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By Blake Aued, Jessica Luton and Rebecca McCarthy news@flagpole.com The Athens-Clarke County Planning Commission sent on a proposed development behind the Bottleworks to the county commission with a unanimous recommendation for approval. “We view this project as an expansion of the Bottleworks,” said Chris Evans, the project’s architect, whose firm is located at the Bottleworks. The development would consist of four apartment buildings surrounding a 244-space parking deck on the surface parking lot between Meigs and Newton streets and Hancock Avenue. The buildings would consist of 69 units, mainly two- and three-bedrooms, in five-story buildings with the top floor stepped back. The development is meant for “a mix of people,” Evans said. “You’ll notice there’s no pool deck or golf simulator planned for the project,” he told planning commissioners at their July 7 meeting. “The goal is to deliver thoughtful dwellings for Prince Avenue and the businesses. The amenity is really downtown. The amenity is what’s around. That’s what we’re trying to encourage.” Developers are seeking a waiver from a zoning code requirement for ground-floor commercial space downtown. The project does include 4,300 square feet of commercial space in the building facing the back of the Bottleworks, and other ground-floor residential units are “flex space” that could be converted into offices, Evans said. Mark Wilson, who lives in the Bottleworks, said the residential tenants there support it. “The absolute last thing we want is another eight-story box that blots out the sun and has commercial [space] on the ground floor that we can’t fill,” he said. Others raised concerns. “I feel like we could do more to make it more appealing to non-students,” said Hill Street resident Liz DeMarco. She asked to table the request to coordinate with the buyers of the Camak House next door (more on that later). Compton Jones, who lives in the nearby Cobbham Historic District, said the project clashes with the single-family neighborhood. “There is nothing historic about that design,” she said, adding that it won’t include enough parking for students—“because you are going to be catering to students”—leading to congestion in the neighborhood. Evans responded to criticism about scale by noting that, because the parcel is zoned commercial-downtown, a developer could build a much larger, denser development by right, without asking for permission. The only issue really on the table was the ground-floor commercial waiver. “Another developer could come in with a project that would have people picketing in the streets,” planning commissioner Matthew Hall said. As for nixing the ground-floor retail space, “It sounds like everybody agrees that’s an improvement over a bunch of, you know, mac-and-cheese chains or whatever they put in student apartment buildings,” Hall said. “The biggest thing I like is covering up a surface parking lot,” planning commissioner
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Alice Kinman said. “That is so important. For better or worse, this is zoned commercial downtown… It is meant to attract this kind of development.” The planning commission unanimously approved staff’s recommendation to allow the waiver. Planners had originally been against the waiver, but Planning Director Brad Griffin said they changed their minds after other departments weighed in, saying the developers had addressed questions about water, sewer, fire access and other issues. The recommendation now goes to the ACC Commission at its Aug. 3 meeting. [Blake Aued]
Trust in Talks on Camak House The historic Camak House on Meigs Street has been sold to Chabad of Athens, a Jewish student and community center. The $2.3 million sale price includes not only the 7,500-square-foot, three-story Federal-style house, but also 2.2 surrounding acres. Funding for purchasing the house came from donations. Though nothing is yet definite, Rabbi Michoel Refson—co director of Chabad of Athens, along with his wife, Chana—said he is proposing constructing two outbuildings that will face Hancock Street. The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation has covenants on the property preventing changes to the house’s exterior and certain interior features, said president Mark McDonald, and the trust must approve the site plans. McDonald said he and Refson have “been in discussion” about the outbuildings, which would be “modest” in size, with rooflines that won’t obstruct the view of the rear of the house. When it was built in 1834, the Camak House was the first residence on Prince Avenue, because Meigs Street didn’t yet exist. If the Refson family—which includes eight children—decides to live in the house, they will be the first family to do so since 1947, when the Camak family sold the house to a Masonic lodge after occupying it for 114 years. James Camak, the first resident, was a University of Georgia mathematics teacher who hosted meetings of those interested in forming the Georgia Railroad Company, which was chartered in the house. He became the company’s first president, and it built Athens’ first rail line, connecting the city to Augusta. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. McDonald said there will be a public meeting for neighborhood residents about the proposed plans for the site. [Rebecca McCarthy]
Commission Approves Cushion for Arena Construction The Athens-Clarke County Commission approved a $4 million change order last week for the Classic Center arena—which will now have padded seats. The padded seats—$300,000 more expensive than hard plastic ones—and the
inclusion of a $400,000 canopy were the topics of much discussion among commissioners and other officials during a July 5 called meeting. Commissioner Mariah Parker did not want to approve either expense without also including a child care facility. “We’re asking for extra money for things that are nominally aesthetic, but no commitment has been made for anything that would directly benefit folks who are frankly kinda suffering in Athens,” Parker said. Classic Center Executive Director Paul Cramer said the canopy is not just for looks. “The canopy is not just an aesthetic piece, although I think it looks awful without it,” he said. “It will help us save energy, and a considerable amount of energy, as that is our south-facing side, so the canopy will block the sun through the glass in that area.” As for the seats, upgrading to cushioned chairs will enhance the arena experience and help the arena draw the right kind of events, Cramer said. “We believe it will make a big difference to the end user, the guest,” he said. Parker’s motion to approve the change order without the canopy or padded seats died for lack of a second. Their motion to exclude the seats drew the support of Commissioner Tim Denson but was voted down 5–2. The commission then voted 6–1 to approve the change order as-is, with Parker opposed. “We absolutely need the canopy for the energy savings and the aesthetics, but also just for the comfort of guests needing shade and shelter from rain, and we need the cushioned seats,” Commissioner Russell Edwards said. Although they were the topic of debate, cushions and canopies weren’t the main
reason Classic Center and SPLOST officials requested the change order. Construction workers who are currently digging at the site between the convention center and the bus station found rock and contaminated soil that must be removed at a cost of $5 million. Despite the change order, the arena remains below its $135 million approved budget. Taxpayers are putting in $33 million through the voter-approved SPLOST 2020 sales tax program; the rest will come from private sources. Cramer has backed down from a proposal last month to raise property taxes on local hotels by 2 mills to help pay back arena bonds, which hotel owners opposed. Instead, Cramer now wants to create a special tax district surrounding the arena. The Classic Center is leasing ACC-owned land to developers to build a hotel, condos for seniors and a third building in the area. “We have talked to those developers, and we know that is something that is palatable to them, and we believe these three developments would not have come about without the arena going in,” Cramer said. Another potential source of funding is a 50-cent ticket fee for arena events. The commission is scheduled to vote on the $30 million bond issue Aug. 3. [BA]
COVID Levels Remain High COVID-19 continues to spread in Athens-Clarke County at an elevated rate, although community spread has plateaued, according to data from the Georgia Department of Public Health, alongside wastewater monitoring data from professor Erin Lipp’s lab at the UGA Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases. According to DPH’s weekly update July 6, there had been 183 new confirmed cases and 14 new positive antigen tests in Clarke County the previous week. While DPH data shows a slight decrease in new cases compared with the previous week, it is likely a result of testing facilities being closed for the July 4 holiday and lag time for reporting new cases. With the prevalence of at-home rapid tests that are generally not reported officially, the data on new cases is
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a vast undercount of the true viral levels in been hospitalized for the virus. in the ICU for the region. Hospitals did see (indoors, crowded, poor ventilation, etc.).” the community. Regional data, which includes patients an increase in patients overall this week, Approximately 95% of counties in the US The seven-day running average of new from surrounding counties and both Clarke though, with 596 total patients as of July 9 are in the high or substantial risk category cases decreased slightly last week, but the County hospitals, shows a slight increase compared to just 524 the previous week. at this juncture. data is, again, likely skewed. As of July 6, in patients last week, with 35 patients, or The CDC’s Community Transmission The CDC’s Community Levels Map there were an average of 26 new cases a day 5.9% of all patients in Region E, hospitalLevels data for Georgia is bright red this shows a much different picture of the counin Clarke County, compared with 30 new ized for COVID-19. The previous week, just week, with most of the state’s counties try, though. This map, Schmidtke said in cases a day the previous week. her pandemic update last week, To date, there have been 27,406 can “be thought of as the risk confirmed COVID-19 cases in that you would have a hard time Clarke County since the beginaccessing a hospital bed if you ning of the pandemic. needed one.” The map is based Wastewater monitoring on recent case rates, COVID-19 updates last week, which give patient census and new COVIDa less dated and more accurate 19 hospital admissions. At this picture of viral levels in Clarke point, 19.5% of counties in the County, showed viral levels that U.S. are considered orange or were nearly unchanged from the at high levels. Athens-Clarke previous week and continued County and most of the counto show elevated viral counts— ties in the region are green and similar to the peak of the Delta at a low level of risk. surge in August 2021. Vaccination levels remain The percent of positive cases stagnant, with booster dose for the last two weeks in Clarke rates slowing down now as well. County remains elevated at As of July 8, 70,075 Clarke 29% as of July 6. A positivity County residents, or 56%, have rate of over 5 is an indication received at least one dose of vacthat not enough testing is being cine, and 64,142 residents, or done and that cases are going 51%, have been fully vaccinated. uncounted. In addition, 33,308 booster College Station Road remains closed to westbound traffic between the Loop and the North Oconee Access Road after it was dam- doses have been administered. While new cases remain aged by a June 28 water main break. Westbound traffic is also limited between the access road and Research Drive. Eastbound elevated, so far this wave is not One bright spot in the data lanes remain open. A report is expected by July 13, and Athens-Clarke County officials said they hope to repair the road by severely impacting hospitals. was the vaccination increase move-in day Aug. 12. No Clarke County residents for children ages 6 months to 4 have died of COVID in the years. While the age group was past month; at least 224 have died to date. 27 patients were hospitalized for the virus. with high levels of transmission. According only given emergency use authorization Hospitalizations among Clarke County resIntensive care units were at 82.6% capacity to public health expert Amber Schmidtke, to receive the vaccine a few weeks ago, 97 idents have remained steady, averaging 22 this week, with 13 new patients bringing this map can “be thought of as the risk that Clarke County children in the age group people admitted each week for COVID-19. the total to 71 patients occupying beds as you will be exposed to COVID-19 in your have received at least one dose of vaccine. To date, 1,335 Clarke County residents have of July 9. Last week, there were 58 patients county if you’re in a high-risk situation [Jessica Luton] f
