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city dope Early Voting Expands

By Blake Aued and Shelby Israel news@flagpole.com

The Athens-Clarke County Board of Elections voted last week to expand advance voting hours at three locations.

The board unanimously approved expanding hours at the ACC Elections Office from 7 a.m.–7 p.m. from Oct. 31–Nov. 3. The board also voted 3–2 to adjust hours at the Miriam Moore Community Center and the Lyndon House Arts Center to 9 a.m.–7 p.m. on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. The adjusted hours will add nine more hours for voting at the elections office downtown, as well as four hours each for the other two locations.

In addition to those three locations, early voting started Oct. 31 at the Winterville Train Depot, the ACC Tennis Center, the ACC Extension Office and the ACC Library. Hours are 9 a.m.–5 p.m. except for Nov. 2, when those locations will open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. The Tate Center on campus will host a polling place that will be open from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Nov. 1 and 3 and 7 a.m.–7 p.m. Nov. 2. Early vot ing ends Nov. 4.

The Board of Elections has been under pressure to expand early voting hours because Athens-Clarke County lags behind the record turnout elsewhere in the state.

As of Thursday, ACC was fourth from last among Georgia counties, with a voter turn out rate of 9.7%.

Members of the public who commented agreed that expanding advance voting hours the week of Oct. 31 would provide more opportunity for Athens residents to cast their vote, with many noting that vot ers cannot always make it to the polls due to typical work days.

“One of the most eye-opening days of my life was in 2020 during the presidential election when I’d seen Georgia turn into a blue state,” said University of Georgia law student Mark Lee. “But that’s the impor tance of our democracy. That is why it is important for everyone to get out and vote and make sure their voice is heard.”

Bryant Barnes, co-chair of the United Campus Workers of Georgia, said he also supports expanding voting hours.

“Voting rights are under attack, but workers’ rights are also under attack,” Barnes said. “Expanding those hours after 5 when most folks get off of work would just make our democracy more effective.”

But Director of Elections and Voter Registration Charlotte Sosebee said that adding advance voting hours could actually lead to longer lines because poll workers will be stretched thin. When elections staff are not assisting with advance voting, they are answering phone calls, helping when there are long lines, giving poll workers

CORRECTION: A section of last week’s City Dope, entitled “Commission Favors Student Apartments,” incor rectly stated that UGA has only built one new dorm in 20 years. It opened new dorms in 2004 and last year, and has rebuilt several other dorms, adding a total of 2,500 new beds.

breaks and processing absentee ballot appli cations. “Anytime that we add to our work, we take away from other work that has to be done,” Sosebee said.

Elections Assistant Lisa McGlaun said having nine poll workers at a voting location is optimal because with only six workers, there is no time for breaks without leaving a station unattended. McGlaun said many of the office’s poll workers find 10-hour work days taxing and have expressed concerns about their accuracy.

Sosebee said out of the elections office’s 95 workers, 64 responded that they would have availability to stay at their respective polling locations after 7 p.m. on some days, but not every day. [Shelby Israel]

Eviction Program Suspended

Athens-Clarke County has suspended an eviction prevention program after discover ing that money was missing from the bank accounts of the nonprofit running it.

The ACC Housing and Community Development Department—which oversees local housing and social services programs funded through federal grants—sus pended the eviction program Monday, after Athenian First Development Corp. was unable to provide documentation for more than $100,000 in expenditures, accord ing to a memo from ACC Manager Blaine Williams to the Mayor and Commission.

At least $37,895 is missing, said Andrew Saunders, interim director of HCD. “It was not in the account we were expecting it to be in,” he told Flagpole

All told, there are questions about $55,462 in direct expenses (benefits to ten ants and landlords) and $66,834 in adminis trative costs that HCD is working with AFDC to resolve. As a recipient of federal American Rescue Plan Act funding, AFDC receives monthly prepayments and is required to submit documentation on spending to HCD, which then reports to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The documentation issues date back to June, according to Williams’ memo.

Last week, AFDC informed HCD that it could not repay the $37,895, nor could it meet its October payroll or process 22 applications for financial assistance. The nonprofit also would not provide updated August and September documentation or submit a written plan, according to Williams, although Saunders said coopera tion has improved in recent days.

Williams said the ACC government will file for reimbursement from AFDC’s insurance. He also referred the matter to Police Chief Jerry Saulters for investigation, although Williams described that move as due diligence and said there was no particu lar reason to suspect a crime.

“The ACCGov team has worked diligently to try to rectify this problem with AFDC since it was identified in June; and yet, at each junction, AFDC has failed to uphold

their project scope and contractual com mitments,” Williams wrote in the Oct. 24 memo. “As time has progressed, the project has achieved an intolerable level of federal non-compliance that must be addressed. While it is plausible that AFDC can come back into compliance, it may well not be in time to restore the service of the Eviction Prevention Program.”

AFDC representatives have not responded to a voicemail or email asking for comment.

Expecting a wave of evictions after a pandemic-related federal moratorium expired, the ACC Commission voted to cre ate the eviction prevention program in May 2021. It is modeled after Project Reset in Gwinnett County, which pays landlords up to 95% of tenants’ back rent in exchange for wiping the slate clean and allowing the tenants to stay in their homes. But the county had trouble attracting applicants to run the program. AFDC was the only nonprofit to apply for funding. ACC staff raised concerns at the time about AFDC’s ability to manage the program because it was a new nonprofit that had never dealt with the stringent requirements of a federal grant before. Not wanting to delay further, the commission approved a $2.5 million contract in October 2021. Before the program was suspended, that contract was up for renewal this December.

Before the financial reporting issues emerged, Williams said the program had been successful. “There were a great number of people helped, I think about 300,” he said, “so it was working as intended.”

The possibility remains that AFDC could come back into compliance, but the com mission could also find another nonprofit to run the program or redirect the remain ing $1.1 million elsewhere. “I’m hoping we can get someone to jump in and run it in a competent way,” said Commissioner Tim Denson, the driving force behind starting the program.

However, Williams said he is not sure ARPA funding can be spent on evictions anymore. That funding was aimed at help

ing local governments and individuals affected by the pandemic. But most evic tions have been the result of market forces, not COVID-19, Williams said. If the pro gram is no longer eligible for ARPA funding, the commission could continue the pro gram using other funds, he added.

In the meantime, tenants facing eviction are being referred to two other local non profits that receive federal housing funds through the ACC government—the Ark and Family Promise—for assistance. Nineteen AFDC clients were left in the lurch, accord ing to Saunders. Because the eviction prevention program has been suspended, though, no one is sitting in Magistrate Court during eviction proceedings to tell landlords and tenants about the help avail able, Denson said.

“In all of this, people’s lives and their housing security are at stake. Staff believe the mitigating measures described above… are sufficient to help individuals participat ing in the eviction prevention program,” Williams wrote in his memo. “I can assure you HCD staff will do everything in their power to ensure people are helped.” [Blake Aued]

Hooker Holds Town Halls

Newly appointed Clarke County School Superintendent Robbie Hooker will host a series of town hall meetings over the next month. The forums are scheduled for Nov. 1 at Clarke Central High School, Nov. 7 at the Nellie B Community Center, Nov. 14 at the Rocksprings Community Center, Nov. 17 at Cedar Shoals High School, Nov. 30 at New Grove Baptist Church and Dec. 5 at the Pinewoods Estates library. All meetings will run from 6–7 p.m.

Hooker replaced the retired Xernona Thomas on Oct. 10 after the school board officially hired him Sept. 1. He previously served as superintendent of the Social Circle school system, assistant superintendent in Henry County, principal at Clarke Central and Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle School, and a teacher at Coile Middle School, where he was named teacher of the year in 199596. He was also named Georgia high school principal of the year in 2013. [BA] f

PLUS, MONEY GOES MISSING FROM NONPROFIT AND MORE LOCAL NEWS

“ I’m hoping we can get someone to jump in and run it in a competent way.

Vote Yes on Homestead Referendum

I’m writing in response to Pub Notes from Oct. 19, 2022, “Pete’s Cheat Sheet.” At the very end of this column, Pete McCommons writes, “the local referendum at the end of the ballot helps homeowners a little bit while hurting local government’s ability to supply the services we all need.

I’m voting no.”

As a homeowner in Athens’ West Broad neighborhood, I’d ask Pete to look at the whole referendum, because what he doesn’t say in his column is that it includes a property tax freeze for homeowners with incomes under 200% of the poverty line. This will help people with fixed incomes and very low incomes stay in their homes. Our state representatives who passed this bill came to meetings in my neighborhood and listened to people who this referendum will help. Voting no means we’ll continue to lose affordable homes in my neighborhood and other parts of Athens where people are already struggling. I know the county has been talking a lot about affordable housing lately; well, it’s a lot easier and smarter to keep homes affordable than try to build new ones after they’re gone.

I know that my property is worth a lot more to developers and investors who could rebuild it for a fancier house or apartment, but it’s worth more than that to me. It’s my home, and it has been for 45 years. I hope people will consider how this referendum will help low-income families in Athens stay in their homes.

Thoughts on Affordable Housing

I wanted to write you a letter to express my critical understanding and thought ful solutions on the housing market and why rents and home prices have gotten so high in Athens. Currently, I am a gradu ate student at the University of Georgia, and I am interning at the Athens AntiDiscrimination Movement, where several residents have voiced their hardships and struggles with affordable housing in the area.

While you have a dedicated section titled “Students drive up rent” in your Sept. 14 article, I feel as though UGA led to the increase in rent. I am also aware of third parties who are buying up specific land parcels in the Athens community. Every year UGA accepts more students than the set number of student housing in the area. This causes everything to be impacted in a domino effect. Having a city such as Athens that houses such a large university that continues to grow enrollment results in a lot of conflict with local communities seek ing affordable housing.

So far for this year, there have been two new apartment complexes in Athens that are considered luxury apartments. These apartments are in low-income communities and, with that being said, rent is bound to increase for homes near those estab lishments. New housing projects that are currently being built plan to increase the money that they are receiving and keep the

working class and non-college age residents out. Establishments and third party inves tors aren’t allowed to discriminate, but they use rent as a barrier for people living in low-income areas.

The housing crisis is causing many Athens residents to move out or become homeless, as stated in the article, and I suggest that we offer support by advocat ing for UGA students and volunteers to work with organizations like the Ark, the Backpack Project, Sparrow’s Nest and many more. As a result, students and volunteers will have an opportunity to learn about homelessness and how they can dispel misconceptions about people in homeless ness. I would also suggest reaching out to other states who are currently experiencing the same housing crisis and collaborate on different solutions that will help best resolve or provide temporary relief in the meantime.

I would also suggest building more affordable housing. Housing through the Athens Land Trust will ultimately and per manently be considered affordable, since it is completely off of the private market. To conclude, I would recommend enacting rent stabilization policies that would work to decommission housing in order to make affordable housing more accessible to more people.

Destiny Cruz Athens

Rainbow Crosswalk Is Hypocritical

The recently installed rainbow cross walks provide a prominent message of inclusiveness in Athens, and, at the same time, shine a light on a significant symbol of oppressiveness and exclusion sitting on the steps of City Hall.

The double-barreled cannon located at City Hall in Athens needs to be removed. Like the removed Confederate monu ment on Broad Street, the Civil War can non equally represents and glorifies the Southern blight of slavery.

The Athens Mayor and Commission should continue the process of inclusive ness by removing the cannon from its prominent position. It only serves as a reminder of the South’s dark past and is most certainly offensive to people of color who pass by the cannon each day.

Of course, this same mayor and commis sion could have exercised true, non-selec tive inclusiveness by not having removed the Confederate monument in the first place, avoiding the obvious hypocrisy they now face by keeping the cannon in place.

In America, of all places on earth, rain bow crosswalks and a Confederate monu ment should be able to coexist. Clearly, the University of Georgia embraces this coex istence and with demonstrable meaning. Buildings named after former presidents believed to have been slave owners, includ ing Waddell, Meigs and Mell, stand among the Holmes-Hunter Academic Building, named to honor those who overcame oppression and the shadow of slavery to attend that very same university.

Bert DeSimone Athens

A New Antiwar Classic

‘I WANT TO STOP PUTIN FOR CHRISTMAS’ IS A GAS

By Pete McCommons pete@flagpole.com

I would not want you to think that Grady Thrasher is not a serious man. After all, he led the fight against the Athens/UGA establishment when they tried to put a fed eral high-risk germ facility (the “bio-terror lab”) next to the botanical garden. He is a retired attorney, a prize-winning children’s author, a filmmaker, a philanthropist, and the partner, with his wife—artist

to the world, an anti-war tune that (in my immodest opinion) might be today’s gener ation’s answer to Bob Dylan’s ‘Blowin’ in the Wind.’ It will definitely be breaking its way up the charts when released.”

Here is the world premiere of Grady Thrasher’s new song, just in time for the holidays. Grady’s other songs can be found on YouTube at Sunnybank Music.

