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with the public to get vaccinated because it prevents serious illness and death. In Clarke County, 41% of residents are fully vaccinated, and 45% have received at least one dose, according to DPH. While Clarke County’s vaccination rate is relatively low, the strain on hospitals is also due to high COVID transmission rates

By Blake Aued and Lee Shearer news@flagpole.com in surrounding counties that are served by Athens hospitals. Jackson County is averagWith only about two-fifths of Clarke County $100, that three digits there, seems to be ing twice as many new cases as Clarke when residents fully vaccinated, the Athensthe sweet spot that gets people’s attention,” adjusted for population. Barrow, Madison, Clarke County Commission approved an Morgan and Greene counties also have she said. incentive of up to $200 for reluctant indiRecipients will have a choice of a gift card higher infection rates than Clarke. viduals to get the jab starting Sept. 1.

On Aug. 16, Gov. Brian Kemp announced from Walmart, Kroger or Dollar General In a deal with the Clarke County Health that he would release $125 million for or a card good at a variety of downtown Department, ACC will be doling out a $100 hospitals to hire and pay 1,300 health care Athens businesses. prepaid debit card per shot to anyone who workers through Dec. 1. “Virtually every In other business, the commission lives, works or goes to school in Clarke hospital’s most pressing issue is lack of approved grant applications for broadband County. The initial expense of $250,000 will internet and water and sewer projects. ACC qualified staff to treat the patients coming cover 2,000 shots, plus administrative costs is seeking $38 million from Georgia’s $1.2 through their door,” he said. and police officers to guard the gift cards.

But Kemp reiterated that he won’t billion share of ARP funds to build stormFunding comes from the nearly $30 million mandate mask-wearing or vaccination, and water culverts, replace aging sewer lines, ACC received this year from the federal he signed an executive order Aug. 19 proconvert a rock quarry into a reservoir and American Rescue Plan. hibiting local governments from requiring build a system to recycle wastewater for “We know, of course, we unfortunately masks. (Athens-Clarke industrial uses, reduchave components of this community that recently reining demand for potable That $100, that three County’s historically have had under-attained access stated mask ordinance water during droughts. digits there, seems to health-care resources,” Mayor Kelly Girtz has an opt-out provision The county is also said. “This program will really be to target for businesses.) applying for federal to be the sweet spot that those members of the community and get “I think at this point, funding through the gets people’s attention. those vaccination rates up.” if anybody out there state to supplement Because vaccine drives are already trusts the government, $6 million in SPLOST underway on campus and UGA is offerit’s not many people,” Kemp said, pointing funds for high-speed wireless internet at ing its own incentives, Northeast Health to the CDC reversing course on mask-weargovernment facilities, downtown and in District Administrator Emily Eisenmann ing. “I think mandates, that just pushes rural parts of the county that lack access said she doesn’t expect the offer to attract people into a corner.” to broadband internet. While it’s been many UGA students. She said the program Kemp said he won’t require state employdiscussed for years, municipal internet will target undervaccinated Census tracts ees to be vaccinated, but he is giving them service became even more urgent during where “the money might get them over the the day off the Friday before Labor Day in the pandemic, when many people were edge” to overcome their hesitancy. “A lot of hopes that they’ll use it to get the shot. working from home and Clarke County this will be targeted in the neighborhoods “Finally, I want to reiterate that Georgia School District students were taking virwe’re in to make sure we’re getting the right tual classes. Some parents either couldn’t will remain open for business,” he added. demographics that really need the vaccine, “We will not shut down. We will not prevent afford or didn’t have access to high-speed to get the numbers up there,” she said. families from earning a paycheck.” internet, leading to students taking online UGA is offering a $20 gift card and a Democrats and public health experts classes in their cars outside of schools or T-shirt for getting the COVID-19 vaccine, as restaurants with Wi-Fi. [Blake Aued] have criticized Kemp for his stance against well as a chance to win a $100 gift card in a mask mandates. “When did viruses become weekly drawing. partisan?” Sen. Raphael Warnock said “It is a shame we have to pay people to last week at an Atlanta Press Club event.

Georgia hit a milestone with its 1 get a vaccine that protects their own lives, “Viruses don’t know partisan divides. They millionth COVID-19 case last week and as well as the lives of everybody around don’t know geographic divides. Leaders is approaching 20,000 deaths. The Delta them, but we’re gonna do what we gotta need to be leaders in this moment.” variant continues to drive a surge in Clarke do,” Commissioner Melissa Link said. “It’s County’s COVID-19 cases, with an average also a shame we live in a community where of 59 confirmed cases a day as of Aug. 20, the region’s largest employer refuses to or up from 43 a week earlier. In particular, is unable to mandate vaccination for staff cases among children ages 10-17 are spiking or students. We have a high transient popstatewide—they’ve gone from less than 50 ulation. We have a lot of students coming to nearly 1,000 per day since July, according in and out of the community who consider to Georgia Department of Public Health themselves low-risk for serious illness, but data. they’re very much high-risk for getting By another measure used by the CDC, COVID because of behavioral choices.”

Clarke County had 347 cases over the Some commissioners questioned the past seven days at the end of last week, an eventual cost—two shots for every eligible increase of 43% over the previous week. unvaccinated Clarke County resident would That’s the metric the Athens-Clarke County cost more than $10 million. Commissioner government uses to decide whether it’s safe Jesse Houle said he’d prefer a lottery systo issue permits for events, and unless it tem, and Commissioner Mariah Parker starts to fall drastically, AthFest and other suggested offering the one-shot Johnson major events scheduled for this fall are & Johnson vaccine would be more fiscally likely to be canceled. To finalize a permit, responsible. The health department offers ACC regulations require that cases over a all three, Eisenmann said, and people often seven-day period should be below 150 two have a strong preference. “We’re never weeks before the event is scheduled to take going to persuade someone to take one vacplace. cine over another, because the key is to get Local hospitals are nearly full, with just them vaccinated,” she said. one of 74 intensive care unit beds open and The $100 figure came from previous 94% of all hospital beds occupied in Region incentive trials in other counties. “We E on Aug. 20. Over 30% of those patients, didn’t notice much enthusiasm for $10,” 208, had COVID-19. Almost all of those Eisenmann said. Likewise, Dekalb County patients are unvaccinated, according to hostried $20 and $50 without much success, pital administrators, who continue to plead but a $100 event drew 1,100 people. “That

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Also last week, ACC Mayor Kelly Girtz joined the mayors of Atlanta, Savannah and Augusta in writing a letter to Kemp requesting that he require masks inside state institutions.

“Asking others to mask is no different than asking motorists to stop at a red light or asking residents to keep a dog on a leash at the park. It is the neighborly approach that we were all raised to follow,” the letter reads. “And given this challenging moment for our healthcare system, it is the necessary move. If we can keep more of our hospital beds empty, that allows quality care for anyone when they have a sudden slip or fall, or have a traffic accident, or experience any medical crisis. Reports from the last week note hours-long waits in emergency rooms throughout the state, and simple preventative measures like mask wearing can reduce this burden.” [BA]

CCSD Will Introduce Virtual Option As COVID cases surge among young people and others, Clarke County School District administrators said they’re preparing a virtual option for K-8 students during a meeting where dozens of parents used the public input period to debate whether to shut down schools again.

Some parents said CCSD’s COVID protocols are too lax and called for virtual learning as well as other, more stringent safety measures and better enforcement of the rules already on the books, like three feet of social distancing.

Dressed in a graduation cap and gown, parent Lizzie Saltz spoke from the point of view of a Delta variant virus. “At Cedar Shoals [High School], it is so hospitable for a virus of my speed and agility, I don’t know where to begin,” she said.

Although physically closing schools was not on the agenda for the Aug. 19 meeting, other parents argued that teachers and students are not equipped for virtual learning, that it’s damaging to mental health, and that it causes students whose parents can’t afford a babysitter or tutor to fall behind.

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masks and questioning the efficacy of both masks and vaccines in the face of overwhelming medical and scientific consensus.

CCSD has reported 210 cases of COVID19 among students and staff and almost 900 precautionary quarantines in the past two weeks. However, Superintendent Xernona Thomas has repeatedly stated that she is determined to keep schools open safely this year because many CCSD students don’t have the technology or adult supervision needed to succeed in a virtual environment.

Chief Academic Officer Brannon Gaskins said CCSD is exploring contracting with a company called Proximity Learning to provide virtual classes for 300 students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

Students could take those classes at home or in a classroom while supervised by a non-teacher. Currently there is no virtual option for elementary and middle school students. Proximity Learning is a division of ESS, which Gaskins said CCSD is already using for three classes that the district was unable to find anyone to teach.

High school students will also have more virtual options next semester, Gaskins said. “At our high schools, we have more

sion,” Davis said. “And I understand why it’s not. But that doesn’t mean that it’s prudent not to.”

“Parents and teachers, they want schools open,” he said. “But they want us to take every possible step we can to make sure the students are safe, and the staff is safe.” [BA]

The Confederate Monument Is Back Up Athens’ Confederate monument is now erect in its new location on Timothy Place off Macon Highway, both visible and noticeable from the nearby Athens Perimeter.

The memorial’s carved marble portion is laced with small fractures, mainly toward the bottom where the names of Athens Confederate soldiers are etched. However, comparisons with photos taken prior to the monument’s removal from downtown show that the cracks were already there.

The Athens-Clarke County Commission voted to remove the monument from Broad Street in June 2020, in the wake of the national wave of anger and revulsion that followed the May 25 death of George Floyd, murdered by a Minneapolis police officer. One result was a national outcry against Confederate monuments, and many in Athens said it was time to go for the monument to soldiers who died defending slavery.

