) Garrett hosts a Magic: The Gathering draft. 7 p.m. $12. www.therookandpawn.com GAMES: Duplicate Bridge (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Beginner players welcome. 1 p.m. $4. ejstapler@gmail.com
plant-based Ironman athlete Dom Thompson will speak about animal rights, fitness and social justice. 7:30 p.m. FREE! sos@uga.edu MEETINGS: Candidate Forum (ACC Library) Sponsored by the Junior League. 6:30 p.m. www. athenslibrary.org/athens PERFORMANCE: Masters of the Mind (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Guy Bavli, Dale K., Jeff and Tessa Evason are internationally acclaimed mentalists who demonstrate the power of the mind with telekinesis, hypnosis and predictions. 6 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. $39. pac.uga.edu SPORTS: Table Tennis Matches and Training (East Athens Community Center) See Saturday listing for full description Mondays, 6–8:30 p.m. & Saturdays, 1–4 p.m. First visit free. www.ttathensga.com
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Scott Haggard plays Terrapin Beer Co. on Friday, Apr. 6. property. Bring a camera or binoculars. All ages. 10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 PERFORMANCE: Repertory Change in Motion (UGA New Dance Theatre) See Thursday listing for full description Apr. 5–7, 8 p.m. Apr. 7, 2 p.m. $5–16. dance.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: UGA Spring Dance Concert (UGA New Dance Theatre) See Thursday listing for full description Apr. 5–7, 8 p.m. Apr. 7, 2 p.m. $5–16. www.pac.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Coming Together– Kyle Lewis (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) “Coming Together” by Frederic Rzewski is based on letters of an inmate at Attica State Prison. The Incongruency Ensemble from Atlanta will perform a music and narration piece with guest artist Kyle Lewis. 8 p.m. athica.org SPORTS: Table Tennis Matches and Training (East Athens Community Center) Beginner to advanced skill levels welcome. Mondays, 6–8:30 p.m. & Saturdays, 1–4 p.m. First visit free. www. ttathensga.com THEATER: Urinetown, the Musical (Cedar Shoals High School) See Friday listing for full description Apr. 6 & 7, 7:30 p.m. Apr. 8, 2:30 p.m. $5–10. 706-546-5375 THEATER: Othello (UGA Fine Arts Building) See Friday listing for full description Apr. 6–7, 11–14, 8 p.m.
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Story on p. 10. 1–6 p.m. FREE! creaturecomfortsbeer.com ART: Artist Reception (Oconee County Library) Meet Cameron Bierglund. 2:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/oconee CLASSES: Calligraphy Class (Madison County Library) Mike Moak teaches lettering. Supplies are not provided. 3 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/madison EVENTS: UGA Horticulture Club Plant Sale See Friday listing for full description (Corner of College Station Rd. and Riverbend Rd.) Apr. 6–14, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. www.facebook. com/ugahortclub EVENTS: Martin Luther King Commemoration Event (ACC Library) Celebrate King’s legacy with music, video, a talk and refreshments. 3 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens PERFORMANCE: “From Broadway to Hollywood” (The Foundry) A red-carpet affair where Athens musicians perform songs from stage to screen. Performers include Elite the Showstoppa, Mike Mantione, Jamon Holt, Reverend Tibble and more. Lisa Mende and Breezy Goings will emcee. Proceeds benefit Ciné. 7 p.m. $10–15. www.athenscine.com THEATER: Urinetown, the Musical (Cedar Shoals High School) See Friday listing for full description Apr. 6 & 7, 7:30 p.m. Apr. 8, 2:30 p.m. $5–10. 706-546-5375
GAMES: Dirty South Trivia: Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Team trivia contests with house cash prizes every Monday night. 8 p.m. FREE! www.grindhouseburgers.com KIDSTUFF: Open Chess Play for Kids and Teens (ACC Library) Teen chess players can play matches and learn from members of the local Chess and Community Players, who will be on hand to assist players and help build skill levels. For ages 7–18. Registration required. 4–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Monday Funday (Bogart Library) Songs, finger plays, wiggles and giggles for ages three and under. Caregivers will receive pointers for building literacy and language skills. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime (ACC Library) Designed to nurture language skills through literature-based materials and activities. Parents assist their children in movements and actions while playing. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT: Advance Planning is Easy as Pie (Winterville Center for Community and Culture) A funeral pre-planning presentation over slices of pie. 7 p.m. 706-742-0823 LECTURES & LIT: Dominick Thompson (Miller Learning Center) (Room 248) Body builder and
ART: Athens Fibercraft Guild (Lyndon House Arts Center) The Guild welcomes all amateur and professional fiber artists including knitters, crocheters, weavers, spinners, fabric designers, basket makers, quilters and embroiderers. This month, Erica Lewis will share handwoven items and technqieus. 6 p.m. FREE! athensfiber.org ART: Art Exhibit Opening: “Organizing Chaos” (ACC Library) Gunnar Tarsa will give a slide talk on his artistic journey as part of “Organizing Chaos,” an exhibition of his work in the library’s second floor Quiet Gallery through Apr. 25. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens CLASSES: Facebook for Beginners (ACC Library) Registration required. 10 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens COMEDY: Judah Friedlander (40 Watt Club) Judah Friedlander has acted in “30 Rock,” Zoolander, “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and more. His stand-up album and documentary is called America Is the Greatest Country in the United States. 8:30 p.m. $20. 40watt.com EVENTS: Tuesday Tour at 2 (UGA Special Collections Library) See Tuesday listing for full description 2 p.m. FREE! jclevela@uga.edu EVENTS: Puppies in the Park (Legion Field) Meet adoptable puppies, listen to life music and enter a raffle. Proceeds benefit the Athens Humane Society. 5–9 p.m. $5. www. facebook.com/rescuepawsuga GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) See Tuesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! www. locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia at Johnny’s (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Play for cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706354-1515 GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Nic every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706354-7289 GAMES: Special Beer Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) Show off what you know. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.hiloathens. com GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) See Tuesday listing for full description 6 p.m. FREE! www.therookandpawn.com GAMES: Book Trivia: Game of Thrones (Walls of Books, Watkinsville) Test your knowledge and win prizes. 6:30 p.m. www. wallsofbooks.net GAMES: Dirty Bingo (Mellow Mushroom) Win prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! www.mellowmushroom.com GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) See Tuesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern
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: Interview Prep 101 (ACC Library) Learn how to create a strong resume and get tips on interviewing for jobs. For teens. 4:15 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ athens LECTURES & LIT: Balancing the Federal Budget (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) (Room 277) Dr. Michael Lynch is this week’s speaker. Coffee and dessert provided. 12:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ugaspecialcollections LECTURES & LIT: Cooking Demo & Book Release (Avid Bookshop) (Five Points) Meet author, restauranteur and chef Eddie Hernandez for a cookign demo and signing of his book Turnip Greens & Tortillas: Mexican Chef Spices up the Southern Kitchen. 6 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com LECTURES & LIT: Getzen Lecture on Government Accountability (UGA Chapel) Former Director of the United States Office of Government Ethics Walter Shaub will deliver a lecture. 2 p.m. FREE! www.ctl.uga. edu/eventstream
