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On Friday, June 10, Mayor Kelly Girtz and members of the ACC government raised the Progress Pride Flag over City Hall after the commission formally ruled to recognize June as Pride Month.

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By Blake Aued news@flagpole.com The Athens-Clarke County Commission approved a $287 million budget last week that includes a slightly larger reduction to the property tax rate than Mayor Kelly Girtz had proposed.

The final version of the budget the commission approved June 7—proposed by commissioners Tim Denson and Carol Myers—sets the property tax rate at 13.1 mills, a tenth less than Girtz recommended and 0.6 mills below the current rate. But the county government will still collect about $9 million more in property taxes because property values rose an average of 16%.

The Denson-Myers budget includes raises for ACC employees and library staff, $500,000 for overtime in the sheriff’s department, a wage study, traffic calming, park maintenance and transitioning away from gas-powered leaf blowers, Denson said. The main difference between it and an alternative proposal put forward by commissioners Mike Hamby and Ovita Thornton was the use of federal American Rescue Plan Act funds.

“In reality, for the most part we are all in agreement, despite there being two [commission-defined options] tonight, with the mayor’s excellent FY23 budget,” Myers said.

The Hamby-Thornton CDO included a millage rate of 12.95, which would save the average homeowner about $10 compared to the Denson-Myers version. “What we were trying to do in our budget is look for ways to give a small but hopefully meaningful, greater property tax break,” Hamby said.

It would have cut funding for a Leisure Services master plan, park maintenance and a new position in the Human and Economic Development Department and shunted some expenses off into the ARPA, the nearly $60 million windfall ACC received from the Biden administration. Other commissioners, though, want to use ARPA for one-time expenses rather than to temporarily fund ongoing programs.

Next year, homeowners could see a break averaging about $100 if voters pass a referendum raising the homestead exemption from $10,000 to $25,000. The referendum also includes additional tax breaks for low-income homeowners.

“The housing values are going up. That’s very real,” Myers said. “That’s because the housing stock is limited. We have more people wanting homes, which increases the price. We need to address our housing stock issues, and we also need to continue to work on helping those on fixed and low incomes deal with their property taxes so they can stay in their homes.”

Neither version of the budget included raises for sheriff’s deputies beyond the 6% step increase for all public safety employees.

Sheriff John Q. Williams and several deputies appeared before the commission in a last-ditch effort to equalize pay between deputies and police officers—a disparity agreed to by the previous heads of local public safety departments.

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rounding counties where the starting pay is over $40,000 a year. “Bringing our deputies in at $39,000 a year is not going to cut it,” he said.

Both budgets did, however, include raises for workers at the ACC library, which is independent from the local government but relies on it for funding. Some currently make as little as $9 or $10 an hour, but the floor will now be $15.60.

The Hamby-Thornton budget failed by a 7–3 vote, with Hamby, Thornton and Commissioner Allison Wright supporting it.

The Denson-Myers budget then passed 9–1, with Wright the lone holdout.

The commission also passed several other weighty items during an at times contentious meeting that lasted more than four hours, including: OGLETHORPE COTTAGE COURT: A recently released “Missing Middle” report suggests that Athens-Clarke County has a housing crisis that it can only solve by increasing density in urban single-family neighborhoods. The report highlights a gap between single-family homes and massive apartment complexes, and suggests filling it with duplexes, quadruplexes and small apartment buildings in walkable neighborhoods like Normaltown and Five Points, or in suburban neighborhoods that could be made more walkable. ACC’s zoning code largely forbids such development, though.

However, a controversial “cottage courtyard” project off Oglethorpe Avenue near the Knottingham neighborhood suggests efforts to increase density will meet stiff resistance. About a dozen nearby residents came to the commission meeting to oppose the development, which will consist of 24 units—small cottages, duplexes and fourplexes—on a little under two acres. They cited concerns about density, traffic, parking and gentrification.

The project’s developers, though, said it will fill a niche by providing smaller dwellings in the $200,000–$300,000 range that homebuyers like couples without kids and empty nesters say they want but can’t find.

They asked for a rezoning and more than two dozen waivers, noting that, by right, a developer could build nine much larger $600,000 homes, similar to Jared York’s recent development near Bishop Park. The 1010 Oglethorpe development will include three below-market homes with assistance from Habitat for Humanity and the Athens Land Trust. It’s also required to have a homeowners’ association that will ensure none of the units become rentals.

“The only way we can get out of this housing crisis is by building housing,” said Commissioner Tim Denson, who represents the area. He was joined by commissioners Jesse Houle, Mariah Parker, Melissa Link, Russell Edwards and Myers in supporting the request, which passed 6–4.

Thornton, Hamby, Wright and Commissioner Patrick Davenport voted against the development, saying the commission should listen to the residents. “If it’s a zoning problem, fix the zoning prob-

AFFORDABLE HOUSING: The commission approved an application for a $30 million earmark from Sen. Raphael Warnock’s office for an affordable housing development in East Athens centered around Triangle Plaza and Athens Housing Authority-owned property in the Nellie B neighborhood.

While details are scarce, according to ACC’s application, the funds would be used to “initiate construction of a high quality village,” including multifamily and owner-occupied housing, minority-owned businesses and a nonprofit that prepares and distributes food. AHA Executive Director Rick Parker has offered up a vacant lot at the corner of Vine and Peter streets, and chef and entrepreneur Rashe Malcolm, founder of the nonprofit Farm to Neighborhood, volunteered property she owns in Triangle Plaza.

Meanwhile, the commission also agreed to fast-track $5.3 million in federal ARPA funding it previously earmarked for affordable housing, with the aim of spending it

by December rather than next spring or summer. “We do have a lot of stakeholder groups in the community that are ready to undertake projects; they just lack the funding,” Parker said.

COMPLETE STREETS: A new policy strengthens ACC’s commitment to safer streets for pedestrians, cyclists, wheelchair users and others, in addition to drivers.

“A complete streets policy shifts the focus of street design from being for cars to being for all users. So that’s all of us,” Lauren Blais, chair of the Athens in Motion transportation committee, told commissioners. “The focus changes from modes of transportation to people going places… that’s you, me and all of us, going to work, going to school, taking our children places, visiting friends and family.”

The policy is not a strict set of technical standards. Rather, it seeks to make promoting health and safety a part of every project, particularly in low-income and minority neighborhoods that have historically seen little investment, and where infrastructure

tends to be auto-centric despite many residents not owning cars. Solutions will be tailored to conditions on each street and each community’s needs.

PRIDE MONTH: The commission formally recognized June as Pride Month and will fly both the LGBTQ pride flag and a flag representing Juneteenth—a holiday celebrating the end of slavery—on an alternating basis during the month of June.

Thornton, however, raised eyebrows by voting against the resolution, authored by Parker, who identifies as queer. Thornton said she was concerned about opening the door for a group “I don’t like.” She called Pride Month “important” but wondered if the resolution was “tokenism.”

The newly renamed Athens Pride + Queer Collective requested the resolution.

Allen Jones, a former county commission candidate, spoke to the commission about why it’s so important. Jones said he was once beaten outside of the now-shuttered gay bar Boneshakers, and his former partner, “tired of bigotry and homophobia,” killed himself 10 years ago. “We need this,” Jones emphasized.

Jones also spoke about an incident on the campaign trail when his current partner, Shane, ran into his opponent, John Culpepper, and one of his campaign organizers, Tamaine Jordan. Jones said Jordan “rudely accosted [Shane] with questions about our sexual relationship, told him that, win or lose, he was going to run me out of town, then took pictures of Shane and posted them on his personal Facebook page, in between posts promoting his candidate, with the caption of ‘Allen Jones’ lover.’ On Election Day, he posted a video of himself where he said that [Culpepper] is the only ‘man’ in the race, and referring to me as ‘she’ and ‘sweet,’ common tropes used to belittle gay men.”

Jones said he brought the posts to the attention of Jordan’s employer, the Clarke County School District, but he said they remained up as of June 7. They appeared to have been taken down at some point later.

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Election 2: Runoff Boogaloo

THREE LOCAL RACES FOR COMMISSION AND CONGRESS ARE STILL UNDECIDED

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hile only a tenth of local voters are eligible to cast a ballot, political junkies across the city are watching the District 5 runoff because it could tilt the balance of power on the Athens-Clarke County Commission.

Both candidates are clear about where they stand in the officially nonpartisan race: Matt Pulver would be a commissioner along the lines of Mariah Parker, Jesse Houle, Russell Edwards or Carol Myers, all of whom have endorsed him. “I’m the progressive choice,” said Pulver, a writer and library assistant at UGA. “I’m running to continue the work of the past four years under Mayor Girtz and the progressive commission.”

Dexter Fisher, the recently retired director of operations for the Clarke County School District, calls himself a moderate, although he’s the one who earned Girtz’s endorsement in the runoff. “People have said that I’m a Republican, and Republicans are supporting my campaign,” Fisher said.

“I’m a Democrat. I’ve voted Democrat all my life.

“I’m a moderate,” he continued. “I’m a middle-of-theroad guy. People try to put me in a box, but I’m my own guy… My vote is going to be based on what the Fifth District needs.”

One issue that illustrates the differences between the two candidates is a controversial “cottage courtyard” development of 24 units on less than two acres near the Knottingham neighborhood off Oglethorpe Avenue in District 5. Citing a need for more housing stock and smaller, less expensive homes, the commission voted 6–4 last week to approve the development over the objections of neighbors who raised concerns about density, traffic, parking and gentrification.

Those complaints are valid, Pulver said, and he wishes the development were closer in-town, but Athens is growing and needs more housing. “We’re victims of our own success,” he said. “Athens is an amazing city, and everyone wants to live here, but when you have that much demand chasing too little supply, there’s always going to be upward pressure [on prices].”

Fisher agreed that affordable housing is a problem—”I hope we’re not getting in a position where we’re pricing people out of Athens-Clarke County,” he said—but he would have sided with the residents.

“I don’t know a whole lot about it, but I know folks in that neighborhood don’t want the development to take place,” he said before the June 7 vote. Later, he clarified that he would have voted against it. “Whenever there’s housing, it’s always on the backs of African Americans,” he said (most of the development’s critics are Black).

Both candidates said they were happy with the fiscal 2023 budget the commission passed the same night, in particular the decision to shave 0.6 mills off the property tax rate. Pulver said he is in favor of “providing some property tax relief at a time when those property tax [assessments] came out that led to a lot of sticker shock.”

Fisher said he would like to explore a tax freeze for seniors, and that ACC should be spending more money on youth programs to address gangs and violence. “We see what’s going on in our community, and if we don’t jump on it now, we may lose a whole generation because they don’t have anything to do,” he said.

Fisher goes into the June 21 runoff as a heavy favorite. He received 49.6% of the vote in the May 24 election, finishing just 21 votes shy of winning outright. A snafu with the Georgia Secretary of State’s office resulted in the District 5 race being omitted from 27 voters’ ballots.

“We were a bit disappointed,” Fisher said. “That could have been the difference between winning and going into a runoff, but we’re working hard and feeling good.”