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issues like streamlining courts and lowering insurance rates. “Lots of little fixes can add up to massive change,” he said. Kat Howkins—director and co-founder of the Sweet Olive Farm animal rescue in Oglethorpe County—said she’s running in HD 124 against Rep. Trey Rhodes (R-Greensboro) because she got sick of writing in names against unopposed GOP incumbents. She also said she wants to stopped. It started before Jan. 6 and constrengthen environmental laws, and crititinued on into this election cycle. If given cized Rhodes for inaction during his eight the chance, [Republicans] will try it again, years as a lawmaker. and most people do better “The only thing Trey on their second try.” Rhodes wants to do is make Educator and civil the possum the state marsurights activist Mokah pial of Georgia,” she quipped Jasmine Johnson is seekat the ACC Dems meeting. ing a rematch against Rep. “I’m pretty sure it’s the only Houston Gaines (R-Athens) marsupial in Georgia.” in House District 120. She By dividing Athens into said she had pondered two Senate districts and whether to run again after four House districts—five the death of her father, dominated by conservative the start of the pandemic surrounding counties— and enduring racial slurs Republicans all but dashed during her 2020 campaign. hopes of flipping them that Ultimately, she said she was flickered when Democrats From left, Mokah Jasmine Johnson, Jeff Auerbach, Conolus Scott, Andrew Ferguson briefly took two local House motivated to run again by a and Kat Howkins speak at a June 23 ACC Democratic Committee meeting at the new Republican-drawn map seats in a 2017 special elecAthens library. that tilted Gaines’ district tion. “They keep figuring further to the right. out new ways to cut us up,” “Whether you’re a Republican or a motto from the science fiction novel and ACCDC chair Tim Denson said. Democrat, it’s not fair. It’s not right,” movie Dune: “There is no call we do not Athens’ lone Democrat under the Gold Johnson said. “It felt like an attack on answer.” Dome, state Rep. Spencer Frye, advised Athens because we’re progressive.” “I’m running because people need help,” candidates to point voters to Republicans’ Ferguson, a screenwriter, ran in the said Auerbach, who will face Rep. Marcus record. “What’s one policy they’ve come 10th Congressional District in 2020 but Wiedower (R-Watkinsville) in HD 121. “I up with in the past 10 years that will make lost in the Democratic primary to Tabitha want to leave my children a better world.” peoples’ lives better?” Frye said. “I believe Johnson-Green. He and Johnson are the Auerbach said he will be “a workhorse” they are at the Capitol to do the exact oppoonly two of the five candidates with experiwho grinds away on important but boring site.” f
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ow that the primaries and runoffs are over, attention turns to the general election in November, where Democrats are fielding a full slate of candidates to run against the soon-to-be five Republicans representing Athens in the state legislature. All five are longshots, running in districts newly redrawn to protect the GOP incumbents and in a political environment that’s hostile to Democrats because of President Biden’s low approval rating and voters’ historical tendency to punish the president’s party during midterm elections. Several are first-time candidates. Some are party activists who are only running because they were in charge of recruitment and couldn’t find anyone else to do it. But there are a litany of issues for Democrats to run on, said Andrew Ferguson, who’s running against Sen. Bill Cowsert (R-Athens) in Senate District 46, ticking off a list including climate change, voting rights, abortion rights and income inequality. “Republicans are on the wrong side of all of those issues,” Ferguson said. Perhaps the most potent issue, though, is the recent January 6 Committee hearings plumbing the depths of Donald Trump and his supporters’ efforts to overturn the 2020 results. “We are fighting for democracy itself,” Ferguson said. “The coup has never
ence running for office. Conolus Scott is a court bailiff and lifelong Madison County resident who describes himself as a devout Christian. He’s running against Sen. Frank Ginn (R-Danielsville) in SD 47. “I will be a vote for democracy,” Scott said. “I will be a vote to change the things that are going on in this country,” such as getting guns off the street and expanding Medicaid. When asked why he’s running, University of Georgia political science professor Jeff Auerbach quoted the House Atreides
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The new 120th House District contains six precincts in Clarke County and parts of a seventh. The old 117th, from which Gaines was elected in 2020, contained seven whole and one partial precinct in Clarke County. The new House District 120 lost part of Oconee County, but it gained more territory and voters in Jackson County. By Lee Becker news@flagpole.com The new 121st House District has four whole precincts in Clarke County and parts the 2021 legislative session, new House District 121, which Wiedower of three others. The old 119th District, Houston Gaines, who represents is seeking to represent, has the remainder from which Wiedower was elected in 2020 part of Oconee County and part of Athensof Oconee County. Gaines lives in Athensand from which the new 121st District was The votes of House districts are tabuClarke County in the Georgia House of Clarke County, and Wiedower lives in created, had six whole and two partial prelated by county, but only the total votes Representatives, introduced legislation to Oconee County. The districts are created to cincts in Clarke County. matters, regardless of which county proban local governments from reducing their make them equal in terms of population. In redistricting, the eastern part of Demduced the votes. While House District 120 law enforcement budgets. The bill, which From the point of view of elections, the ocratic Athens-Clarke County was added includes only about a quarter of Athenstargeted Athens-Clarke County, passed key is voter registration and then turnout. to what had been the 120th House District and became law, with the support of Rep. The current registration numbers show that Clarke County’s voters, those voters make to become the 124th House District. Trey up about half of the registered voters in Marcus Wiedower and Sen. Bill Cowsert, Clarke County’s voters are divided among Rhodes of Greensboro, a Republican now District 120. Jackson County voters make who also represent Oconee County, as well those four House districts disproportionrepresenting the traditionally Republican up 26.2% of the voters, Oconee County vot- 120th House District, is running for re-elecas parts of Athens-Clarke County, in the ately. A little more than a quarter of them General Assembly. tion in the 124th. In February of last year, Spencer Frye, the only Gaines paired up with Democrat in the Athens delWiedower to ask the state egation, now representing Judicial Council to consider the 118th House District, is breaking up the Oconee and running for re-election in the Clarke County Western Judicial geographically smaller 122nd Circuit after the majority of House District. voters—led by those in AthensClarke County is heavily Clarke County—selected a proDemocratic, with 70.1% of gressive Democrat as district its vote going to President attorney. Joe Biden in 2020, the fifth Earlier this year, Gaines, highest percentage among Wiedower and Cowsert Georgia’s 159 counties. Yet it upturned the election of memhas only one Democratic House bers of the Athens-Clarke representative, Frye, and no County Commission with a Democratic representative in redistricting map rejected by the Senate. a majority of Athens-Clarke Oconee County ranked County Commission members. 75th in the state, or just above And last month, Gaines midway in the distribution of asked the Public Safety and the 159 counties in votes for Homeland Security Committee Biden, with 32.4% of its voters of the Georgia House of selecting the Democrat. Oconee Representatives to dissolve County gave then-President the citizen Public Safety Donald Trump 65.9% of its Oversight Board appointed vote, compared to 28.2% in by the Athens-Clarke County Athens-Clarke County. Commission. Gaines is being challenged Why are Gaines, Wiedower by Mokah Jasmine Johnson and Cowsert, who are elected in November, while Wiedower by voters in Athens-Clarke is being opposed by Jeff AuerCounty, so willing to buck votbach. Both are Democrats, and Rep. Houston Gaines (R-Athens) speaks in Barrow County before Gov. Brian Kemp (right) signed his bill banning local governments both are from Athens. Rhodes ers of Athens-Clarke County from defunding police. and the leaders they elect? is being challenged by DemoAn analysis of voter registracrat Kathryn Howkins of Winers make up 15.7%, and Barrow County vot- terville. Frye has no Republican opposition. are in House District 120. One in five is in tion data, past voting records, campaign ers make up 7.9%. In District 121, Clarke House District 121. A little more than four contributions and campaign spending for The effect of redistricting was to shift the County voters make up 39.6% of the total in 10 are in House District 122. And about the three elected Republicans gives the boundaries of the districts in Oconee and registered voters, while Oconee County vot- Clarke County north, making Athens-Clarke one in 10 are in House District 124. answer. The three can afford to alienate ers make up 60.4%. In Oconee County, one in five of the many Athens-Clarke County voters in part County a less important part of the two disTo win in House District 120, Gaines voters is in House District 120, with the because of their support in Oconee County. tricts represented by Gaines and Wiedower remaining four out of five falling into House needs to run up big numbers in Republican and making it part of the district repreOconee, Barrow and Jackson counties to District 121. These ratios are based on data sented by Rhodes. The consequence is that offset the Democratic vote in the parts of provided in March by Charlotte Sosebee, Athens-Clarke County has three incumbent Director of Elections and Voter Registration the 120th House District in Athens-Clarke Republicans and one incumbent Democrat Athens-Clarke County, with the maps County. To win in House District 121, in Athens-Clarke County, and by Jennifer seeking election in the new House Districts. approved by the General Assembly along Wiedower needs to run up a sizable number In the most General Assembly session, Stone, Assistant Director of Elections and party lines last year, is divided into four of Republicans in Oconee County to offset Registration in Oconee County. Athens-Clarke County was represented by House districts: 120, 121, 122 and 124. the Democratic vote in Clarke County. The So Gaines, who was elected from the old two Republicans and one Democrat. Oconee County is split between House two districts are set up to make it likely that House District 117 and is seeking to repIn 2020, Gaines and Johnson also comDistrict 120 and 121. House District 120 they will be successful. resent the new House District 120, would peted in the 117th House District. Gaines also includes parts of Barrow and Jackson The redistricting plan approved by the be representing only a quarter of Athenswon with 56.6% of the vote, but he received counties. House District 122 is entirely in Republican-dominated legislature last year Clarke County’s voters. Wiedower, who was only 41.6% of the vote in Clarke County. Clarke County. House District 124 includes makes it easier for Gaines and Wiedower elected from the old House District 119 That was offset by his 72.2% of the vote in the eastern parts of Clarke County as well to succeed than was the case in the old and is seeking to represent the new House Oconee County. as all of Oglethorpe, Greene and Taliaferro districts from which the new ones were District 121, would be representing even In the 119th, Wiedower competed with counties and parts of Putnam County. created. Both House District 120 and House Democrat Jonathan Wallace. Wiedower a smaller part of the county, about one in The new House District 120, which District 121 contain less of Clarke County five. And together, Gaines and Wiedower won with 54.9% of the vote, but he got only Gaines is seeking to represent, includes two would be representing less than half of the than did the old House District 117 and 32.5% of the vote in Clarke County, offset of Oconee County’s eight precincts. The House District 119. registered voters in Athens-Clarke County. by 71.7% of the vote in Oconee County.
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My analysis of those elections extrapolated to the new House 120 and 121 suggests that the new House District 120 is about 6 percentage points more Republican than the old 117th. The New House District 121 is 2 percentage points more Republican than the old 119th District. Redistricting, in short, has empowered Gaines and Wiedower to be more outspoken against Athens-Clarke County. That plays well in the new Districts 120 and 121 they are seeking to represent. The attempt by Gaines and Wiedower to change the boundaries of the Western Judicial District was very popular with Oconee County Republicans, for example. The county voted for James Chafin, who did not designate a party in the 2020 special election for district attorney. (No Republican ran in the district attorney race.) The Judicial Council turned down the request for a boundary change of the Western Judicial Circuit in August of 2021. Gaines and Wiedower told Oconee County Republicans in November of last year, however, that they are still working to bring that about.