Recently, shut in by the pandemic and by health issues, Grady has turned his con siderable mental energies to writing song lyrics. It’s true that Grady’s first effort was mostly for fun, resulting in “True Love and Plastic Money,” recorded by the Florida duo Lucky Mud. But lately, he has grown serious about his lyrics, and when Grady gets seri ous, he goes all in.

His lyrics lately have been love songs (“It’s Never Too Late to Fall in Love Again,” “I Wonder if Maybe”), but he knows he’s no musician, so he has hired some local people who are. Chief among them is Jay Gonzalez (Drive-By Truckers), who takes Grady’s words and turns them into music. And what music! Jay has recruited local musicians Michelle Castleberry, saxophone; Bill Oglesby, saxophone and flute; Dick Daniels, bass; and Joe Ellison, drums. Jay plays piano and guitar as well as creating and arranging the tunes.

All together Jay and The Boulevardians make Grady’s lyrics and Jay’s compositions into bouncy, jazzy, head-nodding songs recorded at Jim Hawkins’ Studio 1093 on Boulevard (hence the band name) and vid eotaped by Matt DeGenarro against 1093’s warm, wooded background. Grady is not exactly a self-promoter, but he has a great deal of self-confidence, and he’s convinced that this time he has come up with a song that manages to be both humorous and deadly serious at the same time, driving home a timely message fit for Christmas and for the ages.

As Grady puts it with just a touch of dry humor, “It’s sure to be a Christmas hit, an ultimate standard, perhaps—a rallying cry

I Just Want to Stop Putin for Christmas

I just want to stop Putin for Christmas, No, I’m not speaking gastronomically, Please help me stop Putin for Christmas, So, Ukraine remains a sovereign state and free.

Dictators have no Holiday Spirit, No, it’s not their modus op-eran-di, They can’t win Freedom’s game, so they fear it, Both Putin and his Chinese buddy Xi.

You could give Ukraine back its Crimea, Arrest a couple of Arab princes too, Squash that nuclear kid from North Korea, But, if that’s too much for now to ask of you,

I just want to stop Putin this Christmas, No, I’m not speaking gastronomically, Please help us stop Putin for Christmas, So, Ukraine remains a sovereign state and free.

So, Ukraine remains a sovereign state and free.

Gonzalez says, “I never thought I’d be singing the word ‘gastronomically’ in a holiday song (or any song, for that matter), but I love the message, and I had a blast setting it to music and recording it with the Boulevardians!”

To hear what Jay and the Boulevardians have done with Grady’s words, go to Pub Notes on flagpole.com and click the link. They make a good team. Here’s hoping “Stop Putin” becomes a hit and these guys continue making music. f

Willie Thomas Athens

Kathy Prescott—in various eleemosynary endeavors.

(l-r) Joe Ellison, Jim Hawkins, Jay Gonzalez, Dick Daniels, Grady Thrasher, Bill Oglesby, Michelle Castleberry, Matt DeGennaro

JEFFERY VERNON

Expand Medicaid Now

KEMP’S OPPOSITION TO FREE MONEY IS KILLING HOSPITALS AND PEOPLE

By John Barrow news@flagpole.com

Twice in the last six months, I’ve heard Andy Young tell an audience that any time the federal government offers to pay you 90 cents on the dollar to do something you ought to do anyway, it’s like being given “free money.”

He was talking about the time in the 1970s when the federal government wanted to invest in urban airports so much that it was willing to pay any city 90 cents on the dollar to expand and upgrade their airports. Sam Massell was the only big-city mayor who took the federal government up on that offer, and the result is the JacksonHartsfield International Airport we know today.

The biggest issue in Georgia’s guberna torial contest is whether Georgia should accept the same offer. That’s the cost to Georgia of Medicaid expansion under Obamacare: 10 cents on the dollar. Stacey Abrams is in favor of it, and Brian Kemp is opposed. But unlike the opportunity seized by Sam Massell, the cost of Kemp’s refusal to take a similar deal is measured in more than lost economic opportunity—it’s mea sured in terms of sickness and death.

In exchange for $350 million from Georgia’s state government, the federal government would pump $3.5 billion dol lars into Georgia—mostly rural Georgia. The multiplier effect of health-care spend ing on that level is staggering: That’s a $4 billion economic stimulus plan, a jobs pro gram, a workforce development plan and a health care Marshall Plan all rolled into one. With the feds picking up practically all of the tab.

Unlike Medicare, Medicaid is a cost shar ing program between the federal and state governments, under which the feds provide most of the money, but the states get to decide who is covered and how good that coverage is. Georgia is among the stingiest states in the country when it comes to who is covered by Medicaid. No able-bodied adult is covered unless they have a child in the household. And if they do have a child in the household, they lose their Medicaid when their household income goes over 36% of the federal poverty level. For a sin gle parent, that’s $6,600 a year.

Georgia is also among the stingiest states in the country when it comes to what it pays doctors and hospitals. Georgia Medicaid pays doctors so much less than private insurance or Medicare that many doctors simply won’t take any Medicaid patients at all.

Meanwhile, hospitals lose money on every Medicaid patient. As a result, the hos pitals that suffer the most are those with high concentrations of Medicaid patients— namely, those in rural Georgia and those that serve the poorer populations of our big cities. Which is why rural hospitals in Georgia are closing left and right, and why even giant trauma centers like Atlanta Medical Center are closing down, and Grady goes on the “watch list.”

Obamacare fixed the Medicaid problem, not only in Georgia but all over the coun try. It did so by paying the states 90 cents

on the dollar to expand Medicaid coverage in their states up to a new national stan dard—138% of the poverty level—at a cost to the states of just 10 cents on the dollar. At that point the feds provide a new “sliding scale” program of private insurance pre mium subsidies, based on the ability to pay.

Ironically, states with the worst records under traditional Medicaid, like Georgia, were going to be the biggest beneficiaries of Medicaid expansion. We were going to use federal dollars to expand Medicaid coverage to people between 36% of the poverty level and 138%. It was almost as if Georgia was going to be rewarded for our leadership’s past hard-heartedness.

So far, 38 states have accepted Medicaid expansion. Only 12 states, including Georgia, are still holding out. Among the holdouts are states as poorly led as Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee and Texas.

Despite the politics that these states have in common, a surprising number of states—with leadership just as parti san—have decided to quit this “Medicaid Confederacy” and rejoin the Union. Arkansas adopted Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion eight years ago. Arkansas. So did Kentucky and West Virginia. And Ohio. And North Dakota. Indiana (under Governor Mike Pence, no less) adopted it seven years ago. What do these states know that Kemp doesn’t? One thing they know is that their states are already paying for Medicaid expansion everywhere else, with their fed eral taxes, so they might as well get what they’re paying for. Another thing they know is that their states stand to gain more than their fair share of the benefits of Medicaid expansion. That’s because, like Georgia, they have the biggest Medicaid gaps to close, and they’re getting the feds to pick up 90% of the cost.

But without a doubt the most important thing these states know is that it is in their state’s economic self-interest that their peo ple have basic health insurance. These states know that a workforce riddled with people who don’t have health insurance cannot compete with states whose workers have good health insurance. Which is why rural Georgia is getting economically sicker the longer her people remain uninsured.

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, over 450,000 Georgians are stuck in the gap between Georgia’s cur rent Medicaid income cap and subsidized insurance under Obamacare. That’s how many people would be covered by Medicaid expansion—with the feds picking up the tab—if only Kemp would do what Mike Pence did. These people sicken and die at a rate all out of proportion to those who have health insurance. The hospitals they fre quent also sicken and die. All because their leaders are fighting a “lost cause” against anything with the name “Obama” attached to it.

It’s time Georgia gets what we’re already paying for. If Brian Kemp won’t go for that, then that’s a very big reason to go for Stacey Abrams. f

street scribe

The GOP Is a Cult

WALKER AND REPUBLICANS HAVE ABANDONED ALL PRINCIPLES

By Ed Tant news@flagpole.com

Who’s to blame when the Grand Old Party gets out of hand? Writing in The Atlantic on Oct. 16, longtime Republican Peter Wehner says that today’s GOP has become “an intel lectual wasteland.” Wehner is a conservative who served in the administrations of GOP presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. Today he is a critic of former President Donald Trump and the current crop of MAGA Republican candidates like Herschel Walker and Marjorie Taylor Greene here in Georgia.

In his article titled “The Perfect Candidate for a Fallen Party,” Wehner says that Walker exemplifies a Republican Party that has become a cult of personality that “has turned on nearly every noble principle it once claimed to stand for. It has become a freak show embodied by people like Trump and Walker…” He calls today’s GOP “conspiracy minded, anti-democratic, and anti-truth” and laments the fall of his party into an abyss of trumpery, chicanery and political paranoia.

cheering mobs,” he said in 2010. “I have the dread sense of the dark clouds of fascism gathering” over the American political landscape. Chomsky’s dystopian vision of 2010 is coming true in 2022. An embattled Trump hopes a White House win in 2024 will cancel his legal troubles and return him to power. Across America, Republican candidates for political offices are parroting Trump’s lie, cry and deny tactics claiming that the presidency was stolen from the GOP in 2020.

The Capitol Hill invasion of Jan. 6, 2021 showed the face of fascism right here in America. Right-wing groups like the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers and the militia movement were the stormtroopers in a political putsch to overthrow democracy and keep Trump enthroned in the White House. The Nov. 8 election and the upcom ing 2024 election are watershed contests that could shape the future of America.

In 1964, conservative Republican presi dential candidate Barry Goldwater roared, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is

Walker will go up against incumbent Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock in the Nov. 8 election that will decide which party will control the Senate. Walker has had plenty of faults and fumbles in his run for the Senate, but he also has the unflinching support of Republicans who will forgive any transgression by any candidate who can help them retain and expand their power. The former University of Georgia football star was hand-picked by Trump to run against Warnock in a contest that looks like a close race in a state where early voting has already started. Georgia Democrats need a high turnout or Herschel Walker could score a political touchdown for the state’s GOP.

More than a decade ago, author and social critic Noam Chomsky warned of the danger of fascistic trends in America. “I’m old enough to have heard a number of Hitler’s speeches on the radio, and I have a memory of the texture and the tone of the

no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” Today’s MAGA mob of Qanonsensical Trump troops is interested not in liberty and justice, but in partisan political power. Sadly, millions of Americans would be happy with an authoritarian regime today, just as millions of Italians supported the dictator Benito Mussolini because “he made the trains run on time” and millions of Germans supported Adolf Hitler because he was good for business and was making Germany great again.

America is in trouble when the Republican Party has been hijacked by a carnival barker conman and naked emperor like Donald Trump. America is in trouble when the Republicans have become so bad that they’re making the Democrats look good. America has hope only if its citizens remember the words of the late Congressman John Lewis: “We can’t afford to let democracy slip away.” f

“ Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Herschel Walker tries to scam a half-price Whopper.

SCREENSHOT

VIA WSAV

OFFICIAL ABSENTEE / PROVISIONAL / EMERGENCY BALLOT

Clarke County, Georgia

Precinct: ALL General Election November 8, 2022

This is a composite sample ballot for informational purposes only.  This ballot contains all contests for  Athens - Clarke County.  Not all races will appear on a voter's indidivual ballot. Voters should refer to their  precinct card for their individual districts or visit the Georgia Secretay of State's website,  www.mvp.sos.ga.gov.

*The last day to register to vote for the General Election is October 11, 2022. *Absentee Ballots mailed October 11 - October 28 *Advanced  Voting October 17 - November 4

For additional information, please visit the Athens - Clarke County website:  www.accgov.com/Elections

For State House of Representatives - District 124 (Vote for One)

Trey Rhodes   (Incumbent) Republican Kat Howkins   Democrat

Write-in

For Solicitor General (Vote for One)

Will Fleenor   Democrat

Write-in For Oconee River Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor (Vote for One)

Ray C. Rozier   (Incumbent)

Write-in

Proposed Constitutional  Amendments

-1 -

Provides for suspension of  compensation of certain State  officers and members of the  General Assembly.

Senate Resolution No. 134 Resolution Act No. 304

"Shall the Constitution of Georgia  be amended so as to suspend the  compensation of the Governor,  Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of  State, Attorney General, State  School Superintendent,  Commissioner of Insurance,  Commissioner of Agriculture,  Commissioner of Labor, or any  member of the General Assembly  while such individual is suspended  from office following indictment for  a felony?"

Yes No

-2 -

Provides for temporary local  tax relief after disasters.

House Resolution No. 594 Resolution Act No. 803

"Shall the Constitution of Georgia  be amended so as to provide that  the governing authority of each  county, municipality, and  consolidated government and the  board of education of each  independent and county school  system in this state shall be  authorized to grant temporary tax  relief to properties within its  jurisdiction which are severely  damaged or destroyed as a result  of a disaster and located within a  nationally declared disaster area?"

-B -

Expands ad valorem tax  exemption for family-owned  farms and adds qualified  products to the exemption.

House Bill No. 498 Act No. 260

"Shall the Act be approved which  expands a state-wide exemption  from ad valorem taxes for  agricultural equipment and certain  farm products held by certain  entities to include entities  comprising two or more family  owned farm entities, and which  adds dairy products and  unfertilized eggs of poultry as  qualified farm products with  respect to such exemption?"