Pulver was the second-place finisher with 27.2% of the vote, about 100 votes ahead of former commissioner Jared Bailey. “When I’m knocking on doors, the energy’s really good,” Pulver said. “Dexter had a really good showing the first time around, so it’s an uphill climb.”

10th District Republicans Republican voters will choose between Mike Collins and Vernon Jones for the Republican nomination in the 10th Congressional District to replace Rep. Jody Hice, who lost his bid to oust Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. The two candidates clashed at an Atlanta Press Club debate last week over who’s really a Democrat.

Jones—a lifelong Democrat until he switched parties in 2020 and became a favorite of Donald Trump—repeatedly asked Collins whether his father was a Democrat. Mac Collins, a longtime Republican congressman, was elected to the Butts County Commission as a Democrat in the 1970s but switched parties in 1980. Mike Collins, however, refused to answer the question and turned it around on Jones.

“His dad was a Democrat,” Jones said. “He was raised as a Democrat. It’s in his blood.” Collins replied: “[Jones] has spent his entire life as a Democrat, and his entire life as a corrupt career politician.”

Jones also accused Collins of soliciting Democrats’ support in a 2014 runoff with Hice, which Collins called “a lie.”

Jones bragged about attending an NRA conference in Texas in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting and questioned why Collins did not go. “Unfortunately, my opponent can’t raise money in the district, so what does he do?

He goes out there to con people into giving him money,” Collins said.

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Meanwhile, Collins wanted to know why Jones voted in the Democratic presidential primary and why he voted against the “heartbeat bill,” a state law passed in 2019 and later ruled unconstitutional that bans most abortions after six weeks. Jones said he voted for Trump in the general election and that the abortion bill wasn’t strict enough. “I took the same position Georgia Right to Life took, which is life starts at conception, not at six weeks,” Jones said.

At the time, Jones was a Democrat representing DeKalb County in the state House of Representatives. “This is just obvious,” Collins said. “Vernon Jones is a con man… A corrupt 30-year politician.” Collins added that he is “100 percent pro-life,” with no exceptions for rape, incest or the life of the mother.

Jones also attacked Collins for accepting a $1 million Paycheck Protection Act loan during the pandemic and accused him of pocketing it. Collins said his trucking company had 100 employees who needed food on the table, and in turn accused Jones of taking two PPP loans despite not having any employees.

When Collins referred to “Jan. 6 political prisoners,” Jones said he was there when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to try to stop Congress from certifying President Biden’s victory and asked Collins why he was not.

Collins said he caught COVID while serving as a vote-counting observer for the Dec. 30 runoff. “You did a fake quarantine,” Jones told him. “You hid.”

That race to the right on the Republican side gives Jessica Fore a glimmer of hope that a Democrat could pull out a surprise victory in the heavily conservative-leaning district. If nominated, the Athens resident said she will try to put together a coalition of Democrats, independents and Republican voters who are disillusioned with Trump.

“In the Georgia 10th, we wound up with Collins and Jones, who were just arguing about who was Trumpiest,” Fore said. “That’s the only way a Democrat can win.”

Fore won 20.3% of the vote in the primary, second to Sandersville nurse and medical transport company owner Tabitha Johnson-Green’s 42%. Johnson-Green’s campaign did not respond to an interview request.

Fore said she’d be the stronger candidate in November because she is well-known in Christian circles, having brought to light sexual abuse in the Presbyterian Church of America and now serving as a worship leader in the Methodist church. In addition, she pointed out that she lives in the district—Sandersville was drawn out of the 10th during post-Census redistricting earlier this year.

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Johnson-Green was the Democratic nominee in 2018 and 2020, losing to Hice by more than 20 points both times. “We’ve had two cycles knowing what the outcome is with Tabitha,” Fore said. “We know she loses. We know she did a couple of points worse than Biden [in 2020]. So we know she loses based on the past data.”

The tweaked district now includes all of Athens, incorporating the northern sliver that used to be in the 9th.

However, Cook Political Report still rates the district as solidly Republican. None of Georgia’s 14 U.S. House races are expected to be competitive in November, with nine seats drawn for Republicans and five reserved for Democrats.

Still, Fore cited her “nuanced” views on hot-button topics like abortion as one reason why she could attract conservative-leaning voters. “I’m a fiscally responsible Christian from Macon who used to be conservative in my 20s,” she said. That’s when she said she realized that progressive policies like access to birth control actually do more to prevent abortions than banning them.

On gun control, Fore said she’s in favor of “commonsense reforms” like background checks, red flag laws and raising the minimum age to buy firearms. She also supports expanded voting rights, indexing the minimum wage to housing costs, ending oil subsidies, universal health care and raising taxes on the wealthy.

According to her website, Johnson-Green supports Medicare for All, campaign finance reform, anti-discrimination legislation to protect the LGBTQ community, renewable energy, free tuition at public colleges and universities, eliminating cash bail and for-profit prisons, easing immigration laws, and gun-control measures like mandatory background checks and banning assault rifles and high-capacity magazines. f

Runoff elections are Tuesday, June 21. Voters who voted in either the Democratic or Republican primary in May can only vote in that same runoff.

Those who didn’t vote can choose either ballot.

Early voting is currently underway at the ACC Board of Elections office downtown and the ACC Library on Baxter Street and runs through Friday.

For more information, visit accgov.com/160/ Elections-Office or mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/.

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today. Lawmakers, policy experts and advocates hope that with the new law and a renewed focus on mental health, the state can break the cycle of repeated arrests of people in need of services. “The need for this is a paradigm shift in policing,” said Maj. Robert Gavin, who oversees the Savannah co-responder unit. Gavin said the stress and isolation of the pandemic added urgency to implement a change.

Members of the specialized teams connect people with mental health services on scene, schedule doctors appointments and even conduct follow-up visits. Out of the approximately 270 individuals they’ve encountered since the Savannah team began working in the community, only three were arrested who didn’t have outstanding warrants, according to the department. All others were directly connected to help. The unit has also conducted nearly 100 follow-up visits to check in with the individuals they’ve met.

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ometimes when Savannah Police Department officers are called to the scene of a crisis, those who respond Law enforcement officers say that they may not look like police at all. Officers have long shouldered the heavy responsiarrive in an unmarked Ford Explorer, bility of fielding calls from Georgians who wearing a simple blue polo and gray khaki need mental health support. It creates pants. Their SUVs offer more comfort than strain across the system, they say, with offithe usual police vehicle, with only a thin partition separating the front and back pas- cers responding to emergencies not related sengers. The seats are soft, not hard molded to crimes. And officers often are not trained plastic. No flashing lights line the top of the extensively on how to deal with someone in mental crises like psychosis or severe vehicles, and the department’s logo isn’t depression. They are left with few options emblazoned on the side. but to make arrests.

It’s part of an effort started in 2020 in Georgia House Speaker David Ralston the coastal city to respond to the growing mental health crisis—a way of de-escalating championed mental health reform during the 2022 legislative session. Ralston, a a tense situation without anyone getting hurt or the person being sent to jail, as was common in the past. “We have a very subdued look because in Savannah, a lot of people don’t want other people to see them with the police,” said officer Julie Cavanaugh. “So the person doesn’t feel like that they’re going to jail or that they’re encountering a police officer that’s in a full uniform.”

Cavanaugh and the behavioral health unit respond to community members in crises with the toned-down appearance. A key component is having a trained mental health professional with them.

Angela Spivy, a behavioral health clinician, rides with the team for 40 hours a week. They respond to anything from disorderly conduct Law enforcement officers watch as Gov. Brian Kemp signs Senate Bill 403 at the state Capitol May 9. calls to suicide attempts Republican from the small North Georgia to overdoses. Spivy fills a role that tradistruggled through nationwide lockdowns. mountain town of Blue Ridge, made clear tional policing hasn’t always included: an Advocates in the mental health and subexpert on scene who can diagnose individu- that a comprehensive mental health bill was stance abuse community said that the drug his No. 1 priority. Georgia has consistently als who may need mental health support. epidemic has also forced states to take a ranked the worst in the nation for mental It’s a change from previous tactics when hard look at where they start to curb the health services. Around the state, Ralston people suffering from mental crises were startling statistics. said he heard too many tragic stories from often arrested, a strategy that only exacer“Finally, people in communities across bated their issues and resulted in jails filling people with mental health issues who told Georgia will get a chance to get the medical him the easiest way to get help was to get up. Spivy provides a calm, professional help that they need and deserve, as opposed arrested. presence, able to talk people down from a to being another statistic in the crime sysThe state Senate followed suit on the breaking point. It means providing help and tem,” said Jeff Breedlove, with the Georgia saving lives and bringing a peaceful end to a issue and created Senate Bill 403, which Council on Substance Abuse. paves the way for the creation of “co-repotentially dangerous situation. sponder units,” teams made up of officers She referred to one recent call where a and mental health professionals who are man was waving a gun in public. She and trained to help individuals in crisis. Lt. Gov. her team managed to calm him and he was In the 15 years that Senior Judge David Geoff Duncan said the initiative can yield taken to the local mental health services Sweat sat on the bench as a superior court “long-term” results. “In my home county of center. judge for Athens-Clarke County, he said he Forsyth, I have seen firsthand the impact It was a situation, she said, that could saw the same faces over and over again. All that behavioral health professionals can have gone a lot differently. “I was able to too often, he said, those before him were have on law enforcement response efforts,” evaluate him and determined that it was not career criminals, but people in need of he said. a mental health issue,” she said. “Whereas mental health treatment.

Only around a dozen such teams, like any time before, that individual probably “Their legal problems were just a small the one in Savannah, exist within Georgia would have been arrested and taken to jail.”

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part of the challenges that they had in their life,” Sweat said. “Many had substance use disorders. Many had mental health or behavioral health diagnosis. And most often, they had a combination of both.”

The phenomenon is known in the criminal justice system as a cycle of “familiar faces.” And the same individuals were taking up a majority of the space in local jails.

Sweat said that a review of the Clarke County jail found that 38% of individuals behind bars were diagnosed with a behavioral health disorder. “Those individuals were likely to remain in jail three times longer than those who did not have a behavioral health disorder,” he said. “They were more likely to be convicted, and they were more likely to be rearrested within 12 months.”

Leaders in the criminal justice community like Sweat want people to get treatment, not jail time, as part of a growing effort to decriminalize mental health issues. Terry Norris, executive director of the Georgia Sheriff’s Association, said the state’s 143 jails and those across the country have become “de facto mental institutions nationwide.”

“We in law enforcement have been the first responders for all types of mental and other types of issues with people in our community,” he said.

Sgt. Robie Cochran, with the AthensClarke County Police Department, tracks individuals whom police encounter on a regular basis. Over one three-month period, he said, police responded to calls regarding one individual 49 times. The northeastern Georgia law enforcement office has three co-responder teams, after receiving funding from a federal grant in 2017 to kickstart the program.

“We’re linking people up to the resources that they need instead of taking them to jail, because it used to be that jail was the only option,” said Cochran, a crisis team supervising officer. “Now it’s ‘Hey, there’s resources out in our community that we can connect you to.’”