Wednesday 11 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Take a tour of “Images of Awakening: Buddhist Sculpture from Afghanistan and Pakistan.” 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: After Effects for Beginners (ACC Library) Learn how to add special effects with Adobe After Effects. Registration is required. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens EVENTS: Rabbit Box (The Foundry) Storytelling for adults. This month’s theme is “Roam Sweet Roam.” 7 p.m. $7. rabbitboxstories@gmail. com GAMES: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) (Washington St.) Play to win. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Gather a team. Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. willys.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Dirty Bingo (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Hosted by Garrett Lennox every Wednesday. Prizes and house cash. 8 p.m. FREE! www. grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) Gather a team and compete. 8 p.m. www. saucehouse.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: Preschool Storytime (ACC Library) Attendees will share books, songs, puppets and rhymes. Ages 1.5–5. 9:30 a.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Beauty-Licious (Oconee County Library) Learn the basics of make-up application with local teen Noah R. Grades 6–12. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ oconee 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: Wednesday Reads Book Club (Bogart Library) Read graphic novels with Ms. Camille. 4th and 5th graders. 4 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/bogart 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: 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: Royal Gardens (Georgia Museum of Art) Dr. Lee Prosser presents “Royal Gardens: A Setting for the Palace Jewel.” 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org PERFORMANCE: Guy Did Ail (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) Visual/performance artist Gunnar Tarsa and composer/ musician/performance artist Kyle Lewis collaborate as Guy Did Ail. Part of “Surrender,” three experimental music performances curated by Lewis as part of ATHICA’s “Beast It” series. 8 p.m. www.athica.org THEATER: Othello (UGA Fine Arts Building) See Friday listing for full description Apr. 6–7, 11–14, 8 p.m. Apr. 8 & 15, 2:30 p.m. $12–16. www.ugatheatre.com
Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC A weekly open-mic jam hosted by Louis Phillip Pelot. All musicians welcome. Backline provided!
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The Foundry 6 p.m. FREE! www.thefoundryathens. com KIP JONES Local songwriter playing all your favorite folk, rock, R&B and country covers and some of his own tunes.
Tuesday 3 Cali ’N’ Tito’s Eastside 11 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! www.calintitos. com LEAVING COUNTRIES Louis Phillip Pelot plays folk with Latin influences every Tuesday in March. The Foundry Camp Twitch & Shout Benefit. 8 p.m. $5. www.thefoundryathens.com LIVE BAND KARAOKE Sing your favorite ’80s and ’90s jams and beyond, backed by Saved by the Band. Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. SOLD OUT. www.georgiatheatre. com RAINBOW KITTEN SURPRISE Alternative rock and indie-pop band from Boone, NC. CAAMP Folk-based duo out of Athens, OH. On the Rooftop. 11 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com LITTLE BIRD Four-piece from Annapolis, MD blending surf-rock, jazz and Americana. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 SAHADA BUCKLEY Local violinist performs a solo set. ANNIE LEETH Local violinist and multi-instrumentalist composer. THE MICHAELS No info available. SHOULDIES Atlanta-based queer electronic-pop project.
Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com THE POWERS Local folk-rock band of brothers. ALL THE OTHER REINDEER Athens-based progressive rock group. DARSANA Local indie-rock band. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com WELCOME CENTER Electronic indierock outfit from Texas. SWAMP Melodic and wiry local indierock band. LAMBDA CELSIUS Local experimental electronic performer. SOCIAL CIRCLE Athens-based softpsych-pop project. 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $13 (adv.), $15 (door). www.40watt.com JAPANESE BREAKFAST Indie-pop venture led by Michelle Zauner, previously of Little Big League. See Calendar Pick on p. 20. SNAIL MAIL The alias of Baltimorebased indie singer Lindsey Jordan. ART SCHOOL JOCKS Atlanta-based lo-fi power-pop group.
Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 6 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com ASPEN ANONDA Athens-based indie-pop singer-songwriter. On the Rooftop. 9 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com XANNY P Athens-based rapper. PROPERTY OF BOLTON New local rock four-piece. The Globe 8 p.m. www.jazzathensga.org THE HOT HOTTY-HOTS Local swing and hot jazz ensemble playing music of the 1910s, ’20s and ’30s. Locos Grill & Pub 6 p.m. FREE! 706-549-7700 SIMPLE LIFE Local band led by musician Greg Veal. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. $3. 706-546-4742 1ST AND FIRST Atlanta-based psychedelic rock band. I.R.E. Seven-member reggae and funk-flavored rock band from Atlanta.
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The Foundry 8 p.m. $12 (adv.), $15 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com MICHELLE MALONE BANNED Americana singer-songwriter who puts an honest and emotional spin on her music. Album release show! Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com JOSH BRICKER Local country-rock artist. 7:30 p.m. $18 (adv.), $20 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com DYLAN SCOTT Country singer-songwriter from Nashville via Louisiana. JOSH MIRENDA Country songwriter known for penning hits for Dierks Bentley and Jason Aldean. MEGAN MORONEY Up-and-coming local country singer-songwriter. SEAFORTH Australian country duo. On the Rooftop. 10:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiatheatre.com HEATHEN SONS Alt-countryinfluenced rock band from Nashville. Go Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by Dr. Fred and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more.
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Hendershot’s Coffee Bar Old Skool Presents. 8 p.m. FREE! www. hendershotscoffee.com ROSHAMBO Jason Fuller, Seth Hendershot, Nick Johnson and Aaron Trubic play soulful renditions of classic hits. Highwire Lounge 11 p.m. $1 (headphone). www.highwirelounge.com SILENT DISCO Dance with wireless headphones and two channels of music. One of them is a request line! Hotel Indigo 5 p.m. FREE! www.indigoathens.com LEAVING COUNTRIES Louis Phillip Pelot performs funky Southern folkrock on guitar, bass drum, harmonica and vocals. Live Wire 9 p.m. $10. www.livewireathens.com DAILY BREAD Rhett Whatley creates genre-bending experimental hip hop and EDM. HIKU Atlanta-based electronic duo blending trap and future-bass with far-out beats. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 ECHO MAESTRO Improv-based “jamtronica” trio from Atlanta.
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The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 SALLY & THE SIX GRAND BAND Long-running dance band playing oldies, classic rock, blues, disco and some fun originals.