Statewide Referendum Questions

Yes No -A -

Provides for ad valorem tax  exemption for certain timber  production, reforestation, and  harvesting equipment.

House Bill No. 997 Act No. 859

"Shall the Act be approved which  grants a state-wide exemption from  all ad valorem taxes for certain  equipment used by timber  producers in the production or  harvest of timber?"

Yes No

Local Referendum Question

Yes No Homestead Exemption (Vote for One)

"Shall the Act to increase the  existing general and senior  homestead exemptions from  $10,000.00 to $25,000.00 and  create a low-income base year  assessed value homestead  exemption from Athens-Clarke  County ad valorem taxes for  unified government purposes be  approved?"

Yes No

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good growing Protecting Your Plants

HOW TO AVOID FREEZES IN THE FALL

By Erin France news@flagpole.com

The first frost hit, and if you, like me, had a few casualties, it might make you want to put up the gardening gloves for the year. That’s fair. Watching damaged frozen leaves curl and brown can cause despair. Then you add the shortening days, and man, do I get it.

in March. Unfortunately, adding another layer of frost cloth does not double its power to keep out the cold. You’ll also need some way to hold the cloth away from wet, tender plants, or else they’ll freeze against the cloth. The cloth also needs pins or sandbags or bricks to secure it in place. I’ve found the best prices and quality on frost cloth online; in person, I’ve seen a lot of overpriced, shoddy-looking products. If you get stuck in a pinch, a bedsheet will work, but not as well as frost cloth. Not every plant needs frost cloth.

Right now, my lettuce and bok choy are cov ered. A month from now, I’ll cover the broc coli and kale. I don’t ever have to cover root crops like carrots, tur nips or beets.

RIP Vince Dooley

PLUS, THE STAKES FOR TENNESSEE COULDN’T BE HIGHER

By Cy Brown news@flagpole.com

Legendary Georgia football coach and ath letic director Vince Dooley, Damn Good Dawg, died at 90 last week.

Before writing this, I spent a few hours scouring the internet for a pithy quote from Coach Dooley to include here. The Dawgs face Tennessee next week in what will be one of the biggest, most important games at Sanford Stadium in decades. Between his showdowns with the Vols as a coach and his son Derek’s ignominious end as Tennessee’s head coach in 2012, I thought there had to be at least a small burn buried in an inter view somewhere. But nope, I couldn’t find a thing.

Maybe a more skilled researcher than I will dig something up before the game, but I doubt it. Coach Dooley had grace and gravitas. He was never the trash-talking sort. If the stereotypical “Southern gentle man” actually existed, it was Coach Dooley. He had an accent that could melt butter, and was happy to take the time to speak with anyone who crossed his path or wanted a word.

have been big-play machines. They ain’t a fluke or a joke. They’re legit, and Kirby Smart will need the Dawgs to be on their A-game to come out with a win and control our destiny in the SEC East.

Do you remember what the 2017 season felt like? That season, we arrived in the College Football Playoff picture well ahead of schedule. Every game, every win, felt like catharsis, like the program’s destiny was changing before our eyes. It was intoxicat ing in a way even the national champion ship campaign last year wasn’t.

That’s what Tennessee fans are experi encing right now. They’re in the midst of a fantastic run unlike any they’ve expe rienced since Phil Fulmer was in charge. We’re a more talented team, and will be the favorite to win, but those Tennessee players beat Alabama, and now they believe they can beat anyone.

But, if you want to keep growing throughout the colder months, there are a few ways to continue greening up your thumb and reaping the benefits. Here are a few suggestions:

• Bring your tropicals and herbs inside. Folks more qualified than I am can talk a heap about growing plants inside. I just manage to keep the Meyer lemon tree, lime trees and various light-loving trop icals alive (not happy, but alive) during the winter months. My 120-year-old farmhouse has zero windows facing south and likely is as drafty as you can imagine. The second bedroom—which also has the only subflooring in the house—turns into the plant room every winter. The last two years, I’ve kept plants in a homemade pallet-constructed plant bookshelf illu minated by bright fluorescent lights. This year, I’m going to cozy it up, adding plant lights in lamps and focusing one light per plant group.

• Protect your porch from freezing temps with a little help. Twineing Christmas lights (the old-fashioned kind, not the LEDs) around your tender plants can give them enough heat to weather through the winter. Gardeners also use bubble wrap to insulate pots, and thus the roots, of their prized plants. I push my 3-foot olive tree close to the hot tub. Even covered, the hot tub leaks enough heat to keep the frost at bay.

• Frost cloth for garden beds. Quality frost cloth generally protects past 30 degrees Fahrenheit, but not much more than 25 degrees. Just last year, many of my spring veggies got nipped by that 22-degree low

• Cold frames for raised beds. A cold frame is like a tiny greenhouse with no heater. Basically, you attach a win dow to a raised bed on a hinge. This allows fall and winter gardeners to keep harvest ing for most of the winter without wor rying about heating or blustering about covering and uncovering frost cloth. This is a great way to keep a few low-growing favorites growing throughout the winter, like lettuce.

• A greenhouse. As someone who used to work in a commercial greenhouse, this is something I know and love. Is it a giant pain? Yes. Is it also worth it? Yes, I think so. Greenhouses can grow all sorts of won derful flora throughout the cold months, and they can be outfitted with heat and lights, tricking plants into growing or blooming when they normally wouldn’t. Some folks get the expensive kits; others make do with whatever they have lying around. Whether you want to start small and cheap or go big and fancy, this tool will up your winter gardening game.

But what if you goofed and now have a frozen plant? Is it just ugly or dead? Some annuals die after one good freeze, like tomatoes or cucumbers. Other annuals, like a sturdy pepper, rely more on the ground’s residual heat and won’t die off until a few frosts in a row. Tropical perennials (many of our indoor plants) should be moved inside as soon as possible, and any damaged leaves should be snipped off. If the plant’s stem feels soggy (that’s from the cell walls bursting while frozen), you’re probably out of luck. Many perennial herbs, like thyme, lose most of their leaves and look terrible, but will bud into beauty next spring. Don’t ditch your unlovely greenery until you know whether it’s an annual or a perennial. f

I met Coach Dooley briefly when I was in school around 2012 or so. I didn’t get the pleasure of carrying on a conversation with him. Those who did all have memories to last a lifetime. A poster in the Reddit thread on Dooley’s death said the coach—a noted Civil War buff— audited his history class and attended a 10-hour field trip to the Chickamauga battlefield with the students.

My favorite recounting of a con versation with Dooley came from a college friend who spoke with him about his favorite dining choices in Athens. In that old Southern drawl, the kind you just don’t hear anymore, I can practically hear him say, “Barbara likes that Last Resort, but I prefer the Chili’s.”

Coach Dooley will be honored before the Tennessee game, along with Charley Trippi, another legendary Bulldog who died since our last home game. Normally, honoring arguably both the greatest coach and great est athlete in Georgia sports history would raise the stakes of a game. However, I don’t think it’s possible to raise the stakes for this one any higher.

For anyone who hasn’t been paying attention, Tennessee is rolling this year. The Vols are 8-0, with an upset of Alabama to boot. While we were busy brushing aside Florida 42-20, Tennessee demolished Kentucky 44-6. Quarterback Hendon Hooker is a legit Heisman contender, while receivers Jalin Hyatt and Cedric Tillman

That’s where the X-factor comes in: the ticket-holding fans and Athens. The Vols have played a couple of road games against tough teams this year, going to Pitt and LSU. But Pitt plays in the sterile atmo sphere of an NFL stadium, and the typically rowdy Death Valley was subdued for LSU’s nooner against Tennessee.

Sanford Stadium at 3:30 p.m. will be a much more hostile environment than any thing they’ve seen this year. It’s incumbent on those with enough money or fortune to secure a ticket to make it the loudest we’ve ever heard. Louder than LSU in 2013. Louder than Notre Dame in 2019. Louder than Arkansas last year.

This season, Vol fans have crawled out from under every rock and crevice between Memphis and Mountain City, and they’ll be crawling all over Athens this weekend. I’ve enjoyed a nice decade-plus of silence from those orange-clad cretins, and I’d love noth ing more than to shut them up again. f

ERIN FRANCE

Vince Dooley looks out over Sanford Stadium

RICHARD B. RUSSELL SPECIAL

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Art

JOKERJOKERTV CALL FOR ART ISTS (Online) JOKERJOKERtv is open to ideas and actively accept ing 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

SEEKING BOARD MEMBERS (Ath ens 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

Classes

ACTING FOR CAMERA AND STAGE (work.shop) Learn how to act with professional actor and coach Jayson Warner Smith (“The Walking Dead,” “The Vampire Diaries,” “Outer Banks”). Mondays, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. $400/12 sessions. www.jaysonsmith.com/teacher

ART CLASSES (K.A. Artist Shop)

“Intro to Acrylic.” Nov. 2, Nov. 9 and Nov. 16, 6–8 p.m. $105. “Abstract Art in Acrylic.” Nov. 13, 1–3 p.m. $45. “Intro to Linocut.” Nov. 13, 1–5 p.m. $65. “Printing on Fabric.” Nov. 20, 1–5 p.m. $65. “Pet Por traits in Watercolor” is a two-week class for creating expressive por traits of beloved companions. Nov. 29 and Dec. 6 or Nov. 30 and Dec. 7, 6–8 p.m. $75. www.kaartist.com

ART CLASSES (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Instructor Forrest Gard leads a workshop series covering Soft-slabs: Textured Tumblers” (Nov. 8) and “Coil Pots: Large Planters” (Nov. 15). Workshops held 5:30–8:30 p.m. $45–60/class. www.ocaf.com

CHAIR YOGA (Sangha Yoga Studio) This class is helpful for flexibility, strength, balance and increasing circulation and energy. All levels welcome. Every Thursday, 12–1 p.m. $16 (drop-in), $72 (six weeks). 706-613-1143

CHAIR YOGA AND MINDFULNESS (Winterville Center for Community and Culture) Nicole Bechill teaches a well-rounded, gentle and acces sible chair yoga class to promote breathing, mindfulness and inward

art around town

ACE/FRANCISCO GALLERY & OX FINE ART (675 Pulaski St.) Franni Thrasher, aka “Heaven4theYoung,” presents a solo exhibition of paintings in oil and

sculpture and film. On view by appointment through Dec. 9.

ARTWALL@HOTEL INDIGO ATHENS (500 College Ave.) New York-based photographers Lucy Reback and Megan Reilly share a collection of intimate vignettes of their relationship in addition to snapshots before they met.

THE ATHENAEUM (287 W. Broad St.) Brooklyn-based artist and educator Kameelah Janan Rasheed presents “SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTH OPERATOR,” an exhibition examining the poetics and power of machine learning. ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: ATHICA (675 Pulaski St.) Juried by Liz Andrews of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, “MOOD: 2022 Juried Exhibition” presents works by 37 contemporary artists who explore or reference mood in all of its many forms. Through Nov. 20.

ATHICA@CINÉ GALLERY (234 W. Hancock Ave.) Christy Bush’s photog raphy exhibition, “Familiar,” reflects on 30 years of rock and roll, fashion and coming of age in the South. Artist talk and reception Nov. 3, 7 p.m. Currently on view through Dec. 25.

CIRCLE GALLERY AT UGA COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENT & DESIGN (Jackson Street Building) Cameron Berglund’s exhibition, “Design (Sketch) Process,” focuses on the role of hand and digital sketching throughout the design process. Through Dec. 6.

CLASSIC CENTER (300 N. Thomas St.) “Spotlight: Paintings by Amy Watts” presents bold, colorful canvases full of cowgirls, farmers, miners and Indigenous people. • “Light Bright” presents works by Caitlin Gal, Allison McPheeters and Alivia Patton, who all utilize simple circles to create inspir ing works.

DODD GALLERIES (270 River Rd.) “Yevgeniya Baras & Pete Schulte” brings together the work of two artists to create a broader dialogue on abstraction, line and color as it coincides in contemporary painting and drawing. Through Nov. 10. • Atlanta-based artist Madora Frey presents a site-specific installation for the “Wall Works” series. Through Nov. 14. • “Twin Realms” pairs the work of Dodd MFA candidates Katie Ford and Lindsey Kennedy. Through Nov. 17. • Curated by Ciel Rodriguez, “Soft Architecture” is a group exhibition of works by Ashley Freeby, Jacob Goble and Hope Wang in an investigation of the relationship between architectural spaces and grief. Through Nov. 17. • “Pretty in Pink” features work by Catie Cook and Sarah Landmesser, and eplores contradictions inherent to femi ninity and feminism. Through Nov. 17. • On view in the C-U-B-E Gallery, “Design for a Museum: Tangible & Functional Objects III” is a graphic de sign student exhibition. Mondays and Wednesdays through Nov. 30.

