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Clyde and Hice Are Delusional So congressman Andrew Clyde believes the Jan. 6 riot was “no insurrection.” He believes videos we watched in horror in real-time showed “orderly” tourists paying a respectful visit to our nation’s hallowed halls. He said so in a congressional hearing.

Don’t believe your own eyes, he said, in effect, just like Donald Trump said, “Don’t believe what you see. Believe what I tell you.” Let’s ask the cult followers of Jim Jones how that belief system worked out for them.

Clyde is not the only Athens representative guilty of delusional comments. Jody Hice claimed—in the same hearing where Clyde surrendered any claim on reality— that Trump actually encouraged a peaceful gathering and display of patriotism. Those words did not come from Trump’s mouth until hours into the deadly rampage at the Capitol.

Both Clyde and Hice should be admitted to a place where they can receive treatment for their delusional thinking. Delusion is defined as “a false belief held in spite of invalidating evidence, especially as a condition of certain forms of mental illness.” A dictionary should publish photos of Clyde and Hice next to that definition. There are no better examples.

Barbara M. Morgan Covington

Spend More on Youth Programs As violence in our community has spiraled in recent weeks, with suspects in recent shootings as young as 15 years old, I’ve spoken with formerly incarcerated folks, gun violence survivors and victims’ families, and reflected on my own family’s experience of losing a matriarch to gun violence and a teen cousin to a likely life sentence for her murder.

In the words of my fellow abolitionist Frederick Douglass, it is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Typical public safety interventions—more cops on the street, as an example—try to tackle the latter. My proposed investment in public safety focuses on the former.

Youth development is the most frequent refrain I hear when I speak with the community about the recent rash of gun violence, and on this basis, I suggest we invest in a resident-led transformation of our Leisure Services programming and support community organizations doing youth development work as means of lifting our youngsters into healthier life outcomes which, ultimately, will make our neighborhoods safer.

One new Leisure Services program I’ve proposed, the Everybody Eats municipal community garden pilot, tackles public safety at multiple levels. It transforms a blighted property in a low-income neighborhood into a communal space for collective recreation and life skills development, improving social cohesion and deterring drug use, trespassing and other crimes that blighted properties invite. This is proven to make communities safer, too. In a study of crime and blighted property remediation

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in Philadelphia, low-income communities saw a 29% decrease in gun violence in the vicinity of blighted properties that the city transformed into pocket parks, among other safety benefits. Critically, Everybody Eats will employ neighborhood youth at a living wage to help manage the garden and recruit their friends to come learn agricultural skills, providing youth with a healthy social environment, food security, financial stability and the opportunity to give back to their hoods, all of which set them up for long-term financial, mental and social health—and, as a result, set our communities up for lasting safety.

This is just one intervention of many that we desperately need to save our kids.

What I hear, too, is a desire for community involvement in deciding how such youth supports are structured. That’s why I also propose an additional $500,000 to be invested in youth development in next year’s budget and a participatory process to determine how it gets spent. Some of the funds could be allocated within Leisure Services, who would be tasked with engaging members of the community about improvements and expansions to existing Leisure Services programs, including modification of existing pay structures, facilities open hours, and application processes to help lower barriers to access. I feel the $190,000 in spending already allotted in the mayor’s recommended budget for renovations and new programming at Aaron Heard and Lay Parks should be divided up this way, too.

There are many community-based organizations already at work in addressing public safety through youth development as well. Alternatively, or additionally, this infusion of funding could be allocated to community-based youth development coalitions like Youth Organizations United To Help (YOUTH), which, in addition to offering a wide range of programs, also performs needs assessment for at-risk youth and matches them with programs that will best support them.

Turning to the criminal justice system for answers when community violence spikes is our autopilot response. But criminal justice interventions—diversion programs, police reforms, etc—are tooled to address crisis and harm after they’ve arisen. Our approach to public safety must also address root issues before they become crises in the first place by investing in our collective future—starting with our children.

Mariah Parker Athens

Democrats Should Stop Being Woke The answer might actually be of existential consequences to our democracy and our lives. The big bloviating orange windbag Donald J. Trump has been and still is buoyed up like a hot air balloon by all the hot gases emanating from the left-wing Democrats. One of his favorite boasts is that he owns the libs. Basically, his popularity feeds off of the ill-conceived mutterings of the hapless, leftist liberals. Democrats have to realize that the badly planned 2016

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election campaign of Hillary Clinton that emphasized identity politics and catered to minorities favored by the left wing, while at the same time ignoring the historical base of the party, played a major role in electing Trump.

The Democratic Party needs to come to its senses and shut the left-wingers up about issues such as wokeness, defunding the police and misplaced bleeding-heart sympathies for the terrorist organization Hamas and the clueless Palestinians, all of which are nonstarters to the majority of American voters.

The Republicans have successfully associated the machinations of subversive groups like Antifa with the Democrats. How many times have you heard the Republicans refer to Antifa and BLM protests as being much worse than the insurrectionist rioters that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021?

Democrats need to recognize the fact that “they might be poised to squander their political advantage against a damaged GOP,” said James Carville, a longtime Democratic strategist who is 100% correct in his warnings. “Wokeness is a problem,” he said in a recent interview with Vox. He went on to say that although “Democrats are in power now, they also narrowly defeated Donald Trump, a world-historical buffoon, and they LOST congressional seats [emphasis mine] and failed to pick up state legislatures. The reason is simple: They’ve got a messaging problem.”

In truth, the fact that Democrats just barely achieved a majority in Congress has emboldened Republican evildoers in Congress such as Mitch McConnell to thumb his nose at the libs and pronounce in broad daylight, in public, no less, that he is going to be 100% focused on stopping everything the Biden administration hopes to accomplish. This pronouncement by “Moscow Mitch” does not bode well.

The Democrats had better listen to James Carville’s advice and abandon their loser, bleeding-heart sympathies so that Biden can accomplish the things that will benefit us all, and reverse decades of Republican policies that began with Reagan and have led to the greatest income inequality of any industrialized country in the world.

Walter Sikora Athens

Redistricting Is Upon Us The Census is done, and the redistricting season that occurs every 10 years has begun.

Maps in Georgia are drawn by the party in charge of the state legislature. Done under a veil of secrecy sanctioned by law, the process lacks an open, fair and public process. Every party has used this opportunity to protect their incumbents to the detriment of Georgia voters.

Communities can find their influence either diluted or overly concentrated by map line-drawers interested in partisan gain or pleasing powerful interests. The newly drawn districts will be in place until 2030, so voters need to have a say in developing them now.

At a minimum, the House and Senate apportionment committees should listen to community input through a series of open public hearings across the state; show their work by holding meetings in public, sharing data sources and releasing proposed maps well in advance of adoption for public comment; and commit to independent evalua-

tion using nonpartisan standards to make sure districts aren’t biased.

The nonpartisan Fair Districts Georgia has resources on its website, fairdistrictsga. org, to educate citizens about redistricting and provides ways to encourage legislators to ensure that the process is fair and transparent. Please contact Sen. Bill Cowsert at bill.cowsert@senate.ga.gov and ask him to guarantee a transparent, fair and open process as he redraws Georgia’s electoral maps.

Vicki Krugman Athens

Turn That Frown Upside Down I read a copy of your May 12 edition of Flagpole. I have enjoyed your paper for years, as it is informative and discusses many events and issues occurring in Athens. I understand and appreciate the approach your paper takes to provide information on a wide range of topics affecting our community. The fact that I may or may not agree with each author’s perspective on various articles is somewhat irrelevant, as individuals may differ in their opinions and neither be wrong.

Unfortunately, the recent issues of the paper to me have become too negative and are not a reflection of our community.

Almost without exception, articles are about someone being wronged. Much of the “wrong” is contrived. And by that, I mean everyone has felt belittled; most individuals experience instances where they are treated unfairly, but most people don’t dwell on it.

In fact, reading your paper brought back bad memories in my life. I have been told I was not physically attractive. An educator once laughed and ridiculed my attempt to answer a question in class. Just today, the grocery clerk was rude, a driver on Broad Street cut me off, and a guy walking down the street was seen making an obscene gesture. Most of these examples were people of a different race and gender as compared to my own. They are, to me, minor issues; however, I could write an article and embellish how these individuals made me feel bad, how their actions may be racially motivated or they view my gender in a negative manner, or they simply may think they are better than me. However, an article on my negative experiences serves little purpose.

The reality is life has negatives, and we must try to overcome negative experiences by acknowledging their existence, but not focusing on them. Forgive, stay calm and take a more positive approach; if not, we bring ourselves and those around us down, just like your paper is doing. If not careful, this negative reporting will cause many to identify themselves as victims, rather than successes. Finding fault in everything is easy, but serves very little positive purpose Your magazine reaches many in the Athens community, as well as those who come to Athens to enjoy our unique community. In some ways, your paper is a reflection of what people think about our town. It is a little embarrassing for outof-town friends to read your paper. Your focus is no longer informational, but rather appears to be attempting to find real or imagined wrongs in all aspects of life at the expense of honorable people living today and in the past.

Let’s keep reality in perspective. Write a little about the positives, and perhaps your paper will become even more relevant.

W. Jule Windham Athens

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The Clarke County School District has required masks for in-person learning since last fall. Even with masks, several elementary and middle schools had to go virtual temporarily due to COVID-19 outbreaks, contact tracing and precautionary quarantines. With vaccines yet to be approved for children under 12, most of those students

By Blake Aued and Rebecca McCarthy news@flagpole.com are ineligible to get it, and only a small fraction of older children have been vaccinated.

Athens-Clarke County commissioners have Kemp is “going all-in on the pro-disease positions in the district attorney’s office, plenty of things they’d like to add to the strategy,” said Amber Schmidtke, a public $28,000 for raises for public defenders, county’s fiscal 2022 budget. Figuring out $19,000 for streetlights, a “bucket of funds” health expert who writes about the panwhat to cut to free up money to pay for demic in Georgia. While Georgia’s COVIDfor youth development and “some level of them is another matter.