Friday 6 Beth Salem Presbyterian Church 7 p.m. FREE! (donations suggested). www.facebook.com/ LexingtonGaDDA JIM WHITE Winterville-based singer-songwriter with a canny lyrical style and a Southern gothic flair. See story on p. 12. SYLVIE SIMMONS Legendary British rock writer turned singer-songwriter and ukulele player. Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 KIP JONES & FRIENDS Local songwriter playing all your favorite covers and some of his own tunes. Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com CHELSEA SHAG Soul-pop singer-songwriter from Atlanta. LIBERATOR Athens-based threepiece hard-rock band. SEANC Athens-based singer-songwriter. SEERSHA Electropop songwriter out of Atlanta. BLUE BODIES Athens-based “bummer-pop” punk band. Ciné Barcafé 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com CODE RED OPEN MIC NIGHT An open-mic event to benefit local nonprofit Project Safe. The Foundry 8 p.m. $8 (adv.), $10 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com CRESTON MAXEY BAND Group from Winder playing a mix of country and Southern rock. HOLMAN AUTRY BAND Described as “a little bit of Hank, a little bit of Metallica and a healthy dose of Southern rock.” Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 10 p.m. $8. www.georgiatheatre.com GIMME HENDRIX Award-winning local Jimi Hendrix cover band. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. SOLD OUT. www.hendershotscoffee.com BILL FRISELL TRIO The influential jazz guitarist leads a trio featuring bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Rudy Royston. See story on p. 13. Highwire Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com LIVE MUSIC Rotating local jazz and bluegrass bands play every Friday and Saturday night. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. $5. 706-546-4742 PARTIALS Local psychedelic pop band with a rich, danceable sound. EP release show! The Office Lounge 6 p.m. 706-546-0840 REV. CONNER MACK TRIBBLE Tribble is a Georgia rock and roll fixture. Every Friday! 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke!
Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com SMOKEY JOE AND THE TWO DOLLAR PISTOLS Outlaw country band from Atlanta. 9:30 p.m. $15 (adv.), $20 (door). www. terrapinbeer.com SCOTT HAGGARD The son of country legend Merle Haggard performs a set of his own country music. AC DARNELL Members of The Darnell Boys perform country and blues. THE BROKEN STRING BAND Athens band blending Western folk with indie rock.
Saturday 7 Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. 10 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com THE MESSTHETICS Instrumental trio from Washington, DC. See Calendar Pick on p. 20. MOTHERFUCKER Hard-driving, riffy local rock and roll trio. THE PURKINJE SHIFT Atlanta-based instrumental heavy-rock band. DEAD NOW No information available. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com JUNA Sweeping local post-rock band featuring epic, end-of-the-world instrumentation. CULT OF RIGGONIA Experimental soundscapes with tribal, world music beats and ornate instrumentation. MANI Experimental acid-folk threepiece from Macon. DIMMEN Local post-rock trio featuring twins playing polyrhythmic jams. Front Porch Book Store 6 p.m. FREE! 706-372-3928. DODD FERRELLE & THE WINTERVILLAINS Americana band with intense and engaging songs, led by Winterville mayor Ferrelle. Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com ABBEY ROAD LIVE Beloved local Beatles tribute band known for its attention to detail and musical proficiency. 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. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OH, JEREMIAH Local alt-country band inspired by songwriters like Josh Ritter and Ryan Adams. COREY KILGANNON Acoustic singer-songwriter from Nashville, TN. 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! Little Kings Shuffle Club Link for Commission Benefit. 6 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub CLAY LEVERETT Local songwriter Leverett, joined by John Neff, is a country-minded rocker whose songs are both tough and tender. LG Athens rapper Larry Gresham performs with instrumental support from DJ Country Boy. KOMPROMAT Local rock four-piece exploring dark themes including addiction, suicide and missed opportunities.
Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 REV. TRIBBLE AND THE DEACONS Old-fashioned rock and roll with a sprinkle of good-humored irreverence. Southeast Clarke Park 12 p.m. FREE! athensspringfling.com EASTSIDE ATHENS SPRING FLING An all-day festival featuring music by Nuclear Tourism, Cosmo Jr., Juan de Fuca, Five Eight, Linqua Franqa and Elf Power. Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com NINE TIMES BLUE Power-pop band from Atlanta. Wonderbar 10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ wonderbarathens GEORGE THE INFINITE Local DJ spins the best in Top 40, EDM and bass music every Saturday.
Sunday 8 Cali ’N’ Tito’s Eastside 6 p.m. FREE! 706-355-7087 THE LUCKY JONES Local band playing old-school rockin’ rhythm and blues. The Foundry Let’s Buy Ciné Benefit. 7 p.m. $10 (adv.), $15 (door). www.thefoundryathens.com FROM BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD Athens musicians perform songs from stage and screen. Featuring Elite tha Showstoppa, Mike Mantione, Jamon Holt, Reverend Tribble, Chereese Dunn, SJ Ursrey and others. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com VELVET CARAVAN High-energy, acoustic gypsy jazz quintet from Savannah. Terrapin Beer Co. 3 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com RAY BUCKNER Sincere and honest indie rock built on a foundation of heartfelt Americana songwriting. KELLY HOPPENJANS Indiepop singer-songwriter based in Nashville, TN.
Monday 9 Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com MRJORDANMRTONKS Tommy Jordan and William Tonks’ collaboration features rootsy guitar picking and paired vocal melodies. GREG MEREDITH Athens-based singer-songwriter and loop artist. KEVIN DANIEL Easygoing pop singer-songwriter. Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. $14. www.georgiatheatre.com THE BAND CAMINO Indie-rock band from Memphis, TN. WANDERWILD Intricate, intimate local indie-rock project led by songwriter Matt Martin. HILL ELLIOTT Americana singer and guitarist influenced by artists like John Mayer and Eric Clapton. On the Rooftop. 9 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com ALBATROSS Athens group creating an upbeat mixture of jazz, blues and funk.
Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OPEN MIC Showcase your musical talent at this open mic night happening most Mondays. Hosted by Larry Forte. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 SO NASTY Athens group led by saxophonist and vocalist Gnarly G and featuring a rotating cast of local musicians. The Pub 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-353-2831 KARAOKE Sing to your heart’s content every Monday.
