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September 15 - 30, 2017 • Vol 16, Issue #369

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MGSU To Host Free Film Screenings Focused on First Amendment Issues

The Middle Georgia State University Library is hosting screenings of two films in late September to generate discussion of First Amendment issues. All screenings are free and open to the public.

The Library will show “I Am Not Your Negro,” directed by Raoul Peck, at 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 20, in the Arts Complex Theater on the Macon Campus. Discussion will follow, led by DeMarcus Beckham, president of the student group Gay Straight Alliance, Kelsei Etchison, president of Black Student Unification, and Dr. Andre Nicholson, assistant professor of Communication Studies.

The Library will show another film, “This Film is Not Yet Rated,” directed by Kirby Dick, at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27, in the Arts Complex Theater on the Macon Campus. Dr. Patrick Brennan, professor of English, will lead discussion.

This First Amendment Film Series marks Banned Books Week, which focuses on the issue of censorship through education and advocacy.

Campus maps and directions are at https://www.mga.edu/about/maps.php.

Mercer Innovation Center to Launch CO.STARTERS Business Development Program Mercer Innovation Center (MIC) will offer CO.STARTERS, a nine-week, cohort-based program that equips entrepreneurs with the insights, relationships and tools needed to turn business ideas into action, beginning Oct. 2.

Drawing from the experience of successful entrepreneurs and startup veterans from around the globe, CO.STARTERS walks creative small-business owners through lean, effective business-modeling methods in a simple and intuitive way, and with the help of a supportive community.

Rather than treating a startup like a large corporation and writing a detailed business plan, CO.STARTERS participants are encouraged to build and test small models first. In the process, participants receive real-time customer feedback, update their models to meet customer needs and avoid creating businesses based on incorrect assumptions.

The CO.STARTERS program has a global reach, serving numerous communities across the U.S., New Zealand and Australia.

“We are excited to be adding CO.STARTERS to the Mercer Innovation Center program offerings,” said Stephanie Howard, deputy director of the MIC. “This hands-on program will be an asset to the entrepreneurship ecosystem in the Macon-Bibb community.”

Registration, which includes a one-time fee of $199, is now open to the public and can be completed by visiting mic.mercer.edu/co-starters or emailing mic@mercer.edu.

Small business remains one of the fundamental economic drivers for local economies and job creation, but

smaller-scale startups traditionally have not received the same level of support as their high-growth counterparts.

CO.STARTERS aims to narrow that gap.

“If you look beyond Silicon Valley and New York, there are countless communities that are full of talented entrepreneurs, but they lack the organized community support they need to thrive,” said Enoch Elwell, founder of CO.STARTERS. “CO.STARTERS provides a structure for these communities to achieve their economic growth goals and gives them an easy way build the connections they are already trying to grow.”

For more information on CO.STARTERS, visit costarters.co.

Contributors Marla Horton has lived in Macon, Georgia her entire life, first by birth, but now by choice.

She graduated from Middle Georgia State University with a BA in English and now spends her free time exploring her favorite city. In addition to words, she also consumes generous amounts of both red wine and red meat. If she is not reading/writing, drinking Cabernet Sauvignon, or eating burgers with bleu cheese, she is probably asleep.

Renee Corwine spent 13 years as a newspaper editor before switching this summer to a full time career in freelance writing and editing. She and her husband, Jake, live in Macon with three fur babies: Abbey, Ella and Whiskers. In addition to writing, Renee is a personal trainer and teaches classes at Pure Barre Macon (that’s exercise, not booze). A full Ironman finisher, she still dabbles in triathlon, but would rather spend her time taking selfies in foreign countries, drinking whiskey and torturing others through exercise. Find her on Inta @ reneecorwine.

With more than 20 years of journalism and publishing experience, Stacey Norwood earned her chops as an investigative reporter and features writer for daily and weekly community newspapers in Tuscaloosa, Bibb County (AL), and Clanton, AL before moving to a longish stint in TV news as a crime and courts reporter in Birmingham. Passionate about twangy prose and a devotee of Southern culture, Stacey deepened her wordsmithing skills serving as an editor and contributing writer for such magazines as Victoria, Sandra Lee’s Semi-Homemade, Taste of the South and Relish. Her hobbies include writing a Macon-centric blog, trolling the Internet for truly revolting vintage recipes, collecting real (not department store) art, and cooking. In her spare time, Stacey is the proud Mother of Doggos (it is known).

Much to her disappointment, however, her mutts, Miss Oda Mae Brown and Margaret Thatcher, have yet to breathe actual fire no matter how many times she yells “dracarys” at them.

Traci Burns was born and raised in Macon (Bloomfield represent!); she currently lives in Warner Robins with her husband and two kids. She has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Georgia College, where she also taught English and creative writing for some years before settling down to be a full time neurotic insomniac freelancer/stay at home parent. She’s into rap, disability rights advocacy, comics, and cuddling.