Senate Districts All of Oconee County falls in the 46th Senate District, represented by Cowsert. In redistricting, Oconee County remains the only county entirely in the new 46th Senate District. In the old 46th, Oconee was joined by parts of Clarke and Walton counties. In the new 46th, Oconee is joined by parts of Clarke, Walton, Gwinnett and Barrow counties. Based on the voter registration data from March for Athens-Clarke County, 37.1% of Athens-Clarke County falls in the 46th Senate District, while 62.9% falls into Republican Frank Ginn’s 47th Senate District. The new 47th District also includes all of Madison County and parts of Jackson and Barrow counties. Oconee County makes up only 19.1% of the new 46th Senate District. AthensClarke County is only 18.0%. Walton County is dominant, with 44.6% of the registered voters. Gwinnett has 11.5% and Barrow 6.7%. In 2020, Cowsert won with 61% of the vote. He got only 32.6% of the vote in Clarke County, but he received 71.5% in Oconee County and 76.9% in Walton County. My analysis of voting in 2020 indicates that the new Senate District 46 is unlikely to be changed much from the existing Senate District 46 in partisan vote. The new Senate District 47, which now incorporates much more of Clarke County than the old 47th, is likely to be less Republican, though it still is likely to produce a Republican outcome. Cowsert, an Athens attorney, is opposed by Democrat Andrew Ferguson in November. Conolus Scott has qualified as the Democratic candidate against Ginn, an engineer from Madison County. After the election in November, heavily Democratic Athens-Clarke County is once again likely to be represented in the state Senate by two Republicans willing to support legislation targeting the unified city-county government. Ginn joined with Cowsert, Gaines and Wiedower in the redistricting plan for Athens-Clarke County that targeted three incumbents made ineligible for re-election—Melissa Link, Tim Denson and Russell Edwards.
Campaign Finance An analysis of campaign finance reports for Gaines, Wiedower and Cowsert also shows that their critical stance toward Athens-Clarke County is not likely to have serious negative consequences on their fundraising. Based on the two most recent campaign contribution disclosure reports, covering the period from July 1, 2021–Apr. 30, 2022, Gaines continued his phenomenal record as a fundraiser, bringing in $164,150 in contributions of more than $100. Those contributions have to be logged, allowing for an identification of the donor as well as the location of that person or organization. The vast majority of that money, $142,050, was from someone or some entity in Georgia. But only about a third of the total, $59,450, was from someone or some entity with an Athens zip code. That includes $44,850 from the 30606 Zip Code which cuts across Oconee and Clarke counties, so the total in Athens itself is likely much smaller. Gaines recorded $1,650 from Bishop, $3,550 from Bogart (which also cuts across the Clarke and Oconee boundaries), $2,250 from Statham and $13,200 from Watkinsville. Gaines reported having $243,662 on hand at the end of April. Johnson, running as the Democrat, reported having $16,262 on hand at the end of April.
Distribution of Clarke and Oconee Registered Voters by District DISTRICT
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OCONEE
HD 120
27%
21%
HD 121
21%
79%
HD 122
42%
0%
HD 124
11%
0%
SD 46
37%
100%
SD 47
73%
0%
The weak pull that Athens-Clarke County has on Wiedower through voter registration is reinforced by his campaign contributions. Wiedower reported receiving $95,777 in campaign contributions from July 1, 2021–Apr. 30, 2022. Of that amount, $77,675 came from Georgia, with other contributions from Washington, D.C., Florida, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Only $16,650 came from Athens, including $9,400 from zip code 30606, which overlaps Oconee County and Athens-Clarke County. He received $3,750 from Bogart, which also overlaps Oconee and AthensClarke Counties, $1,000 from Statham, which overlaps Oconee and Barrow Counties, and $8,100 from the Watkinsville zip code, which includes a small part of Greene County. Under the most generous of interpretations, Wiedower received only 21.3% of his campaign contributions from Athens-Clarke County. At the end of April, Wiedower reported having $109,780 in available money. Auerbach had $14,209 on hand at the end of the period on Apr. 30. Cowsert reported receiving $88,635 in campaign contributions during the same period. Of that, $58,635 came from Georgia, with other contributions coming from California, Florida, Washington, D.C.,
Texas and elsewhere. None of the Georgia money came from Athens-Clarke County or from Oconee County. Cowsert reported having $290,291 available on Apr. 30. Democratic candidate Ferguson did not have a campaign finance report in the electronic files of the Georgia Campaign Finance System.
Political Payback Gaines’ bill to prevent local police forces with 25 or more officers from cutting more than 5% of their law enforcement budget without a public hearing was aimed at Atlanta and Athens, neither of which cut funding to its police force. Both had had some discussion of reallocating police funds for social services. The bill did not address the budget of the elected sheriffs, who provide police protection in many counties, including Oconee. The Watkinsville police force is too small to be covered by the bill. The bill also had no enforcement mechanism. The bill produced big dividends for Gaines, with pictures of him in media around the state with Gov. Kemp when Kemp signed the bill into law in May of 2021 in Barrow County. Gaines is a rising star in the party. He was appointed chair of the Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment Committee in the House for the session completed in April. Gaines and Wiedower authored House Bill 890, which redistricted Athens-Clarke County. The bill was reported out favorably from the House Intragovernmental Coordination Committee, for which Wiedower is vice-chair. The bill was approved with a host of other local bills in the House and Senate. In the House, Gaines, Wiedower and Rhodes voted in favor. Frye voted against it. Cowsert and Ginn voted for the bill in the Senate. By renumbering the new Athens-Clarke Commission districts, the bill removed Edwards, Denson and Link from the commission. These are three of the more liberal of the commission members. Gaines recently has extended his dispute with Link by publicly criticizing her for a controversial statement claiming criminal behavior by University of Georgia football players.
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Cool Down at the Lyndon House EIGHT NEW EXHIBITIONS FOR THE SUMMER SEASON
By Jessica Smith arts@flagpole.com OUTDOORS: The Lyndon House Arts Center’s Huang, Margaret Morrison, Fahamu Pecou, eight new exhibitions offer an engaging way Dianna Settles, Cedric Smith, Tori Tinsley to beat the heat. Before stepping through and Orion Wertz. While all operating under the entrance, make sure to take a moment the umbrella of narrative work, each artist’s to appreciate Cedric Smith’s new installastyle and focus is so different from the next tion for “Window Works,” a site-specific that it’s better to soak it all in yourself. On series established in response to the panview through Sept. 3, “Picture This” invites demic to create an opportunity for socially viewers to consider a range of subjects such distanced outdoor art-viewing. Born in as interpersonal relationships, world-buildPhiladelphia and now ing, Black representaresiding in Macon, tion, online identities Smith is a self-taught and more. painter and photogROSENBAUM: For over rapher whose body of 50 years, Margo work challenges the Newmark Rosenbaum negative portrayals has worked alongside of Black people or her husband, Art altogether absence Rosenbaum, with of representation in camera in hand to advertising, haute coudocument his field ture and graphic hisrecording sessions of tory observed during American traditional his youth. Up through music and other creDec. 21, this particular ative pursuits. Many set of collages resemof these photographs ble enlarged playing offer rare and valuable cards and envision glimpses into the lives Black figures as kings “Glumping On” by Tori Tinsley of under-the-radar or and queens. long-gone performers, PICTURE THIS: A multi-year partnership thereby preserving their musical legacy. between the Georgia Museum of Art and Her self-titled exhibition is split between LHAC, “Highlighting Contemporary Art in two galleries to accommodate two very Georgia” is a series of traveling exhibitions, different bodies of work. Several of her intieach taking a different focus to celebrate mate portraits of artists—Howard Finster, diverse talents. Following “Pushing the James Baldwin, Alice Neel and Edward Press: Printmaking in the South” and “Cut Kienholz—hang alongside other slice-ofand Paste: Works on Paper,” the third life photographic scenes from her book, installment “Picture This” spotlights 11 Drawing With Light. The other gallery is dedcontemporary narrative painters from icated to a collection of figurative paintings across the state: Bo Bartlett, Holly Coulis, depicting domestic scenes enlivened with Shanequa Gay (whose portrait “i am my imaginative elements of dream-like fanown temple” appears on the cover of this tasy. Here, cats, dogs and horses coexist in week’s Flagpole), Cheryl Goldsleger, Melissa a world inhabited by dragons. Margo, who
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studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, softens social commentary with a quirky lightness suggested through saturated colors, confident brushstrokes and subtle humor. Rosenbaum will offer an artist talk during Third Thursday on July 21 at 6 p.m. CROKER: In 2014, Art Rocks Athens Foundation orchestrated a citywide series of retrospective exhibitions, performances and events that sought to illuminate how the burgeoning visual art community centered around UGA’s art school during the mid-1970s to mid-‘80s gave rise to the vibrant music scene we remember today. Former professor Robert Croker was instrumental in this monumental endeavor as curator of the flagship exhibition “Between Rock and An Art Place” at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, and his own work was simultaneously featured, alongside fellow educator Art Rosenbaum, in a group exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art. A mentor to many, he helped influence a generation of aspiring artists to experiment and dream. After leaving Athens for New York City and landing a gig at the Guggenheim Museum, Croker went on to work various technical and collections management roles at agencies including Dia Art Foundation, the New York Historical Society and the Bronx Council of the Arts. It’s a treat to see new works by the 83-year-old artist, now a resident of Philadelphia, who continues to maintain a near-daily studio practice. On view until Sept. 9, his exhibition “Robert Croker at Random” consists of a series of works on paper that are meditative through their soft color combinations. FUSSELL & FUSSELL: “Maps, Landforms and River Rafts” combines two separate, yet complementary, bodies of work by Cathy Fussell and daughter Coulter Fussell. Beyond a biological relationship, the two Columbus, GA based artists share a strong interest in place and demonstrate a loyalty to craft. With over 50 years of experience, Cathy specializes in making art quilts that reflect themes of geography, Southern literature and American modernism. Using traditional materials, her tapestry-like quilts are cov-
ered in delicately curving lines to resemble topographic maps. This sense of dimension is best felt in “Brasstown Bald, Highest Point in Georgia,” while river scenes establish a different type of spatial impression by using blue threads to mark tributaries stretching into the land. Hailing from multiple generations of seamstresses and taught to quilt by her mother, Coulter pushes the boundaries of quilt-making through wall-bound assemblages constructed from discarded and donated textiles. Her “River Raft” material mish-mashes hint at ambiguous narratives and considers themes of faux nostalgia, functionality versus form, and woman versus machine. These items are set free from the memories attached to them by using a “river-as-escape-passage” metaphor. The Fussells will offer a quilt talk on Sept. 8 at 6 p.m. and an artist talk on closing day, Sept. 9, at 11 a.m. BEHIND GLASS: In addition to the artworks adorning its gallery walls, the Lyndon House has three additional exhibitions on view in its display cases. The ongoing self-explanatory series Collections from our Community presents “Winfield and McNeal’s Fleet,” a full lot of toy cars and trucks, through Aug. 20. Originally collected by Winfield Smith as a child, the toys were left behind at his childhood home for over 20 years before being rediscovered and passed down to his sons, Winfield and McNeal. Dedicated to the artist’s wife, “For Heather: New Shaped Paintings by Jason Matherly” is a collection of small color block pieces on view through Sept. 3. Thoughtfully considering the relationship and balance between specific colors, the geometric forms pull the viewer’s eye towards edges to consider negative space. Whereas the majority of modern ceramicists use electric kilns out of convenience, the small ceramic works by Mark Johnson and Zuzka Vaclavik were created using a laborious wood fire process. Vaclavik, who is also a painter, invites fire’s unpredictable, serendipitous impact on surface designs. Johnson, meanwhile, etches doodles onto dozens of tiny vessels. Their work will remain on display through Oct. 7. f
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By Bonita Applebum advice@flagpole.com Hey Bonita, Obviously women just got a royal f*** you in America, and I won’t go on a rant about that right now. But this is bringing back emotions I experienced when the heartbeat bill nonsense was going on—sex anxiety. Even using safe sex practices, I was having some serious anxiety when it came to doing the deed or feeling comfortable during. I even stopped having sex for a while. Well, the sex anxiety has come back. Even though nothing has changed in Georgia (yet), it has a very strong mental hold on me. I recognize that it’s in my head, but I feel very powerless to control it… and when the brain says no, my body says no, too. Do you have any advice on how to manage what’s going on with our government without actually letting them control what’s going on in our bedrooms to this extent? Anxious Performer Hey there Anxious, I am absolutely in the same boat right now. On top of general sex anxiety, I also have anxiety around using hormonal birth control after a friend died of a blood clot in college. I tend to require my partners to use condoms if I’m having
the type of sex that could cause a pregnancy. But condoms aren’t fail-safe, and neither is pretty much any other type of birth control out there. Don’t talk to me about celibacy or “waiting,” because I have sex to have orgasms, not to conceive. The stakes feel so much higher now, but this isn’t just our problem. So much of the onus of safe sex and preventing pregnancies falls on those of us who end up carrying the babies, and that’s just not fair when a creepy, crybaby shit-stain like Kavanaugh gets to make this kind of decision for millions of Americans. What I’m saying is that if you are a person without a womb who doesn’t want children, then it’s time for a vasectomy. I’m sick of wringing my hands over this kind of stuff when everybody who can’t carry is just sprinkling their seed all over town. I once ran into a childhood friend who bragged openly about having six
children, as if they all didn’t have different mothers who were also their actual primary caretakers. That’s not to say that there aren’t any single fathers who are primary caretakers in the world, but this kind of sex anxiety stems from the fact that so many people who have had unexpected pregnancies have to figure out what to do on their own, so much so that the Terrified Pregnant Slut is a fairly common trope in media. Personally, I am not having sex with anyone who can get me pregnant without some kind of action on their end. If a person can get a vasectomy, then they should have one if they want to walk the way they talk. The procedure is quick and performed under local anesthesia, and insurance often covers the cost. If you’re not insured, then holler at Planned Parenthood in Atlanta, which offers a sliding scale. I don’t know how great of a plan this really is as far as managing my own anxiety, but I know I’d be able to relax and enjoy myself if I knew that my partner cared about staying child-free as much as I do. And stop crying—vasectomies are reversible, you big babies. (Do you have ANY idea how painful IUD insertion is?) If someone claims that
they are a feminist and that they believe that everyone involved is responsible for preventing unwanted pregnancies, then they’ll at least consider getting “the snip” while they’re out there sowing their royal oats. It’s been a bad month for those of us who don’t want to die in a mass shooting or have control of our bodies. I’m discouraged as hell about the future, y’all. There are so many intersections to my identity that I know I’ll be one of the first up against the wall if America ever becomes the fascist Christian theocracy we’re signaling towards. I don’t know how to fix this, but I know that I’m done being the only one to sacrifice my comfort to remain child-free. f Need advice? Email advice@flagpole.com, or use our anonymous online form at flagpole.com/getadvice.