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and more students requesting—after drop/ add, of course—to go virtual, and so I think that number will increase,” he said. “In the spring, we’re already adding more adjunct professors or adjunct teachers for sections that students didn’t think they wanted to take but now want to take,” like economics.

Board member Patricia Yager asked for “clarity” on safety protocols. She said she thought Head Nurse Amy Roark would give a presentation, but Roark did not.

Another member, Greg Davis, said the board should be giving Thomas and her staff more support. He also raised the idea of requiring that CCSD employees be vaccinated. Hospitals are doing it, he pointed out, and so is the Athens-Clarke County government. But apparently that idea had been previously rejected.

“At this point, I’m not even advocating it, but I do think it should be up for discus-

A state law prohibits moving or dismantling such monuments, but Athens officials justified the monument’s removal by saying it needed to be relocated for safety reasons, to protect the monument itself and to make way for a widened pedestrian crosswalk at the busy Broad Street-College Avenue intersection.

Workers took down the massive stacked stones about six weeks later in August 2020. The monument lay in a field near the Clarke County Jail until June, when workers began to reassemble it on Timothy Place, near Barber Creek, the site of Clarke County’s only Civil War skirmish.

Dedicated in 1872, the monument to Confederate dead had been a fixture in downtown Athens for nearly 150 years, at first near City Hall and later moved to the Broad Street median at College Square. [Lee Shearer] f

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op U.S. health officials announced a plan last week to begin offering COVID19 booster shots to Americans starting Sept. 20, with the scheduling of the additional shot to be based on when a person was fully vaccinated. The new round of jabs will be extended to those who received the two-dose vaccine from either Pfizer or Moderna, and can be taken eight months after an individual’s second dose.

Vivek Murthy, the U.S. surgeon general, told reporters recent data makes clear that—while the current COVID-19 vaccines have been highly effective against severe disease, hospitalization and death—the protection against mild and moderate disease has appeared to decrease over time. “This is likely due to both waning immunity and the strength of the widespread Delta variant,” Murthy said, adding that health officials are concerned the decline in immunity could reduce protection against severe disease and death in the months ahead.

The more than 13 million Americans who received the one-dose shot from Johnson & Johnson may also need boosters, but will not yet be eligible. Federal health officials said they are awaiting data from J&J in the next few weeks before urging additional doses. The J&J shot wasn’t approved until March, so those who received it will not hit eight months past inoculation until November.

The new booster rollout plan is subject to formal authorization from the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine panel. Those agencies will hold public meetings before the booster rollout can begin.

But officials said they were detailing the booster plan ahead of those meetings in part to give state and local health officials time to prepare for another wave of vaccination logistics.

The plan for offering a third shot puts yet another layer of pressure on state and local health departments that have carried out the massive vaccination campaign, including in Georgia. “We learned about this the same time everyone else did, so we are in planning discussions for how this will roll out and be operationalized,” Georgia Department of Health spokesperson Nancy Nydham said. “DPH has and continues to administer vaccines and will provide boosters in Georgia.”

Convincing Georgians to get two shots has already proven to be a challenge.

Georgia continues to lag behind the rest of the country, with about 42% of the population fully vaccinated, compared with over

51% for the nation, and as a result, the Delta variant has spread across the state, massively straining hospital resources. On Aug. 17, Georgia marked its 1 millionth documented COVID-19 case since the pandemic began. More than 19,000 deaths have been attributed to COVID-19 in Georgia, and another 3,000 likely linked to the virus. Meanwhile, vaccine manufacturers are expected this fall to seek approval for administering shots to children under 12, who so far have not been eligible.

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effectiveness, including New Yorkers across age groups and another following case counts from nursing homes. Those studies have shown that protection against severe infection has held up, but not against milder infections, she said, adding that other countries, such as Israel, also are starting to see “worsening outcomes.”

“In the context of all of these studies, different cohorts, different settings across the country and our international colleagues, we’ve made the decision to plan for these booster doses,” Walensky said.

The booster shots will be available at roughly 80,000 sites nationally, including 40,000 local pharmacies. As with the other COVID-19 shots, the boosters will be free of charge.

The CDC had already approved a third COVID-19 shot for some immunocompromised individuals, who may not have received strong protection from the initial doses of the vaccine.

While the booster plan does not specifically mention other categories of individuals to receive a priority for boosters, the initial vaccine rollout did put certain groups first in line. So the first individuals to hit eight months after their second shot should be those in the earliest priority categories, such as health care workers and nursing home residents. f This story originally appeared at georgiarecorder. com.

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religiously aligned parties. Private nonprofit clubs are also exempt.

Activists are now looking forward to implementation of the ordinance. Harrelson said the LGBTQ community was invited to be heard via listening sessions in the development of this ordinance, but communication should be more open and frequent.

“I challenge the commission to continue the conversation outside of Pride Month and election years,” Harrelson said. “And I encourage our own community to continue to show up and be heard so that we do not get pushed to the side, and we are at the forefront of conversations, because we do exist, we are here, we’re not leaving, and we’re definitely not able to change.”

Harrelson and Johnson agreed that establishing a human rights committee made up of Athens citizens is a necessary supplement to the ordinance. “Having the government be the sole facilitator of it [responding to complaints] negates the fact that we’re wanting representation

thens residents now have a local avenue to pursue promote it and let people know what to do if discriminadiscrimination claims, thanks to a new civil rights tion happens to them,” Johnson said. “When you promote ordinance recently approved by the Athens-Clarke County it, people start rising up, and when they do, they have to Commission. listen and have an infrastructure in place that is going to Unanimously passed on Aug 3., the ordinance aims to respond.” prevent discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, Commissioner Allison Wright, who chairs the Legislative national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender Review Committee that wrote the ordinance, said it’s a identity, age, disability, marital status, familial status or commission priority to ensure Athenians are aware of the veteran/military status, as well as provide Athenians with avenues by which they can file a complaint. equal access to employment, housing and public accommodations. After debate, the commission decided not to include polyamory, or the practice of having multiple partners, because of uncertainty over its durability in court.

Local activists applauded the progress, but hoped for greater inclusion.

“I would personally like to see it expanded to include more identities and more marginalized groups,” said Cameron Harrelson, who serves as vice president of the LGBTQ group Athens Pride, but added that he wasn’t speaking on behalf of the organization. “But the fact that we have something on the books now at least doesn’t invalidate the years of work that marginalized communities that are included have been putting in to make sure we are heard, seen and have the avenues for recourse.”

Though the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applies to all Americans, and many states have passed supporting anti-discimination statutes, Georgia has no such legislation. But Athens-Clarke County has now joined Atlanta, Clarkson, Brookhaven, Chamblee and others in creating municipal ordinances on human rights. Mayor Kelly Girtz originally charged the commission’s Legislative Review Committee with studying Brookhaven’s anti-discrimination ordinance to model one for Athens.

Mokah-Jasmine Johnson’s organization, the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement, has been advocating for a human rights ordinance Members of the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement marched on City Hall to demand a civil rights ordinance in 2016. for minority Athenians since 2015, starting with its first protest brought on by a racist drink offered at local bar General Beauregard’s, and subsequent The ordinance threatens a fine of $1,000 for every vioin the first place when it comes to these issues, so by having reports of downtown college bars using dress codes to keep lation, and a business can be banned from operating in a committee to look at these complaints that is comprised out Black customers. Johnson said she appreciates the new Clarke County after three offenses. Complaints may be of the marginalized people directly affected by it is the right ordinance, especially in comparison to the limited 2016 filed with the county attorney’s office within 90 days of the way to go,” Harrelson said. ordinance that banned discrimination only at bars, but she violation. In addition, voluntary mediation is available to That task is next on the commission’s agenda, according emphasized that this is just one step in the right direction. facilitate conversations between the plaintiff and defento Wright. The commission is expected to consider a pro“I hope that the government will not only just have it dant. Churches and other religious organizations maintain posal for a human rights committee within the next two on a document that they’re against discrimination, but the right to restrict their membership and amenities to months. f

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By Ed Tant news@flagpole.com “Book ‘em, Danno!” Trials are beginning in federal courts for some of the hundreds of people arrested in connection with the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, when a mob of Donald Trump loyalists attacked police and unlawfully entered the structure in a mad effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Trump’s supporters brought domestic terrorism to Capitol Hill and lawlessly besmirched a building that is the symbol of American government and the rule of law.

More than 500 people have been arrested in the aftermath of the insurrection. Hundreds of federal court battles will be a slow process, but the process

harrowing tales of being beaten, tased and sprayed with chemical irritants by sore loser Trump troops who invaded the Capitol. The lawless conduct of Trump supporters who have long claimed to “Back the Blue” and “support law enforcement” was on full display in Washington during their attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

Earlier this month, Congressional Gold Medals were awarded to the police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, but 21 Republican representatives voted against the much-deserved honor. Not surprisingly, Georgia representatives Andrew Clyde, Jody Hice and Marjorie Taylor Greene were among those who voted against awarding

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has begun. On July 19, defendant Paul Hodgkins received eight months in prison after he pleaded guilty to obstruction of the congressional business of certifying electoral votes that gave Joe Biden the White House and Trump an eviction notice.

Hodgkins was part of the MAGA mob that trespassed onto the Senate floor during the right-wing riot on Jan. 6. At the time, he carried a Trump flag and wore a backpack containing rope and latex gloves.

