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By Blake Aued and Jessica Luton news@flagpole.com Three of Mayor Kelly Girtz’s challengers offered few policy specifics at the first mayoral forum of 2022, held at the AthensClarke County Library on Apr. 9 and organized by the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement. Bennie Coleman III, Mykeisha Ross and Pearl Hall shared the stage with Girtz, while Fred Moorman and Mara Zúñiga did not attend. All three said they were running to bring unity to the city. At a relatively friendly and low-key affair, they did not say much to challenge Girtz on issues like affordable housing, nor did Girtz opt to spar with any of them. “We know in Athens, like every other vibrant community, we have an affordable housing crisis, and the crisis has many layers,” Girtz said. Part of the problem, he said, is that housing construction is not keeping up with population growth. He pointed to the newly passed inclusionary zoning policy offering developers incentives to build low-income housing, as well as $44 million in SPLOST and $11 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds set aside for affordable housing. Both are proportionately the highest of any community in Georgia, according to Girtz. As with several other issues, Ross said

she would look to comparable communities for solutions and pledged to take action. $1,400 a month per bedroom is not affordable, she said. Coleman blamed contractors’ greed and touted manufactured homes as a solution. He said he would create a community of manufactured homes with rent capped at $500 a month. This could be done quickly, he emphasized. “We need something right now, at this moment,” he said. Hall also said there is a shortage of housing, and pondered the definition of affordable. “This is a hard question for me, because I don’t know what is affordable housing,” she said. “Where you live is affordable if you can afford to live there.” At times, the challengers sounded more like they were running for school board than mayor. “I’d overhaul the whole school system,” Coleman said at one point. “Fire them all.” Hall discussed behavioral problems in schools and said that parents often call on her to set their teenagers straight. “If you have a child that’s unruly, I’ll see about them,” she said, drawing chuckles from the audience. In response to a question about the city budget, Ross said she would give teachers

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a raise, even though teachers work for the Clarke County School District, which is independent from the Athens-Clarke County government. In terms of the budget, Ross said her issue is not so much with the budget itself, but who is implementing the budget. She said she would “clean up the leadership” and fire Manager Blaine Williams. “I don’t know if he has the vision the community wants,” she said. (Firing the manager would also require commission approval.) Ross also proposed a resource hub to direct residents to services. Coleman said he would make sure the roads are paved. The 66-year-old added that he would listen to input from constitu-

ents—but only by phone. “Please don’t get on the internet,” he said. “I refuse to deal with email.” Hall said she would spend more money on seniors and establish a fund to help residents pay their rent and buy groceries. “We need to take care of the people in this town,” she said. Girtz, who will be releasing his 2023 budget proposal later this month, ticked off several priorities: support for youth and seniors, transitioning to clean energy, safer streets, and improving bike infrastructure and transit. A forum sponsored by Historic Athens was scheduled for Apr. 11; check flagpole. com for a recap. Future forums include one

sponsored by the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce on Apr. 18 at 6:30 p.m. in the John Drew Auditorium at Piedmont Athens Regional, and a Red & Black forum Monday, May 2 at Ciné, tentatively scheduled for 5–7 p.m. [Blake Aued]

Affordable Housing Policy Approved The Athens-Clarke County Commission approved a policy last week offering incentives to multi-family developers who build affordable housing. Known as inclusionary zoning, the policy grants density bonuses and eases parking requirements for developers who set aside a certain number of units for low-income residents. The density bonuses are on a sliding scale based on the property’s zoning and the level of income. Parking could be reduced by 20%. And in the downtown zone, developers would be able to build less ground-floor commercial space, replacing it with more lucrative apartments. “I am eager to see this implemented,” Commissioner Melissa Link said. “I think this is, quite honestly, something we should have drafted up eight or 10 years ago. We lost a lot of opportunities in this student housing boom to get some affordable housing.” Link also called on the University of Georgia to build more student housing, blaming much of the spike in housing prices on UGA’s ever-increasing enrollment. She also asked Mayor Kelly Girtz to appoint a committee to explore density in single-family zones. Girtz said the Inclusionary Housing Working Group—which includes commissioners Mariah Parker and Tim Denson, planning commissioners Alice Kinman and Matt Hall, Athens Housing Authority Executive Director Rick Parker and Athens Land Trust Executive Director Heather Benham—will be working on that issue. The meeting clocked in at just an hour, and the inclusionary zoning vote was a rare show of unity for a commission that has often been at loggerheads lately, culminating when three commissioners— Mike Hamby, Allison Wright and Ovita Thornton—expressed a preference for a new district map that ousted progressive colleagues Link, Russell Edwards and Tim Denson. “There may be other initiatives, but this is the one that rises to the top, that’s something that brings us together,” Thornton said. “This, to me, is what progressive looks like.” [BA]

Tax Break for Homeowners? Athens voters will decide in November whether to lower property taxes for homeowners, assuming Gov. Brian Kemp signs a bill that passed the General Assembly. House Bill 797 would increase Clarke County’s homestead exemption—already one of the highest in the state—from $10,000 to $25,000. For owner-occupied homes, the exemption is deducted from 40% of the assessed value of the home. The owner of a $200,000 home, for example, would pay taxes on $25,000 rather than $40,000 if the measure is approved, saving the homeowner about $200. The increased homestead exemption would only apply to ACC taxes; it would remain at $10,000 for Clarke County School District taxes. ACC commissioners originally requested a property-tax freeze for low-income home-

owners that would keep their assessed values the same until they sold the property. That’s still included for homeowners whose income is less than 200% of the poverty line, but the county’s Republican legislators also added the higher homestead exemption for all Clarke County homeowners. “Property valuations have gone up significantly,” said state Rep. Houston Gaines (R-Athens). “I’ve heard from constituents facing issues maintaining their homes.” The bill failed to gain traction during last year’s session, but gained momentum as this year’s session came to a close, passing the House on Mar. 29 and the Senate Apr. 1, one working day before the legislature adjourned for the year. Kemp will presumably sign it, as he does for nearly all local legislation of this nature. Although the idea originally came from the county commission, Mayor Kelly Girtz wound up opposing the final version of the bill because it would cost ACC an estimated $3.2 million in revenue. If the commission were to raise the millage rate to make up for the lost revenue, it would put more of the burden on businesses and owners of residential and commercial property, who could pass it on to their tenants. But with the county tax digest growing at a 6–7% clip annually, Gaines said he sees no reason for the commission to raise the tax rate, especially with a $60 million influx of federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act. “The county is just going to have a smaller increase in revenue,” he said. Another bill Gaines co-sponsored empowers the Classic Center Authority to display items formerly housed at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in Macon at the new Classic Center arena. The hall’s memorabilia has been in storage at the UGA Special Collections Libraries since the museum shuttered in 2011 due to low attendance. The legislature also passed a bill eliminating “free speech zones” at colleges and universities, meaning the Tate preachers would no longer be restricted to Tate Plaza (or two other free speech zones at Memorial Plaza and the Miller Learning Center’s Northwest Lawn). Evangelical street preachers occasionally gather outside the Tate Student Center to proselytize, offending students with their sexist and homophobic statements. [BA]

the GBI to assist his office’s 22 investigators in auditing Cobb County’s absentee ballots. Those investigators found just two signature mismatches out of 15,000 ballots, Raffensperger said, both because someone signed a ballot for their spouse. He also knocked down other right-wing conspiracy theories about the election, won narrowly by President Joe Biden, noting that investigations found that just four dead people and about 70 felons had voted illegally, and that Donald Trump’s top lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, doctored video of vote counting at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. The GBI, FBI and Bobby Christine, Trump’s hand-picked U.S. attorney, all investigated and found no wrongdoing. “There’s all this disinformation, but here’s what happened: 28,000 voters skipped the presidential election and voted down-ballot,” Raffensperger said, laying the blame for Trump’s defeat at the feet of his campaign. He also criticized Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams for contesting the election results in 2018. “Maybe campaign consultants need to quit finding scapegoats and accept the fact that their campaign came up short,” he said. The ex-president famously pressured Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes” to tip Georgia to Trump. Raffensperger said it was not hard to find the courage to resist. “It’s not exciting—I’m sorry, I’m an engineer— but my job is to follow the law, follow the Constitution,” he said. Since then, Trump has been on a “revenge tour,” holding a rally in Commerce last month to promote Gov. Brian Kemp’s Republican opponent, former Sen. David Perdue, as well as U.S. Rep. Jody Hice, who’s running against Raffensperger on a platform of promoting the lie that the election was stolen. While Democrats have lauded Raffensperger for standing up to Trump, the secretary of state has also vexed them by supporting SB 202, which critics say could chill voter turnout by requiring photo ID to vote by mail, limiting drop boxes and prohibiting passing out food and water to voters in line. Raffensperger said those regulations will promote election security and restore confidence in elections. A pro-

vision allowing the state to oust local elections boards, he said, was aimed at Fulton County, which has had frequent election problems for decades. Raffensperger also said his office is currently investigating potential “ballot harvesting” at drop boxes—the illegal practice of collecting ballots from multiple voters and turning them in. Raffensperger also said the country needs more organizations like chambers of commerce and rotary clubs to bring people together to work toward common interests. “It’s really simple how we fix society,” he said. “We have to get back to the values our parents raised us by.” [BA]

COVID Numbers Stay Low Clarke County’s COVID-19 numbers remained low again last week, with a seven-day running average of 2.3 new cases daily as of Apr. 8, and just 20 new cases for the week. To date, there have been 26,193 confirmed cases in Clarke County. Eight Clarke County residents were hospitalized with COVID-19 last week, for a total of 1,172 hospitalizations. One Clarke County resident died of the virus last week, bringing the total to at least 216. Just eight patients, or 1.3%, of all hospital patients in the region, were hospitalized for COVID-19 as of Apr. 8. Intensive care units were at 84% capacity last week, with 59 ICU beds occupied in the region. According to UGA professor Erin Lipp’s wastewater lab report for last week, viral levels in the wastewater “remain stable and low, at the bottom 13th percentile of all samples analyzed to date.” On the vaccination front, 84 Clarke County residents received a first dose and 85 residents were fully vaccinated last week. To date 53% of residents have received at least one dose, 49% have been fully vaccinated and 25% have received a booster. Among children, 27% ages 5–9, 45% of ages 10–14 and 26% of ages 14–19 have received at least one dose. At UGA for the week of Mar. 28, 74 doses were administered. Positive tests increased slightly to 24 from 13 the week prior. [Jessica Luton] f