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Friday-Saturday 22-23

COMMUNITY Ocmulgee Indian Celebration 10-5pm. One of the largest Native American gatherings in the Southeast as more than 200 craftsmen, dancers, storytellers, living history demonstrators and others with ties to the region return to Ocmulgee National Monument. Named one of the Top 20 Events in the Southeast by the Southeast Tourism Society, the Ocmulgee Indian Celebration shares this vital piece of American history with some 17,000+ guests to the monument each year, allowing new generations to understand the Native American heritage, arts, and culture first-hand. . Discover the mounds, artifacts and nature within the 702-acre National Monument. The Visitor Center, featuring over 2,000 artifacts and displays, will be open to the public. This year the Ocmulgee Indian Celebration celebrates its 26th year. $6 ages 13 & up, $3 ages 6-12, free 5 & under

WEEKEND FESTIVAL GABBAfest 2017 - 25 Years Dedicated to our Brothers!

A weekend of events to celebrate the life and music of the Allman Brothers Band!

Celebrating its 25th anniversary, The Georgia Allman Brothers Band Association (GABBA for short) has been luring ABB fans from across the world to Macon for this annual festival. Friday night at the historic Douglass Theatre includes music with Lefty Collins, Royal Johnson and Paul Hornsby; after-party at Grant’s Lounge with Dirty Uncle Bob. Saturday at The Big House includes a GABBA members jam, that night back at The Douglass catch The Freight Train with Cody and Luther Dickinson and Vaylor and Melody Trucks! Finally, end the weekend with a “Hangover” brunch at The Big House. Individial tickets and weekend passes available.

Visit Freshtix.com/GABBAfest2017.

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COMMUNITY THEATRE Mercer University Opera Presents “The Trial of Goldilocks” - A Children’s Opera at Fickling Hall Presented by Townsend School of Music Mercer Universityat Neva Langley Fickling Hall. One hour in length. The whole family will have fun with this charming, witty show in which Goldilocks is prosecuted for breaking and entering the home of the Three Bears!

In the courtroom, we watch as Goldilocks and the Bears enact the traditional tale. Next, the prosecutor and the defense attorney present their hilarious versions of the same events. Our jury of animals makes some surprising decisions and doles out appropriately funny sentences, so everybody goes home happy-and a little wiser! General Admission, $10.00; Children grades K-8 and all students free; free with Mercer ID. Showing Fri/Sat at 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 1 at 2:30 p.m.

COMMUNITY: Open Streets Macon

2 pm to 6 pm. Maconites will be treated to 1.5 miles of car-free streets from the Washington Memorial Library to A. L. Miller Village. People traffic will replace car traffic, as sections of College St. and Montpelier Ave. will be closed to cars and open to YOU! Activate the streets and connect with your fellow humans. With no cars, it’s time to explore new neighborhoods, learn about ways we can restructure streets, and play like a kid.

Organized by Bike Walk Macon, this is the city’s largest FREE recreation program, unlike any other in Macon-Bibb County. Grab your friends and family and get ready to activate the streets with human-powered amusement!

Sponsored in part by the Community Foundation of Central Georgia.

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Mercer’s Townsend School of Music offers a yearly opera formatted for school aged kids... and it’s free! “The Trial of Goldilocks” Sept. 29-Oct 1. Adults $10.

Friday 15th THEATRE Theatre Macon presents Neil Simon’s “Rumors” 15 and 16 at 8:00pm, September 17 at 2:30pm. Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors (60+) and $15 for children/students through age 22.

Tickets available online at www.theatremacon.com or at the Box Office Sept 5-8 and Sept 14 and 15, 10 am-3 pm, or at the door beginning one hour before showtime. For info: theatremacon438@gmail.com Theatre Macon 438 Cherry Street, Macon

Saturday 16th COMMUNITY / FAMILY:

Project Giving’s “Retro Night Glow” Come RUN & PLAY with us under the stars with thousands of glowy thinga-ma-bobbies & people EV-ER-Y-WHERE! It’s the 8th Annual Project Giving “Retro Night Glow” 5K/10K/1 Mile Fun Run, 80’s Concert, Kids’ Fest, & Black Light Dance Party. From 6-10 p.m. the entire family can enjoy The dynamic 80’s band, “The Fabulous Boomer Band.” A huge Kids’ Fest including LARGE inflatables, GIGANTIC obstacle course, BIG slides, choo-choo train, sports games, face painting, snow cones, & many other activities!

Wristbands for children are $5.00 each ($15.00 max per family). Runners’ race bib or purchased wristband includes all food & activities. “Best Glow Costume” award! To register for the run and for more info visit projectgiving.net.

COMMUNITY Corks and Canvas Hosted by the 567 Center for Renewal. Bring a bottle of your favorite wine or other beverage to sip on, bring a friend, and learn to create an 11 x 14 painting.

