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By Blake Aued news@flagpole.com The Athens-Clarke County Commission heard an update on a 1.6-mile, $4.3 million shared-use path along Timothy road at a work session last week that could be built in 2025, but county officials and citizen advisors also have ideas for smaller bike and pedestrian projects that can be completed cheaply and quickly. Five initial projects in the Athens in Motion plan include King Avenue sidewalks (already completed) and multi-use paths along Barber Street, Riverbend Road, Jefferson Road and Cherokee Road (which is currently unfunded but could be paid for with a tax allocation district along Lexington Road). Each is a multimillion-dollar project that has taken years to plan. “We felt strongly about the need for innovative thinking—the fact that these projects have taken a long time to deliver,” interim Transportation and Public Works Director Rani Katreeb told commissioners at the Oct. 10 work session. “In the meantime, we are aware of local needs, small needs, smaller projects that can be completed much faster than larger projects.” Such projects include filling in sidewalk and bike lane gaps, Americans with Disabilities Act improvements, complete streets projects that improve bike and pedestrian safety, pilot projects like the initially temporary bike lanes on Prince Avenue or grant matching funds. Filling in a sidewalk gap would only cost about $50,000, but would have a big impact on people walking to work or school, Bike and Pedestrian Coordinator Daniel Sizemore said. The same goes for gaps in bike lanes, for example on Oglethorpe Avenue near Sunset Drive. There is currently no budget for such projects, but $1 million would fill two bike lane gaps a year for five years, Sizemore said. These would not be major reconfigurations, but could involve moving curbs or removing unneeded turn lanes like one on Rocksprings Street that is no longer used by Clarke Central High School buses, he said. “Many community members have told us they would be more comfortable biking and walking, and if they’re more comfortable biking and walking, they would be driving less,” Sizemore said. Sizemore also suggested taking an inventory of ADA barriers like utility poles blocking ramps at intersections. Utility companies could be required to make such improvements as part of their periodic franchise negotiations with ACC to use the public right-of-way, Katreeb said. Pilot projects could include “bulb-outs” that force drivers to slow down while turning near areas like schools or bus stops with high pedestrian traffic. “We’re trying to make sure we can test innovative solutions and evaluate the impact before we roll those out on our major roadways,” Sizemore said. Transportation officials also asked for a bucket of money for lane reconfigurations—converting space for cars into space for bikes and pedestrians—when streets are repaved. Encouraging people to use other types of transportation instead of driving is

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The Clarke County School District’s graduation rate fell in 2022-23 for at least the fourth year in a row, but recently released a very effective way to reduce traffic conges- test scores showed signs of improvement at elementary and middle schools. tion, Sizemore said. Clarke Central High School’s four-year “It’s important to note that our goal is graduation rate fell from 82.1% to 81% last not to get everyone to walk or bike everywhere. We know cars are important—I used year, and Cedar Shoals’ fell from 73.5% to one to get here [to City Hall] today,” he said. 71.5%. Classic City High School’s five-year graduation rate rose from 69% to 75%. “The goal here is to give safe transportation Districtwide, the graduation rate was 77%. options for those who want to use those It was 78.3% in 2021-22, 81.3% in 2020-21, options or those who fully depend on them 81.7% in 2019-20 and 82.3% in 2018-19. for various reasons.” “Our community expects for us—and After data is collected, each of the six we expect of ourselves as a district—to individual programs—sidewalk gaps, bike deliver meaningful, empowering and lane gaps, complete streets, pilot projects, engaging learning opportunities for each ADA compliance and grant matching—will child we serve,” CCSD be brought to the Superintendent mayor and commisThe goal here is to give Robbie Hooker said sion for approval. safe transportation options in a news release. MUNICIPAL BROADBAND: “Using our new fivefor those who want to use those year Strategic Plan While there are other reasons to build a options or those who fully depend as our guiding force, municipal broadband we will strive to make on them for various reasons. network—redunsignificant progress dancy for critical in changing the traservices in case of an emergency, for examjectory of our district through yearly action ple—the gaps in service for residents are plans. We will also hold ourselves accountmuch smaller now than when the commisable through quarterly updates to the Board sion included it in a 2019 sales tax referenof Education and the community.” dum, SPLOST and information technology District officials provided an update to officials told commissioners. the board of education at an Oct. 12 meetBuilding a full-blown network would cost ing. Milestones standardized test results an estimated $127 million, but only $3.6 for elementary school English Language million is available. The county is looking Arts (28% proficiency) and middle school to use that money to partner with a thirdnon-algebra math (23%) were unchanged. party service provider. Elementary school math (33%), middle However, right now only 1% of county school ELA (27%), middle school algeresidents lack access to broadband internet, bra (88%) and high school algebra (24%) according to the Federal Communications rose. High school American literature fell Commission’s National Broadband Map. from 34% proficient or above to 32%. All Residents can check the map to see if they remained lower than the Northeast Georgia have access, and they can also file a chalregion and the state as a whole. lenge with the FCC if the map says service Results from iReady tests showed that is available but companies tell them differ25% of students in kindergarten through ently, SPLOST Administrator Derek Doster said. And the remaining 1% should have broadband access soon. Service providers are using federal American Rescue Plan Act grants to expand into the last remaining serviceless pockets along the Jackson County line, around Winterville and in rural southeastern Clarke County, Doster said.

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MEMORIAL PARK: Pending approval from the commission next month, ACC officials have settled on keeping a one-way loop around the lower end of Memorial Park as part of a $6 million SPLOST renovation project, while the upper parking lot will be converted to two-way. The pond will be dredged and repaired so that hopefully it will no longer fill up with silt. Grant funding is being sought for a new pavilion and other amenities that no longer fit into the budget. WHIT DAVIS FIRE STATION: A site selection committee has proposed three alternatives for replacing 49-year-old Fire Station #5, currently located on Whit Davis Road. The two top-ranked sites are both on Morton Road south of Old Lexington Road, and the third is on Old Lexington just west of Morton. However, none of the sites scored

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eighth grade are reading at grade level or above, up one point from last fall, while the 15% of students who are at or above grade level in math was unchanged. Johnnie Lay Burks (formerly Chase Street) Elementary was among the highest-performing Title I schools in the state. As a Title I Distinguished School, Burks is among the top 5% of high-poverty schools that receive additional federal funds, outpacing the state and regional averages for Milestones scores. Four other local elementary schools—Fowler Drive, J.J. Harris and Winterville—were named Title I Reward Schools, meaning they were among the fastest-improving 5% of schools. In addition, all 21 CCSD schools were recognized by the Georgia Department of Education for implementing a disciplinary framework called Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports. Winterville Elementary was named a Distinguished PBIS School for completing a second tier of training and meeting all of the state’s outcome data measures. At the Oct. 12 BOE meeting, officials also announced that CCSD has received a grant for two additional health clinics. New clinics at the H.T. Edwards campus and Coile Middle will join existing ones at Hilsman Middle and Clarke Middle. The Georgia Department of Public Health is also using a mobile clinic to offer vaccines to students. The board also voted unanimously to buy the former Rutland Academy property on Oglethorpe Avenue. The six-acre property was appraised at nearly $8 million, but because CCSD already owns a 40% interest, the district has agreed to pay a total of $4.7 million to 12 neighboring school districts that also own shares. Rutland Academy served students from 13 Athens-area districts with severe emotional and behavioral disorders until closing in 2021, after the U.S. Justice Department and an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation in 2016 found that Georgia’s psychoeducational program was segregating and “warehousing” students. Neither CCSD administrators nor school board members said what the district plans to do with the property, and a CCSD spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. f

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just a little higher than the U.S. average, but a long way behind Massachusetts at 2%. Texas is the worst at 11%. • Overweight or obese children and teens: 34%, up from 31% in 2018–19 and slightly above the U.S. average. • Georgia teen deaths per 100,000: 74.5, up from 42.6 in 2012, and part of a national upward trend. The rate of teen deaths by accident, homicide or suicide was 55 in 2021, up from 36 in 2011. DEREK FINCH

or years, Gov. Brian Kemp and his predecessor, Nathan Deal, have called press conferences to ballyhoo the state’s No. 1 ranking for business-friendliness according to Area Development magazine. What you don’t hear Republican leaders talking about, though, is another kind of ranking—perhaps closely related to that great-for-business ranking, but in a bad way. Georgia’s health rankings are dismal even by the United State’s low standards. Some of the worst rankings are in children’s health. The Annie E. Casey Foundation rates children’s well-being across the nation in its annual “Kids Count.” This year, Georgia ranked 43rd in the nation for children’s health, ahead of only a handful of mainly Southern states with high poverty levels and Republican governments, and far below top states. For what it’s worth, the states with the highest scores, like New York and Massachusetts, tend to vote Democratic, with some exceptions among old-line Northeastern Republican states. Some Georgia specifics from the 2023 Kids Count: • Georgia has a child and teen death rate of 36 per 100,000, up from 29 two years earlier and more than twice that of some other states. • The infant mortality rate is 6.2 per 1,000, compared to 5.4 nationwide. • Almost 11% of babies born in 2021 had low birth weights, lower than only Louisiana and Mississippi and the highest figure in at least a decade. As with many health statistics, both for children and adults, there are stark racial and ethnic differences. The low birth weight rate for Black Georgia mothers was 15.6%, vs. 7.7% for white mothers. • The rate of firearms deaths per 100,000 in children aged 1–19 is 7.7 per 100,000 in Georgia. In Massachusetts it’s 1.1, and in New York it’s 1.7. The U.S. average is 5.3. • Children who received preventive dental care in the previous year: 74% in 2020–21, down from 84% in 2016–17. • Children without health insurance: 6%—

COVID-19 pandemic, to 32.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, compared to 23.8 in 2020. Georgia recorded 49 maternal deaths per 100,000, behind only Mississippi (82) and Louisiana (61). Across the nation, the maternal death rate for Black women was 2.5 times that for whites. According to the USA Facts website, Georgia’s overall death rate per 100,000 people, 998, is higher than all but 11 mostly high-poverty Southern states, and was up 29% since 2019. Like most states, death rates here went up sharply because of COVID-19, the third-leading cause of death in Georgia in 2021 after heart disease and cancer. The death rate for white people, 995 per 100,000, was well below the death rate for Black Georgians, 1093. Georgia also ranks high in many individual causes of death, according to the World Life Expectancy website, which uses

GEORGIA HEALTH STATS Rank among states in infant mortality : 48th Rank in maternal mortality : 48th Overall death rate : 39th Percentage uninsured : 12.6% Gap in Medicaid coverage : 140,000 people Life expectancy in Georgia : 75.6 years Life expectancy in Jordan : 74.9 years • In 2021, 25% of Black Georgia children ages 1–18 were living in poverty, compared to 10% of white children, according to the Kids Count report. Georgia also ranks among the nation’s worst states in measures of adult health, beginning with access to health care. As of 2021, Georgia had the third-highest percentage of people without health insurance among U.S. states, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Georgia’s uninsured rate of 12.6% was better than only Texas (18%) and Oklahoma (13.8%). Georgia had one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the nation in 2021. The U.S. rate overall spiked during the

numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: thirteenth-highest for COVID, eighth for stroke, sixth for hypertension, fourth for Alzheimer’s, sixth for breast cancer, tenth for prostate cancer, sixth for kidney disease, twelfth for homicide and fourth for HIV/AIDS. Life expectancy stats are among the most eye-opening. According to the USA Facts website, relying on data from the CDC, the average life expectancy for a Georgian born in 2021 is 75.6 years—lower than 36 states. That’s about the same as the country of Jordan, but better than last-place Mississippi, where the 71.9-year expectancy is about the same as someone born in Libya, according to estimates by the

World Bank Group. As with many other health statistics, life expectancy varies widely among Georgia counties. Oconee County, one of the state’s wealthiest counties, has the third-highest life expectancy for men at 78.9 years, for example. That’s nearly 10 years higher than the 69.7-year life expectancy for a man born in Jefferson County. Oconee was also near the top for women—81.9 years, No. 4. Most Georgia counties with lower life expectancies are rural and in South Georgia, with some exceptions. Bibb (70.5 years) was 152nd of the state’s 159 counties for men, and Richmond (71 years) was 146th. Clarke ranked well—No. 21 for men, 15 for women. Even the best U.S. life expectancy statistics don’t look good in a global comparison, though. U.S. life expectancy ranked 58th worldwide as of 2021, lower even than much poorer countries such as Albania and Algeria, according to World Bank statistics. The CIA World Factbook ranks the United States even lower, at 72nd among the world’s nations, while the World Health Organization ranking of 40th was better. The U.S.’s poor health status is in contrast to the nation’s world-leading medical expenditures—about $12,555 per capita, according to Statista, which is nearly 17% of the gross domestic product and twice the average spent by comparable advanced industrial nations with better health outcomes. Prospects for improving Georgia’s health numbers are uncertain. Only two states spend less money per full-time Medicaid recipient than Georgia, according to KFF (formerly the Kaiser Family Foundation), and only three states spend less than Georgia’s $2,231 per child on Medicaid. Meanwhile, millions of people are losing Medicaid coverage nationwide, including hundreds of thousands in Georgia, as measures that kept people covered during the COVID pandemic expire, though many will regain eligibility. At the same time, Georgia—one of only 11 states that has not accepted an expanded federal Medicaid program (and federal dollars)—is starting its own limited homegrown Medicaid program. That program makes Georgia the only state in the country, for now, with a work or education requirement for recipients. At best, Georgia’s “Pathway to Coverage” program will cover nearly 140,000 fewer Georgians than full Medicaid expansion, according to the nonpartisan Georgia Budget and Policy Institute. f

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crowd that “the people have the power.” Less than three months later, on Jan. 18, 2003, I was again on the scene in Washington as an even larger multitude marched through the streets of the historic old city in a peace demonstration that D.C. Police Chief Charles Ramsey called “one of the biggest ones we have had.” The march coincided with the national Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and King’s opposition to

America was involved in a long and bloody war in the Middle East 20 years ago, when the United States invaded Iraq in 2003 in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on this nation in 2001. Though none of the 9/11 terrorists were Iraqis, the White House team led by President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney was hellbent on war. They got it, and here in Athens the daily newspaper editorialized that the invasion would be a quick war with victory assured, thanks to superior U.S. technology. It didn’t turn out that way. Instead, the war would last for eight years, nearly 4,500 U.S. military men and women would be killed in the conflict, and more than 32,000 would be wounded. Iraqi civilian deaths from the war are believed to number around 200,000. The war cost this nation about $1 trillion. The Iraq War’s cost in blood and treasure caused the resurgence of the American anti-war movement as peace marchers hit the streets of Washington, D.C., even before the war began. I went to the nation’s capital and other cities several times during the war to document the dissident peace movement that rose up in response to the invasion. On Oct. 26, 2002, I was in Washington along with an estimated 100,000 citizens who rallied in the hope of stopping the war before it started. Those hopes were dashed when the war began a few months later, but the march showed a sense of solidarity and determination that was underlined when singer Patti Smith sang to the immense

the Vietnam War in the 1960s was echoed by the crowd that marched against the Iraq War in 2003. At that rally I talked with Vietnam veteran and Born on the Fourth of July author Ron Kovic, who told me, “My love of country brings me here today, and my faith that my country is going to renew itself and be reborn and we are going to stop this war… This is an exciting moment for all of us to be alive.” Washington was again the scene of a large peace rally that I attended on Oct. 25, 2003. By that time, casualties were mounting in post-invasion Iraq, and the most moving speech of the day was given by Fernando Suarez, whose U.S. Marine son had been killed in the first days of the Iraq War. “We don’t need anymore dead,” said the grieving father. “We need to make Mr. Bush understand that he’s not the owner of the lives of our children. Bush is not the owner of America. You are the owners of America. How many gallons of blood does Bush need to fill his tank of oil? We don’t want one more drop of the blood of our children. We have to raise our voices and ask for peace.” Americans rallied for peace in the Middle East 20 years ago. Today that region is again ravaged by war, and the world worries that the conflict could widen and spread. The words of psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl are more apt than ever today: “Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of, and since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.” f

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Always a powder keg region, the Middle East is again embroiled in war after Hamas launched surprise terror attacks on Israel earlier this month. The death toll is mounting on both the Israeli and Palestinian sides of the conflict, and video footage of the latest carnage in the Middle East is chillingly reminiscent of the grim and grisly TV news broadcasts of the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine.