Secretary of State Defends Election Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger supports a last-minute bill the legislature passed giving the Georgia Bureau of Investigations jurisdiction over election fraud allegations, he said at an Athens Area Chamber of Commerce event Apr. 7. On the heels of last year’s controversial Senate Bill 202, legislators this year considered more election regulations, including allowing anyone to inspect paper ballots. But a Senate committee stripped House Bill 1464, leaving only a provision allowing people to take a two-hour break to vote early. In the waning hours of the legislative session’s last day Apr. 4, House and Senate lawmakers agreed to reinsert the provision giving the GBI jurisdiction over election fraud. Opponents have called the bill an effort to intimidate voters away from the polls. In a breakfast speech at the Athens Country Club, Raffensperger said he welcomes the GBI’s involvement. In the aftermath of the tightly contested 2020 election, he called in

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opens the door for the Georgia High School Association to create policies that would ban transgender women from competing in public high school athletics. House lawmakers pushed back against Senate legislation that originally banned schools themselves from competing against other schools that allow transgender women to participate. House Speaker David Ralston (R-Blue Ridge) said lawmakers put the decision in the hands of Georgia High School Association leadership. “We’re not targeting them, because it’ll be a GHSA determination,” he said after the House adjourned. “I’m gonna communicate to them that I don’t want them targeted.”

a 39-page bill that included various provisions that changed what state agencies could investigate election fraud claims, gave the public access to inspect paper ballots and added security procedures elections officials called burdensome and unnecessary. But the final election change that passed only gave the Georgia Bureau of Investigation original jurisdiction to investigate election law violations.

ime is up this year for Georgia legislaacross the state. tors to shepherd their bills across the “Today, hope won,” Ralston said two finish line before the gavel fell for the last weeks ago, after the final vote in the House. time to end the 2022 legislative session. “Countless Georgians will know we’ve heard Kemp included two pieces of legislation House and Senate lawmakers adjourned their despair and frustration.” related to the COVID-19 pandemic among “Sine Die” around midnight Apr. 4, after In a show of support, Kemp, flanked by his flurry of legislative priorities for the considering hundreds of bills over the past legislative leaders, signed the bill into law session. three months. A grueling floor and commit- during a massive ceremony on Sine Die. Passed and already signed into law, tee meeting schedule kept lawmakers busy Along with HB 1013, legislators unanthe Unmask Georgia Students Act allows for the past 40 legislative days. A few bright imously passed Senate Bill 403, which Education policy took center stage in the parents to opt their child out of school spots were sprinkled in between—like the creates a statewide framework for mental district mask policies, essentially renderopportunity to pose for photos with both health professionals to act as co-responders bitter partisan battles on full display this ing mask mandates within classrooms the Major League Baseball World Series and with law enforcement officers on crisis calls. session. Republican lawmakers launched a series of efforts to ban “critical race theory” unenforceable. Most Georgia schools have College Football National Championship from K-12 classrooms—although it is not already done away with mask mandates trophies. taught in any of those Georgia schools. as infection rates have declined. The law By late in the evening, significant and Legislators passed HB 1084, which bans goes into effect immediately and runs until often controversial pieces of legislation Among Kemp’s legislative priorities was a list of “divisive concepts” from classroom June 2027. The governor, in conjunction hadn’t yet emerged for debate. Chambers a measure that would allow Georgians to discussions that GOP lawmakers define as with the Department of Public Health, has batted back and forth over the scope of carry a concealed handgun in public witha variety of ideas regarding race. Educators the authority to supersede it during public the proposed tax cut, were sent to confer out first obtaining a weapons carry license. decried the measure as an “attack” on teach- health emergencies. on how to address the state’s medical marKnown as permitless or “constitutional” ers, who faced extreme hardships during Lawmakers also backed a measure that ijuana lock jam and still hadn’t taken on carry, SB 319 allows individuals who are the pandemic. bans so-called “vaccine passports.” The next year’s $30 billion budget. Legislators bill prohibits any state agency, local eventually found common ground on government or school from requiring tax cuts and the state’s spending plan, anyone to get a COVID-19 vaccinaamong other big ticket items. tion. The stipulation does not apply Gov. Brian Kemp made an appearto hospitals or medical facilities and ance in both chambers around 8 p.m. expires June 2023. and had one message for lawmakers: Your work for the night is not done. The Republican urged passage of legislation that bans transgender athletes from high school sports and limits For some high-profile legislators, it discussions around race in classwas their last session under the Gold rooms. A last-minute amendment to Dome. a bill gave the Georgia High School Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan is not Athletic Association the authority to seeking re-election after serving one create policies surrounding transgenterm. The Republican became an der girls’ participation in athletics. unlikely and prominent critic of forNot everything made the final mer President Donald Trump and the gavel before lawmakers dispersed direction of the party after the 2020 for their hometowns across the state election. for a well-deserved offseason. To the During his farewell speech, dismay of advocates, lawmakers failed Duncan continued to urge lawmakto agree on a solution to the medical ers to put “policy over politics.” He marijuana licensing issues. A constidescribed how his family endured the tutional amendment to legalize sports House lawmakers toss paper into the air on Apr. 4, the last day of the 2022 legislative session, a tradition when the unrelenting attacks against him by betting in Georgia also faltered. A chamber adjourns Sine Die, Latin for “without a day” to reconvene. the former president and his supportcontroversial bill that would ban the ers. “I believe, now more than ever, mailing of abortion-inducing drugs Lawmakers also moved to increase that doing the right thing will never be the without seeing a medical provider in person already legally able to have a firearm to carry their weapon in public without first parents’ oversight of what their student is wrong thing,” he said. also failed to get a final vote. going through the licensing process. being taught in their classroom. HB 1178 On the last day, lawmakers on both sides Here are what bills are on their way to Proponents said that the bill simply does codifies into law a process for parents to of the aisle honored the Dean of the House, the governor’s desk—or already have his away with extra paperwork for Georgia gun request and review weeks of lesson plans Columbus Rep. Calvin Smyre, who has been signature. owners. But critics said it eliminates one of from their child’s teacher—a process that nominated by President Joe Biden to serve the few background checks Georgia has on educators testified already exists within as the U.S. ambassador to the Dominican the books and would let dangerous crimischool districts. Under the bill, parents have Republic. The 74-year-old Democrat was nals slip through the cracks at a time when the right to review classroom materials and praised as a skilled negotiator and dedicated Hailed as the most significant legislation gun violence is at a high. An analysis conthe right to opt their child out of all sex public servant who was instrumental in passed this session, lawmakers unaniducted by GPB News found that almost all education courses. Educators testified that passing historic legislation—including last mously passed House Bill 1013, a substanGeorgia counties have over a 90% approval parents already have access to curricula, but session’s hate crimes law. tial mental health reform package that aims rating for concealed carry applications. teachers often have to make changes based “For the past 48 years, I have worn this to create parity across treatment and insuron the needs of students. name badge as a badge of honor,” Smyre ance coverage. said. “Over the years, I’ve had many many The Mental Health Parity Act was chamleadership positions and titles, but being pioned by House Speaker David Ralston, called Dean of this house, while it is the In a last-minute amendment, Georgia who has said that mental health treatment least of power, it is the one I admire the After passing SB 202, a sweeping eleclegislators passed a weaker version of an in Georgia has far been inadequate. The most.” f tion law that came under intense scrutiny earlier measure that sought to ban transfinal bill requires insurance providers to in 2021, this year lawmakers settled on only This story comes to Flagpole through a reporting gender athletes from women’s sports. New cover mental health diagnosis on par with partnership with GPB News, a nonprofit newsroom one minor change to the election process. language added to HB 1084, which deals physical conditions. It also aims to increase covering the state of Georgia. House lawmakers originally introduced with “divisive concepts” taught in schools, the number of mental health professionals

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Commission District 3 ASIA THOMAS AND TIFFANY TAYLOR VIE FOR OPEN SEAT

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ne thing is certain in the race for the Information Systems Office—63.9% District 3 seat on the Athens-Clarke minority. Only District 9, where Ovita County Commission: The winning candidate Thornton is running unopposed, has a will be a young woman new to elected office higher minority population, at 64.7%, who brings an entrepreneurial spirit and a according to the GIS office. focus on youth development. Thomas, who calls herself “Asia the Both Asia J. Thomas, 33, and Tiffany Advocate,” was born in Athens and attended Taylor, 34, launched new nonprofits last public schools in Oconee and Clarke counyear focused on youth development, and ties, including Cedar Shoals High School, the two Athens natives say they want to before graduating from South Gwinnett make youth development a priority if they High School and then earning a degree from win the May 24 nonpartisan election for the University of North Georgia in 2016 the post. with a major in communications with orgaThe District 3 one of them will represent nizational leadership. when new terms begin in 2023 is quite a bit different than the old District 3, obliterated as Republican legislators drew up new district maps that made three incumbent progressive commissioners ineligible to run because they now live outside their odd-numbered districts’ boundaries, including District 3 incumbent Melissa Link. The old District 3 was one of Athens-Clarke’s most densely populated districts, in the north-central part of the city and including downtown, Cobbham, Boulevard and part of Normaltown. The new District 3 is much larger geographically, taking in much of the eastern part of Athens-Clarke that had been District 1, currently represented by Patrick Davenport. The new District 3 includes Winterville and surroundAsia J. Thomas ing rural areas on its eastern border with Madison and Oglethorpe counties, as well as parts of predominantly Black Taylor is also a Cedar Shoals graduEast Athens. ate, born and raised in Athens, she said, The new District 3 has the second-highand attended Hilsman Middle School est minority population of the 10 Athensand Gaines and Fowler Drive elementary Clarke commission districts, according schools. Taylor entered the race not just for to the Athens-Clarke County Geographic herself, but for friends and young women

who grew up in the same East Athens neighborhoods she did, she told WUGA-FM interviewer Chris Shupe in a March interview. “We have something to say,” Taylor said. “I decided to run, and I know this sounds cliche, but I absolutely want to see a change in my neighborhood.” Strengthening connections between police and neighborhoods helps curb gang violence, another big issue in her part of the community, according to Taylor. “I feel like my community is being overpoliced,” she said.