No painting experience required. An artist will guide you through the steps. $28 includes all materials for the class (except the wine), and the class lasts 2 and 1/2 hours. Space is limited. To register, call (478) 2386051 or you can pay online at http://www.the567center.org/art-classes/.

COMMUNITY Ocmulgee Indian Celebration

“We don’t wear sequins because we think we’re great...

We wear them because we think sequins are great.

- GRAM PARSONS (Artist spotlight on page 37)

One of the largest Native American gatherings in the Southeast as more than 200 craftsmen, dancers, storytellers, living history demonstrators and others with ties to the region return to Ocmulgee National Monument in Macon, Georgia. Named one of the Top 20 Events in the Southeast by the Southeast Tourism Society, the Ocmulgee Indian Celebration shares this vital piece of American history with some 17,000+ guests to the monument each year, allowing new generations to understand the Native American heritage, arts, and culture first-hand. . Discover the mounds, artifacts and nature within the 702-acre National Monument. The Visitor Center, featuring over 2,000 artifacts and displays, will be open to the public. This year the Ocmulgee Indian Celebration celebrates its 26th year. $6 ages 13 & up, $3 ages 6-12, free 5 & under

BENEFIT GALA: Riverkeeper Rendevous

6-10 p.m. A gala celebration of the Ocmulgee River.

Individual Tickets $50 and features a Georgia seafood feast, low country boil, blue crabs, Quahog Clams and more. Silent auction, music by Blue Sky Blue and a Kudu Grill Raffle!

The Altamaha Riverkeeper is a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of Georgia’s largest river system- including the Ocmulgee, Oconee, Ohoopee, and Altamaha Rivers and Georgia’s southern Golden Isles. Seeking to protect and preserve healthy swimmable, fishable, drinkable waters for our communities and wildlife.

For tickets, visit altamahariverkeeper.org.

Friday 22nd CONCERT EVENT: GABBAfest 2017

Celebrating 25 Years of GABBA Dedicated to Our Brothers, September 22-24 - Macon, Georgia Purchase a nightly pass or weekend lanyard good for all events! Friday Night at the Douglass Theatre: Lefty Collins & the No Mercy Band, Royal Johnson with special guests Paul Hornsby & Benny Mobley.

Aftershow at Grant’s Lounge with Dirty Uncle Bob.

Saturday Night at the Douglass Theatre: The Freight Train with special guests Cody & Luther Dickinson and Vaylor & Melody Trucks, Kunio Kishida and Lamar Williams, Jr. Saturday at the Big House featuring The GABBA Members Jam hosted by Royal Johnson.

Sunday “GABBA Hangover at the Big House” featuring Kunio Kishida and Sanctified Revival.

Presented by the Georgia Allman Brothers Band Association. Tickets are available online at www.freshtix. com/events/gabbafest2017.

CONCERT EVENT: Betty Cantrell CD Release Concert Presented by Cox Capitol Theatre. Concert starts at 8 p.m. and tickets are $15. Betty is currently recording more songs for the release of her first country music solo EP debuting September 22nd, 2017. With Betty being a student at Mercer University she also has the distinguished honor to be the first artist to record in the Mercer Music at Capricorn Studio in Macon, GA and with her recording of “Georgia On My Mind”.

Saturday 23rd COMMUNITY CONCERT The Georgia Brass Band Presented by The Townsend School of Music 7:30 p.m. (Fickling Recital Hall) Since its founding in 1999, the Georgia Brass Band has performed at concert halls, churches, and colleges throughout the southeast. Like most brass bands in the United States, the Georgia Brass Band is made up of a dedicated group of volunteer musicians from all walks of life.

Members are selected by audition and travel from all over the Metro Atlanta area to rehearse and perform with the band. Admission is $10; free with student I.D. BENEFIT Thin Mint Throwdown Presented by Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia at Wesleyan College. Chefs from Tommy’s Bakery & Cafe and Piedmont Brewery & Kitchen face off in a Girl Scout Cookie dessert contest at this fundrasing dinner and auction in support of Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia.

Cocktail Hour- 6:00 - 7:00 pm Dinner and Program7:00 pm. $75 per person. For more info 239-4899.

Tuesday 26th COMMUNITY CONCERT Fabian Concert Series Presents “Dvorak Viola Quintet in E Flat Major, Op. 97” Townsend School of Music brings world-class musicians to this yearly concert series. 7:30 p.m.

Fickling Recital Hall. Rebecca Albers, viola Lawrence Dutton, viola Annie Fullard, violin Paul Watkins, cello Amy Schwartz Moretti, violin Elizabeth Pridgen, piano Center Faculty and Emerson String Quartet violist Lawrence Dutton brings the quartet’s newest member, cellist Paul Watkins, to the Center for a once-in-a-lifetime performance of Dvorak’s Viola Quintet. Tickets are $15 per person/ Free with Mercer ID/ Free with any valid student ID. Purchase season tickets and save! Call (478)301-5470 to subscribe and reserve by phone, or pay at the door.