Tuesday 10 Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com FOSTER Atlanta based alternative indie-folk band. THE FAMILY RECIPE New local jazz fusion outfit. CONNOR BROOKE Country singer-songwriter from Columbus. Cali ’N’ Tito’s Eastside 11 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! www.calintitos. com LEAVING COUNTRIES Louis Phillip Pelot plays folk with Latin influences every Tuesday in March. Creature Comforts Brewery 5 p.m. www.creaturecomfortsbeer.com MOTEL RADIO Southern-fried indiefolk band. QUIET HOLLERS Indie band from Louisville, KY with a shapeshifting sound. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com CALICO VISION Athens-based psychedelic pop group. THE PARLOR Eclectic indie-rock band from New York. The Foundry 8 p.m. $20 (adv.), $25 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com THE WAILERS Legendary reggae crew best known as Bob Marley’s backing band. DJ OSMOSE International touring DJ and Athens resident lays down an all-vinyl set of funk, soul, reggae and more. Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 6 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com CHECK THE SIGNS Uplifting local family band. On the Rooftop. 9:30 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com THE NOVEL IDEAS Americana/folk quintet from Massachusetts. Legion Field Puppies in the Park. 5 p.m. $5. www. rescuepawsusa.org GERKEY Local brother-and-sister indie-pop duo. DARSANA Local indie-rock band. ASPEN ANONDA Athens-based indie-pop singer-songwriter. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 JOHN SWILLEY Athens-based songwriter who blends gritty Southern rock, sultry R&B and sweet Delta blues.
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Blind Pig Tavern 7 p.m. FREE! 706-850-4919 (College Station Road location) LEAVING COUNTRIES Louis Phillip Pelot plays solo sets of country-rock and acoustic Southern soul. Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC A weekly open-mic jam hosted by Louis Phillip Pelot. All musicians welcome. Backline provided! Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com RUHAA! Local rock band with alternative and blues influences. ACTUS REUS Atlanta-based metal band. IVAN Jazz-funk group from Atlanta. Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com THE COME ON New York-based folkrock duo. GUMSHOE Lean, darkly evocative rock songs with vivid imagery, courtesy of frontman Andy Dixon’s weirdo-as-Everyman lyrics. GEORGIA DISH BOYS Local rock group fronted by singer-songwriter Seth Martin. Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 7 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com JAY GONZALEZ Drive-By Truckers’ keyboardist plays your favorite yacht rock, singer-songwriter, power-pop, British Invasion, originals and TV theme songs. On the Rooftop. 10 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com SHE RETURNS FROM WAR Folk trio from Charleston, SC.
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The Globe 8 p.m. www.jazzathensga.org THE HOT HOTTY-HOTS Local swing and hot jazz ensemble playing music of the 1910s, ’20s and ’30s. Locos Grill & Pub 6 p.m. FREE! 706-549-7700 (Timothy Road location) PULLIN’ STRINGS Bluegrass band playing a mix of originals and covers from the likes of The Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 THE AQUADUCKS High-energy funkrock band from Nashville. 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 an evening of original music, improv and standards.
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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 June 15, Sept. 15 & Dec. 15. info@athens arts.org, www.athensarts.org ARTWERK (Trio Contemporary Art Gallery) Artwerk is a new event series merging art and fashion. Seeking wearable art pieces that utilize non-traditional materials for a fashion show on May 12 during the gallery’s exhibition, “Media Circus.” Deadline Apr. 8 at 11:59 p.m. artwerk athens@gmail.com CALL FOR ART (Lyndon House Arts Center) Members of groups that meet at the Lyndon House can submit artwork to “Full House,” a biennial invitational exhibit. Online registration opens May 5. Drop off May 17, 1–8 p.m. Opening reception June 7, 6–8 p.m. 706-613-3623, www.accgov.com/lyndonhouse CALL FOR ARTISTS (Lexington, GA) Open studios and artists will be set up at various venues for the Lexington Art Crawl and Concert. Apr. 21, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. lindaparish1012@gmail.com EXHIBITION PROPOSALS (Lyndon House Arts Center) The center reviews proposals for future art exhibitions twice annually. Exhibitions can be by local, regional, national or international artists, exchange
exhibitions from other states and countries, invitational or juried exhibitions, themed exhibitions or exhibitions of historical works owned by local collectors. Due date Apr. 20 by 11:59 p.m. www.accgov. com/lyndonhouse MAKERSPACE MEMBERSHIP (The Hatch) Makers can have access to a full woodshop, metal shop, electronics lab, clean prototyping space, as well as fine art tools, sewing, 3D printing, laser cutting and other tools. $50/month for 24/7 access. Members also get discounted classes and attendance to monthy events. www.hatchathens.com/ membership
Auditions THE RED VELVET CAKE WAR (Elbert Theatre, Elberton) Encore Productions is casting three men and seven women for an upcoming production of the comedy, The Red Velvet Cake War. Performances will be held June 15–24. Auditions on Apr. 9–10, 6–8 p.m. 706-283-1049
Classes ATHENS TECH CLASSES (Athens Technical College) “Excel Amplified: Level III Microsoft Excel.” Apr. 6. $109. “Beginning Forklift Operator Certification.” Two-day course. Begins Apr. 25. $199. training@ athenstech.edu, athenstech.edu
CLASSES (Winterville Center for Community and Culture) “Community Coffeehouse,” Mondays–Thursdays from 9 a.m.–3 p.m. “Silver Sneakers Stretch,” Mondays at 10 a.m. “Jewelry Beading,” Mondays at 11 a.m. “Silver Sneakers Senior Aerobics,” Mondays at 11 a.m. “American Legion Post 20 Coffee Hour,” Tuedays at 9 a.m. “Threadwork Crafting Club,” Tuesdays at 9 a.m. “Pilates,” Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m. “Silver Sneakers Stretch,” Wednesdays at 10 a.m. “Oil Painting,” Wednesdays at 1 & 5:30 p.m. “Bellydance,” Wednesdays at 7 p.m. “Mah Jong,” Thursdays at 1 p.m. “Line Dancing,” Thursdays at 4 p.m. “Ballroom Dancing,” Thursdays at 6 p.m. www.wintervillecenter.com CLASSES (OCAF, Watkinsville) “The ABC’s of Writing for Children.” Begins Apr. 12, 10 a.m. $120. www.ocaf.com CUBAN-STYLE SALSA (UGA Tate Student Center, Room 473) The UGA Salsa Club hosts dancing every Sunday. Email for details. ugasalsa club@gmail.com, www.facebook. com/groups/ugasalsaclub ENERGY HEALING & ANIMAL TELEPATHY (Ancient Suns Intuition Arts, Cobbham Neighborhood) In “Animal Telepathy I,” learn how to send and receive intuitive communications with animals. Saturdays, Apr. 7–May 5, 3–5 p.m. Awaken your clairvoyance in “Intuitive Meditation.” Wednesdays, Apr. 4–May 2, 5–7