19 numbers have been declining since the funding” for the Athens Area Homeless The commission has reached consensus post-holiday spike in January, they’re only Shelter, Girtz said. They also agreed to on about $3 million worth of new expenses, Myers’ proposal to raise the $55,000 salary now reaching levels they were at around according to Manager Blaine Williams, and of a new energy and conservation coordina- Memorial Day 2020. Last year, holiday has also decided not to raise taxes. One tor by $50,000 to draw more qualified appli- travel plus Kemp easing restrictions led potential solution is to use some of the to a spike in June. Georgia is also lagging cants. That would more than pay for itself approximately $28 million ACC received behind on vaccinations, with only 31% of through energy cost savings, she said. last month from the federal COVID-19 residents fully vaccinated. The national In exchange, commissioners so far have stimulus package approved in March. average is 50%. agreed to cut $24,000 for “civic dinners” A vote on the $271 million budget was Kemp recently for residents to discuss pushed back from June 1 to June 15, Mayor community issues and announced his re-elecThe governor doesn’t tion campaign and has Kelly Girtz said. “That will give us two $184,000 for a police have the inherent weeks to digest some of the possibilities made several moves cadet training program. around American Rescue Plan funding and to shore up the MAGA Commissioner authority to dictate local how that may overlay or dovetail with our base after Donald Mariah Parker proposed school policies unilaterally. Trump lashed out at him general budget,” he said. ending the take-home A five-hour work session has been sched- car perk for police offiover the 2020 election uled for the afternoon of June 3 at Bishop results. In addition to catering to COVID cers who live outside of Clarke County, Park. “At that meeting, we’ll be talking skeptics on the right, he’s also feuded which would save $80,000. Commissioner about the American Rescue Plan and beginwith entities like Delta and Major League Patrick Davenport disagreed, saying the ning to outline, with everybody’s input, a Baseball over voting rights and urged the two-year-old program improved morale. trajectory for how we’re going to determine Link said she wants to find a way to bring state Board of Elections to ban “critical race the use of those funds,” Girtz said. theory,” an academic approach that examin more revenue from student housing One major sticking point is how and ines how racism has shaped society. [BA] development, which is driving up rents for when to raise the wages of 27 county non-students, to “make sure this community employees who make less than $15 an is livable for the people who work here and hour. The issue is complicated by a desire actually want to raise their families here.” to avoid wage compression by looking at Commissioner Ovita Thornton said she wages up the ladder, as well as those at the wants to see money put into cameras to At the top of Lumpkin Street, kitty-corvery bottom, so that someone with years of stop dumping in rural North Athens and ner from Myers Hall, construction crews experience isn’t suddenly making the same addressing gang violence and homeless are building a new residential facility called amount as a new hire. A detailed study has encampments, but “I have no plan,” she Wright House that has been years in the yet to be done, but the estimated cost is said. “I have no suggestions.” [Blake Aued] planning. The building is a first for the around $700,000.

Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, and could There is broad support for setting a $15 be a bellwether for other campus ministry minimum wage for all full- and part-time programs in Georgia. Securing permission ACC employees. The debate is whether to from UGA to use University Court, then do it now, then settle the wage compression Gov. Brian Kemp signed an executive the COVID-19 pandemic, delayed the pro­ issue, or do the study first, then hand out order last week banning “vaccine passraises mid-year or in next year’s budget.

Commissioner Melissa Link suggested using ports.” While it doesn’t apply to private businesses, the order puts an end to any ARP funding for COVID bonuses while the hope that the University of Georgia could study is underway.

“I question the wisdom of moving to $15 require students to be vaccinated for COVID-19 once the fall semester starts. It an hour” without a wage study, Girtz said. also applies to local school districts.

“I would recommend that, while we do this Despite the fact that the University quickly, we do it well, and we kind of work System of Georgia and school districts up the ladder.” But Commissioner Russell already require vaccinations for diseases Edwards said he’s not concerned about like measles, chickenpox, tetanus and hepwage compression. atitis B, “vaccination is a personal decision At least one commissioner also disbetween each citizen and a medical profesagrees with including seasonal employees sional—not state government,” Kemp said. like summer camp workers. “I have a really Kemp also said that he intends to sign hard time supporting our seasonal workers another executive order banning school at the camps when we haven’t addressed retirees at all,” said Carol Myers, noting that districts from requiring masks. “The time for mandates is over,” he declared while retired ACC employees have only received announcing a mandate that school districts four cost-of-living increases since 1998, ditch their mask mandates. totaling just $175 a month.

Anthony M. Kreis, a UGA graduate and While perhaps those $9-an-hour jobs are law professor at Georgia State University, mainly going to teenagers, adults might be said he’s skeptical that such an order would willing to apply for them if they paid $15, be constitutional. “The governor doesn’t Commissioner Jesse Houle said. Houle said have the inherent authority to dictate local workers should be the top priority over school policies unilaterally,” Kreis said. other items commissioners want added, “I am unaware of any statute that would like $6,000 to study a train “quiet zone” in empower him to usurp power delegated to Boulevard, “a very privileged part of town.” school authorities. I’ll be curious to see the Other spending commissioners want legal basis.” to add includes $100,000 to fund two

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ject’s start for more than a year, but after a groundbreaking in April, it’s expected to be finished in June 2022.

The facility is named for the Rev. Rob Wright, the Episcopal bishop of the Atlanta Diocese who pushed for its creation. The Wright House will have one, two, three and four-bedroom pods accommodating 123 students, as well as a two-bedroom unit for the Rev. Clayton Harrington, who will serve as chaplain. Only UGA students—of any or no faith—will be allowed to live there.

“Right now we’re doing balcony level planning and are considering what it’s going to look like,” said Harrington.

Since St. Mary’s Chapel was demolished to make way for the new facility, UGA’s Episcopal students have been meeting at the Presbyterian Student Center. They will continue to do so during the fall and spring semesters, he said.

In addition to residential rooms, the four-story Wright House will come with on-site parking, a fitness center, a roof deck, a large, shared kitchen and retail—think shops selling coffee and sandwiches—on the bottom floor. There will be a groundlevel chapel doubling as a multi-purpose room that can be rearranged for events other than a worship service—say, a community yoga class. The monthly price tag for a bed will be in keeping with Athens’ other private student housing complexes, says the Rev. Canon Lang Lowrey, who directs Christian enterprise for the Atlanta Archdiocese of the Episcopal Church.

“We understand there are a lot of capable students who can get tuition but who can’t get money for living,” said Lowrey.

“We’re trying to address that.” To that end, the archdiocese has created the Wright Foundation to help cover the cost of housing for the Wright House.

The Rev. Nikki Mathis, priest at St. Gregory the Great Episcopal Church, is chairing the foundation, which is a work in progress. It’s expected to solicit funds from across north Georgia churches. She said the money will help those in need, “those who don’t have the same opportunities that affluent people do. We’re hoping to get people who may be the first in their families to attend college.” [Rebecca McCarthy] f

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ast month, Gov. Brian Kemp made history when One challenge involves dealing with the Confederate he appointed the pastor of Mount Pleasant Baptist flags in the park. Though law prohibits completely removChurch in Athens to chair the Stone Mountain Memorial ing them, the Stone Mountain Memorial Association board Association. The Rev. Abraham Mosley is the first Black voted last week to move them to a less prominent locachairman of the association—and he doesn’t shy away from tion. “These problems didn’t occur overnight, and they’re the state park’s history of white supremacy and racism. going to take some time for us to deal with some of these “Hopefully we will make tomorrow better for generachanges,” Mosley said. tions to come,” he said. “That’s what I look for.”

However, if people are looking for him to push for the removal of Confederate iconography, such as the mountain’s stone carving of Confederate leaders, they might be disappointed. “This is the past,” he said, motioning to the mountainside carving. “You can erase it. You can put a flag or you can put anything over that. Will it really take away what it stands for?”

Current state law also stands in the way of those looking to change the face of the mountain. It states, “the memorial to the heroes of the Confederate States of America graven upon the face of Stone Mountain shall never be altered, removed, concealed or obscured in any fashion.”

Stone Mountain has a storied history with racism—being a focal point of white supremacy in the South as a meeting place for Klu Klux Klan rallies for nearly a century, as well as a memorial The Rev. Abraham Mosley of Athens at Stone Mountain. park that, until recently, presented an apologist viewpoint of the South’s involvement in the Civil War. In spite of that, Mosley said his hope is to turn Stone Mosley said he has received hate mail and death threats.

Mountain into a family destination for people of every race But he said he is not concerned for his safety. “God is all and background. around me, and my faith and trust is in God,” he said. “I “I want it to be a place where families can feel comdon’t hate anybody. I love them. The only thing that’s going fortable coming,” he said. “No stigma, and there are some to bring us together is love.” [SR] changes [that are] in the making.”

In 2018, the park reported an average of 4 million visitors a year.

The state board that oversees Stone Mountain Park Mosley said that he has known Kemp for several decades, but his request to chair the board was totally unex- voted May 24 to tone down its Confederate imagery but stay in keeping with a state law prohibiting the removal of pected when the governor asked him to come to his office historic monuments from public property. in Atlanta about six weeks ago. “No, I never would have The Stone Mountain Memorial Association’s Board of imagined that was what he wanted to talk about,” he said.

Directors passed four resolutions to give the giant carv“It took me totally by surprise.” ing of three Confederate leaders historic context with a Now, Mosley said he’s optimistic that Stone Mountain museum exhibit to be located at the park’s Memorial Hall. can be transformed but recognizes the challenges ahead.

Board Approves Changes

The resolutions also call for relocating the Confederate flags that line the park’s main walk-up trail to the base of the mountain, designing a new logo for the park and seeking national historic site designation for a covered bridge at the park designed and built by a Black contractor from Athens.