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Anyone who has watched any Georgia footagainst Vanderbilt he seemed to struggle ball this year—unless you paid attention to once again. I say “seemed” because there’s only the Kentucky game—knows this, from a phenomenon with Beck where I always the national media to the barking ’necks of think I watched him play a worse game than northeast Georgia. Something isn’t right he did. After every game, his stats are objecwith these Dawgs, at least compared to tively pretty good. Not great, but pretty performances by their predecessors, who good. looked dominant week-in, week-out on the There are times when he seems stuck way to two consecutive national titles. between wanting to be a “game manager” But while the 2023 Dawgs haven’t and a “game winner.” We would all love for been dominant, they have been winning. him to be the latter—he certainly would— Georgia is 7-0 for the third straight season but we typically play better when he is the and fourth overall of Kirby Smart’s tenure former, keeping us in control of the game coming off a 37-20 win over Vanderbilt in and eventually letting our talent win out. I Nashville. That scoreline alone should illusthink eventually he can make that transitrate Georgia’s struggles—and yes, I use tion and be the catalyst to win games. He’s that term loosely—considering the Dawgs not there yet, though. beat the ’Dores 62-0 in ’21 and 55-0 in ’22. Now, a little more than halfway through the regular season, comes the bye week, a chance to reset and recalibrate ahead of the final five-game stretch. It’s the toughest stretch of the season, beginning with a trip to Jacksonville for the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, followed by home games against Mizzou and Ole Miss, and capped off with trips to Tennessee and Georgia Tech. If the Dawgs play how they played for the bulk of the first seven games during this stretch, there’s a loss lurking somewhere. There is still the opportunity to right this ship and transform the team back into an unstoppable force/ immovable object. But that is going to take some work Prayers up for Brock Bowers’ ankle. over this bye week and improvement in a handful of major areas. The most important thing we can do One of those areas is defense, specifically these next two weeks is get healthy. Injuries creating turnovers and sacks. At this point, have plagued the roster all season, and the we can safely say that this defense is not on injury list got longer against Vanderbilt. the level of the ’21 or ’22 defense. That’s not Xavier Truss went down with an ankle a slight. The ’21 defense has a case for being injury, while Kendall Milton reaggravated the greatest in college football history, and his MCL injury. The most worrying injury the two have seven first-round NFL Draft came to Brock Bowers, who left the game picks between them. Those defenses didn’t with a sprained ankle in the second quarter. need to create as many turnovers or sacks I don’t think there’s an individual on the because they were able to stop teams at the team whose absence means we can’t win line and get off the field. a national title, but the closest is Bowers. This year’s defense can’t rely on the He’s bailed us out on multiple occasions this bend-don’t-break ethos of the last couple season. The offense did an admirable job defenses because when they bend, Vandy without him against Vanderbilt, but I don’t scores a touchdown on us for the first want to find out how this offense looks time since 2018. Ranking 83rd nationally without him for multiple weeks. in team sacks and 69th in takeaways per The next two weeks will be spent on game won’t cut it for this unit. In this tough Brock Watch, with Dawg fans everywhere upcoming stretch, we’re going to need some hoping Bowers is ready to roll for the major momentum off turnovers and sacks Cocktail Party. We’ll need him. The Gators at some point. have been up and down this season, but Offensively, Carson Beck needs to figure make no mistake, that’s a trap game. If our out exactly what he’s trying to be. I was worst tendencies come out in Jacksonville, convinced Beck had turned the corner with they can beat us, and then we go from “off a strong showing against Kentucky, but vibes” to “bad vibes.” f

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BE KIND, REWIND: The fine folks behind JokerJokerTV will host the second annual VHS Fest at Athentic Brewing Co. on Sunday, Oct. 22 from 1–7 p.m. As of this writing, there is no word yet on confirmed musical acts or specific vendors, but rest assured there will be both. This event is billed as “a celebration of analog media for collectors, artists and anyone interested in retro media formats.” Expect to be able to buy, sell and trade with VHS vendors and collectors while enjoying some live tunes, films and other entertainment. For more information, please see jokerjokertv. com/athens-vhs-fest and facebook.com/ jokerjokergallery. STRAIGHT OUTTA CROYDON: Athens electronic/ dance music collective, record label and promoter Nightshade Family is hosting an exceedingly cool event at work. shop Friday, Oct. 20. The organizers will host UK producer and DJ Mala (Digital Mystikz) in his first ever Athens performance, Athens’ own D:RC (AKA Darcy Reenis), Atlanta’s Leonce and Nightshade co-founder Dado. Work.shop is a small performance space located at 160 Winston Drive, Suite #9. More information about this space is available at workshopathens. com. Doors open at 11:30 p.m., and the show is scheduled to happen between midnight and 5 a.m., which, by this factor alone, makes this the most authentically oldschool Athens show for at least the past three years. Advance tickets are $20, and links for those can be found at facebook.com/nightshadefamilymusic. MIND ON YOUR MONEY, MONEY ON YOUR MIND:

The folks behind the Vic Chesnutt Awards will present a Concert for Mental Health Awareness Saturday, Dec. 9 at the 40 Watt Club. Featured acts are the legendary Lonnie Holley, Night Palace, Well Kept and Trvy & The Enemy. Advance tickets are on sale now for $30 each or $20 with a student ID. Beneficiaries are Nuçi’s Space, the Vic Chesnutt Awards and Friends of Advantage. For tickets, see 40watt.com, and to find out more about the organizations involved, see nuci.org, friendsofadvantage. org and vicchesnuttaward.com. LET’S GIVE IT A TWIST: Those punks in Beat Up have a brand spankin’ new split LP with Oklahoma City band Anarchy For Assholes, which is exactly the type of thing you name your band when you’re a fullgrown adult but still itching to make your parents uncomfortable. You Are Beautiful… But This Place Sucks is kind of an uneven split, too, as our hometown gang only has five songs out of the 13 on the album. That said, it didn’t need any more to make its point. Starting with the street-punk-meetsFace To Face “A Million Lifetimes,” then coursing through legitimately grooving “Only America,” Beat Up kicks this off right. From there, it ups its own ante with

the superior “What Remains,” as well as the Dead Kennedys-ish “Homeland” and the inter-generational struggle anthem “The Olds.” Each band’s contributions were mastered by legendary Seattle producer Jack Endino (Nirvana, Mudhoney, Supersuckers, et al). Oh, the A.F.A. tracks are pretty good as well, but I don’t have space here to get all into that, so check this whole thing out for yourself at beatup. bandcamp.com, and consider purchasing this on vinyl while you’re there, too. TAKE A BREAK WITH THIS: Caroline Noel Beverley (Blue Stockings, Calliope Fair, Klezmer Local 42, et al) has a very nice new album called Flag Athens. It’s named this in tribute to her time spent in both Athens and Flagstaff, AZ. For me, the record really kicked in on the second track, “Lay Your

Rein Down,” which is a gently plucked, traditional folk tune. Other highlights are the sort of high-lonesome sounds of “O Coyote,” the song about the album’s cover art—which was painted by Vernon Thornsberry—“Vernon’s Jigsaw.” On a personal note, though, the peak of this album is the loving tribute to late Athens musician and friend Matt Kiritsy, who was paralyzed for two decades after a drive-by shooting (he was not the intended victim) at the old Atlanta Highway Waffle House in 1994, and died from related complications in 2013. Beverley has made a nice little record here, and you can find it on Spotify, Apple Music and presumably other outlets. She will celebrate the release of the album Sunday, Nov. 5 at Hendershot’s, when she opens for Klezmer Local 42. For more information, see carolinenoelbeverley.com. BEEP BEEP, WELL WELL: Strolling Bones Records will be the proud home of the debut full-length album by Pylon Reenactment Society. It’s titled Magnet Factory, and pre-orders are being accepted now for this 11-song release, which is slated to come out on both LP and CD—and pre-ordered copies are autographed, so there’s that—on Feb. 9. The lead single, “3 X 3,” was released a few weeks ago. For pre-order, see strollingbonesrecords.com, and to keep up with PRS, see pylonreenactmentsociety.com. f

SATISFACTIONISTA’S JOURNEY AND RE-RELEASE

hen guitarist, songwriter and frontman Chris McKay first envisioned the sophomore release for his band The Critical Darlings back circa 2006, it was meant to be an EP. But with a little prodding from producer David Barbe to add Drive-By Truckers drummer Brad Morgan on one track, the collaboration seemed to open the project up to much larger possibilities. The group’s plan was to have the album, Satisfactionista, all wrapped up by early 2007. However, during this time of best laid plans McKay suffered a cerebellar stroke, and then spent months recovering from a terrible, to put it mildly, bout with mycoplasma pneumonia. The album—a big step above and beyond the band’s 2005 debut album, C’mon, Accept Your Joy— was finally completed and released in 2009. This week McKay released a newly repackaged and remastered version of the album, including its first arrival on vinyl. McKay’s songwriting slot is right in the section of the record shelf that holds classic power pop, slightly hard rock and irrepressible ebullience. Once it was decided that Satisfactionista would be a full-length album, McKay began to think of the record as having “sides” like a traditional vinyl album. That it never landed on vinyl led to the lingering feeling it was never actually completed. “Well, to me, it was never finished,” McKay says. Addressing his ongoing fragile health, he said, “… because I can’t get out and perform like I’d love to do and used to do because of health, and after someone asked me if it had ever been out on vinyl, I figured I needed to make it so while I could.” The anchor of the album is the final track, “Something Unseen,” which features pianist Mike Garson, who is perhaps best known for his decades-long gig as David Bowie’s pianist and collaborator. McKay had written the tender and moving track, but needed an intro for it, as well as an ideal piano player. After identifying Garson as the player on Bowie’s Aladdin Sane, he reached out, and Garson jumped on board. In fact, the relationship proved so fruitful that McKay and Garson have another song in the can to be released in the future. Garson’s participation “still feels like some kind of simulated reality thing to me,” McKay says. The album was remastered by Jason NeSmith. Working from Barbe’s original mixes, NeSmith brought the album up to the level it needed for a proper vinyl release. McKay says, “I will admit, I hear lots of things on the vinyl that I’d forgotten were layered in there. It’s been pretty eye opening to remember how detailed we were in the original recording process.” Anyone who has regularly kept up with McKay and his email list, as well as his social media, over the past decade or so knows full well that McKay can produce a

fountain of words when it comes to writing about his songs and documenting their progress, backstories and meaning. McKay is already in the process of assembling and completing The Satisfactionista Diaries. The book is planned to be approximately 500 pages long, but is slated to be more than a simple compilation of old writings or, at least, more compelling. “The book of the album is more than just the diary listings and song notes,” he says. “When I looked back, it was crazy because I didn’t remember so much of it, or I had remembered it differently. It’s the story of the band of that MANDA McKAY

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time and how much went into it. Really, how much life and draining energy every band puts into their work.” He feels it’s an important part of the entire Satisfactionista legacy especially because, as he puts it, the album was released “Only to, really, never be heard.” Digging more into the band’s personal lives during this time, he expresses that, “There [were] multiple deaths [and] we drained ourselves emotionally and financially to make Satisfactionista, and we couldn’t survive enough to promote it because we had to make enough money to live.” In addition to the issues mentioned above, he also endured a vertebral artery dissection from a car wreck in 2017. And, indeed, as he began planning this deluxe reissue he was hospitalized again with pneumonia after several years of no issues. “It seemed like a weird echo,” he remarked while comparing this bout to what he experienced at the very start of the Satisfactionista story 17 years ago. That said, his enthusiasm for working and writing has never abated, and he reports he’s already got an album fully complete for release in 2024 as well as the one he has planned for 2025. He even says that multiple tracks are ready for a record he has planned for 2026. What’s his secret? “Staying alive is the trick, man,” he says. f

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showcase a variety of improv acts stretching from Athens to Atlanta, with 12 acts between the two cities performing. The goal was to bridge the gap between the exciting Atlanta comedy scene and the humble Athens comedy scene. There will also be three improv workshops open to the public for participants to indulge in on Saturday, Oct. 21. The day pass is on sale to the public for $15, but a weekend pass is being sold for $25. See what happens when experienced improv comedians are thrown into the same room! [AH]