E-VORTEX CREATIVES (560 Caldwell Circle) Jen Graff, Yoon Hwang and other local ceramicists sell sculptural and functional pottery. Every

listening. Every Monday, 9 a.m. $10. www.wintervillecenter.com

CLAY CLASSES (Good Dirt) Regis tration opens on the 15th of every month for the following month’s classes and workshop. Classes range from wheel, unique handles, hand building sculpture and more. Studio membership is included in class price. www.gooddirt.net

COMMUNITY MEDITATION (Rabbit Hole Studios) Jasey Jones leads a guided meditation suitable for all levels that incorporates music, gen tle movement and silence. Wednes days, 6–7 p.m. jaseyjones@gmail. com

DEDICATED MINDFULNESS PRAC TITIONERS (Online) Weekly Zoom meditations are offered every Sat urday at 8:30–9:30 a.m. Email for details. richardshoe@gmail.com

KUNDALINI YOGA (Let It Be Yoga Studio, Watkinsville) Held Mon days, 5–6:30 p.m. $11 suggested donation. harsimran@innergies yoga.com

LINE DANCE LESSONS (Interna tional Grill & Bar) All experience levels welcome. Open dancing follows an intro class. Every first and third Tuesday, 6–9 p.m. $10. thatotherruthgirl@gmail.com

MINDFULNESS PRACTICE EVE

NINGS (Online) Discuss and practice how to change your rela tionship with difficult thoughts and emotions. Email for the Zoom link. Second Friday of the month, 6–7 p.m. FREE! mfhealy@bellsouth.net

OPEN/COMMUNITY MEDITATION (Sangha Yoga Studio at Healing Arts Centre) Uma Rose leads a meditation designed to guide par ticipants into stillness and silence. Mondays, 4–5 p.m. Donations encouraged. www.healingarts centre.net

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-stu dents). www.gmdance.com

Wednesday and Sunday, 7 a.m.–7 p.m. DONDEROS’ KITCHEN (590 N. Milledge Ave.) Susan Pelham’s collages are inspired by Magic Realism, Surrealism, nursery rhymes and folk tales. Through December.

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Artwork by Mark Dalling. Through November.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “Infinity on the Horizon” high lights modern and contemporary works that expand common understand ings of landscapes. Through Dec. 31. • “Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from The Do Good Fund.” Through Jan. 8. • “Allison Janae Hamilton: Between Life and Landscape.” Through Feb. 5. • “Kristin Leachman: Longleaf Lines” focuses on close-up views of the patterns and biology of the longleaf pine and its ecosystem. Through Feb. 5. • On view in the Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden, “Jane Manus: Undaunted” includes five large abstract works. Through Feb. 12. • “In Dialogue: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Mentor and Muse.” Through June 18. • “Decade of Tradition: Highlights from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection.” Through July 3.

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.) Local artist Jack Burk shares a collec tion of nature-inspired works in pastel, collage, pen and colored pencil. Reception Nov. 22, 5:30–6:30 p.m. Through Dec. 23.

HENDERSHOT’S (237 Prince Ave.) The Nirvinyl Album Art Museum presents “Nirvinyl 1 Revisited & Halloween Selections.” Through mid-November. LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (211 Hoyt St.) Collections from our Community presents Carrie Slayton’s tarot cards and crystal skulls. Collector’s Talk Nov. 3, 6 p.m. Through Nov. 12. • 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. • “The Ties That Bind: The Paradox of Cultural Survival amid Climate Events” presents sculptures by Anina Major and photographs by Tamika Galanis. Through Nov. 30. • The biennial Clarke County School District student art exhibition “RE-” features works by students in Kindergarten through 12th grade in all media. Through Jan. 14. • “Resilient Civic and Musical Life: Ware-Lyndon House Enslaved and Descendant Stories” includes a film; reading room of books relevant to the African American experience in art, music and heritage; and a visual timeline relating a fuller and more truthful story of the property and its inhabitants.On view Thursdays–Saturdays. • Bess Carter, the recipient of the 2022 Art Center Choice Award from the 47th Juried Exhibition, presents a solo show of landscapes, room interiors and still life paintings. Artist talk Feb. 16. On view Nov. 8–Mar. 4. • “A Pattern of Moments” features works by Kate Burke, Rebecca Kreisler and Sylvia Schaefer. Workshop Nov. 17, 6 p.m. On view Nov. 8–Mar. 4. • In preparation for “The Same, Yet Separate Artworks,”

SALSA DANCE CLASSES (Cloud)

Join SALSAthens for Cuban style salsa dance classes. No partner necessary. Beginners welcome. Every Wednesday, 7–8 p.m. $10. gwyneth.moody@gmail.com

TRADITIONAL MARTIAL ARTS

CLASSES (Live Oak Martial Arts)

Traditional and modern-style Tae kwondo, self-defense, grappling and weapons classes are offered for all ages. Classes in Jodo, the art of the Japanese staff and sword, are held Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 p.m. Visit the website for a full schedule. liveoak martialarts@gmail.com, www.live oakmartialarts.com

YOGA (Elixir Movement Arts, Mer cury A.I.R.) Build a yoga practice, deepen connections to yourself

and others, and learn to use yoga in everyday life. “Vinyasa Flow” is also offered Mondays and Wednes days, 10 a.m. $10/class. shelley downsyoga@gmail.com, www. shelleydownsyoga.offeringtree.com

YOGA AND MORE (Revolution Ther apy and Yoga) Jasey Jones leads weekly Raja Yoga classes covering meditation, pranayama, singing and discussion of yoga philosophy. Sundays, 5:05 p.m. Donations accepted. Private one-on-one yoga sessions with Kelsey Wishik can focus on strength building, mobil ity, relaxation and more. Saturdays, 11:30 a.m. $55. “Yoga Flow and Restore with Nicole Bechill” is held Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. Online classes include “Trauma Conscious Yoga with Crystal” Thursdays at 6

metalsmith and interdisciplinary craft artist J Taran Diamond toured the WareLyndon Historic House Museum and created new objects in response. Third Thursday Gallery Talk Jan. 19. On view Nov. 8–Mar. 4.

MASON-SCHARFENSTEIN MUSEUM OF ART (567 Georgia St., Demorest)

“I ain’t no hick from Habersham” features multimedia paintings and assem blage sculptures by Joni Mabe, the owner of the Everything Elvis Museum in Cornelia, GA. Through Nov. 29.

OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (34 School St., Watkinsville)

“Serenity: Paintings by Anna Desio” showcases watercolor landscapes. “Warrior Women from Invisible to Formidable: One Hundred Strong” in cludes over 100 ceramic figures created by Alice Woodruff over the span of five years. The exhibition is the culmination of three series, each depicting the mass victimization of women, women’s roles and importance, and their bravery. Through Nov. 11.

ODUM SCHOOL OF ECOLOGY GALLERY (140 E. Green St.) Natural science illustrator C Olivia Carlisle shares insect, botanical and ecosystems illus trations using graphite, carbon pencil, watercolor, acrylic, ink, color pencils and Adobe Photoshop. Through May.

STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GEORGIA (2450 S. Milledge Ave) Vicky Tavernier and Jenifer Borg’s collaborative exhibition, “Words About Birds, Insights About Insects,” is made up of playful collages of found and altered objects with accompanying poems. Through Nov. 20. TIF SIGFRIDS (393 N. Finley St.) Brooklyn-based artist Austin Eddy presents “Passers-by,” a collection of new paintings and works on paper. Book release and closing reception Nov. 19, 4–6 p.m. Currently on view through Nov. 22.

TINY ATH GALLERY (174 Cleveland Ave.) Dedicated to the late Art Rosenbaum, Peter Loose’s solo exhibition “Places of Peace” centers around paintings of birds he created the night he learned of Rosenbaum’s death, as well as other new paintings. Opening reception Nov. 4, 5–8 p.m. Open Third Thursday Nov. 17, 6–9 p.m. Open by appointment weekdays after 5 p.m. through November by emailing tinyathgallery@gmail.com.

UGA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIES (300 S. Hull St.) “Georgia on my Mind: Finding Belonging in Music History” explores the genres, spaces and performers who have helped to define music in the state over time. Through Dec. 9. • “Unequal by Design: Housing in Georgia and America” draws upon historic government documents, photographs, historic newspapers and other records to trace the evolution of housing policy, tackling issues such as zoning, gentrification and suburbanization. Through May 26. • “A Chance to Play: Title IX and Women’s Athletics at UGA” celebrates 50 years of women’s sports at UGA.

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA OCONEE CAMPUS (1201 Bishop Farms Pkwy., Watkinsville) Lisa Freeman’s exhibition of mixed media as semblages and works on paper, “Dark Cotton Revisited,” sheds light on the lives impacted by a racially biased world. Through Dec. 9.

VIVA ARGENTINE (247 Prince Ave.) A retrospective exhibit of paintings by the late Chatham Murray in celebration of what would have been her 80th birthday. Through November.

An opening reception for Peter Loose’s exhibition, “Places of Peace,” will be held Friday, Nov. 4 from 5–8 p.m.

p.m. and “Yoga for Wellbeing with Nicole Bechill” on Saturdays at 10:45 a.m. www.revolutiontherapy andyoga.com

YOGA CLASSES (Feel Free Yoga + Wellness) The new studio offers various class times and styles Mon days–Saturdays. A 45-minute class is offered Tuesdays at 8 a.m. on the patio of Molly’s Coffee. www. feelfreeyogawellness.com

ZOOM YOGA (Online) Rev. Elizabeth Alder offers “Off the Floor Yoga” (chair and standing) on Mondays at 1:30 p.m. and “Easy on the Mat” yoga classes on Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. Ongoing classes are $5/class or $18/month. 706-612-8077, ommmever@yahoo.com

Kidstuff

ART CARD CLUB (K.A. Artist Shop) Katy Lipscomb and Tyler Fisher lead weekly gatherings to create, trade and exhibit miniature mas terpieces the size of playing cards. Some materials provided, but participants can bring their own as well. The club meets on Fridays through Dec. 9 (skipping Nov. 25), 4:30–6 p.m. (ages 10–12) and 6:30–8 p.m. (ages 13–17). $25 (drop-in), $225 (semester pass). www.kaartist.com

CREATIVE CLASSES (Treehouse Kid & Craft) Activities range in theme and skill level. Sessions run through May 19. Register online. www.treehousekidandcraft.com

DRAWING CLUB FOR TEENS (K.A. Artist Shop) James Greer leads a weekly workshop. Wednesdays through Dec. 7 (skipping Nov. 23), 4:30–6:30 p.m. $30 (drop-in). www.kaartist.com

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

SPARK: WEEKEND ACADEMY (University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education) Middle and high school students can take weekend courses in specific pro fessional fields. Nov. 12–13 covers 3D animation, creative writing and “Infinity: The Strange and Beauti ful.” Courses held 9 a.m.–4 p.m. $185/weekend. www.georgiacenter. uga.edu/youth/spark

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

Support Groups

ACA ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCO HOLICS AND DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES (Holy Cross Lutheran Church) This support group meets weekly. Tuesdays, 6:30–7:30 p.m. annetteanelson@gmail.com

ATHENS COUNCIL OF THE BLIND (ACC Library) Open to people of all ages with vision impairments, their families and friends. Topics include adaptive equipment, recreational and social opportunities, and advocacy. Call if you need trans portation. Fourth Saturday of every month, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. 706338-3889, dlwahlers@gmail.com

FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP (ACC Library, Classroom A) Alzheimer’s Association Georgia presents a support group conducted by trained facilitators that is a safe place for those living with dementia

and their caregiver to develop a support system. First Wednesday of every month, 6–7:30 p.m. 706206-6163, www.alz.org/georgia

LGBTQIA+ VIRTUAL ALPHABET FAMILY GATHERING (Online) This is a safe space for anyone on the LGBTQIA+/TGQNB spectrum. Fourth Sunday of every month, 6–8 p.m. uuathensga.org/justice/ welcoming-congregation

MENTAL HEALTH PEER RECOV ERY GROUP (Nuçi’s Space) Participants support each other through life’s challenges by sharing from their skills, experiences and proven coping mechanisms. New comers welcome. First Tuesday of the month, 4–6 p.m. pr@nuci.org, www.nuci.org

PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP (First Baptist Church) This group is to encourage, support and share information with fellow sojourners who manage the challenges of Parkinson’s disease or other move ment disorders. Second Friday of every month, 1 p.m. gpnoblet@ bellsouth.net

PROJECT SAFE (Family Protection Center) Project Safe hosts a support group for survivors of domestic vio lence. Mondays, 6:30–8 p.m. www. project-safe.org

RECOVERY DHARMA (Recovery Dharma) This peer-led support group offers a Buddhist-inspired path to recovery from any addiction. Visit the website for details. Thurs days, 7 p.m. FREE! www.athens recoverydharma.org

RESTORING RESILIENCE (Heart Stone Therapeutic Healing) Fiveweek resource building psycho therapy group for trauma survivors. Fridays through Dec. 2, 5:30–6:30 p.m. $35/session. RSVP by Oct. 21. info@heartstoneth.com