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Who Blew Up the Stones? REGARDLESS, THEY CAN RISE AGAIN IN A BETTER PLACE
By Pete McCommons pete@flagpole.com I have a theory. It’s one of those Rudy Giuliani theories without facts: Houston Gaines blew up the Guidestones. Let me explain. Houston Gaines is a Republican Georgia legislator who lives in Athens and “represents” a small part of Athens, but the large majority of his constituents and his financial support are outside Athens. (See pp. 6 & 7.) Each reapportionment adds more outlying constituents so that there is only a slim danger that Athenians can vote Gaines out of office. It’s all part of the gerrymandering that crams enough Democrats into one Athens district that there are not enough left over to outvote all the rural counties that supply Gaines with the votes and money to keep him in office. To please the rubes, Gaines is always looking for ways to stick it to Athens. For instance, he is part of the Republican Gang of Four (Sen. Bill Cowsert, Sen. Frank Ginn, Rep. Marcus Wiedower and Gaines) who blew up the Athens-Clarke County government and got rid of three democratically elected progressive commissioners so that local right-wing Republicans could try to install their own commissioners. QUENTIN MELSON / WIKIPEDIA
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So, here’s my theory. The Georgia Guidestones have been standing out in a field in Elbert County since 1980, and nobody has ever known what the hell they meant or how they got there. But lately, they have become the locus of a right wing notion that they are the blueprint for a new world order—you know, a world government, ruled over by Satan, of course—kind of a rural rebuttal to pedophilic pizza parlors. Gaines is always looking for ways to please his base, and what could be better than to take up the cause espoused by recent Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate Kandiss (sic) Taylor: Blow up the Guidestones. Does that make sense? I think this is what happened: In addition to his part of Clarke, the Republicans have added chunks of Oconee, Barrow and Jackson counties to Gaines’ district, so you can readily understand how he could lose track and forget that he doesn’t represent Elbert County, too—a natural mistake, especially since his own people emigrated here from Elbert.
Now, you may think my theory is a little far-fetched, but you have to understand that Gaines is a rising star in the Georgia legislature. For your star to ascend over there, you’ve got to have a strong base back home. The way to build a strong base is to feed them the red meat they crave. The best way to accomplish this is to have an opponent you can save them from. There’s got to be a group of people that the base doesn’t like, so that the more you beat up on those people, the more the base will love you. We are those people. The more Gaines kicks Athens around, the better he looks out there in the country. “Hey, Houston: Give ’em hell—them fancy-pants progressive latte lappers.” Houston is home free. He’s got a great base of right-wing Republicans here in Athens and a countryside of Athens resenters surrounding him. He’s golden. He can do anything, as long as he toes the line—makes sure that no more elections get stolen, no more bad Guidestones are erected, nobody else believes that Trump didn’t win, nobody cares about democratic government, based on, you know, the will of the people, especially if those people can’t express their will because the commissioners they voted for get blown out of office. In the effort to avoid angering Rep. Gaines and his supporters, I will offer this piece of win-winadvice. Houston and his legislative gang can introduce a bill to reconstruct the Georgia Guidestones, maybe in one of the rural counties that Houston does represent. Instead of all the gobbledygook about world peace and surviving nuclear holocaust written in all those foreign languages, the New Republican Georgia Guidestones can be written in the same language as the Bible was written in: English. (See: the late Georgia legislator Denmark Groover.) Gov. Kemp can appoint a special committee of Georgians to devise the new commandments. The committee can be chaired by U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who endorsed Kandiss Taylor’s proposal for getting rid of the old stones. No doubt many prominent Republicans will be eager to serve, including, I insist, Houston Gaines, of course. I offer this modest proposal in the spirit of bipartisanship and in the hope that it may bring some good out of the rubble of violence and destruction. I will even go so far as to endorse an effort to have the Guidestones rebuilt in downtown Athens, so that Rep. Gaines can thwart our satanic plan while saving the Stones for Eastville or Statham or Arcade or some other community he actually represents. f
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Flicker Theatre & Bar • 7 p.m. • $10
Since its invention by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, the saxophone has held a unique hold over the human mind. The instrument perfectly encapsulates the solo performer, and there are few images stronger in the popular music canon than the lone, sexy sax player. Whether it’s Careless Whisper or Kenny G, the saxophone is key. So, when director Joel Schumacher released his 1987 dark comedy vampire film The Lost Boys with a scene featuring a muscle-bound saxophone player ripping a solo at an outdoor party, it sent both the film and the player into cult stardom. Tim Cappello, the player
and Cowboy Curtys. Lighthearted is fronted by twins Gracie Huffman and Eliza Lemmon, who craft elegant, pastoral tunes. Cowboy Curtys is the Southern garagepsych project of LaGrange musician Josh Parsons. [PB] MUSIC | FRI, JULY 15
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Shadebeast Presents welcomes Jet Engine Dragons back to the stage after a long pandemic-induced hiatus. Anchored by Corey Flowers (also of Beast Mode), who holds a minor in composition and a doctorate in guitar performance, the progressive tech-metal group creates intricate and challenging music. Visiting from Cape Coral, FL, Dizygote is the father and son band of Ned and Ethan DuRant who combine their interests in classic punk rock and heavy metal to create a sludgy sonic hybrid that bridges generations. Closing out the night will be the second-ever live set by Kettle to Wake, a new local metal band composed of guitarist-vocalist Carter Ross, bassist Seth Barham and drummer Ross White. Arriving hot out of the hellgate with a four-track self-titled EP in late April, the band’s shreddy, melodic death metal sound melds elements of stoner, prog and doom metal. [Jessica Smith]
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Terrapin will host the first annual Chelsyfest, an all-ages charity event to honor and celebrate the life of Athens resident Chelsy Giles, who died last summer at the age of 34. The event will raise money for the Epilepsy Foundation of Georgia to provide funding for children to attend Camp Carpe Diem, a week-long summer camp for children with special needs. The free festival will include live music both in the tap room and outdoors from Tre Powell (12 p.m.), Mary & the Hot Hotty-Hots (1 p.m.), Southern Conspiracy (4 p.m.), Henderson/ Williams (5 p.m.) and All the Locals (5:30 p.m.). In addition to food trucks from Taqueria Dela Rosa, Catch 22, Cafe Racer and Kona Ice, there will be over a dozen vendors such as Franny’s Farmacy, Love.Craft Athens, Creations by Rise and Carolyn Schew. There will also be plenty of beer and other activities, too, like a dunk tank, face-painting and adoptable buddies from Athenspets. [PB] f
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By Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com THE AIR UP HERE: Experimental label Hooker Vision always seems to release things in pairs, and its latest offerings are no different. In addition to a new album by Modern Lamps (covered in last week’s column), there’s a new release from Grant and Rachel Evans’ long-running duo project Quiet Evenings. It’s titled Primrose and runs just about an hour over two tracks. Seamlessly titled “Primrose Pt. 1” and “Primrose Pt. 2,” it’s available as a digital download and, as expected from Hooker Vision, in micro batches of cassettes and CD-Rs. Both tracks are long-form drones and are nicely paired together. The meditative quality of these invites the listener to sink deeply into them. The patterns of rarified beauty Quiet Evenings delivers here are well worth one’s time. Find this at hookervision.bandcamp.com.