“When a mob is prepared to attack the Capitol, democracy is in trouble,” said Judge Randolph Moss, who presided over the case.

A longer federal prison sentence is expected for Scott Fairlamb, who could receive up to 51 months behind bars for assaulting police and obstructing Congress when he is sentenced soon. So far only six Capitol Hill insurrectionists have been sentenced, and sentences have been relatively light. That trend could change for defendant Fairlamb and the scores of other accused rioters who will be brought to trial as the wheels of justice grind slowly toward verdicts, not vindication, for the MAGA mobsters.

On July 27, the eyes of the nation were again focused on Capitol Hill as four policemen, who were on duty during the Jan. 6 riot, testified to Congress about the mob violence that was directed against them during the MAGA melee. The cops told

gold medals to the officers. Clyde, Hice and Greene are a truculent trio of apologists for Trump’s troublemakers who stormed the Capitol on that deadly day in January.

They and most of their fellow congressional Republicans have attempted to mitigate and downplay the insurrection ever since it happened, but as President Biden said of the crimes of Jan. 6, “The tragedy that day deserves the truth above all else. We cannot allow history to be rewritten.”

Republican politicians who deny the events of Jan. 6 are indeed trying to rewrite history that was viewed by millions of Americans as it happened. They call Democrats a socialist party even as their own Republican Party shows more and more fealty to the fascism of white supremacy and militia mentality. Such politicians should read the dystopian writings of novelists George Orwell and Sinclair Lewis. In his chilling novel of authoritarianism, 1984, Orwell wrote of political apparatchiks who deny reality, decry reform and distort history: “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” In It Can’t Happen Here, his tale of a fascist dictatorship in America, Lewis wrote words in the 1930s that apply to this nation today: “A country that tolerates evil means—evil manners, standards of ethics—for a generation will be so poisoned that it will never have any good end.” f

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FLAGPOLE SAYS ‘SEE YOU LATER’ TO ANITA AUBREY

PLUS, A TEXAS-SIZED TRIBUTE TO TAMEZ

By Pete McCommons pete@flagpole.com

By Hillary Brown food@flagpole.com

Anita Pinto came to work at Flagpole 21 years ago, one job out of college. She has grown up with us—marrying our friend Troy Aubrey, and with him having our friends Peyton and Kiernan. Anita is now leaving Flagpole to try other opportunities, but we don’t think she will be leaving our Flagpole family, just extending it even further out into the community.

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Anita has watched Flagpole grow up, too, and has helped us with our growing pains.

When she got here, we were still in transition from a sort of harum-scarum, makeit-up-as-you-go-along operational model to a better structured and more coherent organization (still not perfect). To say the least, Anita is well organized and laser focused. She made an immediate impact on our advertising sales, and that has continued straight through this week. Unless you have tried it, you may not realize how tough it can be to sell ads in a local market inundated with other media. It takes a combination of toughness and friendliness, not to mention a close attention to detail.

After you convince a business manager to run an ad, you’ve got to help them design it, and then you’ve got to show our Flagpole ad designers what you want and make sure they get it right and then make sure it’s what the advertiser wants and then make sure the right version gets into the paper.

And you have to invoice the ad and collect for it, because, after all, you’re working mainly on commission, so that ad buys cereal for Kiernan and Peyton and Troy.

On top of her ad selling, design and invoicing, Anita has handled our bank deposits and credit card transactions and other record-keeping within the advertising department, where she works alongside her longtime friend and colleague, the other half of our advertising dynamic duo, Jessica Pritchard Mangum.

Anita is a typical Flagpole staff member in the fact that she has been here a long time—as have Alicia Nickles, Larry Tenner,

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Jessica Smith, Jessica Mangum, Blake Aued and I. Such longevity gives us a deep fund of institutional memory and concern for the wellbeing of Flagpole and the community we serve, leavened by the fresh energy of our relative newcomers like Cody Robinson, Chris McNeal, Zaria Gholston and Sam Lipkin—not to mention Anita’s replacement coming up.

Anita is typical of our Flagpole staff in another way. Although she works here as an ad rep—with all those pressures and responsibilities—she is fiercely devoted to making Flagpole the best publication it can be. She cares about the quality of our stories, photographs and covers. She is constantly bringing tips, story ideas, calendar listings and business news.

She’s not just selling ads, she’s selling Flagpole.

Mainly, though, we will just miss Anita— always the first at work (until the pandemic messed that up), always with a cheery wave (even with a painfully broken finger that stopped a line-drive hit at second base in her other life as a star softball player and coach), and always saying exactly what she thinks, so that you always know where you stand with her and can relax with her and know that she’s your friend, because if she weren’t, she’d be the first to tell you.

In its 34 years in business, Flagpole has had a lot of people work here who have become friends and have remained friends while moving on to other endeavors, and we know it will be the same with Anita.

We will fill her job with a new friend, but we cannot replace Anita. She is sui generis, which Merriam-Webster defines as “in a class by herself.” With her hard work and hard play, her absolute devotion to her family and to her friends (and to Flagpole), her quirky, spot-on sense of style, her tasteful tattoos, her multicolored hairdo and her determination to succeed, there is only one Anita Aubrey, and we’re all better off for knowing her.

I hesitate to mention this personal note for fear that it could be taken the wrong way. It has long been Flagpole’s custom, until curtailed by the pandemic, to celebrate each staff member’s birthday with a meal and a cake and a card that we all sign.

A long time ago on her birthday, the card chosen for Anita had some kind of puppy dog theme, and on the spur of the moment, trying to be funny, I signed Anita’s card, “Happy Birthday, Bitch!” You may not think that is funny, but Anita found it hilarious, and it has become a continued back-andforth on both our birthdays. I hope that explains why I cannot help saying now to Anita, “You’re the best: Love you, Bitch!” f

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I haven’t written a column like this in 17 months, so pardon me if I’m a little rusty.

My mom says she hasn’t recovered her love for restaurants since the beginning of the pandemic because she realized how extraneous they are. I’m capable of cooking for and feeding myself, but I think the fact that restaurants aren’t 100% necessary to everyday life is what makes us want them.

When your world collapses into only what’s needed, you miss what’s outside of that.

Looking at food through the lens of consuming maximally nutritious categories leads to sucking down Soylent, not to joy.

That’s not to say that I am comfortable in restaurants yet. But there are options that can work, like eating outside or take-out.

The former can be tough in Georgia, and the latter generally isn’t representative of the best a restaurant has to offer, but this is where we are.

TAMEZ BARBECUE: Alejandro Tamez opened

one chews and contemplates. Tamez has a similar purity of approach throughout, with cilantro-rich beans, a coleslaw that relies on the simple beauty of cabbage, collard greens with orange zest and pickle slices that make you remember what cucumbers taste like.

The ribs are good. The pork is the weakest of the three, but mostly by comparison, and it does benefit from a bit of the vinegary sauce. Maybe this is the restaurant that can last in that location. I sure hope so. Tamez is open Tuesday–Saturday for breakfast, Wednesday–Saturday for lunch and Friday and Saturday nights for tacos.

THE CAFÉ ON LUMPKIN: Speaking of perfection-

ists who try to make all their own stuff in house, this place in a historic house in Five Points (1700 S. Lumpkin St., 706215-9240) falls into that category, too, offering a proper afternoon tea. That’s not something we’ve really had in Athens, and although I am not a fan of the restaurant’s opt-out from the ACC masking ordinance, it does have a nice patio on which to spread out. Order the tea, and you’ll get your choice of a whole lot of options (the folks at the ordering window can suggest something if you’re lost), brought to you nicely brewed in a pretty, small teapot with a three-tiered stand that holds fancy little

this wee, charming Texas barbecue spot at 1660 West Broad St. (706-850-3939) back in October and has found a way to make it work, adding breakfast burritos that have helped carry it. With no inside seating (there are uncovered picnic tables in front and covered ones off to the side), a drivethrough and masks required inside, it feels pretty safe. Tamez does two things absolutely perfectly: tortillas and brisket.

Everything else it does adequately to well, but most restaurants don’t even have one perfect item, let alone two. The tortillas serve as the base of those wonderful burritos, available pretty early in the morning and packed with eggs plus your choice of something else: bacon, chorizo, regular sausage, potatoes, cheese, beans, The Café on Lumpkin all with a side of thin hot sauce. Add-ons sandwiches on the bottom (crusts cut off, will cost you 50 cents each, but the basic cucumber, chicken salad, honey and apple), burrito is a mere $3 ($6 for brisket). The nice scones with housemade jam and clottacos, available later in the day, are similar ted cream in the middle and sweets on the minus the egg, plus pork with onion (diced top. I’m not really a sweets person, but into exemplary tiny cubes, revealing the chef’s fine-dining background) and cilantro. the macarons are proper and very nicely executed, and where else in town can you It is incredibly rare, at least in Athens, to get a slice of Battenberg cake or the kind of have a flour tortilla be the highlight of a shortbread made famous by “Ted Lasso”? taco or a burrito, but damn if it ain’t true The menu also includes lunchier stuff and here. Made meticulously in-house, they are breakfast options, all done carefully and good enough to consume plain, with a soft, complex texture and flavor that essentialize neatly. There’s gruyère in the breakfast burrito, and the chicken salad is chickeny their nature. One could say the same of the rather than gloppy, with no fruit or nuts brisket, which is the best I have ever had: to get in the way. Breakfast and lunch last gently, insistently intense, with unparalfrom 8 a.m.–3 p.m., after which there are leled texture. Putting sauce on it would be snacks and light fare, plus wine-based cocka felony. I totally understand if a mouthful tails until 6 p.m. The patio is dog friendly, of beef fat is not your thing (and there are and there’s parking in the back, if you can things on the menu for vegetarians), but navigate the narrow driveway. f whew, it is a real delight and a journey as

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By Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com DON’T FIGHT AND BE POLITE: Over the past few weeks, select local establishments have publicized their current COVID19 policies and attendance requirements. Among the most popular with regular readers are Normaltown’s Hi-Lo, The Georgia Theatre and the 40 Watt Club. Due to the ongoing, and possibly changing, nature of such requirements and restrictions (i.e. mask policies, vaccination requirements, etc.), I’m not gonna go into a huge explanation of them all. You can easily contact individual businesses on your own or seek out their social media pages and websites for information. What I do want to do, though, is strongly remind y’all that these establishments and their employees were among those that took more than their share of the terrible economic brunt last year’s lockdowns visited upon us. The absolute last thing they need now is anyone giving them grief and trouble regarding what are, hopefully, temporary policies. So, if you’re not of the mind to be a good neighbor, please don’t attempt to patronize them at this time. Everyone involved in the Athens live music scene is trying damned hard to keep it going, so please don’t make this task any more unpleasant than it already is.