Friday 29th COMMUNITY CONCERT “Alive Day” in Third Street Park Free family event from 5-10 p.m. featuring live music, food trucks and local artists. What is Alive Day? It is the day Joey’s life was saved from a brain tumor.

While this day has been celebrated by the Stuckey family and friends since Joey was 2-years old, this year, “I just felt like I needed to give back something special to my community and gather people together to celebrate the joy of life and music!” said Stuckey.

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For more info visit JoeyStuckeyAliveDay.com COMMUNITY THEATRE Mercer University Opera Presents “The Trial of Goldilocks” Presented by Townsend School of Music - Mercer University at Neva Langley Fickling Hall. One hour in length. The whole family will have fun with this charming, witty show in which Goldilocks is prosecuted for breaking and entering the home of the Three Bears! In the courtroom, we watch as Goldilocks and the Bears enact the traditional tale. Next, the prosecutor and the defense attorney present their hilarious versions of the same events. Our jury of animals makes some surprising decisions and doles out appropriately funny sentences, so everybody goes home happy-and a little wiser! General Admission, $10.00; Children grades K-8 and all students free; free with Mercer ID. Showing Fri/Sat at 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 1 at 2:30 p.m.

Saturday 30th SPORTS The Mercer Bears vs. VMI 4 p.m. (Five Star Stadium) Family Weekend! Kids Tailgate Party with inflatables, DJ, shaved Ice and Toby the Mascot. To sit on the home bench, cost is $20.

Fans can purchase tickets online at tickets.mercer. edu or by calling the Mercer Ticket Office at (478) 301-5470. Ticket office hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday-Friday. General admission tickets will be available for walk-up purchase at all home contests.

Cheer on your home team!

FAMILY/KIDS The Princess and The Frog Dancical 5-7 p.m. (The Douglass Theatre) Royal Elan P.A.C. Presents The Princess and the Frog Dancical featuring HK and TR Tru Steppers. Where dancing & theatre collide, minus words. Come and enjoy this new experience and witness diverse styles of dance with Princess Tiana and all of her friends. Call (478) 742-2000 FAMILY/KIDS Middle GA State University presents the 2017 Heart of Georgia Air Show At Middle Georgia State University’s Aviation campus in Eastman. Gates open at 10 a.m. The show begins at noon. This event is free and open to the public.

Want to see aerobatic loops, rolls and spins? Or pretend you’re a pilot preparing for takeoff? The 3rd annual Heart of Georgia Air Show is a family-friendly event, featuring aerobatic performances, a flight simulator, food trucks, interactive exhibits, a cruise-in car show and a Kids Zone.

COMMUNITY Classic Car Show and Free Prostate Screening hosted by Coliseum Medical Center 10am-2pm on the campus of Coliseum Medical Center. Everyone is invited to enjoy the cars on display, Free PSA screening with no fasting required!

Coliseum is putting the brakes on Prostate Cancer.

THEATRE BENEFIT Benefit Reading for Theatre Macon with Carrie Preston and Family 8 p.m. Join us for a special evening with stage and screen veterans Michael Emerson (Person of Interest, Lost), Carrie Preston (True Blood, The Good Wife), Elisabeth Preston and John Preston. Enjoy watching selected readings presented by these talented actors in the intimate space of our theatre. This special event is a fund raiser for the “Setting the Stage for Theatre Macon’s Future” Endowment Campaign. General admission tickets are $50 and a limited number of VIP tickets are available for $100. VIP tickets include front row seats and a private reception with the actors after the performance. Tickets TheatreMacon.com

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Blue Ridge Apothecary soaps now available at The Village Marketplace. Also in fresh this week; Wisham Jellies, Phickles Phun Foods, acorn squash, string beans and cooler full of organic dairy!

On May 7, 2015, just six days after resigning from her desk job in software, Rikki Waite headed down to the International City Farmers Market in Warner Robins, Georgia with her camp stove, pop-up tent, and beloved mama in tow, ready to make and sell her delicious, authentic handmade empanadas.

She was thrilled to sell out an hour before the market was due to close that first day, and doubly thrilled to feel the open-air freedom she hadn’t been able to experience for years cooped up behind a desk – “I remember the sound of the airplanes flying above, the church bells ringing every thirty minutes, the super-gorgeous May weather – it felt so good, like the exact opposite of being stuck indoors behind a computer all day,” she says. That’s how My Grandma’s Empanadas got its start.

A little over a year after she first started vending at the farmers’ market, Rikki made the move to expand into a storefront near the Base; this allowed her to also expand her menu to include more traditional, complex dishes that she didn’t have the space to make before. “Now we can make my grandma’s real corn empanadas!” Rikki says. “It’s a ten hour process done by hand by a team of people.” For the carimañola – a hand-ground yuca fritter stuffed with beef and lightly fried – Rikki and her staff use a grinder that used to belong to her grandfather. “That’s a labor-intensive process!” laughs Rikki.