and old-school R&B tunes (“Hope He Gets Around To Loving You”). Essentially, if Capricorn Records were still around today in its classic form, it’s easy to imagine Avery Deakins knocking on its door. Find this on Spotify and other streaming services. For more information, do not bother going to averydeakins.com because there’s basically zero information there. You’ll do far better by heading to facebook.com/ AveryDeakinsMusic. FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS: If you’re wandering around downtown Athens on the evening of Thursday, July 14, why not pop up to the rooftop of the Georgia Theatre and
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New-ish Athens band Bat Factory will play Flicker Theatre & Bar Saturday, July 16. While the group has played out before, they’ve also been working on an as-yet-untitled debut EP. The whole thing is already recorded and reportedly slowly making its way to vinyl. The band is Avery Deakins composed of veteran players Tim Adams (vocals/guitar), Kathy Kirbo (bass/vocals), Alan Flurry (drums) and Ben Hesse (guitar). While nowhere near a one-to-one comparison, I hear snatches of the Bad Seeds, The Gun Club and Crooked Fingers all over this set of recordings, so hopefully y’all will be able to hear this soon. Don’t blame me, though, that you can’t yet. Go to the show, and bug the band. Or bug ‘em online via facebook.com/batfactor. CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE DEPARTMENT: Last month, through its self-founded Tunes For Tots program, Widespread Panic donated $75,000 to the Clarke County School District. Tunes For Tots was founded in 2005 and, to date, has donated over $3 million dollars to further youth music education. For more information on Tunes For Tots, please see widespreadpanic.com/ goodpeople/tunes-for-tots. KEEP ON SMILING: The Avery Deakins Band is currently running a victory lap for its new album Last Chance. The 12-track album was released a handful of weeks ago. Led by guitarist and songwriter Avery Deakins, the band walks its boots through a small gamut of Southern styles including straight-up country (“It’s Raining Again”), Wet Willystyle rockers (“Ain’t In It For My Health”)
help Neighbor Lady celebrate the release of its newest album For The Birds? Coming courtesy of Park The Van Records, the album is emblematic of the group’s particular take on 21st century indie pop-rock, and the urgency of several of these tunes bubbles just under their surface. Find this on all streaming services now, and for more info, please see parkthevan.com/ label/neighbor-lady and facebook.com/ Neighborladymusic. SIX HITS FROM HELL: Tears For The Dying, who has seen its star rise more quickly over the past two years than at any other time during its two-decade existence, is a life lesson in tenacity and keeping one’s eyes on the prize, so to speak. The goth-deathpunk group has a brand new EP named Eyes Wide Open In The Dark that features three single tracks and three remixes. While “Mortuary” and its attendant remixes are full-on dark and aggressive rockers of the sort we’ve come to expect from the band, opening track “Wouldn’t It Be Funny” (and its remix) show the band opening up more and making good use of empty space in this slower, but entirely tuneful, song. Find this over at tearsforthedying.bandcamp. com, and follow along at facebook.com/ TearsForTheDying. f
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Less Honkin’, More Tonkin’ THE DESLONDES RELEASE WAYS & MEANS
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he Deslondes’ guitarist and singersongwriter Riley Downing caught up with Flagpole on Independence Day to discuss their new record Ways & Means (2022) and a few other things—like meteor showers, searching the cosmos for the rarest of records, living on the road and inspiring people with good country music. Released by Athens-based label New West Records, The Deslondes’ latest record—its third full-length album and fourth in the group’s 10 years playing together—is its best yet. This new vinyl’s cut and the art’s printed. Ways & Means is ready for the 40 Watt Club album release party come July 13—a fine place for a nighttime blast-off for a band of psychedelic string men with eyes shining light back into the sky. Fans of its stripped-down guitar picking and signature “St. Roch Honky Tonk” sound won’t be disappointed because these new songs carry on Woody Guthrie’s anti-fascist folksinger traditions. “We get together and lay out all we’ve been writing, pass the guitar around and take turns singing our songs,” Downing says. In the band’s early days in New Orleans, they played with Hurray for the Riff Raff by the railroad tracks and built bonfires on the levee at the end of Deslondes Street. Before the world tours, night laborers on the Mississippi River were their first audiences. “Tug boats used to pull up on the shore and sing along with us,” Downing says. They’re still rooted in that “holler by the trash pile and the jumping bridge” of Downing’s “Muddy Water” in their last record, Hurry Home (2017). And the powerful storytelling delivered through simple chords and evocative words continues to connect back to their bardic forebears of Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, John Prine and Bobby Charles. They started with the barbershop-quartet look in that first eponymous album of folk songs and gospel numbers in 2012 before each singer embraced his own individual stage persona and released a couple solo records. Sam Doores wears a straw hat and faded denim, and Downing’s full goatee under a mullet and trucker hat channel all our favorite Kenny Powers of “Eastbound & Down” vibes, but we’ll never laugh at Downing’s expense. We’ll listen a little more closely and again. He’s from Plattsburg, MO and grew up on his grandparents’ farm in Truman country playing music and cutting up near where Confederate outlaws Jesse and Frank James first started robbing trains. We’ll lean in for more of his stories sung through gravel and grit, sore from last night’s whiskey and tobacco, and emerge in the morning feeling born again in the new light shining on this land. “It’s a new way of thinking I have about songwriting,” Downing says. “You can write about something personal that’s sad, but in the chorus you gotta talk yourself and the audience out of it. Rather than just write a sad old song, I just want to psych people up about themselves. It’s what music is all about.”
One such uplifting tune disguised as a sad song is “Hero,” which Downing wrote to remind himself and listeners that we’re each a hero in our own way; we can endure any depression and save the day if we can only remember to put one foot in front of the other, one chord after the other, and just keep on going. The guitar beat in “Home Again” is reminiscent of other Athens-based bands like Futurebirds and T. Hardy Morris, and imagery like “the torn screen door ain’t ever been fixed” will make even the most stoic among us nostalgic for the places we’ve
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lifestyle. Plus, Downing finds ways to enjoy the road. He hunts for rare 45s and 75s, and he’s excited to dig through Wuxtry’s collection. The first rare record he found that changed his life was “Old Man Atom” by Sons of Pioneers, subject of a forthcoming essay he penned for Wide Open Country. He recently found and sold a rare Sun Records 45 by The Prisonaires to Jack White. Downing also studies music—like right now he’s reading Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life by Alan Young—and he walks around the towns to get a feel for the place before the show. While touring several years ago, he noticed an odd black rock in the dirt outside a small town opera house—like the ones his grandparents took him as a child to see country music—and it captivated him. An old man passing by stopped and told him it was a meteor, so he put it in the van and stared at it all night, mystified. It’s a dense “17.5 pounds” with “magnetic properties” and “takes two hands to hold it.”
loved and lost. Same goes for the harmonica-driving “South Dakota Wild One” about Downing’s formative experience on a hippie farm and the matriarch who cared for “all of us traveling folks that wintered up together” there in the southern badlands. This new album is their most artistically diverse. Working with East Nashville producer Andrija Tojik—who’s produced records for the Alabama Shakes, Langhorn Slim and Benjamin Booker—led the band to add a flute, saxophone, synthesizer and a full drum kit to Ways & Means, elevating these songs beyond the fireside songwriting sessions on the levee in New Orleans where it all started. “Dre’s got all kinds of fun instruments to play with,” Downing says. “And after being holed up during the pandemic, it was like we were just let loose.” Downing describes the title track, sung by Sam Doores and friend of the band Margo Price, as a “simple little rocker” and a “dance song” with a tempo that might not have been possible without the innovative instrumentation. Price and The Deslondes have been sharing songs and crashing on each other’s couches ever since they discovered a shared love for “Passing Through,” Richard Blakeslee’s song made famous by Pete Seeger and Leonard Cohen about Jesus wanting a world where we talk of love, not hate, and FDR wanting one world to come out of World War II. Making a living as a traveling musician can be exhausting, but less so for these guys living out that “less honkin’, more tonkin’”
Meteorites mean something to most of us who’ve ever counted a shooting star. But to find one that’s roamed outer space for millions of years where it lands on Earth is as elusive as finding treasure at the bottom of a rainbow. The band once packed it in a pillowcase and carried it into the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Meteorites in New York City for comparison with those on display. “Everybody was looking at me like a criminal who’d just stolen a meteorite,” Downing says. The bandwide consensus determined it is in fact a meteorite. It’s been in their tour van ever since for protection. So on the night the Perseids meteor shower begins, The Deslondes’ tour kicks off from our classic city—where local legend William Orton Carlton has long claimed marks “the center of the universe,” and it’s not too far down Highway 29 from what is now Hart County where the Cherokee once did, too. Over its four decades, the fabulous 40 Watt has hosted launch parties for a lot of rock stars, but the stage is set for showcasing The Deslondes’ cosmic country and storytelling, and you might even get to see their meteorite. f
WHO: The Deslondes, The Pink Stones WHEN: Wednesday, July 13, 8 p.m. (doors) WHERE: 40 Watt Club HOW MUCH: $15 (adv.), $18
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State Botanical Garden of Georgia Sunflower Concert Series. 7 p.m. $5 (ages 4–13), $15–17. www.bot garden.uga.edu THE SPLITZ BAND A mixed drink of the classic Motown sound, part 1970s funk and disco flavor, and a dash of the old-school and contemporary R&B. The World Famous 9 p.m. (doors), 10 p.m. (show). $5. www.facebook.com/theworld famousathens MARCEL P. BLACK Oklahoma- based veteran emcee highly esteemed in hip hop who is also a youth development worker and community resource coordinator. ALFRED BANKS Multi-award- winning New Orleans rapper and singer who recently completed three legs of a North American tour with the Grammy Award-nominated Tank & the Bangas. DK Athens-based artist weaving lyrically driven truths together with Lo-fi beats. KID ARSENIC Southeast Georgia- raised rapper influenced by storytellers such as Eminem, J. Cole and Joyner Lucas.
Wednesday 13 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. (doors). $15 (adv.), $18. www.40watt.com THE DESLONDES Five-piece New Orleans folk-rock band. THE PINK STONES Rootsy local cosmic country group led by songwriter Hunter Pinkston. Creature Comforts Brewery 6 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmers market.net MARION MONTGOMERY Bluesy local folk. 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 Rooftop 6 p.m. (doors), 7 p.m. (show). FREE! www.georgiatheatre.com SPENCER THOMAS Futurbirds keyboardist and talented songwriter in his own right, Thomas plays originals and classic covers, occasionally with special guests. 8:30 p.m. (doors), 9:30 p.m. (show). $10. www.georgiatheatre. com ORNAMENT Lush pop from Will Mann and Ryan Donoho. THE ECHOLOCATIONS High- energy pop band. Porterhouse Grill 6–9 p.m. www.porterhouseathens. com/jazz JAZZ NIGHT Enjoy standards, improv and originals by a live jazz trio every Wednesday night.
Thursday 14 40 Watt Club 7 p.m. (doors), 7:30 p.m. (show). $15 (adv.), $20. www.40watt.com SEVEN YEAR WITCH Hard rock outfit from Anderson, SC.
VALLION Five-piece rock/metal band from Southwest Florida. THE MADAME VEGA Reggae, rock and punk band from Atlanta. VELVET WILLOW Atlanta rock band. Flicker Theatre & Bar 7 p.m. (Lost Boys film screening), 9 p.m. (show) $10. www.flicker theatreandbar.com TIM CAPPELLO All-star saxophonist and performer who gained notoriety as the sexy sax player in the 1987 film The Lost Boys. Georgia Theatre Rooftop 7:30 p.m. (doors), 8:30 p.m. (show). $15. www.georgiatheatre. com NEIGHBOR LADY Lush pop drawing from Americana and cosmic country. LIGHTHEARTED Alternative folk band with delicate instrumentation. COWBOY CURTYS Southern garage-psych by Josh Parsons. Southern Brewing Co. 6–10 p.m. www.sobrewco.com KARAOKE NIGHT Every Thursday evening.
com/NowhereBarAthens SUNNY SOUTH BLUES BAND Local band combining a blues and soul spirit with riffy rock and roll. The Pity Party 7 p.m. www.facebook.com/Pity PartyAthens MOM FRIEND Upbeat indie rock from Emily Backus, previously of the Skipperdees. OUTERSEA Surf rock band with elements of space rock. LEEANN PEPPERS Local singer- songwriter playing sparse, tender folk music. The Root 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/Aubrey EntertainmentAthensGA CLASS OF 96 Cover band playing
guitar rock featuring Frank McDonnell of The Glands. INFINITE FAVORS Former members of Pride Parade, Motherfucker and Cars Can Be Blue take it down a notch with a focus on song craft and harmony. First show! Athentic Brewing Co. 6 p.m. www.athenticbrewing.com GRIFF X BRE Hip-hop duo from Atlanta. Flicker Theatre & Bar 8 p.m. (doors). $7. www.flickertheatreandbar.com BAT FACTORY New band composed of Tim Adams, Alan Flurry, Kathy Kirbo and Ben Hesse. ORGANICALLY PROGRAMED Electronic space disco from Athens.
