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TIME FOR THREE “This remarkable group is not to be missed, and its members play (and sing) with joy, mastery, creativity and supreme artistry in all that they do; truly, no one else is like Time For Three.” – The Strad

Thurs., Oct. 14, 7:30 PM

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UGA Theatre presents Alcestis by Euripides, utilizing digital masks and actor-driven technology to breathe life into this original adaptation.

Opening Oct. 7 in the MLC Amphitheater, tickets can be purchased at ugatheatre.com.

This Modern World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 NEWS: City Dope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Redistricting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Election Obsession

Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

ARTS & CULTURE: Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Flag Football . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Remembering Carter Gillies

Grub Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Supply Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

50 Years of Athens Choral Society

Porchfest Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Threats & Promises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

MUSIC: Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

In the Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Historic Athens Porchfest Returns

Live Music Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Bulletin Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Art Around Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Adopt Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Puzzles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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Election Obsession REPUBLICANS JUST CAN’T LET 2020 GO, AND MORE LOCAL NEWS

By Blake Aued and Rebecca McCarthy news@flagpole.com The governor’s race and Sen. Raphael Warnock’s bid for a full term will be at the top of the ticket in 2022, but the most important contest might be further down the ballot: secretary of state.

That’s the person who runs Georgia elections, and it’s been a lightning rod for two straight cycles. In 2018, Democrats accused Brian Kemp, then the secretary of state, of putting his thumb on the scale by disqualifying Democratic voters, leading to his narrow election as governor. Last year, Donald Trump tried and failed to bully Kemp and current Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger into overturning Joe Biden’s win in Georgia. That “Big Lie” has now become an article of faith among conservatives, with candidates tripping over each other to promote the widely debunked notion that Biden cheated his way to the White House. A statewide hand recount, a statewide machine recount, an audit of paper ballots and a signature audit in Cobb County all confirmed Biden’s 12,000-vote victory and turned up no signs of fraud.

Bee Nguyen knows the stakes better than Vernon Jones anyone—her family fled Vietnam after the fall of Saigon and settled in Augusta, as she recounted during a recent fundraiser in Athens. Elected to the state legislature to represent Stacey Abrams’ old Atlanta district in 2018, the Democrat had a brief moment of national prominence when she challenged Rudy Guiliani and other Trump witnesses during Georgia House hearings on the 2020 election. Now, she’s running for secretary of state.

“I think, and I don’t exaggerate, that our democracy is in peril,” Nguyen told a group of local supporters last month. “And we have a few opportunities before we go down a road we can’t come back from.”

Republicans, meanwhile, want to go further down that road. They passed a voting law last year restricting absentee voting and drop boxes, and allowing the state to take over local boards of elections, among other things. Republican legislators have already started the process of taking over elections in Fulton County, the largest trove of Democratic votes in the state.

A few days after Nguyen visited Athens, our congressman, Jody Hice, was in Perry speaking at a Trump rally. Hice—an ultraconservative former pastor and talk radio host—has embraced the Big Lie, as well as the Jan. 6 insurrection that sought to topple Biden’s Electoral College victory. Hice is running for secretary of state, too, in the GOP primary against Raffensperger.

A third Republican in the race is David Belle Isle, a former mayor of Alpharetta, who lost to Raffensperger three years ago.

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Instead of alleging election fraud like Hice, Belle Isle argued when he spoke to the Oconee County GOP last week that decisions Raffensperger made lost Republicans the election well before November. One of Raffensperger’s mistakes, according to Belle Isle, was agreeing to a consent decree with Abrams’ voting rights group Fair Fight that changed the way the state verified signatures on absentee ballots, resulting in fewer ballots being rejected. Another was mailing every registered voter an absentee ballot application during the pandemic and allowing counties to set up drop boxes, which he falsely claimed were unsecured. (They were all monitored by surveillance cameras 24/7.

And, by the way, the unsolicited applications were sent out before the primary, not the general.)

“Brad Raffensperger certified the wrong result,” Belle Isle said. “Donald Trump should’ve gotten Georgia’s electoral votes.”

Ironically, Belle Isle also called for ditching Dominion, the company that manufactured Georgia’s new voting machines, and replacing them with hand-marked paper ballots. That’s what Democrats wanted to do prior to 2020, but Republican legislators instead decided to go with Dominion machines that spit out a paper receipt similar to a QR code.

At the same meeting, Kemp challenger Vernon Jones went even further, accusing Democrats and establishment Republicans of a vague conspiracy to oust Trump and calling for an audit like the one recently conducted in Maricopa County, Arizona, where Phoenix is located. Despite being highly irregular and set up to produce a pro-Trump result, according to elections experts, that audit actually wound up adding to Biden’s margin of victory.

The election was “riddled with fraud,” Jones told Oconee Republicans. “There’s a coverup going on here…There’s a dead cat on the end of this line.”

Perhaps in deference to being in Kemp’s backyard, Jones went easy on the Athens native. “I like Brian Kemp,” he said at one point. “I like his family. But his heart wasn’t in the heartbeat bill, because life doesn’t start at six weeks. Life starts at conception.”

Until last year, Jones was a Democrat who served as DeKalb County CEO and did two stints in the legislature, but he switched parties last year and went full MAGA. It wasn’t Jones’ first flirtation with the GOP—he copped to voting for George W. Bush twice during his 2008 run for U.S. Senate. But he has a lot of explaining to do about his voting record. He told the Oconee crowd that he voted against the Kempbacked abortion restrictions (later thrown

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To become a CCSD bus driver, you need out in court) because they weren’t strong to be able to pass a physical, hold a commerenough. Jones does, however, have the cial driver’s license and pass a background backing of Trump, who spent much of his Perry speech attacking Kemp, even going so check. In addition to receiving benefits, bus drivers have a starting pay of $16.29 far as to say he’d rather have Abrams. an hour, with a guarantee of four hours of Jones hit other hard-right talking work a day. If they want to earn more, they points, too, accusing the Democratic Party can also work as custodians or paraprofesof pandering to Black voters, comparing sionals, said Blankenship. Drivers can also COVID-19 restrictions to Nazi Germany and railing against the transgender commu- earn money by driving for field trips or athletic events. nity, with applause lines like: “Every time I “Without question, our drivers are see Rachel Maddow attack white Republican unsung heroes who are dedicated to getting men, I say, ‘Why are you attacking them students to and from schools safely,” said when you’re trying to look like one?’”

Transportation Director Mark Weaver.

Such rhetoric can be dangerous. Nguyen “They are likely the first CCSD employee recalled how she and other women who students see in spoke out against the morning and Trump’s attempt to We are working on trying to the last one after steal the election became targets of recruit more drivers, but in school.”

The students on threats. But even if a pandemic—well, it’s difficult. buses are required comparatively reato wear masks and, sonable candidates said one bus driver, they do so without like Kemp and Raffensperger survive their protest. Elementary students usually board primaries, they still supported Senate Bill wearing masks, he said, while middle school 202. “We shouldn’t be in a position where students take one when he offers it. Buses we breathe a sigh of relief when somebody upholds the law,” Nguyen said. [Blake Aued] that transport special education students have bus monitors who help maintain decorum, but other buses, generally, don’t have monitors, Blankenship said.

Like many school districts around One driver, who asked that his name not the country, Clarke County doesn’t have be used, said he doesn’t understand why enough bus drivers to cover its routes adeCCSD offers the CDL training without manquately. This shortage means sometimes dating the trained drivers work for CCSD children aren’t picked up at the usual time, for at least a year or two. Although training which means they get to school or back for a CDL costs $2,500 to $3,000, if an indihome late. It also may mean bus drivers are vidual pays for it, the district has on staff handling multiple routes, driving back-tostate-certified trainers who teach, monitor back routes or consolidating routes, and and certify new bus driver candidates. children are sometimes sitting three to a District officials said that it’s rare for seat or even standing in the bus aisle. those who finish training and pass the “We just don’t have any additional drivphysical and background checks not to work ers right now,” said Selina Blankenship, for CCSD. This year, the school district is CCSD’s director of human resources. The giving $2,000 in appreciation to drivers district has 119 routes and 119 drivers, who stay with the district the entire acaand when a few people get sick, the whole demic year, paying $1,000 in December and system has to shift gears. “We are working another $1,000 in May. on trying to recruit more drivers, but in a “I encourage everyone to consider the pandemic—well, it’s difficult. We recognize personal and societal benefits of driving these are trying times. And we are working children to school,” the driver said. “Both on what we might be able to do with bus the needs and the rewards are great.” drivers.”

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A First Glimpse at Redistricting PROPOSED MAP UNITES ATHENS IN ONE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

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draft proposal of Georgia’s new congressional boundaries, released by two top Senate Republicans, would make one Democratic metro Atlanta swing seat safer while drawing the other into more GOP-friendly exurbs.

The plan, unveiled last week by Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan and redistricting committee chair Sen. John Kennedy, will not likely be the final version that lawmakers will vote on in November’s special session, but it gives a good starting point to see potential changes.

While the map was not initially released with accompanying data, a GPB News analysis of the proposed lines imported into Dave’s Redistricting App shows few incumbents would see a dramatic boost in the safety of their districts, except Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux in Georgia’s 7th. Under this proposal, the new 7th voted for President Joe Biden by about 24 points last year, as opposed to about six points under the current lines. The 7th would sit almost completely within Gwinnett County, appearing to run mostly south of Interstate 85 and including portions of Johns Creek in Fulton County.

But Rep. Lucy McBath in the 6th Congressional District would face a tougher road to reelection, with her district swinging from Biden +12 to Trump +6 in last year’s election. This is accomplished by removing parts of East Cobb and all the DeKalb County portions of the district, while adding in Sandy Springs and Buckhead, and including Republicanfriendly Forsyth County to the mix.

Data released later by the reapportionment office shows the 2nd District in Southwest Georgia might no longer be majority Black after adding in the rest of Muscogee County, parts of Harris County and a sliver of Centerville in Houston County, while losing some of

Macon-Bibb. That district, represented by Sanford Bishop, would become slightly less Democratic.

Georgia’s other three Democratic districts would keep roughly their same partisan breakdown but have slightly different shapes. Georgia’s 5th Congressional District would have fewer DeKalb and Clayton voters and slightly more in Southwest Atlanta down into College Park and East Point. The 4th District would no longer include part of Gwinnett, and instead cover almost all of DeKalb in addition to existing voters in Rockdale and part of Newton.

The 13th District boundaries would cede half of Douglas County to the 3rd and take more of Clayton County.

For Republicans, the 3rd, 9th, 11th and 12th appear to be slightly weaker districts than before, while the 1st, 8th and 14th would keep the same overall margins. The 8th in South Georgia grows slightly stronger.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk’s district in particular would continue its leftward shift by keeping much of Cobb County’s Democratic core along I-75, while ceding parts of Bartow County and all of the previous precincts in Fulton County.

Rep. Andrew Clyde would no longer live in the 9th District, though you don’t have to live in your congressional district to run or represent it. The 9th would dip into Gwinnett County, and all of Athens-Clarke County would be in the 10th.

There are still weeks before the beginning of the special session when lawmakers will meet to approve new maps for Congress, state House and state Senate, and it is likely that several other drafts will appear before getting close to final boundaries. We don’t know how current representatives feel about the map, we don’t know the exact political and demographic breakdowns of the map, and we don’t know what legal or logistical challenges the map would raise without the data.

Politically speaking, this map faces several hurdles to becoming reality. Committee hearings over the summer were done with the joint House and Senate committees, but this was solely released by Duncan and the Senate redistricting chair. Duncan, who is the lame-duck president of the Senate and has become a pariah in his party, will oversee a caucus that is bitterly divided over a primary to replace him. Plus, several U.S. House Republicans who have less safe districts were not shored up to potentially counteract the state’s demographic and political shifts over the next decade. f

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Remembering 9/11 At 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, I turned on the TV. I was nearly late to work, unable to tear myself away from the shocking news on the screen. When I arrived at the elementary school at 7, I was told to head directly to the teacher’s lounge for an emergency staff meeting.

Surrounded by my colleagues, I felt no comfort. No one did. Our faces spoke volumes.

We were in shock, saddened and uncertain how to proceed with our students.