“There’s lots of love in there. And it’s so amazing to me to be able to see my family’s food traditions come alive in the oldest commercial building in Warner Robins.”

She’s also now able to serve up a variety of different empanadas – there’s the market fresh, stuffed with spinach, mushrooms, garlic, and feta, the much-beloved guava and cream cheese, and always a rotating seasonal special – currently, it’s goat. Her inspiration? The farmers who used to sell alongside her at the market. “One of the main reasons I wanted to open a restaurant was so these farmers would have somewhere for their food to be showcased,” Rikki says. “I love these farmers! I wish everyone had the chance to get to know them, to see how beautiful their farms are and to know where their food comes from. I love being able to be supportive of people 08 SEPTEMBER 15 - 30, 2017

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living their dreams.” My Grandma’s Empanadas is proud to utilize local sources whenever possible – they use sunflower oil from Oliver Farms in Wilcox County (“They’ll call and ask how many gallons I need, then they press it fresh that day –

cold-pressed, no GMO’s” says Rikki), eggs from Rusted Plow Farms, goat cheese from Smith Family Farms, produce from Breedlove, Local Lands, Vesterfield, and Green Frog Farms, honey (for the homemade marshmallows used in their S’mores empanada) from JG Honey and Bee, and grass-fed beef and other proteins from Marview Farms.

Another point of pride for My Grandma’s Empanadas is the hands-on, artisan nature of each dish – everything’s done in cast-iron skillets, there’s no deep fryer, no freezer, no microwave. “If you make it good and homemade, people will come,” says Rikki, “because that’s what they’re looking for.”

And it’s true – My Grandma’s Empanadas has been open nearly a year (their one-year anniversary will be on October 14) and in that time they’ve built a devoted following of locals and out-of-towners alike. Customers rave about both the freshness and flavor of the food and the excellent customer service offered by Rikki and her crew. Rikki and her staff always go above and beyond to ensure that each guest has an excellent experience in every way possible. The restaurant is happy to accommodate special diets – gluten free and paleo options are available, just call ahead to ask – and they’re also available for after-hours events for parties of 15 or more – again, just stop by or give them a call to find out more.

Rikki is proud of what she’s been able to accomplish as an independent restaurant owner in a town known for its overabundance of chain restaurants – she gives props to her “loyal locals” as she lovingly calls them – the people who’ve made it a point to incorporate My Grandma’s Empanadas into their lunch routines, and who keep new customers coming in by spreading the word about this exceptional little luncheria.

And of course she’s grateful for her family and their strong culinary traditions, especially her grandmother, Evalia Mills, who was born in the Cayman Islands and moved to Panama as a young child. “She was picky, and she wanted to please people,” says Rikki, “and I think she and I are very much alike in that respect. I’d like to think she’d be proud to see what we’ve been able to do with her food, and how much people are enjoying it.”

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anted since 2004 for the murder of his mother and stepfather in Liberty County, the jig was finally up for Jason Howard, alias Kevin W. Lewis, in 2012 when Macon police arrested him as a transient looting local automobiles. Among the collection of “peculiar items” later discovered at the remote wooded encampment where he’d been hiding out: Unused body bags, the personal belongings of strangers, and a series of personal diaries he had written in almost daily. This is Part I in a 4-part series exploring Jason Howard’s crimes and his life on the lam here in Macon.

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Macon needs a serial killer. Not drunks, drug addicts or fornicators. Could be anybody (victims), Modus operandi. M.O. of the Macon, GA serial killer. Melting zinc pennies to make bullets

for those who refuse to accept my pennys [sic] in commerce. Predatory lesbians of convenience stores, drug dealers of vice, cigarettes, liquor, lottery tickets (no robbery) Jan. 31, 2007, Jason Howard

Because of my past procrastination and cancelations, I’m writing the next journal entry in advance to put forth an aura of positivity … if I’m not back by the 14th, camp is abandoned, take what you need, burn the rest as payment, but make no camp here, as this area has been contaminated by my pain, agony and torment.

April 11th, 2007 Jason Howard, alias Kevin W. Lewis By the time Macon police caught up with Jason Howard in the spring of 2009, he had already spent the bulk of his adult life in a jail cell, of one form or another.

At 25, he had been shuttled off to North Carolina, where he served a four-year stretch in Federal prison for bank robbery. Upon his release in 1999, Jason returned to the home his mother shared with her second husband in Gumbranch, a small community in South Georgia located just outside Hinesville.

Jason Howard, known to be mentally ill – possibly schizophrenic - would spend the next five years locked up there too.

“His stepfather made him live outside the living quarters,” says former Liberty County prosecutor Greg McConnell. “They had a room for Jason – it was his room - and they locked him in it at night. He was allowed out in other parts of the house during the day.”