“By law, Stone Mountain Park is a Confederate memorial,” said Bill Stephens, the association’s CEO and a former state senator. “But there were things we could do to tell a complete story that’s acceptable to the 3 million Georgians who come here every year.”

The Stone Mountain carving was sculpted over a period of decades that saw the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan at a 1915 gathering atop the mountain and the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court order desegregating schools. The project was conceived during the Jim Crow era, when Confederate monuments sprang up across the South glorifying the “Lost Cause” of the Civil War as an honorable struggle for Southern independence rather than a fight to preserve slavery.

That interpretation of the war later fell into disfavor, particularly during the Civil Rights era and—more recently—during the protests against police brutality that spread across the nation last year following the murder of George Floyd, a Black man from Minneapolis, by a white police officer.

With Confederate statues toppling across the South, critics of Stone Mountain’s depictions of Davis, Lee and Jackson have called for the carving to be removed.

Representatives of the Stone Mountain Action Coalition and other groups showed up at the May 24 meeting with signs carrying messages including “Don’t Celebrate Treason” and “Tell the Truth: Remove the Carvings.”

Dennis Collard, a member of the Stone Mountain Action Coalition, said Stone Mountain Park is the wrong place to honor the Confederacy.

“This is not a battlefield; this is not a cemetery,” he said. “People come here for recreation… It is time to stop pretending this place is about Civil War heritage.”

But Grady Vickery, a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, said Stone Mountain is an appropriate place to remember the war dead. “This carving is a monument,” he said. “This carving is to stand for 80,000-and-some unknown soldiers who put it all on the line to go fight…

That monument is for all of those who never came home.”

Mosley said there was no way the board could please everybody, given such polarized views on the park’s purpose. “We want to tell the whole story, the good, the bad and the ugly,” he said. “History isn’t good and pleasant to all of us. But it’s history.” [DW] f This story comes to Flagpole through a reporting partnership with GPB News, a nonprofit newsroom covering the state of Georgia.

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The Show Must Go On COMMUNITY THEATER IS COMING BACK TO LIFE

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had lunch the other day with Marc Hammes, the artistic director of On Stage, the community theater in Monroe, just 20 minutes or so from Athens. I wanted to know how he managed to keep a 90-seat venue alive in a town of 15,000 after the pandemic shut the doors.

I owe a kind of debt to Hammes and On Stage—the good kind of debt—for bringing me back to life four years ago when I was in a brain-fog stupor, slowly recovering from septic shock, major depression and a fifth fractured vertebra, causing me to squeeze like an accordion and lose four inches in height. My son, a Philadelphia lawyer, peered down at me and said, “Dad! You’re becoming a Hobbit!”

In 2017, I auditioned for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at On Stage. My daughter, Caroline Monroe Boyd, won the role of Nurse Ratched. Marc cast me as Mr. Martini, one of the loons.

I got the lunacy down so well that neither Caroline nor Russell Pope Sr., a Jackson lawyer who played Randle McMurphy and is one of the recurring stars of the troupe, could look at me on stage for fear of inappropriate laughter.

The play was a hit. After one performance, I heard a lady in the audience compliment Caroline. “She’s meaner than the nurse in the movie,” she said.

“Lady, you have no idea!” I said. I was alive again. And Caroline is a sweet mommy now.

My next role was the judge in To Kill a Mockingbird, and I volunteered to help out in publicity and other matters.

I had become part of a community. They let me do my R-rated stand-up comedy act about the horrors of aging during several cabarets at the Wayfarer Music Hall. I even appeared with them at the Morton Theatre in Athens—my biggest venue ever—doing a clean bit for Christmas. Next month, I’m taking my grandson to an On Stage acting workshop for kids.

Marc and I talked over our “Mother Clucker” sandwiches at LR Burger about the past year. He moved to Monroe about 10 years ago after teaching middle school English and drama to at-risk kids in Cedar Rapids, IA. He got a job with On Stage, which is heading into its 50th anniversary season, and moved up to artistic director in 2016.

Doug Monroe: How do you run a community theater when no one can come to the shows?

Marc Hammes: If they can’t come to you, you have to go to them.

DM: Like wandering minstrels?

MH: No. Social media. YouTube. Facebook. Our web page. We did our cabaret shows on Facebook. We won a state grant for my monthly kid’s show on YouTube, “Mr. Marc’s Neighborhood.” We’ve interviewed Monroe Mayor

John Howard and other interesting local people. On each show, we read a popular kid’s book about the theme of the show.

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DM: What did the pandemic do to the budget you had projected for 2020?

MH: It cost us about one-fourth of our entire budget.

DM: What happened to the plays you had to cancel?

MH: We postponed Driving Miss Daisy and our summer musical, Matilda, several times. Now we hope to present them in our 2021-2022 season. We’re also planning a youth talent show this summer.

DM: You started bringing in socially distanced audiences for your Christmas show, taking temps at the door and requiring masks. When will you relax that for upcoming plays?

MH: We have strictly followed all CDC guidelines, but now they’re relaxing a bit, so we are too. For our next show, we won’t check temperatures at the door. Masks will be optional and we’ll still have socially distanced seating and careful cleaning and sanitation routines.

DM: What’s the next play?

Marc Hammes (in shorts) rehearses lines with Rev. Nathan Durham for the 2019 On MH: It’s a first—an original comStage production of To Kill a Mockingbird with (l-r) Luke Sutton and Griffin Moore in the edy/drama about the pandemic titled foreground. Durham will portray Hoke in the theater’s production of Driving Miss Daisy in Distantly Social—and written by three the 2021-2022 season. members of our community: Paula Gerhardt, Amanda Rempe and Laura Griffin. They wrote it while they were socially distanced, DM: Do people come to see your plays from beyond Monroe which was a challenge, but they had a ball doing it, and it and Walton County? came together nicely. Tickets are on sale now, and the show MH: They’re starting to—because of the pandemic, opens June 4. It’s a real plus for us, because we don’t have ironically. Some new people from out of town came to our to pay expensive royalties for an existing play.

Christmas play, which we pieced together from old radio scripts, and they said they heard about it and were excited DM: It strikes me that you’re creating a brave new world for to see any local theater anywhere. It showed us how much community theaters by presenting original plays. Right? people want to see live community theater no matter how MH: Yes. It’s exciting. The pandemic has changed comconservative a town they’re in. munity theaters in a big way. Some may have gone out of business, but others, like us, fought to survive and found DM: But you’re still not able to fill all 90 seats in your renocreative ways to bring in money. vated old church because of social distancing?

MH: Right. But we will videotape the shows and, after DM: Do you know of other small-town theatres coming out the run, we’ll put them on YouTube. And it’s pay-per-view, of hibernation, too? baby!

MH: Oh, yes. Now that the pandemic restrictions are easing, community theater is popping back to life all DM: Say, I’ve got this great idea for a one-man play. It’s over the country. It’s springtime! Encore Productions at about this sick guy who has five compression fractures … the Elbert Theatre in Elberton is presenting the popular MH: Check, please! f ’Til Beth Do Us Part, starting June 4. And in the fall, the For more local theater information, check out onstagewalton.org, Winder-Barrow Community Theater will stage a comedy— The Miss Magnolia Senior Citizen Beauty Pageant—written by winderbarrowtheatre.org, elberttheatre.org and townandgownplayers. org.

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Resilience Award Roundup TINTYPE PORTRAITS, WOOD CARVINGS, COUTURE GOWNS AND MORE

By Jessica Smith arts@flagpole.com In an effort to sustain artists, musicians and other local creatives negatively impacted by the pandemic, the AthensClarke County Mayor and Commission contributed $85,000 of the ACC Resiliency Package to the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission’s $15,000 budget in 2020.

This total amount was then distributed as 50 Arts in Community Resilience Awards of $2,000 each to individuals and organizations.

Look forward to several new murals, performances and other free activities within the next several months—especially as in-person events become more frequent— and in the meantime, check out five projects below.

SALVAGE SPARROW: Using her Resilience Award

to recognize the resiliency of local community members, tintype photographer Amanda E. Corbett of Salvage Sparrow is producing an ongoing series titled “Surviving 2020: A Portrait of Athens, GA.” To accompany the portraits, each subject writes an essay that reflects on how the pandemic has impacted their livelihood, health, relationships or personal life.

Collectively, these stories of vulnerability and grief convey a mature acceptance of the past year’s hellacious curveballs and an enduring hope for a better future. On a oneto-one level, these outdoor portrait sessions create an opportunity for much-needed connection after such a long duration of social distancing. Corbett hopes to shine a light on a spectrum of experiences that can resonate with viewers.

So far, subjects include Charlie Mustard of Jittery Joe’s Roaster; Morgan King Clements, a performance artist known as the Pink Flamingo; artist James Greer; Rita O’Brien and Robert Parker, owners of R&R Secret Farm; Molly Swindall, a

“hotdogger” who travels with the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile; and Lydia Hunt, Kim Deakins and Lori Cataldo of Pink Goblin Tattoo. To keep up with the series, follow along on Instagram at @salvagesparrow or visit salvagesparrow.com.

CHRIS TAYLOR: Located outdoors at

TABITHA FIELTEAU: Currently on view in the

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Glass Cube@Hotel Indigo through June, local fashion designer Tabitha Fielteau’s installation “Nouveau Bridal” presents three nontraditional bridal gowns that are stunning in their intricacy. While one dress is made from white fabric, its high-low skirt creates an atypical silhouette. Meanwhile, an embroidered nude mermaid dress and glittering sequined blush gown are distinctive yet classy designs that push the boundaries of tradition.

Fielteau is a self-taught womenswear designer who showcased her first fashion collection in 2014, and has since developed

MFA in fabric design at UGA, local fiber artist Shirley Chambliss worked as an architectural interior designer with large firms. This background prepared her to approach creating pillows, throws, shawls and all sorts of woven pieces with a keen eye for how color and texture can enrich a domestic space.