art around town AMICI (233 E. Clayton St.) Gunnar Tarsa creates stream of consciousness drawings where ideas collide and coalesce through the ordering of line and shape. ANTIQUES & JEWELS ART GALLERY (290 N. Milledge Ave.) New paintings by Mary Porter, Greg Benson, Chatham Murray, Candle Brumby, Lana Mitchell and more. ATHENS ACADEMY (1281 Spartan Lane) “Looking Up! Artistic Explorations of Our Skies” includes paintings, drawings and sculptures by Ana Anest and Scott Pope. Through Apr. 20. 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.) Curated by Kira Hegeman and Jon Vogt, “Emerges: Collaborations” is a site-specific installation by Megan Burchett, Maddie Zerkel, Jonathan Quinn Nowell, Forest Kelley and Alexis Spina. Opening reception Apr. 6. ATHENS LATINO CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND SERVICES (445 Huntington Rd., #120) See 20 paintings by Stanley Bermudez. BENDZUNAS GLASS (89 W. South Ave., Comer) The family-run studio has been creating fine art glass for almost 40 years. CINÉ BARCAFE (234 W. Hancock Ave.) Oil paintings by Bob Clements and cut-paper paintings Claire Clements. Through Apr. 14. CIRCLE GALLERY (UGA College of Environment and Design, 285 S. Jackson St.) “A Voice Offstage: James Rose” is an experiential exhibition inspired by the work of the mid-century modernist landscape designer. Through Apr. 21. 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. CLASSIC CENTER GALLERIES (300 N. Thomas St.) “Kaleidoscope” includes artwork by Stanley Bermudez, Tammy Cantarella, Beth Thompson, Starr Campbell, Katherine Burke, Wilma and Erin McIntosh. Through May. CREATURE COMFORTS BREWING CO. (271 W. Hancock Ave.) “Art Decko,” a public art project that will be later installed in the downtown College Avenue
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Artwork by Kelsey Sharf is included in the “Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates Exhibition” at the Georgia Museum of Art. An opening reception will be held Saturday, Apr. 7 at 5:30–8:30 p.m., and the show will remain on view through Sunday, May 20. p.m. or Saturdays, Apr. 7–May 5, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. “Energy Healing for Women’s Bodies.” Thursdays, Apr. 5–May 3, 5–7 p.m. $200/series. ancientsunsacademy@gmail.com, www.ancient-intuition.com FARMVIEW CLASSES (Farmview Market) “Instant Pot Cooking with Kjesti Easton.” Apr. 11, 5–7 p.m. $30. www.farmviewmarket.com MARTIAL ARTS CLASSES (Live Oak Martial Arts, Bogart) Traditional and modern-style Taekwondo, Jodo, self-defense, grappling and weapons classes for all ages. www.liveoak martialarts.com PHOTOGRAPHY CLASSES (Craig Gum Photography Studio, 160 Winston Dr., Suite 10) “Bohemian Model Shootout.” Apr. 6, 3–6 p.m. $20–25. “Intro to Digital Photography/Know Your Camera.” Apr. 12, 6 p.m. FREE! “Shootout at Oconee Brewery.” Apr. 21, 3 p.m.
Parking Deck, features large-scale paintings by Ruth Allen, Ashley Anderson, Hannah Betzel, Jared Brown, Dorian Edwards, Will Eskridge, Jeremy Kiran Fernandes, Jacob Wenzka and Jeanne Whatley. Art party Apr. 8. Currently on view through Apr. 29. FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) “Cacophony of Color: Group Art Show” features works by Marisa Delgado, Eddy Lezama, Laura Maria Ramirez Giraldo and Logan Shirah. Through Apr. 7. • Paintings by Marisa Mustard. Apr. 8–May 5. GALLERY@HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “House Beautiful” explores domestic landscapes through works by Holly Coulis, Sarah Hobbs, Paige Adair, April Childers, Jess Machacek and Justin Barker. Through Apr. 28. GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “Opera in Print: Fin-de-siècle Posters from the Blum Collection.” Through Apr. 22. • “Crafting History: Textiles, Metals and Ceramics at the University of Georgia.” Through Apr. 29. • “The Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates Exhibition” features exiting students of the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Opening reception Apr. 7. Through May 20. • “Images of Awakening: Buddhist Sculpture from Afghanistan and Pakistan.” Through June 17. GLASSCUBE@INDIGO (500 College Ave.) Lucha Rodriguez’s site-specific installation, “Amorphous Dislocations of Ultramarine,” incorporates handout paper, translucent color film and LED lights for a floating display that changes color. Through April. HEIRLOOM CAFE & FRESH MARKET (815 N. Chase St.) Paintings by Mallory Moye. Through April. HENDERSHOT’S COFFEE (237 Prince Ave.) Organized by Creature Comforts Brewing Co., “The Broadside Exhibition Project: verse 1” is a series of illustrated poems by collaborating poets and artists. Through April. JUST PHO…AND MORE (1063 Baxter St.) Drawings and painting by Patrick Linker. LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) See an Exit Show for students in graphic design, interior design, art education and scientific illustration. Reception Apr. 5. 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.) “The Ultimate Birdhouse Exhibit” features artist-made birdhouses that will be auctioned off to benefit the Athens Area Habitat for Humanity. Through Apr. 13. Auction Apr. 14. •
$20–25. craig@craiggum.com, www.meetup.com/athens-gaphotography-meetup SALSA DANCE CLASSES (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Cuban-style salsa dance classes (Casino-Rueda) with SALSAthens. No partner necessary. Beginners welcome. Every Wednesday, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $10 (incl. one drink). www.facebook. com/salsaathens TAI CHI EASY (Accessible Yoga Studio, 195 Miles St.) With Tom Wittenberg. Wednesdays, 3 p.m. $15. taichieasyathens.com YAMUNA (Healing Arts Centre, Sangha Yoga Studio) Yamuna Body Rolling is a six-week series. Wednesdays, Apr. 11–May 16, 6–7 p.m. $108. holistichealthrevolution @gmail.com, www.holistichealth revolution.com YOGA CLASSES (M3Yoga) “Prenatal Modifications: An Introductory
Workshop for Yoga Teachers.” Apr. 7, 5–7 p.m. $35. “Prenatal Yoga: Modifying and Empowering Your Practice.” Apr. 7, 2:30–5:30 p.m. $30. Proceeds from Community Classes through June will benefit Nuci’s Space. $8/drop-in. m3yoga. com/events YOGA CLASSES & WORKSHOPS (Athens Five Points Yoga Studio) “Meditation and the Human Condition: Journey to a Fulfilling Life.” Apr. 7, 12:30–4:30 p.m. 200Hour Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher Training. $2250. Ongoing classes in Iyengar, Vinyasa, Hatha, Power Yoga, hot yoga, meditation and more. www.athensfivepointsyoga.com