SUPPORT GROUPS (Integrity Coun seling & Personal Development) ICPD offers several support groups. “LGBTQIA+ Young Adults Group” is offered for ages 18–30. Email for dates. “Survivors of Suicide Loss Group” is offered the first Wednes day of every month, 7–8 p.m. Register by emailing avipperman@ gmail.com. “Veterans, Dependents & Caregivers Benefits Resource & Claim Assistance Group” is offered the first Saturday of every month, 9–10 a.m. “How to Talk About Bullying Workshop for Parents & Children” is held Jan. 7, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. $10. “Self-Care Workshop” is held Dec. 8 and Jan. 5, 7–8 p.m. $10. lbennett.icpd@ gmail.com, www.integrityofjeffer son.com

OVERCOMING SHAME (NBK AllRisk Solutions) This psycho-edu cational art therapy support group is an opportunity to connect with others, learn and process experi ences of shame related to sex and sexuality. Mondays through Dec. 5, 7 p.m. $12/session. www.sun academyga.com

Word on the Street

ATHENS BEER TRAIL TROLLEY TOURS (Athens, GA) A new trolly tour will provide transportation between six local breweries: Aka demia, Athentic, Creature Comforts, Southern Brewing, Terrapin Beer and Normaltown Brewing. Tours run every Thursday and Friday from 3–9 p.m. www.athenstrolleytours.com/ beer-trolley-tour

FALL FUN (Washington Farms, Bogart) Pick your own pumpkins and flowers, get lost in a corn maze, stroll through the petting zoo, jump on jumping pillows, shoot a corn cannon, enjoy a wagon ride and more. Visit website for hours and a

complete list of activities. Through Nov. 6. www.washingtonfarms.net

ICE SKATING VOLUNTEERS (Clas sic Center, Atkins Ford Arena) The Classic Center is seeking organi zations to volunteer at the skate rental center. Volunteers will early $1 per paid skater towards their non-profits. Email to participate. stephanie@classiccenter.com

MARGO METAPHYSICAL EVENTS (Margo Metaphysical) Monday

Tarot Readings offered 1–5 p.m. ($6 per card). Tuesday Tarot with Davita offered 4–6 p.m. ($5 per card). Wednesday Night Sound Healing with Joey held 6–7:30 p.m. ($35). Thursday Tarot with Courtney is offered 12–5 p.m. ($10–45). Friday Henna Party with Aiyanna ($10–75). 706-372-1462

MEDICARE OPEN ENROLLMENT (Athens, GA) Local assistance is available at no cost for Medicare, Medicaid, prescription drug assistance programs and financial assistant programs. Medicare open enrollment runs through Dec. 7. 706-549-4850

MLK DAY OF SERVICE (Athens, GA) Now accepting applications from organizations that would like to be considered as volunteer project sites. Deadline Nov. 11. Also seek ing financial and in-kind sponsors. Event held in Jan. 16. www.accgov. com/mlkday

PAUL T. MARTIN HOSPITALITY EDUCATION FUND (Athens, GA)

The Classic Center Cultural Founda tion provides $25,000 from the edu cation fund to individuals interested in pursuing careers in hospitality, event, music or sports management. Students enrolled in hospitality industry programs at UGA, Athens Tech and Athens Community Career Academy are encouraged to apply. Deadline Feb. 17. www.classic center.com/scholarships

PRINCE AVENUE PILOT PROJECT

FEEDBACK FORM (Athens, GA) Share your thoughts about the pilot project to turn a half-mile section of Prince Avenue into a three-lane road with bike lanes. Deadline Nov. 23. www.accgov.com/prince RABBIT BOX (VFW Post 2872) Seek ing storytellers to share seven-min ute true tales. Upcoming themes include “Ready or Not” in January, “Duets” (two presenters at a time) in February, “Mystifying” in March, “Awkward!” in April and “Gone but not Forgotten” in May. Email to participate. rabbitboxstories@ gmail.com

RABBIT HOLE EVENTS (Rabbit Hole Studios) Monday Song Circle, Tuesday Open Mic and Thursday Song Circle are all held 7–10 p.m. Other events include free Seventh Generation Native American Church services (Sundays, 11 a.m.), Athens Blockchain Society meet ings (Wednesdays, 2 p.m.), yoga (Wednesdays, 5 p.m.), meditation (Wednesdays, 6 p.m.) and Athens Area Pagan meetings (Wednesdays, 8 p.m.) Events are free or donation based. www.rabbitholestudios.org/ calendar

WARNOCK AND ABRAMS CAM PAIGN YARD SIGN PICKUP (Multiple Locations) Signs can be purchase every Saturday leading up to the election at Kmart from 10 a.m.–11 a.m. and behind the Georgia Square Mall from 1–2 p.m. contact@athensclarkedems.com

WINTER REGISTRATION (Athens, GA) The Athens-Clarke County Lei sure Services Department offers a variety of activities highlighting the arts, environmental science, rec reation, sports and holiday events for adults and children. Registration begins Nov. 5. Scholarships avail able. www.accgov.com/myrec f

Christy

By Sam Lipkin editorial@flagpole.com

Photographer Christy Bush has been capturing friends, rock and roll, fashion and moments through time reflective of coming of age in the South for over 30 years. Now a collection of her previously unpublished photos is available as a photobook, Familiar, published by The Bitter Southerner and released earlier this year.

Despite traveling, working and living around the world, Bush considers herself a Southern photographer, particularly one with a special connection to and deep roots in Athens. Growing up in Atlanta with family in South Georgia, Bush made her way to Athens in the early ‘90s to attend UGA for photogra phy. At that time she made friends with people like R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe—who wrote the foreword to Familiar—who propelled her photography career by sharing knowledge, support and inspi ration. Currently Bush lives in Asheville, NC to take advantage of better schooling opportunities for her 13-year-old daugh ter, and both of them have a longing to return to Athens when the time is right. Bush was living in Athens and com muting to the outskirts of Atlanta daily to take her daughter to school when the COVID lockdown happened. Suddenly she had hours of free time in her day, so she began going through her photo archives and organizing them. The idea to create a book came to her, but she didn’t have a plan on how to go about it. Then, Bush met Kyle Tibbs Jones, media and commu nications director of The Bitter Southerner, in October of 2020. Jones expressed she’d like to publish the book, and set to work with her coworker, Editorial and Creative Director Dave Whitling, to bring Familiar to life.

“We would mask up, and I would lay images out in my kitchen on the table, on the island and the floor, and we sort of just systematically went through these boxes,” says Bush. “There were certainly images that really stood out, that were kind of a no-brainer. We would kind of know when we all connected to one. But it was interesting to see Kyle or Dave connect to something I hadn’t thought about.”

The first set of selected photos were images of Bird Smith, whom Bush photographed as a pre-teen through her teenage years. Then the team began looking at other sets of images where Bush had photographed models through out their life, providing a clear visual of them growing up.

Although Stipe’s fame began with R.E.M., the musician is also a photographer and visual artist who attended the same art program as Bush, only a decade earlier. Bush says that her history sort of starts with Stipe because he was the first person to buy one of her photographs and was a mentor to her outside of what she was learning in school.

As a collector, Stipe owned a lot of art and work that wasn’t available to Bush in school or accessible for her to see in larger galleries. For Bush, it just made sense for Stipe to write the foreword in her book as someone who has seen her career evolve from the beginning and been beside her through many major life events and milestones.

“My journey as a photographer is so intertwined with my journey as a person, as a young woman growing into a woman, coming of age several times in my own life. They’re so deeply intertwined that I think for a long time I didn’t even look at the value of the photos because they’re just so much part of my soul,” says Bush.

As part of UGA’s Spotlight on the Arts celebration, there will be a reception for Familiar at Ciné on Nov. 3 at 7 p.m. fea turing a Q&A between Bush and Chris Black, who published some of Bush’s Polaroids in Vogue. The photographer hopes to have an engaged conversation opening the floor for the models from her photos present to share their expe riences as well. There will be a DJ and food provided, and Bush wants to create a “traditional Athens vibe” with fun and dancing through the night. To round out her Athens experience, Bush will be speaking to students at Clarke Central High School the next morning, which she is honored to participate in consider ing that age group has informed so much of her work.

This aspect of the collection contributes to the “coming of age” side of the book’s themes, and it creates a unique per spective of time that can be physically seen. Smith is also featured on the cover, an image that was chosen to portray a mood rather than theme or topic.

“It’s very Southern—Southern Gothic, kind of deep, murky, sweaty, heavy mystery,” says Bush of the original intent. “I would say if I was looking at that cover now, it makes me think of night swimming in the summertime, which I did when I was young in Athens. The R.E.M. ‘Nightswimming’ song I’m connected to, I’m in that music video. And we did that. We would dance all night at the 40 Watt Club, and it was a hot, hot, hot Athens summer, and we would go find a place to night swim.”

“I am an outgoing person, but sort of being on display is not easy for me, which I think is kind of why I’ve always chosen to be behind the camera,” says Bush. “People that I don’t know have told me that they see themselves in these pictures. It brings back memories of a certain time in the South. I think I’m pleasantly surprised and pleased that it really does seem to resonate with people in their own personal experience.” f

Reckonings and Reconstructions

THE DO GOOD FUND PRESENTS A COMPLICATED SOUTH

By Jessica Smith arts@flagpole.com

Conveying the complex contradictions that have come to characterize Southern his tory, culture and identity, “Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund” presents a visual narrative of an ever-changing region. Currently on view at the Georgia Museum of Art, the exhibition portrays the American South not as a land of uniformity and defined boundaries, but as an intercon nected patchwork of wide-ranging perspec tives and experiences.

“As the individual images and stories in the Do Good collection bring to light, it is a place of bewildering contrasts, with great environmental beauty and degradation, and vast economic opportunity and systemic

The exhibition’s installation flows through six core themes: land, labor, law and protest, food, ritual and kinship. This approach positions disparate works together to collectively construct and deconstruct each thematic category. Rather than sugar-coating the South with images that only emphasize its rootsy, dilapidated charm, the exhibition demonstrates how past tragedies have bled into modern life. This deeper, more truthful reflection of the South reveals itself to be a place of both scarcity and abundance, loss and survival, alienation and belonging, trauma and healing.

Each image feels like a window into a memory, inviting the viewer to consider the moments before and after the photo was taken, or to imagine who or what might exist just beyond the camera’s gaze. As its title suggests, the exhibition attempts to reconcile the past and empathetically envisions a better future.

MUSIC | WED, NOV. 2

The Wrecks, Arlie

40 Watt Club • 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show) • $23, $73 (VIP)

New York band The Wrecks is bringing its unique brand of alternative rock to the 40 Watt Club. Guitarist Nick Anderson, upon realizing the lack of a music scene in his rural New York town, decided to assemble a band through the internet. The band’s aes thetic is somewhere between ‘90s alt rock and early 2000’s pop. Their music videos are charming, homespun creations with a fair amount of comedy. Sonically, their music is anthemic and sharply produced. Opening for The Wrecks will be Arlie. Arlie reaches deep back into 2000’s indie and electronic music, touching on sounds reminiscent of MGMT and M83, while still remaining in the present day. This is more of a double header than a headliner-opener scenario, with two huge up-and-coming indie bands. Tickets are $23 for general admission or $72 for the VIP pass, which includes a pre-show meet and greet, photo opportunity and a signed tour poster. [Patrick Barry]

MUSIC | NOV. 2–3

Villalobos Brothers

Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall • 7:30 p.m. $30–50 (Wed), 10 a.m. (Th), $2–4

he didn’t let that admittedly frightening experience deter him. Newman also lived in Athens for five years, during which time he was a member of the bands Coulier and Just These Dudes. Since then, his work, both music and comedy, has been featured on “The Late Show with Letterman,” “Late Late Show with James Corden,” John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show, MTV, Animal Planet, CollegeHumor and Comedy Central. He also has a one-hour stand-up special on Amazon. [PB]

ART | SUN, NOV. 6

Look What I Can Do!

oppression existing side by side throughout the region,” writes the fund’s founder Alan F. Rothschild Jr. in the exhibition’s accom panying publication.

Since its founding in 2012, The Do Good Fund has steadily amassed over 800 pho tographs taken from the 1950s to the pres ent. The Columbus-based charity’s mission is to make its remarkable collection broadly accessible through regional museums, non profit galleries and nontraditional venues, and to encourage community-based pro gramming and discussion.

Featuring 125 photographs by 73 artists diverse in race, ethnicity, gender and geog raphy, “Reckonings and Reconstructions” is the first large-scale survey of the fund’s col lection. Though it includes 25 Guggenheim fellows and five Magnum photographers, the collection also emphasizes the talents of early and mid-career photographers.

“If anything, the project reveals the South not as a monolithic, homogenous realm of lock-step cultural thought, but a region of various, divergent, and hetero geneous awareness and artistry, in short, a region where documents, reports, dis patches, and pictures from a polyphonic land use varied voices to tell stories of resistance and redemption, legend and (perhaps its antonym) truth,” says William Underwood Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art, in the publication’s foreword.