The psychedelic alternative outfit from Perth, Australia has made its way to the States at record speed after the band’s conception in 2014. The members of the band include English guitarist and singer Jack McEwan, guitarist Luke Parish, drummer Danny Caddy, bassist Wayan Billondana and keyboardist Chris Young. What originally started as a happy accident of latenight jam sessions suddenly turned into MUSIC | SAT, OCT. 21 something more when McEwan moved into a barn “trying to live the bohemian life… until I ran out of internet.” The band met Georgia Theatre • 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show) at the barn composing songs out of an old, • $36.50–41.50 out-of-tune piano and hooking up various The Georgia Theatre is hosting Sunny projectors to the amps in order to beam Day Real Estate alongside its opening out psychedelic energy onto the walls. The band Pool Kids on Saturday. The five-piece members’ inspiration interestingly came emo band from from their time as Seattle, WA is made tradies working up of musicians on building sites. Jeremy Enigk on What was produced guitar and vocals, was “a riotous William Goldsmith stomp of psychon drums, Dan rock escapism.” Hoerner on guitar, Today, the band is Greg Suran on compared to the guitar and Chris likes of acclaimed Jordan on bass. psych-alt composer Formed in 1992, and musician Tame the outfit has creImpala. The band ated a name for has now made its itself across the way to the 40 Watt Psychedelic Porn Crumpets nation for blurring to deliver a pleththe fine line between profane ecstasy and ora of mind-warping sounds to the Athens sacred transcendence within the confines music scene. [Analiese Herrin] of its genre. They consider their sound as ART | THU, OCT. 19 something of a yin and yang concept, and it was this concept that connected them to a wider audience. Sunny Day Real Estate emerged as the love child of a dying grunge scene and skyrocketing pop-punk era. This tiny ATH Gallery • 6–9 p.m. • FREE! strange genre-melting environment led to Since Oct. 6, tiny ATH Gallery has had an even more interesting emerging band the work of Will Eskridge on display, showfull of pure passion. [AH] casing Eskridge’s pop art acrylic paintings EVENT | OCT. 21–22 with a wild twist. Throughout this fun collection of works, Eskridge highlights the visual presence of various wild animals Various Locations • SOLD OUT! that have been portrayed throughout film AthFest Educates is hosting its 7th as menacing. The artist’s decision to create annual 5K and its 14th annual half mardepictions of these animals in more invitathon. The races benefit the nonprofit’s ing environments has changed the animals mission of enhancing music and arts edufrom feral to friendly. As the exhibit’s time cation for local K-12 students. Both courses at the gallery comes to a close, the pubexplore the very best that the Classic lic will be able to experience this body of City has to offer through these commuwork up close and ask the artist all of their nity-building runs. Taking place over the burning questions in person at the closing course of two days, the 5K course takes reception. [AH] participants through downtown Athens EVENT | OCT. 20–21 and the beautiful Boulevard neighborhood area on Saturday, Oct. 21 beginning at 2:30 p.m. The annual AthHalf marathon will take work.shop • 7–11:30 p.m. • $15–25 place the very next day on Sunday, Oct. 22 Flying Squid Comedy is excited to at 7:30 a.m. with a course that runs through announce its first Improv Festival taking Athens’ historic districts, downtown and place Friday and Saturday. Founded by the UGA campus. Live Athens bands will UGA alumnus Kelly Petronis, Flying Squid play along the half marathon course for the Comedy is a comedy theater and school participants as well as friends and family that prides itself on teaching its students, who have come to cheer them on from the actors and entertainers how to be fluent in sidelines. Although registration for the improv, sketch, acting and clown classes in event has closed due to a completely soldaddition to providing corporate workshops. out two days, the Athens community is still The company performs free weekly shows at encouraged to come and cheer on all particiBuvez and work.shop. The company decided pants during the event as well as experience to create its inaugural Improv Festival to the live music and festivities offered. [AH] f

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life change that would land them in Athens. When discussing how the songs came together, it’s clear that all three current members feel a strong emotional connection to these tracks regardless of their roles in the band. In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun opens with “We Are the Darkness” and “Dagger in God’s Back,” which Stembridge describes as “cosmic horror.” Pain points to “Dagger in God’s Back” as a particularly fun and challenging song, explaining that it’s in 12/16 timing at a high tempo that feels more like a workout as the drummer. Chronister has a fondness for this unique song that leans toward black metal heaviness while maintaining its post-punk lane. The album then descends into themes around mental health

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or a music town with a relatively small goth scene, Athens is home to some strong examples of the genre. Musician Adria Stembridge’s longtime postpunk/deathrock project Tears for the Dying has persisted through many evolutions, from lineup changes to periods of inactivity, while amassing fans across the nation. The band’s resiliency is a testament to the fact that there will always be a dark underbelly keeping the culture alive and the music in demand. Many of the strengths of Tears for the Dying are tied to who Stembridge is as a person and how she uses that introspective lens as a songwriter—namely by writing deeply personal songs covering vulnerable topics, and by exploring adjacent genres rather than honing in on one sound. The group’s most recent body of work best exemplifies these features, and Tears for the Dying is gearing up for the release of its 11-track album In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun. Although it’s not a concept album, each song does carry a thoughtfully crafted story or message. Stembridge also notes that the band ventures into dark wave territory with this release. “It’s in part who I am. I’m autistic and ADHD… so this album is very much a reflection of that kind of autism and ADHD-ness of wanting to branch out and go from one thing to another,” says Stembridge. “Tears [for the Dying] is still dark and edgy, but it has a lot of variety to it. Every song has its own identity; it breathes in its own world.” Stembridge first began writing lyrics for Tears for the Dying in 1998, with a fully formed band recording for the first time in 2003. Over the years there have been pauses in its development, sometimes due to life obligations such as jobs or side projects like The Girl Pool and Strange Dreams. However, the current state of the band, and the music written for the new album, has been largely influenced by current member Mycke Pain (drums, programming, songwriting) and recent member Josh Broughton (guitar, bass). Stembridge says that Pain and Broughton brought a new level of professionalism and musicianship to the band upon joining in 2021–2022. Earlier this year, Broughton took a new position at his job in Atlanta and had to resign from Tears for the Dying, but the other members graciously attribute a lot of the work on the album to him. In April, Stembridge’s online friend Robyn Chronister moved down from Michigan to take over on guitar and bass. Interestingly enough, both Pain and Chronister were Tears of the Dying fans before joining, and the opportunity found them each in a different scenario to use it as a vehicle for a

crises. “Ji Shi” discusses suicide, while “Heterochromia” talks about passing over while retaining elements of cosmic horror. The fifth track, “Bloat,” tells a graphic and heart-wrenching story about a trans girl who was relentlessly bullied in high school and later takes her own life, only to be found by a first responder who had been one of the bullies. The details are not for the faint of heart, but the story is compelling. After such heavy material, things lighten up thematically with “Don’t Wanna.” The lyrics are “don’t wanna be like that” in Japanese, referring to not wanting to focus on suicide and instead focus on the desire to get better. The following song, “Ikinokotta,” translates to “I survived” and has a triumphant tone of making it through to the other side of your own personal hell. The remainder of the album focuses less on storytelling but continues on a macabre path. Just by looking at the track list, the final song certainly stands out: A cover of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene.” Southern gothic style, of course. However, that’s not the only surprise here. Stembridge’s uncle is guitarist Chip Young, well known for his thumb-picking style that fuels the intro of “Jolene.” The cover is a family tribute, and one that Stembridge feels honored to reconceptualize in an unexpected style. On this track, Broughton played the tricky main guitar piece, and Stembridge made some lyrical changes to give it a more modern feel.

In the midst of creating In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun, the lineup was not the only curveball change Tears for the Dying faced. Initially producer Tom Ashton started to mix the record, then he happened upon his own opportunity to restart his band The March Violets. He became too busy to continue the Tears for the Dying project, which left Stembridge hesitant to find another engineer given Ashton’s expertise in the post-punk and goth rock genre and Athens’ lack in that area. She approached Jason Nesmith given his connection to Pylon Reenactment Society, and the result of his work blew the band away. “To some, they would say that the genre is either obsolete or dated, but there’s still so many people that love it. I myself just got back from California, and I can say that it’s huge out there and people knew who we were when I mentioned the name,” says Pain. “We just happen to be in a town where it’s not as prominent, but it’s still there, and all it takes is a good spark to start a fire. And that’s what we’re hoping to do with this record.” “This album in particular, I think Tears stretches the dimensions of post-punk in a way. There’s a lot of songs where it goes into a lot of different territories. This is still distinctly post-punk, but it’s got a unique edge or heaviness to it. Or it’s saying something interesting, and I think that’s the spark that keeps people coming back,” says Chronister. Tears for the Dying has big plans to close out the end of spooky season with some local performances. After the Wild Rumpus parade on Saturday Oct. 28, the band will be opening during the inaugural A Southern Gothic festival with Twin Tribes and Vision Video at the 40 Watt Club. The band plans to do a soft release of the album at this event with physical CDs available, and the full release will be celebrated once the vinyl edition is finished printing by the top of next year. Halloween night the band will be playing Live in the Lobby at WUOG 90.5 FM at 8 p.m. In addition to releasing its first vinyl next year, Tears for the Dying will also join The March Violets for its east coast tour in February. The two bands are both signed to Rocky Road Touring, along with fellow Athens gothic post-punk band Vision Video. f

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Ritual Day Spa offers everything you need to feel and look your best. Skilled massage therapists provide a variety of therapeutic massages, including deep tissue, Swe-Thai, and hot stone to relieve muscle tension, improve circulation, and promote relaxation. Experienced estheticians offer advanced and holistic facials that rejuvenate and nourish your skin. Time spent at Ritual will have you glowing from the inside out!

335 Hawthorne Ln. · 706-543-5901 · anthonychiropractic.com Anthony Chiropractic is a 2nd generation, family wellness chiropractic practice and has been serving the community for 42 years. They offer spinal decompression, pediatric, prenatal and perinatal chiropractic care, structural correction/ scoliosis care, and leg length inequality correction. They are a full-service chiropractic office with on-site digital x-ray. Dr. Mackenzie Puckett offers a no-charge consultation for all prospective new patients!

Franny’s Farmacy 2361 W. Broad St. · 706-224-9505 · frannysfarmacyathens.com Franny’s Farmacy is a hemp dispensary with natural, high-quality CBD and THC products. Franny’s carries edibles, tinctures, vapes, drinks, topicals, and, of course, flower! From sore muscles to decompressing after a hard workout, Franny’s would love to help you find the product for you. The budtenders are educated, compassionate, and eager to share their knowledge. Open every day!

Hodgson’s Pharmacy 1260 S. Milledge Ave. · 706-543-7386 · hodgsonsrx.com Hodgson’s Pharmacy is a locally owned pharmacy serving Athens since 1953 providing fast, friendly, and unique care. Services include free local deliveries Monday - Friday, ACIP recommended vaccinations including Influenza and COVID-19, simple prescription refills, bubble packing, walk-in consultations, and more. They also have a wide selection of gifts and an old fashioned ice cream counter open 1-5 p.m. weekdays.

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Urban Sanctuary 810 N. Chase St. · 706-613-3947 · urbansanctuary.com Urban Sanctuary is a luxury spa nestled in Athens’ historic Boulevard district. Enjoy award winning spa services in a beautiful atmosphere. They specialize in HydraFacial, Glo2Facial, waxing, lashes, and body treatments, as well as relaxing & therapeutic massage services such as Deep Tissue, Chill CBD, Hot Stone, Lymphatic Drainage, Sports, and Prenatal. Call today to book a service at Athens’ Best Spa.

EXERCISE Feel Free Yoga + Wellness Studio 8851 Macon Hwy. · 706-621-1481 · feelfreeyogawellness.com The Mission of Feel Free Yoga + Wellness Studio is to provide an inclusive, supportive space that inspires health and wellness in our community by offering yoga, meditation and wellness classes, self-care workshops, retreats, and other healing modalities. They encourage their clients to live a more holistic lifestyle that focuses on keeping one’s mind, body and spirit healthy.

& HEALTH DIRECTORY EXERCISE

RECREATIONAL FITNESS

Highland Yoga

Active Climbing

Beechwood Shopping Center · info@highland-yoga.com

665 Barber St. · 706-354-0038 · activeclimbing.com

Highland Yoga classes are all about powerful vinyasa flow. Discover your strongest self through creative, challenging, and sweaty yoga classes with purifying infrared heat and an inspiring playlist. Connect with a positive community that will support you throughout your yoga journey. Ready to find your flow? Your first month is just $30. Opening in Beechwood October 2023!

ATHENS, GA

Experience an excellent full-body exercise that rewards persistence and concentration above all else. They’re here to help you develop skill. They love climbing and they want you to love it, too! Inside or outside! This is not a gym, it’s a lifestyle and they have a wonderful community to show it. They also offer camps, climbing teams and birthday parties for kids! Go Climb!

M3 Yoga & Hot Pilates

Canopy Studio

1260 S. Milledge Ave., Ste. E-1 · M3yoga.com

160-6 Tracy St. · 706-549-8501 · canopystudio.org

Stretch, sweat, relax, strengthen & de-stress at M3 Yoga & Hot Pilates in 5 Points. With 40+ weekly warm and hot classes along with Inferno Hot Pilates, M3 is the perfect place for any movement goal. Special rates for UGA employees, educators, healthcare workers & more. Intro Offer: 2 Weeks for $30. Voted Athens’ Favorite 6 years in a row!

160-6 Tracy St. Athens, GA 30601 www.canopystudio.org info@canopystudio.org

YMCA

Canopy Studio offers camps, workshops, classes, and private lessons for kids and adults throughout the year in bungee, trapeze, vertical pole, lyra, rope, fabrics, slings, rope, and aerial yoga. They are dedicated to enriching the community through aerial dance, movement education, and performance arts, regardless of background, age, or physical ability. Go ﬂy with them today!

SEXUAL HEALTH

915 Hawthorne Ave. · 706-543-6596 · athensymca.org The Athens YMCA has been a faithful part of the community since 1857, serving the Athens Area through programs designed for youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. The Y is for the entire community and is open to everyone, offering programs and services for all ages including youth programs, swim lessons, fitness classes, and more. Stop by to see what the Y can do for you!

Elations of Athens 4100 Lexington Rd. · 706-552-1492 · shopstarship.com Your Pleasure is Our Business. Offering the finest choices in adult pleasure. Elations of Athens is a sex-positive place to discover products that excite you. As your Sexual Health and Wellness partner, all Starship branded stores offer a large inventory of sex toys, lingerie, enhancements and romantic gifts, all at unbeatable prices. With unparalleled product education, Elations supports your pursuit of pleasure.

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EXPERIENCE MUSIC AT UGA

CA NOPY ST U DIO T H E R E P E R T O R Y C O. & F R I E N D S P R E S E N T an aerial d ance performanc e paying homage to our favorit e broadway & movie musicals

TICKETED PERFORMANCES $15; $3 with UGA student ID FRI 10/20 7:30 p.m.

HODGSON HALL

Hodgson Singers and University Chorus “For the Living - Music of Consolation and Resolve.” University Chorus will perform Dan Forrest’s “Requiem For the Living” with orchestra, conducted by Daniel Shafer. The Hodgson Singers will present works by Jennifer Lucy Scott, Ken Burton, Dominic DiOrio, and more.

OCTOBER 20 8:00 PM OCTOBER 21 4:00 PM 8:00 PM OCTOBER 22 4:00 PM

UGA WIND ENSEMBLE PRESENTS AN EVENING OF JOHN WILLIAMS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26 at 7:30 p.m. - HODGSON CONCERT HALL Tickets Adults $20 · Students/Children $15 Tickets online at canopystudio.org or at the door Doors open 30 min before showtimes

TUES 10/31 7:30 p.m.

HODGSON HALL

160-6 Tracy Street, Athens, GA 30601 CANOPYSTUDIO.ORG · INFO@CANOPYSTUDIO.ORG

Elisa Zarate for Clerk of Court

WED 10/18 7:30 p.m.