Our instructions depended on the grade level. I taught kindergarten that year. My students were 4 or 5 years old. Most of my children were just beginning to learn English as their second language. In my case, I could not say anything. I had to go on teaching as if the course of history had not drastically changed forever.

Two decades have passed since that morning. My students were not born yet.

A full generation inherited the aftermath without any memory of what happened.

Much like my parents tried to describe what they felt hearing that President Kennedy had been shot, I find it impossible to recreate what I experienced on 9/11 to children that were not here to live through it.

It is my dream to visit the 9/11 Memorial and Museum one day. It would be particularly meaningful to be there in person this year. The pandemic has overshadowed all other major life events. I still remember the world’s response the day after, Sept. 12, 2001. All of the teachers met before the first school bus arrived filled with our students. We held hands in a circle of solidarity on the main playground, chanting, “We Shall Never Forget.”

Let us all never forget.

Jill Hartmann-Roberts Athens

Get Vaccinated You’ve heard the story before: The Haves get to go places and do things that the Have Nots can’t. The Haves can win cash and prizes. The Haves avoid sickness and survive the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

I’m talking about those who Have vaccinated and those who Have Not. Actually, it’s more like the Haves and the Could Haves, because everyone could have a vaccination.

COVID vaccinations are free and available at your local pharmacy to anyone 12 years and older, even if you have no insurance.

The suffering and deaths of the Could Haves (and the heartache of their family and friends) is entirely avoidable and within our control to eliminate.

But the vaccination rate in AthensClarke County remains low. Although 75% of U.S. adults are fully vaccinated, only 47% of adults in Georgia and 43% of all county residents are. This is far from the 70% vaccination rate needed for herd immunity against COVID-19—what we must achieve to end this pandemic.

“But I’m waiting for more data on the vaccines.” After 1.7 billion vaccine doses administered worldwide, we have learned that the vaccines are remarkably protective against infection, including the highly

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contagious Delta variant that is now the dominant variant in the U.S. Variants will continue to emerge as long as the coronavirus remains in circulation. Immunity appears to be lasting with the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines. Most importantly, the vaccines are safe: There have been about 1.3 anaphylaxis events per million doses, and 3.5 to 10 blood clot events per million doses. For perspective, there were 115 motor vehicle deaths and 121 firearm deaths per million people in the U.S. in 2019. You’re far more likely to die in a car crash or by a gunshot wound than to have a serious side effect from the COVID vaccines.

“But I survived COVID-19, so I have immunity.” If you survived one coronavirus variant, you’re likely to survive that variant again. But there is no telling how natural immunity to one variant will stand up against other variants, or how long natural immunity will last. Growing evidence suggests the benefit of vaccinations for people who have survived COVID-19, essentially by boosting natural immunity.

Vaccinations are our best shot at ending this pandemic. Many in our community can’t be vaccinated, like our children under 12. And many others may not benefit from vaccination, like people who are immunocompromised, undergoing cancer treatment or living with a donated organ.

These vulnerable people in our families, schools, workplaces and communities have no choice but to hope for herd immunity to be safe. For the sake of those we love, let’s get vaccinated. Let’s change the script from “I could have…” to “I have gotten vaccinated to end the pandemic!”

Anna Lau Athens

The Filibuster Must Go I don’t want to name names, but there are a few Democratic senators in Congress who clearly care more about protecting the filibuster, an antiquated procedural norm that lets a minority of senators stop any bill, than making progress for the American people.

It’s hard to understand why, especially when this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to pass bold, sweeping legislation that could dramatically change American life for the better. Without the filibuster, legislation like raising the minimum wage, comprehensive climate action and voting rights actually has a chance of passing the Senate with Democrats in control of Congress and the White House. I hope that they see this moment for what it is—a rare opportunity to make government work for the American people—and act before it’s too late.

What is power for if not to help people?

I’m calling on the Senate to step up and get rid of the filibuster so lawmakers can do what they were elected to do: improve the lives of regular Americans.

Darren Mitton Danielsville

Texas Law Encourages Vigilantes The recently passed Texas abortion law promotes vigilante action, turning citizens

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into bounty hunters to carry out public policy.

This law replaces government involvement, allowing large organizations like Texas Right to Live to police other citizens.

If successful, similar laws could be passed to enforce legislated social policies. There is no justice in this law, a law that allows one person to sue another without having been harmed nor have any relationship to the person being sued. It does this in such a way that the person being sued may be sued multiple times for a single event until they lose.

If the person being sued wins, they cannot be reimbursed for their legal fees, and they may have to travel anywhere in the state to have their day in court for each suit. The person who sues and wins receives $10,000 in damages and attorney’s fees.

This law makes a mockery of justice.

Anyone may be sued based on hearsay. This totalitarian law asks us to report our neighbor’s suspected act. The secret operation of a large nonprofit corporation can orchestrate the filing of multiple suits to enforce the law’s social control. Since court filings are public record, there is no privacy for the person being sued nor, in this law, the person who may have had an abortion.

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor stated that this law’s cash reward effectively “deputized the State’s citizens as bounty hunters.” Let your legislators know vigilante laws are not acceptable.

Paul Van Valkenburg Bogart

Ex-Auditor Was Smeared by ACC On Sept. 24, Stephanie Maddox Johnson, internal auditor, was fired by the Athens-Clarke County mayor and commission, under the cloud of discrimination and abuse of power that just now is coming to light, ending the tenure of an innovative, ethical, public servant here in our city.

Earlier that afternoon, I personally informed the county attorney that in 2016-17, Nancy Denson, the now-former mayor of Athens, suggested to Allison Wright, a county commissioner serving the 4th District, that steps be taken for the commissioner to stop contributing to the hostile work environment emerging in the auditor’s office. Specifically, for persistent, adversarial communications and actions directed toward Maddox. Wright eventually resigned from the committee. Two years later, Wright was reassigned to the audit committee after Mayor Kelly Girtz took office for his current term.

In my opinion, Commissioner Wright was actively colluding with the county manager’s office and by extension other departments, including the human resource office, to discredit the auditor and eliminate the charter office in favor of privatization at the time of Wright’s reappointment to the committee. I do not know if Mayor Girtz was aware of Wright’s prior actions and reason for resignation from the audit committee.

I also informed the county attorney during our short conversation that the county manager, Blaine Williams, had Maddox removed from a 2018 criminal investigation on the water reclamation facility after the police department asked the auditor to participate when strong indicators of purchase card fraud and other activity was found in multiple county departments, independent of the actions and charges faced by the defendants, both

of whom are presumed innocent, stemming from the original investigation.

Denson had approved the auditor’s participation in the investigation, but hours later, Maddox was removed from it before the audit committee knew about any of it. The county manager successfully used a type of communication that excluded Maddox from being aware of the manager’s extraordinary action.

Like the resignation and reappointment of Wright to the audit committee, I do not know if Mayor Girtz knew of the removal of the auditor from the criminal investigation, since it happened before he was elected and took office. The removal of Maddox by Williams from the criminal investigation is the moment, in my opinion, when he took away the auditor’s independence and put it squarely in the realm of mostly unelected, overtly biased decision makers, where it remains today.

Maddox had a big red X put on her back by several powerful people inside our local government from nearly the time of her appointment in 2015, and that X was kept fresh by at least one elected official.

Amazingly, to my knowledge, the former mayor was never interviewed by the county attorney’s office or the independent investigators hired by the county government to find clarity and resolution about the just recently reported conflict, ending with the unjust firing, from what I know.

What resulted was the smearing and termination of Maddox. All for some twisted notion of political power engineered by folks that betrayed the public trust.

As a volunteer community advocate who spent many hours learning about the auditor’s office and advocating for it over the past three years, I hope the mayor and commission do the right things, including whatever it takes to give justice and meaning to public servants like Maddox and the offices they lead as representatives not only of the unified government, but also to the people of Athens-Clarke County.

Michael Smith Athens

Keep Cities Intact During Redistricting Do you wonder why it is so difficult to have your Georgia state senator or representative pay attention to your needs if you are living in a small- to medium-size city?

During the last redistricting, over 23 cities were divided, which meant that their citizens no longer had one Georgia legislator in each chamber of the General Assembly to represent their community’s interests, but two or three. The same problem of cities being broken up exists on the federal level in the House of Representatives. That means that these representatives are less beholden to you and have less concern for your city’s needs.

One example on the federal level is Athens, which was split from one congressional district into two in 2011. Another example is Gainesville, which is represented

by State House Districts 29 and 30. Each state district needs to have about 65,000 to 70,000 people. Gainesville’s population is 37,906, so it could easily be represented in one district.

Now is the time to look at your district boundaries and talk to your state representatives about how they can best represent your interests.

Suzanne Sperling Athens

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A Broken Chain BUSINESSES IN ATHENS AND EVERYWHERE STRUGGLE TO FIND SUPPLIES

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a 2,000-square-foot house jumped from $7,000 pre-pandemic to $27,000 this spring, although lumber prices fell somewhat since May, according to a June 17 White House report.

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hop early, don’t get bent out of shape if what you want isn’t available, and try to buy local—that’s the advice of Athens business owners trying to cope with a tangled global supply chain.

“This is the first of many times we’ll ask you to please shop early for your holiday gifts (and to be flexible when we suggest alternative options if the first book you’re seeking is impossible for your neighborhood bookstore to get),” wrote Avid Bookshop owner Janet Geddis on the store’s Facebook page. “We thought the supply chain hiccups last year were bad, but this year it’s far, far worse.”

Lori Lord, owner of Promotional Marketing Services, is also advising customers to plan as much as a year ahead. Her company sells custom branded corporate marketing products—swag such as the pens and magnets handed out at company events or large family gatherings, and the umbrella you might get at a golf tournament. Lord’s entire industry is experiencing “severe” product shortages, she said. Production times, once seven to 10 days, are now three to four weeks.

The supply chain meltdown isn’t affecting just delivery times, but prices, she said.

Shipping costs from China, where many of the items Lord markets are made (as are many of the books in U.S. bookstores), have skyrocketed, and the prices of some raw materials have also climbed because of real or artificial scarcities. “Plan for six to 12 months ahead,” Lord said. “Be patient, and be flexible,” Avid and Promotional Marketing Services are far from the only businesses caught in the broken global trade web.

Restaurants have had to deal with sporadic shortages of hot sauce, pickles and chicken wings, the New York Times reported last month. The cost of the lumber needed for

ting it,” he said.

To compensate, Cortese puts in bigger orders to ensure he won’t run out waiting for the next shipment. He’s also paying more for boxes, for plastic cups and other supplies. “Everything’s doubled in price,” he said. “It’s affecting everyone, that’s for sure.”

Cortese, a vintage car hobbyist, had to wait a month and a half to get a carburetor for his 1968 Chevelle, he said. Some kinds of auto parts have become hard to find, said Masters Garage owner Bryan Berrong.

That’s especially true if the part involves a computer chip. Car manufacturers and some other kinds of businesses cut back on

Pizza boxes are among the many items local businesses are having a hard time acquiring.

Thanks in part to the surge in online shopping that accompanied the spread of COVID-19 and the COVID lockdowns that made Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos even richer, there’s a shortage of corrugated containerboard—the stuff liquor boxes and Amazon shipping boxes are made of. That means Little Italy owner Frank Cortese can no longer count on speedy delivery when he orders more pizza boxes, which are also made of containerboard. “When you place your order, you don’t know when you’re get-

their orders of chips last year, anticipating an economic downturn as COVID spread.

Thanks in large part to expanded federal unemployment benefits and aid to business, U.S. consumer demand didn’t wane, but increased. Car sales showed the largest year-over-year increase since 1974, and by the beginning of summer, inventory at car dealerships was half what it was pre-pandemic, according to a June 17 report on whitehouse.gov announcing the formation of a “Supply Chain Disruption Task Force.”

But without enough chips, automakers can’t build cars. That’s led to higher newcar prices and unprecedented price tags on used cars. The price for a one-year-old used car has now “reached parity” with new-car prices, according to Consumer Reports: You’ll pay just as much for a year-old vehicle as for a new one. Meanwhile, car manufacturers are reducing output. Toyota announced last month it would cut production by 40% in September.