Cochran, who’s trained in crisis negotiation, works with mental health professional Katie McFarland, who is also a director at the regional behavioral health service provider. Not long ago, the pair responded to a frantic woman who had taken a butcher knife to her ears. “She was hearing voices,” Cochran recalled.

The situation previously may have ended with the woman involuntarily committed to a hospital, but after talking her down from the point of crisis, McFarland was able to organize almost immediate treatment— before the woman’s children arrived back from school that day. “We got her in, we assessed her, we safety-planned with her,” McFarland said. “We got her set up with a doctor’s appointment for, like, the following day. Robie got her something to eat, and she was home before those kids got off the bus.

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better. In the late ‘70s he tried to use his leadership to decrease our dependence on foreign oil. He pushed for more fuel-efficient cars and for turning down the thermostat and putting on a sweater. Suppose we had taken him seriously. That was 30 years ago! Think where we’d be right now if we had accepted Carter’s call to discipline.

We didn’t. We elected Ronald Reagan because he assured us that those sacrifices were unnecessary. Go on, turn up the thermostat; take off that tacky sweater; buy a new V-8; we’re Americans. It’s all good. If we have to fight a war for oil someday, we’ll just be patriotic and do what we have to do.

Plato pointed out that what’s at stake is the difference between the pastry cook and the physician. An ill child, if offered the choice, would rather have a sweet pastry than the bad-tasting medicine that would restore health. The country jumped at the chance to be sweet-talked by the upbeat

As talk of economic recession grows, I am reminded of the stories I heard growing up. My parents and their generation came of age during hard times. For the rest of the country, those hard times began with the stock market crash of 1929, when the high-rolling Roaring Twenties came to an end. Here in the South, the bottom fell out almost a decade before, when the boll weevil arrived and ate our one-crop cotton economy. The banks foreclosed on the farms, and then the banks failed, along with most businesses; the economy ground to a halt. By the time stockbrokers were defenestrating themselves in New York, most Georgians had learned to live without cash, let alone stocks and bonds.

Of course, at that time the South was mostly rural country and small towns.

People could at least grow something to eat. Cornbread, turnip greens, molasses and fatback—what we call soul food— got them through.

Money? Forget about it.

My mother taught high school English.

She and her teacher friends stopped by the drug store after class. The school board had no money to pay their salaries, so it issued scrip, sort of an IOU, and they used that scrip to buy a chocolate milk with President Roosevelt signs the Banking Act of 1935 to the delight of old a scoop of vanilla ice white bankers everywhere. cream floating in it.

Because the ice cream looked like a cotton boll, they christened Ronald Reagan instead of taking the medtheir favorite drink the Boll Weevil. At icine prescribed by Jimmy Carter. We’re least they had that English-teacher irony, still on that track, believing in spite of the proving the value of education even in hard evidence that we can still have our war times. and our tax cuts and that we don’t have to By the time I was in high school, our worry about all our out-of-work, uninsured history and civics books assured us that citizens because such losers are beneath our the Depression could never happen again, concern. Our government can rebuild Iraq, thanks to the safeguards put in place during but not America.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal.

It will take strong medicine to help us All that bad stuff happened in the ‘20s and recover from our illness. Here’s hoping ‘30s because people lacked government we’ve got the national will to fight back protection such as the Federal Deposit from the ruin that present policies have Insurance Corporation, the Federal Housing brought. It’s time for straight talk and Administration, Social Security, etc. strong medicine. Obama or Clinton, we The authors of those books could never must demand that they get our country out have foreseen or believed that we could of this war and into the mode of dealing ever have a President and a Congress intent with our own serious problems of health on tearing down those safeguards and discare, jobs, education, transportation and mantling the national government at home equality of opportunity. while fighting a financially and morally The citizens of Enterprise, AL, erected ruinous war abroad, and at the same time a monument to the boll weevil because it drastically cutting taxes and putting our taught them never again to rely on a onenation massively in debt to the communist crop economy. It’s time for us to do the Chineses. same for OPEC and kick the dependence By contrast with the present crowd, that addicts us to an economy based on oil President Jimmy Carter looks better and and war. f

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“And we haven’t seen or heard from her A small, rural police department, already since,” she added. “So that’s a beautiful stretched thin, likely wouldn’t be able to story when we don’t have to see them over form their own crisis teams, said Norris and over again.” with the Sheriffs Association. “Parts of the Breedlove knows all too well how things state where there are not many officers— can play out differently. In 2016, Breedlove really, not many people in general—and was arrested by DeKalb County Police while there are fewer mental health professionals, holding the position of chief of staff to a it’s just very difficult to insist that they county commissioner. The veteran political implement a co-response team,” he said. strategist had been battling drug addiction Sweat said they’re working on crafting for years. “I needed medical help for a dissolutions. He’s trying to push the idea even ease I have,” he said. “But their only option further to offset staffing issues by creating was to take me to jail.” a “civilian response team” in Athens-Clarke Now he serves as a top communications County, where no law enforcement officers and policy staffer for the Georgia Council would show up, at all—just a clinician, a on Substance Abuse and shares his story peer specialist and an emergency medical frequently with lawmakers at the Georgia technician (EMT).

Capitol while advocating for change. For Georgia’s omnibus mental health bill people in need of substance abuse help, he also passed last session, House Bill 1013, said, “Now they’re going to get a chance, that creates stringent parity laws for insurinstead of going to jail, to get the medical ance providers when it comes to covering help that they need to get better.” mental health treatment the same as Such an approach can also mitigate othphysical health. It also creates incentives erwise fatal interactions. Mental health crifor people to get into the mental health sis calls have been linked to officer-involved field through cancelable educational loans. shootings. Since 2015, about one in five But the challenges don’t stop by filling the individuals fatally shot by police nationwide positions needed to create successful co-rehad a previous mental health diagnosis, sponder teams throughout the state. according to a Washington Post database.

Julie Zemke, the behavioral health Of the 277 individuals killed by police in specialist on the co-responder team in the Georgia since 2015, 53 had mental health Forsyth County Sheriff’s Department, said illnesses. the program doesn’t work if they don’t have Sweat hopes the presence of a behavioral anywhere for people to go. Across the state, health specialist in law enforcement offices officials say, there is a lack of beds at mental statewide will result in less dire outcomes. treatment facilities—and the pandemic has “We know that these only magnified the cases—thankfully, problem, with more I think there’s become a rarely—but signifiand more people needcant numbers result ing help with no faciligreater recognition that in tragedies,” Sweat ties readily available. individuals are not necessarily said. “They often can “It’s even more result in injuries to evident the lack of having these problems because resources, certainly officers, and they are often difficult. I of a criminal nature, but because housing and transthink there’s become and access of their behavioral health issues. portation a greater recognition to mental health and that individuals are substance use pronot necessarily having these problems grams,” she said. “So we could be respondbecause of a criminal nature, but because of ing to a lot of things, but where we are their behavioral health issues.” routing people to is a major dilemma.”

Josh Bell, who works alongside Zemke, knows far too well how hard it is to get the help you need. He is the only co-responder peer support specialist in the state and does The law passed by the General Assembly follow-up visits and outreach in local jails. does not mandate that law enforcement “I’ve been in the shoes of a lot of these folks departments set up their own co-responder that we come across, whether they’re in jail units, for multiple reasons. or homeless or struggling to get into serAs with the law enforcement profession, vices,” he said. “I’ve been there.” hiring mental health professionals is a tall Bell also fills an important role: trying task as the need for services skyrockets. The to prevent another crisis from happening Athens-Clarke County Police Department again. But, he said, it takes every member has funding from the local government for of the team to make the program work. seven crisis unit teams, but it has only been “They have saved lives,” he said. “I’m conable to staff three. fident that Julie [Zemke] here saves lives “That is a huge challenge to find behavevery week.” ioral health providers—Georgia has a shortAdvocates are confident that the Georgia age,” McFarland said. “Additionally, this is General Assembly’s focus on mental health just a different type of job that they don’t parity and support this session is only the talk about in school. I didn’t go to school beginning. Stakeholders anticipate more for this. I didn’t know about this. This is so omnibus bills that deal with issues like lack new.” of resources to be introduced in the coming Members of the teams agree: It takes the years. f right kind of person to hop in a police car This story comes to Flagpole through a reporting and de-escalate a crisis situation with an partnership with GPB News, a nonprofit newsroom individual they don’t know. But they also covering the state of Georgia. GPB News is part of the say the payoff is worth it, when a person Mental Health Parity Collaborative, a group of newsgets treatment before tragedy. rooms that are covering challenges and solutions to According to the Rural Health accessing mental health care in the U.S. The partners Information Hub, 152 of Georgia’s 159 include The Carter Center, The Center for Public counties have a shortage of mental health Integrity, and newsrooms in Arizona, California, professionals. The counties not facing the Georgia, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Texas. problem are in metro areas.

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I totally understand why you’re sick of all that wishy-washyness, but I also fully get why you and this partner keep getting back together regardless of all the mess. Without having much more context of your situation, I’d say that five and a half years is a long time to be with someone these days, and that it signifies, at the very least, a level of comfort and familiarity that you and this person have achieved. Getting relationships started can be awkward

and uncomfortable learning experiences at times, and maybe neither of you feel like starting fresh with someone new when you know that Old Faithful will take you back after a period of separation.

Whether or not that’s a sign that points to a permanent breakup really depends on whether you want this person to remain a romantic presence in your life. Are you in love? Do you want to protect and fight for this person and your relationship with them, poor communication included?

I think that being able to walk away from a situation that does not serve you is a great thing, and even more so when you do that with the intention to return to that situation and repair it once things have calmed down. Maybe I’m being idealistic about how the making-up goes after y’all take time away, but I hope you’re returning to each other in the spirit of repairing and maintaining the relationship you’ve cultivated over the years.

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Then again, y’all might just have great sexual chemistry and enjoy the same media or something, who knows. Only you know if this relationship is just a security blanket, or if it’s actually something that you need in your life.

If it’s the latter, I would like to ask if you two have ever considered an ethically non-monogamous relationship style. Maybe you keep splitting up because certain needs are not being met in the relationship, or because you have different styles of dating and relationship maintenance. Maybe what you want in a partner has changed over the years, expectations and desires that your current bae just can’t meet. Ethical non-monogamy is a relationship orientation that lots of people identify with and thrive within, and plenty of long-monogamous couples have opened up their stagnant relationships to great success. It’s not a panacea by any stretch of the imagination, but there’s nothing wrong with learning more about ethical non-monogamy and having some low-stakes chats with your partner about it. Vice News, surprisingly, has tons of amazing articles

about non-monogamous and poly lifestyles that you should seek out.

Or maybe you know that this is the end. Perhaps you feel it in your heart that you’ve rode this relationship until the wheels have fallen off, and now the streets are calling your name. The making up and breaking up isn’t an indicator of anything beyond you two needing a change in your monogamous agreement, and you’re the one who knows whether that change is polyamory, couples counseling or calling it quits for good. It’s all about the way that this person makes you feel and whether or not you feel called to save this relationship in the face of its constant stopping and starting. You’re obviously not having much fun right now and need a change, but breaking up isn’t your only option. It is, however, a perfectly appropriate choice if that’s the one you end up making. f Need advice? Email advice@flagpole.com, or use our anonymous form at flagpole.com/get-advice.