RAMSEY HALL

THUR 10/19 7:30 p.m.

RAMSEY HALL

FRI 10/20

Endorsed By:

VOTE NOV 7

Beverly Logan - Retired Clerk of Court Kelly Girtz - Athens Mayor Patricia Barron - Retired Judge Athens-Clarke County Democrats Dodd Ferrelle - Winterville Mayor Pa’lante Georgia

Learn more: ElectElisaZarateForClerk.com

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centuries, featuring music by Handel, Bach and a violin concerto by Oklahoma based, Armenian-American composer Karen Khanagov. Featuring Levon Ambartsumian, Artistic Director&soloist, and Oliver Yatsugafu, guest conductor.

UGA CONNECTION SERIES: FREE CONCERTS, NO TICKETS NEEDED

An Experienced Leader You Can Trust

Early Voting: Oct 16 - Nov 3

ARCO Chamber Orchestra

5:30 p.m.

RAMSEY HALL

MON 10/23 7:30 p.m.

HODGSON HALL

TUES 10/24 7:30 p.m.

HODGSON HALL

Guest Artist: Lorenz Gamma, violin

Faculty and Student Chamber Concert featuring music by Mozart, Stravinsky, and Florence Price. Gamma is professor of violin and head of strings at California State University Northridge.

Guest Artist: SOLI Chamber Ensemble SOLI Chamber Ensemble has been giving voice to 20th- and 21st-century contemporary chamber music since 1994, engaging audiences with unique performances.

Guest Artist: Francesca Anderegg, violin Guest artist Francesca Anderegg (St. Olaf College) is a critically acclaimed performer, recording artist, and educator. Hailed by the New York Times for her “rich tone” and “virtuosic panache.”

British Brass Band: “Euphoric Brass!”

Band Master Phil Smith conducts with international euphonium sensation David Childs and special guest band the Southern Territorial Band. Childs will give a recital Tues. 10/24 at 7:30 p.m.

UGA Philharmonia

As one of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s large orchestral ensembles, outlet for musical expression to all string players at the University of Georgia.

FOR TICKETS: Scan the QR code | music.uga.edu | 706-542-4400

Events at the UGA Performing Arts Center unless indicated, 230 River Road, Athens, GA

live music calendar  indicates Halloween-themed events

Wednesday 18 Creature Comforts Brewery Athens Farmers Market. 5–8 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net HIBBS FAMILY BAND Quartet of family members combining the textures and rhythms of bluegrass and folk music with alt-rock melodic sensibilities and lyricism. (6 p.m.) Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreand bar.com DR. FRED’S KARAOKE Featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more. Porterhouse Grill 6–8:30 p.m. www.porterhousegrill athens.com JAZZ NIGHT Longest running jazz gig in Athens captained by drummer Mason Davis and featuring a rotating cast of familiar faces performing American songbook, bossa nova classics and crossover hits. Ramsey Hall 7:30 p.m. music.uga.edu FACULTY CHAMBER RECITAL Featuring special guest Lorenz Gamma on violin, tonight’s program consists of faculty members playing selections by Florence Price, Igor Stravinsky and W.A. Mozart.

Thursday 19 40 Watt Club 7 p.m. (doors). $22 (adv.), $26. www.40watt.com PSYCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS Australian psychedelic rock band whose funky sound has been compared to King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard as well as Tame Impala. NOLAN POTTER’S NIGHTMARE BAND Austin, TX-based band self- described as a “Texas bedroom wizard.” Brightpaths Concert on the Lawn. 7 p.m. $50. www.brightpathsathens.com KINCHAFOONEE COWBOYS Long-running country band from South Georgia that was established in 1991. Tonight’s concert benefits Brightpaths. Festival Hall 7:30 p.m. $22. www.festivalhallga.com THE JAZZ LEGACY PROJECT Narrated by drummer Justin Varnes, the program “Theleonious Monk, The Piano is a Drum” celebrates the life of the artist. Flicker Theatre & Bar 8 p.m. (doors). $12. www.flicker theatreandbar.com HONEYPUPPY Four-piece indie rock band self-described as a “menace to society.” ACE OF WANDS Dream rock band from Toronto. FABBIRD Project of multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Peter Alvanos (Elf Power). NANO CAR Indie rock band with rich harmonic segments. Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $25– 30. www.georgiatheatre.com THE CADILLAC THREE A versatile Nashville-based trio mixing country with rock and roll.

RILEY THOMAS Plant City, FL-based rock and roll singer- songwriter. Hendershot’s 7 p.m. (sign-ups), 8 p.m. (show). FREE! www.hendershotsathens.com JAZZ JAM Seth Hendershot and the house band Unstarched host an open jazz jam. JOKERJOKER Gallery LIVE In The Studio. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.jokerjokertv.com/watch UNUS MUNDUS JOKERJOKERtv presents a virtual performance. Southern industrial blues-tinged doom metal by Steve Fitzpatrick and Rob Fluhr. No. 3 Railroad Street 7 p.m. $20. www.3railroad.org CLAUDE BOURBON Acoustic fusion of blues, jazz, folk, classical and Spanish guitar. Ramsey Hall 7:30 p.m. FREE! music.uga.edu SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE Founded in 1994, this ensemble gives voice to 20th-and 21st-century contemporary chamber music from established and emerging composers. Southern Brewing Co. 6–10 p.m. www.sobrewco.com KARAOKE NIGHT Every Thursday evening. The World Famous 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens HOUNDSTEETH Experimental pop trio from NYC/LA that draws on indie rock, free improvisation and modern jazz influences to make minimalist pop songs with intricately woven vocal harmonies. ROBE Bryan Casey leads shoegaze- tinged songs with a cool, energetic vibe. MARCEL SLETTEN California-born and Athens-based electronic music producer, composer and artist whose sound varies from peaceful to intense.

Friday 20 40 Watt Club 7 p.m. (doors). $17 (adv.), $20. www.40watt.com ASHLEY COOKE Parkland, FL- based pop country singer-songwriter touring for her newly released album, Shot in the Dark. MATT SCHUSTER Charleston, IL native who has gained his success as an independent singer-songwriter through social media. 930 Boulevard 7 p.m. Donations encouraged. www. instagram.com/athensaganistcopcity ATHENS STAND UP AGAINST COP CITY The Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement and Athens Against Cop City present a benefit show for the Save Weelaunee Coalition. Performers include Cassie Channel, Gwap Dinero, Kenarri, T.W.I.N., Foreign and more. Akademia Brewing Co. 8 p.m.–12 a.m. $10. www.envisionathens.com MADONNA DANCE PARTY DJ Karmella leads a Madonna-themed dance party. Hosted by Envision Athens, Boybutante and Athens PRIDE and Queer Collective to

fundraise for Inclusive Recovery Athens. Athentic Brewing Co. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athenticbrewing. com SARGENT AND THE REVEREND Local duo playing blues, bluegrass and country. Ciné 9 p.m. $10. www.athenscine.com THE STOOLS Bluesy punk trio from Detroit. AUNT MOTH Local alternative rock band with ’70s punk and post-punk influences. MCQQEEN Local noise-punk band with reverb-soaked vocals. The Classic Center 7:30 p.m. $25–88. www.classiccenter.com JOHNNY CASH: THE OFFICIAL CONCERT EXPERIENCE A live band will perform the Man in Black’s greatest hits while segments from “The Johnny Cash TV Show” are projected onto the big screen. Flicker Theatre & Bar 7 p.m. (doors). $10. www.flickertheatre.com ATTICUS RONESS Member of power pop duo The Corduroy Blue. DREW BESKIN Local power- pop singer-songwriter known for fronting the bands Purses and The District Attorneys. PARKER WIERLING Athens-based upbeat alternative musician blending elements of roots rock, indie pop and Americana. LEIGHTON DAY Soft indie-pop singer-songwriter from Decatur who has been performing since the age of 7. The Foundry 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $20 (adv.), $25. bit.ly/RandallBramblettOct20 THE RANDALL BRAMBLETT BAND This established Georgia singer-songwriter’s Southern- tinged music pulls from a variety of influences. Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $18– 22. www.georgiatheatre.com UNDERGROUND SPRINGHOUSE “Hype-chill-rock-funk” alternative band of five. YAM YAM Pennsylvania-based band performing a cross blend of jazz, jam, funk and soul. ALIEN FUNK ACADEMY Athens-based power trio specializing in high intensity rock and roll influenced by Vulfpeck, Umphree’s McGee and Phish. Georgia Theatre Rooftop 7 p.m. (show). FREE! www.georgiatheatre.com FRIGGA FIVE Atlanta rock outfit of five with an alternative, garage-rock sound. The Globe 9 p.m. FREE! www.globetavern.com GREYLOW Genre-blending garage rock trio. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall 7:30 p.m. $3 (w/ UGA ID), $15. pac. uga.edu HODGSON SINGERS Performing works by Jennifer Lucy Scott, Ken Burton, Dominic DiOrio and more. UNIVERSITY CHORUS Performing Dan Forrest’s “Requiem For the Living” with orchestra. Ramsey Hall 5:30 p.m. music.uga.edu

FRANCESCA ANDEREGG Critically acclaimed violinist and educator. Work.Shop Nightshade Presents. 11:45 p.m. (doors), 12–5 a.m. (music). www. nightshadefamilyband.com DADO Co-founder of Nightshade Family. LEONCE Atlanta artist who blends elements of American urban and experimental electronica, a hardline style. D:RC A mainstay of the Southeast dance music scene since the mid ’90s. His obsession with bass music has found him championing emerging styles like dubstep and UK/future garage. MALA One half of the revered dubstep duo Digital Mystikz, producer, DJ, Deep Medi Musik label founder and Londoner Mala (Mark Lawrence) makes his Athens debut.

Saturday 21 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. (doors). $10 (adv.), $12. www.40watt.com SOPHIA Indie rock band comprised of five best friends. FLORENCE CARDIGAN Local punk funk band. MARS HILL Three-piece indie rock band with a killer grunge and garage sound. Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net DROR ARUSSI Solo musician playing classical guitar. (8 a.m.) THE LICKSKILLETS Southern gothic band playing traditional Appalachian murder ballads, original murdery ballads, and murder- adjacent classic folk and country tunes. (10 a.m.) Creature Comforts Brewery Southern Ladies Arm Wrestling Charity Tournament. 4–9 p.m. $15–20. www.slawladies.org LUKE FIELDS Member of Bit Brigade performs live covers of ’80s songs while arm wrestlers compete. Costumes encouraged. Flicker Theatre & Bar 8 p.m. (doors), 9 p.m. (show). $10. www.flickertheatre.com INSTANT SMILE Guitar and drum heavy pop duo from Athens. EP release show! LOVESEAT Indie-alternative punk band from Indiana with caffeinated rhythms and fuzzed-up guitar chops. VIOLENT VIOLET Pop-punk outfit whose latest EP embarks on an ethereal analog odyssey. The Foundry 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $10 (adv.), $15. www.facebook.com/ AubreyEntertainmentAthensGA THE SPIRIT OF RUSH Georgia’s premiere Rush tribute band spans the eras of the prog trio’s catalog. Front Porch Bookstore 6 p.m. FREE! jmazzucc@uga.edu KLEZMER LOCAL 42 Local seven- piece klezmer band specializing in Jewish and Romani music. Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). $36.50–41.50. www.georgiatheatre. com SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE A band that walks the fine line between profane ecstasy and sacred

transcendence through emo and indie rock. POOL KIDS Math rock emo band from Tallahassee, FL. Georgia Theatre Rooftop 7 p.m. (show). FREE! www.georgiatheatre.com ANCIENT INFANT Athens indie- sleaze and gritty rock and roll band. 11 p.m. (show). FREE! www.georgiatheatre.com THE FORUM Gainesville, FL-based outfit with strong hooks atop rhythmic dance beats and an effortless live presence. Innovation Amphitheater Tree House Hope Fest. 5 p.m. (doors), 6 p.m. (show). www.innovationamphitheater.com SAVANNAH SUNDAY Aiken, SC- based band playing originals and covers of rock and roll, country and pop hits of the past few decades. No. 3 Railroad Street 6–8 p.m. $20 suggested donation. www.3railroad.org MUSIC IN THE ROUND Brian Smith, Ivan Strunin and Betsy Scott take turns sharing their songs and style.

Sunday 22 Athentic Brewing Co. 1–7 p.m. FREE! www.jokerjokertv. com ATHENS VHS FEST 2023 In addition to vendors, tape swaps and live visuals, performances include TVHeadGuy, Jay Domingo, Ihlyatt, low.again, Sun Gong, Bad Staples, Rolf the Whatever, Organically Programmed and Corporeal Quigg. Costumes encouraged. Hendershot’s 1 p.m. www.hendershotsathens.com SHAUNA AND THE JAYWALKERS Local artist Shauna Greeson performing original songs. 7 p.m. www.hendershotsathens.com PETER KARP BAND Roots-based folk and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. Midnight Iguana Tattoo Midnight Iguana Fall Festival. 12 p.m.–5 p.m. www.facebook.com/ AthenGeorgiasBestTattoos NEW HORIZONS BAND Community-based group of musicians. (2 p.m.) ATHENS JAM BAND Local band playing danceable grooves. (3 p.m.) Rialto Club 5:30 p.m. (doors), 6:30 p.m. & 7:45 p.m. (two sets). $15 (adv.), $20. www.facebook.com/Segarjazzaffair SEGAR JAZZ AFFAIR WXAG radio DJ Dwain Segar curates a night of smooth jazz. JOHN DUNN & THE JAZZMAN BAND Ater an illustrious career on the road opening for R&B groups, trumpet player Dunn launched his own group in 1996.

Monday 23 Buvez 7:30 p.m. (show). www.instagram. com/buvez_athens JOSEY Athens-based indie pop artist, incorporating audience participation and off-kilter comedy into her sets. BOG BOD Raucous indie rock from Athens.

SISSY FISTS Savannah-based “tranicore cowpunk.” Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall  7:30 p.m. FREE! music.uga.edu BRITISH BRASS BAND FALL FESTIVAL This performance will feature David Childs on euphonium.