Though “significant,” the supply issues “are likely to be transitory,” according to the June White House report. Three months later, no one is predicting a quick turnaround, however. The crisis may actually be deepening. Some analysts believe the snarl will continue not just into next year but into 2023, Bloomberg reported last week.

Multiple factors have combined to create “a perfect storm,” said Athens Area Chamber of Commerce Director of Sales Marissa Chastain. “A shortage of truck drivers that was building long before COVID has left Chicago warehouses full, for example, and because Chicago is a central hub for railroad transport, there’s no room for the goods still arriving at busy ports, such as the Long Beach-Los Angeles complex, where there’s not enough dock workers to cope with a record volume of incoming ships,” she said.

Greed has also played a part. Container shippers are on track to haul in $100 billion in net profits this year, up from about $15 billion in 2020, Bloomberg reported.

According to one report, shipping from China has become so lucrative that shippers are actually returning from U.S. ports with a cargo of empty containers rather than waiting to fill them up with U.S. goods for export—one of the factors creating a global shortage of shipping containers.

Some economists say the disruption could lead to diminished global trade, less reliance on “just-in-time” manufacturing, more reliance on local or regional supply networks and more domestic production of vital goods. The Biden administration has promised to boost domestic production of computer chips.

Lord is one who’s looking to rely less on international trade. “We’ve made a lot of effort finding USA products,” she said. f

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Remembering Carter Gillies LOCAL POTTER AND PHILOSOPHER WAS A TREASURED TEACHER AND FRIEND

By Jessica Sutherland, Rob Sutherland and Marci Mendel White arts@flagpole.com

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When I first started teaching at Good Dirt, I (Jess) would often sit right outside the door of Carter’s class when he was teaching, hidden from sight, and just listen.

His classes were little communities—pockets of love and support that inspired me as a teacher, and showed me what I wanted to try to become in my own classroom. He had the devotion of his students for a reason, and it had very little to do with the end product on the wheel, although he always helped people to find what was possible within themselves, and that often resulted in something uniquely them and therefore something uniquely beautiful. He had a way of teaching you how to be a better human on the way to learning how to make a better pot.

So much of what I (Rob) do when I sit at the potter’s wheel is informed by Carter’s philosophy of making, and when I teach, I try to emulate what I saw in his teaching.

Carter always emphasized exploration and practice. His les-

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ast month, Athens lost a kind, artistic, gentle soul.

Carter Gillies died on Sunday night, Sept. 6, after a long battle with colon cancer.

Good Dirt was lucky enough to have Carter teach with us for a decade, and he made us all better in the process.

During that time, he introduced so many people to the joy of creating functional art. He was a teacher in every bone and every cell of his body: patient, kind, encouraging, creative, loving. He knew when to push and when to comfort, how to inspire and how to give space for your growth. He challenged you to find your voice, to find your approach to clay (and to life), and to find yourself in the messy process of it all. He valued people and their individual voices, and was a philosopher, artist, teacher and friend.

When I (Rob) found out that Carter was a serious student of philosophy before discovering pottery, it made so much sense. Carter didn’t just make pots to sell. He cared deeply about what he was creating and what place it would occupy in the daily lives of people all over Athens and beyond. Every gesture in his fluid forms was practiced and refined to be the best it could be.

Every detail was considered because he wanted to put pieces of himself into the world. Art lived in his hands, and he viewed himself only as a co-creator to the process and the happening. He embraced the surprise and serendipity of the clay having a voice, and you see it in the freedom and magic of his work.

He lived his beliefs in ways that were rare and truly special. He was the kindest, most thoughtful and gentlest man I’ve ever met. He practiced vegetarianism to do his part to care for other creatures and the planet. He traveled around Athens by bicycle because he couldn’t stand the thought that an error behind the wheel could harm someone else. As a teacher and mentor, he gave his students his best in every class so that they could find their own connection to art and develop their own personal voice. As an artist of the community, he taught children that they were makers, too, and that what they created was important and magical. He traded his work for theirs, “for a song” and, for years, children in Athens created memories when they went to Carter’s sales, when they worked up the courage to sing or play an instrument, when they saw that their drawing was “good enough” to trade for “real” pottery, when they were able to see themselves and their creativity as valuable. He wasn’t just a teacher, he was a believer in people.

We find ourselves going through our collection and using all of his pieces this week, holding on to him in the only way that we know how. Anyone who is lucky enough to have his pieces knows that Carter was an accomplished potter who made dynamic, lyrical, magical work. But, even more beautiful than the work was the man behind it. We’ll remember him best for his heart, for his kindness, for his love of humans and his ability to nurture their creative journey. He set hearts aflame for art all across town, listening to and valuing the art of children in ways that we should all hope to emulate.

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sons weren’t “how-to’s” for a specific form, they were exercises to build skills that applied to the whole process. His timed handle-pulling warm-up exercises were legendary, and often feared. He would pass his wet demo pots around the class just to show that it’s okay to touch the clay, even fresh off the wheel. His fearless approach to clay inspired so many of us at Good Dirt. I’ll be digesting a lot of his lessons for as long as I make pots, and I think that’s how he would have wanted it. He didn’t believe in easy answers, just a series of steps in the direction of greater understanding, deeper connection to the work, and generosity with the time and skill that goes into each piece.

It’s been remarkable to read the stories about Carter and to see the photos of his work scattered across the homes in Athens, knowing that his reach was far, and that his memory and his work will be in our lives, reminding and inspiring us, for years and years to come.

We thought the best way to honor Carter was to keep his mission of valuing and encouraging the art and creativity of children alive. While we can certainly never fill the void he’s left in our community, we will carve out a space to honor what was important to his heart. Even though our December sale will most likely be canceled again for COVID safety concerns, at every future Good Dirt Holiday Sale

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(with the the hope of enlisting the Good Dirt community and Carter’s former students), we’ll be setting up a children’s table in his honor, accepting drawings, songs, paintings, dances and any other form of creative expression from children as payment for a child’s-sized piece of pottery.

Good Dirt was better with you. Athens was better with you. Thank you for being a teacher to us all. [Jessica & Rob Sutherland]

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first met Carter Gillies in the UGA ceramics department in 1990. At the time, he was a philosophy grad student and had signed up for a ceramics elective. I remember he immediately fell in love with all of it—the clay itself; the whole process of making pots; the generous, unpretentious, community feeling among ceramicists. Pretty soon he’d decided that clay was his true calling and drop out of the philosophy program to get a BFA, then a Masters in ceramics. He pursued his vocation with passion, and over time became an excellent potter.

He taught ceramics classes at Good Dirt, our local community clay center, for many years. He built a studio behind his house on Nantahala Avenue, and held pottery sales there which were regular, anticipated town events.

Hundreds, maybe thousands, of people own and use his beautiful pots, and he took a lot of joy and pride in that.

Though he lived alone, and like any visual artist could be very solitary, he was also quite social and loved how his pottery sales were community happenings. He was always ready and willing to offer help and advice, especially when it came to pots and art.

He was so encouraging to me when I started doing ceramics again in 2015, after a long hiatus. I was nervous about my kiln set-up, and he came over several times to make sure I wasn’t going to accidentally burn my house down, and to do the post-firing rundown with me.

I’d say a couple of Carter’s main passions were cultivating an appreciation for handcrafted objects in everyone he met, and encouraging children to express themselves creatively. He felt it was so important to be kind to children, to show an interest in their ideas and to help them feel empowered to be creative.

Carter truly benefited his community and enriched many lives, including mine.

He was sad to have his life cut short by cancer. He regretted not going to a doctor sooner when he was feeling crummy for a long period of time. He’d tell everyone to not neglect your health; don’t take your health for granted. Go get regular check-ups, get a colonoscopy when it’s time, and do all the preventative health screenings.

These last few years his life, by necessity, revolved around caring for his health. He had to give up pottery, and many other things. But he still loved seeing his friends and family, enjoyed discussing matters both big and small with everyone who came into his sphere, being with his cats, reading books, watching his garden grow and just being outside. He loved life and would have liked to have stuck around a lot longer, contributing to this grand dance.

In his own words: “When I was diagnosed with terminal cancer it would have been so easy to turn to a dark place.

Somehow I didn’t. I knew I couldn’t be my old self any longer. But I also understood that this tragedy of a shortened life was a gift in some ways. It was a wake up call to the need to be my best self to the best of my ability. Crisis can break us, make us small and petty, or it can help us aspire to values that really matter.” [Marci Mendel White] f Visit flagpole.com to read more tributes to Carter Gillies.

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Georgia Whomped Arkansas THE DAWGS PROVE THEY CAN STILL RUN THE DANG BALL

By Cy Brown news@flagpole.com I expected a lot of what went down when Georgia played Arkansas last weekend in Athens. I expected Sanford Stadium would be as hype as it’s ever been for a noon kickoff. I expected we’d attempt to establish the run against the Hogs’ six-man defensive backfield. I expected the defense would come out with a fire lit under its ass following a week of the national media talking about how they might not actually be as good as they look. I expected a win.

big plays. Manball got us through the bulk of most of the seasons under Smart. It was that inability to make explosive plays in just a few games that necessitated a change in offensive identity. Hence, hiring Todd Monken to run the offense.

But the circumstances of the Arkansas game gave us every reason to do an aboutface and try to Manball our way to victory.

JT Daniels sat out the game with a lat strain, and Arkansas’s defense and its six

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Zamir White Manballed his way to two touchdowns on Saturday.

I did not expect 37-0.

But that’s what happened in the Dawgs’ biggest game of the season to date. Georgia opened the week as an 18.5-point favorite, dropping to 17 closer to game time. It was a spread most in the college football world and betting public thought was absurd, as more than 80% of the money came in on Arkansas. There’s a reason there are a bunch of big casinos out in the desert.

I learned some important lessons during the 37-0 whompin’ of the Hogs. The first and most obvious lesson: The house always wins. The second lesson: There is a time and a place for Manball.

For most of Kirby Smart’s tenure, Georgia has been denigrated for its inability to keep up with the times offensively. And I’m guilty of being one of those doing the denigrating. For the first several years in Athens, the Dawgs became over-reliant on Manball.

For those unfamiliar with the term, Manball is an offensive strategy in which you dominate the line of scrimmage, let your quarterback manage the game by keeping him out of difficult situations, and run the ball down the opponent’s throat come hell or high water. If you’re still confused, just think of everything Georgia did offensively until last season.

After a handful of high-profile losses over the last few years in which we were simply outscored, it became clear Manball wasn’t tenable, at least not as our only strategy. If you want to win a national championship in this day and age, you eventually have to go to the air and make

defensive backs are built to prevent explosive passing plays.

So we ran the ball and ran the ball and ran the ball. And when we were tired of running the ball, we ran the ball some more. As a team, Georgia ran 56 times for 273 yards and three touchdowns. James Cook ended the day as the feature back, with a gamehigh 87 yards on 12 carries to his name.

It also proved to Georgia’s detractors that we can run the ball when we choose.

Georgia’s lack of an established running game through four games this season was something that was latched onto by those looking to find weaknesses in the Georgia juggernaut. How a running back room that goes five-deep with five- and four-stars behind a physical offensive line would ever be construed as a weakness, I don’t know.

But then again, I’m not out here looking for reasons Georgia might suck when clearly none exist.

The reliance on Manball to beat Arkansas did mean our passing game took a step back, but that doesn’t worry me at the moment.

I’ve seen enough from Monken and Daniels to believe that we can make those explosive plays through the air when the time comes.

In this case, playing Manball wasn’t a regression. It was a strategy.

With Florida suffering a loss at Kentucky, its second SEC loss of the season, Georgia has a path to the SEC Championship Game big enough to drive a Mack truck through.

We’re about to embark on a two-month-long exercise in sticking the landing. And if you want to keep your money in your pocket, don’t bet against the Dawgs to do it. f

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Mama Ning’s Brings Thai to Watkinsville Balancing Life and Long-term Friendships PLUS, INTERNATIONAL GROCERY SHOPPING ON MILLEDGE AVENUE

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MAMA NING’S THAI (2 S. Main St., Watkinsville, 706-705-1012): You wouldn’t think that a Thai restaurant in Watkinsville would be good, even though the town does have some bright spots, and dining options have expanded. Even Athens only has limited Asian options whether east, west, north, south or central. Sure, there are plenty of places where you can get an SARAH ANN WHITE

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OK curry or a simply executed stir-fry, but there’s not a ton beyond that.