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She also sees her neighborhood being eroded by skyrocketing real estate prices. “Things are getting so high, it’s pushing all the residents out,” Taylor said. “Our boys will never know our neighborhood.” Affordable housing is a community crisis with no easy answer, she said. “It’s going to take all of us sitting down at the table and putting our heads together,” Taylor said. Like Taylor, Thomas is a strong advocate for mentoring young men. In an interview on WGAU broadcaster Tim Bryant’s TimPossible podcast, she said the local

government should consider supporting a peer mentor program, and should explore the possibility of paying people to be mentors. “Someone in life they can look up to,” Thomas told Flagpole, “being able to show them that they don’t have to be a product of their environment, but they have the opportunity to dream, to be successful.” Thomas last year incorporated a nonprofit called United Community Outreach, focused on “unity, civic engagement, being a bridge to resources and youth development and programs,” she said. She also launched a real estate company, Land on Land. Thomas would work to get different parts of the community working together on community problems, including the affordable housing crisis, she said. “Our community is bigger than downtown and UGA,” she said. “A lot of neighborhoods are dealing with harsh conditions.” Thomas lists three bullet points on her campaign website: economic development, youth outreach and community engagement. She wants to see more people in her district become engaged with their local government. Like her opponent, Thomas would like to foster a better relationship between police and the community, she said. She’d like to build better relations generally in the community, she said. “I’m really about building a bridge instead of building a wall,” Thomas said. Taylor, the mother of four boys—the youngest is four months old, she said— also last year launched a nonprofit called Mothers of Black Sons, aiming to partner young black boys with men who are entrepreneurs, and sponsoring activities such as a field trip with a group of young boys to Savannah, including sessions where they were “all able to express themselves in a safe place, to talk freely without being judged.” Both candidates noted that there’s another side to the housing crisis besides the cost of rent or home ownership—people should earn a living wage. The deadline to register to vote is Apr. 25. Early voting begins May 2, and the deadline for absentee ballot applications is May 13. f

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idewalks, bike lanes, storm drainage improvements, paved streets, repaired bridges, electric cars for Athens-Clarke County staff and the continuation of the Oconee Rivers Greenway are just a few of the 34 projects that would be funded by TSPLOST 2023. If voters approve extending the 1% sales tax on May 24, it will take effect in January, continuing the work begun by TSPLOST 2018. The new initiative, which stands for Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, is expected to generate $150 million over the next five years. In compiling the list of projects, the TSPLOST advisory panel heard from residents across the county, as well as from ACC Transportation and Public Works Department staff members. A number of projects are “neighborhood-driven,” focusing on the underserved Westchester neighborhood, the Stonehenge neighborhood, East Athens and Sycamore Drive. The application process required residents to submit documentation and to create a visual presentation for the panel. Members pared the number of approved projects from 90 to 34. Janice Custis advocated for infrastructure improvements in the Westchester neighborhood, which is tucked between Tallassee Road and Mitchell Bridge Road. “It desperately needs sidewalks,” she said. “Every morning, there would be groups of kids waiting for school buses, standing in the road about to get hit. I saw a guy in a wheelchair get off a city bus on the side of the road. That isn’t right.” She hopes the $1.9 million budgeted for Westchester will provide sidewalks, safe crossings, lighting and better access to buses so that residents “can get around safely.” The Stonehenge neighborhood is slated to receive $4.7 million that will improve “safety, accessibility and connectivity along Old Monroe Road” and along neighborhood streets. The money will pay for connecting sidewalks, safe crossings, landscaping, signage, lighting and/or other safety improvements. Mykeisha Ross, currently a candidate for mayor, advocated for Stonehenge to have sidewalks, along with transit service, to help residents get to jobs on time. She said she was once driving in the neighborhood and saw “kids walking in the middle of the street because there are no sidewalks. It’s just common sense that there should be sidewalks so kids can safely get to the recreation center.” North Athens should receive $8.2 million for “traffic studies, sidewalks, crosswalks, multi-use trails, traffic

signals, pedestrian and street lighting, waste receptacles, transit improvements, greenway trails and connectors, bridge replacements and/ or safety improvements.” Many residents believe the improvements are long overdue. “You can see every day, working people walking along the side of the road, and cars zipping by them at 45, 50 miles an hour,” said Quasion Payne, who has always lived in the North Athens area and who advocated for the projects. “You either need to widen the roads or put in sidewalks. I don’t understand spending millions on enhancing leisure activities when people can’t get to work safely.” The bridge on North Avenue that crosses the Loop “is a death trap, and someone’s going to be killed there,” Payne said. “It’s very narrow, and the guardrails force you to walk in the road when you cross on it. It’s a constant fight for us to get what is standard in other parts of the county.” In East Athens, the list of projects includes a combined $1.7 million to make streets TSPLOST funding will help fill in sidewalk gaps like this one on Lexington Road. calmer, safer and better. Streetlights are slated for Johnson, Spring, Warren, Peter, Vine and Dublin streets. Speed humps, curb extensions and speed sections with Cooper Road and Whit Davis Road. Timothy monitoring should slow traffic in East Athens, and Fairview Road/Mitchell Bridge, where sidewalks will continue south, Avenue will be resurfaced. Also on tap are more “sheltered has been budgeted at $6.9 million. Community groups have bus stops, connecting sidewalks, landscaping, signage, been debating for years how to improve the look and feel lighting, other safety improvements and/or other standard of Prince Avenue, to make it safer and more pedestrian and transit system improvements.” bike friendly. Continued work on the greenway is budgeted at $3.9 Nearly $30 million would be set aside for Athens Transit million. $7.5 million is included for the Firefly Trail. operations, which would pay to keep buses fare-free for the Three heavily traveled corridors—Lexington Road, next five years and increase the frequency of service. Atlanta Highway, Prince Avenue and Timothy Road/ A program to improve bicycle and pedestrian projects is Mitchell Bridge—will all have major improvements. These budgeted at $8 million. According to the ACC website, its include additional sidewalks, multi-use trails, separated goals may include “additional roadway bicycle lanes, sepbike lanes, landscaped and/or concrete medians, intersecarate bicycle lanes, roadway pavement marking, off-road tion improvements, lighting and/or other safety improvebicycle paths, trails, sidewalk improvements, pedestrian ments along the corridor and connecting streets. safety devices such as stamped and colorized crosswalks, Almost $9 million has been budgeted for Prince Avenue flashing crosswalks, removing obstructions such as utility and $9 million for Atlanta Highway, while Lexington Road poles in sidewalks, refuge islands in intersections, improvewill receive $8.3 million. Another $543,000 will fund a ments for the visually impaired, improved access to ACC “sidewalk gap” project to connect short strands of sidewalk Transit stops, signage, pedestrian countdown timers and/ on the north side of Lexington Road between the interor other safety equipment.” f

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Celebrating Patrick Dean A LOVE OF LIFE, FAMILY AND ATHENS—EXPRESSED IN MONSTERS

By Alan Dean pete@flagpole.com Editor’s note: “Cartoonist Patrick Dean drew a weekly strip for Athens’ alternative newsweekly, Flagpole magazine, from 1997 to 2006, as well as many covers. Influenced by Jack Davis, George Grosz, Tomi Ungerer and early MAD magazine, he populates his scenes with a wide variety of characters interacting with one another, capturing a broad range of Athens’ population. Jokes abound, and monsters are humanized as much as people are monsterfied. In 2018, Dean was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as motor neurone disease or Lou Gehrig’s disease. He continues to draw, despite his increasing difficulties doing so. This small retrospective begins with his student work at UGA, from which he graduated in 1998, and ends with his recent comics about illness and mortality.”— From the introduction by Hillary Brown to the program for “The Monsters are Due on Broad Street,” the retrospective of Patrick Dean’s work at the Georgia Museum of Art in December, 2020, shortly before his death in May, 2021. (The exhibit is online at georgia museum.org/virtualgallery/patrick-dean/.) Patrick’s brother, Alan, who resembles him enough to be his twin, except for the seven years’ difference between them, spoke Sunday, Mar. 27, along with their mother, Virginia, and Patrick’s daughter, Eloise, at a memorial celebration for Dean in the museum’s sculpture garden.

These are Alan’s remarks: “From the earliest age, Patrick was certainly someone who marched to the beat of his own drum. He had his interests, and if he was the only one who was interested in this, well that’s just how it was, and he was okay with that. He’d grow a rat-tail whether anyone liked it or not and cut it off when he was ready. He’d wear T-shirts of bands no one else knew about or make his own T-shirts of comic book characters no one else knew about. “But with this independence and individuality there can be an element of loneliness, and though Patrick wasn’t afraid to be who he was, he also was not a solitary person who chose to be alone. “I was lucky to spend so much time with Patrick, as documented by this fraction of pictures I have of him. We spent a lot of time together as a family—holidays, beach

vacations, etc. The longest we were apart was when I went to college, and even then I saw my family often on holidays and summer and random weekends. “We grew closer when I came home for a couple of years after graduation and lived in Rome. For some of that time I rented a house in Rome, but I was at my parents’ nearly every day and definitely every Sunday morning for cinnamon rolls, and Patrick and [I] watching ’90s Nickelodeon shows and ‘Mystery Science Theater.’ Then I went to graduate school, and Patrick soon followed within a year’s time for his college. We were roommates for most of those years of school and a few years after, before we both got married, and during this time Patrick finally came into his own. “You see, at some point early in the college years, I think Patrick was becoming tired of being this unique person and tired of the kind of loneliness that can be associated with it. I know he even thought about somehow being less unique and putting aside his interests in comics and art and things like that in hopes of becoming part of something else. “But in college, during the second half of his time there, he finally got into graphic design and met people, then did work for Flagpole and met people, and through all those people met more people and finally he was among his own. “That may have felt like a long walk to get to the point, but what I want Patrick’s friends to know is how much they meant to him. Maybe he told you, or maybe he showed it in other ways, but to everyone who knew him and knew how great he was—how funny, how talented, how cool— it’s hard to believe he didn’t always have this group that rightfully adored and loved him. “His life was way too short, but I know he found happiness in the family that raised him and in the family he created and made—the family of a great workplace, and the family of close friends and like-minded artists and creators who knew and loved him.” f

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By Ed Tant news@flagpole.com “April is the cruellest month,” wrote T.S. Eliot. He may have been right. Images of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have shocked a watching world as the war slouches into its third month. Media coverage of Russian bombardment of Ukrainian hospitals and residential areas has riveted the world since Russia’s Vladimir Putin started the war on Feb. 24, but the true atrocity of the invasion was seen close-up when media showed images of executed Ukraine civilians who were murdered and left on the street like trash after Russian troops rolled through the war-ravaged city of Bucha in early April. The horrific images from Ukraine were reminiscent of photographs taken in Europe during both world wars, and worries are growing around the globe that Putin’s invasion could widen and worsen into even

citizens on faraway battlefields “over there” traumatized the nation. In the aftermath of the war, Wilson’s warning about Americans forgetting tolerance came true. Black soldiers who were told that they were fighting for democracy overseas found no democracy on the streets of America when they came home from the war and faced ongoing battles against racial segregation and subjugation. After what was touted as a war for freedom, lynchings of African Americans still happened, and by 1919 race riots had spread across America during a bloody time called “Red Summer.” American intolerance was on full display during a postwar “Red Scare” roundup and jailing of political dissidents that climaxed on Jan. 2, 1920. Democrat Wilson was sequestered in the White House after suffering a stroke, but his attorney general,

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A Mariopul, Ukraine, children’s hospital bombed by Russian forces.