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The 43rd Juried Exhibition was juried by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, chief curator at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis. The show includes 126 pieces selected from 373 artists. Through May 5. • Community Collections presents unique pins traded by members of the Enamelist Society and collected by jeweler Leslie Litt. Through May 19. • On view in the Lounge Gallery, Kristen Hyink’s otherworldly illustrations are inspired by nature, dreams and the power of self-discovering. Through June 2. MADISON MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) “Contemporary Ceramics in Georgia.” Through Apr. 9. MAMA’S BOY (197 Oak St.) Susan Pelham’s collages are influenced by Magic Realism and Surrealism. OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (OCAF) (34 School St., Watkinsville) The annual juried “Southworks” exhibition includes 90 artworks submitted from across the country. “Fold + Facet” highlights the artistry of Eleanor Annand, Justin Turcotte and Emily Rogstad. Opening reception Apr. 6. PEDAL DRIVEN CYCLES (1075 W. Broad St.) Artwork by James Greer and Nathan Tavel. PINEWOODS PUBLIC LIBRARY (1265 Hwy. 29 N. #12) See paintings by Stanley Bermudez as well as a community mural in the process of restoration. RICHARD B. RUSSELL JR. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIES (300 S. Hull St.) “Wrestling Temptation: The Quest to Control Alcohol in Georgia.” THE SURGERY CENTER (2142 W. Broad St.) See colorful paintings by Dr. Hildegard Timberlake. TRIO CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY (766 W. Broad St.) “Media Circus” celebrates mixed media artwork by 70dot, Whitney Cleveland, Meredith Elder, Lisa Freeman, Vivian Liddell, Lift It Down, Julia Wynn Safer, Anna Lee Shultz and more. Opening reception Apr. 6. Through May 26. VERONICA’S SWEET SPOT (149 Oneta St., #6C6) See work by local and regional artists, craftsmen, potters and sculptors. VIVA! ARGENTINE CUISINE (247 Prince Ave.) Susan Pelham’s “Stories in Bits and Pieces” features collages influenced by Magic Realism and Surrealism. Through April. WHITE TIGER (217 Hiawassee Ave.) Teenage friends Rose Shelton and Havivah Z. Saltz create watercolors and ink drawings of women, mermaids and pop culture icons, as well as a series inspired by astrological signs. Reception Apr. 19. Currently on view through Apr. 29. THE WORLD FAMOUS (351 N. Hull St.) Permanent artists include RA Miller, Chris Hubbard, Travis Craig, Michelle Fontaine, Dan Smith, Greg Stone and more.
money for Extra Special People before skydiving on May 12. The Big Jump celebration includes live music, pony rides, bounce houses and more. extraspecialpeople. kindful.com/register/jump-2018 CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS (Nuçi’s Space) The Athens Human Rights Festival is looking for volunteers to help with fundraising, publicity, organizing speakers and performers, the tabloid, social media, stage building and more. The 40th annual will be held downtown on May 5–6. Meetings are held every Monday at 6:30 p.m. 706-202-9169, www. athenshumanrightsfest.org
Kidstuff ACC SUMMER CAMPS (Multiple Locations) Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services offers camps in science, dance, sports, art and more. Visit website for dates and details. 706-613-3800, www.accgov.com/ leisure ALLEGRO (Center City Ballet and Athens YMCA) Classes incorporate singing, dancing, movement and instrument play. www.centercity ballet.com AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (Athens Little Playhouse) Theater day camp for kids ages 5 & up. The week concludes with a performance for families. Choice of nine weeks, May 21–July 27. www.athenslittle playhouse.net BAKING AND COOKING CAMPS (Olive Basket) April after-school cooking classes include phyllo apple strudel, pop tarts, ravioli and breakfast burritos. May after-school cooking classes include Korean fried rice, Italian style breakfast muffins, chocolate mousse and Korean ice cream sundaes. For ages 7 & up. Choose one class a week from Monday– Thursday 3–4:30 p.m. or 4:30–6 p.m. or Friday, 3–4:30 p.m. $35/ class, $125/month. “Cooking Class” with Korean sushi and stir fried glass noodles takes place Fridays in April at 6 p.m. $35. “Summer Baking Camp.” June 4–29. Kids Camp 9 a.m.–12 p.m., Teen Camp, 2–5:30 p.m. “Summer Cooking Camp.” July 9–Aug. 10. Kids Camp, 9 a.m. –12 p.m. Teen Camp, 2–5:30 p.m. $200. charleshay428@gmail.com EXPLORING THE EARTH SUMMER CAMP (Little Rose Nature Adventures, Watkinsville) This camp is a nature-based, visual and performing arts, STEAM program for kids ages 5–12. Runs June and July, 8:30 a.m.–2 p.m. $200/ week. www.exploringtheearth.org GROUNDED KIDS YOGA (M3Yoga) Children can learn about the tools of yoga to cultivate self-awareness. Saturdays, 10 a.m. Ages 7–12. $10. m3yoga.com HOMESCHOOL GROUP (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Instruction and activities connect youth to their natural surroundings. Second Mondays, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. $25/class. botgarden.uga.edu SPRING PRE-SCHOOL PROGRAMS (Lay Park) “April Showers.” Friday, Apr. 9. “May Showers.” Friday, May 11. 10 a.m. $4–6. www.accgov.com/leisure SUMMER CAMPS (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Camps include themed programming on modern art, superhero and fantasy, dollhouse design, natural dyeing and textiles, fairies and nature art, Latin American art, women in art, and more. Check website for full descriptions and dates. www.treehousekidandcraft.com SUMMER SPORTS CAMP (United Team Sports Center) Basketball, baseball, football and other team sports. www.utscenter.com
Support Groups EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) A 12-step program open to anyone with a desire to become well emotionally. Meets Sundays, 4–5 p.m. www.emotionsanonymous.org MENTAL HEALTH PEER SUPPORT GROUP (Nuçi’s Space) Meets the second Wednesday of every month. Open to anyone focused on improving their life and learning how to live with their condition. Next meeting Mar. 14, 6–7:30 p.m. www.nuci.org NAMI SUPPORT GROUPS (First Presbyterian Church of Athens) For family members, friends and caregivers of individuals with mental illnesses. “NAMI Family Support Group.” Every fourth Tuesday, 6–7:30 p.m. in room 302. 770-2250804, namihallga@gmail.com, www.namihall.org PROJECT SAFE (Athens, GA) “The New Beginnings Support Group.” Mondays, 6:30–8 p.m., with a dinner on the last Monday of the month. Childcare provided. “Athena: Goddess of Courage, Wisdom and Justice Group.” Thursdays, 6–7:30 p.m. “Walk-In Clinic.” Mondays, 1–4 p.m. and Thursdays, 3–6 p.m. 24-hour crisis hotline: 706-5433331. Teen texting line: 706-7658019. www.project-safe.org SEX ADDICTS ANONYMOUS (Athens, GA) A 12-step recovery group for those affected by sexual addiction. Mondays, 7 p.m. saa-recovery.org/meetings