Though a decorated war veteran and recipient of the Purple Heart, Jewel Cleveland was, at 78, rapidly declining in health. He kept his stepson under lock and key because he feared him, telling family members he was afraid for his life with Jason in the house. In all fairness, the Cleveland’s home wasn’t Jason’s first choice either.

According to family member accounts at the time, Jason had wanted to live with his biological father when he was released from the penitentiary, but his stepmother wouldn’t hear of it.

Unable to work because of a shadowy “mental condition” and with only a Social Security-issued disability check to live on, the convicted felon had few options.

And what self-respecting mama from the Bible Beltiest part of the state could turn away her own blood?

Mildred agreed to take him in – but not, by all accounts, without more than a few reservations. A retired school teacher with a Master’s degree in education, Mildred described her son as “dangerous” and “a paranoid schizophrenic” when she reported him missing less than a year later – along with her new Windstar minivan - in 2000.

That time, she got lucky. Police in Savannah quickly scooped Jason up at a bus station, along with the van, and delivered both man and vehicle back to Liberty

County post haste. It would take Jason Howard another four years to spring himself for good from confinement of his family’s home. This time he made it all the way to Macon, where he remained free as a proverbial bird for the next five years.

By then, of course, Jason Howard was a highly sought-after fugitive from justice.

Two years ago on Riverside Drive, I saw your Grim Reaper or Angel of death. I saw him before he saw me, he was caught off guard – surprised. Did he tell ya that?

Have much respect for him and his job. Consider this my application should he need an assistant or a holiday.

March 9thth, 2007 Jason Howard, alias Kevin W. Lewis Turns out, Jewel Cleveland had every reason to fear his stepson. Sometime just before or right after Easter of 2004, Jason shot Jewel Cleveland twice in the head.

The gun he’d used was equipped with a crudely made silencer Jason had made himself from a soda bottle filled with liquid – a method learned about while researching the how-to’s on the Internet. Presumably, Jewel - by then an invalid in diapers who was bound to a wheelchair was the first to go.

Mildred Cleveland, whose body showed signs of having been hog-tied during the attack, took three bullets to the head before her son covered her body in a tarp along with her husband, then buried them both in a single shallow grave in a shed behind the house on their sprawling property in Liberty County.

Evidence shows Jason continued to live in the house, located off Highway 196, for at least a month afterward, and took pains to hide his crime even while getting his first taste of freedom in many years.

Never allowed to smoke in the house while Jewel and Mildred ruled the roost, Jason Howard smoked his fill anywhere he wanted in the place once they were gone, extinguishing the butts in Pepsi cans. He also paid household bills, lovingly tended to family pets, watered Mildred’s indoor plants, and just in case any nosy neighbors or pesky family members decided to drop in unexpectedly, he carefully covered a blood-soaked sofa in the living room with one of his mother’s sheets.

What may have spooked Jason into leaving or propelled him more than 158 miles from the scene of the crime, is anybody’s guess. But what he left behind is indisputable.

According to court records filed with the Office of the Clerk of the Courts of Liberty County, cadaver dogs helped Hinesville lawmen unearth the bodies of Mildred

Cleveland, 62, and Jewel Cleveland, 83 on June 15, 2004.

Bloody cushions from the sofa had been buried with the elderly couple and their clothing tested positive for gasoline.

Last seen alive in early to mid-April, the couple had been reported missing by a family friend in nearby Cobbtown who had received a letter that read “The house … is now abandoned. Dog, and plants, and goldfish are still inside. Find dog a good indoor home, daily walks, go to local sheriff, take inventory and contact whoever you must.” In another foreboding – and eerily menacing – line the sender wrote, “It’s exactly what it looks like.”

Though unsigned with no return address, the letter was postmarked May 3, 2004 from Macon.

Macon needs a serial killer. Not drunks, drug addicts or fornicators. Could be anybody (victims), Modus operandi.

M.O. of the Macon, GA serial killer. Melting zinc pennies to make bullets for those who refuse to accept my pennys [sic] in commerce. Predatory lesbians of convenience stores, drug dealers of vice, cigarettes, liquor, lottery tickets (no robbery) Jan. 31, 2007 Jason Howard, alias Kevin W. Lewis In the days following the grisly discovery in Gumbranch, Liberty County lawmen continued to identify Jason Howard as “an extremely sensitive witness.”

Privately, it was later revealed, they had quickly begun putting the pieces of the puzzle together. A second letter, also postmarked from Macon, had been mailed to a family member in Florida and the Cleveland’s Windstar van was found at the same Greyhound bus station in Savannah where Jason had been found when he made off with it in 2000. The vehicle had been parked at the terminal for at least three weeks.