IN A KYTHE Ambient project of Lydian Brambila. Innovation Amphitheater 6 p.m. (doors), 7 p.m. (show). $25. www.innovationamphitheater.com REVISITING CREEDENCE Creedence Clearwater Revival tribute act that has toured with original CCR members. Reese and Pope Park Live from the Park Block Party and Art Show. 1 p.m. FREE! BYV_TRUBB Atlanta-based rapper with local roots blending punk rock and trap. BLESSTHEPLAYA Local hip-hop artist, singer, producer and member of The YOD collective.
Monday 18 Georgia Theatre Rooftop 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $10. www.georgiatheatre.com JACK AND JEALOUS Two brothers from Athens making music with tight harmonies and diverse instrumentation. WYATT MORAN Indie folk and rock artist. PARK NATIONAL Solo emo act of Chicago artist Liam Fagan.
Friday 15 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $7 (adv.), $10. www.40watt. com SUN TRICK PONY Local alt-rock duo encompassing multiple genres. RECESS PARTY No info available. LITTLE GRACIE Southern rock from Savannah. B&B Theatre www.bbtheatres.com/athens-12 TRISHA ADAMS Local folk singer- songwriter with a bluesy voice. Ciné 9 p.m. $10. www.athenscine.com CYDIAN Atlanta-based alternative rock band influenced by the likes of Deftones, Avenged Sevenfold and Byside. PICTURE PERFECT SKYLINES Melodic pop-punk from Atlanta. THE GETAWAY COMPANY Four- piece local band inspired by ‘90s and 2000s alt-rock. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $10. www.flickertheatreand bar.com KETTLE TO WAKE Epic new local death metal band led by Carter Ross. DIZYGOTE Father and son heavy metal duo from Florida. JET ENGINE DRAGONS Local prog metal band with dark lyrics and complex time signatures. Georgia Theatre Rooftop 10 p.m. FREE! www.georgiatheatre. com NORDISTA FREEZE Nordista Freeze spins dance records! Innovation Amphitheater 6:30 p.m. (doors), 7:30 p.m. (show). $25. www.innovation amphitheater.com BACK N BLACK AC/DC tribute band. PANDORAS BOX The ultimate Aerosmith tribute. International Grill & Bar 7 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ IGBAthensGA DIXIELAND FIVE Five-piece Dixieland jazz band. Nowhere Bar 8 p.m. (doors). 9:30 p.m. & 11 p.m. (two sets). www.facebook.
encouraged. www.facebook.com/ chelsyfest TRE POWELL Rhythm and blues the whole family can listen to. (12 p.m.) MARY AND THE HOT HOTTY- HOTS Led by Mary Sigalas, the band plays hot jazz and swing music from the ‘10s, ‘20s and ‘30s for your nostalgic partying pleasure. (1 p.m.) SOUTHERN CONSPIRACY Father- son acoustic duo Jeff and Jonathan Hertling who have been playing music together for over 20 years. (4 p.m.) HENDERSON/WILLIAMS An often bluegrass band that plays music from many generations and genres, too. (5 p.m.) ALL THE LOCALS Atlanta band playing with a soulful backbone, a rock ‘n roll attitude and a shaky blues breakdown of heartfelt lyrics. (5:30 p.m.)
Wednesday 20 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. International Grill & Bar 7 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ IGBAthensGA RICK FOWLER BAND Original, guitar-driven local blues-rock group. Porterhouse Grill 6–9 p.m. www.porterhouseathens. com/jazz JAZZ NIGHT Enjoy standards, improv and originals by a live jazz trio every Wednesday night over dinner.
Nordista Freeze will offer a DJ set on the Georgia Theatre rooftop on July 15, then perform live at Southern Brewing Co. on July 16. classic ‘90s. White Tiger Gourmet 7 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ WhiteTigerGourmetAthens ELIJAH JOHNSTON Athens-based emo singer-songwriter. PATRICK BARRY Local songwriter weaving stories with his baritone voice and intricate fingerstyle. LIZ FARRELL Local songwriter and member of Common Currents.
Saturday 16 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $8. www.40watt.com LOS CANTARES Desert rock band led by Jim Wilson. TRYCOH Three-piece instrumental
The Globe 9 p.m. $10. www.facebook.com/ globe.athens DYE JOB Band from Louisiana and Atlanta. FUN ISN’T FAIR Garage punk from Atlanta. SAG No info available. THE PIERRES Melodic and brainy local alt-rock group. Hendershot’s Coffee 8 p.m. www.hendershotsathens. com MOLOQ Pop duo blending freaky art-rock, Arabic music and funk grooves. MADAMN POINSETTA Madeline Polites creates songs melding classical, folk, Spanish and Greek influences.
LZBOI Local drum and bass music. NIÑO BROWN Award-winning hip hop project of musician Cortez Garza. LISA LOVE Young local singer. IZZY Local DJ set. Southern Brewing Co. 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $10 (adv.), $15. www.facebook.com/ AubreyEntertainmentAthensGA MONSOON Three-piece outfit informed by punk, art-rock and new wave. NORDISTA FREEZE Vast cosmic pop. CARVER COMMODORE alternative band informed by Cage The Elephant, Jack White and The Strokes. Terrapin Beer Co. ChelsyFest. 12–6 p.m. Donations
Down the Line 7/22 Shane Parish (B&B Theatre) 7/22 Sarah Mootz (Athentic Brewing Co.) 7/23 Mary and the Hot Hotty Hots (Athentic Brewing Co.) 7/24 The Howdies, Banditos (The World Famous) 7/27 Blunt Bangs, Telemarket, Nuclear Tourism (The World Famous) 7/27 Dr. Fred’s Karaoke (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 7/27 Jazz Night (Porterhouse Grill) 7/29 Eric & Misty (B&B Theatre) 8/13 Seth Martin, Lily Dabbs (White Tiger Gourmet) 8/21 Father Werewolf, Maple Stave, In Memories (The World Famous) 8/23 Klezmer Local 42, Mary & The Hot Hotty Hots (State Botanical Garden of Georgia)
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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 CALL FOR ENTRIES (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) ATHICA is accepting applications for Artist-in-ATHICA residencies, Solo-Duo-Trio exhibitions and internships. www.athica.org/membership, www.athica.org/updates/ call_2022_showcase 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 SEEKING BOARD MEMBERS (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) ATHICA is seeking new board members to help support and share the creative spirit of Athens. Complete the online application. bit.ly/athicaboard, www.athica.org
Auditions JEKYLL & HYDE THE MUSICAL (Quinn Hall, Memorial Park) Athens Creative Theatre hosts auditions for its fall main stage musical production. Email or call to schedule an audition. 706-613-3628, act@ accgov.com, www.accgov.com/act
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
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PUBLIC DANCE (The Studio Athens) Beginner Rumba lessons followed by DJ’d waltz, swing, salsa, tango etc. Every fourth Saturday. 7:30–10 p.m. $5 (students), $10 (non-students). www.gmdance.com REALITY CHECK: BUILDING BELIEVABLE SCENES AND LETTING THE FUNNY HAPPEN (work. shop) In this improv workshop, work on building scenes based in reality, believable characters with relatable emotions, stronger object and environmental work, and listening and reacting. July 17, 4–7 p.m. $50. www.flyingsquidcomedy. com/classes SPANISH CLASSES (Athens, GA) For adults, couples and children. Learn from experts with years of professional experience. Contact for details. 706-372-4349, marina bilbao75@gmail.com, www.marina-spain-2020.squarespace.com
or $18/month. 706-612-8077, ommmever@yahoo.com
Events 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. www.aadmovement.org ARMS AND THE MAN (UGA Fine Arts Building, Cellar Theatre) Lovely Raina idealizes her fiancé, a heroic soldier, and despises the enemy soldier who begs her to save his life. After the war, both the enemy and her fiancé return. Raina meets them both with arguments that spark and romance that sparkles. Presented by Town & Gown Players. July 22–23, 8 p.m. July 24, 2 p.m. $5. fineastigg@gmail.com ART EVENTS (Georgia Museum of Art) “Tour at Two” is held July 13, 20 and 27 at 2 p.m. “Sunday Spotlight Tour” is held July 17 at 3 p.m. “Yoga in the Galleries” is held July 21 at 6 p.m. “Family Day: Untamed
a.m.–1 p.m. $400/12 sessions. DEDICATED MINDFULNESS jwsclassinquiry@jaysonsmith.com, PRACTITIONERS (Online) Weekly www.jaysonsmith.com/teacher Zoom meditations are offered every AQUA AEROBICS (Memorial Park Saturday at 8:30–9:30 a.m. Email Pool) Try out a variety of stretching, for details. richardshoe@gmail. limbering and weight routines set to com music in the pool. Tuesdays–ThursINTRODUCTION TO WINE days, 6–7 p.m. Saturdays, 10–11 CLASSES (Tapped Athens Wine a.m. $5/class. 706-613-3580 Market) Intro to Pinot Noir is held ART CLASSES (K.A. Artist Shop) July 13, 6:30–8 p.m. $50. Intro to Classes are held in digital art, Cabernet Sauvignon is held July 27, handmade books, drawing funda6:30–8 p.m. $50. RSVP. hello@ mentals, watercolor, landscape tappedathens.com painting, linocut printmaking, LINE DANCE (Multiple Locations) printing on fabric and more. WaterLessons for beginners and beyond color painting workshops include are held every first, third and fifth “Effortless House Portraits” (July Tuesday, 6:30–8:30 p.m. The sec13, 6:30–8:30 p.m.), “Clouds and ond and fourth Tuesdays offer eveSkies” (July 19, 6:30– 8:30 p.m.) and “Petals and Blooms” (July 27, 6:30–8:30 p.m.). Acrylic painting workshops include “Absolute Beginner Basics” (July 24, 1–3 p.m.) Painting workshops cost $45. Digital Art Workshops include “Intro to Procreate” (July 13, 6–8 p.m. or July 17, 2–4 p.m.), “Understanding Brushes in Procreate” (July 27, 6–8 p.m.) and “Understanding Layers in Procreate” (July 20, 6–8 p.m.) Digital art workshops are $35. www. kaartist.com ART CLASSES (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) “Beginning & Intermediate Acrylic Painting” includes demonstration, discussion and one-onone guidance. Thursdays, July 14–Aug. 11, 10 “Window Works,” a site-specific series at the Lyndon House Arts Center, presents collaged portraits by Cedric Smith. a.m.–12 p.m. $160–210. “Discovering Water Ceramics” is held July 23 at 10 Mixable Oils” covers the basics of nings of line dancing, two-step and YOGA CLASSES AND EVENTS a.m. “Teen Studio: Magnified” is working with fume-free oil paints. waltz. Third Tuesdays are hosted (Revolution Therapy and Yoga) held July 28 at 5:30 p.m. “Museum Thursdays, July 14–Aug. 11, at the Bogart Community Center. “Yoga Flow and Restore with Mix” with DJ Chief Rocka is held 12:30–2:30 p.m. $160–210. Both Other nights are held at Athens Nicole Bechill” is held Thursdays Aug. 11 from 8–11 p.m. www.georcourses are taught by artist Lauren VFW. $10. ljoyner1722@att.net at 5:30 p.m. Online classes include giamuseum.org Adams. www.ocaf.com MINDFULNESS PRACTICE EVE“Trauma Conscious Yoga with THE ARTIST’S WAY STUDY CHAIR YOGA (Sangha Yoga Studio) NINGS (Online) Discuss and Crystal” Thursdays at 6 p.m. and GROUP (24th Street Clubhouse, This class is helpful for flexibility, practice how to change your rela“Yoga for Wellbeing with Nicole 150 Collins Industrial Blvd.) A gathstrength, balance and increasing tionship with difficult thoughts and Bechill” on Saturdays at 10:45 a.m. ering of artists, musicians, writers circulation and energy. All levels emotions. Email for the Zoom link. Sexuality Book Club will discuss and creatives meet to discuss the welcome. Every Thursday, 12–1 Second Friday of the month, 6–7 Pleasure Activism: The Politics of book The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual p.m. $16 (drop-in), $72 (six p.m. FREE! mfhealy@bellsouth.net Feeling Good on July 31, 10 a.m. Path to Higher Creativity by Julia weeks). 