more carnage—just as World War I spread rapidly and lethally across Europe when it began there in 1914. America was drawn into that conflict when the United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917. Though he had run for re-election in 1916 with the slogan “He Kept Us Out of War,” President Woodrow Wilson pushed for U.S. entry into the war by 1917, saying that “the world must be made safe for democracy.” Wilson also cautioned that if the American people were led into a largescale war, “they will forget that there ever was such a thing as tolerance.” He proved to be right about that. The years following the end of World War I became a time of intolerance, xenophobia and rampant racism in America that historian Frederick Lewis Allen called “a reign of terror” and “a new record in American history for executive transgression of individual constitutional rights.” Though the United States was involved in World War I for only about 18 months before the war ended in 1918, in that short length of time the war would claim more than 116,000 American lives lost from battlefield injuries or disease. The United States after World War I was a country of only about 100 million people, so the deaths of tens of thousands of its

Mitchell Palmer, kept busy. “Palmer Raids” in 33 American cities coast to coast targeted activist groups and individuals like feminists, socialists, labor organizers and antiwar protesters. Thousands of Americans were arrested during raids that were run by a young rising star in Palmer’s Justice Department, the 25-year-old J. Edgar Hoover, who later became the longtime head of the FBI. Today the Red Scare after World War I is remembered as a shameful chapter in U.S. history that was a precursor to the infamous McCarthy era political witch hunts that played out on American television in the 1950s. World War I claimed at least 20 million lives globally from 1914–1918. In its aftermath, America was scarred by intolerance and injustice. Russia’s murderous campaign against Ukraine is yet another blow to a world already bludgeoned by war, pandemic, autocracy and environmental ruin. On April 4, 1967—exactly a year before he was killed on the cruel day of April 4, 1968— Martin Luther King Jr. gave a sermon warning against “those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.” Vladimir Putin should read and heed those words today. f

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ever Resurrection Fest will happen at Rabbit Hole Studios (1001 Winterville Road) Apr. 16. This all-day event is presented by Warm Umbrellas and The Nightshade Family. The whole thing will run on two stages between 3 p.m. and midnight. Featured acts this day are Trvy & The Enemy, Juco, Canary Affair, Jacob Hunter Morris Mallow, Good Grief, Ancient Infant, the White Rabbit Collective, Kareeza, M3wt, Sypharix, Dado, Curst, Classic City Rave Night, Powdered Donut, Outer Limit, Techno Speakeasy Athens, Sars, MAEAM, Christee Darling, and Wobble Haus and Friends. Not bad for only 10 bucks, ya know. For more information, head to Instagram and follow @jet_phase, @ nightshadefamilyband and @warmumbrellas. Alternately, you can check out facebook. com/JetPhase.

PUZZLED PANTHER PARTY: Athens rockers Maxuma will release their debut album, What Is With This Thickness?, Wednesday, Apr. 20 but will celebrate with a show the night before. The release show will happen at the Red Line Athens DIY venue Tuesday, Apr. 19. Feral Joy, which is also rumored to have a release ready to go, is also on this bill this night. While ostensibly experimental in nature, Maxuma dips its cup into a deep well of punk tradition. Specifically, shades of The Germs and The Minutemen appear quite often. There’s some seriously unsettling stuff going on here, too, and I certainly wouldn’t want to be approached by “Cherry” on a dark street. Your mileage will vary, of course, so check it all out at maxuma.bandcamp.com. SOUND + VISION: While straddling the Atlantic

Ocean—with one foot in Athens and the other in Manchester, England—for a few years now, Feather Trade continues to function as a working band. The group’s

latest document is a live EP named Live From The Fulford Arms, which was, obviously, recorded live in York, England. While not the first live issue the band has released, it’s nevertheless a fine representation of its expansive and dark moods. Feather Trade has always seemed like a band for which Athens never had a big enough stage nor a progressive enough audience. Will this ever change? Who knows? But, for now, fans can keep plowing through the band’s catalog and imagine what can be. Check it all out over at feather trade.bandcamp. com. YOU SURE TJ DONE IT THIS WAY?:

Songwriter Seth Martin (The Dish Boys) will screen his debut film There Is A Place Friday, Apr. 15 at the Flicker Theatre & Bar. Musical guests are Annie Leeth and Rare Form. Also, Eric Zock will spin vinyl. Doors are at 8 p.m., and the event begins at 9 p.m. Tickets are $10. I wish to God I could tell you what this film is about, but I have no idea, and my inquiries into such were not immediately answered. If it’s anything like Martin’s other photography, though, I expect it to be visually soothing, if not downright inspirational. For more information, please see facebook.com/ flickerbar.athens. GET OUTTA TOWN: The Sam Holt Band will perform three separate tribute shows to Widespread Panic’s Mikey Houser and Todd Nance. None of the three are in Athens, though. But what Panic fan isn’t also a fan of road trips? While these shows will most likely sell out, you’ve still got a little time to plan. They’ll happen May 12 at Isis Music Hall (Asheville, NC), May 13 at the Pour House (Charleston, SC) and May 14 at Avondale Brewing Company (Birmingham, AL). For show and ticket information, please see samholtband.com. COULDA BEEN A CONTENDER: Back during the alt-rock heyday of the late 1990s, there were a handful of bands around town that were this close to busting out of the local Athens scene. One of those groups was Michael. The band has just re-released two of its albums, You Must Be This Tall (1999) and The Day After My Confidence (2002), in digital download format. Not a whole lot to say about these except they’re well played, have an ear for melody and old fans should be pleased at being able to experience them in this most convenient manner. Find ‘em both at michaelisaband.bandcamp.com. f

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By Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: The little café that could, Buvez, will celebrate its fourth anniversary —and host the record release show by Hunter Morris & Blue Blood—Saturday, Apr. 16. Now, pay attention, because this is happening a little earlier than you may expect. Everything begins at 6 p.m. Blue Blood is celebrating its new album Give In to Livin’. It will also be screening all the videos that were made for the album. Also on the bill this night are Annie Leeth, Goodhost and Palace Doctor. For more information, please see facebook.com/ bluebloodtheband.

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Touching on themes of kinship, perseverance and atonement, August Wilson’s play Gem of the Ocean brings forward the story of how African Americans held onto community during the tumultuous migrations of the Jim Crow era. The character Aunt Ester, played by dramaturg Nikki Clay, claims to be 235 years old, which places her as one of the first Africans to arrive in a mainland English colony as human cargo. She is the lifeline of memory that connects characters in the present experiencing civil unrest to that of the past. Clay says, “My personal experience with the production has revealed itself as a story of love. A pursuit of love in the form of redemption and freedom.” [Sam Lipkin]

lowing that could crumble the stones of a mausoleum. Asheville band Secret Shame’s dark, brooding blend of post-punk and dream-pop is contemplative and wistful. Channeled through vocalist Lena Machina, songs operate like exorcisms, transforming experiences of mental illness, isolation and suffering into fearless open-wound tunes. Spearheaded by Adria Stembridge, longtime local goth scene fixture Tears for the Dying has a new lineup with Joshua Broughton, Michael Garrett, Pilot and Mick Payne. The JOHN MALLEY

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Exploring the intersection between visual and performing arts, the exhibition “Rhythm & Movement: The Art Nox Novacula of Music” invited artists to create new pieces in response to hearing songs by local musicians of various genres: Joseph Leone, Lorena Limongi, The Lonesome Dawn, Susan Staley, Ivan Strunin and Marty Winkler. The creative challenge reflects how music can affect mood and the artistic process, all while resulting in interesting physical interpretations of sound. In conjunction with “Rhythm & Movement,” OCAF will host a series of plein air painting/drawing workshops accompanied by live performances on Apr. 23, May 21 and June 11. On view in OCAF’s main gallery, the “43rd Georgia Watercolor Society National Exhibition” shares works by 79 different artists. Both exhibitions will remain on view through June 3. [Jessica Smith] MUSIC | TUES, APR 19

Nox Novacula, Secret Shame, Tears for the Dying Ciné • 9 p.m. • $10

Currently on a 40-date tour between coasts, Seattle’s Nox Novacula carries forth the torch of the early ‘80s deathrock scene with dramatic, danceable songs. Singer Charlotte Blythe’s dynamic style ranges from spellbinding chanting to powerful bel-

band is currently recording new material with Tom Ashton at Subvon Studio for its next release, Eyes Wide Open in the Dark. Following tonight’s all-ages show, the bands will head to Nashville as part of a mini-tour together. [JS] EVENT | TUES, APR 19–THURS, APR 21

Torrance Festival of Ideas Online • 10 a.m.–6 p.m. • FREE!

This free annual event is a virtual cultural crossroads where a panel of experts from around the world share their innovative ideas with the public. Unique perspectives are presented that relate to a wide array of industries as well as personal and social themes, so there is a session for everyone’s interests. While there are speakers from all over the United States and overseas, there are also local Athenian presenters like Life LaRoche of Chess and Community. LaRoche will be speaking on the role of technology during his “Youth Development in Mixed Reality: Adapting to a Changing World” discussion. During the festival, submitted creative works on the topic “Reflection on 2021” will be broadcast as another platform for sharing and a lens into the local and global community. [SL] f

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ariah Parker is no stranger to the pages of Flagpole, but it’s been some time since they’ve made a regular appearance in music headlines under the Linqua Franqa moniker. It’s been four years since their debut full-length release Model Minority was reissued through HHBTM Records, but Parker has shared a consistent stream of content for our ears and eyes following the late-January announcement of a new album, Bellringer, to be released Apr. 22. Coming out swinging, it feels like no time has passed between the artist’s freshman and sophomore albums, aside from a more confident and deliberate sound.