“What rings ever more clearly at this moment in our nation’s history is that we cannot understand the pres ent realities and iden tities of the American South—be they lega cies of racial injustice, the indelible marks of the Confederacy on the built environment, or the impact of eco logical recklessness—without a thorough grounding in the region’s past, including its photographic traditions,” says Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, the museum’s curator of American art. “We also aim to reach beyond the American South, acknowledging that Southernness is a shared sensibility, rather than a consistent culture rooted in a spe cific geography.”

Co-published by the museum and the University of Georgia Press, the exhibi tion’s accompanying book of the same title further investigates contemporary pho tography’s role in portraying the South. In addition to essays thoughtfully reflecting on the exhibition’s core themes, the pub lication includes anecdotes from over two dozen photographers who share invaluable context and insight behind their intentions and creative processes. These anecdotes are transcriptions of the Do Good Fund’s “Small Talks” series of audio stories, which can also be heard while viewing the exhibition.

“Reckonings and Reconstructions” will remain on view at the Georgia Museum of Art through Jan. 8. The exhibition will then spend the following year traveling to the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA, the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami and the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, IA. f

For the first time ever, Hugh Hudgson Concert Hall will welcome the immense talent of the Villalobos Brothers, a trio of virtuoso violinists with a story to tell. The brothers have trav eled the world with their childhood friend, playing shows in India, Russia, Canada and the U.S. Now, they’re coming to Athens for a special two-show run. The first is an evening show on Nov. 2 at 7:30 p.m. The second is the following morning, at 10 a.m., as part of Piedmont Athens Regional’s Performances for Young People, a program designed to expose young people to diverse experiences. As such, tickets for the Nov. 3 morning show will be $2 for students and $4 for adults. Through the fusion of tra ditional Mexican folk with complex forms of jazz, classical, blues and pop, Villalobos Brothers have risen to become one of Mexico’s top contemporary ensembles. You won’t want to miss this. Tickets are available online at pac.uga.edu or at the box office by calling 706-542-4400. [PB]

COMEDY | THURS, NOV. 3

Adam Newman

The World Famous • 10 p.m. • $10

Los Angeles-based comedian Adam Newman will grace the stage of The World Famous to perform “The World is Ending and We’re All Gonna Die,” a show that’s half stand-up, half musical comedy. Some may remember the name Adam Newman from a viral video posted in 2012, in which Newman, during a set at Laughing Skull Lounge in Atlanta, pulled a bag of cocaine from the interior pocket of an audience member’s coat. Well, it’s been nearly a decade since that video was released, and

The Cotton Press • 5 p.m. • $50 (student), $75 Love.Craft Athens has long championed people of all abilities, providing them with the tools they need to succeed and empow ering them to create art and music. On Nov. 6, Love.Craft will host “Look What I Can Do!” a live art expo at The Cotton Press. Artists will be creating works live as well as displaying and selling them. Broderick Flanigan’s emotive and intimate portraits will be available for sale and viewing, as well as the vibrant works of Marissa Leilani Mustard, the chaotic yet refined doodles of Gunnar Tarsa, textural pieces by Megna Weatherford and works by Daelynn White. Work by Love.Craft’s Logan, Judah, Norman, Melanie and Hannah Jo will also be available. There will also be a silent auc tion, as well as food from Epting Events,

LECTURES & LIT | MON, NOV. 7

David Sedaris

Classic Center Theatre • 7 p.m. • $21.50–39.50

In support of the release of his new est book, Happy Go Lucky, a collection of personal essays perfectly in line with the rest of his work, David Sedaris will be live on stage for one night only, offering new readings and tales, a Q&A and a book sign ing. The author, humorist and frequent NPR contributor has maintained a con sistent body of written work which is just as likely to have you burst into laughter as it is tears. His books frequently touch on themes such as family turmoil, mental health, drug use and labor, and more often than not are direct retellings of personal events. The event, that is being put on by Avid Bookshop, is a unique opportunity to catch an author of impressive caliber in a live, intimate setting. Tickets are for sale at classiccenter.com. [PB] f

Jack’s Cheesecakes and beer and wine. All proceeds from the event will benefit Love. Craft Athens. [PB]

Adam Newman

“Southern Heritage Classic Parade” by Andrea Morales

MANDEE JOHNSON PHOTOGRAPHY

ANDREA MORALES

event calendar

Tuesday 1

EVENTS: Spotlight on the Arts Stu dent Spotlight (UGA Tate Student Center) Enjoy performances by UGA students and student groups in the Tate Plaza. This is the opening event of the annual Spotlight on the Arts Festival. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! arts.uga.edu/spotlight-on-the-arts

EVENTS: Food Bank of NEGA Stuff the Truck (Kroger) Food bank volunteers, UGA students and members of the UGA athletic department will collect food items donated by shoppers to fill nearby distribution trucks. All proceeds and food will benefit the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia and residents of its 14-county service area. 4:30–7 p.m. FREE! www.foodbanknega.com

EVENTS: No Phone Party (Hen dershot’s) Disconnect to connect with a phone-free, laptop-free happy hour featuring drink specials, snacks, games and a record player. Every Tuesday, 6–9 p.m. www. hendershotsathens.com

EVENTS: Line Dance Lessons (International Grill & Bar) All expe rience levels welcome. Open danc ing follows an intro class. Every first and third Tuesday, 6–9 p.m. $10. thatotherruthgirl@gmail.com

EVENTS: Open Mic Hosted by Turtle Grenade (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Visual artists are invited to showcase their art alongside open mic performers sharing comedy, music, poetry and more. First come first serve with sign-ups at 8 p.m. Hosted by Turtle Grenade every first Tuesday. 9 p.m.–12 a.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com

GAMES: Bad Dog Trivia at Amici (Amici Athens) Top three teams win prizes with free beer pitchers to win ning teams between rounds. Hosted by TJ Wayt. Tuesdays, 7 p.m. www. facebook.com/baddogathens

LECTURES & LIT: 2022 Gregory Lecture (UGA Chapel) Professor Jim Downs from Gettysburg Col lege will give a lecture on “The Troubled Origins of Epidemiology: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine.” 3:30 p.m. FREE! www.calendar.uga.edu

MEETINGS: Robbie Hooker Town Hall (Clarke Central High School) Clarke County School District Superintendent Dr. Robbie Hooker will host a series of upcoming town hall meetings, sharing his vision for CCSD, answering questions and lis tening to concerns from community members. 6–7 p.m. FREE! www. clarke.k12.ga.us

SPORTS: Classic City Pétanque Club (Lay Park Community Center) New players welcome. Scheduled play days are Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 1:30 p.m. vicepres ident@athenspetanque.org

Wednesday 2

ART: Curator Talk: “In Dialogue: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Mentor and Muse” (Georgia Museum of Art) Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, curator of American art, will give a gallery talk on the latest “In Dialogue” installation. Register online or at the front desk. 2 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org

CLASSES: Salsa Dance Class (Cloud) Join SALSAthens for

Cuban-style salsa dance classes. No partner necessary and beginners welcome. 7–8 p.m. $10. www. facebook.com/salsaathens

COMEDY: 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. flyingsquidcomedy.com

EVENTS: Creative Reuse Open House (Teacher Reuse Store) Every other Wednesday, nonteacher community members are invited to browse free supplies. Eligible groups include students, nonprofits, artists/creatives, small business owners, social workers and religious organizations. Camps, after-school and daycare programs are included. 2–6:30 p.m. FREE! reuse@ accgov.com, www. facebook.com/ athenstrs

EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Creature Com forts Brewery) Markets offer fresh produce, flowers, eggs, meats, prepared foods and a variety of arts and crafts. Live music begins at 6 p.m. AFM doubles SNAP dollars spent at the market. Every Wednesday, 5–8 p.m. www.athens farmersmarket.net

FILM: Wednesday Cozy Movie Night (Athentic Brewing Co.) Bring a comfy blanket, your favorite snacks and cuddle up for a night of feel-good cinema classics. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.athenticbrewing.com

KIDSTUFF: Busy Bee Toddler Time (Bogart Library) Ms. Donna pres ents a highly interactive storytime featuring rhymes, songs, puppets and a simple story. 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. FREE! 706-441-9099, www. athenslibrary.org/bogart

KIDSTUFF: Lego Builders Club (Bogart Library) Lego lovers of all ages are invited; Duplos, Mega Blocks and blocks will be available for younger builders under the age of 7. 3:30 p.m. FREE! 706-4419099, www.athenslibrary.org/bogart

LECTURES & LIT: Word of Mouth Poetry Open Mic (The Globe) Ath ens’ longest-running spoken word event has returned the first Wednes day of every month. Tonight’s featured reader is Bob Ambrose. 7 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ athenswordofmouth

SPORTS: Pétanque Club of Ath ens (UGA Redcoat Band Practice Field) Learn to play the greatest game you’ve never heard of. RSVP. Wednesdays, 1 p.m. FREE! athens petanqueclub@gmail.com, athens petanqueclub.wixsite.com/play

THEATER: Anastasia (The Classic Center) This Broadway musical is inspired by the film Anastasia with dazzling set and costume designs.

7:30 p.m. $25–80. www.clas siccenter.com

Thursday 3

ART: Collector Talk: Carrie Slayton (Lyndon House Arts Center) Carrie Slayton will discuss her tarot card and crystal skull collection that’s part of the “Collections from Our Community” exhibition. 6–7 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/Lyndon HouseArts

COMEDY: Adam Newman (The World Famous) Los Angeles-based comedian and musician performing comedy with special guests. He has his own Comedy Central Half Hour and an hour special on Amazon, Fuzzies. 10 p.m. www.facebook. com/theworldfamousathens

SPORTS: Classic City Pétanque Club (Lay Park Community Center) New players welcome. Scheduled play days are Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 1:30 p.m. vicepres ident@athenspetanque.org

Friday 4

ART: Morning Mindfulness (Geor gia Museum of Art) Instructor-led meditation, movement and mind fulness techniques in the galleries. No experience necessary. Email to reserve a seat. Every other Friday, 9:30 a.m. gmoa-tours@uga.edu

ART: Opening Reception: “Places of Peace” (tiny ATH gallery) Peter Loose’s exhibition is centered around the work that he created the night he learned of Art Rosen

provided. All skill levels welcome. Saturdays, 3–5 p.m. Donations accepted. www.aadmovement.org

CLASSES: Middle School Creative Writing Workshop (Oconee County Library) Author Muriel Pritchett will lead this one-hour workshop featuring writing exer cises, feedback and tips on starting a writing career for middle school ers. There will be food and drink provided. Sign up online to attend. 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee

EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Markets offer locally grown groceries and handmade goods. Attendees can enjoy free live music and children’s activities. AFM doubles SNAP dollars spent at the market. Every Saturday, 8 a.m.–12 p.m. www.athensfarmers market.net

EVENTS: Oconee Farmers Market (Oconee County Courthouse) Over 20 vendors offer a vari ety of fresh produce, local honey, freshcut flowers, unique crafts, dog treats, fresh gelato, home made 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. oconeefarmersmar ket.net

PERFORMANCE: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (Hendershot’s) Celebrate with Kellie Divine and Jenn Sparx for their birthdays at this Drag For All show. All ages welcome. 8 p.m. FREE! www.athensshowgirlcabaret. com

SPORTS: Watch Party: UGA vs. Tennessee (Athentic Brewing Co.) Cheer on the defending National Champs, the Georgia Bulldogs, as they take on Tennessee, and enjoy some game day food by Cafe Racer. 3–7 p.m. FREE! www.athenticbrew ing.com

Sunday 6

ART: Artist’s Way Study Group (24th Street Athens Clubhouse) Artists, musicians, writers and creatives meet to discuss the book The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron. Every Sunday, 6:30 p.m. Donations welcome. beth@beththompson photography.com, www.24thstree tathens.com

CLASSES: Drawing in the Galleries (Georgia Museum of Art) This work shop is led by a teaching artist and provides drawing instruction, art supplies and space to spread out. RSVP by emailing gmoa-tours@ uga.edu. 2–4 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org

EVENTS: Creatures at Creature (Creature Comforts Brewery) Interact with creatures brought by the UGA Herpetological society, Warnell prevet club and Zoo Crew student orga nizations of UGA. 5–9 p.m. FREE! www.creaturecomfortsbeer.com

EVENTS: The Litas Athens Bike Night (Akademia Brewing Co.) Female motorcycle collective The Litas Athens welcomes everyone to enjoy music, beer and bikes. Womxn who ride or are interested in riding are invited alike. 6–9 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ thelitasathens

EVENTS: Sex Ed 2.0 (Revolution Therapy and Yoga) Join Kamryn Gillham and Meg Wilson as they explore consent, safety and plea sure in college with content made by students for students. 6:30–8 p.m. FREE! www.revolutiontherapy andyoga.com

GAMES: Thursday Trivia (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Jon Head hosts trivia every Thursday. Win pitchers and gift certificates. 7–9 p.m. www.johnnyspizza.com

LECTURES & LIT: Author Talk: Familiar (Cinè) Photographer Christy Bush will discuss her book Familiar through a Q&A moder ated by Chris Black. There will be refreshments and music. 7 p.m. FREE! www.christybush.com

baum’s passing. 6–9 p.m. FREE! www.tinyathgallery.com

EVENTS: Football Friday Tour Take a tour of “A Chance to Play: Title IX and Women’s Athletics at UGA,” an exhibition celebrating women in the past 50 years of UGA athletics history. Held every Friday before home football games. 3 p.m. FREE! libs.uga.edu/events