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On The Street ADULT FIELD TRIPS (Lay Park) “Atlanta Dogwood Festival.” Apr. 14, 9 a.m.–6 p.m. $15–17.50. “Dahlonega Arts and Wine Festival.” May 19, 10 a.m.–7 p.m. $15–17.50. Trips depart from and return to Lay Park. www.accgov.com/leisure ADULT TRIPS (Rocksprings Community Center) “Boyhood Home of Woodrow Wilson Trip.” Apr. 6, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. $25–37.50. “John’s Creek International Festival.” Apr. 21, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. $20–30. “Taste of Alpharetta.” May 3, 3–10 p.m. $25– 37.50. For ages 18 & up. All trips depart and return to Rocksprings Park. Register online. www.accgov. com/leisure under recreation tab MOAS VACCINE CLINIC (1888 Colbert-Danielsville Rd., Danielsville) The Madison Oglethorpe Animal Shelter offers discounted rabies vaccinations as well as other vaccines, tests, microchips and nail trims. Third Sundays, 11 a.m.–3 p.m. www.moaspets.com NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2018 PRESERVATION AWARDS (Athens, GA) Nominate a project that helps celebrate Athens’ unique heritage. Categories include rehabilitation, adaptive use, new construction and more. Deadline Apr. 15. Ceremony on June 4. 706353-1801, www.achfonline.org/ preservation-awards SPRING PROGRAMS (Rocksprings Community Center) “Super Hero Morning Adventures.” Apr. 12, 10 a.m. $4–6. “Wizard of Oz Morning Adventures.” Apr. 17, 10 a.m. $4–6. “Fairy Tale Funshop.” May 3, 10 a.m. $6–9. Ages 2–6. www.accgov. com/leisure THE PET CARE CLINIC (Pet Supplies Plus) The Athens Area Humane Society offers a low-cost clinic the first Saturday of each month, 1–4 p.m. Services include vaccines, deworming, microchipping, nail trimming, flea treatments and more. No appointment necessary. 706-769-9155 f
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Eastside quadraplex, 2BR/2BA, $525/mo. & 2BR/1BA, $500/mo. We have others pre-listing for next year. Call McWaters Realty: 706-353-2700 or cell: 706-540-1529. Large garden level apartment, great Boulevard location. 3BR/1BA, W/D, DW. Avail. June. $1400/mo. w /two residents, $1500 w/ three residents. lwnow1@gmail. com, 706-540-4022.
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MUSIC EQUIPMENT Nuçi’s Space needs your old instruments & music gear! All donations are taxdeductible. Call 706-2271515 or come by Nuçi’s Space, 396 Oconee St. Flagpole ♥ both musical equipment and instruction.
UGA Community Music School. Group and private instruction avail. for students 18 mos. through adult seniors! Private instruction in popular and classical styles. ugacms. uga.edu, ugacms@uga. edu, 706-542-2894.
MUSIC SERVICES Instant cash is now being paid for good vinyl records & CDs in fine condition. Wuxtry Records, at corner of Clayton & College Dwntn. 706-369-9428. Flagpole ♥ music services, too. Sorry we left you out.
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Hands-On Beginning Beekeeping Course. Learn everything you need to become an expert backyard beekeeper! Saturdays, May 5–26 $25/ wk or $100/total. 706-6130122, athenslandtrust.org.
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HOME AND GARDEN All Kinds of Blinds! Free Shop-at-Home Service & In Home Quote. Text/ call: 470-289-2165. allkindsofblindsga.com Wildflower Nursery Opening April 6. 20+ kinds of native flowering plants and ferns. Hours: 10a.m.–6p.m., Thu.–Sat. or by appointment, 706202-8356. Directions from Lowes at Lexington Rd (Hwy 78) and Cherokee Rd: drive 10mi toward Crawford, look for large white gas storage tanks on left. Turn left onto unpaved road adjacent to tanks. Look for right turn at 1.1 mi to nursery. Flagpole ♥ gardening.
PRINTING Self Publish Your Book. Local (Five Points) professional publishing service. Editing, design & printing services. 30+ years experience. Let’s meet at Jittery Joe’s. 706395-4874. Tons of categories to satisfy Athens classified ad needs with the lowest rates in town. Flagpole Classifieds helps you keep your ear to the ground! Call 706-549-0301 or email class@flagpole.com
JOBS FULL-TIME (2270 S. Barnett Shoals Rd.) Eastside Taco Stand Now Hiring. Food service e x p e r i e n c e p re f e r re d , interest in training to be shift manager preferred. Must be avail. for day and weekend shifts. Fill out application in store or drop off resume. Busy downtown Athens hair salon needs an assistant for our head stylist. Cosmetology/barber o r a p p re n t i c e l i c e n s e preferred or hair salon experience. Mon–Fri 40+ hrs. per wk. Please apply in person at Republic Salon, 312 E. Broad St 3rd Flr (Entrance on Jackson St under red awning). No phone calls please!
Dental Assistant, FT, Mon–Fri. $15/hr during training $30/hr once trained. Computer literate & avail. to work for a min. 3 consecutive yrs due to training costs. Employer contributes 100% to retirement plan; excellent HS/college grades req. dentalathens@gmail.com Established downtown Athens restaurant is hiring cooks. The right person can step into a high volume role during dinner and brunch service and can be a positive leader during the busiest times. $13/hr to the right candidate. Send resume to Athens.Employer@gmail. com. Help wanted in back of house. Apply in person at George’s Lowcountry. FT and PT positions avail. 2095 S. Milledge Ave. Hotel Indigo Athens is looking for experienced cooks for PT or FT. For more information please email resumes to fandb@ indigoathens.com.
INTERNSHIPS Successful Athens area business looking for someone to make us better. Contact Reign if you are that person.
OPPORTUNITIES College Grads Needed to score student essays at GCA. Mon.–Fri., 30–40 hrs per wk. Begins mid-April, 2018. Learn more at gca. coe.uga.edu/employment. Looking for someone to mow our small but o v e r g ro w n l a w n . $ 4 0 . Home is behind W. Broad St. and Briarcliff Rd. Email: rzeki+lawnhelp@outlook. com.
PART-TIME Athens Country Club is hiring pool snack bar employees and lifeguards for mid-May–Labor Day. Apply in person: 2700 Jefferson Rd. Tue.–Sat. 9–11, 2–5. No phone calls please. FOH servers needed! The Georgia Center is hiring restaurant servers, banquet servers, cafe attendants and baristas. Start above minimum wage. Please apply at www.ugajobsearch.com, j o b p o s t i n g T 0 0 1 1 5 P, waiter/waitress. Subscribe today and have your weekly Flagpole sent to you! $40 for 6 months, $70 for a year! Call 706-549-0301 or email class@flagpole.com for more information.