Before the summer was over, investigators openly identified Jason as a suspect in news reports from Savannah to Augusta. Yet despite the wide net lawmen spread for him, no one saw hide nor hair from the man who had meticulously hatched then executed a plan to kill his mother and stepfather.

Believing Jason had long since fled the state, Liberty County investigators even reached out to the producers of America’s Most Wanted in 2005, and television crews showed filmed a segment that aired in November of that year. “This is going to make the world such a smaller place for Jason,” the show’s celebrated host, John Walsh said at the time.

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Little did the local police, state investigators, U.S. Marshals, John Walsh or anyone else looking for Jason Howard know that he was practically under their nose the entire time. After mailing the go-find-them letters from Macon, he stayed put, assumed the name “Kevin W. Lewis” and began setting up house in a carefully guarded, remote wooded encampment.

Nor did the citizens of Macon have the slightest clue that the scruffy-looking man occasionally walking amongst them, five-finger discounting his way through dollar stores across town, or shopping beside them in the neighborhood Kroger was actually a wanted killer whose case had drawn national attention. A man who spent his late-night and pre-dawn hours rifling through their cars pilfering everything from their personal mail to whatever spare change or paper money he could find. A man who had already killed at least twice – that we know of – and who had a specific “destination, schedule, and a plan” in mind.

“Stole this notebook tonight along with many pencils, pens, coloring pencils and a better backpack. Stole a lot this week … the thrill is gone,” he wrote in an entry dated Dec. 15, 2006. “Don’t need but about ten percent of what I steal. Maybe I will progress to robberies or random acts of violence during this stressful and desperate holiday season.”

Bibb County’s Lt. Michael Kenirey believes Jason was more than capable of both.

In the spring of 2009, while working as a sergeant with the Macon Police Department, Kenirey was assigned to a special patrol to curtail local robberies and thefts. While traveling south on Riverside Drive in the wee, wee hours of March 27, the officer did what his brothers in blue across the country had been unable to do for more than five years – he came face to face with Jason Howard.

Kenirey caught Jason red-handed, pilfering through vehicles at the Enterprise Rent-a-Car located on Riverside. Approaching him “in a stealthy manner,” the officer got his man - who identified himself as Kevin W. Lewis.

It was the same name scrawled on three letters in the yellow plastic Dollar Tree bag Jason had on him, along with 2 mini Mag Lites, a pocket knife, a key chain, and some Now and Later candies.

When Kenirey and back-up officers checked the perimeter, they found a blue backpack on a well-worn trail leading to nearby railroad tracks. It contained both the tools of a thief – bolt cutters, vice grips, a screwdriver, a channel-lock wrench – and the weapon of someone with malice of intent – a .50 caliber powder gun. Sticking to his story that he was Kevin W. Lewis from Evansville, Indiana, Jason denied the items were his, saying he was homeless and hungry – just hoping to scrounge up enough change to buy a hot meal. The gun belonged to someone else, he maintained.

“Have you ever seen the movie The Outlaw Josie Wales? That’s what the gun looked like to me, I remember thinking at the time,” the lieutenant says, adding, “I think he was planning on if he encountered someone, or the other way around, I think he fully planned on using it.”

He was right. In his diaries, “Kevin W. Lewis” makes repeated references to the revolver – which he identifies as a .44 – and his willingness, a desire even, to use it. “If cops can use deadly force against those who are allegedly trying to run them over, then why can’t I? Many, many times I’ve had to jump out of the way of vehicles. Pedestrians have the right of way. In America, everyone is entitled to one accidental shooting (of one shot). Gonna start shooting all the people who have tried to run me over.”

Also unbeknownst to the Macon investigator at the time he arrested Jason, his suspect was no stranger to that particular Enterprise lot – and he was a pedestrian (and in Macon) by choice. Almost two years earlier, Jason, a.k.a.

Kevin, had lucked up on a brand-new SUV with the key in it and stolen it.

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on March 13, 2007. “Makes me want to go to Utah, spring fever and such as that, any kind of a road trip (ways & means). Still I procrastinate. What is motivation? Burning of the camp? A random killing? I love Macon, but I’ve got to go.”

And yet he stayed - and presumably, would have dug his heels in here even deeper if he’d never been caught and extradited back to his home county to face those long outstanding murder charges. Why he didn’t run when he had the getaway car to do so – and just what other crimes, violent or otherwise, Jason Howard may have committed while living on Macon soil remains largely unanswered to date.

But how the questions linger.

About a month after arresting Jason, says Lt. Kenirey, his department got a strange call. A cross-country runner had stumbled on a rather strange sight in the woods – a jeep that appeared to be the center of some sort of makeshift camp – an encampment with, among other oddities, signs that read “Entire camp is infested with lice and tuberculosis.” A closer examination upped the creepy factor by 10.

“He’d obviously gone around town and over time collected items there were … kind of peculiar,” Lt. Kenirey says. “There were peoples’ IDs, a TV in the back of the jeep, there was mail that belonged to other people. My impression was that over time, he was taking stuff from vehicles or wherever, some items that were usable for survival, some that weren’t.”