SIDECAR (1072 Baxter St., 706-201-9216) is not exactly a proper restaurant, as its name suggests. Instead, it’s an add-on to Mimi Maumus’ home.made, a small and adorable room just off the dining room of her main gig that serves as a fun bar and a place for experimentation by chef and customers alike. It does not take itself too seriously. Find one of the little plastic animals hidden around the room, and you’ll get a dollar off your total. The final two pages of the menu (which is somewhat hidden under the table, hanging from a little hook and encased in a children’s book) have instructions for various card games, and there are packs of cards that you can grab off a small shelf that runs the length of the space.

The last half hour of operations brings halfoff prices, too.

The restaurant isn’t afraid to play around and mix things up, but it doesn’t feel like it’s too cool, just like a lark. A cocktail special on the chalkboard listed as Nerds & Tonic is actually a gin and tonic, made with a rhubarb-infused gin that does, in fact, blossom in the mouth like the classic crunchy candy. It’s delicious.

It’s light. It’s drinkable. The mint julep is a little too heavy on the crushed ice, served in a classic silver cup with a mound of ice like a sno-cone. There are beers, wines and a nice section of nonalcoholic cocktails to ease one’s transition (permanent or temporary) into sobriety.

The food is snacky and bar-influenced.

The FOMO burger is named so because the kitchen only makes 10 a night. Miss out, and you won’t have the chance to experience it. Like the best burgers, it skips ketchup entirely and relies on two thin, smashed patties on a bun cooked with an amazing amount of butter and combined with comeback sauce, cheddar, onions, lettuce and pickled green tomatoes. Served with a scattering of Zapps dill potato chips, it’s all savory, no sweet, and intensely meaty—one of the best burgers in town.

That said, it’s not my favorite thing on that menu. That goes to the smoked fish gyoza, tiny pockets of salty umami that come with a charred scallion sauce that adds some sweetness and is both tasty with the dumplings and unnecessary to enjoy them. One word of caution: Take a beat before you pop one in your mouth lest you burn your tongue in eagerness.

The charc bites, sort of upscale corndogs, are just as cute, shaped like fat triangles with rounded corners, each encasing a hunk of mortadella (although, really, it might as well be a cocktail wiener; the flavor

of everything around it overpowers the meat pretty effectively). They are served in a puddle of Creole mustard and diluted pepper jelly, a combination of condiments both utterly new and strangely familiar. The spring salad (little gem lettuce with English peas in celery pistou, sugar snaps, fromage blanc, compressed honeydew with black pepper and shaved prosciutto) is a big plate of veggies, better at the beginning of the meal where its delicate flavors can unfurl without being upstaged by salt bombs. Is it too delicate? Maybe a touch for a bar. A better opener is the snack plate of poached and chilled shrimp (big, firm, flavorful) and SARAH ANN WHITE

At what point do you just call it quits in an on-and-off relationship? My partner and I have been together for almost five and a half years altogether. In that time there have been a lot of breaks. I think the longest we’ve consistently stayed together was just over a year, and the longest we’ve been apart is about eight months. I know this isn’t a lot of information to go off of to accurately sum up a relationship, but I think our biggest problem is that we’re both extremely stubborn and set in our ways.

This isn’t a “toxic” on-and-off, but we don’t communicate very well, either. Is being able to walk away so much just a sign we shouldn’t be together?

pickled okra redolent of malt vinegar, plus a little container of shmancy cocktail sauce.

It’s cold and wonderful, full of different briny flavors hanging out together.

The plates aren’t tiny, and they aren’t huge. Five seems about right for two folks, so it’s not a super cheap meal, but the ingredients are good, and the kitchen aims to please while subtly slipping in a little challenge. Dessert is nice, too, with the chocolate ice cream with miso caramel and black sesame crunch (yay for savory again, although the wee crystal-stemmed bowl it’s served in is a little too small to contain it, meaning you’re likely to send some sesame crunch across the table) besting the strawberry pistachio blondie (perfectly nice but less interesting). You could have a full meal, or you could just get a cocktail and a dessert, or you could opt for a bucket of beers and hang out for hours, munching on pepper jelly pecans and cheese straws or enjoying some nice oysters on the halfshell. It’s flexible, depending on your needs and desires, which should help it find an audience that’s a bit different from home. made’s, but no less loyal. The kitchen at Sidecar is open Wednesday through Saturday from 5–9 p.m., but the bar stays open until 10 or 11 p.m. There is theoretically outdoor dining, with heaters when the weather is cold, but it isn’t always set up. f

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Despite its influence in record stores across the United States, the collective Elephant 6 Recording Company—an umbrella for Olivia Tremor Control, Apples in Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel and countless others—has enjoyed relatively little media attention since its loose inception in the late 1980s. Though Athenians may be all but inundated by talk about them, little is known nationally about the group of artists who created some of the most influential albums of the late 1990s, and in large part helped to spawn the underground indie and alternative movements of the time. One of the group’s defining features was a lo-fi philosophy—not just in their music, but in the way they presented all facets of their art, as authentic and imprecise. So, when filmmaker Chad Stockfleth released his 2019 documentary, Elephant 6 Movie (formerly entitled A Future History of: The Elephant 6 Collective), exclusively on VHS through a charming, if a little anachronistic, method of distribution which involved calling a number found only on flyers in certain record stores and having the film mailed to you, it was clear he had embraced that philosophy fully. If that all sounds like too much to you, or if you no longer own a VCR (who does?), Flicker is showing the film for free. [Patrick Barry]

Bunneroo, a two-day festival promising “music, art, food trucks, vendors, paint and tie dye stations, bouncy house, garden games, dance parties and more!” The musical lineup promises to be entertaining, with a diverse schedule of over a dozen performers each day. The festival will feature sets by the Athens Middle East Orchestra, Almighty Strange Ducks, John Fernandes, Lea Lea, Afro Kenobi, White Rabbit Collective and others. Rabbit Hole Studios provides lowcost workspaces for artists and creatives in the Athens area, but also frequently holds festivals and events. This year’s festival features a lineup of talented musicians from Athens and beyond, and is one of Rabbit Hole’s largest festivals yet. [PB] EVENT | SUN, JUNE 19

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June 18 is the last day to catch Los Angeles-based artist Mimi Lauter’s enthralling works in person. Since mid-May, visitors to the newly relocated Tif Sigfrids gallery on Finley Street have been able to view seven recently created paintings. A running theme in Lauter’s work is the mysticism of the natural world, which she explores through combining abstract natural forms and color palettes with hints of imagery that buries itself deep in the subconscious. Lauter’s work is informed by the post-impressionist movement, which sought to continue the aspects of impressionism that made the style Mimi Lauter so appealing (vivid color, painting reception, attendees can meet the artist, from life), while simultaneously rejecting but the collection will be on view Sundays the aspects that artists found limiting. or by appointment through July 28. At Many post-impressionist works are signifiMorton Theatre, nonprofit organization cantly more abstract and geometric than The Progressional invites attendees to “an their traditional counterparts, and Lauter’s experience of soulful expression, worship work is no exception. Her work challenges and compelling content” to honor the past ideas of form while still remaining remarkthrough education, celebrate the present ably organic. Visit Tif Sigfrids to see it for through empowerment and bring purpose yourself. [PB] to the future. This program takes place MUSIC | JUNE 20–21 from 6–8 p.m. The first annual Juneteenth Independent Arts Festival will take place at Paloma Park from 5–11 p.m. This event will highlight music, spoken word artists and fashion with performances Rabbit Hole Studios • 3 p.m.–12 a.m. • $10/

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By Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com GOO GOO MUCK: On Aug. 30, The Humms, those well-established vanguards of American garage rock with a distinctly backwoods flair, will release a new LP, the group’s first in nearly two years. It’s aggressively titled Pelzer Fuck Club, presumably named after the absolutely tiny town of Pelzer, SC, which, all things considered, probably makes this a very exclusive club.

That said, you can submit your preorder now for digital, cassette tape or vinyl. The first two tracks to be released are “Burn One Off” and “Golden Bears.” The former dunks its donut deeply into the propulsive caveman swamp stomp The Humms have often trod, and the latter grooves along a relatively hardcore tiki-beat chant that is so far from the beach you may never find the water. Check it all out over at gypsyfarm records.bandcamp.com, and follow along at face book.com/thehumms.

coordinated and hosted by DJ Dwain Segar, will host—along with Aubrey Entertainment—saxophonist Dwan Bosman at the Rialto Club at Hotel Indigo Sunday, June 19. Doors are at 5 p.m. and Bosman will play two sets, one at 6 p.m. and one at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. To explore Bosman’s work, please see dwanbosman.com, and to learn more about the Segar Jazz Affair, please see facebook.com/Segarjazzaffair.

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THE RADIANCE OF TERROR DREAMS: As long as

you’ve got that credit card out of your wallet, you might go ahead and consider preordering the new album by of Montreal. It comes out digitally July 29 and is titled, with full text stylization, Freewave Lucifer f<ck f​^​ck f>ck. There’s some meaning behind the name explained in the album notes, but you’re gonna have to go read those yourself.

The physical album comes out Sept. 9, and the band will celebrate with a show at the 40 Watt Club the night before. The lead single, “Marijuana’s A Working of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes Woman,” is a funk-lite tune that goes through “Midsummer’s Eve Show,” patrons this a few different movements and touches night will be treated to performances by a on psych, tape manipulations and more. handful of Athens’ most expansive and creAs always with of Montreal, it’s catchy and ative artists. Namely, Goddess Complex, potentially earwormy. Find this and preorLola Jean Darling, Group Grope, Space der at ofmontreal.bandcamp.com, and for Brother and MRE. That’s it. That’s your more information, please see ofmontreal. notification. Vaya con dios. net and facebook.com/ofmontreal.

SPIRITS IN THE MATERIAL WORLD: It’s been a hell of a long time since I mentioned Ghost Dad The Robot in this column. Fact is, this long-running project is highly enjoyable and, in its best moments, positively channels the work of Alan Parsons and Steely Dan. The group will play Boar’s Head Lounge Saturday, June 18. Also on the bill is E.W. Harris & Company. For more information, please see facebook.com/ GhostBot00, and review your homework at ghostdadtherobot.bandcamp.com.

WORKS EVERY TIME: The Segar Jazz Affair, the long-running smooth jazz program

LET THE SUN SHINE: The Sunflower Concert Series at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia is underway, having clocked two shows already. Upcoming shows in the series are old school and contemporary R&B group The Original Splitz Band (July 12), Klezmer Local 42 with opening act Mary Sigalas and the Hotty Hots (Aug. 23), and bona fide legend Randall Bramblett (Sept. 27). These shows are limited to 45 attendees, and advance tickets are $17 for adults and $5 for children ages 4–13. I guess kids under 4 count as carry-on items.