“Originally when I applied for the grant from the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission, I hoped to have an installation, a literal walking trip through simple vignettes separated by panels of sheer weaving, showing four artists’ work,” says Chambliss. “The purpose was to show how we could look at our homes and, with intention, set up things we loved in a simple presentation giving us joy, hope, strength each time we saw them. Because the COVID virus is still actively with us, I changed the focus from an installation to social media.”

Chambliss created a series of studio tours on YouTube with four other local artists: painter Cameron Hampton, potter Mary Mayes, potter and sculptor Caroline Montague and woodworker Abraham Tesser. Released last week, these videos cover artistic influences, education and training, and how the pandemic has affected their practice.

the Sandy Creek Nature Center, a new playscape has all sorts of details like thrones made from tree stumps, fort-building materials and a long log-inspired slide to help imaginations run wild. Grant recipient Chris Taylor, who has taught land art classes to children at SCNC in the past, applied his funding to collaborate on additional public artworks.

Taylor was given free rein to design sculptures inspired by the natural world, and repurposed three large pines that had been harmed by pine beetles. The tallest work, an osprey’s nest, is remSATELLITE SESSIONS: In addition to iniscent of the giant bird nests the 50 Resilience Awards distribthe artist has installed along trails uted as pandemic relief, the ACAC at the State Botanical Garden of selected five recipients for $1,500 Georgia. He intuitively carved a Arts in Community awards last trio of pine cones as an homage to June as part of its annual budget. the trees, plus a set of turtles and As that funding cycle comes to spare shells that can be moved a close, it’s a great time to catch around. the tail end of Nuçi’s Space’s “The owl was going to be A portrait by Salvage Sparrow of artist Lydia Hunt in front of Pink Goblin virtual shows. So far, Nuçi’s something different, but the tree Tattoo Space has posted videos for Saint wanted to be either an owl or a Syzygy, Elijah Johnston, Josey, mushroom,” says Taylor. “One day Weaponized Flesh, CannonandtheBoxes, a clothing line specializing in custom bridal working, I heard two barred owls alerting Convict Julie and Girl Clothes. The series and prom gowns as well as sleek contempoeach other. It’s very rare to hear owls in continues with Arts+Crafts on June 3, rary garments. Influenced by styles of the the daytime, much less two talking to each Maxima on June 10 and Georgia Power on ‘40s and ‘50s, her chic and sophisticated other, so I decided an owl would be the last June 17. Performances air live at 7 p.m. and designs focus on flattering cuts and strong one.” are archived at youtube.com/nucisspace, workmanship. See more designs at tabithaVisit 34north.org to see more of Taylor’s while interviews are posted at nuci.org. f fielteau.com. land art.

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Thoughts on Danny Hutchens REMEMBERING BLOODKIN’S TALENTED SONGWRITER

By Patterson Hood music@flagpole.com

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They named their band Bloodkin and relocated from Huntington to Athens sometime around 1986. I moved to Athens a few years later from Muscle Shoals, AL. Both of us

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got the dreaded phone call last Friday informing me that my old friend Danny Hutchens had a massive stroke (his second) and was on life support. He died Sunday, May 9, surrounded by close family and friends at the age of 57.

I first heard Danny’s music from Dave Schools and the Widespread Panic guys when they recorded an album at my dad’s studio, Muscle Shoals Sound. A couple of years later when I moved to Athens, Dave introduced us in person when we met for some drinks at the Nowhere Bar in April of 1994.

A year or so later I got a job as a sound man at a local bar called The High Hat Music Club.

Bloodkin used to play there regularly, and I loved doing sound when they played.

As a soundman, some nights you have good bands and some nights not, but Bloodkin was always great, and Danny wrote some of the best songs of anyone I had ever met. All these years later, I still consider Danny to be one of the best songwriters I’ve ever known. He was also a fantastic singer. A natural. Goodlooking and charismatic, Danny had a God-given voice, and he knew how to use it to the maximum.

(session bassist David Hood). By the time I got to know them better, they had released their exceptionally good second album, Creeperweed. It was a much more organic and stripped-down affair that really showed off their gifts for songcraft and playing.

During that era, they asked me if I wanted to ride down to Savannah with them and open solo for a couple of shows down there. I was a pretty hard partier in those days. I rode down with them in their van and attempted to keep up with their proclivities for the weekend. It took me about two weeks to recover.

“Birth and death and love and hatred, collard greens and buttered cornbread/ Every time I swallow it’s a new religion” Danny met Eric Carter when he was 8, and they began playing music together when they were teenagers in West Virginia.

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felt like we had found Paris in the 1920s upon landing in that wonderful, creative and artsy little town from the more rough and tumble locales we had relocated from.

When I met them, they had recently released their debut album Good Luck Charm, which had been recorded in Decatur, AL. It was produced by Johnny Sandlin, and several prominent musicians from my hometown played on it, including my dad

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“Just like something out of Tennessee Williams” Danny and I were the same age. One thing that people exactly our age tend to have in common is Elton John. It’s impossibly hard for anyone nowadays to fathom how big a star he was and what a ubiquitous presence he was in pop culture from 19731975, about the exact time that Danny and

I began our obsessions with rock and roll.

Bloodkin’s music had a wide host of influences, but the easiest description tended to be “Stonesy,” as The Rolling Stones were an obvious influence that carried over from their music to their general demeanors and stage presence. I always found that to be a lazy shorthand in describing them, as I never felt it actually did them justice. One night, possibly on that trip to Savannah, I asked Danny if he had listened to a lot of Elton when he was a kid. He laughed and told me that no one had ever asked him that. He said of course he did. “Everyone our age listened to Elton. I learned to sing trying to sing like Elton.” I think I did, too, but Danny was way better at it than I will ever be. You could hear that influence in his delivery, in how he bent certain notes. It was a beautiful thing to hear, especially in the context of songs that seem so stylistically different from that.

Danny’s influences also included a full dose of Tom Waits, who like Danny has a gift for cinematic sweep in his storytelling and lyrical delivery, and Lou Reed, who has always been able to cut through the clutter and get to the nitty-gritty in tales from the darkest sides of human existence.

Upon his arrival in Athens, Danny befriended Maureen “Moe” Tucker from the Velvet Underground, backing her up from time to time. He even guitar-teched for Sterling Morrison when the Velvet Underground reunited to open for U2 on their massive European Zooropa Tour in 1993. Moe Tucker sings backup on the excellent Bloodkin song Lifer.

“Show me the ugliest part of yourself/ I want to love you from the inside” Danny’s songwriting could be dark and powerful, but he always had a pop sensibility, as well as a poetic flair that set it apart in ways basic yet profound. He wrote songs

steeped in Southern literary traditions, but they also often sounded like hit records that somehow forgot to sell the millions of copies that they honestly deserved.

If Eric was Danny’s musical life partner, David Barbe was their George Martin, a gifted producer (and musician) who was able to help them translate their musical visions onto the tape and give their records a timeless sheen while never sanding away their tougher edges. David first met them at one of the High Hat shows that I mixed, and he ended up producing their third album, Out Of State Plates, and every album they made from then on.

We hired Barbe to mix our fourth album, Southern Rock Opera. (He ended up co-producing it also, and has produced every one of our albums since.) The first night of mixing SRO, he mixed a song I had written about dying on the road called “Plastic Flowers on the Highway.” I was pretty proud of the song. Barbe mentioned that he had just started mixing Bloodkin’s new album (their fourth, The Bloodkin Community Gospel Rehab), and when we finished for the night, he played me the track of theirs he had just mixed. It was called “Crosses

By The Highway,” and I was crestfallen to immediately realize that it was by far the better song. Twenty years later, I still like my song but still think that Danny’s song is by far the better on every level. I’m not one for false humility when it comes to writing, but Danny was the shit. Flat out.

Bloodkin made a bunch of albums. All of them are good, most are significantly better than good, but The Bloodkin Community Gospel Rehab is a flat-out masterpiece.

Truly one of the best albums to ever come out of Athens or anywhere else. Written and recorded in the wake of the untimely passing of their friend and manager, as well as a reckoning of their own more self-destructive inclinations, the album has dark undercurrents that spring to the surface in sometimes surprising but always provocative and absorbing ways. It also has some of the most beautiful and poignant playing and singing of any of their albums.

It is never overcome by its ever-present darkness, and even two decades later, it still rewards each new listen with some new twist.

“The American century is over, stick a fork in the fourth of July/ Featuring nothing but fire and fuel and then our wells run dry” Danny followed politics and was very politically astute. He was very well-read and articulate about such things. I loved having political discussions with him. He was particularly troubled by the turn America was taking post-9/11 with our invasion of Iraq and endless war in Afghanistan. “Watching The War on TV” is one of the darkest, most brutal anti-war songs I have ever heard in my life, its protagonist melting down in his barracks bunk amongst the smoke and fire of his own toxic masculinity and the breakdown of the macho reality he created for himself. A stunning piece of songcraft, relentless in its horror and bravery.

By 2005 some lifestyle choices were taking a toll, and Danny went off to Colorado on some kind of misbegotten adventure that many of his close friends were afraid was taking his misadventures to some next level. Somehow in all of that chaos (chaos being an almost constant in the Bloodkin universe), Danny wrote his darkest and also most politically inclined album. The band was somewhat in disarray, so Barbe paired Danny and Eric with a handful of the best musicians in Athens and made Last Night Out. The album was so dark that many feared it was a suicide note or at least a goodbye, but instead it seemed to give Danny and Eric both some sort of rebirth. Soon after, Eric, who at that time was perhaps the hardest partying member of the band, went to rehab and sobered up.

It took, and well over a decade later he’s still sober.

Danny seemed to find peace also, for a time at least. He married a lovely girl and had two beautiful children. Danny was a loving dad.

stands up amongst the finest works they ever made. Among the riches on that album is a song Danny wrote about his recently departed mother called “Wild Rhododendrons.”

“Her Daddy was a bus driver and her mama was a teacher/ And they worked back-breaking hard to raise their children/ With a touch of old testament iron and a whiff of wild rhododendrons” I’ve told him before, but I wish I could tell him one more time that I think that is one of the most stunning songs anyone ever wrote.