SHOW SOME LOVE: There’s a benefit for Love.Craft Athens at Southern Brewing Co. Friday, Aug. 27. Featured acts this night are The Pink Stones, Tedo Stone, Innerbeing

and The Love.Craft Band, and the event is presented by New West Records, Normaltown Records and Strolling Bones Records. There’ll be a food truck on site, as well as local vendors. Doors open at 7 p.m. with the show starting at 7:30 p.m. Love.

Craft Athens engages disabled adults in creative endeavors, such as music and art, which helps provide them with a means of creative expression while also exhibiting skill levels and interests which could assist in future employment opportunities. Tickets are $15 for adults, $5 for kids and all proceeds benefit the organization. For more information and to purchase in advance, please see lovecraftathens.kindful.com/e/ Slime Ring burning-lovecraft--1.

HEY, NEIGHBOR: Sebastien Marquez (Dead Neighbors) has a new solo project named Slime Ring, which has a new album named SLM_RNG_EP. On its surface, it appears as a marked change from his previous work. Speaking as someone who engaged every note of Dead Neighbors, though, it sounds to me like a very natural progression for Marquez.

Fingerpicking figures prominently across the entirety of

record review Kxng Blanco: LvrBoy 2 (Independent) If the title LvrBoy gives you the impression you’re in for some sensually charged, turn-the-lights-down-low vibes, then you would be correct. LvrBoy 2 is a mature piece of work in content and production that demonstrates Kxng Blanco’s progression from his “King of the Youth” image, as seen in his 2018 debut album, Crown. With a total of 17 tracks, there are three short “skits” that sew together the album’s overall narrative of new, exhilarating love building to a consuming crescendo before taking a heartbreaking nose-dive. These highs and lows are accompanied by various smooth R&B tempo changes between songs. “I Need 2 Kno” stands out due to the beat’s added palpable texture of guitar strings, but at barely over two minutes, it leaves you wanting much more after hearing what Blanco is capable of here. Features from UntilNextTime add pleasant highlights to the album with their polished, classic sound that, much like the rest of the album, appeals to a variety of listeners.

“Another Love Song” finishes the album nicely as the most radio-friendly track you would expect to hear bumpin’ around town. [Sam Lipkin]

these seven tracks, and its presence here has a lulling and meditative effect much the way, say, looped work by Animal Collective had. There’s a fair amount of moods represented here from the chaos-to-calm “SLM_RNG_interluder,” to the immediately collar-yanking “SLM_RNG_VIB” to the sweet mellowness of “SLM_RNG_HOP.” These three, incidentally, occupy the middle of the record as a nice three-punch section. Even so, the album’s real highlight is the second to last track “SLM_RNG_crescendo,” which is exactly what Slint would have sounded like if they’d bothered to ever release anything that was actually listenable. All in all, a fine release that is probably more than the sum of its parts.

Check it out at slimering.bandcamp.com.

THE ‘OL COLLEGE TRY: UGA’s Office of

Research, through its Innovation Gateway, is hosting an Innovation Bootcamp named Entrepreneurship for Musicians. This is a free set of courses that will run on consecutive Wednesday evenings beginning Oct. 6 and ending Nov. 17. The classes (billed here as “cohorts”) begin each week at 5 p.m. and end between 7–8:30 p.m. depending on the week. The organizers are pretty insistent that participants make sure they can attend all the sessions to maximize the experience.

Featured sessions include Introduction to Collaboration and Team Building, Making a Record, Event Production, Legal and Accounting, Licensing and many more topics.

This series is free and open to all students, faculty, staff and community musicians. The application deadline is Sept. 15, but spaces are limited. Classes are to be held at the Innovation Hub (210 Spring St.). To apply, please see research.uga.edu/gateway/innovation-bootcamp/upcoming-cohorts, and if you have any questions at all, please write to Grace Trimble via grace.trimble@uga.edu.

BLEEP BLOOP: Electronic duo Testing Reflex released a sin-

gle named “Time Rider” recently. The track itself is a fairly smooth, inoffensive affair that mixes icy cold futurism with down-to-Earth humanism. The vocals run through a full gamut of effects, and I can’t decipher most of them, but that doesn’t really matter. This kind of sounds like a car commercial or the kind of thing you hear when walking around Urban Outfitters. The main issue is it’s just too short. It’s very well executed and easy to get into, but it ends before the three minute mark. Someone hit me with a remix! You can find this on the major streaming services, but if you want to go a little deeper into currently available tracks by Testing Reflex, head to soundcloud.com/testingreflex where you’ll find a few more. I encourage you to do this, too. f

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a talented yet flimsy college band to an elegantly composed radio-ready ensemble.

“Tommy has a huge creative hand in our music. He helps from vocals to guitar and bass, to drums… he is literally a one-man band,” notes Thompson.

Sonically, “Astronaut Kids” is sweet and smooth. Thompson lushly kneads guitar riffs through Long’s translucent vocal deliv-

has no other choice but to obtain a practical degree and fall into the meek everydayness of civil society. She is trying to force herself to come to terms with her future, yet, she just can’t stop herself from dreaming.

Thank goodness she didn’t give up.

Hotel Fiction has now tasted a spoonful of success, causing Long to view the song as a living, breathing slice of life: “That song and ‘Ghost Train’ both feel like manifestations. I was at a place that I didn’t wanna be at, and now things have changed as I wanted them to in the songs. Everyone says that ‘art imitates life,’ but my mom always said that ‘life imitates art.’”

After the release of “Astronaut Kids,” Hotel Fiction garnered a significant buzz around Athens by playing shows, and they continued to build on their internet fol-

ery. Trautwein litters the track with flashy crescendos, emotive harmonies and an essential element of dreaminess by way of airy synths. Lyrically, the song is a forsaken eulogy to childhood dreams, a vat of desperation placidly offered at the toes of the “real world.” Long sounds defeated—as if she

lowing by releasing singles. Originally, they planned on releasing their debut album on Halloween of 2020. But due to the omnipresent coronavirus, they reeled back and waited. A virtuous decision it seems: Since then, their online following has increased significantly and they’ve built a team of

Hotel Fiction Sets Soft Focus DESTINED DUO WRITE DREAMS INTO REALITY

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wo years ago, Jade Long and Jessica Thompson had a simple goal: to amass 1,000 streams on their first song, “Astronaut Kids.” In today’s streaming economy, where listens are dished out as readily as $1 drinks, 1,000 listens is a meager target for any musical act.

Hotel Fiction is not just any musical act—they’re the most intimate, finely tuned and marketable band to come out of Athens in over a decade. And now, two years later, they have surpassed their goal by over one million streams, are releasing their debut album, Soft Focus, on Aug. 27 and are embarking on a twomonth-long tour this fall.

It started in the winter of 2018.

Long and Thompson were sophomores at UGA; each meandering within the structured monotony cast upon college students; each possessed with a desire to make music. A friend set them up, and their natural chemistry was apparent from their first time meeting.

Their breakthrough, “Astronaut Kids,” was conceived only a few months after their relationship formed. “I was at a show on the Georgia Theatre rooftop,” Long explains, “and this one girl played a song about her childhood and her parents’ divorce, and it made me cry on the rooftop. It was so beautiful. Then, walking home alone, I started singing the first words: ‘When I grow up / I wanna be a star.’”

Shortly after they performed “Astronaut Kids” for the first time, they were approached by Athens rock torchbearer Tommy Trautwein, who offered to record it in his home studio. His veteran touch and stupendous ear catapulted them from being

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Soft Focus comes out in two days, and to Hotel Fiction, it’s a collection of memories that chronicle their college years. The album goes through mood swings: it’s optimistic, defeated, elated and depressed. The consistent element lies in a miserably desperate nostalgia. On “Astronaut Kids,” “Ghost Train,” “Golden Days” and “17,” they hold on as tightly as they can to the innocent images of their past and dream passionately of their vibrant visions for the future.

“In a lot of the songs, I feel like I’m trying to get back to who I was instead of the memories that were made back then,” says Long. “During college,” adds Thompson, “part of me thought that I knew myself better in high school… recently I did a deep dive through old journals and realized, ‘Wow, I did not know myself at all back then.’ The cool thing is, now Soft Focus feels like nostalgia to us.”