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From the Stage to the Wall FLICKER PRESENTS JEFF RAPIER, J.D. PINKUS AND MORE

By Jessica Smith music@flagpole.com

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ON THE WALL: A longtime fixture of the AthRay (Ratio Podcast), Jack Slayton, Chris ens music scene, Jeff Rapier has performed McNeal (Maserati), Nick Bielli and Kevin with a handful of bands over the years, Sweeney (Hayride), Christian DeRoeck including Donkey Punch, American Cheeseburger and The Dumps.

Appearing on the cover of this week’s Flagpole holding his portraits of musicians J.D. Pinkus and Matt Freeman, Rapier has also spent the past few years expanding his creative expression into visual art-making.

Currently on view at Flicker Theatre and Bar, his first-ever exhibition pays tribute to both the musical legends who influenced him as well as the dear friends who keep him going.

Turned on to music as a kid, Rapier discovered punk and alt-rock during his teenage years and moved to Athens at the age of 18, where he quickly fell in with kindred spirits.

While always fascinated with art, it wasn’t until 2018 that Rapier began creating paintings of his own. After he was sidelined with a knee injury, his girlfriend at the time gave him a set of watercolors, pencils and paper.

With not much else to do at the time but draw, he quickly fine-tuned J.D. Pinkus his unique approach of quick, loose brushstrokes.

Heavily inspired by rock poster art, other (Little Gold) and Jim Wilson (Los Cantares). influences include MAD magazine, VHS “If I got someone on my mind and I’m cover art, EC comics, Raymond Pettibon, in that focused mood, or if I’m obsessed rock and roll photography and outsider with a song or artist, boom,” says Rapier. art. Working primarily with ink and pen“No method to the madness. It’s like a song cil, Rapier references photographs to help stuck in your head, and you have to listen to get his portraits just right. Some reveal it to purge it.” his personal tastes in music, like David Though managing symptoms of bipolar Bowie, Lemmy Kilmister (Motörhead), disorder, ADHD, depression and insomnia, Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees) and New Rapier has found making visual art to be a Bomb Turks. Many are inspired by friends positive outlet for exploring ideas and proand fellow local musicians, such as Jason cessing experiences.

“Mohawk” Richardson (Savagist), Johnny “I get hyper focused when I’m on the

upside, and have to fill the hours, funnel the energy into something positive so I don’t spiral down,” says Rapier. “It’s a ball of energy that I would rather focus on the positive.”

Rapier’s artworks are joined on Flicker’s iconic orange wall by those of Gary Autry, a friend he first met in 1998 while working together during third shift at The Grill.

When Autry relocated back to the South after a number of years spent in California, the two made a pact to do something awesome together, and here they are.

Autry’s distinct style vibrates with hallucinogenic energy. Rather than following the traditional approach of filling spaces in with solid colors, dizzying lines zig-zag and swirl their way across the images to add pattern and detail. These stripes of color guide the eye around geometric forms and are capable of drawing the viewer deep into a meditative headspace. Unusually, Autry often illustrates his works using Posca pens on top of black backgrounds, creating visual depth.

Rapier and Autry’s artwork will remain on view through the end of June.

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ON THE STAGE: Best known for his work with psych-punk legends Butthole Surfers, bassist Jeff “J.D.” Pinkus will perform on banjo in conjunction with an art reception for Rapier and Autry at Flicker on Friday, June 17 at 7 p.m. The show can be considered something of a homecoming for Pinkus, who briefly found himself immersed in the ’80s Athens music scene as a teenager before getting recruited by the Butthole Surfers and eventually following the band back to its home base in Texas. Active in Butthole Surfers from 1985–1994, Pinkus went on to play with Daddy Longhead, Areola 51, Honky and Pure Luck as well as west coast sludge metal wizards Melvins.

As the story goes, after 35 years in Austin, TX, Pinkus packed up his wife, dogs, banjo and a bag of mushrooms, then headed to the Appalachian mountains of Western North Carolina roughly two years ago. He’s currently touring behind his second solo “spacegrass” banjo album, Fungus Shui, which was released last August via ShimmyDisc, a label run by fellow Butthole Surfers alumnus Mark Kramer.

Written, recorded and mixed by himself at Plastic Cannon Studio in Asheville, NC, the album is equal parts bluegrass and psychedelic folk, using his pedalboard to twist and warp the perception of time and sound. His trippy freak-banjo style combines elements of nostalgic Americana with gritty punk rock rawness.

The lineup for this evening also includes Vansplainer, a trio composed of members from The Dictatortots who play a heavy, pummeling concoction of sludge metal and stoner rock. Rounding out the night is Electric Dreamz Karaoke. f

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40 Watt Club 8 p.m. (doors). $30. www.40watt. com FRED ARMISEN Professional musician and stand-up comedian with jokes centered around the musical experience.

DEF RAIN Synth-heavy space pop from North Texas.

Ciné 8 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com KARAOKE WITH THE KING Sing your heart out to a huge selection of songs. First three Tuesdays of every month.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8 p.m. $10. www.flickertheatreand bar.com POOSE THE PUPPET Puppeteer and musician emphasizing mental health and positive imagery.

COOKIE TONGUE Theatrical freak folk puppetry duo.

PEEPA SHOW Members of Immaterial Possession present surreal performance art.

SHORT No info available.

TURTLE GRENADE New-to-town indie “folk-ish” singer-songwriter for fans of Neutral Milk Hotel and Kimya Dawson.

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

dance celebration that highlights local performers.

Festival Hall 6:45 p.m. $20. www.festivalhallga. com JAZZ LEGACY PROJECT “John Coltrane: The Beauty of the Struggle” is the second of a three-art jazz series hosted by the Festival Hall this year. Narrated by drummer Justin Varnes, the program includes seminal jazz pieces to illuminate the narration.

EVERGREENE Local folk-rock country band with sisters Helen, Elisa and LilyGarcia-Carereras.

Hendershot’s Coffee 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershots athens.com

arrangements of standards and originals. (7–10 p.m.)

Buvez 7–10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook. com/darkentriesathens DARK ENTRIES KARAOKE Sing your favorite song from a curated catalog of classic to modern goth, post-punk, punk and industrial.

Downtown Greensboro 10th Annual Pickin’ on the Greene.

7 p.m. FREE! www.downtown greensboroga.com WIM TAPLEY AND THE CANNONS Dangerously catchy pop band fronted by Washington, D.C. transplant Wim Tapley.

AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL Atlanta-based band covering ‘90s hits.

IGBAthensGA MARY & THE HOT HOTTIE HOTS Led by Mary Sigalas, the band plays hot jazz and swing music from the ‘10s, ‘20s and ‘30s for your nostalgic partying pleasure.

The Root 10 p.m. FREE! www.therootathens. com DIABLO SANDWICH & THE DR. PEPPERS Local all-star Southern rock band blending country, jazz and more.

Southern Brewing Co. 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $10. www.facebook.com/AubreyEntertainmentAthensGA NIGHT FEVER New five-piece band fronted by Jason Fuller and

Wednesday 15 Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreand bar.com DR. FRED’S KARAOKE Featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more.

Georgia Theatre 9:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgia theatre.com THE MADISONS Started in 1995

by Lizzie Harrah, the trio has a classic sound playing saloon-style jazz to smooth R&B. International Grill & Bar 7–9:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook. com/IGBAthensGA THE BACUPS Cover band playing the best of pop, rock and roll, R&B, Motown and country.

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

Red Line Athens 7 p.m. (doors), 7:30 p.m. (show).

Donations accepted. flogamocker77 @gmail.com ROUGH DREAMS Knoxville space punk.

EL ESCAPADO Nashville skate punk.

WYLD STALEYZ Shredding ‘80s dad rock for the soul.

COMMUNE New local femme punk shouting anthems of angst and social regret.

SLINK Local band pioneering a new wave of emo.

Thursday 16 40 Watt Club 7 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com RAK THE WATT Annual belly

Bluegrass Confidential will perform at Athentic Brewing Co.’s 2nd anniversary celebration on June 17.

HENDERSHOTS JAZZ JAM Open jazz jam held every third Thursday of the month featuring the accompanying house band Unstarched.

Hotel Indigo 5:30–8 p.m. FREE! www.facebook. com/AubreyEntertainmentAthensGA AVERY DEAKINS Local blues artist blending country, rock and ‘70s easy listening.

The Pity Party 8 p.m. $5–10 suggested donation. maizyelizabethstell@gmail.com BOSQUES FRAGMENTADOS Nature punk from New Orleans.

SMOKEFRAWG Local Appalachian noisecore.

World Famous 10 p.m. $3 requested donation. johnhampton8@gmail.com SMALLVILLE Emo trio from Nashville, TN. FERAL JOY Punky rock band with emo undertones “like chasing a Red Bull with a pint of Jim Beam.”

EXIT ROW Baroque pop leanings driven by guitar. With members of Nuclear Tourism, Newport Transplant and Eagle Scout.

NEEDLE TEETH Local “sparkle-punk/angst-pop” band.

Friday 17 Athentic Brewing Co. Athentic’s 2nd Anniversary Celebration. 2–11 p.m. FREE! www. athenticbrewing.com BLUEGRASS CONFIDENTIAL Bluegrass band playing complex

Flicker Theatre & Bar 7 p.m. (doors). $10 (adv.), $15. www.flickertheatreandbar.com JD PINKUS Asheville-based musician and former member of Butthole Surfers.

VANSPLAINER Local punk band.

ELECTRIC DREAMZ KARAOKE Sing your heart out.

Georgia Theatre Rooftop 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show).

FREE! www.georgiatheatre.com THE ENEMY High-energy hip-hop artist Trvy performing with his jazz-influenced band.

RHYAL KNIGHT Americana band influenced by a blend of retro soul and nuanced jazz with subtle folk and funk overtones.

ANNIE LEETH Local experimental violinist and multi-instrumentalist composer.

Hendershot’s Coffee 6:30 p.m. $20 (dinner and show), $10 (show only). www.hendershots athens.com ATHENS MIDDLE EASTERN ORCHESTRA The group will play music from Egypt, Turkey, Israel, Syria and more while guests enjoy a night of shawarma and falafel.

Innovation Amphitheater 6:30 p.m. (doors), 7:30 p.m. (show). $25. www.innovation amphitheatre.com THE MAD HATTERS Faithful Tom Petty tribute band.

International Bar & Grill 7 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/

Ansley Stewart playing yacht rock classics.

Saturday 18 Athentic Brewing Co. Athentic’s 2nd Anniversary Celebration. 1–11 p.m. FREE! www. athenticbrewing.com JACK MILLER & JIM GREENE An evening of live blues. (4 p.m.)

DENNIS & BRAD’S GREAT BREWERY TOUR Dennis O’Hagan and Brad Wehlitz play multiple instruments and cover genres from Americana to punk. (7–10 p.m.)

Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmers market.net BOB HAY Veteran Athens musician and former member of The Squalls.

(8 a.m.)

SWING THEORY Big band jazz and swing. (10 a.m.)

Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/pages/ The-Boars-Head-Downtown GHOST DAD THE ROBOT Electronic space rock with sci-fi influences.