706-613-1143 OPEN/COMMUNITY MEDITATION $25. www.revolutiontherapyand Cameron. Every Sunday, 6:30 CHAIR YOGA AND MINDFULNESS (Sangha Yoga Studio at Healing yoga.com p.m. Donations welcome. beth@ (Winterville Center for Community Arts Centre) Uma Rose leads a YOGA (Elixir Movement Arts, Merbeththompsonphotography.com, and Culture) Nicole Bechill teaches meditation designed to guide parcury A.I.R.) Build a yoga practice, www.24thstreetathens.com a well-rounded, gentle and accesticipants into stillness and silence. deepen connections to yourself ATHENS FARMERS MARKET sible chair yoga class to promote Mondays, 4–5 p.m. Donations and others, and learn to use yoga (Multiple Locations) Shop fresh breathing, mindfulness and inward encouraged. www.healingarts in everyday life. “Vinyasa Flow” is produce, flowers, eggs, meats, listening. Every Monday, 9 a.m. centre.net also offered Mondays and Wednesprepared foods, a variety of arts and $10. www.wintervillecenter.com PAINTING CLASSES (Private Studio days, 10 a.m. $10/class. shelley crafts, and live music. Additionally, CLAY CLASSES (Good Dirt) Regison Athens Eastside) One-on-one downsyoga@gmail.com, www. AFM doubles SNAP dollars spent tration opens on the 15th of every or small group adult classes are shelleydownsyoga.offeringtree.com at the market. Every Saturday at month for the following month’s offered in acrylic and watercolor YOGA TEACHER TRAINING (Shakti Bishop Park, 8 a.m.–12 p.m. Every classes and workshop. Classes painting. Choose day workshops, Power Yoga Athens) Deepen your Wednesday at Creature Comforts range from wheel, unique handles, ongoing weekly classes or feedback practice and learn to teach others in Brewing Co., 5–8 p.m. www.athens hand building sculpture and more. sessions. laurenadamsartist@ person and online during this 200farmersmarket.net Studio membership is included in icloud.com hour yoga teacher training. July ATHENS RESTAURANT WEEK class price. www.gooddirt.net POTTERY WORKSHOP (Oconee 9–15. www.shaktiyogaathens.com/ 2022 (Multiple Locations) Visit COMMUNITY MEDITATION (Rabbit Cultural Arts Foundation) Lora Rust shakti-yoga-university Athens GA and the Athens ConvenHole Studios) Jasey Jones leads a will share her unique process in ZOOM YOGA (Online) Rev. Elizabeth tion & Visitors Bureau present an guided meditation suitable for all “Pushing the Surface of Clay,” a Alder offers “Off the Floor Yoga” event highlighting local eateries and levels that incorporates music, genworkshop covering surface design, (chair and standing) on Mondays taprooms. Prix fixe options for lunch tle movement and silence. Wednesglazing and firing methods. Aug. at 1:30 p.m. and “Easy on the Mat” and dinner will be offered. Through days, 6–7 p.m. jaseyjones@gmail. 27–28, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. $175–225. yoga classes on Thursdays at 5:30 July 17. www.visitathensga.com com 706-769-4565, www.ocaf.com p.m. Ongoing classes are $5/class
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ATHENS SHOWGIRL CABARET (Multiple Locations) “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 ATHENTIC EVENTS (Athentic Brewing Co.) Queer Trivia is held July 25, 7 p.m. Classic City Terminus Legion Watch Party for ATL United Soccer is held July 30, 4:30 p.m. and Aug. 13, 7 p.m. www.athentic brewing.com AUTHOR TALK (Zoom) Avid Bookshop and Books & Books/Miami Book Fair present Mohsin Hamid, author of The Last White Man, in conversation with Mark Kurlansky. Aug. 6, 7 p.m. www.avidbookshop. com BOGART LIBRARY EVENTS (Bogart Library) “KnitLits Knitting Group” is held every Thursday at 6 p.m. www. athenslibrary.org/bogart 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 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 GREEN THUMB LECTURE (Zoom) Learn all about water-wise gardening. July 13, 6 p.m. FREE! (registration required by July 12). lney@ uga.edu 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. The venue is currently closed through July 14. Hendershot’s Comedy is held July 20, 8 p.m. www.hendershotsathens. com HOPE GALA (Rialto Room at Hotel Indigo) The Ashton Hope Keegan Foundation and Athens Technical College present this year’s Hope Gala, “Puttin’ On the Ritz.” Highlights include a silent auction, raffle, food and live music by the Ashley Rivera Duo. Aug. 6, 6–9 p.m. tinyurl.com/MR3VJSSC 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 and discuss Pagan Pride Day. Meetings held every Saturday, 5 p.m. Donations encouraged. beth@athensarea pagans.org OCONEE CO. LIBRARY EVENTS (Oconee Co. Library) “Author Gail Langer Karowski” speaks on July 14 at 10:30 a.m. “Author Talk: Muriel Pritchett” is held July 16 at 1 p.m. Rod Davis presents “WWII: The
Central Pacific Campaign” is held July 17 at 3 p.m. Third Monday Book Club will discuss Rachel Joyce’s Miss Benson’s Beetle on July 18 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, locally sourced 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 PÉTANQUE CLUB OF ATHENS (UGA Redcoat Band Practice Field) Learn to play the greatest game you’ve never heard of. RSVP. Wednesdays, 9–11:30 a.m. FREE! athenspetanqueclub@gmail.com RABBIT BOX STORYTELLING WORKSHOP (East Athens Development Corporation Offices) Rabbit Box board members Stevie King and Pat Priest lead a workshop on storytelling. Explore what makes a compelling story and learn how to create a strong opening and ending, scene setting and other details. Aug. 4, 7–9 p.m. FREE! rabbitbox stories@gmail.com, www.rabbit box.org 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 2ND TUESDAY WINE DINNER (Heirloom Café) Chef and owner Jessica Rothacker presents a five-
course dinner paired with Australian wines. July 12, 6:30 p.m. $55. RSVP: 706-354-7901 SLICED (Bishop Park) Three chefs will compete in a “Chopped”-style cooking competition at the Athens Farmers Market using a mystery basket of local ingredients. July 16, 9 a.m. www.athensfarmersmarket. net 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 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 WAFFLES & WATER RECLAMATION (Middle Oconee Water Reclamation Facility) Celebrate National Waffle Day and 60 years of wastewater treatment in Athens with breakfast and a tour. Aug. 24, 9 a.m. FREE! jackie.sherry@ accgov.com WEST BROAD FARMERS MARKET (West Broad Farmers Market) The West Broad Farmers Market offers fresh produce, locally raised meat and eggs, baked goods, flowers, artisan goods and more. Order online or by phone Sundays–Thursdays, then pick up on Saturdays between 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. “West Broad, We Love You!” will feature activities, music and more on July 16, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. www. wbf.locallygrown.net
Help Out DIAPER DRIVE (Bogart Library) Drop off diaper donations in the library’s foyer for the Athens Area Diaper Bank. www.athensareadiaper bank.com
Kidstuff ACC LIBRARY EVENTS (ACC Library) Rebecca Sunshine Band will play fun, interactive music.
art around town 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. ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: ATHICA (675 Pulaski St.) The gallery’s Artist-in-ATHICA residency series presents Monty Greene, a multidisciplinary artist who will develop and present a video installation, “Quarantined Apparitions,” based on works he created during the pandemic. Viewings July 16, 23 and 30, 3:30-6 p.m. & July 21, 6–9 p.m. In progress through July 31. ATHICA@CINÉ GALLERY (234 W. Hancock Ave.) Henry McEachern’s exhibition, “Cross Sections at the Conundrum,” is an installation consisting of dozens of small and colorful assemblages. Through Aug. 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 Jon Brookshire. Through July. 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. •
July 7, 10:30 a.m. “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. “Lord of the Rings Escape Room” held July 16. 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. 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 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 GRAND SLAM TEEN SUMMER PROGRAM (Lay Park) Ages 11–17 can participate in games, giveaways, music, sports and other activities. Fridays in 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. “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. “Pirate Tea Party” is held July 13 at 6 p.m. “Teen Makers Market Workshop” is held July 15 at 4 p.m. “Middle Grades Writing Workshop with Muriel Pritchett” is held July 16 at 12 p.m. “Dungeons & Dragons” is held July 18 at 6 p.m. “Lee Bryan Puppet Show” is held July 20 at 10:30 a.m. “Paint and Snack” is held July 20 at 6 p.m. “Anime Club” meets July 25 at 7 p.m. “Teen Makers Market” is held July 30 from 12–5 p.m. www.athens library.org/oconee SAT BOOT CAMP (Athens Career Academy) College Factory hosts a boot camp for Clarke County high school juniors and seniors. July 18–21, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. www. collegefactory.org/satbootcamp. html 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 “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 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
“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. HEIRLOOM CAFE (815 N. Chase St.) Printmaker and book artist Taylor DiFonzo presents a collection of works. Through Aug. 29. LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (211 Hoyt St.) Cedric Smith presents a series of portraits for “Window Works,” a site-specific series that utilizes the building’s front entrance windows for outdoor art viewing. Reconfiguring playing cards of kings and queens, his portraits question the absence of Black figures in the country’s graphic history. Through Dec. 21. • “Picture This” features the artwork of 11 Georgia-based painters who focus on narratives. • “Maps, Landforms and River Rafts” is a series of art quilts by Cathy Fussell on view alongside works by her daughter, Coulter Fussell. • “Robert Croker: At Random 2022” is a new suite of watercolors. • Jason Matherly’s “For Heather: New Shaped Paintings” is a collection of color-block works installed against a painted ground. • Collections from our Community presents “Winfield & McNeal’s Fleet,” a collection of vintage Tonka Trucks and ‘70s Hot Wheels. • Margo Newmark Rosenbaum presents a selection of photographs from her book, Drawing with Light, as well as a collection of bright paintings. Artist Talk July 21, 6 p.m. Through Oct. 7. • Mark Johnson and Zuzka Vaclavic share a collection of wood-fired ceramics. Through Oct. 7. MADISON-MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) “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 ceramic work by contemporary artist Thompson. Through July 16. MASON-SCHARFENSTEIN MUSEUM OF ART (567 Georgia St., Demorest) A special exhibition of contemporary works from the museum’s permanent collection includes works by Howard Finster, Kenneth Woodall, Allison Spence, R.C. Gorman, Ron Meyers, Bud Lee and more. Through Aug. 18.