The title track is the album’s opus. On “Soft Focus,” Hotel Fiction breaks through the stagnant reflection of their past selves and bursts into the present. Long passionately sings about what she missed most in herself: “Your feet were on the ground / Your head out of the clouds / Fully present / Fully present.” The last line repeats over and over while mythological Sirens harmonize behind her; then finally, a drum kicks in, a playful piano melody ensues and they reach the present once again.

“When you’re painting a picture, you put your eyes into soft focus,” Long explains, “so that you can zone out and see the big picture instead of focusing on the details.” This applies to Hotel Fiction’s entire trajectory: they’ve never focused on the details, they’ve just made music, built relationships and taken things as they come. They didn’t have plans to make an album; they didn’t even have plans to record a song. Yet here they are, at the cusp of success in an occupation commonly deemed as delusory, dreaming as freely as ever. f

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Creature Comforts Brewery Athens Farmers Market. 5 p.m.

FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket. net MRJORDANMRTONKS Tommy Jordan and William Tonks’ collaboration features rootsy guitar picking and paired vocal melodies.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. (doors), 9 p.m. (show). $20 (adv.), $22. www.georgiatheatre. com MINNESOTA Popular dubstep DJ from Santa Cruz, CA. VCTRE EDM producer “featuring guttural bass lines and a vivacious swagger.”

Georgia Theatre Rooftop 11 p.m. FREE! www.georgiatheatre. com COZM & NAUGHT Psychedelic duo from Atlanta.

Porterhouse Grill 6–9 p.m. www.porterhouseathens. com/jazz JAZZ NIGHT Enjoy standards, improv and originals by a live jazz trio every Wednesday night over dinner.

The Warehouse Athens FvCK! It’s A Party. 8 p.m. $5. www. warehouseathens.com DJS FROM MARS Internationally touring duo, famous for wearing cardboard boxes on their heads while performing live, who are known for mashups of popular songs turned into electro dance music.

CAULFIELD Athens rapper that pushes the confines of modern hip-hop with forward-thinking, edgy music.

TRVY Versatile artist bringing both contemplation and high energy to hip-hop.

Thursday 26 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. (doors), 9 p.m. (show). $11. www.40watt.com A.D. BLANCO Young alternative rock band with an ambitious sound.

CANNONANDTHEBOXES Up-andcoming folk-rock singer-songwriter from Rome.

DRUMMING BIRD Indie rock band from Nashville, TN. Athentic Brewing Co. Liquid Vinyl DJ Series. 6–9 p.m. www.athenticbrewing.com DJ Z-DAWG Loveable local DJ of The Booty Boyz spins top 40 hits, old-school hip-hop, high-energy rock and other danceable favorites.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar.com JOHN KIRAN FERNANDES Local musician playing ambient looped clarinet inspired by birdsong and Brian Eno. MADELINE POLITES Immaterial Possession member explores a variety of folk traditions.

LAURA JACQUELINE ST. MARTIN Singer playing the autoharp.

Georgia Theatre Rooftop 7 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre. com NIHILIST CHEERLEADER Local pop-punk band with a jaggedly melodic sound.

HONEYPUPPY Breeders influenced pop band featuring members of Telemarket and The Pinkstones.

NUCLEAR TOURISM Local college-rock band playing surf-punk originals.

Nowhere Bar 8:30 p.m. $10. www.nowherebarlive.com BIG C Hosts his open blues jam. If you want to play, bring your instrument and sign in with Big C. Southern Brewing Co. Outdoor. 7 p.m. FREE! www. sobrewco.com JIM COOK Performs a variety of blues, country, rock, bluegrass and jazz hits.

The Warehouse Athens 7 p.m. $5. www.thewarehouseathens.com THE ORANGE CONSTANT Athens-based jam band with prog, pop and funk influences.

JIVE REVIVAL Five-piece Georgia rock band.

The World Famous 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens BASICALLY NANCY Savannah based three-piece girl band with a love for punk, noise pop and riot girl music.

MAXUMA Young band from Athens.

O KEY Local project with songwriter Cole Monroe (Art Contest) at the helm.

Friday 27 40 Watt Club 7:30 p.m. (doors), 8:30 p.m. (show). $13 (adv.), $16. www.40watt.com HOTEL FICTION Undefined, multigenre duo inspired by nostalgia and personal stories.

CLOUDLAND Athens-based fourpiece rock band.

DADDY’S BEEMER Charleston-based indie rock group.

Athentic Brewing Co. Volumes Patio Party. Outdoor. 8 p.m. FREE! www.athenticbrewing. com TRVY Versatile artist bringing both contemplation and high energy to hip-hop.

SQUALLÉ Athens hip-hop trailblazer with a thoughtful, throwback sound.

JAHKIEM Local artist with classic hip-hop vibes and a positive message.

BIGGPIPE Singer and rapper whose voice packs a punch.

T.W.I.N. Hip-hop and R&B artist with stellar word play and a solid flow.

Creature Comforts Brewing Co. 6th Annual Block Party with DanceFx. 6–10 p.m. FREE! www. mixwirepro.com L.A. DARIUS Spinning the hottest dance records, with a mix of dance, Top 40, hip hop, Latin and dancehall. Other highlights include a food truck, photo booth, prizes and dance performances.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $7. www.flickertheatreandbar.com THE PIERRES Punky, experimental local alt-rock group.

RAG BAGS Alternative indie rock from the Nicholson brothers (and Hemmy).

DEAF CONDORS Hard garage rock from the Alvarez brothers.

Georgia Theatre 7:30 p.m. (doors), 8:30 p.m. (show). $25–30. www.georgiatheatre.com COREY SMITH Country singer-songwriter and guitarist with a devout fan base nationwide.

JEB GIPSON Georgia native singer-songwriter.

Hendershot’s Coffee 7 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotsathens.com KIM WARE Singer, songwriter and drummer-turned-guitarist known for folk-leaning “southern indie” music.

International Grill & Bar 7 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ AubreyEntertainmentAthensGA THE SPLITZ BAND This band’s wide range encompasses Motown, funk, disco and both old-school and contemporary R&B. Nowhere Bar 7 p.m. www.nowherebarlive.com RODNEY SANDERS Local songwriter with a unique voice and influences from Blaze Foley to JJ Cale.

MOVERS Local new wave-inspired rock band.

MOTHER FORE Athens band exploring elements of progressive and psychedelic rock.

Southern Brewing Co. 5–7 p.m. FREE! www.sobrewco. com SARAH MOOTZ Indie pop-rock artist with a lot of soul.

Southern Brewing Co. Benefit concert and artist market for Love.Craft Athens. Outdoor. 7 p.m. $15. www.lovecraftathens.org THE PINK STONES Rootsy local country-rock group led by songwriter Hunter Pinkston.

TEDO STONE Rootsy, Atlantabased rock and roll singer-songwriter.

INNERBEING New project of Alec Stanley.

THE LOVE.CRAFT BAND Resident potters of Love.Craft Athens show off their musical chops.

Saturday 28 40 Watt Club 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $12 (adv.), $15. www.40watt.com WANDERWILD Intricate, intimate local indie-rock project led by songwriter Matt Martin.

NEIGHBOR LADY Twangy, melodic rock group led by local singer-songwriter Emily Braden.

LO TALKER Lush, intricate folk rock augmented by the psychedelic whirr of fractured tape loops.

ELIJAH JOHNSTON Local indiefolk singer-songwriter.

Athentic Brewing Co. Femme Haus Presents Deja-Brew.

7 p.m. (dance party), 8:30 p.m. (drag). FREE! www.athenticbrewing. com LUXURY VEHICLE High-energy duo featuring DJ Reindeer Games with John Swint on drums.

DRAG SHOW Alex Suarez hosts performances by Karmella Macchiato, Syraja Sinclair Dupree, Kristi Darling and Jade Nite.

Flicker Theatre and Bar Science Project Records 25th Anniversary Party. 9 p.m. $10. www. flickertheatreandbar.com THEE HARMONIOUS FISTS Bluesy punk rock band from Jacksonville, FL. RICKOLUS DIY musician from Jacksonville Beach, FL. LITTLE GOLD Local group playing garage-rock with country and pop sensibilities.

ANGEL BARN No info available.

Georgia Theatre 7:30 p.m. (doors), 8:30 p.m. (show). $25–30. www.georgiatheatre.com COREY SMITH Country singer-songwriter and guitarist with a devout fan base nationwide.

JEB GIPSON Georgia native singer-songwriter.

No. 3 Railroad Street 6:30 p.m. $10. www.3railroad.org MARION MONTGOMERY & GLYN DENHAM Marion (slide, steel guitar) and Glyn (dobro, guitar, harmonica) play a blend of blues, ballads and Americana with a twinge of old-style country.

Rabbit Hole Studios 8 p.m. All ages. Donations accepted. coolkidbooking@gmail. com DJ CHOOCH Atlanta-based DJ with a fun and eclectic blend of clubfriendly house and techno styles.

OHMU Local solo synth project courtesy of DJ and designer Winston Parker.

DRUGS BUNNY Providing visuals.

The Red Line 6 p.m. $8. www.facebook.com/ Red-Line-Athens STOP THE PRESSES Brooklyn-based ska reggae band with a retro-pop and new wave persuasion.

TAJ MOTEL TRIO Atlanta band that has served their brand of feverishly loud and fast ska punk for 20 years.

CLOSE ENOUGH Atlanta-based ska punk band.

BEAT UP Local anarcho punk band.