Mama Ning’s isn’t exactly uncalibrated to the Western European palate, but it is far better than it needs to be. Occupying the former Mirko Pasta space in the Town Center complex in downtown Watkinsville, it has a patio for outdoor dining, an acceptable if not amazing mask policy (a sign on the door asks the unvaxxed to mask up, pretty good for Oconee County), and a solid online ordering platform for take-out. You can pick your spice level from mild to very hot for most dishes, and medium is plenty adequate. The best stuff on the menu is under “Mama Ning’s Favorites,” where you’ll find catfish in basil sauce (lightly fried and served with bell pepper, onions, green beans, green peppercorns, fingerroot and mushrooms in a chili basil sauce; it unsurprisingly collapses in a take-out container, but still has plenty of flavor), a bunch of duck dishes, Thai-style chicken and rice (also available in a smaller portion on the kids menu and basically the Thai version of chicken soup, steamed with plenty of aromatics, served with a hearty broth and comfortingly bland in many ways), and khao soi/chiang mai noodles (a delicious curry dish focusing on coconut milk and turmeric with egg noodles, your choice of protein, onions, lime, scallions, cilantro and wonderfully good and surprising pickled mustard greens, to be topped with fried wontons for a satisfying crunch). The vegetables and the fish seem to be the best offerings, although

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there’s also larb, a cold ground-meat salad most often made with pork but here available as chicken, shrimp or tofu, all tossed with lime juice, fish sauce, onions, celery, cilantro, mint and scallions. Tofu and the chicken massaman are fine but not exciting.

The green papaya salad is a little wilted. The idea of the Thai-style scrambled egg, packed with vegetables, is a bit more exciting than the reality, in which the result is a chewy pancake studded with stuff that doesn’t assert itself. Still, on the whole, the place deserves credit for using fresh ingredients and not relying on sugar to carry its dishes. Even the tom yum, a hot-andsour-type soup that’s a standard in many Thai restaurants, has more panache than at most places.

The aforementioned kids menu has multiple options, none of which is chicken fingers, and there is makgeolli (Korean rice beer) among the beer and wine options, plus cake from Sweetie Pie

by Savie for dessert.

The restaurant is open for lunch and dinner Tuesday–Sunday, with a break in between the meals.

Hey Bonita, Over the summer, I reconnected with two separate friends (must have been something in the air) that I used to be extremely close with in my early 20s. In the past, both friendships just kind of fizzled out due to life being busy, etc. So it was really nice to catch up and jump right back into the friendship like no time passed—it was this way for both of them. We still had a genuine connection, talking about real things, not just your youthful “party” friends. It felt so nice to have these people back in my life that I kind of silently promised myself not to let life get between things again and to keep the friendships alive.

Well, a couple months later and BOTH friends are unresponsive. We don’t exactly live close, so it was mostly an online/texting friendship anyway. It just seems so strange to me that it wasn’t just

ACHACHI INTERNATIONAL MARKET (2024 S Milledge Ave., Athens, 706-8509800): This place isn’t a restaurant at all, but a market. It’s worth a note nonetheless, as it has been a minute since Athens had a place where you could get Indian, Pakistani, Arabic and West African groceries. The store, right by the Islamic Center on Milledge Avenue, is fairly teeny, but it packs in a lot, especially in the second room that would be easy to miss, where coolers hold whole frozen fish (pomfret, rohu, etc.), halal meats, butter made from water buffalo milk, lassis, tofu, roti (cooked and uncooked) and interesting sodas. There are fresh vegetables, too, and gigantic bags of rice. The main room has copious packets of various curries, well-priced whole spices, nuts, loads of snacks (potato chips in an array of flavors, including mint; bags of spicy fried lentils), poori, mango drinks, soaps, loads of pickles, Cadbury Milk chocolates and much more. If you’re looking for excellent COVID precautions, you won’t find them here, and some things are still better found at Fooks Foods, just down the block, but it’s a fun place to browse and discover new things, and a valuable resource for the many international students who live in the area. It’s open 11 a.m.–9 p.m. every day, and more than willing to do special orders for folks who ask. f

one but TWO friendships following the exact same pattern. What did I do? Or not do? I’m not sure, but after just a couple of spread-out, “How are you?”’s, I figured it was best to leave them alone. Keeping long-term friendships alive seems so hard, how do you keep these people in your life?

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Hey Confused, I heavily relate to this. I’m no spring chicken either, but I am still in touch with my besties from elementary, middle and high school. I see my middle and high school besties at least once a year, but it’s not without some effort on everyone’s part.

You’re right, it takes a lot of work to keep long-term friendships going, but that work shouldn’t feel like work. If it does, then maybe you’re forcing something that isn’t meant to be.

When I think of my relationships with my oldest friends, they really do just kind of ebb and flow in a way that doesn’t feel particularly orchestrated. On Monday, I got a text from my 3rd grade bestie, just some general well-wishes and platonic love declarations, but I hadn’t seen or spoken to her since my dad’s funeral at the end

of May. Before then, we hadn’t had direct contact beyond social media likes since Christmas. And I don’t get offended by that lack of contact, because we’re both grown, you know? We live states apart and both have careers and educations that we’re managing, and it’s natural for those things to take up a big slice of anyone’s daily attention span. So, one of us will reach out when the other is on their mind, and we’ll make plans for when we’re both going to be in our hometown or in the same area. One of our mutual ride-or-die best friends lives in Colorado, and we intend to take a trip there in the near future, but none of us feel pressure to get anything on the books just yet because hey, we’re all busy, but life will calm down eventually, and we’ll all Facetime about it sooner or later. No biggie.

This is all to say that I recommend extending some grace to your friends in the same way that you’d want grace extended to yourself when you need to play catch-up on your contacts. This recent lack of communication does not seem like an indication that they are choosing to pull away from you or anything like that, unless you know something that you haven’t shared with me. You know whether or not these friends are shady types, so you can judge their intentions best. But I don’t recommend letting your thoughts about this snowball into, “They hate me and don’t want to talk to me,” unless they’ve given you direct indications of such.

Two months of no contact can really sting, but that’s normal for me and my rideor-dies. Someone has to leave someone else on “read” eventually for the conversation to end, so keep that in mind. Manage your expectations around regular contact with busy adults, but also feel free to let any relationship come to its natural conclusion.

There are plenty of old “best friends” that I no longer talk to, and that is perfectly fine. f Need advice? Email advice@flagpole.com, or use our online form at flagpole.com/get-advice.

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Athens Choral Society Celebrates Golden Anniversary 50 YEARS OF COMING TOGETHER THROUGH SONG

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uch about Athens—and life in general—looked free to the public, these performances are usually accompavery different 50 years ago. Clarke Central High nied by a full orchestra of hired UGA students. Then, there School, formed from the merger of Burney-Harris is a summer show featuring lighter, Broadway-type music High School and Athens High, had just opened its doors that serves as a fundraiser to support the free seasonal after the desegregation of Clarke County schools. Apollo 14 concerts. Beginning as a penniless group of volunteers, the orbited the moon carrying loblolly pine seeds, one of which society is now able to afford to pay its director and accomwould be planted in downtown Athens and still stands tall panist, although at a reduced rate well below market value. today as the “Moon Tree.”

“We have been blessed with some wonderful accomAmong these events bringing humanity together physpanists. They’re so important to our group. They are the ically and symbolically were five Athenians, most of whom foundation walls, the director is the building on top,” says were university professors connected to the UGA School Hutcherson. of Music, who saw the need for a community chorus. After putting up some posters and having a surprising crowd of 75 show up for rehearsal, the Athens Choral Society performed its first concert at Mell Auditorium, in the aforementioned Athens High, on May 18, 1971.

How has this group withstood the test of time? According to Mary Hutcherson, one of two remaining charter members, it is simply a “love to sing.”

The society has maintained its original vision as a non-audition, community chorus open to everyone, boasting a unique membership spanning from seniors in high school to those in their early 90s.

Director Stephen Mitchell agrees that the key to their success is “everyone there just loves to sing. When you’re in a singing community, you almost become like family.

We’ve had so many best friendships develop from the choir, we even have a couple that met (l-r) Stephen Mitchell, director; Henry Hinnant, guest composer; Sara Lorusso, accompanist. and married because of choral society. So, I think it’s the relationships they build, and the In recent years, the group has expanded their involvefact that the common goal is they’re there because they love ment with the community and created a more diverse to sing.” image of the Athens Choral Society. They have partnered The Athens Choral Society typically has three concerts with Dancefx dancers, the UGA Opera Theatre singers and a year—a fall concert, a Christmas concert and a spring local bluegrass bands. concert—held in recent years at Hodgson Hall on the “Even though we give back to the community through University of Georgia campus. More classical in nature and music, one of the really important things for us is to give

back through our summer show. In addition to charging money for a ticket, we also do a collection for an Athensbased non-profit each summer,” says Mitchell. “We have collected just over $38,000 for all those organizations since 2008. We try to keep them all in Athens so the money stays in Athens. So, we’re really proud of that.”

Unfortunately, COVID has had a profound impact on the group, including delaying their 50th anniversary plans.

Unable to celebrate this past May, the society has big plans for an official anniversary concert in May of 2022.

For the first time in its history, according to Hutcherson, the society had to miss performances and did not meet for a full year, from March 2020 to April 2021. However, the society received an ACAC Arts in the Community Resilience grant, which allowed Mitchell to commission a piece of music for the anniversary called “If Music Be the Food of Love,” composed by Henry Hinnant. Set from text

by William Shakespeare, the piece will be performed live at the May 2022 concert. “I’m really proud of what we did with the 50th anniversary commission. It may not be sung 200 years from now, but I think it’s a very good piece,” says Hutcherson.

As COVID numbers began to go down in the spring and a majority of the society members were eligible for early vaccinations, the group came back together to rehearse outdoors.

“I thought we needed to be together. So our first rehearsal in the middle of April 2021, we had over 60 people show up, which just said that they really wanted to sing,” says Mitchell.

“Masks make it hard to sing.

Then, it’s just really hard to blend the sound and make it real unified when you’re in a mask and you’re outside without any acoustics. So, we were basically singing to sing and be together more than we were for the final product.”

This gave them the opportunity to rehearse “If Music Be the Food of Love” and record a video of their performance while waiting to return to a live audience. Thankfully, the Athens Choral Society was able to put together an outdoor summer show for a boost of community morale.

Postponing rehearsals once again for the month of September, to wait out the COVID surge, the Athens Choral Society will soon begin preparing for a “kick-off” anniversary show on Dec. 7 at Hodgson Hall. If rehearsals continue to be pushed back due to safety, then Mitchell will assess having an abbreviated concert elsewhere. For more information and updates on upcoming performances, visit athenschoralsociety.com. f

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Historic Athens Porchfest 2021 COMMUNITY EFFORT IN CELEBRATING HERITAGE

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hile many festivals and events are getting canceled or downsized, Historic Athens Porchfest is luckily flourishing and back even bigger for year three due to the nature of this outdoor event.

After going virtual last year—and being voted the 2021 Flagpole Athens Favorites Virtual Event—the festival has expanded from the first year’s 67 performers in four neighborhoods to 108 performers in six, adding Cobbham and Normaltown to the original Boulevard, Buena Vista, Newtown and Pulaski Heights.

“I think that this is the event every year that always shatters, again and again, the myth that musicians aren’t reliable, because if musicians weren’t reliable, you couldn’t do this,” says Tommy Valentine, executive director of Historic Athens. “What makes it work is really just the generosity of the artists and the hosts.”

The catalyst for this event was the Historic Athens members examining their mission statement—”to be a proactive force in developing community-wide understanding of the value of historic buildings, neighborhoods and heritage,” according to the website—and realizing they did not have an anchor event celebrating the historic

neighborhoods. One member introduced the idea of porch festivals, which perfectly suited the culture of Athens with the added benefit of also celebrating the musical community’s heritage.

Valentine uncovered a very fitting history of porch performances in the under-appreciated Newtown area. Longtime Newtown residents Irene Gilree and Lucy Blair shared that during the Chitlin’ Circuit era, Little Richard had a cousin who lived in the neighborhood whom he would visit when nearby.