TUTORING (Online) The Athens Regional Library System is now offering free, live online tutoring via tutor.com for students K-12, plus college students and adult learners. Daily, 2–9 p.m. www.athenslibrary. org WILD EARTH CAMP (Piedmont Preserve) An adventure camp in the forest for ages 4–13. Week-long camp begins July 25. Register online. www.piedmont-preserve.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 AL-ANON 12 STEP (Multiple Locations) Recovery for people affected by someone else’s drinking. Visit the website for a calendar of electronic meetings held throughout the week. www.ga-al-anon.org ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS (Athens, GA) If you think you have a problem with alcohol, call the AA hotline or visit the website for a schedule of meetings in Barrow, Clarke, Jackson and Oconee Counties. 706-389-4164, www. athensaa.org FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP (ACC Library, Classroom A) Alzheimer’s Association Georgia presents a support group conducted by trained facilitators that is a safe place for those living with dementia and their caregiver to develop a support system. First Wednesday of every month, 6–7:30 p.m. 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 OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (24th Street Clubhouse) Learn to stop eating compulsively or curb other unwanted food-related behaviors. Every Tuesday, 12 p.m. FREE! Text: 678-736-3697 PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP (First Baptist Church) This group is to encourage, support and share information with fellow sojourners who manage the challenges of Parkinson’s disease or other movement disorders. Second Friday of every month, 1 p.m. gpnoblet@ bellsouth.net RECOVERY DHARMA (Recovery Dharma) This peer-led support group offers a Buddhist-inspired path to recovery from any addiction. Visit the website for details. Thursdays, 7 p.m. FREE! www.athens recoverydharma.org
Word on the Street CORNHOLEATL (Multiple Locations) Register for the fall league at Terrapin or Southern Brewing Co. Deadline Aug. 22. Games begin Aug. 30 or Aug. 31. www.cornholeatl.com 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 f
OCONEE COUNTY LIBRARY (1080 Experiment Station Rd.) Landscape photographer Chris Greer is co-host of the TV show “View Finders” and author of the books Georgia Discovered: Exploring the Best of the Peach State and upcoming title Naturally Georgia: From the Mountains to the Coast. Through August. OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (34 School St., Watkinsville) The annual “Members Exhibition” showcases works by artists who support the gallery as members. • “Figuratively Speaking” is a group exhibition stretching the limits of figurative work. Through July 23. 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. 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 on closing day, Aug. 20, 4:30 p.m. TINY ATH GALLERY (174 Cleveland Ave.) Jason Machen’s “Reflections” includes nude portraits and other photographs. Open on Third Thursday, July 21, 6–9 p.m. Open by appointment through July. UGA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIES (300 S. Hull St.) “I AM A MAN: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960–1970” documents a historic and transformative decade through iconic images of protestors and glimpses into the daily life of the American South. Through Aug. 11. 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. VIVA! ARGENTINE CUISINE (247 Prince Ave.) Susan Pelham’s collages are influenced by Magic Realism, Surrealism, fairy tales and nursery rhymes. Through August.
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Do you have bad news that you can’t break yourself? Need a clean breakup or have a friend who just needs to hear some hurtful (or yet helpful) truth? For only $5, with their first name and phone number, Bad News Bear will call the person you’ve got to break the news to because you don’t have the gall to do it yourself. Bad News Bear has got your back. Bad News Bear is a neutral party. Email badnewsbearathens@gmail.com today.
UberPrints is now hiring for multiple positions! Both full and part-time positions available. For more information and applications, go to uberprints.com/ company/jobs
JOBS
OPPORTUNITIES
FULL-TIME Hiring all positions for Puma Yu’s, new Southeast Asian restaurant/bar. $12 base pay + even tip pool among all staff. Pay structure includes front & back of house. Slated to open mid-August. Apply online www. pumayus.com Inclusive salon has rental positions for experienced hairdressers. Chair rental, low weekly rates, great location, beautiful new salon. Busy Beechwood area plaza. Tons of parking. 706-949-3792. Taste of India is now hiring! (Busser, host, floater team member). Competitive pay, paid weekly, employee meals, flexible schedules, full-time or parttime, no experience needed. $12–15. APPLY IN PERSON. Advertise jobs in the Flagpole Classifieds! 706-549-0301
ADOPT ME!
Visit www.accgov.com/257/Available-Pets to view all the cats and dogs available at the shelter
$10 per week $14 per week $16 per week $40 per 12 weeks $5 per week
• Call our Classifieds Dept. 706-549-0301 • Email us at class@flagpole.com
Big Ears (57919)
Misty (57299)
North (57223)
This girl is so much more than her ears, she has an even bigger heart to match! She’s super friendly, greets everyone with a smile, and loves pets and treats.
Misty is back at the shelter, but she’s just as sweet and affectionate as before. She likes making friends, enjoys being outdoors and laying on laps, too!
North wants a pal to splash around with this summer! This big guy is a complete lovebug, has great manners, walks well on a leash and even knows a few commands.
These pets and many others are available for adoption at: • Deadline to place ads is 11:00 a.m. every Monday for the following Wednesday issue • All ads must be prepaid
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Do you like driving, know your way around town and need some extra cash? Flagpole needs a reliable pool of substitute drivers for when our regular drivers are out! Email frontdesk@flagpole.com to be included in emails about future Distribution opportunities.
PART-TIME Bilbo Books is seeking an experienced graphic designer. Working on various book projects. Set fee. Contract per book. Must be willing to meet in person with author and publisher. Call 706-549-1597 or bilbobookspublishing@gmail.com Learn to be a transcriptionist at our South Milledge location! No customer interaction. Work independently, set your own schedule (16–40 hours, M–F weekly). Relaxed, casual, safe space office environment. Extremely flexible time-off arrangements with advance notice. New increased compensation plan. Start at $13 hourly. Make up to $20 or more with automatic performance-based compensation increases. Show proof of vaccination at hire. Self-guided interview process. Hours: 8 a.m.–8 p.m. www. ctscribes.com Now hiring part-time art teachers for our 2022–2023 art class season. Must love arts, crafts, glitter and have experience with children. Please email resume and availability to kristen@treehousekidandcraft.com
*Ad enhancement prices are viewable at flagpole.com **Run-‘Til-Sold rates are for MERCHANDISE ONLY ***Available for individual rate categories only
PLACE AN AD
White Tiger is now hiring for all positions at the Athens location and the new Watkinsville location! No experience necessary. Email work history or resume to catering@whitetigergourmet. com
Athens-Clarke County Animal Services 125 Buddy Christian Way · 706-613-3540 Call for appointment
Part-time Director/Grants Administrator for Casa de Amistad, Athens' oldest Latinx-oriented service nonprofit. Job requires vision, strong community relationships, detail-oriented project and budget management. Spanish competence preferred. Funded 1/4 time, expandable with additional funding. More info and how to apply, please go to: athensamistad.com/ voluntarios
SUDOKU
Edited by Margie E. Burke
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Difficulty: Medium
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July 16, 2022 11 AM - 2 PM
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HOW TO SOLVE:
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Copyright 2022 by The Puzzle Syndicate ACROSS 1 Concert souvenir 55 Lacking foresight 18 Clipped slip 5 Spew 58 It paves the way 22 Have a bawl 9 Says "When?" 59 Explosive sound 24 Come up 13 ____ with 60 Preach the 27 Actress Della (tolerate) gospel 29 Herbal brews 15 All there 62 Motionless 30 Poker starter 16 "Unfaithful" Diane 63 Eggheady sort 31 At the peak 17 Appealing 64 Batty ones 32 Alliance est. in 19 Club that sings 65 Spring purchase 1949 20 Female antelope 66 Crafts partner 33 Symbolic post 21 Perfumed liquid 67 Small pie 35 Cut short 23 Mistake in print 38 Maze features 25 Blind followers DOWN 39 Keep for later 26 Witty banter 1 Gardening tool 42 City near Lake 28 Flight board info 2 Homework helper Tahoe 31 Poison remedy 3 Total and 44 Inexpensive 34 Eucharist plate complete lodging 36 New Mexico art 4 Prickly seedpod 47 Nine-day prayer colony 5 Rough 48 Club at a club 37 Requirements calculation 50 Pistol-packing 40 Tuckered out 6 Kind of drop 52 City near 41 Aquatic mammal 7 Broker's advice Syracuse 43 Fish that swims 8 Sprout canines 53 Barbershop item upright 9 Pond buildup 54 French seaport 45 "The Tell-Tale 10 Gunpowder 55 Hieroglyphics Heart" writer compound bird 46 Undertaking 11 Dummy's perch 56 "Ugly Betty" 49 Landed estate 12 Clairvoyant magazine 51 Interrupt, as a 14 Frisked, with 57 Bar projectile nap "down" 61 Parking place
Puzzle answers are available at www.flagpole.com/puzzles
WEST BROAD, WE LOVE YOU! 300 S. Rocksprings St. Athens, GA 30606
Celebrating the rich history of the West Broad neighborhood and 10 years of the West Broad Farmers Market! Featuring an exciting lineup of activities, music, and fun for the whole family! Plus, fresh produce (with 50% off fruit and veggies with SNAP/EBT), baked goods, local cuisine, meat, eggs, coffee, artwork, jewelry, bath and body products, and more, all from local businesses!
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flagpole is seeking a full time sales representative to handle adverting sales for the print and online editions, as well as The Guide to Athens and other special projects. Sales Rep will be responsible for working directly with clients, handling all sales contracts and payments, and preparing ad copy for the ad designers. Contracted accounts and potential leads will be provided; cold calls will also be required. MUST HAVE SALES EXPERIENCE Pay includes base pay, commission, bonuses, & benefits (insurance, paid time off, retirement plan) Please send letter and resume to ads@flagpole.com
NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE
July 16th 9:00AM
Bishop Park
Three chefs put their culinary skills to the test in a mystery box challenge... who will win?
SALON, INC.
Celebrating 16 years of Stephanie!
2440 West Broad St., Suite 2 706-548-2188 www.alaferasalon.com
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