E.W. HARRIS & CO. Diverse experimental songwriter.

Boutier Winery & Inn 8 p.m. $10. www.boutierwinery.com OWL CREEK BAND Classic and southern rock.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8 p.m. $12. www.flickertheatreand bar.com

CUMGIRL8 Post-punk band from Brooklyn.

NIHILIST CHEERLEADER Local dance punk band.

BASICALLY NANCY Riot grrrl band from Savannah.

Front Porch Bookstore 6 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ Front-Porch-Book-Store THE HOBOHEMIANS Six-piece acoustic band performing American and European roots music of the 1910s–30s.

Georgia Theatre Rooftop 8 p.m. (doors), 9 p.m. (show). $12–15. www.georgiatheatre.com LATIN NIGHT DJs will keep the audience dancing all night at this masquerade carnival-themed party.

Hendershot’s Coffee 8 p.m. www.hendershotsathens.com THE ORIGINAL SCREW TOPS Local band that plays original blues as well as its own take on old time classics.

Innovation Amphitheater 6 p.m. (doors), 7 p.m. (show). $25. www.innovationamphitheatre.com FRANKLY SCARLETT Grateful Dead cover band.

International Bar & Grill 5 p.m. $5. www.facebook.com/IGB AthensGA BABBLER Atlanta rock band.

RUNNING RIOT Punk rock band.

GROUNDS CREW Atlanta-based rock trio.

MELLOWPOOL Atlanta alternative psychadelic funk metal band.

Southern Brewing Co. 2:30 p.m. FREE! www.sobrewco. com JIM COOK Local solo performer playing acoustic blues, classic rock and Americana.

Sunday 19 Boutier Winery & Inn Wine Down Father’s Day Sunday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.boutierwinery.com DENNY MARTIN Live acoustic music.

Cali N Tito’s Eastside 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.facebook. com/theluckyjones THE LUCKY JONES Old school rockin’ rhythm and blues. Tonight’s performance is a special Father’s Day show.

Creature Comforts Brewery 3–5 p.m. www.creaturecomforts beer.com LIVE JAZZ Every Sunday afternoon.

Paloma Park Juneteenth Independent Arts Festival. 5–11 p.m. www.facebook.com/ PalomaParkAthens IAMTHEDOT Versatile independent hip-hop artist.

MULA MEECH Longtime local rapper.

OBADIAH DESAVIEU No info available.

AFRO KENOBI Local lyricist embodying classic hip-hop.

SAYII RIVALE Athens-based hiphop artist and engineer.

MOLLY TU HOTT Energetic hiphop artist with flows to dance to.

LILONE THE DON Hip-hop artist.

NIÑO BROWN Award-winning hip hop project of musician Cortez Garza.

TAYLOR & TYLOR Brothers performing R&B music.

Rialto Club 5 p.m. (doors), 6 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. (two sets). $15 (adv.), $20. bit.ly/ SegarJazzJune19 THE SEGAR JAZZ AFFAIR WXAG radio DJ Dwain Segar curates a night of smooth jazz, featuring saxophonist Dwan Bosman.

Monday 20 Rabbit Hole Studios Bunneroo 2022 Summer Solstice Festival. 1 p.m. $10 (day), $15 (advance two-day festival pass). www.rabbitholestudios.org/festivals BUNNEROO In addition to artists, vendors, food trucks a bouncy house and inflatable pool, performers include Cath & Embreis, Iris, Lisa Love, Lea Lea, Julia Nyunt, Atlanta Land Trust, Radha Rose, MYNAWA, Athens Middle East Orchestra, Cardynalflies, Climbing Cedars, Almighty Strange Ducks and Firepit Fam Jam Band.

Tuesday 21 Buvez 7:30 p.m. $8. www.facebook.com/ buvezathens GODDESS COMPLEX Athens-based avant-garde project led by composer Cloud Powers.

GROUP GROPE Analog synth beats influenced by classic Chicago house and Detroit techno.

SPACE BROTHER Electronic- and hip-hop-influenced sounds from local musician Donald Whitehead.

MR.E Audiovisual project of Ethan T. LaPaquette.

LOLA JEAN DARLING Ethereal electronic artist from New Orleans.

Ciné 8 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com KARAOKE WITH THE KING Sing your heart out to a huge selection of songs. First three Tuesdays of every month.

Rabbit Hole Studios Bunneroo 2022 Summer Solstice Festival. 1 p.m. $10 (day), $15 (advance two-day festival pass). www.rabbitholestudios.org/festivals BUNNEROO In addition to artists, vendors, food trucks a bouncy house and inflatable pool, performers include Allen , Julianne Merrit, Meta Forest, John Fernandes, Grandfather, Ricky B, Official LB, Dexter, DK, Dexx, Afro Kenobi, Frank the Eagle, Squeeze the Squid, Phases of Alexandria, White Rabbit Collective, Ostrich, MedX and Jiig.

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

Wednesday 22 Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreand bar.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 Wednesday nights over dinner.

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

Art 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 an online proposal form. Deadline Sept. 20. beth.sale@accgov.com, accgov. com/lyndonhouse GEORGIA ON MY MIND (Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library) Opening July 22, “Georgia on My Mind: Finding Belonging in Music” is an upcoming exhibition exploring the state’s music history through genres, spaces, places and performers. Community members are invited to loan items from their collection like ticket stubs, flyers and photos. Deadline July 15. tinyurl. com/t3vwdp56 JOKERJOKERTV CALL FOR ARTISTS (Online) JOKERJOKERtv is open to ideas and actively accepting proposals for collaboration from visual/musical/video artists and curators living in Athens. Artists worldwide can also submit music videos, short films, skits and ideas to share with a weekly livestream audience. www.jokerjokertv.com/ submit OPEN STUDIOS (Lyndon House Arts Center) Studio members have access to spaces for painting, printmaking, photography, ceramics, jewelry, fiber and woodworking.

Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. $65/month. www. accgov.com/7350/Open-StudioMembership

Auditions A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (Town & Gown Players) Register for an audition time and check out character breakdowns online. June 20–21, 7-10 p.m. www.townandgownplayers.org

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. www.jaysonsmith.com/teacher AQUA AEROBICS (Memorial Park Pool) Try out a variety of stretching, limbering and weight routines set to music in the pool. Tuesdays–Thursdays, 6–7 p.m. Saturdays, 10–11 a.m. $5/class. 706-613-3580 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. Watercolor painting workshops include “Trees and Foliage” (July 12, 6:30–8:30 p.m.),

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“Effortless House Portraits” (July 13, 6:30–8:30 p.m.), “Clouds and Skies” (July 19, 6:30–8:30 p.m.) and “Petals and Blooms” (July 27, 6:30–8:30 p.m.). Acrylic painting workshops include and “The Human Eye” (June 21, 6:30–8:30 p.m.) and “Absolute Beginner Basics” (July 24, 1–3 p.m.). Workshops cost $45. www.kaartist.com ART CLASSES (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) “Beginning & Intermediate Acrylic Painting” includes demonstration, discussion and one-on-one guidance. Thursdays, July 14–Aug. 11, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. $160–210. “Discovering Water Mixable Oils” covers the basics of working with fume-free oil paints.

Thursdays, July 14–Aug. 11, 12:30–2:30 p.m. $160–210. Both courses are taught by artist Lauren Adams. www.ocaf.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 NATURAL DYE WORKSHOP (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation: OCAF) Beatrice Brown leads a twoday workshop covering the basics of natural dyeing processes including extraction of the dye from botanical materials. July 9–10, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. $175–225. www.ocaf.com OPEN/COMMUNITY MEDITATION

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(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.healingarts centre.net PAINTING CLASSES (Private Studio on Athens Eastside) One-on-one or small group adult classes are offered in acrylic and watercolor painting. Choose day workshops, ongoing weekly classes or feedback sessions. laurenadamsartist@ icloud.com POTTERY PERSPECTIVES WORKSHOP (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Lora Rust will share her unique process in “Pushing the Surface of Clay,” a workshop covering surface design, glazing and firing methods. Aug. 27–28, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. $175–225. 706-769-4565 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 (Elixir Movement Arts, Mercury A.I.R.) Build a yoga practice, deepen connections to yourself and others, and learn to use yoga in everyday life. “Vinyasa Flow” is offered Mondays and Wednesdays, 10 a.m. $10/class. shelleydowns yoga@gmail.com, www.shelley downsyoga.offeringtree.com YOGA TEACHER TRAINING (Shakti Power Yoga Athens) Deepen your practice and learn to teach others in person and online during this 200hour yoga teacher training. July 9–15. 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

Events ACCA EVENTS (Athens Community Council on Aging) “Juneteenth Display and Luncheon” is held June 17 at 10 a.m. “Cognitive Screening with UGA’s CARE Center” is held June 22 at 10:30 a.m. “Trip to Jim-Ree African American Museum in Elberton, GA” is held June 23 at 10:30 a.m. www.accaging.org ACC LIBRARY EVENTS (ACC Library) “Talking About Books Book Club” will discuss John Grisham’s Sooley on June 15 at 10:30 a.m.

“Web Design with Dreamweaver” is held June 16 at 7 p.m. “For the Philo of Philosophy” will discuss King Solomon’s Ring by Konrad Lorenz on June 16 at 12:30 p.m. www.athenslibrary.org AADM EVENTS (Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement Justice Center & Bookstore) “Art for Justice Saturdays” are an opportunity to

paint to soothing music and discuss local issues. Supplies provided.

All skill levels welcome. Saturdays, 3–5 p.m. Donations accepted.

“Black Voices & Art” is a showcase of local Black authors, artists, historians and poets. Featured speakers include Hattie Whitehead, Freda Giles and Anthony Harris. June 17, 3–6 p.m. FREE! “Ice Cream Social & Percentage Night” will be held at Bruster’s Ice Cream to benefit the AADM. June 21, 7–10 p.m. www. aadmovement.org ART EVENTS (Georgia Museum of Art) “Artful Conversation: Emilio Amero” is held June 15, 2 p.m.

“Yoga in the Galleries” is held June 16, 6 p.m. “Family Day: Bold Shapes, Vivid Colors” is held June 18 at 10 a.m. “Art + Wellness Studio” is held June 19, 2 p.m.

“Tour at Two” is held June 22 and June 29, 2 p.m. www.georgia museum.org THE ARTIST’S WAY STUDY GROUP (24th Street Clubhouse, 150 Collins Industrial Blvd.) A gathering of artists, musicians, writers and creatives meet to discuss the book The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron. Every Sunday, 6:30 p.m. Donations welcome. beth@ beththompsonphotography.com, www.24thstreetathens.com ATHENS FARMERS MARKET (Multiple Locations) Shop fresh produce, flowers, eggs, meats, prepared foods, a variety of arts and crafts, and live music. Additionally, AFM doubles SNAP dollars spent at the market. Every Saturday at Bishop Park, 8 a.m.–12 p.m. Every Wednesday at Creature Comforts Brewing Co., 5–8 p.m. www.athens farmersmarket.net ATHENS SHOWGIRL CABARET (Multiple Locations) Fabulous Friday is held at Sound Track Bar on June 24, 9 p.m. “Drag For All Country Night” is held at Hendershot’s Coffee on July 15, 8 p.m.