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The music scene’s two-year COVID lull afforded an opportunity to focus on writing and recording while stages, and much of the world, temporarily closed. Parker’s work as a commissioner, activist and parent provided the necessary fuel to create a thoughtful album that captures the frustrations and struggles of navigating modern life—true modern life and not the glossy, edited version. Rather than separate the personal and professional spheres of Parker’s life from Linqua Franqa the artist, according to them, it all rolls together as the same kind of thing just done different ways. The lead single “Wurk” is Parker’s favorite song on the album, even though it didn’t start off that way. As a beacon addressing the exploitation of frontline workers and encouraging them to organize, “Wurk” has already had an overwhelmingly positive reception and far-reaching impact. This includes making a connection with organizers of the Amazon union campaign, which Parker hopes leads to an opportunity to perform the single at upcoming conventions and rallies. “[The song] enabled me to connect with folks like Liz Shuler, who’s the president of the largest labor union federation in the country, and a lot of folks in the labor movement that I look up to and admire a great deal,” Parker says. “The relationships I’ve been able to build through the reception to that song, it just holds a really special place in my heart now.” The crossroads of politics, activism and art all working together as “the same kind of thing” is even more exemplified in Parker’s recent SXSW trip. On the way to Austin, TX, Parker performed at Voyager Fest in Birmingham, AL, in addition to hanging out with one of the lead Amazon union campaign organizers while in the city. Then a pitstop was made in Jackson, MI, to meet with a renown investigative reporter and learn more about their work in the state. Coming home from SXSW, another stop was made in New Orleans for a show and a talk at Tulane University, where Parker discussed the power of art in social change. This con-

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tinued with a wider discussion around labor and what work is as well as the influence of place. There has always been an intrinsic relationship between hip hop and activism for Parker. They explain that rappers are often masters of a lot of skills that a good politician should have. As a culture and an art form, it’s also important to understand that hip hop is much bigger and broader than just rapping. “Filling a room full of people, captivating an audience with storytelling and creating those opportunities for people to connect and those platforms for underrepresented voices to be heard… I mean, that’s something that a good community organizer does as well,” says Parker. “Through organizing and playing shows—that’s what got me ready to kind of be a voice in the political sphere that I wouldn’t have if I hadn’t been doing shows for years.” While at SXSW, Parker hosted their first showcase at the festival highlighting fellow labelmate Blunt Bangs; artists who helped coordinate the tour of shows along the way, like Nana Grizol and Lee Bains; and Atlanta artist Lesibu Grand represented by Punk Black. Striving for a mixture of representation for Georgia artists, as well as people who have worked with Parker in meaningful ways, is a concept that extends to Bellringer’s collaborations. The album features a variety of artists with diverse backgrounds and aesthetics. Kishi Bashi and of Montreal are familiar Athens names that Parker has built relationships with over the years by performing on the same shows. Also featured is legendary activist and educator Angela Davis, whom Parker met as a co-keynote speaker at a virtual conference in 2020. Multi-instrumentalist Jeff Rosenstock, who is also connected to Athens, brings some punk energy to the project. But among the expansive list of features are familiar hip-hop collaborators, like Parker’s longtime comrades Dope Knife and Wesdaruler. On the production side, Ben Bradberry, known as Reindeer Games, and Joel Hatstat, of High Jump Media, worked closely with Parker on most of the album “[I’m] just really hoping to expand on what hip hop can sound like by bringing in these other genre influences, also,” says Parker. The album’s title track, “Bellringer,” featuring Rosenstock, has a boundary-pushing sound as violin turns into a classic hip-hop drum beat that drives the message, “If I die, don’t pray/ You better riot.” The music video pairs illustrated scenes from the early-’90s with strobe-intensive clips of Parker for a hypnotic display that matches the energy of the repetitive hook. Parker’s undeniably fierce lyricism is complemented by neo-soul hooks in tracks like “Wurk” and “Necessity,” but you’ll have to wait until Apr. 22 to hear how the rest of the album unfolds. f

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Art ATHENS CREATIVE DIRECTORY (Athens, GA) The ACD is a platform to connect creatives with patrons. Visual artists, musicians, actors, writers and other creatives are encouraged to create a free listing. athenscreatives@gmail.com, www. athenscreatives.directory CALL FOR ARTISTS AND CURATORS (Lyndon House Arts Center) LHAC invites area artists, artist groups and curators to submit original exhibition proposals. Artists are also invited to submit images of their work for consideration for larger group or themed shows. Exhibitions may be scheduled as far out as three years. Submit online proposal form. Deadline Apr. 20 and Sept. 20. beth.sale@accgov. com, accgov.com/lyndonhouse CALL FOR ENTRIES (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) ATHICA is accepting applications for Artist-in-ATHICA residencies, Solo-Duo-Trio exhibitions and internships. www.athica.org/membership, www.athica.org/updates/ call_2022_showcase JOKERJOKERTV CALL FOR ARTISTS (Online) JOKERJOKERtv is open to ideas and actively accepting proposals for collaboration from visual/musical/video artists and curators living in Athens. Artists worldwide can also submit music videos, short films, skits and ideas to share with a weekly livestream audience. www.jokerjokertv.com/ submit OPEN STUDIOS (Lyndon House Arts Center) Studio members have access to spaces for painting, printmaking, photography, ceramics, jewelry, fiber and woodworking. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10

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Classes ACTING FOR CAMERA AND STAGE (work.shop) Learn how to act with professional actor and coach Jayson Warner Smith (“The Walking Dead,” “The Vampire Diaries,” “Outer Banks”). Mondays, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. $400/12 sessions. jwsclassinquiry@jaysonsmith.com, www.jaysonsmith.com/teacher ART CLASSES (K.A. Artist Shop) Classes are held in digital art, handmade books, drawing fundamentals, watercolor, landscape painting, linocut printmaking, printing on fabric and more. Check website for dates and to register. www.kaartist.com CHAIR YOGA (Sangha Yoga Studio) This class is helpful for flexibility, strength, balance and increasing circulation and energy. All levels welcome. Every Thursday, 12–1 p.m. $16 (drop-in), $72 (six weeks). 706-613-1143 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 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 DEDICATED MINDFULNESS PRACTITIONERS (Online) Weekly Zoom meditations are offered every Saturday at 8:30–9:30 a.m. Email for details. richardshoe@gmail.com LINE DANCE (Multiple Locations) Lessons for beginners and beyond are held every first, third and fifth Tuesday, 6:30–8:30 p.m. The second and fourth Tuesdays offer evenings of line dancing, two-step and waltz. Third Tuesdays are hosted at the Bogart Community Center. Other nights are held at Athens VFW. $10. 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 OPEN/COMMUNITY MEDITATION (Sangha Yoga Studio at Healing Arts Centre) Uma Rose leads a meditation designed to guide participants into stillness and silence. Mondays, 4–5 p.m. Donations encouraged. www.healingartscentre.net PAINTING CLASSES (Private Studio on Athens Eastside) One-on-one

“Frankie Welch’s Americana: Fashion, Scarves, and Politics” is currently on view at the UGA Special Collections Libraries through July 8. On Apr. 14 at 6 p.m., the UGA Fashion Design Student Association will present “Prints and Power,” a spring fashion show inspired by Welch’s designs. or small group adult classes are offered in acrylic and watercolor painting. Choose day workshops, ongoing weekly classes or feedback sessions. laurenadamsartist@ icloud.com PUBLIC DANCE (The Studio Athens) Beginner Rumba lessons followed by DJ’d waltz, swing, salsa, tango etc. Every fourth Saturday. 7:30–10 p.m. $5 (students), $10 (non-students). www.gmdance.com SERVSAFE FOOD PROTECTION MANAGER CERTIFICATION (Hampton Inn) Take an in-person class and exam to learn the latest information from the most recent FDA Food Code. Apr. 28, 8 a.m.–2 p.m. www.hrfoodsafe.com SPANISH CLASSES (Athens, GA) For adults, couples and children. Learn from experts with years of professional experience. Contact for details. 706-372-4349, marinabilbao75@gmail.com, www.marina-spain-2020.squarespace.com YOGA CLASSES AND EVENTS (Revolution Therapy and Yoga) “Yoga Flow and Restore with Nicole Bechill” is held 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. www. revolutiontherapyandyoga.com YOGA TEACHER TRAINING (Shakti Power Yoga Athens) Deepen your practice and learn to teach others in person and online during this 200-hour yoga teacher training. June 11–17 and July 9–15. Apply by May 1 to save $400. www. shaktiyogaathens.com/shakti-yoga-university 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

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art around town ATHICA@CINÉ GALLERY (234 W. Hancock Ave.) Curated by Allie Calcote, “In Bloom” is an assembly of works embodying the vibrancy, light-heartedness and vigor of springtime. Participating artists include Margaret Agner, Maggie Davis, Richard Huston, Helen Kuykendall, Ray Lee, Donna McCavitt, Paula Reynaldi, Sue Sellew, Amy Wraga and Mia York. Through Apr. 25. AURUM STUDIOS (125 E. Clayton St.) Margaret Agner presents a collection of pastels, many of which were created in the company of the Athens Plein Air painters. CREATURE COMFORTS BREWING CO. (271 W. Hancock Ave.) Philadelphia native Carolyn Suzanne Schew explores daydreams in “Somewhere Else,” a collection of technicolor landscapes and animals. Meet the artist on closing day, May 15. DODD GALLERIES (270 River Rd.) The Lamar Dodd School of Art’s first round of BFA exhibitions features artists working in painting and drawing, sculpture, textile design, ceramics, photography and video. Through Apr. 15. CLASSIC CENTER (300 N. Thomas St.) “Hello, Welcome!” presents abstract worlds by Maggie Davis, Jonah Cordy, Carol MacAllister and Jason Matherly. • “Classic City” interprets the city of Athens, GA through the works of James Burns, Sydney Shores, Thompson Sewell and Allison Ward. FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Organized by Jennifer Niswonger-Morris, this month features a collection of goth art. Reception Apr. 13, 5–6:30 p.m. Through April. GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “Wealth and Beauty: Pier Francesco Foschi and Painting in Renaissance Florence.” Through Apr. 24. • “Lou Stovall: Of Land and Origins” features selected works by the printmaker who is the 2022 recipient of the museum’s Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Award. Through May 29. • “In Dialogue: Views of Empire: Grand and Humble” displays two print collections that create a conversation about what it meant to be a working-class citizen in mid-19th-century Russia. Through Aug. 21. • “Jennifer Steinkamp: The Technologies of Nature.” Through Aug. 21. • “Graphic Eloquence: American Modernism on Paper from the Collection of Michael T. Ricker.” Through Sept. 4.

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GLASSCUBE@INDIGO (500 College Ave.) Zane Cochran presents “Aurora,” a sculptural interpretation of the aurora borealis using 3D geometric figures and lights. THE GRIT (199 Prince Ave.) Informed by her background as an architectural interior designer, Shirley Chambliss creates textiles demonstrating an appreciation for the sensuality of color and texture. Through Apr. 24. HENDERSHOT’S COFFEE (237 Prince Ave.) Colorful painted portraits by Mark Dalling. Through April. HEIRLOOM CAFE (815 N. Chase St.) Inspired by the absence of travel during the pandemic, Kristen Bach’s photo collection, “When We Traveled,” revisits the people, colors, textures and environments the artist’s family encountered in past years. Through May 2. 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. • Curated by Miranda Lash of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, the 47th annual Juried Exhibition includes 160 works of drawing, metal work, painting, photography, sculpture, video and more. Artist talks held Apr. 21 and May 19 at 6 p.m., plus Apr. 23 at 2 p.m. Through May 21. • Collections from our Community presents Tatiana Veneruso’s collection of vintage purses that represent over 100 years of handbag history. Through June 4. • Lucile Stephens’ paintings and hand-built ceramic works are fantastical, inventive and many times inspired by flora and fauna. Through June 18. • “Local Athenian: One Degree of Separation” shares portraits of local residents taken by Emily Cameron for her website, which shares stories through interviews and photographs. Storytelling on the Lawn will be held Apr. 28 at 6 p.m. Through June 18. MADISON-MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) On view in the Collector’s Cabinet is a display of Chinese Export Porcelain owned by the Morehouse family. Through June. OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (34 School St., Watkinsville) “43rd Georgia Watercolor Society National Exhibition” presents works by 79 different artists from across the state. “Rhythm & Movement: The Art of Music” explores the intersection between music and visual arts. Artists created pieces in response to hearing songs by local artists of various genres. Opening reception for both shows is held Apr. 15, 5–7 p.m. Through June 3.