I’ve been writing this on a flight from Atlanta to where I now live in Portland, OR. I downloaded several of my favorite Bloodkin albums to listen to on the cross-country flight. I spent the weekend in my hometown of Muscle Shoals, where I played a benefit for my dad’s old studio. I got there Friday morning and was about a block from the studio for a rehearsal when a friend from Athens called to tell me that Danny had been found unresponsive in his home earlier that morning. He had had a massive stroke and was on life support. He wasn’t coming back. He had already had one stroke back in 2016, which he had somehow miraculously survived. If a cat has nine lives, Danny had about nine cats’ worth.

Last fall he survived COVID-19. He seemed indestructible, despite his best intentions, but his number was up. I walked into rehearsal with tears in my eyes. As it so happens, two of the people I was playing with this weekend had played on Bloodkin’s first album (including my dad) and everyone was saddened to hear of Danny’s condition.

As I sit here, noise-canceling headphones blasting in my ears, I’m hearing song after amazing song. One masterful piece of writing after another. Tears falling as I type.

“Nobody gets the blues in heaven unless they mess around with angels like you”

“God got up and the river got down/ You got high and I got grounded/ We hid Easter eggs all over town”

A few years passed since Bloodkin had made a new album, but in 2009 they bounced back with a vengeance with Baby, They Told Us We Would Rise Again, and it

There are so many cliches associated with our chosen profession. Live hard, die young, all that shit. I’m 57 and have buried way too many of my dear friends and loved

ones. I’ve been blessed to have survived my own bad behaviors. I’ve also been blessed to have had some unbelievably talented friends. Danny was as great an artist as anyone I’ve ever known. As I listen to all these albums, the waterworks really start with the Baby, They Told Us We Would Rise Again album. It is steeped in darkness, but also has such rays of light. It has a phoenix on the cover, and everything about it signifies rebirth and survival. You can hear his kids and family in the lyrics. A level of hope that I’ve not heard in Bloodkin songs before.

“We stay open from dusk ‘til dawn/ I’ll be here singing long after you’re gone” Danny and Eric continued onward. They released One Long Hustle, a massive box set of their earlier work that showed just how strong their music was from the very beginnings. They put together an all-star show at the Georgia Theatre featuring legendary Stones sideman Bobby Keys. Danny made a third solo album a few years back, also full of excellent songs and performances.

Last year, they finally reconvened with David Barbe to record Black Market Tango, a double-album-sized dose of the things they have always done best. It was released last month to excellent reviews and plans were underway to take it on the road.

Danny never lived to see the level of acclaim and commercial success that his talent seemed destined for, but he never seemed to let that slow him down or affect how he proceeded. He knew that he and Eric had the goods and knew that they were building a legacy of songs, performances and memories. They made albums that truly were as great as most of the people they grew up looking up to, and when listened to as a continuous whole, adds up to a stunning catalog of music that rewards a deeper look and closer listen to really show its array of subtlety and craft that goes way beyond the meat-and-potatoes rock and roll that it seems on the surface.

Danny was well enough aware of the history of our beloved art form to know that the best often don’t get their due during their lifetimes. He and Eric proceeded to build a musical legacy that would stand tall long after all of us have faded away. f

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Reagan Byrd: We felt like these three captured the spirit of the record, offering glimpses into the diverse worlds that make up MIAE as a whole. We trusted our gut!

FP: When planning out your music videos and aesthetics, what’s something you always try to reflect to your audience?

RB: We always try to reinvent the image of Wanderwild while holding to its aesthetic roots. And most importantly, we try to have a little fun with it.

MM: Visuals can completely shape how a song/record/band is perceived, so I love giving them the attention they deserve. It becomes a secondary creative outlet for us.

Most of us shoot film photos, and Reagan and I both do graphic design. Yet another way we like to keep things in-house.

FP: What’s the process like of producing, engineering, and mixing/mastering your own work?

RB: Doing all of the production in-house has been an integral component of the functionality of the band. Having access to Gift Horse (Martin and Stanley’s studio) affords the band the ability to capture inspiration as it strikes, blending the writing and recording processes together. We wouldn’t have it any other way.

FP: What’s it like working with other Athens-based bands like Lo Talker, Monsoon and Heffner? Is there a kind of community in being indie bands in a place that contributed to the evolution of rock music?

MM: We’re all good friends! I’m thankful to have peers that make such great music and inspire us every time we hear a new song or see a show. There’s definitely a great community here, and it’s always fun to think that we might be contributing to the

Music in an Emergency WANDERWILD TALKS NEW ALBUM AND CREATIVE SELF-SUFFICIENCY

By Laura Nwogu music@flagpole.com

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thens-based band Wanderwild, composed of Matt Martin, Wes Gregory, Taylor Cotton, Alec Stanley and Reagan Byrd, released its third LP, Music in an Emergency, on May 28. Flagpole talked with the members of the indie rock band about the art of producing music, the pandemic and creating a new album in an emergency.

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Flagpole: What was the inspiration behind the name of the album, Music in an Emergency?

Matt Martin: The title Music in an Emergency examines the role of music in times of crisis. It’s not exclusively a pandemic record, but there’s no doubt that many of these songs would look very different or not exist at all had it not been for our experiences this past year. British writer Olivia Laing published a collection of essays in early 2020 called Funny Weather.

Our album title is a riff on that book’s subtitle, Art in an Emergency.

The book asks the same questions about art in general that we asked ourselves about music— how can something so seemingly unnecessary become essential to moving through a crisis?

FP: The pandemic hit the music industry hard.

How were you all affected individually and as a group going into 2020?

MM: First and foremost, we had to cancel any and all touring plans which was a huge bummer. Thankfully though, this band thrives on writing and being in the studio, so we adjusted our priorities and focused on finishing our new record. The pandemic certainly challenged us all individually and as a collective, but ultimately I think we’re stronger for it. A cliché, perhaps, but certainly true for us.

FP: What was it like songwriting in quarantine?

MM: I found myself writing songs by myself for the first time in years, which in some ways was liberating and needed. I got to rediscover and reaffirm my voice as a songwriter. It was amazing, though, to shift back into collaborating together which happened pretty quickly for us. It’s how we work best. I’d much rather be surprised by how a song takes shape than know exactly what I’m getting myself into, which typically relies on working with each other.

FP: What was behind the decision of having “Stranger,” “Do the Work” and “I’ll be Right There” as the leading singles?

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FP: What does it feel like hearing your music come together and knowing you’re the ones who produced it?

MM: It adds an extra layer of satisfaction and accomplishment when hearing the finished product. It sometimes creates added challenges along the way, but ultimately allows us to display our vision as clearly as possible.

FP: What’s your favorite song on the album and why?

RB: “Lullaby.” I love the way it closes the record, encompassing its conflicting yet coinciding emotions, triumphant synth tones, chaotic brushstrokes on the drums and subtle and steady guitar harmonies all on the canvas at once.

Taylor Cotton: Right now it’s got to be “On a Dime.” That song was super collaborative for us. I think you can really hear all of us doing our thing on that track and it coming together like we’re at our best. My girlfriend Emily also thinks the outro sounds like King Gizzard so it’s the one she’ll let me play in the car.

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FP: Along with being Wanderwild’s drummer, you’re also the head chef at 5&10. What came first, and how did the other gig come about? Does either job blend into the other or is it more of a chef by day, drummer by night kind of thing? What is it like being so involved in the Athens community?

Wes Gregory: Drumming and playing in bands around Athens came first for me. I initially worked as a server in quite a few different restaurants around town as a way to make ends meet while playing music. Through proximity to food, and some unlikely circumstances, I fell in love with cooking and began to pursue it with the same fervor I have for music.

Unfortunately, in my experience, both jobs are pretty incongruent with one another.

Whenever I’m not in the kitchen, I’m playing music, and whenever I’m not playing music, I’m in the kitchen. It’s go-go-go all the time, leaving few moments for rest.

Interestingly, a lot of times it feels like I’m not “involved in the Athens community” at

all. I’m either with the rest of the guys in Wanderwild working and practicing or with the team at 5&10 cooking. Luckily there’s nothing else I’d rather be doing.

FP: What was it like working with Faye Webster on her hit single, “Kingston”?

TC: I still love this song so much. Faye is one of my favorite songwriters. Matt and I were the Kingston rhythm section, and we just recorded everything super quick one night in his bedroom in the house on Vine street we used to live in. I’ve actually never spoken to Faye specifically about playing bass on this song; it was recorded super piecemeal. Very glad it stuck!

FP: How did producing/engineering for Faye Webster’s self-titled album come about?

Did producing that album help you with/teach you anything about producing for Wanderwild?

MM: I’ve known Faye for years! Our families were friends growing up, so I’ve played in bands with her brother and gotten to see Faye’s whole journey as an artist.

Recording together came about very naturally, mostly due to proximity. I was already playing drums with her live at the time, and she had just come back to Atlanta after living in Nashville for a year. She approached me about recording her album and away we went. It’s still one of my favorite things I’ve gotten to work on. Faye is an amazing person and artist. Every project I work on informs Wanderwild, and Wanderwild informs every other project I work on, so yes! It’s all related and connected.

FP: What’s it like being a part of two bands, COIN and Wanderwild, especially considering you sing for one and are the touring bassist for the other?

MM: I’ve always juggled multiple projects, so it’s fairly natural to me. It certainly can come with challenges, especially when choosing how to prioritize your time and your life.

But like I just mentioned in regards to Faye, it’s all part of the same thing for me.

Different branches off of the same tree.

It just requires constant attention and balancing.

FP: Are there any plans for touring this year? What part are you most excited about when you all get back on the road?

MM: We’re thrilled at even the prospect of playing shows again! We’re working on scheduling for the fall, and it’s looking promising. We can’t wait to play new songs for people and connect with friends new and old. The feeling in the room will be electric, no doubt.