Country Night is held at Hendershot’s Coffee on July 17, 8 p.m.

Fabulous Friday will have a Britney vs. Christina theme at Sound Track Bar on July 22, 9 p.m. www.athens showgirlcabaret.com BOUTIER WINERY EVENTS (Boutier Winery & Inn, Danielsville) Wine Tastings are held Fridays and Saturdays, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. and Sundays, 12:30–5 p.m. $6/glass of wine, $14/six wine tastings. www. boutierwinery.com CLASSIC CITY PETANQUE CLUB (Lay Park) New players welcome.

Scheduled play days are Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 a.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m. vicepresident@ athenspetanque.org COMEDY NIGHT (40 Watt Club) Joe Pettis hosts Rad Cop/Good Cop, Will Foskey, Amber Chandler, Piere Guyon and more. June 17, 7 p.m. $10–12. www.40watt.com CONGRESSIONAL PRIME-TIME HEARINGS (VFW Post 2872) Watch prime-time congressional hearings about the events leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob overran the Capitol building. June 23, 7:15 p.m. FREE! www.facebook. com/vfwpost2872 DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FORUM (Oconee Chamber of Commerce or Zoom) Hear from Tabitha Johnson-Green and Jessica Fore (runoff for Congress, District 10), Bee

Rodney Grainger presents “Black in White” at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens through July 28. A reception will be held June 19 at 12:30 p.m.

Nguyen and Dee Dawkins-Haigler (runoff for Georgia Secretary of State) and Charlie Bailey and Kwanza Hall (Lt. Governor). June 16, 6:30 p.m. tinyurl.com/June16CandidateForum ENDLESS ENDLESS (ACC Library) Author Adam Clair reads from his book Endless Endless: a Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery. Followed by a Q&A and performances

by Robert Schneider (Apples in Stereo), Will Hart (Olivia Tremor Control, Circulatory System), John Fernandes (Olivia Tremor Control) and Andrew Rieger (Elf Power).

June 24, 6:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org GEORGIA WRITERS HALL OF FAME INDUCTION (UGA Special Collections Building, Room 285) Inductee Jericho Brown, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, will deliver a poetry reading and participate in a Q&A discussion. Registration required. June 16, 6 p.m. lnessel@ uga.edu GORGEOUS GEORGE’S IMPROV LEAGUE (Buvez) Come out for some home-grown townie improv.

Bring some interesting suggestions and a loose funny bone to help create some improv magic on the spot. Every Wednesday, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation. www.flying squidcomedy.com HENDERSHOT’S EVENTS (Hendershot’s Coffee) Disconnect to connect during No Phone Parties with a phone-free, laptop-free happy hour featuring drink specials, snacks, games and a record player. Every Tuesday, 6–9 p.m. Hendershot’s Comedy is held June 15, 8 p.m. www.hendershotsathens.com HOMETOWN PARTY (The Park at Five Points) Avid Bookshop hosts food writer and cookbook author Nicole A. Taylor in celebration of her newest work, Watermelon and Red Birds: A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations.

Attendees must purchase a copy of the book to attend. June 16, 6:30 p.m. www.avidbookshop.com MARGO METAPHYSICAL EVENTS (Margo Metaphysical) Monday Tarot Readings offered 1–5 p.m. ($6 per card). Tuesday Tarot with Davita offered 4–6 p.m. ($5 per card). Wednesday Night Sound Healing with Joey held 6–7:30 p.m. ($35). Thursday Tarot with Courtney

is offered 12–5 p.m. ($10–45).

Friday Henna Party with Aiyanna ($10–75). 706-372-1462 MERRY MEET EVERY WEEK (Rabbit Hole Studios) Meet members of the Athens Area Pagans. Current projects include planning for Athens Pagan Pride Day Festival, a community garden, the summer solstice and more. Meetings held every Saturday, 5 p.m. Donations encouraged. beth@athensarea pagans.org 19 DAYS OF JUNETEENTH (Multiple Locations) This community-wide series of events includes cooking demonstrations, concerts, films, lectures, podcasts, an outdoor movie and more leading up to June 19. “19th is the New 4th,” an outdoor festival with food trucks, kickball, music and a market will be held June 18 at Holland Youth Sports Complex. Check the website for a full list of events. www.accgov. com/juneteenth NOISES OFF (Town & Gown Players) With their opening night on London’s West End just hours away, a cast of actors staggers through rehearsal. Just when the director thinks things couldn’t get worse, they do. With lost lines, love triangles and sardines flying, pandemonium takes over before intermission. Can the cast pull their act together both in front of the footlights and behind the curtain?

June 17–18 & June 23-25, 8 p.m.

June 19 & June 26, 2 p.m. $20. www.townandgownplayers.org OCONEE CO. LIBRARY EVENTS (Oconee Co. Library) “Scuba Diving Talk with Athens Scuba” will be held June 22 at 7 p.m. www.athens library.org/oconee OCONEE FARMERS MARKET (Oconee County Courthouse, Watkinsville) Over 20 vendors offer a variety of fresh produce, local honey, fresh-cut flowers, unique crafts, dog treats, fresh gelato, homemade pasta, meats and eggs, plants and more. Many vendors offer pre-ordering options and curbside pickup. Saturdays, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. www.oconeefarmersmarket.net PROFESSOR Q’S QUORUM OF QUINTESSENTIAL QUEERS: A QUEER CABARET (Nuçi’s Space) Queer Arts Athens host a curated performance illuminating queer history featuring the talents of locals

who identify as LGBTQ+ June 30, 7 p.m. FREE! queerartsathens@ gmail.com, www.queerartsathens. com THE PROGRESSIONAL (Morton Theatre) This Juneteenth event is a program of soulful expression, workshop and presentations. June 19, 6 p.m. FREE! www.theprogressional.com/rsvp RABBIT HOLE EVENTS (Rabbit Hole Studios) Acoustic Fire Pit Jams are held every Monday, 7–11 p.m. Flow Jam Night for flow artists and LED/ fire spinners is held Thursdays from 7–11 p.m. Free music theory group lessons for guitarists are held 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.rabbithole studios.org REALLY, REALLY FREE MARKET (Reese & Pope Park) Just like a yard sale, but everything is free.

Bring what you can, take what you need. Second Saturday of every month, 12–2 p.m. reallyreallyfree marketathens@gmail.com SMALL BOX SERIES (Work.Shop) Small Box presents “To Be Human” featuring poetry by John Barner, theater by Jayson Smith, comedy

by Matt House and Kelly Petronis, dance by Audrey Snow, film/ theater by Phillip Gerson, music by Space Brother and dance by Alison Wakeford. All works are presented on a 4’x4’ box. June 17–18, 8 p.m. $5-15. www.smallboxseries. bigcartel.com SOUTHERN STAR STUDIO OPEN GALLERY (Southern Star Studio) Southern Star Studio is a working, collective ceramics studio, established by Maria Dondero in 2016.

The gallery contains members’ work, primarily pottery. Every Saturday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. www.southern starstudioathens.com SOUTHERN VIOLENCE & WRESTLING (The Warehouse) Live wrestling featuring Andey Ripley’s Full Term. June 25, 8 p.m. $10. www. facebook.com/southernviolenceand wrestling

STAR SPANGLED CLASSIC FIREWORKS DISPLAY (Athens-Ben Epps Airport) Fireworks will be visible from Lexington, Cherokee and Gaines School Roads. Parking near the airport and Satterfield Park opens at 7 p.m. Fireworks held July 2, 9:30 p.m. www.accgov.com/ fireworks STONEWALL DAY EVENT (Terrapin Beer Co.) A day of inclusivity, awareness and education of the LGBTQ+ community. June 28. 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 WEST BROAD FARMERS MARKET (West Broad Farmers Market) The West Broad Farmers Market offers fresh produce, 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

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. “Narwhal Party” is held June 16 at 10:30 a.m. “Encanto SingAlong” is held June 18 at 2 p.m. www.athenslibrary.org ALICE H. RICHARDS CHILDREN’S GARDEN (UGA State Botanical Garden) Every third Saturday of the month enjoy a variety of engaging shows taking place on the Theatre-in-the-Woods stage. Come experience music, laughter and connection in nature. June 18, July 16, Aug. 20, Sept. 17 and Oct. 15 from 9:30–11 a.m. www.facebook. com/botgarden ART CAMPS FOR PROMISING YOUNG ARTISTS (K.A. Artist Shop) Camps are offered for ages

art around town ACE/FRANCISCO GALLERY (675 Pulaski St., Suite 1500) Established by Jason Thrasher and Beth Hall Thrasher, the gallery’s grand opening features “Vernon Thornsberry: New Works in Painting, Charcoal & Sculpture.”

Through June 23.

ARTWALL@HOTEL INDIGO ATHENS (500 College Ave.) “Quiet Marks” presents works by Kathryn Refi, In Kyoung Choi Chun and Shirley N. Chambliss. Through July 8.

ATHENS-CLARKE COUNTY LIBRARY (2025 Baxter St.) “The Real, The Ideal” is a solo show by Lynette Caseman, a local artist who received a grant from the Athens Area Arts Council to support her work. Through July 17.

ATHICA@CINÉ GALLERY (234 W. Hancock Ave.) “So Much More” presents Lisa Freeman’s mixed media collages and assemblages that address the limitations frequently imposed on women in a patriarchal society. Through June 25.

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.) Artwork by Jeff Rapier and Gary Autry. Reception featuring live music by JD Pinkus and Vansplainer on June 17, 7 p.m. Through June.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “Carrie Mae Weems: The Usual Suspects” implicates racial stereotypes in the deaths of Black people at the hands of police and confronts the viewer with the fact of judicial inaction.

Through Aug. 7. • As a visual response to Carrie Mae Weems’ exhibition, “Call and Response” is a selection of works from the museum’s collection that considers the intersection of race and representation in the works of other African American artists. Through Aug. 7. • “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. •

10–12 and 13–17 and take place in-person, Mondays–Fridays during 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. or 1:30–5:30 p.m. Subjects include drawing, painting, illustration, calligraphy, printmaking, collage, journaling and more. $250 (half day), $450 (full day). www.kaartist.com 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 ATHENS FOREST KINDERGARTEN SUMMER SESSION (Sandy Creek Park) Ages 3.5–6.5 can participate in a child-discovered curriculum in the forest. Weekly sessions run through June 21, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. $200/week. www.athensforestksindergarten.org/afk-summer-session HOLY CROSS LUTHERAN CHURCH FAMILY RETREAT (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Enjoy crafts, games, nature activities and fellowship.

Lunch provided. RSVP. June 18, 9 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! panthers1028@ aol.com BOGART LIBRARY EVENTS (Bogart Library) “Monday Funday” is held June 13 at 10 a.m. “Busy Bee Toddler Time” for ages 12–36 months is held June 15 at 10 a.m. and 11 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.