They would pull a piano onto the porch, and the whole neighborhood would gather to listen. For Valentine, this anecdote illuminates how much older and more diverse Athens music history is than many know.

Community interest and artists/hosts willing to contribute will be responsible for how large this festival grows in the future.

“It really became a priority to us to not base our booking decisions on prestige. If somebody was generous enough to want to contribute a performance to this event, we wanted to find a place for them to play,” says Valentine. One of the biggest challenges in geographic growth is maintaining a pedestrian-friendly, interconnected event.

However, the fact that the performances are

Monsoon will play Flagpole’s front porch at 220 Prince Ave. Sunday at 1 p.m.

on private property spread out over such a large outdoor area is exactly what saved this year’s festival from the fate of its peers.

Historic Athens has paid close attention to the ACC and CDC guidelines, collected feedback from both hosts and performers, consulted local elected officials and spoke with local health professionals to ensure that the event will not be detrimental to the larger community. The average single event drew a crowd of 20–30 people previously, and unsafe levels of clustering are not expected. All hosts have been encouraged to take any safety precautions on their property that they feel necessary, including requiring masks or limiting the number of attendees.

For those planning ahead with the help of Porchfest’s printed schedule and mobilefriendly Google map, you have to embrace that you will miss out on bands. With an average of 18–20 artists playing every hour, Valentine recommends choosing one or two bands of interest, and then wandering from there. Unlike other festivals, it is not safe to assume the more popular acts will be headlining at the end of the night—time slots were assigned by a random number generator. This year’s lineup is the most diverse yet, and a great way to explore everything the music community has to offer.

“I think that this is a day to kind of just luxuriate in the music, culture, architecture and history of Athens,” says Valentine. f

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264 Georgia Ave.

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125 Nantahala Ave.

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174 Cleveland Ave.

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258 Lyndon Ave.

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180 Virginia Ave.

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370 Cleveland Ave.

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731 Pulaski St.

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378 Yonah Ave.

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220 Prince Ave.

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MYNAWA

167 Nantahala Extension

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195 Crawford Ave.

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226 Hill St.

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Nuclear Tourism

277 Hiawassee Ave.

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200 Pineneedle Road

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255 Holman Ave.

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243 Barrow St.

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564 Boulevard

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141 Kendene St.

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250 Hodgson Drive

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458 Atlanta Ave.

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160 Savannah Ave.

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234 Hill St.

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368 Barber St.

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175 Buena Vista Ave.

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574 Pulaski St.

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329 Lyndon Ave.

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296 Boulevard

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110 Easy St.

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445 Hiawassee Ave.

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146 Savannah Ave.

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338 Satula Ave.

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460 Sunset Drive

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609 Cobb St.

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562 Pulaski St.

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540 Athens Ave.

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635 Pulaski St.

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165 Hendrix Ave.

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149 Virginia Ave.

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540 Hillcrest Ave.

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412 Holman Ave.

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170 Boulevard Heights

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279 Yonah Ave.

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693 N. Pope St., Unit B

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1045 Prince Ave.

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366 Barber St.

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120 Holman Ave.

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824 Hill St.

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425 Barber St.

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538 Pulaski St.

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184 Childs St.

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100 Crestview Circle

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155 Hendrix Ave.

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650 Pulaski St.

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186 Boulevard

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108 Park Ave.

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275 Pineneedle Road

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157 Childs St.

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847 Meigs St.

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256 Hill St.

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235 Dubose Ave.

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properly back in September, but, hey, why not throw the publicist a bone, right? Simply put, the whole record is a bag of power-pop gems, and I can’t imagine any fan of the genre finding this lacking. That said, what’s so refreshing about this is that it’s not married to any orthodoxy of the Blunt Bangs genre, especially on tracks like “Odessa,” not to mention the Husker Du-isms of “Moshi Moshi.” If you feel like judging for yourself, head to the Flicker Theatre was published in 2016. For more information, please see facebook.com/nucisspace and nuci.org. & Bar Saturday, Oct. 9 and see ‘em do the thing. For more info, please see facebook.com/bluntbangsband and blunt PULL UP A SEAT: Gypsy Farm Records recently released a casbangs.bandcamp.com. sette tape compilation for the benefit of Feeding America, RIGHT SIDE GLOWS: There will be a celebration of the life of which is a non-profit that works with over 200 food banks.

Linda Phillips, founder of Nuçi’s Space, at the space This compilation, also available digitally, includes tracks Saturday, Oct. 9 at 3 p.m. Linda passed away in January of from Vincas, The Humms, The Haunted Head, Old Smokey, LEAVE A LIGHT ON: Fresh from tour and ready to rock the this year after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. While Sea Of Dogs, Koko Beware, Nate & The Nightmares, Sweet hometown crew, Blunt Bangs continues to celebrate the we take Nuçi’s Space as a given, the fact is that its existence, Auburn String Band, 432 Sessions and Pine Tar Rage. It’s release of the band’s full length Proper Smoker, courtesy nor its success, wasn’t always so certain, and Phillips was titled Tape Feed Vol. 1 and can be found over at gypsyfarm of the Ernest Jenning Record Company. I feel like I spent a tireless advocate for mental health services and other records.bandcamp.com. the summer talking about this record, which was released resources for musicians. Phillips’ memoir, A Beautiful Here, PASS THE HAT: AthFest Educates, the nonprofit organization behind AthFest Music & Arts Festival, has announced its annual grants, and this time around they total just over $43,000. Although each grant is specific in its purpose—far too specific to get into here—beneficiaries this year include Steve Sweetser Donates “Venus Flower of Love” HEART Music, Books For Keeps, Fowler Drive Elementary, Over the past two years since its inception, the Cobbham Triangle Park has the YWCO and YMCA, Nuçi’s Space, Clarke Central High established itself as a popular spot to gather and soak up both sunshine and pubSchool, H.B. Stroud Elementary, J.J. Harris Elementary and lic art. Last week, local artist Steve Sweetser donated and installed a towering new Oglethorpe Elementary. For a complete and detailed list of sculpture, “Venus Flower of Love.” His work joins sculptures by fellow metal artists all recipients, please see athfesteducates.org.

Harold Rittenberry and Doug Makemson, as well as a mosaic wall by Krysia Ara many Wes Delk died on Saturday, Sept. 25. Known among the professional touring circuit as soundman to Waylon Jennings, Dawes, Widespread Panic and many others, his roots were homegrown here in Athens. Among his many gigs, he was head soundman at the Uptown Lounge, and in 1989, when Uptown owner Kyle Pilgrim and manager Duck Anderson reopened the Georgia Theatre, Delk became head soundman there as well. Most recently, he was production manager and soundman at The Melting Point, where he was at the helm since its inception. Delk had been in poor health for several years. There is reportedly a memorial party, consistent with Delk’s wishes, slated to happen sometime in November, and when I get the full details, I’ll publish them here for you.

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and granite chess and ping-pong tables by Stan Mullins. The ginormous flower is an appropriate fit for the art park, which features a colorful Connect to Protect pollinator garden that promotes the use of native plants and is overseen by the Ladies’ Garden Club that was founded in the Cobbham neighborhood over a century ago.

A retired pipe-fitter by trade who learned to weld in the Army, Sweetser has been creating sculptural works for roughly a decade. Earlier this year, he debuted a 12-foot-tall kinetic sculpture named “Tree of Oneta” at the historic Southern Mill complex that was commissioned to commemorate W&A Engineering’s 20th anniversary and recent rehabilitation of its 118-year-old building. Like the “Tree of Oneta,” “Venus Flower of Love” demonstrates Sweetser’s clever knack for repurposing found metals, transforming well-pressure tanks, a silver bread basket and slices of bicycle chrome into a beautiful blossom. [Jessica Smith]

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Daniel Shroyer (Mandible Rider, Shadebeast), has a new set of recordings out named Binary, and you can stream the tracks individually or as an entire set, which is a nice convenience. The title fits like a glove for this, too, as it marries extreme grindcore with electronics to varying degrees of success. I preferred to listen to this as a whole set as it only runs about nine and a half minutes. Lyrics for tracks that have them are included but, honestly, you’ll never ever— not even once—sing along with this, so who cares, right?

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Rabbit Hole Studios 7–10 p.m. FREE! www.rabbithole studios.org OPEN MIC Featuring spoken word, performance art, comedy, singer-songwriters and more. Hosted by Peyton Covfefe.

Wednesday 6 40 Watt Club 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $21 (adv.). www.40watt.com THE DAVE MATTHEWS TRIBUTE BAND Self-explanatory.

Creature Comforts Brewery Athens Farmers Market. Outdoors.

5 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmers market.net BICHOS VIVOS Local band playing forró—accordion and triangle-driven country music from Brazil.

Georgia Theatre 6:30 p.m. (doors), 7:30 p.m. (show). $21–25. www.georgia theatre.com INGRID ANDRESS Country music singer who has written for Alicia Keys, Charlie XCX and Sam Hunt.

Georgia Theatre Rooftop Outdoors. 5:30 p.m. (doors), 6:30 p.m. (show). FREE! www.georgia theatre.com ABBEY CONE Nashville singer-songwriter who was inducted into CMT’s Next Women of Country’s 2020 class.

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

International Grill & Bar Outdoors. 7 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/IGBAthensGA ASHLEY TATARSKY & GARY STONE Acoustic singer-songwriters.

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

Ramsey Hall 7 p.m. FREE! (tickets required). pac.uga.edu STEVE DORFF UGA Innovation District presents songwriter Steve Dorff, a three-time Grammy nominee, six-time Emmy nominee and UGA graduate.

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DREW YOUNG THOMAS Acoustic Americana.

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Dialectic Flowers and special 8:30 p.m. (doors). $10. www.flicker STRUMBRUSH DIY indie project guests Mux Blank and Killa Cabbi theatreandbar.com of Foster Wells, Atlanta multi-inwith Cabbage Looper.

BLUNT BANGS Local indie-pop strumentalist who writes, records Southern Brewing Co. band featuring Black Kids frontman and produces out of his bedroom Outdoors. 7–10 p.m. $7. www.

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6 p.m. FREE! Find Front Porch Book disco to AOR rock and blue-eyed Store on Facebook soul. Records and Brews is held KEN WILL MORTON With his every second Friday. gritty, soulful rasp, Morton blends Outdoors. 7 p.m. $7. www.

Athentic Brewing Co. folky Americana with rock and roll sobrewco.com Outdoors. 5:30 p.m. www.athenticswagger.

RICK FOWLER BAND Original, brewing.com Hendershot’s Coffee guitar-driven local blues-rock JULIA RYAN Solo performer 4 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com group. performing hits from all genres and CLASSICAL REVOLUTION ClasFRANKIE’S BLUES MISSION decades. sical music performed by Athens Blues group led by South Georgia Buvez musicians. native Frankie Lee. 8 p.m. $7. www.facebook.com/ International Grill & Bar Southern Brewing Co., buvezathens Outdoors. 7 p.m. FREE! www.faceMonroe SLIME RING Sebastian Marquez book.com/IGBAthensGA 7:30–9:30 p.m. www.sobrewco. of Dead Neighbors goes solo with RETRO SONIC New rock and roll com experimental pop songs. band fronted by Carla Le Fever.

MICHAEL PEZENT Solo acoustic OHMU Solo synth project courtesy Southern Brewing Co. act covering classic country, rock of DJ and designer Winston Parker.

7 p.m. $20–25. www.sobrewco. and Southern rock.

Flicker Theatre & Bar com VFW 9 p.m. (doors). $7. www.flicker JOHN MORELAND Singer-song8 p.m. 706-354-6942 theatreandbar.com writer from Oklahoma.

COUNTRY RIVER BAND Local MOVERS New local new wave-inJUSTIN PETER KINKEL-SCHUSclassic country group that has been spired rock band.

TER Arkansas-based singer-songtogether for over 25 years.

THE KNGS Alternative indie rock writer who performs with Marie/ band based in Greenville, SC. Lepanto and Water Liars.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. (doors), 9 p.m. (show).