EVENTS: Harvest for the Homeless (The Cotton Press) The Athens Area Homeless Shelter presents its annual fundraiser featuring food, beverages, a silent auction and music by Mary & the Hot HottyHots. 7–10 p.m. $50/ticket. www. helpathenshomeless.org/harvestfor-the-homeless

KIDSTUFF: Homeschool Day: The Ever-Changing American South (Georgia Museum of Art) Families can engage with our shared South ern history and culture by complet ing fun Art Cart activities, watching a demonstration and creating their own art. 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org

Saturday 5

ART: Art for Justice Saturdays (AADM Justice Center and Book store) Paint to soothing music and discuss local issues. Supplies

EVENTS: YaYa’s Pre-Holiday Gathering (YaYa Sisters & Co.) Enjoy blow-out sales, raffles and music by The Humdingers with books, fabric, retro kitchen items, furniture, clothing and more for sale. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! www.facebook. com/yayasvintage

EVENTS: Arts and Crafts Bazaar and Book Sale (#3 Railroad Street) Friends of Oglethorpe Co. Library are sponsoring a one-day sale featuring local artisans and crafters selling their wares on the lawn and a book sale inside the Book Room. 10 a.m.–2p.m. FREE! www.oglethorpefol.org

EVENTS: West Broad Farmers Market (West Broad Farmers Mar ket and Garden) The market offers fresh produce, locally raised meat and eggs, baked goods, flowers, artisan goods and more. Online ordering is available Sundays–Thursdays for drive-thru pick up. Saturdays, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. www.wbfm.locallygrown.net

KIDSTUFF: Athens Montessori School Fall Festival (Athens Montessori School) There will be a book sale, bouncy house, magician, bake sale, live entertainment, face painting and other vendors. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! AMSFallFest@ gmail.com

MEETINGS: 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@ athensareapagans.org

EVENTS: Car Show (Akademia Brewing Co.) Presented by Street Masters Car Club, have brunch and a brew while looking at vintage cars. First Sunday of every month. 12–4 p.m. FREE! www.facebook. com/AKADEMIABC

EVENTS: Conversation Stations (Oconee County Library) The com munity can get to know veterans in the area by talking with them at sta tions to learn about their service to the country. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/oconee

EVENTS: Look What I Can Do! (The Cotton Press) An art exhibition of local artists and Love.Craft Crew creating art in real-time. Artists include Broderick Flanigan, Marissa Leilani, Megan Weatherford, Daelynn White and Gunnar Tarsa, alongside five Love.Craft crew members. Beer, wine, food from Epting Events and Jack’s Cheese cake will be available. 5–7:30 p.m. $50–75. www.lovecraftathens.org/

GAMES: Bad Dog Trivia at The Office (The Office Sports Bar and Grill) Top three teams win prizes with free beer pitchers to winning teams between rounds. Hosted by John Bellerjeau. Sundays, 6 p.m. www.facebook.com/baddogathens

LECTURES & LIT: History Lecture Series (Oconee County Library) This lecture, presented by military historian and retired colonel Law rence Saul, will discuss fallen WWI GI John W. Adams, from Greene County, and how he is memorial ized in France. 3 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/oconee

MEETINGS: Plant Parent Social (Foxglove Plantbar) Meet and min gle with local plant parents, and get tips and advice from local growers. Door prizes will be given out. 12–2 p.m. FREE! athensplantcommu nity@gmail.com

SPORTS: Classic City Pétanque Club (Lay Park Community Center) New players welcome. Scheduled play days are Tuesdays, Thursdays

Join the curator for a gallery talk about the exhibition “In Dialogue: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Mentor and Muse” at the Georgia Museum of Art on Nov. 2.

and Sundays at 1:30 p.m. vicepres ident@athenspetanque.org

SPORTS: UGA Football (Sanford Stadium) The Bulldogs play against the Tennessee Volunteers. 3:30 p.m. www.georgiadogs.com

Monday 7

GAMES: Open Chess Play (ACC Library) Learn how to play chess or sharpen your skills while connect ing with your neighbors. Open to all skill levels. Ages 7 & up. 3–5 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org

GAMES: Monday Trivia (Athentic Brewing Co.) Come enjoy trivia with Erin, win prizes and enjoy 25% off draft beer. FREE! 7–9 p.m. www. athenticbrewing.com

KIDSTUFF: Monday Funday Story Time (Bogart Library) Ms. Donna presents a highly interactive story time featuring movement, songs, crafts and learning fun. Ages 3–5. Registration suggested. 10 a.m. FREE! 706-441-9099, www.ath enslibrary.org/bogart

LECTURES & LIT: Behind the Seams: The Art of Performance Costumes (UGA Special Collec tions Library) Fashion historian Sara Idacavage will lead a talk about the many ways in which musical artists construct their identities and inspire communities through style. 6–7:30 p.m. FREE! www.libs.uga.edu

LECTURES & LIT: An Evening with David Sedaris (The Classic Center) The author of multiple best sellers and regular National Public Radio contributor will offer a selec tion of new readings followed by a Q&A and book signing. 7:30 p.m. $25–45. www.classiccenter.com

MEETINGS: Robbie Hooker Town Hall (Nellie B. Community Center) Clarke County School District Superintendent Dr. Robbie Hooker will host a series of upcoming town hall meetings, sharing his vision for CCSD, answering questions and lis tening to concerns from community members. 6–7 p.m. FREE! www. clarke.k12.ga.us

MEETINGS: Crafters Club (Oconee County Library) Stop by with your current sewing, scrapbooking, quilting or crochet project to chat with crafters and exchange tips and tricks while everyone works on their projects. 7 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/oconee

Tuesday 8

COMEDY: IGB Comedy Night (Inter national Grill & Bar) Enjoy a night of stand-up comedy hosted by Zack Hayes. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.face book.com/IGBAthensGA

COMEDY: Open Toad Comedy Night (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Comedy performed by a mix of newcomers and local favorites from Athens and Atlanta. 9 p.m. (doors). $7. www.flickertheatreandbar.com

EVENTS: No Phone Party (Hen dershot’s) Disconnect to connect with a phone-free, laptop-free happy hour featuring drink specials, snacks, games and a record player. Every Tuesday, 6–9 p.m. www. hendershotsathens.com

GAMES: Bad Dog Trivia at Amici (Amici Athens) Top three teams win prizes with free beer pitchers to win ning teams between rounds. Hosted by TJ Wayt. Tuesdays, 7 p.m. www. facebook.com/baddogathens

KIDSTUFF: Toddler Tuesday: No Place Like Home (Georgia Museum of Art) Little ones and their families can enjoy art and storytime together in the galleries, then complete an art activity. Ages 18 months to 3 years. Email to reserve

a spot. 10 a.m. FREE! gmoatours@uga.edu

SPORTS: Classic City Pétanque Club (Lay Park Community Center) New players welcome. Scheduled play days are Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 1:30 p.m. vicepres ident@athenspetanque.org

Wednesday 9

CLASSES: Salsa Dance Class (Cloud) Join SALSAthens for Cuban-style salsa dance classes. No partner necessary and beginners welcome. 7–8 p.m. $10. www. facebook.com/salsaathens

COMEDY: 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. flyingsquidcomedy.com

EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Creature Comforts Brewery) Mar kets offer fresh produce, flowers, eggs, meats, prepared foods and a variety of arts and crafts. Live music begins at 6 p.m. AFM doubles SNAP dollars spent at the market. Every Wednesday, 5–8 p.m. www. athensfarmersmarket.net

EVENTS: The Garden Party Pop-up (Athentic Brewing Co.) The Garden Party is a local houseplant store and events service provider that empha sizes sourcing eco-conscious and homegrown products. FREE! 5–9 p.m. www.athenticbrewing.com

FILM: Athens, GA: Inside/Out Screening with Bill Cody (UGA Special Collections Library) Join for a guided tour of the “Georgia on my Mind: Finding Belonging in Music History” exhibition (5 p.m.), a screening of Athens, GA: Inside/ Out with producer Bill Cody (5:30 p.m.), followed by Athens/InsideOut 2: Red Turns into Blue (7:30 p.m.). FREE! www.libs.uga.edu

FILM: Showdown at the Equator (Flicker Theatre & Bar) After his martial arts school is infiltrated and destroyed by ninjas, Shao must master the art of ninjutsu in order to avenge his family in the ultrabloody Five Elements Ninjas. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.instagram.com/ showdownattheequator

GAMES: MCU Trivia Night (B&B Theatre) Teams of 2–6 will go headto-head on their Marvel cinematic universe knowledge with Quizmaster David. The winner will receive a B&B Theatres gift card. 7:30 p.m. www.facebook.com/bbathens12

KIDSTUFF: Busy Bee Toddler Time (Bogart Library) Ms. Donna pres ents a highly interactive storytime featuring rhymes, songs, puppets and a simple story. 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. FREE! 706-441-9099, www. athenslibrary.org/bogart

KIDSTUFF: Lego Builders Club (Bogart Library) Lego lovers of all ages are invited; Duplos, Mega Blocks and blocks will be available for younger builders under the age of 7. 3:30 p.m. FREE! 706-4419099, www.athenslibrary.org/bogart

LECTURES & LIT: Johnstone Lecture (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Named in honor of the State Botanical Garden’s first director, The Johnstone Lecture will feature Cassandra Quave, author of Plant Hunter. 6:30–8:30 p.m. FREE! www.botgarden.uga.edu

SPORTS: Pétanque Club of Ath ens (UGA Redcoat Band Practice Field) Learn to play the greatest game you’ve never heard of. RSVP. Wednesdays, 1 p.m. FREE! athens petanqueclub@gmail.com, athens petanqueclub.wixsite.com/play f

music

threats & promises

Two Nights with The Orange Constant

PLUS, MORE MUSIC NEWS AND GOSSIP

By Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com

NOW’S THE TIME, THE TIME IS NOW: Rapper Niño Brown has yet to release an album but continues his string of sin gles. The newest is “Jailhouse Ramble.” It’s not a hip-hop track, either. It’s also unlike Brown’s earlier work, when he operated as an acoustic troubadour under his birth name, Cortez Garza. This is a claustrophobic blues number that slithers, not struts. I wish I’d been given a lyrics sheet for this, but as best as I can tell, the song is a story of murder and revenge. At least that’s what the video appears to portray, which is another way of say ing go find this on YouTube, because that’s the only way you can hear it right now.

ONE OF THE MOST ZEN PLACES ON EARTH: Bill Cody, the producer of both the 1986 classic Athens, GA: Inside/Out and its 2021 semi-sequel Athens/Inside-Out 2: Red Turns into Blue, has recently relocated permanently to the Classic City from Los Angeles. So, welcome to town, Bill! In other news, on Wednesday, Nov. 9 from 5–9 p.m., The Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries will host a guided tour of its current collection “Georgia on my Mind: Finding Belonging in Music History” followed by back-to-back screenings of each film. The event is free and happens in room 271. For more information, please see libs.uga.edu/ events or drop a line to event contact jess. grant@uga.edu.

A SIMPLE PROPELLER TO OCCUPY MY TIME: Fairly new label Propeller Sound Recordings, which is making quick work establishing itself as a label dedicated to classic Athens and Athensadjacent recordings, will re-release Squalls’ self-titled 1984 debut EP on Friday, Nov. 4. Originally released on founding member Bob Hay’s MBrella Records, this new edition is expanded with an additional five rare tracks. A release party is slated at Ciné on Friday, Nov. 18. This past August Strolling Bones Records released the electrifying Live From The 40 Watt album, which is a collection of 24 songs recorded by legendary 40 Watt soundman Patton T. Biddle and composed of perfor mances from approximately five shows from the early 1980s. Squalls existed from 1981 to 1989, and while garnering a good amount of popularity locally, the group’s profile was substantially raised by its inclusion in the aforementioned Bill Cody film from 1986. For more information, please see squalls.bandcamp.com, propellersoundrecordings.com and facebook.com/Squallsband.

DOUBLE HEADER: Although there’s a tendency to tag them with the imperfect categorization of “jam band,” hardwork ing locals The Orange Constant is actually like many of its peers and draws from blues, folk, rock, funk and loads of other genres. And fortunately, unlike many of its peers, the band’s pretty consistently successful with its execution thereof. Now, it’s trying something it’s not done before. On Friday, Nov. 4 and Saturday, Nov. 5, the group will play a two-night run at the 40 Watt. Tickets for each show are $12 in advance, $15 at the door and $20 for a two-day pass. Openers on Friday are Florida Man and Frute, and open ers on Saturday are Cam and His Dam Jam Band and TAND. Doors open at 7 p.m. each night, and music begins at 8 p.m. For more information, please see theorangecon stant.com, and for advance tickets, please see 40watt.com.