FP: If there’s one thing you hope your fans take away from this album, what is it?

MM: Make what you want to make. Do it your way and do it for you. Believe in yourself! You are your greatest vehicle to success, and you get to define what success means to you. f

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Beat Up’s Three Shots Fired PLUS, MORE MUSIC NEWS AND GOSSIP

By Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com AND IN THIS CORNER…: Y’all listen up, because this is good.

Although I’m pretty sure it’s recorded many more songs with engineer Kyle Spence, there’s a new three-song EP available from new hardcore/street punk band Beat Up. The band played its first and only show so far in February 2020 and, like everyone else, got locked down soon afterward. These songs are explicitly political and not inclined to pull punches. That said, they’re not so lyrically intertwined with their subjects that their themes cannot be made universal. Musically speaking, fans of Fucked Up, Angelic Upstarts, et al. will dig this. There’s also a slight but noticeable Dead Kennedys influence on “Double Time Double Down.” Find this at beatup.bandcamp.com and get info about upcoming shows and other information over at facebook.com/ beatupband.

BURNT OFFERINGS: Did you sleep through World Goth Day on May 22? Don’t sweat it, vampire, a few locals have got ya covered.

OK, let me back up a second.

Carrboro, NC label Broken Sound Tapes released a sweet and easily digestible 13-track compilation named UNEARTH’D: Underground Deathrock, Post-Punk, and Darkwave and, as luck would have it, there are tracks from Vincas, Entertainment and Vision Video. Longtime local fans of this kind of stuff will be edified by the inclusion of former Atlanta project Feeding Fingers (now EU-based) as well. But let’s get back to business here. Vincas contributes the Dream Tent remix of its track “Let Me In” which is given the full synth/darkwave treatment, Vision Video pops by with the breezy and danceable “Static Drone” and Entertainment sends its smoke signal up via “Voyeur,” which is so shakily constructed its brittleness is audible. All in all this record is a treat, but the cassette version is sold out already, so your dream of reconstructing an authentic 1980s-style passenger-side floorboard is now vanquished. Both vinyl and CD versions are still ready for your money though, as is the digital download version. Please enjoy this over at brokensoundtapes.bandcamp.com.

FIELD OF DREAMS: Neighbor Lady will play with Annie Leeth

at Southern Brewing Co. Thursday, June 3. The show is all ages and happens at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10. In other news, Neighbor Lady has signed with New Orleans label Park The Van Records and have released a three-song video, but as of this writing, I’ve not seen it. Maybe by the time

this is published, I will have! At any rate, it’s pretty needless to mention that Neighbor Lady has worked very hard over the past several years and I congratulate them on their superstar status. For more information, tickets, etc. please see facebook.com/Neighborladymusic and sobrewco.com.

DON’T THINK TWICE, IT’S ALL RIGHT: Similar in release structure

to February’s Our City, Motion Sickness of Time Travel has also released three versions of the track “Caterpillar Tree Song.” Rachel Evans, who had yet to adopt the Motion Sickness moniker, wrote the song back in 2007 as a piano-based track but recorded it with full instrumentation in 2008. It’s pretty wildly different from anything recent listeners—as in anyone during the last decade—might expect from MSOTT. It is a pretty full-on alt-rock song and pulls from decidedly 1990s influences such as Fiona Apple, PJ Harvey, et al. The remix, also here, was completed in 2010 by composer Mitchell Turner.

Last year, Evans recorded the acoustic version available on this, and its arrangement is much more in the MSOTT style, but its effect is something akin to trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, or vice versa. The song itself is fine as a stand-alone item and a decent artifact of Evans, which fans should enjoy hearing as it marks an early spot on her musical path. Indeed, the original full-instrument recording is by far the best version of this. Evans’ revisiting it through her current style, though, is much less satisfying than letting it simply be what it is. Check it all out at motionsicknessoftimetravel.bandcamp.com.

SOMETHING IN THE AIR: I’ve been meaning to get around to this,

but times being what they are, sometimes things get shuffled around inadvertently. So, lemme mention to you that Cloudland released its latest single a couple of weeks ago, and it’s the fourth and final to be released in advance of the band’s upcoming full-length Where We Meet, which comes out July 2. This latest track is “St. Elmo,” and it’s a completely catchy, kinda earworm-ish actually, indie pop song full of nicely melodic guitar arpeggios. I feel like the personality of the band shines through better on these types of tracks than, say, the album’s more bombastic first single “Where We Meet.” Both styles, though, work seamlessly for these guys and I’m looking forward to hearing the entire album in full context. For more info and music please see cloudlandband.com and facebook.com/cloudlandath. f

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calendar pick Hip-Hop Pit Stop (Live Wire Athens) Pulling together multiple facets of the local hip-hop community, a new month-long residency called the Hip-Hop Pit Stop will spotlight independent artists every Wednesday in June from 8–11 p.m. Hosted by Montu Miller of ATHfactor-Liberty Entertainment, each installment is outsourced to a different label or promotion team, ensuring a diverse and collaborative series. Everything kicks off on June 2 with Tribe House Records Night featuring DJ Kut Daily and Cassie Chantel, who recently won the 2021 Vic Chesnutt Songwriter of the Year Award. Chantel will be joined by Frank Eagle, Dirty Redd World, Mill Runna, Jake, Dookee, Bantana and Highness.

The lineup continues with GA Pro Night featuring DJ Kountry and Kxng Blanco on June 9; MMR Night featuring DJ Sean Swift and Ant Da Ripper on June 16; Volumes Night featuring DJ Bob Fish and Trvy on June 23; and ALE Night featuring DJ Chief Rocka on June 30. In addition to scheduled acts, each night will get warmed up with an hour-long open mic session for emerging artists to participate. [Jessica Smith]

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Art ARTIST-IN-ATHICA RESIDENCIES AND 2022 EXHIBITS (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) Residencies provide administrative support, exhibition and performance facilities, and a small stipend. The gallery is also accepting proposals for exhibits in 2022. Deadline June 30. www. athica.org/call-for-entries ATHENS CREATIVE DIRECTORY (Athens, GA) The ACD is a new platform to connect creatives with patrons. Visual artists, musicians, actors, writers and other creatives are encouraged to create a free listing. athenscreatives@gmail.com, athenscreatives.directory CALL FOR ARTISTS (Creature Comforts Brewing Co.) Local artists and curators can submit proposals for the CCVC Gallery throughout 2021. getartistic@ccbeerco.com, www.getcurious.com/get-artistic/ call-for-artists JOKERJOKERTV CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (Online) JOKERJOKERtv is seeking artist submitted videos, short films, skits, performances, interviews and more to share with a weekly livestream audience. Open to ideas, collaborations and artist residencies. www. jokerjokertv.com/submit QUARTERLY ARTIST GRANTS (Athens, GA) The Athens Area Arts Council offers quarterly grants of

$500 to local organizations, artists and events that connect the arts to the community in meaningful and sustainable ways. Deadlines are June 15, Sept. 15, Dec. 15 and Mar. 15. www.athensarts.org/grants

Classes ANIMAL TELEPATHY AND CLAIRVOYANCE (Ancient Suns Intuitive Arts) In “Animal Telepathy,” learn how to send and receive intuitive messages with your animals.

Sundays, June 6–July 25, 1-3:30 p.m. or Mondays, June 7–July 26, 6–8:30 p.m. $275/eight weeks. In “Clairvoyant Meditation,” protect and strengthen the energy body while learning how to use your clairvoyance. Saturdays, June 5– July 10, 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m. $200/ six weeks. Classes meet on Zoom. ancientsunsacademy@gmail.com, www.ancient-intuition.com DEDICATED MINDFULNESS PRACTITIONERS (Online) Weekly Zoom meditations are offered every Saturday at 8:30–9:30 a.m. Email for details. jaseyjones@gmail.com HOW TO HUMAN: IMPROV COMEDY WORKSHOP (Nimbl, 160 Winston Dr. #9) Take this fun weekly improv workshop to reboot your hard drive. All skill levels welcome. Learn or practice the exercises and games that turn everyday interactions into funny scenes. Every Sunday through

art around town ACC LIBRARY (2025 Baxter St.) On view in the Quiet Gallery, “My Aging Face: A Conversation on Aging, Beauty and Refining Norms for Women Over 40” features photos of women who posted close-ups of their faces on Instagram along with short descriptions of what they saw and how they felt.

ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: ATHICA (675 Pulaski St., Suite 1200) The Artist-in-ATHICA residency series presents Gabrielle Sinclair. Through June 26. • “Postcards from the Future” is an online exhibition and fundraiser of postcards designed by emerging artists. Visit athica.org.

ATHICA@CINÉ GALLERY (234 W. Hancock Ave.) Photographer Cindy Karp presents “Pandemic Portraits.” Through June 25.

CREATURE COMFORTS BREWING CO. (271 W. Hancock Ave.) “Respite” presents abstract paintings by Abby Kacen, a cartoonist, illustrator, muralist, chalk artist and founder of Keep It Weird Art Collective. Currently on view through June 20.

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Artwork by Lisa Lecorchik. Through June.

GALLERY AT HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Athens Facades” presents Mike Landers’ photographs of buildings downtown and in Five Points at dark between 2000–2002.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism.” Through June 13. • “Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection” represents three generations of artists dating from the 1940s. Through Sept. 26. • “Modernism Foretold: The Nadler Collection of Late Antique Art from Egypt.” Through Sept. 26. • “Power and Piety in 17th-Century Spanish Art.” Through Nov. 28. • “Whitman, Alabama” features 23 of 52 films from journalist, photographer and filmmaker Jennifer Crandall’s ongoing documentary project of the same name. Through Dec. 12. • “Rediscovering the Art of Victoria Hutson Huntley” shares approximately 30 lithographs inspired by landscape, human figures and the natural world. Through Aug. 15. • “Echoes from Abroad: American Art from the Collection of Barbara Guillaume.” Through Aug. 15. • “Hands and Earth: Perspectives on Japanese Contemporary Ceramics” includes works by some of 20thand 21st-century Japan’s most important artists. Through Aug. 15. • “In Dialogue: Artists, Mentors, Friends: Ronald Lockett and Thornton Dial Sr.”