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Thursdays from 7–10 p.m. White Rabbit Collective hosts a drum circle every Sunday downtown on College Ave. from 5–7 p.m., followed by an afterparty with painting, singing, games, yoga and more from 7:30–11 p.m. www.rabbitholestudios.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. reallyreallyfreemarketathens@gmail.com RHYTHM AND MOVEMENT PLEIN AIR EVENTS (Rocket Field at Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Highlighting the current exhibition “Rhythm and Movement: The Art of Music,” OCAF hosts a series of plein air painting/drawing workshops taught by Jack Burk. Participants will listen to music as they paint. The lineup of musicians includes Joseph Leon (Apr. 23, 3 p.m.), Susan Staley (May 21, 9 a.m.) and Lonesome Dawn at (June 11, 6 p.m.) $20–25. www.ocaf.com SEC SHORTS LIVE! (Morton Theatre) SEC Shorts, a college football sketch comedy group, celebrates the Georgia Bulldogs breaking the 41-year-old national championship drought. Apr. 14–16, 7 p.m. Apr. 17, 5 p.m. $40–50. www.mortontheatre.com/events 60TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR (Cedar Creek Water Reclamation Facility) Learn all about water treatment. Meet Li’l Sheepastian, a resident sheep who helps maintain grass under the solar panels. Apr. 16, 10 a.m. (sheep meet-and-greet), 11 a.m. (tour). www.accgov.com SOUTHERN STAR STUDIO OPEN GALLERY (Southern Star Studio) Southern Star Studio is a working, collective ceramics studio, established by Maria Dondero in 2016. The gallery contains members’ work, primarily pottery. Every Saturday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. www.southernstarstudioathens.com TERRAPIN’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY (Terrapin Beer Co.) The brewery celebrates its 20th anniversary with a special beer called Old Snapper, live music by Cosmic Charlie and Tribute: A Celebration of the Allman Brothers Band, specialty beers from over the years, food trucks, yard games and local vendors. Apr. 23, 3–8 p.m. $20–40. www.terrapinbeer.com THURSDAY TRIVIA (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Jon Head hosts trivia every Thursday. Win pitchers and gift certificates. Thursdays, 7–9 p.m. www.johnnyspizza.com TORRANCE FESTIVAL OF IDEAS (Online) This free annual virtual event features renowned experts from across disciplines presenting innovative ideas. Topics include creativity, imagination, entrepreneurship, innovation, aesthetics, AI, health, aging and more. Registration is required. Apr. 19, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. FREE! whova.com/web/ tfoi_202204 UGA TAP DAWGS CLUB SPRING SHOWCASE (Morton Theatre) “Tapping Through the Ages” presents a variety of tap dancing choreographed and performed by UGA students. Apr. 23, 7 p.m. $5–10. www.facebook.com/tapdawgsatuga UKRAINIAN REFUGEE FUNDRAISER (UGA Myers Quad) UGA Doctors Without Borders hosts a field day fundraiser featuring sports, obstacle events, prizes and vendors. Apr. 29. $5–7 (Venmo @ UGAMSF). www.facebook.com/ ugamsf

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WBFM DRIVE-THRU PICK-UP (West Broad Farmers Market) The West Broad Farmers Market offers fresh produce, locally raised meat and eggs, baked goods, flowers, artisan goods and more. Order online or by phone Sundays–Thursdays, then pick up on Saturdays between 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. www.wbf.locallygrown.net

Help Out DIAPER DRIVE (Bogart Library) Drop off diaper donations in the library’s foyer for the Athens Area Diaper Bank. www.athensareadiaperbank. com

Kidstuff ACC LIBRARY EVENTS (ACC Library) “Open Chess Play” is held Mondays, 3–5 p.m. “Virtual Storytime” is held Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. “Virtual Bedtime Stories” is held Tuesdays at 6 p.m. “Preschool Storytime” is held Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 9:30 a.m. www.athenslibrary.org 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) “Busy Bee Toddler Time” is held Apr. 13 at 10 a.m. www. athenslibrary.org/bogart CLUBS FOR TEENS (Lyndon House Arts Center) “Teen Media Arts Club with Kidd Fielteau” is held Tuesdays, 5:30–7:30 p.m. “Teen Fashion Design/Sewing Club with Tabitha Fielteau” is held Tuesdays, 5:30–7:30 p.m. EASTER ACTIVITIES (Multiple Locations) ACC Leisure Services hosts multiple opportunities to find eggs and meet the Easter Bunny. “Preschool Easter Celebration” at Rocksprings Community Center is held Apr. 13 at 11 a.m. “Breakfast with the Bunny” at Memorial Park is held Apr. 16 at 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. “Easter Egg Scramble” at Lay Park is held Apr. 16 at 10 a.m. 706613-3800 FAMILY DAY (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) In celebration of Earth Day, local artist Abigail West will lead two free workshops to transform reclaimed materials into works of art. Participants can make lanterns or garden globes from hard-to-recycle materials. Materials provided. Apr. 23, 11 a.m.–3 p.m. www.ocaf.com FROGGY SPRING FLING (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Participants will search the property for frogs and salamanders. Bring a flashlight and wear closed toed shoes. Ages 4 and up. Apr. 22, 7 p.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 MEMORIAL PARK EASTER EGG HUNT (Memorial Park) The hunting area will be divided into four sections by age groups for kids 10 and under. Apr. 16, 11 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3580

OCONEE LIBRARY EVENTS (Oconee Co. Library) “Storytime” for preschool children and their caregivers is held Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. “Prism” for grades 6–12 is held Apr. 13 at 6 p.m. “Dungeons & Dragons” is held Apr. 18 at 6 p.m. “Miniature Painting Night” is held Apr. 20 at 6 p.m. “Anime Club” is held Apr. 25 at 7 p.m. www.athenslibrary.org/ oconee SATURDAY CRAFT (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Each week’s craft is announced on Instagram. Saturdays, 10–10:45 a.m. (ages 3–6) or 11 a.m.–12 p.m. (ages 6–10). www.treehousekidandcraft.com, www.instagram.com/treehouse kidandcraft SPACE IN THE MOVIES (Sandy Creek Nature Center) This planetarium program compares Hollywood’s depiction of space to real astronomy. Ages 5 & up. Apr. 16, 10 a.m. $2–3. 706-613-3615 SUMMER CAMPS (Foxfire Woods and Farm, Nicholson) Join certified nature staff for outdoor learning and adventure on a 54 acre farm and nature sanctuary. For ages 5–12. www.foxirewoodsandfarm.com/ summercamps SUMMER CAMPS (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville) Camps are offered in clay (hand building, wheel throwing) and writing (poetry, fiction, college essays). Check website for dates and age groups. www.ocaf.com TOFU TAKES TIME (Zoom) Avid Bookshop presents the book launch of the children’s book, Tofu Takes Time, with author Helen H. Wu. Apr. 19, 7 p.m. www.avidbookshop.com TUTORING (Online) The Athens Regional Library System is now offering free, live online tutoring via tutor.com for students K-12, plus college students and adult learners. Daily, 2–9 p.m. www.athenslibrary. org MIDDLE CHILDHOOD ART WORKSHOPS (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Make a mosaic collage of a tree on Apr. 16. Decorate a piñata on May 14. Make a beachy snow globe out of a mason jar on June 11. Classes are for ages 6–12 and held 9 a.m.–12 p.m. $30–35. www.ocaf.com

Support Groups ACA ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS AND DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES (Holy Cross Lutheran Church) This support group meets weekly. Tuesdays, 6:30–7:30 p.m. annetteanelson@gmail.com AL-ANON 12 STEP (Multiple Locations) Recovery for people affected by someone else’s drinking. Visit the website for a calendar of electronic meetings held throughout the week. www.ga-al-anon.org ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS (Athens, GA) If you think you have a problem with alcohol, call the AA hotline or visit the website for a schedule of meetings in Barrow, Clarke, Jackson and Oconee Counties. 706-389-4164, www. athensaa.org 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. 706-206-6163, 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 MENTAL HEALTH PEER RECOVERY GROUP (Nuçi’s Space) Participants support each other through life’s challenges by sharing from their skills, experiences and proven coping mechanisms. Newcomers welcome. First Tuesday of the month, 4–6 p.m. pr@nuci.org, www.nuci.org 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, 7 p.m. FREE! www.athensrecoverydharma.org SEX ADDICTS ANONYMOUS (Athens, GA) Athens Downtown SAA offers a message of hope to anyone who suffers from a compulsive sexual behavior. Contact for location. www.athensdowntownsaa.com

Word on the Street AAMG SPRING BULB SALE (Athens Clarke County Extension Office) The Athens Area Master Gardeners, in partnership with the State Botanical Garden of Georgia and Athens-Clarke County Extension, host a sale of flower bulbs like daffodils, bluebells and crocus. Sale runs through Apr. 30 and pick up is in October for fall planting. tinyurl. com/aamg2022bulbsale FREE COVID-19 VACCINES (Clarke County Health Department) Vaccines are available by appointment or walk-in. No insurance or ID required. www.publichealthisforeveryone.com FREE MEDICAL CLINICS (Nuçi’s Space) Nuçi’s Space, in collaboration with Medical Partnership of Georgia, hosts free health clinics for uninsured or low income individuals. Participants do not have to be musicians. Second-year medical students can write prescriptions or make referrals. Referrals will be to specialists who can treat participants on a cost-reduced basis. Call to make an appointment. Apr. 18, 1–4 p.m. 706-227-1515, www. nuci.org 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. Taste of OLLI trial memberships available now through June 30. April sign-up required. $15. www.olli.uga.edu/trial POEMS BY MAIL (Athens, GA) In celebration of Poetry Month, Athens Poet Laureate Jeff Fallis will fulfill requests for poems by mail through April. Fill out the online form to receive an original poem or a copy of one of his favorites by a fellow poet. www.athensculturalaffairs.org/ acac-celebrates-poetry-month SPRING 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 f

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Creature Comforts Brewery Athens Farmers Market. Outdoors. 5–8 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmers market.net RED OAK SOUTHERN STRING BAND This Watkinsville-based band plays rootsy Americana tunes. (6 p.m.) Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatre andbar.com DR. FRED’S KARAOKE Featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more. Georgia Theatre Rooftop 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). FREE! www.georgiatheatre.com SPENCER THOMAS Local singersongwriter balancing indie-pop and alt-rock. International Grill & Bar 6:30 p.m. www.facebook.com/ IGBAthensGA ASHLEY & GARY Acoustic singersongwriters. Porterhouse Grill 6–9 p.m. www.porterhouseathens. com/jazz JAZZ NIGHT Enjoy a live jazz trio every Wednesday night over dinner.