Tuesday 24 Hendershot’s No Phone Party. 7 p.m. www.hendershotsathens.com KENOSHA KID Instrumental adventure-jazz group centered around the rollicking compositions of Dan Nettles and featuring Josh Allen, Seth Hendershot and various guests. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall 7:30 p.m. FREE! music.uga.edu UGA PHILHARMONIA As one of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s large orchestral ensembles, the Philharmonia is open to all student string players. f

Wednesday 25 Athentic Brewing Co. 7–10 p.m. FREE! www.athenticbrewing.com WEDNESDAY KARAOKE NIGHT Choose from a catalog of over 51,000 songs ranging from pop, rock, musical theater and more. Creature Comforts Brewery Athens Farmers Market. 5–8 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket. net THE VINYL STRANGERS Melodic local folk-rock band. (6 p.m.) Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com DR. FRED’S KARAOKE Featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more. Nowhere Bar 8 p.m. $12. bit.ly/NowhereBarOct25 SHEHEHE Local band that draws from old-school punk and arena rock to create a fist-pumping atmosphere. THE IRON ROSES Featuring Nathan Gray of Boysetsfire, this anthemic punk rock group is fueled by the injustices of the current times. BEAT UP Passionate punk rock influenced by old school anarcho. Porterhouse Grill 6–8:30 p.m. www.porterhousegrillathens.com JAZZ NIGHT Longest running jazz gig in Athens captained by drummer Mason Davis and featuring a rotating cast of familiar faces performing American songbook, bossa nova classics and crossover hits. Ramsey Hall 6:45 p.m. (pre-performance talk), 7:30 p.m. (concert). $40. pac. uga.edu POULENC TRIO Founded in 2003, this trio is one of the most actively touring piano-wind chamber music ensembles in the world.

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Tuesday 17 ART: Visiting Artist Lecture (Lamar Dodd School of Art) Rahim Fortune is an artist, photographer and writer who will speak about his work. 5–6 p.m. FREE! art.uga.edu  ART: Pumpkin Glass Painting (Bogart Library) Turn a wine glass into a decorative candle votive. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ bogart CLASSES: Help I Yarned (Bogart Library) Learn new techniques for knitting and crochet. 1–2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart 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: Historic Athens History Hour: Indigenizing Athens (Lyndon House Arts Center) Dr. James Brooks will discuss the installation of four interpretive banners within the Welcome Center. 12–1 p.m. FREE! www.historicathens.com EVENTS: IEP Q&A (ACC Library) This crash course in Individualized Education Plans for children ends with a Q&A. 4 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org EVENTS: West Broad Farmers Market and Garden (Athentic Brewing Co.) Vendors will be on site with fresh produce, local fare, rare plants, artisan goods and more. Tuesdays, 5–8 p.m. FREE! www. athenticbrewing.com EVENTS: No Phone Party (Hendershot’s) Disconnect to connect with a phone-free, laptop-free happy hour. Every Tuesday, 6–9 p.m. www.hendershotsathens.com GAMES: Bad Dog Trivia (Amici Athens) Test your trivia knowledge with host TJ Wayt. Tuesdays, 7 p.m. www.facebook.com/baddogathens GAMES: Classic City Trivia (Akademia Brewing Co.) Test your trivia knowledge with host Garrett Lennox. 7 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ ClassicCityTriviaCo KIDSTUFF: Pre-School Storytime (ACC Library) Join Miss Keir for stories, songs, movement and more. Ages 3–5. 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org MEETINGS: Athens Rock and Gem Club (Holy Cross Lutheran Church) The meeting begins with club business followed by an educational program, this month presenting on collecting in Colorado. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.athensrockandgemclub. org SPORTS: Classic City Pétanque Club (Lay Park) New players welcome. Scheduled days are Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 10 a.m; Wednesdays at 6 p.m. www. athenspetanque.org

Wednesday 18 ART: Tour At Two (Georgia Museum of Art) These drop-in public tours feature highlights of the permanent collection. 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org COMEDY: Gorgeous George’s Improv League (Buvez) Townie

improv that invites you to bring suggestions to help create improv magic. Every Wednesday, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation. www.flying squidcomedy.com COMEDY: Patton Oswalt (40 Watt Club) The 20-year veteran stand- up comedian and actor brings his tour Effervescent! to Athens. 7 p.m. (doors), 8 p.m. (show). SOLD OUT! www.40watt.com COMEDY: Hendershot’s Comedy (Hendershot’s) Enjoy a lineup featuring comics from Athens and Atlanta as well as newcomers. Hosted by Noell Appling. Every third Wednesday, 8 p.m. www. hendershotsathens.com EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Creature Comforts Brewery) Markets offer fresh produce, flowers, eggs, meats, prepared foods, art and crafts. Live music at 6 p.m. AFM doubles SNAP dollars. Every Wednesday, 5–8 p.m. www.athens farmersmarket.net EVENTS: Whiskies of the Anglosphere (J’s Bottle Shop) Experience the rich and diverse flavors of whiskey from England, New Zealand and Australia by sampling. 7–9 p.m. $25. www.eventbrite.com/cc/ whiskies-of-the-world-2578279 FILM: Lavender Lens Movie Night (ATHICA) This series presents queer and diverse films in a safe space. This week’s screening is Go Fish by Rose Troche. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athica.org/updates/ lavenderlens  FILM: Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Screening of the 1995 Japanese horror film. 7 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com FILM: Steffen Thomas: Rock & Chisel (Ciné) This documentary screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Jesse Stephen Freeman and Lisa Thomas Conner, Thomas’ daughter. 7:45 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com GAMES: Music Bingo (Athentic Brewing Co.) Win prizes at this music bingo night with host Mari. 7–9:30 p.m. FREE! www.athentic brewing.com GAMES: Classic City Trivia (The Local 706) Test your trivia knowledge with host Garrett Lennox. 7 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ ClassicCityTriviaCo GAMES: Bad Dog Trivia (Amici at The Falls) Test your trivia knowledge with host TJ Wayt. Wednesdays, 7 p.m. www.facebook.com/ baddogathens KIDSTUFF: Pre-School Storytime (ACC Library) Join Miss Keir for stories, songs, movement and more. Ages 3–5. 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athens library.org KIDSTUFF: Busy Bee Toddler Time (Bogart Library) Join Ms. Donna for rhymes, songs, puppets and a story. 10 a.m. & 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: LEGO & Builder’s Club (Bogart Library) Drop in to use LEGOs and other building materials. All ages. 3:30–5:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Spooky Crafts (Oconee County Library) Make jack-o’- lantern jars and paint haunted doll

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heads. Grades 6–12. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ oconee MEETINGS: Athens Reparations Action (Athentic Brewing Co.) Learn about Athens Reparations Action’s mission to promote recognition of the financial impact of urban renewal and other racist policies. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www. athenticbrewing.com OUTDOORS: ‘Normal’ Run (Athentic Brewing Co.) Join the Athens Road Runners for a 1–3 mile run that starts and ends at Athentic Brewing. Every other Wednesday, 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenticbrewing.com SPORTS: Classic City Pétanque Club (Lay Park) New players welcome. Scheduled days are Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 10 a.m; Wednesdays at 6 p.m. www. athenspetanque.org

Thursday 19  ART: Halloween Art Reception

(Flicker Theatre & Bar) Hang out with the many spooky artists whose work is on display for the month. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatre andbar.com ART: Closing Reception (tiny ATH gallery) Painter Will Eskridge’s exhibition “Fangs for the Memories” will be on view. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.tinyathgallery.com ART: Opening Reception (The Classic Center) The Classic Galleries will unveil two new collections as part of this month’s Third Thursday. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.classiccenter. com CLASSES: Nia Classes (RxGym) Mindful movement for body and soul, adaptable for all ages and fitness levels. Mondays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. $15–20. rxgym@ athenspt.com CLASSES: Yoga in the Galleries (Georgia Museum of Art) Enjoy a yoga class in the art galleries led by instructors from Five Points Yoga. Open to all skill levels. Attend in person (first come, first served) or via Zoom. 6 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org COMEDY: Comedy In The Cellar (Onward Reserve) Athens Comedy presents a monthly show with a variety of comedians; this night features a Twilight improv parody. 8–10:30 p.m. $5–15. www.face book.com/athenscomedy COMEDY: FlyingSquid Open Improv Jam (work.shop) A weekly meet up open to everyone looking to practice improv comedy. 8–9:30 p.m. Donations encouraged. www. flyingsquidcomedy.com EVENTS: Diamond Hill Farm Stand (Athentic Brewing Co.) Vegetables and fresh flowers are available on hand and pre-ordered. Every Thursday, 4–6 p.m. www.diamondhill farmathens.com FILM: The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (Georgia Museum of Art) This week’s film is part of a series presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Southern/Modern.” Registration required. 7 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org  FILM: The Killer Shrews (Richard B. Russell Special Collections Library) An outdoor movie screening of The Killer Shrews (1959) with archival footage of Tales From 6 Feet Under and classic horror host

Dr. Speculo. 7 p.m. FREE! libs. uga.edu GAMES: Teen Dungeons & Dragons (Bogart Library) Volunteer-led gaming session for teens of all skill levels. Grades 6–12. 6–7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart GAMES: Thursday Trivia (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Test your trivia knowledge with host Jon Head. 6:30 p.m. www.johnnyspizza. com GAMES: Bad Dog Trivia (The Foundry) Test your trivia knowledge with host TJ Wayt. Thursdays, 7 p.m. www.facebook.com/baddog athens GAMES: Rock ’n Roll Trivia (Athentic Brewing Co.) Test your trivia knowledge with host The Music Man. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athentic brewing.com KIDSTUFF: Athens Reads Together Storytime (ACC Library) Join Miss Rebecca for stories and songs with special guest ACC Commissioner Carol Myers. All ages. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (Bogart Library) Reading aloud to a dog helps children develop their reading skills and build confidence. Ages 4 & up. 4–5 p.m. FREE! www.athens library.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Kids Book Club (ACC Library) Chat about this month’s book Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend, make crafts and share snacks. Ages 8–11. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athens library.org  KIDSTUFF: Trunk or Treat (Athens YMCA) Dress up and trick- or-treat around the parking lot. 5–7 p.m. FREE! www.multiplechoices.us LECTURES & LIT: Author Talk (First Christian Church of Athens) Amy Butler discusses her book Beautiful and Terrible Things: Faith, Doubt, and Discovering a Way Back to Each Other followed by a book signing. 7 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com MEETINGS: KnitLits Knitting Group (Bogart Library) Knitters of all levels are invited to have fun, share craft ideas and knit to their hearts’ content. Every Thursday, 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart SPORTS: Classic City Pétanque Club (Lay Park) New players welcome. Scheduled days are Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 10 a.m; Wednesdays at 6 p.m. www. athenspetanque.org

Friday 20 ART: Morning Mindfulness (Georgia Museum of Art) Instructor-led meditation, movement and mindfulness techniques in the galleries. Email to RSVP. 9:30 a.m. FREE! gmoa- tours@uga.edu CLASSES: Help I Yarned (Bogart Library) Learn new patterns and techniques for knitting and crochet. 1–2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/bogart COMEDY: Athens Improv Festival (work.shop) First annual two-day event showcasing improv acts from the Athens and Atlanta area. Oct. 20& 21, 7–11 p.m. $15. www. flyingsquidcomedy.com EVENTS: Fall Plant Sale (UGA Trial Gardens) The UGA Trial Garden’s annual sale will include houseplants and succulents. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. ugatrial.hort.uga.edu

EVENTS: Athens Home Expo (The Classic Center) Learn about the latest in home improvement, remodeling, outdoor living and more. Oct. 20, 12–6 p.m. Oct. 21, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Oct. 22, 11 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! www.classiccenter.com  EVENTS: SJS Fall Festival (St. Joseph Catholic Church) Annual Fall Festival with carnival games, dunk booth, hay rides, a cake walk, concessions and more. Games cash only. 3–7 p.m. FREE! www. sjsathens.org  EVENTS: Bear Holloween (Bear Hollow Zoo at Memorial Park) Celebrate Halloween with spooky delights, animal encounters and more. 5:30–8:30 p.m. $5, 2 & under free. www.facebook.com/ BearHollowZoo  EVENTS: Fright on the Firefly (Pittard Park) Dress up the entire family for a spooky stroll along the Winterville trick-or-treat trail. 6 –7:30 p.m. FREE! www.accgovga. myrec.com  EVENTS: Walk Thru Boo at Lay Park (Lay Park) Join an outside spooky walk full of live zombies, ghouls and ghosts. All ages. 7–8 p.m. FREE! www.accgovga.myrec. com  EVENTS: Zombie Farms (Zombie Farms) Haunted 3/4 mile trail through dark and spooky woods filled with scary monsters and creepy characters. 7:30 p.m. $33–40. www.zombiefarms.com  FILM: Friday Frights Film (Bogart Library) Drop in to view this week’s horror film Little Shop of Horrors (1960) and enjoy free popcorn. Ages 12 & up. Fridays, 4:30–6 p.m. FREE! www.athens library.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Meet & Play (Bogart Library) Drop in for facilitated open play with age-appropriate toys. Best for ages 6 & under. Every Friday, 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athens library.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Parachute Storytime (ACC Library) Join Miss Krys for parachute play, stories, music and movement. All ages. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org KIDSTUFF: Spanish Storytime (Oconee County Library) Come listen to and practice Spanish songs and stories. Knowledge of Spanish not required. All ages. 5 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee MEETINGS: Celebrate Recovery Free Dinner (Living Hope Church) Christ-centered 12-step program to help anyone with heart hurt, hang- up or habit. Free childcare, and bus route accessible. FREE! 5:30 p.m. (dinner), 6:30 p.m. (large group). 706-207-2396 PERFORMANCE: DanceATHENS 2023 (Morton Theatre) DanceATHENS is an annual celebration unifying the dance communities of Alabama, South Carolina and Georgia. Oct. 20, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 21, 3:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $13–16. www.mortontheatre.com PERFORMANCE: Canopy: The Musical (Canopy Studio) The studio’s Repertory Company will pay homage to some of its favorite musicals through aerial dance. Oct. 20–21, 8 p.m. Oct. 21–22, 4 p.m. $15–20. www.canopystudio.org THEATER: The Thalian Blackfriars New Works Play Festival (Town & Gown Players) This festival will showcase new works written and

directed by current Thalian Blackfriars. Oct. 20–21, 8 p.m. Oct. 22, 2 p.m. $5. www.townandgownplayers. org