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June, 6 p.m. Donations accepted. kelly.petronis@gmail.com, www. flyingsquidcomedy.com MINDFULNESS PRACTICE EVENINGS (Online) Discuss and practice how to change your relationship with difficult thoughts and emotions. Email for the Zoom link.

Second Friday of the month, 6–7 p.m. FREE! mfhealy@bellsouth.net SPANISH CLASSES (Athens, GA) For adults, couples and children.

Learn from experts with years of professional experience. Contact for details. 706-372-4349, marina bilbao75@gmail.com, www.marina-spain-2020.squarespace.com YAMUNA AND MORE (Elevate Athens, Online) Nia Holistic Fitness and Yamuna Body Rolling are held on an ongoing basis. $20/class.

Specialty classes range from selfcare to Yamuna foot fitness and more.www.elevateathens.com YOGA CLASSES (Revolution Therapy and Yoga) “Outdoor Yoga with Meg Brownstone,” every Sunday at 10 a.m. $5–10 suggested donation.

“Trauma Conscious Yoga with Crystal,” every Thursday at 6 p.m. $10 suggested donation. “Yoga for Well-being with Nicole Bechill,” every Saturday on Zoom at 10:30 a.m. “Outdoor Yoga with Miles Bunch” every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.

Pre-registration required. rubber soulcollective@gmail.com, www. revolutiontherapyandyoga.com ZOOM YOGA (Online) Rev. Elizabeth Alder offers “Off the Floor Yoga”

(chair and standing) on Mondays at 1:30 p.m. and “Easy on the Mat” yoga classes on Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. Ongoing classes are $5/class or $18/month. 706-612-8077, ommmever@yahoo.com

Events ACC LIBRARY EVENTS (Athens-Clarke County Library) The ACC Library and Athens Historical Society present speakers Julie Weise, Yamileth Rodriguez and Oscar Chamosa to discuss “History of Latinx Immigration in the Southeast. June 8, 6 p.m. “Foundation Directory Essential” discusses how to search for grant opportunities on June 10 at 4 p.m. OverBooked Book Club discusses Crying in H Mart

by Michelle Zauner on June 10 at 6:30 p.m. www.athenslibrary.org/ virtual-events ART EVENTS (Georgia Museum of Art) “Family Day To-Go: Art of Antiquity” is held June 10–13.

“Morning Mindfulness via Zoom” is held June 11 at 9:30 a.m. “Art + Wellness Studio via Zoom” is held June 13 at 2 p.m. “Artful Conversation: Saint Catherine of Alexandria” is held June 16 at 1 p.m. “Third Thursday” is held June 17 from 6–9 p.m. “Yoga in the Galleries” is held June 17 at 6 p.m. “Outdoor Film” at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia is held June 17 at 8:15 p.m.

“Toddler Tuesday To-Go: Past and Present” is held June 22. “Morning Mindfulness” is held June 25 at 9:30 a.m. www.georgiamuseum.org ATHENS CHAUTAUQUA LECTURES (Zoom) “Voting: How Should We Safeguard and Improve Our Elec-

focuses on one work by each artist to examine their friendship and compare their creative approaches. Through Nov. 28.

GLASSCUBE@INDIGO (500 College Ave.) A recipient of an Arts in Community Resilience Award from the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission, local fashion designer Tabitha Fielteau presents “Nouveau Bridal,” a collection of handmade dresses. Through June.

LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (211 Hoyt St.) The 46th annual Juried Exhibition features 161 works by 116 local artists selected by juror Hallie Ringle of the Birmingham Museum of Art. Through June 26. • On view in the lobby case, Jourdon Joly presents a collection of cast resin ice cream cones. Through June 26. • Collections from our Community presents Arthur Johnson’s (of the Bar-B-Q Killers) shark collection, which he has been building since the early ‘80s. Through June 26. • Curated by La Ruchala Murphy and featuring the works of Black artists living in the South, “#NotAStereotype” challenges the labels and limitations perceived about race, nationality, gender, ability and sexual orientation. Virtual Artist Talk featuring Jewel Edwards, Masud Olufani, Noraa James, Jerrold Mobley and Erica Angelica on June 8. Through June 24. • Will Eskridge’s “Endless Party: A Collection of Party Animals” offers a celebratory look at outcast animals like bats, snakes and raccoons. The show includes to-go maps for a scavenger hunt at Bear Hollow Zoo and Memorial Park. Through July 24. • AJ Aremu presents a large-scale installation for “Window Works,” a site-specific series that utilizes the building’s front entrance windows for outdoor art viewing.

MADISON-MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) “The 125th Anniversary Exhibition: Celebrating the Home of the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center” explores the Romanesque Revival building that was built as a graded schoolhouse in 1895 and became a regional cultural center in 1976. Through June.

MASON-SCHARFENSTEIN MUSEUM OF ART (567 Georgia Street, Demorest) “Michael Ross: Foothills” features lush depictions of forests, fields, wetlands, birds and people. Artist talk June 11 at 11 a.m. Part of the North Georgia Arts Tour June 11–13. Closing reception Aug. 19 from 5–7 p.m.

STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GEORGIA (2450 S. Milledge Ave.) “Art From the Garden” shares acrylic, oil, watercolor, graphite, color pencil and pastel works created on-site at the garden by the Athens Area Plein Air Painters. Through July 16. • Dortha Jacobson shares a collection of 25 paintings, many of which are scenes from the garden or were created with the local Athens Plein Air Painters. Through June 20.

tions” is held June 8 at 2:30 p.m.

Visit website to register. www.historycomesalive.org/performances/ athens ATHENS FARMERS MARKET (Bishop Park) The 2021 season will run Saturdays through Dec. 18, 8 a.m.–12 p.m. www.athensfarmers market.net ATHENS SHOWGIRL CABARET (Sound Track Bar) The cabaret celebrates National Pride Month all weekend long with nightly performances. Friday’s theme is “Gay Icon” and Saturday’s theme is “PRIDE.” June 25–26, 7 p.m. www. athensshowgirlcabaret.com ATHENTIC’S BIRTHDAY BASH (Athentic Brewing Company) DJ Osmose spins vinyl on the patio on June 25 at 7 p.m. An early bird VIP tasting event will offer access to special release anniversary beers on June 26 from 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $30 (Tickets required), followed by performances by Jay Memory (5:30 p.m.) and The Modern Pin-Ups (8:30 p.m.). Anniversary festivities also include a performance by The Orange Constant and a release of a special collaboration beer on June 27, 5:30–10 p.m. $10. www.athenticbrewing.com BOGART LIBRARY EVENTS (Bogart Library) KnitLits Knitting Group is held every Thursday at 6 p.m. Virtual Booktalks are held June 4 and June 11 at 2 p.m. Bogart Bookies Adult Book Club will discuss The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah on June 8 at 1 p.m. www.athenslibrary. org BOOK LAUNCH PARTY (Finley Light Factory) Celebrate the release of local artist Mild Pain’s Sid & the Sickos comic book. Performances

by Deaf Condors, Fishbug and Telemarket. June 4, 7–11 p.m. $5. www.keepitweird.art CINÉ DRIVE-IN (Former General Time/Westclox Lot, 100 Newton Bridge Rd.) Beginning June 1 with a screening of Mad Max: Fury Road, Ciné will host weekly drive-in movies on Tuesdays with food trucks

and concessions. Upcoming films include Selena, Creed, Jurassic Park and Singin’ In the Rain. www. athenscine.com COW PLOP JAM (Bethany United Methodist, Jefferson) This live music festival and community fundraiser benefits the American Cancer Society. Activities include craft vendors, bounce houses, raffles, games, face painting, a petting zoo, food vendors and a cow plop game. June 12, 2–8 p.m. www. bethanyumc.net JUNE OPEN HOUSE POTTERY SALE (Farmington Pottery, Farmington) Geoff and Lisa Pickett host their annual summer sale of wood and gas fired pottery, plus handmade soaps and botanical skincare products made with herbs from the garden. June 5–6, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. www.pickettpottery.com, www. farmingtonherbals.com JUNETEENTH ON THE BLOCK (585 Vine St.) Farm to Neighborhood presents a Juneteenth celebration with food, vendors and family-friendly fun. Live music by Cassie Chantel. June 19, 4–8 p.m.

LGBTQIA+ VIRTUAL ALPHABET FAMILY GATHERING (Online) This is a safe space for anyone on the LGBTQIA+/TGQNB spectrum.

Fourth Sunday of every month, 6–8 p.m. uuathensga.org/justice/ welcoming-congregation MARIGOLD MARKET (Pittard Park, Winterville) Celebrate with live music by Dodd Ferrelle and kids activities. Vendors will offer local produce, prepared and baked goods, and arts and crafts. Season runs every Saturday through Dec. 11, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. marigoldmarket winterville@gmail.com NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH FAIR (Athens Cotton Press) COVID vaccinations and a mobile for pantry will be available. June 5, 12–4 p.m.

READER MEET WRITER: MUSICIAN & AUTHOR WILL JOHNSON (Zoom) Avid Bookshop hosts Johnson in celebration of his book, If or When I Call. John is a musician

STEFFEN THOMAS MUSEUM OF ART (4200 Bethany Rd., Buckhead) “Healing Our Humanity: Finding Hope, Love and Unity” presents works

by Margaret C. Brown, Zerric Clinton, Oliver Enwonwu, Andrae Green and Nnamdi Okonkwo. Through July 10.

UGA OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY (Online) The annual Earth Day Art Challenge is a virtual exhibition of artwork, performance, video and writing that demonstrates an appreciation, awareness or action. Visit sustainability. uga.edu.