40 Watt Club $25–28. www.georgiatheatre.com 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $10.

WHETHAN L.A.-based electronic www.40watt.com Multiple Locations – producer and DJ who has collabFISHBUG Up-and-coming local Athens, GA orated with Dua Lipa, Charli XCX punk rock band.

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over 100 performances held at porches across Pulaski Heights, Newtown, Boulevard, Buena Vista, Normaltown and Cobbham. Check website for schedule. See story on p. 16. Oct. 10, 1–8 p.m. www. historicathens.com

Monday 11 Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $15–20. www.georgiatheatre.com DAVE MCMURRAY’S GRATEFUL DEADICATION Saxophonist performs tribute to the Grateful Dead.

Tuesday 12 Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall Ensemble Series. 7:30 p.m. $3 (w/ student ID), $12. music.uga.edu UGA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA One of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s premier performing ensembles, the orchestra includes the university’s finest players performing traditional repertoire.

Rabbit Hole Studios 7–10 p.m. FREE! www.rabbithole studios.org OPEN MIC Featuring spoken word, performance art, comedy, singer-songwriters and more. Hosted by Peyton Covfefe.

Southern Brewing Co., Monroe 7–9 p.m. www.sobrewco.com FUNKY BLUESTER Blues outfit inspired by traditional Chicago and Texas styles.

Wednesday 13 Creature Comforts Brewery Athens Farmers Market. Outdoors.

5 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmers market.net JOE CAT Local Americana roots player.

Flicker Theatre & Bar Presented by Shadebeast. 9 p.m. $9. www.flickertheatreandbar.com

MARSES Local doom metal fourpiece band.

MONTE LUNA Psychedelic doom metal band from Austin, TX. TEMPTRESS Heavy doom/postrock quartet from Dallas, TX. Georgia Theatre 6:30 p.m. (doors), 7:30 p.m. (show). $15–18. www.georgia theatre.com MONOPHONICS Funk/soul group from San Francisco.

GHOST FUNK ORCHESTRA What started as the one-man recording project of multi-instrumentalist Seth Applebaum is now a 10-piece powerhouse drawing influence from soul, psych rock, salsa and beyond.

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.

Southern Brewing Co., Monroe 7:30 p.m. www.sobrewco.com ASHLEY LAUREN Covers ranging from throwback pop to soul and modern tracks.

Down the Line 10/14 Fury in Few, A.D. Blanco, That’s Rad, Burn Babes (Athentic Brewing Co.) 10/14 Time for Three (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) 10/15 Kimble Crane (International Grill & Bar) 10/15 Doric String Quartet and Jonathan Biss (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) 10/15 Avery Deakins (Hotel Indigo) 10/16 Squeeze the Squid (International Grill & Bar) 10/18 Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, Tyler Key (The Lewis Room at Tweed Recording) 10/20 Rick Fowler Band (International Grill & Bar) 10/20 Jazz Night (Porterhouse Grill) 10/22 The Lucky Jones (International Grill & Bar)

Pandemic Protocols 40 Watt Club: masks indoors; proof of full vaccination required Akademia Brewing Co.: masks encouraged Athentic Brewing Co.: masks indoors Bishop Park: outdoors; masks encouraged Buvez: masks indoors Creature Comforts Brewery: masks indoors Flicker Theatre & Bar: proof of vaccination or negative COVID test within 48 hours; masks indoors Front Porch Bookstore: masks indoors Georgia Theatre/Rooftop: masks indoors; proof of full vaccination required Hendershot’s Coffee: proof of vaccination or negative COVID test within 48 hours Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall: masks encouraged International Grill and Bar: masks encouraged The Lewis Room at Tweed Recording: masks required; proof of vaccination or negative COVID test required Little Kings Shuffle Club: masks indoors Nowhere Bar: proof of vaccination or negative COVID test within 48 hours Porterhouse Grill: masks encouraged Rabbit Hole Studios: masks encouraged Ramsey Hall: masks encouraged Southern Brewing Co.: masks indoors VFW: masks indoors The World Famous: masks indoors

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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 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 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 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 Dec. 15 and Mar. 15. www.athens arts.org/grants

Classes ABLETON LIVE 11 WORKSHOP (The Lewis Room at Tweed Recording) DJ BurnOne leads a workshop

on how to create samples at home and in the studio. RSVP and vaccination or recent negative COVID-19 test required. Oct. 6, 7 p.m. www. tweedrecording.com 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”). Mondays, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. $400/12 sessions. jwsclassinquiry@jaysonsmith.com, www.jaysonsmith.com/teacher BREAD FOR LIFE HOSPITALITY JOB TRAINING (300 N. Thomas St.) Bread for Life is an eight-week program for anyone looking to re-enter the job market after experiencing a life event that has created barriers to employment. Applicants with a criminal history, recovering addicts, victims of domestic violence and individuals receiving SNAP benefits are encouraged to enroll. Mondays–Fridays in October, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. 706-201-4640, contact@breadforlifeathens.org 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 CLAY CLASSES (Good Dirt) Registration opens on the 15th of every

art around town ACC LIBRARY (2025 Baxter St.) Local artist Matt Brewster presents “Radiance,” a collection of landscape, interior and aerial/drone photographs. Through October.

THE ATHENAEUM (287 W. Broad St.) “Trevor Paglen: Vision After Seeing” explores the limits of human vision and the rise of automated vision technologies such as surveillance cameras and high powered telescopes.

Through Dec. 1.

ATHICA@CINÉ GALLERY (234 W. Hancock Ave.) ATHICA celebrates the life of local artist Chatham Murray through a retrospective exhibition of her paintings spanning six decades. Through Oct. 25.

BARBAR VINTAGE TEXTILES AND HOME (1354 S. Milledge Ave.) Selftaught painter Helen Kuykendall presents “Uncaged,” a selection of works in oil and watercolor. Reflecting her background in landscape architecture, her artwork often depict birds in seemingly natural settings that hint at elements of Magic Realism. Through Oct. 10.

DODD GALLERIES (270 River Rd.) The Wall Works series presents a new large-scale mural by Atlanta-based artist Stacie Rose. Through Nov. 12. • Dawn William Boyd’s “Woe” features large-scale cloth paintings critiquing social injustice, racial violence and other abuses of power. Through Nov. 18.

EARTH FARE (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) Susan Pelham’s handmade collages are inspired by Magic Realism, fairy tales, Surrealism and fables. Through October.

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Flicker presents its annual tradition of a Halloween-themed art show. Through October.

GALLERY@INDIGO (500 College Ave.) Rebecca Kreisler presents a collection of nine works that investigate geometry, pattern and color.

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

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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 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. Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28, 6–8 p.m. $100–135. 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 GROW YOUR BUSINESS WORKSHOP SERIES (Athens Land Trust) Athens Land Trust hosts a workshop series designed to help budding entrepreneurs. In-person and online options available. Classes held Oct. 20, 27, Nov. 3, 10, 17 & Dec. 1.

FREE! www.athenslandtrust.org LAND ART WITH CHRIS TAYLOR (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Local artist Chris Taylor is teaming up with Sandy Creek Nature Center

to offer a nature land art class.

Participants will hike a trail and use their imagination to create land art.

Register online to attend. $8–15.

Sept. 25 (adults), Oct. 2 (ages 5–7) or Nov. 13 (ages 8–12). Workshops held 10 a.m.–12 p.m. $8–12. www. accgov.com/myrec 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 PAGANS, WITCHES, HEATHENS AND OTHER CRITTERS (Rabbit Hole Studios) Embreis23 of Athens Area Pagans Inc. presents an introductory course about modern Pagan religions and practices. Wednesdays, 8 p.m. Donations encouraged. jim@athensareapagans.org, www. athensareapagans.org PAINTING CLASSES (Private Studio on Athens Eastside) One-on-one or small group adult classes are offered in acrylic and watercolor painting. Choose day workshops, ongoing weekly classes or feedback sessions. laurenpaintspaintings@ gmail.com POTTERY WHEEL-THROWING (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) 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

Look: Selected Acquisitions from the Georgia Museum of Art” features previously unseen works from the museum’s collection of over 18,000 objects.

Through Jan. 30.

GLASSCUBE@INDIGO (500 College Ave.) Zane Cochran presents “Aurora,” a sculptural interpretation of the aurora borealis using 3D geometric figures and lights.

HEIRLOOM CAFE (815 N. Chase St.) Amanda Corbett of Salvage Sparrow Photo presents a collection of tintypes, a 1850s technique called wet plate collodion. 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. • “i vs me” features paintings by Andy Cherewick and Jeffrey Whittle. Through Oct. 15. • “A Lot More Than It Seems: David Froetschel” spotlights the recipient of an Arts Center Choice Award at the most recent Juried Exhibition. Through Oct. 15. • “Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You” presents works by Brian Hitselberger and Julie Willis. Through Oct. 16. • “Inside Out: Expressing the Inner World” presents abstract paintings by a group of women artists working in the Southeast. Through Oct. 23. • “Modernist Sculptures from the Legacy of Loyd Florence.” Through Oct. 23. • Guest curated by Abraham Tesser, “Willow Oak Tree Exhibit” features works created by local artists using the reclaimed wood of a willow oak tree that lived on the lawn of the historic Ware-Lyndon House for over a century. Gallery talk with Cal Logue, Reid McCallister, Leonard Piha and Richard Shrader on Oct. 21 at 6 p.m. Heritage Tree Symposium: Peter Bull, Tad Gloeckler and Larry Millard held Oct. 30 at 1 p.m.Through Nov. 18.

OCONEE COUNTY LIBRARY (1080 Experiment Station Rd.) Kate Windley’s art focuses on the connections between the expressive qualities of drawing along with the repetition and use of a matrix in screen printing. Through October.

OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (34 School St., Watkinsville) Chris Greer’s photography exhibition, “Georgia Discovered,” captures the beauty of landscapes across the state. • “Emojis & Tea: Studio Dialogue Between Friends During Isolation” is a collaborative exhibition by Isabell Daniel and Kate Windley. • “Cut & Paste: The Art of Collage and Assemblage” is a group exhibition celebrating artists who reinvent and reassemble materials, mediums and found objects. Opening reception Oct. 8, 6–8 p.m. Through Nov. 19.

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, multimedia and fused glassworks.

Through Oct. 16. • Judy Bolton Jarrett presents “Art and Attitude,” a collec-

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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. “Outdoor Yoga and Qigong with Paul Brooks” is held Wednesdays at 6 p.m. Visit website to register. www.revolutiontherapy andyoga.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 ALCESTIS (MLC Outdoor Amphitheater) Through the trickery of the god Apollo, King Admetus is spared the fate of death—but with a catch: someone must take his place. With no one willing to accept the sacrifice, his loyal wife Alcestis answers the call. What follows is a satirical tragicomedy that questions our relationship with life, death and love from a uniquely modern perspective. Utilizing digital masks and actor-driven technology, this original adaptation aims to breathe new life into Euripides’ irreverent tale.

Oct. 7-9, 12-15, and 17 at 6 p.m. $12–16. www.ugatheatre.com ANNUAL FALL CLEANUP FLOAT (Begins at Roy Woods Rd.) Broad River Watershed Association hosts a campaign to clean Georgia’s rivers and streams. Bring your own canoe or kayak. Float lasts approximately 3–4 hours. Oct. 9, 9:30 a.m. susanstanley@gmail.com ART EVENTS (Georgia Museum of Art) “Curator Talk: ‘Inside Look: Selected Acquisitions from the Georgia Museum of Art” is held Oct. 6 at 2 p.m. “Film in the Flower Garden: Beetlejuice” is held Oct. 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia. “Artist Talk: Sarah Braman” is held Oct. 7 at 5:30 p.m. “Morning Mindfulness” is held Oct. 8 at 9:30 a.m. “Family Day: Inside Look” is held Oct. 9 at 10 a.m. “Sunday Spotlight Tour” is held Oct. 10 at 3 p.m. “Tour at Two” is held Oct. 13 at 2 p.m.