GRAND SLAM TEEN SUMMER PROGRAM (Lay Park) Ages 11–17 can participate in games, giveaways, music, sports and other activities. Fridays in June and July, 6–9 p.m. www.accgov.com/ grandslam HARGRETT LIBRARY’S TODDLER TUESDAY (UGA Special Collections Library) Toddler Tuesday is a new program full of story time,

music and crafts for ages 1–4.

“Welcome Summer” on June 21, “Georgia Music” on Aug. 2, “Sports!” on Sept. 20. Events held at 9:45 a.m. FREE! RSVP: jmb18449@uga.edu MAKING DANCES (work.shop) This alternative dance class teaches improvisation and choreography techniques. For ages 10–14. Taught

by Lisa Yaconelli. Tuesdays, 6:15– 7:30 p.m. $60/month, $210/14 weeks. lisayaconelli@gmail.com, www.lisayaconelli.com OCONEE LIBRARY EVENTS (Oconee Co. Library) “Preschool Storytime” for children and their caregivers is held Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m.

“Movie and Snack” is held June 15 at 10:30 a.m. “Tie Dye Night” is held June 15 at 6 p.m. “Makers Market Workshop” is held June 17 at 4 p.m. “Magician Keith Karnock” performs June 22, 10:30 a.m.

“Sand Castle Competition” is held June 24 at 4 p.m. “Anime Club” is held June 27 at 7 p.m. “Deserted Island: Can You Survive?” is held June 29 at 6 p.m. www.athens library.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/tree housekidandcraft SUMMER ART CAMPS (‘Brella Studio) Themed camps include “¡Hola Casita! Encanto Theme” (June 20–24), “Tinker Thinker” (July 5–8; $235), “Glitter Sparkle Extravaganza!” (July 11–15), “Pirate Princess Paintpalooza” (July 18–22), “Unicorns, Mermaids and Dragons (Oh My!)” (July 25–29), “Color Explosion Camp” (Aug. 1–5), “Beautiful Messes” (Aug. 8–12), Camps run 9 a.m.–2 p.m. $295. www.brellastudio.com 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

“Decade of Tradition: Highlights from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection.” Through July 3, 2023.

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.) Mike Shetterley shares recent abstract paintings inspired by gardens and landscapes. Through June 15.

HEIRLOOM CAFE (815 N. Chase St.) The Boulevard Neighborhood Young Artists, ages 2–18, present an exhibition of their latest creations. Through June 27.

JUST PHO… AND MORE (1063 Baxter St.) Susan Pelham’s collages are influenced by Magic Realism, Surrealism, fairy tales and nursery rhymes.

Through June.

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. • 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. Through June 18. • “Picture This” features the artwork of 11 Georgia-based painters who focus on narratives. Opens June 18. • “Maps, Landforms and River Rafts” is a series of art quilts by Cathy Fussell on view alongside works by her daughter, Coulter Fussell.

Opens June 18. • “Robert Croker: At Random 2022” is a new suite of watercolors. Opens June 18. Artist talk June 24, 12 p.m. • Jason Matherly’s “For Heather: New Shaped Paintings” is a collection of color-block works installed against a painted ground. Opens June 18. • Collections from our Community presents “Winfield & McNeal’s Fleet,” a collection of vintage Tonka Trucks and ‘70s Hot Wheels. Through Aug. 20. An opening reception for all new exhibitions will be held June 23, 6–8 p.m.

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. • “Earth Bound: David Drake and Zipporah Camille Thompson” brings new light to the life and work of Drake, an enslaved African-American whose works of pottery from the mid-1800s are now sought world-wide. A second installation features

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 WILD EARTH CAMP (Piedmont Preserve) An adventure camp in the forest for ages 4–13. Weeklong camps begin June 13, June 20, July 11 and July 25. Register online. www.piedmont-preserve.org YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS SUMMER SERIES (Goodwill, 4070 Lexington Rd.) College Factory presents a five-week program in partnership with the Minority Business Nonprofit Association and Goodwill of North Georgia. Open to students in grades 9–12. Wednesdays and Fridays, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. and Thursdays, 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Through June 29.

FREE! brittany@collegefactory.org

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 FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP (ACC Library, Classroom A) Alzheimer’s Association Georgia presents a support group conducted by trained facilitators that is a safe place for those living with dementia and their caregiver to develop a support system. First Wednesday of every month, 6–7:30 p.m. 706206-6163, www.alz.org/georgia LGBTQIA+ VIRTUAL ALPHABET FAMILY GATHERING (Online) This is a safe space for anyone on the LGBTQIA+/TGQNB spectrum.

Fourth Sunday of every month, 6–8 p.m. uuathensga.org/justice/ welcoming-congregation 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.

Thursdays, 7 p.m. FREE! www. athensrecoverydharma.org

Word on the Street FREE COVID-19 VACCINES (Clarke County Health Department) Vaccines are available by appointment or walk-in. No insurance or ID required. www.publichealthisfor everyone.com KACCB LITTER INDEX (Athens, GA) Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful and UGA’s Debris Tracker seek volunteers to track litter items now through July 24. www.keepathens beautiful.org/litterindex POOL SEASON (Multiple Locations) ACC Leisure Services pools and splash pads are open through July 31. $1/person, $20/season pass.

Pools are located at Bishop Park, Heard Park, Lay Park and Rocksprings Park. Check website for hours. www.accgov.com/aquatics RABBIT BOX STORYTELLING (VFW on Sunset Drive) Storytelling themes for fall include “Wallflower” (Sept. 27), “Undone” (Oct. 25) and “Last Call” (Nov. 22). Pitch an eight-minute story to share with an audience. Story coaching available. rabbitboxstories@gmail.com, www. rabbitbox.org/tell-a-story WASTE AND RECYCLING WORKERS WEEK (Athens, GA) The ACC Solid Waste Department’s weeklong campaign recognizes solid waste workers through online posts.

This year’s theme is “Solid Waste Workers are Superheroes.” Through June 18. www.gaswana.org f

ceramic work by contemporary artist Thompson. Through July 16.

OCONEE COUNTY LIBRARY (1080 Experiment Station Rd.) Artwork by Bobbi Johnson. Through June.

ODUM SCHOOL OF ECOLOGY GALLERY (140 E. Green St.) Natural science illustrator C Olivia Carlisle shares insect, botanical and ecosystems illustrations alongside “The Birdwing Butterflies of Papua New Guinea,” a display featuring specimens assembled by James W. Porter and photographs by Carolyn Crist. Through fall.

STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GEORGIA (2450 S. Milledge Ave) Cameron Berglund, a local artist and lecturer at UGA’s College of Environmental Design, presents a collection of plein air watercolor sketches and landscape-inspired illustrations. Through June 26.

STEFFEN THOMAS MUSEUM OF ART (4200 Bethany Rd., Buckhead) “Mother Tongue: The Language of Families” includes Steffen Thomas’ paintings, drawings and sculptures that were shaped by powerful prose and poetry. Spoken Word Night with Linqua Franqa, Christopher Martin and Josina Guess held Aug. 20, 4:30 p.m. Currently on view through Aug 20.

TIF SIGFRIDS (393 N. Finley St.) Los Angeles-based artist Mimi Lauter presents a solo exhibition of paintings. Closing reception June 18, 4–6 p.m.

TINY ATH GALLERY (174 Cleveland Ave.) Rich Panico’s exhibition, “Pandemic Art,” is a collection of recent drawings and ceramic works. Open Third Thursday on June 16, 6–9 p.m. and by appointment through June.

UGA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIES (300 S. Hull St.) “Frankie Welch’s Americana: Fashion, Scarves and Politics” explores the life of a Georgia native who owned a Virginia boutique, designing scarves and dresses used in political campaigns and events and worn by women throughout the country in the 1960s and ‘70s. Through July 8.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF ATHENS (780 Timothy Rd.) Rodney Graiger’s exhibit “Black and White” includes large drawings on paper that portray recollections of private spaces where racial distinctions were often blurred but never fully erased. On view through July 28 on Sundays and by appointment. Juneteenth reception held June 19 at 12:30 p.m.

VIVA! ARGENTINE CUISINE (247 Prince Ave.) Susan Pelham’s collages are influenced by Magic Realism, Surrealism, fairy tales and nursery rhymes.

Through August.

WHITE TIGER GOURMET (217 Hiawassee Ave.) Artwork by Marisa Mustard.

Through June.

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Style is just too cute! This little guy is looking for a friend who doesn’t mind filling their days with playtime and snuggles.

Come let Style show off for you and sit for a few treats!

Walton (57711)

Walton is a good-natured fella that enjoys simple things like sitting for treats, playing outside and chilling with his brother Sam. Call today for more on Walton (and Sam, too!)

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SUDOKU

Edited by Margie E. Burke

Difficulty: Medium

8 9 2 7 8

2 7 4 3 1 8 6 6 2

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HOW TO SOLVE:

Each row must contain the numbers 1 to 9; each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9; and each set of 3 by 3 boxes must contain theofnumbers 9.

Week 6/13/221- to 6/19/22

The Weekly Crossword 1

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1 5 31 2 37 7 41 8 6 48 4 9 53 3 59 26

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3 9 8 1 4 2 49 6 7 5

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8 6 32 3 9 7 45 5 2 1 4

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5 4 1 238 6 846 9 3 760

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4 3 9 8 243 7 5 654 1

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2 7 29 30 1 8 5 6 6 4 9 5 3 1 7 351 455 2 8 961

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ACROSS 1 Big name in chocolates 5 Agrees (with) 10 Canned lunch meat 14 Shoestring 15 Eucalyptus eater 16 ____ of voice 17 Unintentional 19 Barrel of laughs 20 Disinfectant chemical 21 Amazon snake 23 More modern 25 Fireplace shelf 26 Envelope abbr.

28 Kind of stone 31 Sideshow performer 33 Outdoor shelters 37 Similar (to) 38 Engine unit 40 Fix in place 41 Happen again 43 Monastery dining hall 45 Soften by soaking 47 Shepard of "Parenthood" 48 Bygone money of Spain

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Solution to Sudoku: 27

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Residential • Office • Construction • Move In • Move Out

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51 Type of goat 53 "The Hunger Games" actress 56 Ascends 59 ___ Minor 60 What a priest hears 62 Dry run 63 Finish with 64 Sandwich fish 65 Threat ending 66 Roll back to zero 67 Urban haze

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DOWN 1 Blow from Moe 2 To ____ his own 3 Quirky 4 English Channel feeder 5 Beyond gaunt 6 Electrified particle 7 Facts and figures 8 "Lean" anagram 9 Deli offering 10 Most muscular, maybe 11 Sharp end 12 Positive pole 13 Rock genre 18 Use a divining rod

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Pessimist's word Quit for good Many miles away Peak sighter Zebulon One of the Monkees Modular home List Type of magnet Fictional plantation "Come Sail Away" band Reserved Hourly charge Spreadsheet units Zodiac sign Word after home or dinner Oil holder Cheese choice Leans to one side Roadwork marker Wraps up One-named Irish singer Pantyhose flaw Adversary

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