UGA SCHOOL OF LAW (225 Herty Dr.) Williams Elliot Stiles Jr., an accomplished artist, Atlanta attorney and UGA School of Law alumnus, recently unveiled a new commission, “1961,” to commemorate the 60th anniversary of desegregation at UGA. UGA MAIN LIBRARY (320 S. Jackson St.) “Georgia Trailblazers: Honoring the 60th Anniversary of Desegregation at UGA” chronicles the historic events of 1961 when Hamilton Holmes and Charlene Hunter became the first African American students admitted to the university.

UGA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIES (300 S. Hull St.) “Making Space: Fighting for Inclusion, Building Community at UGA” chronicles the journey of students advocating for racial and social justice on campus. Through July 2. • “The Hargrett Hours: Exploring Medieval Manuscripts” presents original items from the collections, dating back centuries, as well as findings from students’ in-depth studies. Through Aug. 26. • The new Ted Turner Exhibition Hall and Gallery showcases CNN founder and environmentalist Ted Turner’s life and legacy through memorabilia, photographs and other items. • “New Again: Selections from the Rare Book Vault” includes examples of handmade tomes dating back centuries, as well as contemporary books that combine centuries-old techniques with a modern aesthetic.

Through Aug. 27.

WEAR ORANGE COMMUNITY MURAL DISPLAYS (Multiple Locations) Wear Orange honors the lives of those affected by gun violence and elevate gun violence prevention efforts nationwide. Participants include Treehouse Kid & Craft, Town & Gown Players, Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement (painted by the teen social justice club), Athens-Clarke County Library (painted by Athens Moms Demand Action) and Ciné (painted by Project Safe). On view beginning June 5.

WILLSON CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES AND ARTS (Online) As part of UGA’s Spotlight on the Arts, the Willson Center presents “Shelter Projects,” a virtual exhibition of over 30 projects created by graduate students or community practitioners who reflect pandemic experiences through the arts. willson.uga.edu.

who has played in Centro-matic, South San Gabriel, Marie/Lepanto, Overseas, New Multitudes and Monster of Folk. June 3, 7 p.m. www.avidbookshop.com SOUTHERN STAR STUDIO OPEN GALLERY (Southern Star Studio) Southern Star Studio is a working, collective ceramics studio, established by Maria Dondero in 2016.

The gallery contains members’ work, primarily pottery. Every Saturday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. www.southern starstudioathens.com STAR SPANGLED CLASSIC (Ben Epps Airport) Celebrate Independence Day with a fireworks display.

Fireworks will be viewable from Lexington, Cherokee and Gaines School Roads. Parking at Satterfield Park opens at 7 p.m. July 3, 9:30 p.m. www.accgov.com/fireworks SUNDAY FUNDAY (Rabbit Hole Studios) This community gathering is for playing drums, singing songs, playing ping pong and board games, reading books, doing yoga, making art and more. Every Sunday, 6 p.m.–12 a.m. Acoustic song/drum circle runs 6–9 p.m. followed by games in the grand hall. Donations accepted. Memberships offering access to the musical museum and private lounge are also available for $16/month. www. rabbitholestudios.org ‘TIL BETH DO US PART (Elbert Theatre, Elberton) Encore Productions presents a Jones, Hope & Wooten comedy about marriage. June 4–5 & 11–12, 7 p.m. June 6 & 13, 2 p.m. $11–16. tking@cityofelberton.net TRIVIA AT ATHENTIC (Athentic Brewing Co.) Win beer tabs and other prizes. Every second Monday of the month, 7 p.m. www.athentic brewing.com TOUR DE COOP, CHICKEN COOP TOUR OF HOMES (Online) Sweet Olive Farm hosts a virtual selfguided tour of eight local chicken coops. Now available through summer. $15. www.sweetolivefarm.org/ products/tdc WEST BROAD FARMERS MARKET (300 S. Rocksprings St.) The market is open for shopping each week from Sunday at 5 p.m. to Thursday at 1 p.m., with a drive-through (or walk/bike-through) pick-up on Saturdays from 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. wbfm.locallygrown.net

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Anime Night for grades 6–12 is held June 15 at 6 p.m. “Furry Farm Friends” for ages 2–8 is held at the library on June 16 at 11 a.m. www. athenslibrary.org CAMP FOXFIRE (Foxfire Woods and Farm) Ages 5–12 can enjoy outdoor play, learn about arm life and discover local plants. $125/week.

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and Mike Killeen. Proceeds benefit Family Connection-Communities in Schools of Athens. June 12, 12 p.m.–11 p.m. $35+. www. sobrewco.com FRONT PORCH BOOK STORE (102 Marigold Lane, Winterville) Enjoy free free concerts on the lawn. The lineup includes The Welfare Liners (June 5), Vagablonde (June 12), Making Strange and Janet and the

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Daily, 2–9 p.m. www.athenslibrary. org VIRTUAL SUMMER CAMPS (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Camp themes include woodland fairy and gnomes, textile and fiber arts, circus, pen pals, mini museum, rebel girls, flower gardens and more.

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Blue Dogs (June 19) and Adam Klein featuring Adam Poulin (June 26). Shows held at 6 p.m. jmazzucc @uga.edu GEORGIA LEGENDS CONCERT (John W. Swails Center Auditorium, Royston) Glen Templeton performs.

Aug. 28, 7–10 p.m., $25–35. www. legendsconcert.org HIP-HOP PIT STOP (Live Wire Athens) This month-long residency features DJs, featured performances and open mics (submit song by prior Sunday) every Wednesday from 8–11 p.m. Tribe House Records Night features DJ Kut Daily, Cassie Chantel and more on June 2. GA Pro Night features DJ Kountry and Kxng Blanco on June 9. MMR Night features DJ Sean Swift and Ant Da Ripper on June 16. Volumes Night features DJ Bob Fish and Trvy on June 23. ALE Night features DJ Chief Rocka on June 30. www.livewireathens.com INTERNATIONAL GRILL & BAR (1155 Mitchell bridge Rd.)The Splitz Band performs June 25 at 7 p.m. All ages. www.facebook.com/ IGNAthensGA

JAKE SHIMABUKURO (Classic Center Theatre) Ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro performs with bassist Jackson Waldhoff and guitarist Dave Preston. June 13. $35–45. www. classiccenter.com THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF BILLIE HOLIDAY (Festival Hall, Greensboro) The Jazz Legacy Project performs Billie Holiday’s songs.

June 24, 7:30 p.m. www.festivalhall ga.com PICKIN’ ON THE GREENE (Downtown Greensboro) This free summer concert features sets by John Dunn and the Jazzmen, Pullin’ Strings, and Tim Cadiere and Washboard Road Band. June 18, 6–10 p.m. www.facebook.com/downtown greensboroga PORTERHOUSE GRILL (459 E. Broad St.) Enjoy dinner and some smooth jazz. Wednesdays, 6–9 p.m. www.porterhouseathens.com RUMORS (440 Foundry Pavilion) The Fleetwood Mac tribute band performs. Different pod sizes are available for attendees. June 3, 7 p.m. www.classiccenter.com SOUTHERN BREWING CO. (231 Collins Industrial Blvd.) Sunday Trivia with Solo Entertainment Sundays at 5 p.m. Neighbor Lady and Annie Leeth perform June 3 at 7 p.m. Max Eve (5:30 p.m.) and Matchbox Rodeo (8 p.m.) perform June 4. Live Wrestling held June 5 at 7 p.m. New Madrid, Monsoon and Wieuca play June 10. www. sobrewco.com

Support Groups AL-ANON 12 STEP (Multiple Locations) Recovery for people affected by someone else’s drinking. Visit the website for a calendar of electronic meetings. ga-al-anon.org ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS (Athens, GA) If you think you have a problem with alcohol, call the AA hotline or visit the website for a schedule of meetings in Barrow, Clarke, Jackson and Oconee Counties. 706-389-4164, www. athensaa.org RECOVERY DHARMA (Recovery Dharma) This peer-led support group offers a Buddhist-inspired path to recovery from any addiction.

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Word on the Street ACRONYM (Athens, GA) ACRONYM is a new website compiling COVID-19 aid for Athens-based live music venues and artists. Check the website for updated listings on funding and financial opportunities, mental health guides, organizational support, community resources and more. Visit acroynym.rocks ART FOR ATHENS (Online) The Red & Black hosts Art for Athens to support Nuçi’s Space. Donated work by artists is sold and shipped through the publication’s online store. Participating artists include R. Wood, Maria Dondero, Jamie Calkin, James Burns and Chris Robinson. www.redandblack.com/store CLASSIC CITY TOASTMASTERS (Zoom) This is an encouraging group for individuals who want to develop their communication and public speaking skills. Meetings are held 2–3 times a month on Thursday evenings. 706-202-7566 SPREAD YOUR WINGS (Multiple Locations) Five butterfly murals are located at the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement Justice Center, ACC Library, Ciné, Arcadia Garden and Treehouse Kid and Craft. Take a picture and tag #WearOrange and #WeCanEndGunViolence to honor victims of gun violence on National Gun Violence Awareness Day and Wear Orange Weekend. June 5. www.wearorange.org SUMMER STAFF (Athens, GA) The Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services Department is now hiring for approximately 120 summer positions including camp counselors, lifeguards and pool clerks. Summer day camp counselors will receive a $200 bonus as a hiring incentive. www.accgov.com/jobs SURVEY ON PROPOSED PUBLIC RESTROOM (Online) The ACC Central Services Department is currently seeking public input about a proposed public restroom facility in downtown Athens. Take the survey before June 15. www.accgov.com/ surveys VIRTUAL INK WRITERS GROUP (Online) This creative writing group is open for adults to share work, give suggestions and support each other. Meets the third Wednesday of every month at 8 p.m. via Google Meets. Register by email. jmitchell @athenslibrary.org VIRTUAL LEISURE SERVICES (Online) A variety of activities are offered in arts, athletics, nature and recreation. www.accgov.com/ leisure f

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