“Lecture: Anthony Amore: ‘Stealing Rembrandts’” will be held on Zoom on Oct 14 at 4 pm. www.georgia museum.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 HERITAGE WALKS (Multiple Locations) Historic Athens announces a series of guided tours through neighborhoods and places of interest. “Historic African American Neighborhoods of Athens: Morristown” is held Oct. 17 at 2 p.m. Tours are $12–15 each. www. facebook.com/historicathens ATHENS SHOWGIRL CABARET (Multiple Locations) ASC presents a Halloween show with a costume

tion of landscape and botanical paintings. Closing reception Oct. 17 from 2–4 p.m.

STEFFEN THOMAS MUSEUM OF ART (4200 Bethany Rd., Buckhead) “Large Art Dreaming” is a collaborative exhibition between the museum and Athens artist Broderick Flanigan, who worked with a group of students to create large-scale paintings and a mural design, based of Thomas’ “Brotherhood of Mankind” philosophy, which will be painted live in the gallery Sept. 27–Oct. 9. Reception held Oct. 16 from 3:30–5:30 p.m.

Exhibition currently on view through Nov. 6. Visit steffenthomas.org/largeart-dreaming to watch a live stream of the mural painting.

TINY ATH GALLERY (174 Cleveland Ave.) Local artist James Greer presents “Towards the Crooked and the Dim,” a collection of pen and ink illustrations inspired by dreams. Artist Talk on Instagram Live (@tinyathgallery) on Oct. 6 at 7:30 p.m. Open on Third Thursday, Oct. 21, 6-9 p.m. On view by appointment through October.

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 new Ted Turner Exhibition Hall and Gallery showcases CNN founder and environmentalist Ted Turner’s life and legacy through memorabilia, photographs and other items. • “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. Through December. • “Not Only for Ourselves: The Integration of UGA Athletics” celebrates the 50th anniversary of integration of the Georgia Bulldogs football team. Tours are offered at 3 p.m. on Fridays before each home football game. On view through Spring 2022.

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 thehumid.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.

contest on Oct. 16, 8–11 p.m. at Hendershot’s Coffee. FREE! An additional Halloween show will be held on Oct. 29, 8:30 p.m.–1 a.m. at Sound Track Bar. FREE! www. athensshowgirlcabaret.com ATHENS VIGNETTES (Town & Gown Players) Town & Gown Players present the premier production of playwright Roshuanda Breeden’s Athens Vignettes: A Dialogue with the African American Community.

Scenes cover the Baldwin Hall burial site, loss of Linnentown and fraught relationship with UGA. Oct. 15–17, 22-24. www.townandgown players.org BOGART LIBRARY EVENTS (Bogart Library) KnitLits Knitting Group is held every Thursday at 6 p.m.

“Lunch & Learn: Missiles of October” is held Oct. 8 at 12 p.m.

“Basic Powerpoint” is held Oct. 14 at 5 p.m. “Hitchcock for Halloween” is held Oct. 15 (Shadow of a Doubt), 22 & 29 at 1 p.m. “Journaling 101” is held Oct. 19 at 1 p.m. www.athenslibrary.org BOOBUTANTE (40 Watt Club) Boybutante AIDS Foundation is back with a Halloween-themed ball.

The return of this fan-favorite night will feature special guest Detox, from “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and “RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars.”

Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m. $25–30, $75 (VIP). www.40watt.com BOOK LAUNCH (Healing Arts Centre) Suzanne Keifer and Rita Mathew present There is a Season: An Intentional Approach to Sustenance.

Oct. 7, 6 p.m. FREE! ritamath1@ gmail.com BOO-LE-BARK ON THE BOULEVARD (Jittery Joe’s Roaster) See costumed pups. This year’s theme is “The Dogs Go Marching On!” Oct. 10, 2:30 p.m. (registration), 3:30 p.m. (costume contest). bark onboulevard@gmail.com, www. barkonboulevard.com CELEBRATION OF LIFE FOR LINDA PHILLIPS (Nuçi’s Space) Celebrate the life of Nuçi’s Space’s founder, Linda Phillips, with a toast, live music and storytelling. Oct. 9, 3–7 p.m. www.nuci.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 COMMUNITY CRAFT (Love.Craft Athens) Check out the studio and make a handmade luminary with the Love.Craft’s crew. The afternoon is BYOB and features bites from local restaurants. Oct. 21, 6 p.m. $25. www.lovecraftathens.org CONNECT TO PROTECT NATIVE PLANT SALE (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Add native plants of Georgia to your garden, porch or patio to support local bees, birds, butterflies and beneficial insects.

Oct. 7–8 & Oct. 14–15, 4–6 p.m.

Oct. 9 & Oct. 16, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. botgarden.uga.edu DEATH & MOURNING: CANDLELIGHT TOUR (Historic Athens Welcome Center) For the month of October, the parlor and dining room inside the Church-Waddel-Brumby House will be adorned in Regency Era mourning decor to show how families mourned the loss of their loved ones during this time period.

Guided candlelight tours are held Oct. 15, 22 & 29 at 6 p.m. $15. www.athenswelcomecenter.com EDIBLE AND MEDICINAL PLANT WALK (Register for Location) Sound of Nature School and Wolf Lily Apothecary host an exploration of natural areas to learn about the medicinal and edible qualities of common and abundant plants. Oct. 10, 9–11 a.m. wolflilypsm@gmail.

com, www.midsouthwomenherbalconference.com/registration FALL BOOK SALE (Oglethorpe Co. Library) Friends of Oglethorpe Co. Library host a sale of books and vinyl albums. Most items are $2 or less. Oct. 7, 10 a.m.–7 p.m. Oct. 8–9, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. www.athens library.org/oglethorpe GIVING VOICE TO LINNENTOWN (ACC Library) Hattie Thomas Whitehead celebrates the launch of her new book, Giving Voice to Linnentown, which describes her early childhood years in the 1960s and how her life and the lives of other Linnentown families changed when Athens and UGA entered into an Urban Renewal contract. Oct. 10, 2 p.m. www.athenslibrary.org HISTORIC ATHENS PORCHFEST 2021 (Multiple Locations) This year’s Porchfest features over 100 performances held at porches across Pulaski Heights, Newtown, Boulevard, Buena Vista, Normaltown and Cobbham. Check website for schedule. Oct. 10. www. historicathens.com JACK-O-LANTERN JOG AND GOBLIN FUN RUN (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Run or walk in the annual one-mile fun run or 5K race to benefit Sandy Creek Nature Center Inc. Costumes encouraged. Oct. 17, 2 p.m. (fun run), 2:30 p.m. (5K). www.active.com LOVE.CRAFT SHOWROOM (Love.

Craft Athens) Love.Craft will feature a rotating group of community artists each month. October features Marmalade Pottery, Hannah Betzel, Daughters of Liberte Vintage and Love.Craft’s resident artists. Oct. 17, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. www.lovecraft athens.org MARIGOLD MARKET (Pittard Park, Winterville) Vendors 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 OCONEE CO. LIBRARY EVENTS (Oconee Co. Library) “Trek & Connect” is an all-ages light trek at a local park. The group meets Oct. 11 at Oconee Veteran’s Park. Classic City Vibes podcast interviews Beto Cacao (Oct. 2), Gypsy Farm (Oct. 12), Shane Parish (Oct. 19) and Montu Miller (Oct. 26). www.athens library.org THE ODD COUPLE (FEMALE VERSION) (The Elbert Theatre) This twist on Neil Simon’s classic comedy follows a pair of unlikely roommates who couldn’t be more opposite in temperament and character. Oct. Oct. 8–9, 7 p.m. Oct. 10, 2 p.m. $9-16. 706-283-1049, tking@cityofelberton.net PARKTOBERFEST (Paloma Park) Enjoy German cuisine and sports on the JumboTron in the outdoor beer garden. Admission includes a T-shirt and five beers per day. Oct. 9–10. $30 (one-day), $40 (twoday). Venmo @Paloma-Park with your T-shirt size PUBLIC ART DEDICATION (Whitehall Roundabout) See the new 15-foot sculpture “Phyllotaxis” by local artist Joni Younkins-Herzog.

Oct. 15, 10:30 a.m. www.athens culturalaffairs.com RABBIT BOX STORYTELLING (VFW) In Partnership with One Book Athens and other local non-profits, Rabbit Box will present Stamped: Stories of Racism and Antiracism.

Dr. Freda Scott Giles, Professor Emerita in Theater and African-American Studies at UGA, will emcee the show. Storytellers will be Pastor Clarence Pope, one of the first Black football players at UGA; poet Celest Ngeve, the director of Rutland Academy; Fred O. Smith,

Sr. executive director of the East Athens Development Corporation, Mykeisha Ross, founder of the nonprofit Youth is Life; Connie Crawley, a registered dietitian at Mercy Clinic; actress and spoken word artist Nicole Clay; and community activist and educator Chaplain Cole Knapper, an Army veteran. Oct. 19, 7 p.m. $7–10. www.rabbitbox.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. reallyreallyfree marketathens@gmail.com

WASHINGTON FARMS FALL SEASON (Washington Farms, Bogart) Activities and attractions include a corn maze, pumpkin patch, sunflower field, jumping pillows, cow train, petting zoo, zip lines, grain train, inflatables, bounce house, human foosball, jump pad, vortex tunnel, ropes course and more.

Every weekend Sept. 25–Nov. 7. 10 a.m.–10:30 p.m. $16. www.washingtonfarms.net WEDDING CRASHERS FUNDRAISER (Madison-Morgan Cultural Center) Make up for all the weddings you couldn’t attend due to COVID. This wedding-themed night

Currently on view through January, “Inside Look: Selected Acquisitions from the Georgia Museum of Art” shares previously unseen works of art, including the above piece by Miriam Schapiro, from the museum’s collection of over 17,000 objects.

RIVERS ALIVE (Multiple Locations) Wade into local rivers, lakes and streams as part of the statewide campaign to clean and preserve over 70,000 miles of Georgia’s waterways. Register online. Oct. 23, 9–11 a.m. FREE! www.accgov.com/ riversalive 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 SUNDAY FUNDAY (Rabbit Hole Studios) Every Sunday from 5-7 p.m., join the White Rabbit Collective for a free drum circle outside of Ben and Jerry’s on College Avenue.

Some instruments are provided but guests are encouraged to bring their own drums and rattles! An afterparty at Rabbit Hole Studios from 7:30 p.m.–12 a.m. offers space for playing drums, singing songs, playing ping pong and board games, reading books, doing yoga, making art and more. Donations accepted.

Memberships offering access to the musical museum and private lounge are also available for $16/ month. www.rabbitholestudios.org THREE PALACES OF YALTA (440 Foundry Pavilion) Enjoy a performance set in February 1945 in the Crimean resort town of Yalta, where World World II is drawing to a bloody conclusion and the armies of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich are being driven back on all fronts to Berlin. Oct. 14, 6:45–9 p.m. FREE! www.athenschq.org UUFA VIRTUAL FORUM (Online) “What is CBD? Everything You Need to Know,” presented by CBD store owner Jackie Parker. Oct. 10, 9:30 a.m. FREE! www.uuathensga.org/ stay-connected

includes heavy hor d’oeuvres, open beer, wine and champagne bar, and live music by Atlanta Rhythm and Groove. Oct. 21, 7–10 p.m. $100. www.mmcc-arts.org 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 ZOMBIE FARMS (568 Smithonia Rd., Winterville) Walk through dark and spooky woods filled with creepy characters. Fridays and Saturdays through October, 8–10:45 p.m. $20–25. www.zombiefarms.com

Kidstuff ART CARD CLUB (K.A. Artist Shop) Katy Lipscomb and Tyler Fisher lead weekly gatherings to create, trade and exhibit miniature masterpieces the size of playing cards. Some materials provided, but participants can bring their own as well. The club meets on Fridays, 4:30–6 p.m. (ages 10–12) and 6:30–8 p.m. (ages 13–17). www.kaartist.com BOGART LIBRARY EVENTS (Bogart Library) “Monday Funday: Mystery!

Mystery!” for ages 2–6 is held Oct. 11 at 10 a.m. “Monday Funday: AAAH! Theres a Monster in My Book!” for ages 2–6 is held Oct. 18 at 10 a.m. “Writeen Club” for grades 6–12 is held Oct. 19 at 6 p.m. www.athenslibrary.org/bogart FALL FESTIVAL (St. Joseph Catholic Parish School) Attractions include games, a bouncy house, hayrides, dunking booth, food trucks, UGA Hairy Dawg, music and more.