Southern Brewing Co. Athens Surf Stomp. 5 p.m. $7–10. www.sobrewco.com ATHENS SURF STOMP A show­ case of surf music, featuring Outersea, The Creature Preachers, The Spectre of Surf, The Mystery Men?, The KBK, Forbidden Waves, Genki Genki Panic and El Captain & The Reluctant Sadists. DJs Nate

Mitchell and Kurt Wood spin vinyl between sets.

Tuesday 31 Rabbit Hole Studios 7–10 p.m. FREE! www.rabbitholestudios.org OPEN MIC Featuring spoken word, performance art, comedy, singer-songwriters and more.

Wednesday 1 Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic Dr. Fred and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more. Every other Wednesday.

Hendershot’s Coffee 7 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee.com OPEN MIC Showcase your talent at this open mic night.

Porterhouse Grill 6–9 p.m. www.porterhouseathens. com/jazz JAZZ NIGHT Enjoy standards and originals by a live jazz trio every Wednesday night over dinner.

The Warehouse Athens 8 p.m. $30–45. www.thewarehouseathens.com YOUNG NUDY Rapper from East Atlanta known for popular singles “Yeah Yeah,” “EA” ft. 21 Savage, “Loaded Baked Potato” and “One Dolla.” f

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

Art 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.directory ATHICA’S BUY THE BUILDING CAMPAIGN (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art) In celebration of its 20th anniversary, ATHICA is hoping to purchase its current facility. Donations are tax-deductible and offer incentives. www.go fundme.com/f/athica-20th-birthday ATHFEST EDUCATES GRANT APPLICATIONS (Athens, GA) Grants are provided to teachers and community educators from nonprofit organizations, public schools or local or state government agencies serving Athens-Clarke County youth in grades K-12. Grants can be used for music and arts-based non-consumable equipment, such as musical instruments and audio/visual equipment, all types of programs and experiences that are music and arts-focused, and music and arts-based professional development for educators or youth development specialists. Deadline Aug. 25, 5 p.m. Awards announced Sept. 27. director@athfesteducates.org, www.athfesteducates.org CALL FOR ARTISTS (Creature Comforts Brewing Co.) Local artists and curators can submit proposals for the CCBC Gallery throughout 2021. getartistic@ccbeerco.com, www.getcurious.com/get-artistic/ call-for-artists

CALL FOR PHOTOS (Athens, GA) Submit photos of water or nature scenes for the fifth edition of a stormwater calendar organized by ACC Stormwater. Email images with a description of when, where and why it was taken. Deadline Sept. 30. stormwater@accgov.com CREATIVE DRAWING WITH WATERCOLOR (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) In this workshop, students will explore the unique use of watercolor combined with drawing elements like lines, texture and perspective. Sept. 2; Sept. 9, 16, 23 and 30; or Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28, 6–8 p.m. $100–135. www.ocaf.com JOKERJOKERTV CALL FOR ARTISTS (Online) JOKERJOKERtv is open to ideas and actively accepting proposals for collaboration from visual/musical/video artists and curators living in Athens. Artists worldwide can also submit music videos, short films, skits and ideas to share with a weekly livestream audience. www.jokerjokertv.com/ submit OPEN STUDIOS (Lyndon House Arts Center) Studio members have access to spaces for painting, printmaking, photography, ceramics, jewelry, fiber and woodworking.

Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. $65/month. nicholas. daglis@accgov.com 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 Sept. 15, Dec. 15 and Mar. 15. www.athensarts.org/grants

art around town ACC LIBRARY (2025 Baxter St.) On view in the Quiet Gallery, “Stories Told” features collages by Susan Pelham, who is influenced by Magic Realism, nursery rhymes, children’s camp songs, limericks, haiku poems, the Renaissance and 20th-century folk art. Through Aug. 29.

ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: ATHICA (675 Pulaski St., Suite 1200) Juried by Matt Porter, curator at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, “Light: 2021 Juried Exhibition” presents contemporary art in all media that explores or references light. Aug. 28–Oct. 3.

ATHICA@CINÉ GALLERY (234 W. Hancock Ave.) Greg Benson creates painterly landscapes and seasonal views of locations around Georgia and his native state of Pennsylvania. Through Aug. 25.

BUVEZ (585 Barber St.) Station Thirteen Studios, a new studio run by brothers Baylor and Matthew Ward, presents “It Is What It Is,” an exhibition of paintings by Matthew. Through August.

DODD GALLERIES (270 River Rd.) “Time at the Table” is a collaborative exhibition of performance, installation, ceramics and photographs created

by Dodd undergraduates, Alan Barret and Athens-based artists Massie Herlihy and Alex Barret. • Temporary Investments, the collaborative duo of MFA candidate Rachel Seburn and Canadian artist Sarah Seburn, presents “Flex-i-ble Architecture.” • MFA candidate Mickey Boyd and Albuquerquebased artist Max Yardbird present “Waste Creation.” • Dawn William Boyd’s “Woe” features large-scale cloth paintings critiquing social injustice, racial violence and other abuses of power. All exhibitions on view Aug. 28–Oct. 2.

EARTH FARE (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) Silk paintings by Margaret Agner.

Through August.

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Jason Griffin presents 25 years of flyers for punk shows. Through August.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “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.

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Classes ACTING FOR CAMERA AND STAGE (Work.Shop) Learn how to act with professional actor and coach Jayson Warner Smith (“The Walking Dead,” “The Vampire Diaries,” “Outer Banks”). Saturdays, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. $400/12 sessions. jwsclassinquiry@jaysonsmith.com, www.jaysonsmith.com/teacher ATHENS SWING NIGHT (The Studio Athens) A one-hour beginner swing lesson, followed by two hours of social dancing to DJ’d music. No partner required. Fully vaccinated participants only and face masks (covering nose and mouth) will be required. Aug. 26, 8–11 p.m. $5. www.facebook.com/groups/athens swingnight BLACKSMITHING CLASSES (Greenhow Handmade Ironworks, Comer) “Forge Grilling Forks” is held Aug. 28, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. $150. greenhow handmade@gmail.com, www. greenhowhandmade.com CLAY CLASSES (Good Dirt) Registration opens on the 15th of every month for the following month’s classes and workshop. Classes range from wheel, unique handles, hand building sculpture and more.

Studio membership is included in class price. www.gooddirt.net COMMUNITY MEDITATION (Rabbit Hole Studios) Jasey Jones leads a guided meditation suitable for all levels that incorporates music, gentle movement and silence. Wednesdays, 6–7 p.m. jaseyjones@gmail. com CHAIR YOGA AND MINDFULNESS (Winterville Center for Community

and Culture) Nicole Bechill teaches a well-rounded, gentle and accessible chair yoga class to promote breathing, mindfulness and inward listening. Every Monday, 9 a.m. $10. www.wintervillecenter.com CREATIVE WRITING & POETRY CLASS (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Heidi Lynn Nilsson leads a workshop on developing your poetic voice through guided writing exercises and written responses to work. Aug. 25–Sept.

29, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. or 5–8 p.m. $160–180. www.ocaf.com DEDICATED MINDFULNESS PRACTITIONERS (Online) Weekly Zoom meditations are offered every Saturday at 8:30–9:30 a.m. Email for details. richardshoe@gmail.com IMPROV LEVEL 1 (Work.Shop) Wow your friends, woo your partner and want no more for the next interesting thing to say in conversation.

This series is geared towards those with an interest in improv, comedy, acting or performance, or those just looking to meet some good people and have a good time. Fundamental skills include making offers, joining a scene, saying “Yes, and…,” creating interesting scenes and cultivating spontaneity. Sundays, Aug. 29–Oct. 3, 3–5 p.m. $160. www. flyingsquidcomedy.com/classes LINE DANCE (Bogart Community Center) For beginners and beyond.

Every Thursday, 6:30–8 p.m. $7. ljoyner1722@att.net 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 POTTERY HANDBUILDING AND WHEEL-THROWING (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) During the handbuilding classes, Forrest Gard teaches on how to pinch, build

• “Power and Piety in 17th-Century Spanish Art.” Through Nov. 28. • “In Dialogue: Artists, Mentors, Friends: Ronald Lockett and Thornton Dial Sr.” focuses on one work by each artist to examine their friendship and compare their creative approaches. Through Nov. 28. • “Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art” pays homage to the objects stolen during the Gardner Museum heist in 1990 through light boxes, color-blocked graphics and video animation.

Through Dec. 5. • “Neo-Abstraction: Celebrating a Gift of Contemporary Art from John and Sara Shlesinger.” Through Dec. 5. • “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.

HEIRLOOM CAFE (815 N. Chase St.) Amanda Corbett of Salvage Sparrow Photo presents a collection of tintypes, a 1850s technique called wet plate collodion. On view through Nov. 1.

LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (211 Hoyt St.) AJ Aremu presents a largescale installation for “Window Works,” a site-specific series that utilizes the building’s front entrance windows for outdoor art viewing. • “Collections from our Community: Oscar’s Godzillas” shares Godzilla memorabilia collected by Oscar Justus. • “Inside Out: Expressing the Inner World” presents abstract paintings by a group of women artists working in the Southeast.

Through Oct. 23. • “Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You” presents works by Brian Hitselberger and Julie Willis. Through Oct. 16. • “Modernist Sculptures from the Legacy of Loyd Florence.” Through Oct. 23. • “i vs me” features paintings by Andy Cherewick and Jeffrey Whittle. Through Oct. 15.

OCONEE COUNTY LIBRARY (1080 Experiment Station Rd., Watkinsville) Paintings by Broderick Flanigan. Through August.

OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (34 School St., Watkinsville) “Perspectives: Georgia Pottery Invitational” presents over 4000 pieces of handmade pottery by 50 top artists from across the state. “Aurora’s Flora and Fauna” is a solo show of works by Aurora Alva. Aug. 28–Sept. 12.

STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GEORGIA (2450 S. Milledge Ave.) In the Athens Art Association’s exhibition, “New Art for a New Century,” 26 artists present watercolor, acrylic, color pencil, multi-media and fused glassworks.

Through Oct. 16.

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with coils and slab build. Thursdays, Sept. 2–Oct. 7, 5:30–8:30 p.m. During the wheel throwing classes, Gard teaches the basic techniques of throwing to make cups, bowls, bottles and vases, as well as surface techniques like brushing on slip, stencils, sgraffito and mishima/inlay. Thursdays, Oct. 14–Nov. 18, 5:30–8:30 p.m. $215–245. www.ocaf.com 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 YOGA CLASSES (Revolution Therapy and Yoga) In-person classes include outdoor yoga with Kate Morrissey Stahl (Mondays at 5:30 p.m.), Miles Brunch (Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m.) and Nicole Bechill (Thursdays at 5:30 p.m.). Online classes include “Trauma Conscious Yoga with Crystal” Thursdays at 6 p.m. and “Yoga for Wellbeing with Nicole Bechill” on Saturdays at 10:45 a.m. Visit website to register. www.revolutiontherapyandyoga.com YOGA IN THE PARK (Memorial Park) Enjoy some yoga outdoors and bring a picnic to follow. Open to all levels. Aug. 27, 5:30–7:30 p.m.

FREE! athensfivepointsyoga.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 AAL MUNCH (Loco’s Pub and Grill Eastside) The AAL Munch is a casual social gathering for individuals (18+) involved in or interested in BDSM and or alternative relationship dynamics. Aug. 26, 7–10p.m. athensalt@yahoo.com ART EVENTS (Georgia Museum of Art) “Tour at Two” is held Aug. 25 at 2 p.m. “Morning Mindfulness” is held Aug. 27 at 9:30 a.m. www. georgiamuseum.org

ATHENS BLACK MARKET (College Square) Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement (AADM) hosts a bi-monthly Athens Black Market, an event designed to support minority business owners and provide a marketplace that promotes culture and diversity in the downtown area.

All ages welcome. Face masks and social distancing encouraged. Aug. 28, 12–5 p.m. www.aadmovement. org ATHENS FARMERS MARKET (Multiple Locations) Saturday markets are held at Bishop Park from 8 a.m.–12 p.m. Wednesday markets are held at Creature Comforts Brewery from 5–7 p.m. Both markets offer fresh produce, flowers, eggs, meats, prepared foods, a variety of arts and crafts, and live music.

Additionally, AFM doubles SNAP dollars spent at the market. www. athensfarmersmarket.net ATHENS SHOWGIRL CABARET (Multiple Locations) “Drag For All” is an all-ages drag show at Hendershot’s Coffee on Aug. 21 from 8–11 p.m. “Fabulous Fridays” includes rag performances followed by a dance party at Sound Track Bar on Aug. 27 at 8:30 p.m. www.athens showgirlcabaret.com ATHENS WATER FESTIVAL (Sandy Creek Park) Participants of all ages are invited to enjoy open-ended Water Olympics themed activities.

Make sure to bring a bathing suit and water bottle. Sept. 11, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. $2. www.athenswater festival.com BAD MOVIE NIGHT (Ciné) After a gang of kickboxing idiots kill his parents, Steve (played by the lovable and earnest Sean Donahue) must use any means necessary, but mostly his fists, to exact revenge in the wild Filipino actioner Blood Hands. Aug. 26, 8 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/BadMovieNight BIKE NIGHT (Akademia Brewing Co.) Grab a beer with the Athens Litas Women’s Motorcycle Collective.

All bikes and people welcome. First Thursday of every month, 6–9 p.m. www.akademiabc.com BOGART LIBRARY EVENTS (Bogart Library) KnitLits Knitting Group is held every Thursday at 6 p.m. “Virtual Booktalks” features adult books

STEFFEN THOMAS MUSEUM OF ART (4200 Bethany Rd., Buckhead) “Steffen Thomas’ Animal Kingdom” features artwork inspired by animals.

Currently on view through Sept. 4.

TINY ATH GALLERY (174 Cleveland Ave.) Alexis Spina presents jewelry and small metalworks in “Future Remnants.” On view by appointment through August.

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.) “The Hargrett Hours: Exploring Medieval Manuscripts” presents original items from the collections, dating back centuries, as well as findings from students’ indepth 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. • “Drinkable Water in Georgia” is an interactive exhibit tracing the geographic, environmental and political factors that surround the natural resource and how those issues have impacted Georgians. Family Day is held Aug. 28 from 1–4 p.m. Currently on view through December.

WHEN IN ATHENS (Multiple Locations) Organized by The Humid with support from an Arts in Community Award from the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission, “When In Athens” is a city-wide public art exhibition of images by over 100 photographers made in every Athens. Photographs are installed in the windows of street-facing businesses. Participating locations include Creature Comforts, Georgia Theatre, The Grit, Hi-Lo Lounge, Trappeze Pub and many others. Visit the humid.com for a full list of participating venues.

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.

Visit willson.uga.edu.

on Aug. 27 at 2 p.m. “Zenteen” features a bookend painting activity for the library’s YA section. Sept. 7, 6 p.m. www.athenslibrary.org BLOOD DRIVE (Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Services Building, Third Floor, Room C/G) Piedmont Athens Regional and the American Red Cross host a blood drive.

Register to donate with the sponsor code ARMC. Donors will be eligible to win prizes. Aug. 25, 7 a.m.–6 p.m. www.redcrossblood.org CINÉ DRIVE-IN (General Time Athens) Ciné will host weekly drive-in movies on Tuesdays with food trucks and concessions. Check website for weekly announcements of films. www.athenscine.com CIRQUE ALCATRAZ (Athens Fairgrounds, Winterville) The latest production by Cirque Italia, Cirque Alcatraz combines elements of mystery, theatrics and acrobatics.

Take a step back in time and space to when Alcatraz was the most feared prison in existence. Ages 17 & up, ages 13–17 must be accompanied by an adult. Aug. 26–29, $10–50. www.cirqueitalia.com CLASSIC CITY BREW FEST (Hotel Indigo’s Outdoor Patio) Georgia’s longest-running beer festival is returning for its 25th anniversary.

Attendees will enjoy 50+ unique, one-off cask ales with special ingredients, live music, food and the opportunity to meet local craft beer celebrities. Aug. 28, 2:30–6 p.m. $43.50. www.classiccitybrew. com COMMUNITY CRAFT (Love.Craft Athens) Make a hand built pottery piece led by Love.Craft’s crew.

August features hand built vases and food from Marti’s at Midday.

Held the third Thursday of the month. Sept. 15, 6–8 p.m. $40. www.lovecraftathens.org CONVERSATION WITH EDITORIAL CARTOONIST MIKE LUCKOVICH (Special Collections Library) The Russell Library hosts Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich in conjunction with the traveling exhibition “Lines with Power and Purpose: Editorial Cartoons.” Sept. 28, 5:30 p.m. FREE! washnock@uga.edu CURATOR TALK (Lyndon House Arts Center) Abraham Tesser discusses “Willow Oak Exhibit.” After a century-old willow oak tree reached the end of its life cycle and was removed from the Ware-Lyndon House property, the wood was distributed to artists to create works inspired by the tree. RSVP. Aug. 28, 2 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3623 DANCEFX BLOCK PARTY (Creature Comforts) DanceFX Athens presents their sixth annual block party featuring music and dance performances, prizes, food trucks and a photo booth. Aug. 27, 6–10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/dancefx FALL IN LOVE WITH A PUP (Southern Brewing Company) Have a drink, meet some adoptable dogs and learn about fostering with ACC Animal Services. Sept. 4, 2–5 p.m.

FREE! www.accgov.com/133/ Animal-Services HISTORY ON TAP (Historic Athens Welcome Center) The first installment of his event series sheds light on the lives of Black Athenians in Pre-Civil War Athens.

Complimentary beer provided by Terrapin Beer Co. RSVP to attend.

Aug. 27–28, 5:30–6:30 p.m. FREE! www.historicathens.com IGB COMEDY NIGHT (International Grill and Bar) IGB presents a night of laughs provided by some of the best comedians in town. Hosted by Lanny Farmer. Aug. 31, 7:30–10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ IGBAthensGA

OCONEE CO. LIBRARY EVENTS LGBTQIA+ VIRTUAL ALPHABET MARIGOLD MARKET (Pittard Park, of a house fire. Sept. 4, 12–5 p.m.

(Oconee Co. Library) “Storytime FAMILY GATHERING (Online) Winterville) Vendors offer local $20 (football). www.thegreatfoot with Miss Rebecca” is held live on This is a safe space for anyone on produce, prepared and baked balldrop.com Facebook every Tuesday at 10:30 the LGBTQIA+/TGQNB spectrum. goods, and arts and crafts. Season WASHINGTON FARMS FALL SEAa.m. www.athenslibrary.org Fourth Sunday of every month, runs every Saturday through Dec. SON (Washington Farms, Bogart) TEEN CLUBS (Lyndon House Arts 6–8 p.m. uuathensga.org/justice/ 11, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. marigoldmarket Activities and attractions include Center) “Teen Media Arts Club” welcoming-congregation winterville@gmail.com a corn maze, pumpkin patch, suncovers how to make and edit videos.