Saturday 21 ART: Steam Roller Printmaking Workshop (Lyndon House Arts Center) Work on a relief image to print by carving blocks that will be later inked on paper and fabric at a public event Oct. 28. Registration required. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. www. accgov.com/myrec CLASSES: Cooking Cinnamon Rolls (Athens Cooks) Chef Hunter White will guide you through making soft homemade cinnamon rolls while enjoying mimosas and coffee. 9:30 a.m. $75. www.athenscooks.com CLASSES: Paper Making Workshop (Lyndon House Arts Center) Artist Ciel Rodriguez will teach how to create handmade paper. 1–3 p.m. $25. www.accgovga.myrec. com CLASSES: Save Money, Save Energy (ACC Library) In this workshop, learn about new funding available to lower energy costs. FREE! 1–3 p.m. www.bit.ly/athens- savings-workshop CLASSES: Athens Lindy Night (The Studio Athens) Learn the original swing dance Lindy Hop. No experience or partner required. Beginner lesson, 7–8 p.m. Social dancing, 8–10 p.m. $5–10. www.instagram. com/athensswingcentral COMEDY: Athens Improv Festival (work.shop) First annual two-day event showcasing improv acts from the Athens and Atlanta area. Oct. 20& 21, 7–11 p.m. $15. www. flyingsquidcomedy.com COMEDY: Karen Morgan (Hotel Indigo) A two-show live album comedy taping with special guest Barbara Dooley and host Haylie Montgomery. 6 p.m. (door), 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. (shows). $20. www.indigo athens.live. 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: Fun Run For Breast Cancer (Sandy Creek Park) A family-friendly fun run to raise funds for breast cancer support programs. 8 a.m. $20. www.itsthejourney.org/ funrun EVENTS: Showcase of Homes (Reynolds Lake Oconee) Browse the architecture, interior design and landscape of some of Reynolds Lake Oconee’s most impressive private residences. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. www.lakeoconeeshowcaseofhomes. org  EVENTS: Flavors Of Fall Festival (Farmview Market) An annual event celebrating fall flavors featuring a DIY caramel apple station, lawn games, a petting zoo, face painting, live music and more. 9 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! www.farmview market.com  EVENTS: Whammo-Ween (Spaceball Bazaar) Spaceball Bazaar’s pop-up featuring local and regional artists, vintage items and more with music by JXP, Inc. 10

Saturday (Hendershot’s) Enjoy a special night of Halloween drag entertainment and a costume contest. Ages 18 & up. 9 p.m. $5. www.athensshowgirlcabaret.com THEATER: The Thalian Blackfriars New Works Play Festival (Town & Gown Players) This festival will showcase new works written and directed by current Thalian Blackfriars. Oct. 20–21, 8 p.m. Oct. 22, 2 p.m. $5. www.townandgownplayers. org

Sunday 22 ART: Gallery Talk (Steffen Thomas Museum of Art) Featured artists of the exhibition “Algo para Declarar/ Something to Declare” Jorge Arcos, Catalina Gomez Beuth and Franklin Delgado will speak on their work. 3 p.m. FREE! www.steffenthomas.org

live music, live visuals and more. 1–7 p.m. FREE! www.jokerjokertv. com EVENTS: Black Market (Ciné) Celebrate black and minority business owners, entrepreneurs and culture with art, music, and more. 2–6 p.m. FREE! www.aadmovement.org EVENTS: Athens Plant Community Sale and Swap (Creature Comforts Brewery) Local growers offer houseplants, perennials and plant related supplies for sale as well as a free swap table. 2–6 p.m. FREE! athensplantcommunity@gmail.com  EVENTS: Zombie Farms (Zombie Farms) Haunted 3/4 mile trail through dark and spooky woods filled with scary monsters and creepy characters. 7:30 p.m. $33–40. www.zombiefarms.com FILM: UNSPOKEN (Morton Theatre) A screening of the documentary UNSPOKEN: How Can a Town Make

a.m; Wednesdays at 6 p.m. www. athenspetanque.org THEATER: The Thalian Blackfriars New Works Play Festival (Town & Gown Players) This festival will showcase new works written and directed by current Thalian Blackfriars. Oct. 20–21, 8 p.m. Oct. 22, 2 p.m. $5. www.townandgownplayers. org

Monday 23 CLASSES: Nia Classes (RxGym) Mindful movement for body and soul, adaptable for all ages and fitness levels. Mondays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. $15–20. rxgym@ athenspt.com CLASSES: Upcycling Workshop (The Winterville Center for Community & Culture) Bring an article of clothing and Jamil of “Z as in”

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a.m.–7 p.m. FREE! www.facebook. com/spaceballentertainment EVENTS: Athens Home Expo (The Classic Center) Learn about the latest in home improvement, remodeling, outdoor living and more. Oct. 20, 12–6 p.m. Oct. 21, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Oct. 22, 11 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! www.classiccenter.com EVENTS: Abnormal Bazaar (Indie South) This market features vendors selling soaps, jewelry, vintage, vinyl and more. Third Saturdays, 11 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! www.theindie south.com EVENTS: West Broad Farmers Market (West Broad Farmers Market) 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 a.m.–2 p.m. www.wbfm.locallygrown.net EVENTS: Heritage Walk: Tour of Linnentown (Linnentown Lane) Tour this lost neighborhood of Athens with Hattie Thomas Whitehead, former resident and author of Giving Voice to Linnentown: A Memoir. 2–4 p.m. $25. www.historicathens.com EVENTS: AthHalf 5K (Various Locations) AthFest Educates’ annual race begins this day with a 5K course through downtown Athens and Boulevard. 2:30 p.m. www. athhalf.com EVENTS: SLAW (Southern Ladies Arm Wrestling) (Creature Comforts Brewery) An independent arm wrestling charity benefit tournament for Project Safe with music by Luke Fields of Bit Brigade. 6–9 p.m. $15. www.slawladies.org  EVENTS: Zombie Farms (Zombie Farms) Haunted 3/4 mile trail through dark and spooky woods filled with scary monsters and creepy characters. 7:30 p.m. $33–40. www.zombiefarms.com EVENTS: Salsa Dancing Social (Athentic Brewing Co.) Come have fun on the dance floor and learn some new moves. No partner or experience required. 8 p.m.–12 a.m. FREE! www.athenticbrewing. com GAMES: Board Games (Bogart Library) Enjoy a variety of board games and card games with friends. 2–4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/bogart LECTURES & LIT: Book Release Party (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Local writer Gary Grossman is celebrating the release of My Life in Fish and Lyrical Years. 2–4 p.m. FREE! www. flickertheatreandbar.com OUTDOORS: Rivers Alive Cleanup (Dudley Park) Join the annual Georgia Waterway Cleanup as part of the largest single volunteer effort to beautify Georgia’s water resources. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.accgov. com/riversalive PERFORMANCE: Dancing Through Light (EAEDC’s Presentation Hall) The East Athens Educational Dance Center presents its fall production featuring ballet, modern, tap, African and contemporary dance. 3 p.m. $10. www.accgov.com/myrec PERFORMANCE: Canopy: The Musical (Canopy Studio) The studio’s Repertory Company will pay homage to some of its favorite musicals through aerial dance. Oct. 20–21, 8 p.m. Oct. 21–22, 4 p.m. $15–20. www.canopystudio.org PERFORMANCE: DanceATHENS 2023 (Morton Theatre) DanceATHENS is an annual celebration unifying the dance communities of Alabama, South Carolina and Georgia. Oct. 20, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 21, 3:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $13–16. www.mortontheatre.com  PERFORMANCE: Athens Showgirl Cabaret Sensational

The aerial performance Canopy: The Musical will take place at Canopy Studios Oct. 20–22. CLASSES: Cuban Salsa (UGA Memorial Hall) Join UGA Salsa Club for lessons that meet a variety of dance abilities, including beginners. 4–6 p.m. FREE! www. ugasalsaclub.com COMEDY: Sal Vulcano (The Classic Center) Comedian known for the long-running TV hit “Impractical Jokers” and “The Misery Index” will deliver laughs. 5 p.m. $43.50– 113.50. www.classiccenter.com EVENTS: AthHalf Half Marathon (Various Locations) AthFest educates’ annual race main event features a course through Athens’ historic districts, downtown and the UGA campus. 7:30 a.m. www. athhalf.com EVENTS: Athens Home Expo (The Classic Center) Learn about the latest in home improvement, remodeling, outdoor living and more. Oct. 20, 12–6 p.m. Oct. 21, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Oct. 22, 11 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! www.classiccenter.com  EVENTS: Midnight Iguana Fall Festival (Midnight Iguana Tattoo) Enjoy family-friendly live music, food, a costume contest and more. 12–5 p.m. www.facebook.com/ AthenGeorgiasBestTattoos EVENTS: Rabbit Hole Sunday Market (Rabbit Hole Studios) Small businesses, artists, farmers, musicians and creative entrepreneurs will be showcased. A drumming and song circle will be held for the last three hours. Every Sunday, 1–5 p.m. FREE! www.rabbitholdstudios. org/markets EVENTS: Athens VHS Fest 2023 (Athentic Brewing Co.) Second annual festival celebrating analog media with vendors, tape swaps,

Peace with Its Past When the Truth is Buried followed by a panel discussion. 3–5:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation. www.unspoken.film/ morton-screening  FILM: Shocktoberfest (Southern Brewing Co.) The Ciné Drive-In presents a month of horror favorites on the big screen, featuring M3GAN this night. 8 p.m. (gates), 9 p.m. (film). $10. www.athenscine.com/ shocktoberfest-2023 GAMES: Bad Dog Trivia (Southern Brewing Co.) Test your trivia knowledge with host TJ Wayt. Sundays, 4 p.m. www.facebook.com/baddog athens  KIDSTUFF: Fall Festival (First Baptist Church) Annual festival with Halloween themed games, hot dog dinner, costume parade and trunk- or-treat. 5–6:30 p.m. FREE! www. firstbaptistathens.org LECTURES & LIT: Author Talk (Madison County Library) A Friends of the Library meeting featuring a discussion with the author Sara Baker. 3 p.m. FREE! www.athens library.org/madison OUTDOORS: Tree Identification (UGA Arch) Spend an afternoon learning how to identify native trees. 2–3:30 p.m. Free! www.accgov. com PERFORMANCE: Canopy: The Musical (Canopy Studio) The studio’s Repertory Company will pay homage to some of its favorite musicals through aerial dance. Oct. 20–21, 8 p.m. Oct. 21–22, 4 p.m. $15–20. www.canopystudio.org SPORTS: Classic City Pétanque Club (Lay Park) New players welcome. Scheduled days are Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 10

will help you create something new. 6–8 p.m. $10. www.winterville center.com EVENTS: Monday Marigold Market (100 North Church Street) The market features fresh produce, preserves, snacks and meat with a lunch special available (until 2 p.m.). 11 a.m.–6 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/marigoldmarket winterville FILM: Peacock King (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Screening of the 1998 Japanese action fantasy film. 7 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar. com GAMES: Monday Trivia with Erin (Athentic Brewing Co.) Test your trivia knowledge with host Erin. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.athenticbrewing. com GAMES: Classic City Trivia (Dooley’s Bar and Grill) Test your trivia knowledge with host Garrett Lennox. 7 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ ClassicCityTriviaCo KIDSTUFF: Monday Funday (Bogart Library) Join Ms. Donna for songs, fingerplays, storytelling and STEAM activities. Ages 3–7 years. Registration suggested. 10 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime (ACC Library) Come for stories, songs, nursery rhymes, bouncing and cuddling, then stay for playtime. Ages 0–24 months. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org KIDSTUFF: Beginner Guitar Club (Lay Park) Learn the basic fundamentals of the guitar. Registration required. Every Monday. Ages 8-11, 5:30-6:20 p.m. Ages 12-17, 6:30- 7:20 p.m. FREE! www.accgovga. myrec.com

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Storytime (ACC Library) Join Miss Rebecca for spooky stories, songs, movement and more. All ages. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org LECTURES & LIT: Listening in the Dark (ACC Library) A quartet of librarians will present original and traditional horror stories for grownups. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org MEETINGS: Classic City Rotary (Athentic Brewing Co.) The local chapter meets weekly. Mondays, 11:30 a.m. FREE! www.athentic brewing.com MEETINGS: Meditation Monday (Sisters of the Moon) Join others for a collective tarot reading followed by a guided meditation, breath work, journal prompts and more. All ages. 7–8:30 p.m. FREE! www.shopsotm.com

Tuesday 24 EVENTS: West Broad Farmers Market and Garden (Athentic Brewing Co.) Vendors will be on site with fresh produce, local fare, rare plants, artisan goods and more. Tuesdays, 5–8 p.m. FREE! www. athenticbrewing.com EVENTS: No Phone Party (Hendershot’s) Disconnect to connect with a phone-free, laptop-free happy hour. Every Tuesday, 6–9 p.m. www.hendershotsathens.com FILM: Attaboy Tapes Double Feature (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Screening of the 2007 documentary Automorphosis (7 p.m.) then the 2019 film Why Can’t I Be Me? Around You (9 p.m.). FREE! www. flickertheatreandbar.com GAMES: Bad Dog Trivia (Amici Athens) Test your trivia knowledge with host TJ Wayt. Tuesdays, 7 p.m. www.facebook.com/baddogathens GAMES: Classic City Trivia (Akademia Brewing Co.) Test your trivia knowledge with host Garrett Lennox. 7 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ ClassicCityTriviaCo  KIDSTUFF: Pre-School Spooky Storytime (ACC Library) Join Miss Keir for stories, songs, movement and more. Ages 3–5. 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athens library.org KIDSTUFF: New Parents, Infants and Crawlers Play Group (reBlossom Mama & Baby Shop) Meet other parents and their babies to discuss how you’re feeling. Ages 1 & under. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.reblossomathens.com KIDSTUFF: Comic Club (ACC Library) Create comics in an environment with low lighting and soft classical music. Supplies provided. All ages. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athens library.org LECTURES & LIT: Mystery Book Club (Bogart Library) Join Dr. Penny Mills to discuss Raymond Chandler’s crime noir novel The Big Sleep. 5:30–6:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/bogart LECTURES & LIT: Johnstone Lecture (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) As part of the Signature Lecture Series, storyteller Abra Lee will be speaking on “The Invincible Garden Ladies.” 6:30–8:30 p.m. FREE! www.botgarden.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Avid Poetry Series (Avid Bookshop (Five Points)) Tonight’s accomplished featured poets are L. S. McKee and O–Jeremiah Agbaakin. 7 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com PERFORMANCE: Rabbit Box Storytelling: Coming to America (VFW Post 2872) This month’s storytelling theme is “Coming to America.” 7–9:30 p.m. $10. www. rabbitbox.org

SPORTS: Classic City Pétanque Club (Lay Park) New players welcome. Scheduled days are Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 10 a.m; Wednesdays at 6 p.m. www. athenspetanque.org