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Lost and found pets can be advertised in Flagpole classifieds for free. Call 706-549-0301 or email class@flagpole.com to return them home.
ATHICA’s Experimental Performance and Installation Series February-May 2018 Complete Schedule: www.athica.org
April Artists-in-ATHICA Emerges: Collaborations • April 7- May 13, 2018 Featuring Megan Burchett, Maddie Zerkel, Jonathan Quinn Nowell, Forest Kelley, and Alexis Spina
Opening Friday, April 6, 2018 • 6-9PM
Incongruency Ensemble Performs Saturday, April 7, 8PM 160 Tracy Street, Unit 4 Athens, GA 30601
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Put Up or Shut Up WE CAN ALL HELP TO ASSURE THAT OUR COMMUNITY CINEMA SURVIVES By Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com
Let’s Buy Ciné! If Ciné is on your radar, you know that our arthouse cinema has got to put up or shut up. The refurbished tire recapping plant that has been Ciné’s downtown home for the past decade is up for sale. Either the nonprofit that runs the theater—The Athens Film Arts Institute—can buy the building and keep Ciné going, or somebody else will buy it and build, say, a luxury stuLARRY TENNER
Ciné needs and deserves our help.
dent highrise there. This is a no-brainer. Ciné’s films, by and large, grab ahold of you and open your eyes to what’s going on around you and in the human heart. Ciné helps Athens people see the bigger picture and quickens their conscience to do something about the problems our community faces. Here’s the way Ciné Executive Director Pam Kohn puts it: “We are currently raising funds for a down payment for a $1.5 million mortgage. We have been awarded a Georgia Cities Foundation loan that will go towards this effort. We need to raise another $150,000 in cash reserves to qualify for the down payment on the mortgage. In addition to this, we are seeking 150 people to pledge $50 per month for the next three years to cover the estimated mortgage payment, a total commitment of $1,800 over three years. Reaching these goals will give Ciné the long-term stability it needs to focus on fulfilling its mission to provide film and arts programming that inspire, educate and build community.” Meanwhile, all you have to do is show up and have some fun in order to support Ciné. This Sunday, Apr. 8, at 7 p.m. at The Foundry for $10 advance or $15 at the door, you can sit back and be entertained by the benefit show “From Broadway to Hollywood,” with local performers singing show tunes and movie theme songs. Performers include Elite Tha Showstoppa,
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18 & over / ID reqd. Tickets available online and at Georgia Theatre Box Office
Mike Mantione, Jamon Holt, Stella Groove, Reverend Connor Tribble, Chereese Dunn, SJ Ursrey, Dave Marr, Eric Johnson, Neal Priest and Reggie Willis. Michael Wegner heads up the house band that includes Andrew Hanmer, Mindy Towe and Dave Domizi; the emcees are Lisa Mende and Breezy Goings. But wait, that’s not all. There’s another benefit show, “Stars in Their Eyes,” Saturday, Apr. 14 at 7 p.m. in Seney-Stovall Chapel. Tickets are $10 general, $8 youth/senior at the door. This will be a lively, family-friendly evening of music and dance from stage and screen by Athens’ young performing artists, including students from Athens Academy, Clarke Central High School, DanceFX, Oconee School of Performance, Georgia Elite Gymnastics, Georgia Children’s Chorus, Brightstone Productions, East Athens Dance and the University of Georgia. Mac Cooper and Angela Pendley are hosts. And, hey: To chill out after all this entertainment, you can also buy a rug. That’s right, Saturday, Apr. 14 and Sunday, Apr. 15, you can grab your fat tax refund and hurry down to Ciné for Hasan Rugs’ Turkish Rug Sale, which will tell you all about rugs and serve you some light Turkish refreshments. That’s Saturday at 11 a.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. and Sunday at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Ciné gets a percentage, so you can feel righteous every time you walk across your new rug barefooted.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4 AT 40 WATT CLUB
THURSDAY, APRIL 5
JAPANESE BREAKFAST
HEATHEN SONS
W/ SNAIL MAIL, ART SCHOOL JOCKS
DOORS 8:00PM • SHOW 9:00PM
FRIDAY, APRIL 6
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4
GIMME HENDRIX (JIMMY HENDRIX TRIBUTE)
ASPEN ANONDA ROOFTOP • NO COVER DOORS 6:00PM • SHOW 7:00PM
ROOFTOP • 21+ DOORS 10:00PM • SHOW 11:00PM
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ABBEY ROAD LIVE! PERFORMING “ABBEY ROAD”
ROOFTOP * NO COVER • 21+ DOORS 9:00PM • SHOW 10:00PM
DOORS 8:00PM • SHOW 9:00PM
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SATURDAY, APRIL 7
A Correction, Dammit! Last week, this column used one of the late Gamble Rogers’ routines to drive home a description of Prince Avenue motorists who ignore flashing crosswalk lights and come the wrong way on Newton Street. Trying to be a good journalist, I found Gamble’s album and listened to his story again. Sure enough, there’s Gamble’s beloved, reedy, Nacoochee Valley voice, quoting his friend Still Bill assuring him, “Gamble, this dog ain’t blind; she just don’t care.” But, from Hanoi, our old friend and colleague Chuck Searcy accused me of trying to sanitize Gamble. As I was preparing to defend myself by reference to the record, I remembered that Gamble cleaned up a lot of his club routines when he began trying to sell them on albums. I think Chuck’s barroom recollections are correct, and fact-checking is a lot trickier than it looks. I am therefore happy to say of drivers who disregard Do Not Enter signs and especially those who ignore the flashing lights meant to protect pedestrians: They ain’t blind; they just flat don’t give a damn. f
ROOFTOP AFTER DYLAN SCOTT NO COVER • 21+
THE BOOTY BOYZ PRESENT:
JOSH BRICKER ROOFTOP • NO COVER DOORS 5:30PM • SHOW 6:30PM
RESPECT THE BOOTY SPRING RESIDENCY KICK OFF PARTY ROOFTOP • 21+ DOORS 10:30PM • SHOW 11:30PM
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THURSDAY, APRIL 5
BREAKING THE SHACKLES PRESENTS:
DYLAN SCOTT
THE BAND CAMINO
DOORS 7:30PM • SHOW 8:30PM
DOORS 7:00PM • SHOW 8:00PM
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ALBATROSS * CHECK THE SIGNS * THE NOVEL IDEAS * WEDNESDAYS WITH JAY * SHE RETURNS FROM WAR * WALDEN W/ THE VINYL SUNS
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