PEER SUPPORT GROUP FOR POSMILAN ART CONFERENCE 2021: flower field, jumping pillows, cow Tuesdays, 5–7 p.m. “Teen Fashion ITIVE MENTAL HEALTH (Nuçi’s THE POWER OF THE BREAKtrain, petting zoo, zip lines, grain Design/Sewing Club” is led by local Space) Open to anyone needing THROUGH (Milan Art Institute train, inflatables, bounce house, designer Tabitha Fielteau. Tuesdays, peer support for depression/anxiety.

Campus, Statham) This three-day human foosball, jump pad, vortex 5:30–7:30 p.m. “Teen Cartoon/ Aug. 31, 4–6 p.m. 706-227-1515, conference is the grand reopening tunnel, ropes course and more.

Illustrator’s Club” covers drawing lesley@nuci.org, www.nuci.org of the new Georgia campus. HighEvery weekend Sept. 25–Nov. 7. 10 techniques, storytelling, anime and RECOVERY DHARMA (Recovery lights include keynote sessions, a.m.–10:30 p.m. $16. www.washmore. Thursdays, 5:30–7:30 p.m.

Dharma) This peer-led support technique demonstrations and ingtonfarms.net www.accgov.com/myrec group offers a Buddhist-inspired live artist battles. Aug. 27–29, 10 WEST BROAD FARMERS MARKET TUTORING (Online) The Athens path to recovery from any addica.m.–6 p.m. $350. www.milanart (300 S. Rocksprings St.) The marRegional Library System is now tion. Visit the website for details. institute.com/milanartconference ket is open for shopping each week 2021 OCONEE CO. LIBRARY EVENTS (Oconee Co. Library) “Trek & Connect” is an all-ages light trek at a local park. The group meets Sept. 13 at Watkinsville Woods and Oct. 11 at Oconee Veteran’s Park. www. athenslibrary.org OCONEE RIVERS AUDUBON SOCIETY (Odum School of Ecology Auditorium) Speaker Dr. Clark Rushing talks about harnessing technological advances to understand the decline of migratory birds.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Sept. 2, 7 p.m. FREE! www.oconeerivers audubon.org RACE 2 BEAT CANCER (Athens Medical Specialty Park) Participate in a 5K or 10K to raise funds for the Cancer Foundation of Northeast Georgia. Register, volunteer or sponsor by visiting the website.

Aug. 28. www.cfnega. org REALLY, REALLY FREE MARKET (Reese & Pope Park) Just like a yard sale, but everything is free. Bring what you can, take what you need.

Second Saturday of every month, 12–2 p.m.

The annual “Perspectives: Georgia Pottery Invitational” exhibition at the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation features over 4,000 reallyreallyfreemarket pieces of handmade pottery by 50 regional artists. An additional solo exhibition, “Aurora’s Flora and Fauna,” showcases work athens@gmail.com

by Aurora Alva (shown above). Exhibitions will be on view Aug. 28–Sept. 12.

SOUTHERN STAR STUDIO OPEN GALLERY offering free, live online tutoring via Thursdays, 6–7 p.m. FREE! www.

(Southern Star Studio) Southern from Sunday at 5 p.m. to Thursday tutor.com for students K-12, plus athensrecoverydharma.org Star Studio is a working, collective at 1 p.m., with a drive-through (or college students and adult learners.

SEX ADDICTS ANONYMOUS (Email ceramics studio, established by walk/bike-through) pick-up on SatDaily, 2–9 p.m. www.athenslibrary. for Location) Athens Downtown SAA Maria Dondero in 2016. The gallery urdays from 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. org offers a message of hope to anyone contains members’ work, primarily wbfm.locallygrown.net who suffers from a compulsive pottery. Every Saturday, 10 a.m.–4 ZOO DAY (Bear Hollow Zoo at sexual behavior. www.athensdown p.m. www.southernstarstudio Memorial Park) This year’s theme is townsaa.com athens.com “Guardians of the Zoo-niverse” and SUNDAY FUNDAY (Rabbit Hole Stufeatures craft stations, education, AL-ANON 12 STEP (Multiple Locadios) Every Sunday from 5-7 p.m., animal encounters and special tions) Recovery for people affected join the White Rabbit Collective for guests. Aug. 28, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. by someone else’s drinking. Visit a free drum circle outside of Ben $2–3. 706-613-3580 ART FOR ATHENS (Online) The Red the website for a calendar of elecand Jerry’s on College Avenue. & Black hosts Art for Athens to suptronic meetings held throughout the Some instruments are provided but port Nuçi’s Space. Donated work by week. www.ga-al-anon.org guests are encouraged to bring their artists is sold and shipped through ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS (Athown drums and rattles! An afterparty HOMESCHOOL ART THURSDAYS the publication’s online store. Parens, GA) If you think you have a at Rabbit Hole Studios from 7:30 (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) ticipating artists include R. Wood, problem with alcohol, call the AA p.m.–12 a.m. offers space for Classes are designed to stimulate Maria Dondero and Jamie Calkin. hotline or visit the website for a playing drums, singing songs, playwww.redandblack.com/store interest, improve concentration, schedule of meetings in Barrow, ing ping pong and board games, ATHENS, GEORGIA AREA COVIDimprove creative expression and Clarke, Jackson and Oconee reading books, doing yoga, making 19 RESPONSE (ACC Library introduce students to a variety of Counties. 706-389-4164, www. art and more. Donations accepted.

Heritage Room) This new collection art styles. Sessions run Thursdays, athensaa.org Memberships offering access to provides web archived material Sept. 28–Nov. 4. Classes are held FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT the musical museum and private pertaining to local responses to the 10 a.m.–12 p.m. or 1–3 p.m.

GROUP (ACC Library, Classroom lounge are also available for $16/ global pandemic. archive-it.org/ $230–250. www.ocaf.com A) Presented by Alzheimer’s Assomonth. www.rabbitholestudios.org collections/13711 MAKING DANCES (Work.Shop) This ciation Georgia, a support group TAEDEN’S GREAT FOOTBALL CLASSIC CITY TOASTMASTERS alternative dance class teaches conducted by trained facilitators DROP (East Athens Community (Zoom) This is an encouraging improvisation and choreography that is a safe place for those living Field) This community-organized group for individuals who want to techniques. For ages 10–14. Taught with dementia and their caregiver fundraiser will help raise money develop their communication and

by Lisa Yaconelli. Tuesdays, 6:15– to develop a support system. First towards a down payment and clospublic speaking skills. Meetings are 7:30 p.m. $60/month, $210/14 Wednesday of every month begining costs needed to purchase a new held 2–3 times a month on Thursweeks. lisayaconelli@gmail.com, ning Sept 1, 6–7:30 p.m. 706-206home for Taeden Johnson and his day evenings. 706-202-7566 www.lisayaconelli.com 6163, www.alz.org/georgia family. Taeden is the sole survivor

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THE CLOCKED IN CREATIVE PODCAST (Athens, GA) Hosted by Seth Hendershot, a new podcast called “The Clocked In Creative” will touch on entrepreneurship, business models, IP rights, branding, etc. for creatives. Episodes will feature Serra Jagger of Indie South, Sanni Baumgartner of Community, Michelle Davis, Bertis Downs, Shil Patel of Tiger Bomb Promo, Rashe Malcolm of Rashe’s Cuisine and Nick Canada of Satisfactory. Check it out at @theclockedincreative on Instagram FALL LEISURE ACTIVITIES (Athens, GA) ACC Leisure Services will offer a diverse selection of activities highlighting the arts, environmental science, recreation, sports and holiday events for adults and children.

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Now registering. www.accgov.com/ myrec FREE COVID-19 VACCINES (Clarke County Health Department) Vaccines are available by appointment or walk-in. No insurance or ID required. Vaccines are also offered during the Multicultural Health Fair at J&J Flea Market on Aug. 28 from 11 a.m.–3 p.m. www.publichealthis foreveryone.com HEALTH CLINICS (Nuçi’s Space) Free health clinics are available for uninsured musicians and their friends and family. Doctors can diagnose, treat and refer. Call to make an appointment. Aug. 23; Oct. 4, 11 & 25; Nov. 1, 15 & 29. 706227-1515 LOVE WHERE YOU LIVE RAFFLE (Online) Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful hosts a raffle of gift baskets filled with certificates and goodies. Proceeds benefit ACC Green Schools Programs and daffodil and tree planting projects. Sales end Sept. 11 at midnight. Tickets are $1 each. www.accgov.com/ KACCBRaffle OLLI MEMBERSHIP (Athens, GA) Join OLLI@UGA, a dynamic learning and social community for adults 50 and up that offers classes, shared interest groups, social activities and events. www.olli.uga.edu POP-UP PARK (Athens, GA) ACC Leisure Services has a new bus, decorated by Eli Saragoussi, that serves as a mobile recreation unit to take free activities and equipment to public community events, festivals and school programs. Request the bus using an online form. www. accgov.com/9961/Athens-PopUp-Park SUPPORT FOR SENIORS WITH PETS (Athens, GA) The Athens Area Humane Society and Athens Community Council on Aging have partnered to offer support services to seniors enrolled in ACCA programs. This includes emergency pet fostering, affordable wellness care, pet health workshops and pet training. www.accaging.org 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 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 WILD RUMPUS BOARD (Athens, GA) The Wild Rumpus Parade & Spectacle is seeking new members for its volunteer board of directors.

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