Oct. 22, 2–6 p.m. $7.50. www. sjsathens.org FAMILY NATURE PROGRAMS (Sandy Creek Nature Center) “Nat-

uralist’s Walk” is held Nov. 6 from 10–11 a.m. “Nature’s Trading Post” is held Nov. 6 from 11 a.m.–12 p.m. “Critter Tales” are scheduled for Oct. 9 and Nov. 13 at 2:30 p.m. www.accgov.com/sandycreek naturecenter JOURNEY THROUGH THE STARS (Sandy Creek Nature Center) “Fall Sky: Spooky Skies” discusses blood moons and monsters in the sky. Oct. 16, 10 a.m. “Planetary Fun” celebrates animals and mythical creatures in the sky. Nov. 20, 10 a.m. $2–3. 706-613-3615 MAKING DANCES (Work.Shop) This alternative dance class teaches improvisation and choreography techniques. For ages 10–14. Taught

by Lisa Yaconelli. Tuesdays, 6:15– 7:30 p.m. $60/month, $210/14 weeks. lisayaconelli@gmail.com, www.lisayaconelli.com OCONEE CO. LIBRARY EVENTS (Oconee Co. Library) “Storytime in the Park” is held Tuesdays through October at 11 a.m. at Harris Shoals Park. “Harry Potter Potions Class” is held Oct. 6 at 6 p.m. “Dungeons & Dragons” is held Oct. 18 at 6 p.m. “Special FX and Fake Wound Makeup” is held Oct. 20 at 6 p.m.

Anime Club is held Oct. 25 at 6 p.m. Zombie Prom is held Oct. 27 at 6 p.m. www.athenslibrary.org OMNI ALLSTARS (Omni Allstars Elite Cheer & Tumbling) Tryout for the half year season and learn the basics of cheerleading. Oct. 23, 6 p.m. $25. omniallstars@gmail. com, www.omniallstarcheer.com TEEN CLUBS (Lyndon House Arts Center) “Teen Media Arts Club” covers how to make and edit videos. Tuesdays, 5–7 p.m. “Teen Fashion Design/Sewing Club” is led by local designer Tabitha Fielteau.

Tuesdays, 5:30–7:30 p.m. “Teen Cartoon/Illustrator’s Club” covers drawing techniques, storytelling, anime and more. Thursdays, 5:30–7:30 p.m. www.accgov.com/ myrec TINY TALES AT THE ZOO (Bear Hollow Zoo, Memorial Park) In-person stories, crafts and animal encounters for ages 0–6 years. Registration required. Mondays through Nov. 15, 10:30–11:30 a.m. $3–4.50.

706-613-3580 TRUNK-OR-TREATING (Omni Allstars Elite Cheer & Tumbling) Bring your best costume and a bag for treats to this family-friendly event.

Oct. 21, 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-4310113, www.omniallstarcheer.com VIDEO GAME NIGHT (Lay Park) Play the latest video games during tournament style play and free play. For ages 11–17. Registration required.

Mondays through Dec. 13, 6–7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3596

Support Groups FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP (ACC Library, Classroom A) Alzheimer’s Association Georgia presents a support group conducted by trained facilitators that is a safe place for those living with dementia and their caregiver to develop a support system. First Wednesday of every month, 6–7:30 p.m. 706206-6163, www.alz.org/georgia 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 MINDFUL LIVING (Heart Stone Therapeutic Healing) A five-week, in-person psychotherapy group to build self-care and mindfulness practices. RSVP by Oct 7. Thursdays, Oct. 14–Nov. 11, 10:30–

11:30 a.m. $35/session. brianna@ heartstoneth.com PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP (First Baptist Church) This group is to encourage, support and share information with fellow sojourners who manage the challenges of Parkinson’s disease or other movement disorders. Second Friday of every month, 1 p.m. gpnoblet@ bellsouth.net RECOVERY DHARMA (Recovery Dharma) This peer-led support group offers a Buddhist-inspired path to recovery from any addiction. Visit the website for details.

Thursdays, 6–7 p.m. FREE! www. athensrecoverydharma.org RESTORING RESILIENCE (Heart Stone Therapeutic Healing) A fiveweek, in-person resource building psychoeducational support group for trauma survivors. RSVP by Oct. 5. Tuesdays, Oct. 12–Nov. 9, 10–10:50 a.m. $35/group session. brianna@heartstoneth.com

Word on the Street ATHENS TO SAVANNAH RIDE (Begins at Jittery Joe’s Roaster) Participate in a three-day, 285-mile road ride from Athens to Savannah to raise awareness for the proposed Georgia Hi-Lo Trail. The route runs Athens to Tennille (106 miles) on Oct. 22, Sandersville to Statesboro (102 miles) on Oct. 23 and Statesboro to Savannah (77 miles) on Oct. 24. $95. www.athensto savannah.com 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.

Programs include tai chi, baton, youth cooking classes, gymnastics, nature programs, theater and more.

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. www.publichealthisfor everyone.com GAMECHANGERS (Athens, GA) The Athens Area Chamber of Commerce is organizing an initiative to raise the profile of 10 young community leaders under the age of 40. Nomination deadline is Oct. 22. www. athensga.com GET LIBRARY CAREDED (Multiple Locations) In support of Library Card Sign Up Month this September, 30 local businesses are offering discounts and promotions to customers who present their library card at checkout. Visit the website for a list of participating locations. www.athenslibrary.org 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. Oct. 11 & 25; Nov. 1, 15 & 29. 706-2271515 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 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 f

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REAL ESTATE HOUSES FOR RENT Available now. 3BR/2BA in Normaltown. HWflrs., CHAC, quiet street. Grad students preferred or couples plus one.

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MUSIC SERVICES Instant cash is now being paid for good vinyl records & CDs in fine condition. Wuxtry Records, at corner of Clayton & College Dwntn. 706-3699428.

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YARD SALES Huge estate/yard sale!

Fri. 10/8–Sat. 10/9, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. 230 Beech Creek Rd. Athens, GA 30606

CLASSES Adult Acrylic or Watercolor classes with professional artist in private studio. One-on-one or small groups. All levels welcome. Students provide their own supplies. laurenpaintspaintings@gmail.com, 404-913-3597

MUSIC INSTRUCTION Athens School of Music. Now offering in-person and online instruction in guitar, bass, drums, piano, voice, brass, woodwinds, strings, banjo, mandolin and more. From beginner to expert, all styles.

Visit www.athensschoolofmusic.com, 706-543-5800.

CLEANING Housekeeping and window washing. Deep cleaning, general cleaning, interior and exterior windows. Get a free quote!

Contact Miles Bunch at 469428-2490.

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Need your home or business cleaned? I clean homes and rentals in Athens and surrounding areas! Free estimates.

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HEALTH HYPNOSIS: Smoking, stress, medical issues. Harvard trained, nationally certified. 678-8954278, jimhilton911@yahoo.com, www.hiltonhypnosis.webs.com.

HOME AND GARDEN Plumber Pro Service & Drain.

Upfront pricing. Free estimates. $30 Flagpole discount. Call 706-769-7761. Same-day service available. www.plumber proservice.com

INSURANCE Business, auto, life, home and renters insurance. GA #774914. 706-367-9199, www. berbowerins.com

JOBS FULL-TIME Athens digital marketing agency seeks organized, detail-oriented Marketing Operations Coordinator.

More info at: lightmarkmedia. com/job Five Points Bottle Shop is now hiring! Apply at fivepoints bottleshop.com/about/careers/

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Individual Real Estate Business (RTS) Run-‘Til-Sold** Online Only***

Join the nation’s leading mobile dictation service and learn to be a transcriptionist!

No customer interaction! Work independently, set your own weekday schedule (16–40 hours weekly). We have a relaxed, casual, safe space environment. Compensation automatically increases as you gain proficiency. Extremely flexible time-off arrangements with advance notice. Experience our eight-tiered training program with bonuses after each tier.

So your starting compensation will range from $9.25 to $10.80 hourly based on individual performance. After approx. threemonth training, your compensation should exceed training pay and you’ll receive automatic increases for tenure with the company, efficiency, etc.

Show proof of vaccination at hire. www.ctscribes.com Local law firm seeks full-time legal assistant. Must have excellent customer service and organizational skills. Job requirements include client intake, filing and other clerical tasks. Email resume to carol@ weemspc.com Line cooks needed! Big City Bread Cafe & Little City Diner are now hiring line cooks for daytime hours. Experienced preferred but not required. Stop by after lunch to fill out an application or drop off a resume. No phone calls, please.

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Northside & Westside Bottle Shops are now hiring!

Apply at bottleshopathens.com/ employment-application/ Sabor Latino is NOW HIRING for all part-time and full-time positions at new location! Apply in person 1550 Oglethorpe Ave. Taste of India is now hiring!

(Busser, host, floater team member.) Competitive pay, paid weekly, employee meals, flexible schedules, full-time or part-time, no experience needed. $12–15. APPLY IN PERSON. UberPrints is now hiring for multiple positions! Both full and part-time positions available.

For more information and applications, go to uberprints.com/ company/jobs White Tiger is now hiring kitchen staff! No experience necessary, proof of vaccination required. Email resume to catering@whitetigergourmet. com

PART-TIME Athens Land Trust is seeking proposals for a one-year contract for maintenance and turnkey services. Contractors must have liability and worker's compensation insurance. Interested parties should call Cary Ritzler at 706-613-0122 or email cary@athenslandtrust.org. Proposals are due by 4 p.m. on October 29th.

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Visit athenspets.net to view all the cats and dogs available at the shelter

$10 per week $14 per week $16 per week $40 per 12 weeks $5 per week

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Dakota (56181)

Dakota’s still the same mildmannered sweetheart waiting for a place to call home. He enjoys playing around outside, but there’s nothing like chilling out with a friend for Dakota!

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Kilo just wants to find her best friend! This girl loves to play and rest in the sun or indoors with a pal. Call the shelter for more on Kilo (and maybe schedule a visit with her too!)

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Pippen’s the full package! He loves playing games of catch, chasing toys, is housetrained and even knows a few commands.

What more can you ask for in a furry friend?

These pets and many others are available for adoption at: • Deadline to place ads is 11:00 a.m. every Monday for the following Wednesday issue • All ads must be prepaid

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Experienced kitchen help needed. Bring resume or fill out an application at George's Lowcountry Table. No phone calls please. 420 Macon Hwy. Athens, GA 30606 Mike Wheeler Landscape.

Landscaping/gardening positions available. Good pay w/ experience. Part-time. Flexible hours. Call Mike Wheeler: 706202-0585, mwwheeler1963@ gmail.com Soda Fountain Manager: Independent pharmacy seeking an individual with foodservice experience, ServSafe certification or ability to become certified shortly after hiring and strong customer service skills.

Must pass a background check.

Mon–Fri, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. and closed for all major holidays.

Jennings Mill Drug Company on Facebook to apply or send a resume to jmdcrx@gmail.com.

Viva Argentine is looking for a few nice hardworking folks to be part of the team! Competitive hourly wages for all positions. $10/hr. training, $12/ hr. hosting and kitchen, $5/hr. + tips servers (must be 18+).

Please email resumes to viva argentinecuisine@gmail.com

NOTICES MESSAGES All Georgians over the age of 12 are eligible to be vaccinated! Call 888457-0186 or go to www.public healthathens.com for info.

COVID testing in Athens available at 3500 Atlanta Hwy. (Old Fire Station near Aldi and Publix.) Mon–Fri. 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. To register, call 844-625-6522 or go to www. publichealthathens.com

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Cali-n-Tito's is hiring amazing people! Looking for kitchen staff and servers. Bilingual helpful, but not required.

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Athens-Clarke County Animal Services 125 Buddy Christian Way · 706-613-3540 Call for appointment

Mobile Food Pantry @ General Time Athens!

Athens Terrapin Beer Co. alongside Food Bank of Northeast Georgia and various local sponsors will host a drive-thru food pantry on the 3rd Monday of each month thru 2021. All ACC residents that meet income requirements may attend.

First come, first served. This event will take place outside rain or shine. 100 Newton Bridge Rd. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com

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Trick or Treat yourself to a clean House!

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