Thursday 14 Athentic Brewing Co. 5:30 p.m. www.athenticbrewing. com COMIN’ HOME Husband-and-wife duo with a unique blend of acoustic blues, folk and rock with strong harmonies. Georgia Theatre Rooftop 8 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre. com WELL KEPT Emo-influenced alt-rock group led by songwriter Tommy Trautwein. Album release party for The Inquirer! SECONDHAND SOUND Rowdy, hooky alt-rock four-piece from Nashville. KID FEARS Soft, breathy bedroom pop from Atlanta. Hendershot’s Coffee 7:30–11:30 p.m. $10. www.hender shotsathens.com SABACHA DANCE SOCIAL DJ L.A. Darius leads a Latin dance party with salsa, bachata, merengue and cha-cha-cha. An hour-long lesson is followed by open dancing. Hotel Indigo Live After 5 Patio Series. 5:30–8 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ AubreyEntertainmentAthensGA AVERY DEAKINS Soulful local pop-rock singer-songwriter. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall 7:30 p.m. $10 (UGA students), $30–60. pac.uga.edu MILK CARTON KIDS Grammynominated guitar duo from Eagle Rock, CA who play indie-folk rich with evocative lyrics and intricate harmonies. MICHAELA ANNE Classic countrystyle songs incorporating elements of pop, honky tonk and indie rock. Nowhere Bar 9:30 p.m. www.facebook.com/ NowhereBarAthens SOLID COUNTRY GOLD Diablo boys playing country jams.

Southern Brewing Co. 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $10 (adv.), $15. bit.ly/Apr14PhishTribute RUNAWAY GIN With over 375 shows performed since its inception in 2014, this is the world’s most active Phish tribute band.

Friday 15 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. (doors). $10. www.40watt. com RABBIT HOLED Wobble Haus presents an Alice in Wonderland-themed rave with DJs bobfish, Sars and Sypharix. Flicker Theatre & Bar “There is a Place” Home Movie Debut Screening. 8 p.m. $10. www. flickertheatreandbar.com ANNIE LEETH Local experimental violinist and multi-instrumentalist composer. RARE FORM Americana act featuring members of the Hibbs Family Band and Tyler Key & The Strangers. ERIC ZOCK Spinning an all-vinyl DJ set. Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. (doors), 9 p.m. (show). $17–20. www.georgiatheatre.com YOKE LORE Electropop project from New York City composer Adrian Galvin. Georgia Theatre Rooftop 8 p.m. FREE! www.georgiatheatre. com NORMALTOWN SOUND MACHINE Athens group whose asymmetrical compositions are bracing yet melodic, drawing inspiration from LCD Soundsystem, Herbie Hancock, ESG, Cardigans, Delta 5, Komeda, Stereolab, Rubblebucket and Motels. Hendershot’s Coffee 8 p.m. www.hendershotsathens. com WIDOWSPEAK Contemplative indie rock duo from Brooklyn touring behind its sixth studio album, The Jacket. BATHE ALONE Atlanta dream-pop project led by multi-instrumentalist Bailey Crone for fans of Beach House and The xx. International Grill & Bar 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/ IGBAthensGA DIXIELAND FIVE Local jazz band playing styles of the early 20th century that came from New Orleans. The Lewis Room at Tweed Recording 7 p.m. (doors). SOLD OUT! www. lewisroom.com IAN NOE Kentucky singer-songwriter playing country folk and Americana. No. 3 Railroad Street 6:30 p.m. $20 suggested donation. www.3railroad.org CLAUDE BOURBON UK-based guitarist taking blues, Spanish and Middle Eastern stylings into uncharted territories. Red Line Athens 7 p.m. Donations encouraged. www.facebook.com/volumeshiphop HOLLOWBODY New local punk rock band featuring members of BYV and The YOD. TRVY & THE ENEMY High-energy hip-hop artist performing with his full band for the first time.

THE ENEMY WITHIN Prog rock and metal band from north Georgia and South Carolina. ZAC MAN$ON Atlanta rapper performing hip hop you can mosh to. Southern Brewing Co. 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $12 (adv.), $15. bit.ly/ARLApril15 ABBEY ROAD LIVE Beloved local Beatles tribute band known for its attention to detail and musical proficiency. VFW (Post 2872) 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $10. www.facebook.com/vfwpost2872 CHRIS HAMPTON BAND Athens-based three-piece band performing classic and modern hits. The Warehouse Athens 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $10–15. www.funkyoumusic.com FUNK YOU Augusta band made up of nine members places a healthy helping of soul atop a funky backbeat. FLORIDA MAN Five-piece psychedelic jam band from Athens.

Saturday 16 Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. www.athensfarmersmarket.net BILL LONG ACOUSTIC JAM Playing acoustic bluegrass, folk, gospel, country and more. Buvez Buvez’s 4th Year Anniversary. 6:30 p.m. (music videos), 7 p.m. (show). $10 suggested donation. www.facebook.com/buvezathens HUNTER MORRIS & BLUE BLOOD Melodic local psychedelic pop project. Tonight celebrates the release of Give in to Livin’, and live sets will be preceded by a full album-length collection of music videos. PALACE DOCTOR Dynamic local garage-pop trio fronted by guitarist and songwriter Phillip Brantley. GOODHOST New local instrumental rock band. ANNIE LEETH Local experimental violinist and multi-instrumentalist composer. Flicker Theatre & Bar 8:30 p.m. (doors). $10. www.flicker theatreandbar.com WIEUCA Experimental outfit that fuses indie rock, psychedelia and trip hop. NUCLEAR TOURISM Local band playing surf-punk originals. KADILLAK Four-piece rock band fronted by singer Kadi Bortle. Front Porch Bookstore 6 p.m. FREE! www.cityofwinterville. com/front-porch-bookstore KATE MORRISSEY Morrissey’s songwriting is literate and sincere, and her shows come with an offbeat sense of humor. Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $22–27. www.georgiatheatre.com KIDD G Young country artist from a small Georgia town who first went viral posting rap songs on TikTok and Soundcloud. International Grill & Bar 7–10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook. com/IGBAthensGA THE LUCKY JONES Old school rockin’ rhythm and blues. The Lewis Room at Tweed Recording 7 p.m. (doors). $15 (adv.), $18. www.lewisroom.com

IAN NOE Kentucky singer-songwriter playing country folk and Americana. Nowhere Bar 7 p.m. $10. www.facebook.com/ nowherebarathensga STRUMBRUSH Atlanta-based indie art-rock quartet. PINTO SUNSHINE Groovy, high-energy Atlanta band with notes of psych rock, ska and punk. BUMMER HILL Moniker of Atlanta-based songwriter and DIY producer Jack Kern, who is influenced by the pop punk and mid-west emo scenes. THE ASYMPTOMATICS Party band playing classic rock covers. Southern Brewing Co. Jessica Fore Georgia Fundraiser. 1 p.m. (doors), 2–8 p.m. (music). $20 (adv.), $25. bit.ly/JessicaFore GAConcert NIÑO BROWN Moniker of local hip-hop artist Cortez Garza. (2 p.m.) BICHOS VIVOS Local band playing forró, accordion and triangle-driven country music from Brazil. (2:30 p.m.) ARTIE BALL SWING BAND Swing, blues, boogie and dixieland with all the camp and candor of the glory days of the ‘30s and ‘40s. (3:15 p.m.) TIMI CONLEY Local rabble-rouser Timi performing dance-tastic psych-pop. (4 p.m.) CAROLINE AIKEN Local guitarist joins David Herndon and Adam Poulin. (5 p.m.) TERRAPLANE BLUE Local bluesrock band featuring Doug Peters, John Straw and Dean Johnson. (6 p.m.) CARLA LEFEVER & THE RAYS Longtime Athenian plays old-school jams, groovy funk and sweet pop. (7 p.m.) DJ OSMOSE All-vinyl mixes of funk, soul, boogie and more in between band sets.

playing classic rock and jam band covers. WIM TAPLEY & THE CANNONS Local Americana singer-songwriter. CONVINCE THE KID New local alternative rock band. Ciné 9 p.m. (doors). $10. www.athens cine.com NOX NOVACULA Seattle death rockers with chillingly beautiful, danceable goth songs. SECRET SHAME Darkwave postpunk from Asheville. TEARS FOR THE DYING Local death-rock group fronted by songwriter Adria Stembridge. A fixture of the post-punk and goth scenes since 2004. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall 7:30 p.m. $20–55. pac.uga.edu PACIFICA QUARTET The Grammy Award-winning chamber ensemble is joined by Anthony McGill, principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic, for a program that includes James Lee III’s “Clarinet Quintet.” A pre-performance talk will be held in Ramsey Concert Hall at 6:45 p.m. Red Line Athens 7 p.m. Donations accepted. instagram.com/firstofall.money.shock MAXUMA Three young guns with emotive hardcore and math rock influences. Album release party for What is with this Thickness? FERAL JOY Punky rock band with emo undertones “like chasing a Red Bull with a pint of Jim Beam.” ANGEL BARN Local three-piece playing original shoegaze and math rock. BEAT UP Athens punks resisting the darkest timeline. Southern Brewing Co., Monroe 7 p.m. www.sobrewco.com FUNKY BLUESTER Blues outfit inspired by traditional Chicago and Texas styles.

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Buvez 8:30 p.m. www.facebook.com/ theworldfamousathens MONSOON Three-piece outfit informed by punk, art-rock and new wave. ORANGE DOORS Dark psychedelic rock from Charleston, SC. GOODHOST New local instrumental rock band.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. (doors), 9 p.m. (show). $10. www.40watt.com HEFFNER Guitar-driven, power pop led by the Heffner twins. PERVERT New metal-punk band featuring members of Shade, Fart Jar and Bleachy Asshole. MCQQEEN Heavy-hitting post-punk band with echoed vocals and psychedelic leanings. Creature Comforts Brewery Athens Farmers Market. 5–8 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket. net VINYL STRANGERS Melodic local folk-rock band. (6 p.m.)

Monday 18 Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $29.50–33. www.georgiatheatre. com CITIZEN COPE Clarence Greenwood plays an idiosyncratic blend of blues, soul and rock. Georgia Theatre Rooftop 7 p.m. FREE! www.georgiatheatre. com AUSTIN MILLER Folk rock guitarist and singer-songwriter.