Wednesday 25 ART: Tour At Two (Georgia Museum of Art) These drop-in public tours feature highlights of the permanent collection. 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org COMEDY: Gorgeous George’s Improv League (Buvez) Townie improv that invites you to bring suggestions to help create improv magic. Every Wednesday, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation. www.flying squidcomedy.com EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Creature Comforts Brewery) Markets offer fresh produce, flowers, eggs, meats, prepared foods, art and crafts. Live music at 6 p.m. AFM doubles SNAP dollars. Every Wednesday, 5–8 p.m. www.athens farmersmarket.net  EVENTS: Murder Mystery Night (Oconee County Library) During this exciting group activity, participants will use a case file to solve a mysterious disappearance. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee EVENTS: Night of Spite (Athentic Brewing Co.) Explore the power of words shaped by life’s trials and tribulations during this open mic by sharing your story. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.athenticbrewing.com FILM: The Right to Read (ACC Library) This documentary focuses on the failure in the U.S. to teach children to read with 65% reading below proficiency. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org  FILM: Let Us In (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Screening of the 2021 science fiction horror film. 7 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar. com GAMES: Classic City Trivia (The Local 706) Test your trivia knowledge with host Garrett Lennox. 7 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ ClassicCityTriviaCo GAMES: Bad Dog Trivia (Amici at The Falls) Test your trivia knowledge with host TJ Wayt. Wednesdays, 7 p.m. www.facebook.com/ baddogathens  KIDSTUFF: Pre-School Spooky Storytime (ACC Library) Join Miss Rebecca for stories, songs, movement and more. Ages 3–5. 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org KIDSTUFF: Busy Bee Toddler Time (Bogart Library) Join Ms. Donna for rhymes, songs, puppets and a story. 10 a.m. & 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: LEGO & Builder’s Club (Bogart Library) Drop in to use LEGOs and other building materials. All ages. 3:30–5:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart MEETINGS: Film Athens (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Meet and network with others in the filmmaking community (actors, directors, etc.) during happy hour. 5 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com  PERFORMANCE: Trick or Tease (40 Watt Club) Dance FX presents this performance by the Bombshells featuring Kelly Devine, Lori Devine and Jenn Sparx. 7 p.m. (doors), 7:30 p.m. (show). $8 (adv.), $10. www.40watt.com SPORTS: Classic City Pétanque Club (Lay Park) New players welcome. Scheduled days are Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 10 a.m; Wednesdays at 6 p.m. www. athenspetanque.org f

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Art ATHENS CREATIVE DIRECTORY (Athens, GA) The ACD is a platform to connect creatives with patrons. Visual artists, musicians, actors, writers and other creatives are encouraged to create a free listing. www.athenscreatives.directory CALL FOR ARTISTS (Lyndon House Arts Center) Applications are now open to artists and vendors that would like to participate in the Lyndon House Art Mart. Applications are free, but the vendor fee is $60 if accepted. Deadline Jan. 15. Market held May 11. www.lyndonhousearts foundation.com JOKERJOKERTV CALL FOR ARTISTS (Online) JOKERJOKERtv is actively accepting proposals for collaboration from visual, musical and 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 MUSEUM MADNESS (Georgia Museum of Art) As part of the museum’s 75th anniversary celebration, an art competition pits 64 works from its collection against one another to see which will emerge as the people’s favorite. Vote in person. Winner announced Nov. 5. www.georgiamuseum.org

OPEN STUDIOS (Lyndon House Arts Center) Studio members have access to spaces for painting, printmaking, photography, ceramics, jewelry, fiber and woodworking. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. $65/month. www. accgov.com/7350/Open-Studio- Membership

Classes ART CLASSES (K.A. Artist Shop) A variety of classes are taught in painting, digital editing, photographing artwork and more. “Brush Lettering Calligraphy” will be held Oct. 22, 1–3 p.m. $45. “Pet Portraits in Acrylic” will be held Nov. 1 & 8, 6–8 p.m. $55. “House Portraits in Watercolor” will be held Nov. 5, 1–4 p.m. $45. Visit the website for dates and to register. www.kaartistshop.com BLACKSMITHING CLASSES (Greenhow Handmade Ironworks, Washington) A variety of classes include “Forge a Tomahawk” (Oct. 21), “Forge a Bottle Opener” (Oct. 28), “First Time at the Forge” (Nov. 4, Jan. 6 or Feb. 17), “Forge a Firepoker” (Nov. 11, Dec. 2 or Dec. 16), “Forge Christmas Ornaments” (Nov. 18, Nov. 25 or Dec. 9), “Blacksmith Boot Camp: Santa’s Workshop” (Dec. 19-22), “Railroad Spike Knife” (Jan. 13)

art around town ACC LIBRARY (2025 Baxter St.) “Let Freedom Read” shares small works of art created in celebration of Banned Books Week. Through October. • Tatiana Veneruso’s exhibition “Yalla: Memories of Maroc” is a series of small mixed-media works inspired by travels in Morocco. Through Dec. 3. ACE/FRANCISCO GALLERY (675 Pulaski St., Suite 1500) San Diego-based photographer J. Grant Brittain presents “80s Skate Photography,” a collection of iconic images. Through December by appointment. ATHENAEUM (287 W. Broad St.) Paul Pfeiffer’s video work “Red Green Blue” edits audio and visual recordings of the UGA Redcoat Marching Band to investigate the stadium as a site of ritual. Through Nov. 18. ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: ATHICA (675 Pulaski St.) “SURFACE: 2023 Juried Exhibition” features contemporary art in all media that explores or references the term “surface.” Artist roundtable discussion on closing day, Nov. 19, 4 p.m. ATHICA@CINÉ GALLERY (234 W. Hancock Ave.) Curated by Jason Thrasher in conjunction with a co-exhibition at the ACE/FRANCISCO Gallery, “80s Skate Photography” shares images by J. Grant Brittain. Through Oct. 25. CLASSIC CENTER (300 N. Thomas St.) In Classic Gallery I, “Wild Thing” features animals, plants and people intermingling through the works of Margo Rosenbaum, Shelby Little, Carolyn Suzanne Schew and Amanda Burk. • In Classic Gallery II, “LOVE.CRAFT Athens” features works by Melanie Jackson, Hannah Jo, Norman Austin Junior and Brittany Wortham. Opening reception for both shows Oct. 19, 6–9 p.m. DODD GALLERIES (270 River Rd.) Ansley West Rivers’ exhibition “Holding Time” brings together three distinct bodies of photographic work. Through Nov. 3. • For “In-between,” Dodd PhD candidate Amos V. Manlangit invited artists to collaborate on a series of new paintings that explore how markings on two sides of a transparent panel can create uncertainty through the muddling of images. Through Nov. 3. • In “Insect Politics,” Dodd MFA candidates Alejandro Ramirez and Hayden Maltese present texts, instruments, ceramics and a site-specific installation. Through Nov. 9. • Dodd MFA candidate Caitlin La Dolce presents “a body of hours,” a collection of multimedia sculptural works. • In “Wall Works: Kathryn Réfi,” the artist uses her own hair as a foundational image to weave organic and irregular material into the familiar pattern of a chain link fence, creating a tension between softness and rigidity. Through Nov. 15. FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) An annual tradition of spooky artwork in celebration of Halloween. Reception Oct. 19, 4–7 p.m.

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and “Basic Tong Making” (Jan. 20). Classes run 10 a.m.–5 p.m. www.greenhowhandmade.com/ blacksmith-classes EMBODIED WISDOM YOGA TEACHER TRAINING (Revolution Therapy and Yoga) This certified 200-hour yoga alliance-approved teacher training led by Kelsey Wishik combines the holistic practice of yoga with contemporary trauma-informed techniques. Training runs Nov. 4–May 5. $2299. www.revolutiontherapyandyoga.com PETANQUE CLUB OF ATHENS (Athens, GA) Weekly games are held every Wednesday. Email to participate. RSVP to attend a free Monday intro class, 10–11:30 a.m. athenspetanqueclub@gmail.com, www.athenspetanqueclub.wixsite. com/play QPR SUICIDE PREVENTION TRAINING (Nuçi’s Space) Nuçi’s hosts free monthly QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) suicide prevention sessions for anyone interested, not just mental health professionals. Nuçi’s also offers free training for businesses and organizations. qpr@nuci.org, www.nuci.org/qpr SALSA DANCE CLASSES (Starland Lounge & Lanes) Join SALSAthens for Cuban style salsa dance classes. No partner necessary. Beginners welcome. Every Wednesday, 7:30–8:30 p.m. $10. gwyneth. moody@gmail.com

SPANISH CLASSES (Multiple Locations) Casa de Amistad offers beginning and intermediate GED and ESL classes in-person and online. An eight-week course to learn Spanish meets Mondays and Wednesdays, 12:30–1:30 p.m. $60. www.athensamistad.com TRADITIONAL MARTIAL ARTS CLASSES (Live Oak Martial Arts) Traditional and modern-style Taekwondo, 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 AND MORE (Revolution Therapy and Yoga) Revolution is a multipurpose mind-body wellness studio offering yoga and therapy with an emphasis on trauma- informed practices. Check website for upcoming classes and programs. www.revolutiontherapyand yoga.com YOGA CLASSES (Let It Be Yoga Studio, Watkinsville) Classes are offered in Hatha, Vinyasa, Kundalini, beginner, gentle and other styles. Check online calendar for weekly offerings. www.letitbeyoga.org

Help Out RIVERS ALIVE (Dudley Park) Wade into local rivers, lakes and streams as part of a statewide campaign to clean and preserve over 70,000 miles of Georgia’s rivers and

Currently on view through October. GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “Southern/Modern” explores themes of social issues, urbanization, religion, the environment and artists’ colonies through the artwork of Southern artists working between 1913– 1955. Through Dec. 10. • “In Dialogue: Power Couple: Pierre and Louise Daura in Paris” features paintings by Louise, engravings by Pierre and several objects that appear in their images. Through Feb. 11. • “Decade of Tradition: Highlights from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection.” Through July 3, 2024. GLASSCUBE@INDIGO (500 College Ave.) Zane Cochran presents “Aurora,” a sculptural interpretation of the aurora borealis using 3D geometric figures and lights. HENDERSHOT’S (237 Prince Ave.) Nirvinyl Album Art presents “Falloween Part 1.” Through Nov. 1. JUST PHO… AND MORE (1063 Baxter St.) Jack Burk presents a collection of works using pastels, colored pencil and collage. Through November. LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (211 Hoyt St.) Collections from our Community presents Peggy Curran’s collection of Madame Alexander Dolls. Through Jan. 13. • Ato Ribiero presents “Growing Together,” a solo exhibition of wooden assemblages referencing both Ghanian strip-woven kente cloth and Black quilting traditions of the American South. Artist talk Dec. 14, 6 pm. Through Jan. 13. • Curated by Keith Wilson, “The Image Moves: New Film and Video Work by Athens Artists” includes Drew Gebhardt, Katz Tepper, Jamie Bull, Selia Hooten, Vivian Liddell, CC Calloway, Shawn Campbell and AJ Aremu. Through Jan. 13. • “The 8th Collegiate Paper Art Triennial” includes works by 36 students from 11 different schools. Through Jan. 13. • Abraham Tesser presents “Maquettes,” a collection of smallscale works in wood used as drafts for larger pieces. Artist talk Feb. 8, 6 p.m. Through Mar. 1. MADISON-MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) Teresa Bramlette Reeves presents “she didn’t really follow a rabbit down the hole, but she thought it was a good story.” Through Dec. 2. MASON-SCHARFENSTEIN MUSEUM OF ART (567 Georgia St., Demorest) Nick “NACK” Morris, regional mural artist and organizer behind the School Bus Graveyard, presents “Single File Consciousness.” Through Nov. 16. OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (34 School St., Watkinsville) “Connected Waters” features a map of the Upper Oconee Watershed during the Pre-Columbian Mississippian “Mound Builder” Period. Through Nov. 3. • “The Art of Nature: Enchanted Inspiration” includes works by Jordan Blackwell, Allan Campbell, Wendy Cooper, Jamie DeRevere, Elyse Mazanti, Barbara Odil, Michael Pierce, Melissa Steele, Chris Taylor, and Brooke Ussery. Through Nov. 3. • “The Art of Nature: For the Love of Oconee”

streams. The annual cleanup event will happen Oct. 21. Register online. accgov.com/riversalive SEEKING MENTORS (Athens, GA) The Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement’s End School to Prison Pipeline Program seeks community members to support and mentor students who are experiencing bullying, have been suspended/ expelled, or need to complete court-ordered service hours. www. aadmovement.org

Kidstuff ART CLASSES (Brella Studio) After school art classes are offered several times a week for ages 5–10. Subjects include watercolors (Tuesdays, 4–5:30 p.m.), “Just Add Paper” (Thursdays, 4–5:30 p.m.), and yarn and thread (Fridays, 4–5:30 p.m.). $20/drop-in. “Preschool Art: Mess-Free Mondays” for ages 1–5 is held every Monday, 10–11:30 a.m. “Preschool Art: Read Make Play” for ages 2–6 is held every Thursday, 9:15–11:45 a.m. $50/drop-in. Programs run through Dec. 15. www.brellastudio. com ART CLUBS (K.A. Artist Shop) Draw, paint, collage and create during weekly Art Card and Button Club meet-ups. Fridays, 6:30–8 p.m. Drawing Club is held Wednesdays through Nov. 15, 5–6:30 p.m. For ages 10–17. $25/drop-in, $200 (10-session pass). www.kaartist. com CCCF SCHOLARSHIPS (Athens, GA) The Classic Center Cultural Foundation is now accepting applications for performing arts and visual arts scholarships. Applications are open to 9th–12th grade high school students living in Northeast Georgia. Deadline Mar. 1. www. classiccenter.com/scholarships FREE DENTAL DAY (Greenpoint Pediatric Dentistry) Patients ages

2–10 can receive routine care such as cleanings and basic dental work with no out of pocket costs. Oct. 27, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Contact to make an appointment. www.greenpoint pediatricdentistry.com GROUPS AT REBLOSSOM (ReBlossom) All Ages Play Group is for children 1–5 years old and their caregivers to play inside and outdoors. Fridays, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. New Parents, Infants and Crawlers Play Group is for babies ages 0-12 months and their caregivers to discuss parenthood. Tuesdays, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Afternoon Play Group is for children 1–4 years old and their caregivers to meet each other and build relationships. Wednesdays, 3–5 p.m. www.reblossom athens.com SPARK: WEEKEND ACADEMY (Georgia Center for Continuing Education) Spark invites middle and high school students to attend weekend-long academic courses in American Sign Language or 3D animation. For ages 13–16. Oct. 21–22, 10 a.m.–3:30 p.m. $120. www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/youth/ spark TREEHOUSE ACTIVITIES (Treehouse Kid & Craft) A variety of crafting and playtime activities are offered for various age groups. Visit the website for details and to register. www.treehousekidandcraft.com

Support Groups ACA ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS AND DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES (Holy Cross Lutheran Church) This support group meets weekly. Tuesdays, 6:30–7:30 p.m. annetteanelson@gmail.com AL-ANON 12 STEP (Multiple Locations) Recovery for people affected by someone else’s drinking. Free meetings at lunchtime and evenings throughout the week in Athens and Watkinsville. www.ga-al-anon.org

features nature-inspired pieces submitted through an open call for artwork. Through Nov. 3. THE ROOK & PAWN (294 W. Washington St.) “Full Circle” is a group exhibition of works by 26 Athens artists including Keith P. Rein, J Anderssen, Sierra Kirsche, Gaby Delliponti and Wiliam Ballard. Through Oct. 21. STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GEORGIA (2450 S. Milledge Ave) Siblings Joshua Hatfield and Rachel Ankirskiy present landscapes inspired by Georgia and South Carolina environments in the exhibition “Tempus Fugit—And There Goes the Sun!” Through Nov. 12. STEFFEN THOMAS MUSEUM OF ART (4200 Bethany Rd., Buckhead) “Something to Declare/Algo para Declarar” represents nine Latin American countries through the works of Jorge Arcos, Yehimi Cambron, Marisa Cerban, Franklin Delgado, Pedro Fuertes, Catalina Gomez-Beuth, Dora Lopez, Morgan Lugo, Paula Reynaldi, Maria Sarmiento, Carlos Solis and Melvin Toledo. Through Jan. 6. TIF SIGFRIDS (393 N. Finley St.) Atlanta-based artist Hasani Sahlehe presents “Favorite Song,” a collection of paintings exploring color and materiality with a spacious approach to interpretation. Through Nov. 4. TINY ATH GALLERY (174 Cleveland Ave.) Will Eskridge presents “Fangs for the Memories,” a collection of bright paintings exploring the paradoxical nature of fangs as both cute and terrifying. Closing reception during Third Thursday, Oct. 19, 6–9 p.m. UGA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIES (300 S. Hull St.) “House Party” explores Athens’ house show history through photos and artifacts from The Green House on Milledge across from Taco Stand, The Landfill, Spillage, The Lounge, Saint Mary’s Church, The Ultramod Compound and others. Through December. • “Exploring St. Catherines Island” lays out centuries of American history found in artifacts dating back to the 16th century, tracing the island’s history from the establishment of indigenous towns through Spanish and English colonialism. Through December. • “HBO at 50: The Rise of Prestige Television” highlights some of the groundbreaking programming created by and aired on HBO with items selected from the Peabody Awards Archive. Through May 2024. • “Legacy: Vince Dooley, 1932-2022” celebrates the life and career of the late UGA football head coach and athletic director through photographs and artifacts. Tours held before home games on Fridays at 3 p.m. Through spring 2024. • “Paving the Road to Progress: Georgia Interstate Highways” traverses the rocky path of the interstate system’s development through maps, reports, correspondence and legislation. Through Apr. 24. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF ATHENS (780 Timothy Rd.) Watkinsville artist Leslie Guo presents “Joyful Encounters,” a solo exhibition of watercolor paintings. Through Jan. 2.