UNDER THE BUSHES, UNDER THE STARS: Few labels in town have ever been as consistently satisfying as Gypsy Farm. Earlier this month, the label released the excellent compilation

Tape Feed, Vol: 2 featuring a tight set of 11 tracks. This release was produced with assistance from the Athens Area Arts Council, and its goal is to help raise donations for the food bank. Volume 1 of this series helped provide approximately 1,200 meals. While remaining technically genre-less, the label has done a stupendous job over the years of creating its own identity through its propagation of multiple underground creative styles from roots country

to garage rock to indie pop and more. In a very real sense, it’s a spiritual heir to labels such as Capricorn and IRS. Featured on this new collection are tracks from Bat & The Bears, Marble Soup, The Drovers Old Time Medicine Show, Thee Crucials, The Bear Traps, The Humms, Tommy Powell, Outersea, Shoal Creek Stranglers, The Gravely Stoned and The Ice Creams. Find this and more over at gypsyfarmre cords.bandcamp.com, and for more information, please see gypsyfarm.net.

BE PREPARED: Dylan Loftin (Nihilist Cheerleader) has a proj ect named Eagle Scout, and last month he released a full album titled Early Bird. I’ve been meaning to cover this for weeks but, you know, best laid plans and all. I’m not much for the opening song “Steady Eye” which, with its jittery tempo, is anything but. However, between songs 2 and 11, Loftin glides along quite smoothly and delves into wellthought-out indie rock (“Flying Under The Radar,” “I Miss Running Into You” and the Beatle-esque “In Third Person”), a slight touch of Tin Pan Alley (“Won Me Over”) and some softer, reflective material (“Letters” and the title track “How It Ends”). To my ears, this is very much a demo and not very polished, which is exactly how I enjoy hearing new projects. Find this at eaglescout1.bandcamp.com. f

live music calendar

Tuesday 1

40 Watt Club

7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $20 (adv.), $25. www.40watt.com NAPALM DEATH Grindcore band around since 1981.

BRUJERIA Deathgrind metal band from Mexico formed in 1989.

MILLIONS OF DEAD COPS San Franscisco ’80s hardcore punk stalwarts.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8 p.m. (sign-ups), 9 p.m. (doors). FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.

com

OPEN MIC HOSTED BY TURTLE

GRENADE Turtle Grenade hosts an open mic and artist market for mak ers, musicians, comedians, poets and other creatives. Each artist gets 15 minutes. Every first Tuesday of the month.

Georgia Theatre

7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $22 (adv.), $25. www.georgiatheatre. com PENNY & SPARROW Chamber folk duo from Texas.

ANNIKA BENNETT Intimate, emo tional songs with Phoebe Bridgers style vocals.

Ramsey Hall

7:30 p.m. $3 (w/ UGA ID), $12. pac.uga.edu

GREG SATTERTHWAITE The UGA Faculty Artist Series continues with a jazz piano performance.

Wednesday 2

40 Watt Club

7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $23 (adv.), $26. www.40watt.com

THE WRECKS Alternative rock band formed in rural New York. ARLIE Indie summer dance music. Cali N Tito’s Eastside 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.facebook. com/theluckyjones

THE LUCKY JONES Old school rockin’ rhythm and blues band from Athens featuring Brian Crum on drums and vocals, “Slim” Green on guitar and Dick Daniels on bass.

Creature Comforts Brewery Athens Farmers Market. 5–8 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket. net PAUL LOMBARD Local blues singer and guitarist. (6 p.m.) Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatre andbar.com

DR. FRED’S KARAOKE Featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more.

Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (music). $12–15. www.georgiatheatre.com

THE UNLIKELY CANDIDATES Indie rock band from Keller, TX formed in 2008.

NOX HOLLOWAY Nashville-based alternative pop band.

KENZO CREGAN Singer-song writer from Los Angeles. Hendershot’s 8 p.m. www.hendershotsathens. com NEW FACES NIGHT Discover new Athens musical talent. Hosted by Lizzy Farrell.

Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall

Day of the Dead Concert. 7:30 p.m. $10 (w/ UGA ID),$25. pac.uga.edu

VILLALOBOS BROTHERS Alberto, Ernesto and Luis Villalobos, three singing and songwriting violinists from Veracruz, Mexico, fuse clas sical, jazz, rock and music of their homeland.

Thursday 3

40 Watt Club 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $8 (adv.), $10. www.40watt.com

EVERYDAY DOGS Skateboarding, Capri-Sun drinking, surfer-punk rockers of Atlanta.

RED MILE ROAD Local hard rock band influenced by Seattle grunge and classic Southern rock.

RECESS PARTY Local band pro ducing smooth and catchy garage rock.

Athens Moose Lodge 6:30 p.m. (dance lesson), 7:30 p.m. (show). d_pass@yahoo.com

PRINCESS & ROYAL BLUE BAND No info available. Athentic Brewing Co. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenticbrewing. com

COMIN’ HOME THE BAND Husband and wife duo playing acoustic bluesy rock with emotive harmonies.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8 p.m. (doors), 9 p.m. (show). $10. www.flickertheatreand bar.com

GOURDHEAD Three piece rock band com prised of Athens music veterans, Chris Hender son, Ethan Houseman and Noel Holloway.

EXIT ROW Guitardriven pop band with members of Eagle Scout, Needle Teeth and Nuclear Tourism.

SWEAR JAR Local band exploring new horizons in punk, indie and alternative.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $15 (adv.), $18. www.georgiatheatre. com

THE STEWS Local band blending hard rock, alternative, indie rock and more.

Hendershot’s 8 p.m. www.hender shotsathens.com

BICHOS VIVOS Local band playing forró, accordion and triangledriven country music from Brazil, every first Thursday of the month.

Hotel Indigo Live After 5. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/AubreyEntertainment AthensGA

KIP JONES Local songwriter play ing all your favorite folk, rock, R&B and country covers and some of his own tunes.

Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall

Piedmont Athens Regional Performances for Young People. 10 a.m. $2 (students), $4 (adults). pac.uga.edu

VILLALOBOS BROTHERS Trio of virtuoso violinists blending tradi tional Mexican folk music with jazz, classical and pop.

Nowhere Bar 9:30 p.m. www.facebook.com/ NowhereBarAthens

JESH YANCEY & THE HIGH

HOPES Folk singer-songwriter from Denver, CO with a gritty, nofrills style.

Southern Brewing Co. 6–10 p.m. www.sobrewco.com KARAOKE NIGHT Every Thursday evening.

Friday 4

40 Watt Club 7 p.m. $12 (adv.), $15. www.40watt.com

THE ORANGE CONSTANT Vintage rock with a contemporary twist. FRUTE Jam-based post-pop psych rock.

FLORIDA MAN Local jam band with psych influences.

Athentic Brewing Co. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenticbrewing. com

JIIG AND FRIENDS JiiG, djbobfish and other local deejays provide beats on the patio.

The Cotton Press Harvest for The Homeless. 7 p.m. $50. www.helpathenshomeless.org

MARY & THE HOT HOTTY-HOTS Led by Mary Sigalas, the band plays hot jazz and swing music from the ’10s, ’20s and ’30s for your nos talgic partying pleasure. Tonight’s proceeds will benefit the Athens

rock, jazz and Southern gothic, Sarah Lawing and Brian Smith aim to paint a picture of growing up and living in the South through song.

The Root 10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ AubreyEntertainmentAthensGA MIX TAPE Covers of ’90s hit songs.

Southern Brewing Co. 7 p.m. (doors). $15 (adv.), $20. www.sobrewco.com

JUPITER COYOTE Mountain rock legends playing a mixture of good ol’ Southern Appalachian boogie and bluegrass-infused funk rock.

STEWART & WINFIELD Savannah and Athens-based lowcountry rock and folky tunes.

VFW (Post 2872) 8 p.m. $10. www.facebook.com/ vfwpost2872

CHRIS HAMPTON BAND Athensbased three-piece band performing classic and modern hits.

Saturday 5

40 Watt Club 7 p.m. $12 (adv.), $15. www.40watt.com

THE ORANGE CONSTANT Vintage rock with a contemporary twist. TAND High energy, funky party rock from South Florida.

CURBSIDE PICKUPS Classic City ska quintet taking influence from traditional and Two-Tone era sounds.

DJ NATE Local DJ spins a patch work of ’50s/’60s soul/R&B, garage rock, psychedelic and more. YaYa Sisters & Co. 3–5 p.m. FREE! www.facebook. com/yayasvintage

THE HUMDINGERS Acoustic interpretations of pop and soul. Today’s event is a pre-holiday sale of vintage finds.

Sunday 6

ACC Library

Live at the Library. 3 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org

DOG PERSON New Athens band mixes Casio-based pop with breezy ennui. Perfect for plugging your nose while jumping into water.

DIM WATTS Folk-rock band fronted by local musician Jim Willingham.

The Classic Center 3 p.m. SOLD OUT! www.classiccen ter.com

ATHENS SYMPHONY The fall concert will feature guitar soloist Philip Snyder and Peter and the Wolf, with narration by celebrity chef Alton Brown.

JOSH BENNETT BAND Local banjo-driven group combining bluegrass, rock and funk

THE OCHO Band comprised of UGA students playing funk, alterna tive and classic rock.

KHALIKO Atlanta-based grooverock band.

THREESIXTEEN No info available. The World Famous 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook. com/theworldfamousathens

DAVID DONDERO Singer-song writer and guitarist.

TIM DENSON ACC Commissioner and community organizer plays a solo set.

Monday 7

40 Watt Club

7 p.m. $15 (adv.). www.40watt.com

NIGHT PALACE Dreamy indie-pop ensemble fronted by Avery Leigh Draut.

PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE Lush songcraft informed by bossa nova, folk and ’70s songwriting.

CDSM Funked-out synth pop. Hendershot’s 8 p.m. www.hendershotsathens. com

SHANE PARISH Master guitarist and fearless explorer of rhythm and timbre.

TATSUYA NAKATANI DUET Avant-garde percussionist, com poser and artist of sound.

Tuesday 8

40 Watt Club

7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $15 (adv.). www.40watt.com

CORB LUND Canadian songwriter and rancher singing trail songs and Western ballads.

LAUREN MORROW Nashville songwriter by way of Georgia, and member of The Whiskey Gentry.

Georgia Theatre

7 p.m. (doors). SOLD OUT! www. georgiatheatre.com

CHRIS RENZEMA Contemporary Christian artist.

JESS RAY “Friendly folk” artist touching on Christian themes.

Wednesday 9

Creature Comforts Brewery Athens Farmers Market. 5–8 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket. net

Area Homeless Shelter.

Creature Comforts Brewery 7–9 p.m. www.creaturecomforts beer.com

SARAH MOOTZ Indie pop and rock artist with a lot of soul.

Dancz Center for New Music

6 p.m. FREE! music.uga.edu

CLARE LONGENDYKE Hear works by Claude Debussy, Vivian Fung, Anthony R. Green, Emily Koh, Michael R. Oldham, Amy Williams and Bryan Wysocki on piano. Jay Domingo’s Bday Bash. 8 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com

GOTH KARAOKE Sing a spooky song.

Hendershot’s 8 p.m. www.hendershotsathens.com

THE LONESOME DAWN Refer encing styles such as folk, country,

CAM AND HIS DAM JAM BAND Local jam band.

Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmers market.net

NATHAN MORGAN Country rock from Atlanta. (8 a.m.)

38 STRINGS Multi-generational, acoustic folk music. (10 a.m.)

Boutier Winery & Inn 8 p.m. $10. www.boutierwinery.com

DWIGHT WILSON AND THE CLASSIC SOUL BAND A blast from the past playing classic funk, Motown sounds and more.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 8 p.m. $10. bit.ly/ CurrentRageAthens

CURRENT RAGE Post-punk band that toured extensively in the ’80s with REM and Pylon. Album release show!

Creature Comforts Brewery 3–5 p.m. www.creaturecomforts beer.com

LIVE JAZZ Every Sunday afternoon.

Ebenezer Baptist Church West 4 p.m. FREE! jrussellvoices@ att.net

VOICES OF TRUTH CHOIR

Founded in 1979 by director James R. Smith, the choir performs con temporary gospel, traditional hymns, spirituals and beautiful anthems.

Hendershot’s 8 p.m. www.hendershotsathens. com

KLEZMER LOCAL 42 Local sevenpiece klezmer band specializing in Jewish and Romani music.

Southern Brewing Co. Miracle Midtown. 3–8 p.m. $10 (adv.). bit.ly/MiracleMidtown

RED OAK SOUTHERN STRING

BAND This Watkinsville-based band plays rootsy Americana tunes. (6 p.m.)

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatre andbar.com

DR. FRED’S KARAOKE Featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more.

Red Line Athens 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). flog amocker77@gmail.com

CLOT Harsh, dark death metal from Atlanta with grind and hardcore influences.

CLAVUS Local screamo band.

LOW BEFORE THE BREEZE Atlanta band fusing elements of mathcore, screamo and black metal. POPE EYES Hardcore punk from Atlanta. f

Corb Lund will perform at the 40 Watt Club on Tuesday, Nov. 8.

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