Tuesday 19 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. (doors), 9 p.m. (show). $7–10. www.40watt.com FUN ROOM Laid-back band

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatre andbar.com DR. FRED’S KARAOKE Featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more. 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. 5 p.m. (doors), 6 p.m. (music). $12 (adv.), $15. bit.ly/Underground Springhouse UNDERGROUND SPRINGHOUSE Athens-based “hype-chill rock-funk ensemble.” DR. BACON Asheville, NC party band blending funk, rock, blues, soul and folk. BIRD DOG JUBILEE Four-piece jam band from Atlanta. Tropical Bar Latin Hip-Hop Party. 9 p.m. $5. www.facebook.com/volumeshiphop GREENFIELD Atlanta-based songwriter drawing inspiration from his Colombian heritage and traveling abroad as a professional soccer player. DOT GATSBY Colombian hip-hop artist who has opened for Soulja Boy, Migos, Future, T.I. and more. KAPO SUCIO Multi-genre artist with a strong drill style of trap music. CALDEROKY Columbian artist heavily influenced by rhythms from the Pacific and Reggaeton. AYE CEE Member of the local hip-hop group The YOD, the rapper reps Texas with a slow and buttery flow.

Down the Line 4/21 Music in the Galleries (Georgia Museum of Art) 4/22 Dark Entries Karaoke (Buvez) 4/22 Ramblin’ Country Band (VFW (Post 2872)) 4/23 Music City Comes to Madison (Madison Morgan Cultural Center) 4/26 Funky Bluester (Southern Brewing Co., Monroe) 4/28 BRNDA, Coma Therapy, Null (The World Famous) 4/30 Kameron Marlowe (The Warehouse Athens) 5/7 Janet and the Blue Dogs (No. 3 Railroad Street) 5/8 The Lucky Jones (Cali N Tito’s Eastside) 5/9 The Musical Fireworks (Madison-Morgan Cultural Center) 5/13 Dark Entries Karaoke (Buvez)

pandemic protocols 40 Watt Club: proof of vaccination or negative COVID test within 72 hours Ciné: proof of vaccination or negative COVID test within 72 hours Flicker Theatre & Bar: proof of vaccination or negative COVID test within 48 hours Hendershot’s Coffee: proof of vaccination or negative COVID test within 48 hours The Lewis Room at Tweed Recording: proof of vaccination or negative COVID test within 48 hours Nowhere Bar: proof of vaccination or negative COVID test within 48 hours

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There is a Place SETH MARTIN DEBUTS HOME MOVIE

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hot between a serene, snowy winter in the small ski village of Girdwood, AK and a lush, blooming summer in the rural town of Arnoldsville, GA, Seth Martin’s new short film, There is a Place, embodies the nostalgia of a 16 mm home movie. Whether it’s a stunningly majestic, snowcapped mountain ridge or the surprise of a perfect little mushroom, Martin observes raw beauty within nature and appreciates it simply as it is. Glimpses of drifting clouds, stretching tree tops and flowers wavering in the breeze flick across the screen with gentle emphasis, replacing any sort of mundanity with a renewed admiration. Embellished with lettering by painter and muralist Marisa Leilani Mustard, There is a Place juxtaposes two destinations, 4,400 miles apart, to evoke ideas pertaining to a sense of home and seasons of our lives. “I try to pay a lot closer attention to the seasons and how they change, and how we as people and plants and animals change with them,” says Martin. “It’s so special to see a flower bud go from frozen to in full bloom as you walk by observing it on a daily basis. We are changing just like that flower bud, and our growth and death and rebirth is directly tied to the movements of nature.” Martin has lived in Alaska for five separate stretches so far: four consecutive summers between 2013–2016, and then the summer and winter of 2021. Summer seasons were spent working at a campground and a lodge on the Kenai Peninsula in Cooper Landing, where he also dedicated time to documenting his surroundings through photography. It was here that close friend and collaborator Rob

Hibbs began showing Martin guitar chords, and the two eventually played their first show as the Dish Boys at the pavilion behind the lodge. “The pure beauty of the place is what kept drawing me back,” he says. “It’s unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. The air up there is even different. There’s just been so much less industrialization, especially in the small towns.” In both Alaska and his home base of Georgia, Martin has a ritual of walking several miles a day, not only for exercise and practical purposes, but to set intentions, meditate and engage with nature on a consistent basis. His film encourages viewers to deepen their relationships to their surroundings, and let those experiences guide everyday choices and inspire art. “When I got back to Georgia and started living on this old farm property surrounded by creeks and dirt roads and tons of wildlife, there seemed to be a sort of parallel between the two, and that really piqued my interest,” says

Martin. “When I took a close look at what connected the two places for me, and how the daily walks influenced me to further consider the surroundings I was living in, the idea really took off.” The soundtrack to There is a Place was created by local guitarist and pedal steel player Matt “Pistol” Stoessel (Faye Webster, T. Hardy Morris, Cracker). Having previously visited Girdwood while on tour, Stoessel had even walked on the same trail where Martin shot the footage, and knew just how to portray the magic of the place through sound. The music first feels expansive, perhaps to fill wide-open landscapes, then picks up its pace and becomes tonally brighter to mirror the environment springing back to life. “The winter part is pretty lazy and feels like looking out the window of our cabin in Alaska while the fire rolls and it pours snow, and the summer part feels like you’re laying on the bank of the creek listening to the birds and mushrooms and running water play a song for you,” says Martin. The film premiere’s event will additionally include sets by Rare Form—a new rootsy Americana act with Rob and Garrett Hibbs of the Hibbs Family Band, Tyler Key, Rodney Sanders and Ryan Moore—and experimental pop violinist Annie Leeth, plus an all-vinyl DJ set by Eric Zock. Those who miss the film’s premiere will be able to find it at a later date on YouTube. f

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By Bonita Applebum advice@flagpole.com Hey Bonita, I was previously dating two people casually, and they recently told me that I needed to choose one, as they were seeking monogamous relationships. I chose the person I have the best connection with, as we have been dating the longest, but now that I’ve chosen, I feel that I may have made the wrong choice. Maybe the [connection] just seems the best because we’ve known each other longer, and had I given another person the same amount of time to get to know them then I’d have an even better connection with them. Also, it seems as soon as I made it official, things became serious and most of my time is now being occupied by the relationship. I doubt I can talk any one of these lovely people into going back to multiple simultaneous dating/getting to know you situations, but I feel like I should’ve pushed against this situation more, and I’m feeling regretful. Could it be a “grass is always greener” thing? Should I have given the other individual more time to get to know them? I’m feeling like I made the wrong choice because of the unknown, and I [don’t know] what to do about it.

Is it my fault for getting into this situation? I feel that I’ve hurt someone, and that makes me want to comfort them and be there for them as well. It seems that I cannot win, but having had two amazing partners to choose from isn’t really a true problem and seems more like a humble brag. Am I a douchebag? Is there even a right or wrong choice here? What moves could I make that [wouldn’t] be an absolute disaster, and also is this maybe just a normal feeling after choosing between two awesome prospects? Second Guessing Myself Hey there SGM, I know that what you’re going through right now doesn’t feel good, but I don’t see a situation that requires determining who or what to blame. This is just what it means to date others, and to date non-monogamously. Simply put, plenty of people won’t be into that and will not be willing to be part of an ethically non-monogamous dating model, no matter how much they

like you. It’s just not for some people, and the ethics of trying to “convert” others to the lifestyle can be muddy in terms of folks interpreting your encouragement to learn or try something new as an attempt to add them to your harem. That’s not fair, but people are allowed to say no to any and all things they don’t want, full stop. I don’t believe that there are any magic words that you could have shared with your paramours to convince them to both date you at the same time. You are also allowed to make ethical non-monogamy a non-negotiable for being with you, and you did not have to choose to be with either of them if they didn’t share this value with you. I wonder if the smothering and restlessness you feel is because you’re now having to pretend that you’re into monogamy, and not because there is something inherently wrong with the person you chose. You didn’t mention any fundamental differences between you and your boo, only that you felt like the relationship was now monopolizing your time. A big appeal of ethical non-monogamy is the freedom it

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Northeast Georgia’s last frost date approaches, thank goodness. Our chance of frost ends Apr. 15, so it’s a great time to seed cold-sensitive annuals like peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers. Best plant your last batch of spring veggies like lettuce, chard, beets or carrots now. They’ll need time to size up before the summer heat blazes. Can I use seeds I’ve had for a year (or three)?

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I sow legumes and root crops directly into garden rows. I know farmers who transplant beans, and farmers who transplant beets and other root crops. Try what makes the most sense to you. Transplants mean a leg up on weeds. That’s especially helpful for long-term crops like eggplants and peppers. Transplanted seedlings out-compete weeds by shading out the area closest to the plant and establishing a robust root system. You can use just about any container to start your seeds (yogurt cups, newspaper pots, standard cell trays, empty beer cans, etc.), but be sure to poke some holes in the bottom for good drainage. What kind of soil do I use for my seeds? Gardening centers proffer a dizzying display of seed-sprouting mixes. I am solidly “meh” on all these. I plant sprouted seeds into garden soil that’s a combination of clay and compost. I need them to survive in that environment, so I use that soil to germinate. I do mix a few handfuls of bagged soil with the garden soil when I need to baby some rare or expensive seeds (looking at you, Habanada pepper seeds). I try to use as little peat moss and coconut coir as possible. Peat moss is non-renewable, and coconut coir travels a long way, adding a sig-

nificant carbon footprint to those products. No shade if you want to use those products, but you don’t need them to have healthy seedlings. How deep do I plant these seeds? The rule of thumb I like to follow is twoand-a-half times the width of the seeds. For tiny seeds like broccoli, that’s the depth of a pencil eraser. Squash, a wider seed, gets planted past the thumb knuckle. Lettuce seeds need light to germinate, so I don’t cover them at all. I make a depression in the soil, place the seed in it and water it lightly. What about soaking seeds overnight? Or scarification? Scarification is scratching the outside of the seed coating to make it easier and faster for the seed to germinate. Soaking overnight accomplishes a similar purpose. Different seeds prefer different methods to encourage germination. One man complained about his poor lettuce seed germination after consistently soaking the seeds overnight. He drowned his lettuce seeds and then wondered why he never got any lettuce. Seed packets often include information on good germination practices. Seeds with a thick coating—think okra, pumpkin and gourd seeds—can benefit from measures such as soaking and scarification. I don’t use either method unless specifically directed by the seed company. I planted these seeds, and they’re not coming up! When I’m worried about germination, I dig up a few of the seeds to see what’s happening. A cracked seed shell with a root or tendril is a sign to add patience. One time, I started digging up a sad, empty row, and I couldn’t find any seeds. Then I remembered how many birds I’d seen when I planted that row—I think the birds stole the seeds. Watering consistently helps. I water my seeds almost every morning, with adjustments made for rain. I grow my first batch of seeds in small containers, so they can dry out fairly quickly with the March winds and Georgia’s warm spring temperatures. Seedlings repotted in 4-inch pots retain water better, so those get a drink every other day. Seeds can take three days or three weeks to germinate, depending on the type. Beans shoot out of the ground fast. Carrot tops amble along more slowly, often giving me a scare. If your seeds aren’t more than a year old, it might take a little more patience to see your garden grow. f

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