Akademia, 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 ATHENS POET LAUREATE (Athens, GA) ACCGov is currently seeking applicants for a Poet Laureate. The Poet Laureate is expected to promote poetry throughout the community and make guest appearances during a two-year term. Deadline Nov. 10, 5 p.m. $2,000 honorarium. Tatiana. veneruso@accgov.com, www.accgov.com/acac BIKE REPAIR STATIONS (Multiple Locations) Over 15 free bike repair stations are located across Athens with tools, an air pump and a QR code for quick guides on basic bike repairs. Visit the website for participating locations. www.accgov. com/10584/Bike-Repair- Stations BIRD SEED SALE (Sandy Creek Nature Center) A variety of bird seed is available. Proceeds benefit Sandy Creek Nature Center, Inc. “Summer Garden Collection” and other works by Jack Burk are currently on view at Deadline to order Oct. 31. Just Pho… and More through November. Pick up orders Nov. 17–18. www.sandycreeknature centerinc.org ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS (AthParkinson’s disease or other moveCLIMATE RESILIENCE STUDY (Athens, GA) If you think you have a ment disorders. Second Friday ens, GA) The Athens-Clarke County problem with alcohol, call the AA of the month, 1 p.m. gpnoblet@ Climate Resilience Study is seeking hotline or visit the website for a bellsouth.net participants through November for schedule of meetings in Barrow, PROJECT SAFE (Family Protection a project aimed to increase preClarke, Jackson and Oconee Center) Project Safe hosts a support paredness and resilience to natural Counties. 706-389-4164, www. group for survivors of domestic viodisasters. Must be a year-round athensaa.org lence. Mondays, 6:30–8 p.m. www. ACC resident and at least 18 years ATHENS COUNCIL OF THE BLIND project-safe.org old. Participants can take two online (Athens, GA) Open to people of all RECREATE JOY (Sunny Days Thersurveys ($10 each) and do an ages with vision impairments, their apeutics) Nuçi’s Space hosts a in-person disaster exercise ($20). families and friends. Topics include recreational therapy support group. Fill out the online eligibility survey. adaptive equipment, recreational Improve coping skills and self accgov.com/7501/Surveys and social opportunities, and advoesteem while reducing depression DOWNTOWN PARADE OF LIGHTS cacy. 706-424-2794, dlwahlers@ and anxiety through adaptive yoga, (Athens, GA) Now accepting entries gmail.com games and leisure education. Six- for this year’s parade. This year’s LGBTQIA+ VIRTUAL ALPHABET week sessions. Wednesdays, 5–6 theme is “An Art Filled Holiday.” FAMILY GATHERING (Online) p.m. tinyurl.com/rnvuhesa Deadline Nov. 7, 5 p.m. Parade This is a safe space for anyone on RECOVERY DHARMA (Athens held Dec. 7. $40. www.accgov. the LGBTQIA+/TGQNB spectrum. Addiction Recovery Center) This com/parade Fourth Sunday of every month, peer-led support group offers a MEN’S GROUP (Healing Path Farm) 7–9 p.m. uuathensga.org/justice/ Buddhist-inspired path to recovery Seventh Generation Native Amerwelcoming-congregation from any addiction. Visit the webican Church hosts a weekly group MENTAL HEALTH PEER RECOVsite for details. Thursdays, 7 p.m. meeting. Tuesdays, 6 p.m. www. ERY GROUP (Nuçi’s Space) www.athensrecoverydharma.org seventhgenerationnativeamerican Participants support each other SEX ADDICTS ANONYMOUS (Athchurch.org through life’s challenges by sharing ens, GA) Athens Downtown SAA RABBIT HOLE EVENTS (Rabbit Hole from their skills, experiences and offers a message of hope to anyone Studios) Weekly events include proven coping mechanisms. Newwho suffers from a compulsive sexOpen Mic (Tuesdays, 7–11 p.m.), comers welcome. First Tuesday of ual behavior. Contact for location. Acoustic Song Circle (Thursdays, the month, 4–6 p.m. pr@nuci.org, athensdowntownsaa@gmail.com 7–11 p.m.), Seventh Generation www.nuci.org SOCIAL ANXIETY SUPPORT Native American Church services NAMI FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP GROUP (Oconee County Library) and community potlucks (Sundays, (Oconee Presbyterian Church) Created by and for socially anxious 11 a.m.), and Drumming and Peer-led support group for any young adults. Meets every other Song Circle (Sundays, 3–5 p.m.). adult with a loved one who has Sunday. Contact for meeting inforWednesday Yoga (5 p.m.) is folexperienced symptoms of a mental mation. Jake@avoidendsnow.org, lowed by Meditation and Integration health condition. Second Monday www.avoidendsnow.org (6 p.m.). Events are free or donation of the month, 6:30–8 p.m. FREE! 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Wednesdays, 10 a.m.–12 Dependents & Caregivers Benefits nal recordings will be returned, and p.m. FREE! www.byyourleave.org Resource & Claim Assistance credits and dates will be included in OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (24th Group” is offered the first Saturday the online video description. DigitiStreet Clubhouse) Learn to stop of every month, 9–10 a.m. www. zation services are free. Contact for eating compulsively or curb other integrityofjefferson.com details and to coordinate shipping. unwanted food-related behaviors. bradley.staples88@gmail.com Tuesdays, 12 p.m. Text: 678-736- WINTER ACTIVITIES (Athens, GA) 3697 ACC Leisure Services will offer a PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP ATHENS BEER TRAIL TROLLEY variety of arts, environmental sci(First Baptist Church) This group TOURS (Athens, GA) A new trolly ence, recreation and holiday events is to encourage, support and share tour will provide transportation this winter for all ages. 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A CONTEST FOR THE BEST DECORATED HOUSES AROUND ATHENS

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ENTER YOUR HOUSE IN OUR CONTEST OF SPIRITED HOMES AROUND ATHENS Flagpole would like to raise some Halloween spirits by presenting our 4th

annual contest for the best haunts in all of Athens!

HOUSES WILL BE ON DISPLAY IN PERSON AND ON FLAGPOLE'S WEBSITE FROM

TUESDAY, 10/24 – MONDAY, 10/30 Enter your house to be eligible to win $150 prize for 1st place! Find the Entry Form on ﬂagpole.com starting Oct. 1st. Deadline to enter is Oct. 22nd.

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MIDNIGHT IGUANA TATTOO Celebrates 35 Years in Business

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Sun Oct 22nd • 12PM - 5PM 800 Oglethorpe Ave LIVE MUSIC • FREE BOUNCY HOUSE BBQ, DESSERTS • VENDORS TEMPORARY TATTOOS • COSTUME CONTEST PRIZES • FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

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Doubling Back

REFRESHING UPDATES ON MOCHINUT AND FIVE AND TEN

By Hillary Brown food@flagpole.com MOCHINUT (1860 Barnett Shoals Rd., 706-850-6554): Probably nine out of 10 restaurants I write about, I think, “I’ll never go there again.” It’s not necessarily that they’re not good, although bell curves mean that most places are mediocre and only a few rise above that. It’s that I spend most of my time eating out with my reviewer’s hat on, and there’s only so much time. Repeat visits past the initial two don’t add much to the picture, and y’all crave novelty. But when a friend told me that Mochinut, the franchise selling Korean corn dogs and rice-flour donuts, was now putting out Indonesian food, it went back on my list immediately. After all, even Atlanta doesn’t have more than a handful of Indonesian restaurants. Chef V (Viana Lie) is enthusiastic about sharing her own culture’s food, and the Eastside continues to become a hub for restaurants serving a wide variety of cuisines: Ethiopian, Vietnamese, Thai, legit Szechuan and more. If we nurture that tendency, it could very well snowball. You can’t find the menu on the parent corporation’s website, and neither Bulldawg Food nor Cosmic Delivery will bring you food from there, so you’ll have to go to the restaurant. You could use one of the national services like GrubHub or DoorDash, but even they don’t have everything Chef V offers. If you go in person, she can also point you in the right direction, and you’re sure to have a lovely conversation. The Indonesian dishes mostly break down as rice (nasi uduk, I think, cooked with coconut milk, lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves and bay leaves, topped with chicken or tofu and served with your choice of sauce on the side: soy ginger, chili garlic lime, peanut or the house curry) and noodles (mie ayam jamur, or chicken and mushrooms with wheat noodles and greens; wheat noodles with chicken and peanut sauce;

chicken soup with noodles, curry and housemade XO sauce). So far, I think the noodles have the edge because the rice could use more aromatics, but both are tasty, especially the curry sauce, which is complex and fragrant. Some versions of both come with sweet-ish pickled cucumbers in a little dish on the side, meaning you can cycle rapidly through sweet, sour, bitter, salty and savory in a couple of mouthfuls. The “small bites” section at the top of the menu includes some Chinese dumplings, wonton soup and spring rolls as well as a scallion pancake waffle served with a side of curry sauce, but is mostly unremarkable. The restaurant also just added breakfast, with a housemade pandan simple syrup to sweeten its strong coffee, croissants stuffed with egg, Smoked duck breast with apple and onion soubise, blueberry gastrique and turnips from Five and Ten. cheese and bacon or sausage (not available yet when I went) and two kinds of bao (chicken and Spam) Five and Ten is no longer the best restaucounterpoint rather than neutralizing the customizable with sweet soy, spicy mango, rant in town. “It’s lost a step.” “It’s not umami base. A pan-seared halibut sat in a barbecue ranch, curry mayo, yum yum or worth the money.” I hadn’t been in years, pool of miso beurre blanc, with stellar bok Korean ketchup for a sauce. Bao (steamed too busy with going to other places, but a choy on the side and fish skin chicharrones buns split open and stuffed like a taco) recent visit, preceded with serious skepand chili crisp on top. Again: an appreciaren’t widely available in Athens either, ticism, found that it remains the absolute ation of the value of butteriness and the and a savory Asian breakfast is a real treat. gold standard in Athens, working on a level feeling of early fall, but also a dish that A quick examination of other Mochinut that very few other places can sniff. played with texture and different kinds of franchises shows a little customization The menu changes weekly, and chef de flavors. The pork schnitzel might wear the from location to location, but nothing like cuisine Fausto Zamorano is putting a new teensiest bit thin by the time you finish the this. Go! Support it! I can’t promise that the spin on things. A dish in the small plates large plate, but the idea of topping it with menu won’t change, but trust Chef V. section of shredded duck over gnocchi in perfect cubes of pear and turnip is more fun Mochinut is now open 7 a.m.–8 p.m. broth with mushrooms, tomatoes, blueberand innovative than the traditional apple. daily, with breakfast from 7–11 a.m. ries and habanadas (non-spicy habanero Order things that seem new or odd, and you peppers) was as good as anything I’ve ever will let the kitchen perform to the best of FIVE AND TEN (1073 S Milledge Ave., had at the restaurant, working against but its ability. Go at happy hour (5–7 p.m.) and 706-546-7300, fiveandten.com): I cannot not tempering the richness of the duck you can snag some deals on lovely cocktails, tell you the number of times I’ve heard that with bright notes that served as a singing as carefully prepared as everything else. f

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Smith (54565156)

This week we’re going to shine a light on all the wonderful senior dogs at the shelter! Smith is 8 years old and a perfect example of dogs in their golden years calm, quiet and loves a gentle scratch.

Martin (54069876)

Not all senior dogs are as chill as Smith and Mr. Martin is a testament to that! Martin loves to run, play and toss around a squeaky toy. He still has his downtime but he’s more than ready for an adventure.

Toast (54554755)

Tiny senior dogs make great companions! They love to snuggle and wear a sweater during the cool fall weather. Toast is so tiny and sweet, and she loves all those things. Adopt or foster her today!

These pets and many others are available for adoption at:

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

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51 Slithered along 53 Collective opinion 57 Wedding follower 59 Worker's wish 60 Grace period? 61 It adjoins the altar 62 Piece of cave art 63 Cincinnati team 64 Forest dweller 65 Strong, drinkwise DOWN 1 Roman 800 2 Earthenware pot 3 City in central China 4 Send into a swoon 5 Pick pockets 6 "Scarface" star 7 Certain roofers 8 Like some losers 9 Kind of talk 10 Walking 11 Coastal getaway 12 Sneak around 13 Counter current 19 Take offense

21 How some shall remain 24 Like bachelors 25 MLB draft decisions 26 Nonsensical 27 Growled at, say 29 Stewart of song 31 Surprise win 32 Mike who voiced Shrek 34 Humble nature 36 Yuri Gagarin, for one 38 Book end? 41 Navajo newborn 45 Brit's sawbuck 48 Some tournaments 50 Contract provisions 51 Burn 52 Pantheon locale 53 Deal with 54 Voice of the iPhone 55 Amer. military fliers 56 Mirror image 58 "Spy vs. Spy" magazine

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