What kind of items, I ask the detective, noticing that his tone has become a little peculiar as well. “Well,” he responds, “We found body bags still in the plastic, not used, among the collected items.”

And here’s something the detective did not know about the quirky camp left behind

by Jason Howard. In a diary entry dated April 12, 2007, the fugitive from justice living in our very midst makes reference to “making it back” to the camp with $6,000 in hand, and appears to have been considering a plan to put Macon in his rearview. Though it’s impossible to tell if he actually pulled off a heist with money in hand or was just fantasizing about doing so, in the margins of the same entry he also wrote, “For the reader: On the shelf by the bed on top of the books, there is a sealed jar with a treasure map in it. Enjoy.”

Jason Howard’s “treasure map” – or just what exactly is buried where X marks the spot – remains, for now, a mystery.

The second story of this series, appearing in October in the 11th Hour, will explore Jason Howard’s subsequent trial and his inner world in greater detail. To read select, downloadable entries from the diary, please visit 11thhouronline.com/diary-of-a-madman-revisited.

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I would like to play the part of ruthless, pop-quiz-crazed teacher for just a moment and ask you to define the word portmanteau. If you do not know the word portmanteau, I am betting that you know the meaning of the word brunch. Now let me play the part of mischievous classmate and let you read the answer written on the sweaty side of my hand. A portmanteau is a word made up of two words and their combined meaning, i.e. brunch.

In addition to the marriage of two crucial and otherwise separate meals, brunch is also a great excuse to sleep in until 11 AM and still consume enough calories for two meals at once. Talk about well-balanced. If you are in agreement with me about the splendor and ingenuity that is the portmanteau known as brunch, let me whet your appetite for something even stranger and equally as satisfying. The phenomenon that I am referring to is none other than Southern brunch at a Thai restaurant. Now there is no portmanteau to describe such a thing just yet, it does not roll off the tongue quite like brunch, but despite the fact that it is a mouthful, I assure you that it is a mouthful of exactly what you did not know you want.

If there were ever a day designed for brunch, for the innovation of eating late and the enabling of indecision between breakfast and lunch, that day would be Saturday.

On Saturday morning, I wake up early, but not too early. I make my bed (a revolutionary act reserved for weekends), sit on top of the now smooth surface, stare at my dogs and they stare back. We sit there, blinking at one another, until I remember to put food into their bowls. They do not possess the patience required for brunch. While waiting on a friend, I make a large pot of coffee—ten cups, shooting for the stars! When she arrives, I pour us both a cup and we sit on my porch. One does not lurch towards brunch. Brunch is a leisurely affair.

After a few cups of coffee, we decide on a brunch spot and then head downtown. There are some excellent options, but none quite as enticing as Southern brunch at a Thai restaurant. Ladda Bistro is located on Cherry Street.

It is small, but sophisticated—a very put-together hole-inthe-wall. It seems to scream “Thai food” and “Southern brunch” simultaneously, or perhaps that is my own tongue.

We snag a parking space right out front. “Ooh, we can sit

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outside,” I say dreamily to my friend, beaming at the bistro tables on the sidewalk. I am buzzing with an over-the-top bliss reserved for good weather. Fall has started sniffing around, as if deciding whether or not it wants to curl up in Macon for a nap. We step inside briefly, informing the servers that our happy asses will be dining outside. I shoot a quick, judgmental glance at patrons sitting inside at a booth, breathing in the filtered air. Fools!

Back outside, we stare at our menus, suddenly paralyzed. We flip back and forth, back and forth, between Pad Thai Shrimp and Smoked Salmon Benedict, between Beef Noodle Soup and Crème Brulee French Toast. Although brunch resolves the great debate between breakfast or lunch, the possibility of Thai food causes our indecision to grow new legs. I walk the conversation towards something more certain. We are planning to head to the Rookery after brunch for Bloody Marys, but a tiny whiteboard propped up on the sidewalk throws a welcome wrench into that plan: “$15 Pitcher of Mimosa,” it says.

Deciding on drinks seems to help us focus, we have narrowed our choices down to either grits or curry, and then, as if our brunch fairy godmother suddenly appears before us, the decision finally becomes clear. She orders the Grits Bowl with Andouille sausage and cheddar cheese, I order the Chicken Red Curry, and we split them in two. It is a Southern brunch and Thai food victory. The curry is as good as I remember it—better, because it is barely noon and I am washing it down with Mimosa. The Grits Bowl makes for a perfect side.

We finish our food and then power through drinking an entire pitcher of Mimosa between two people. The only problem with brunch—and with Southern brunch at a Thai restaurant, for that matter—is the question of what to do next. A nap sounds pleasant, but not once you remember that you just woke up a few hours before. You will not be hungry again for a long time, so food is off the table, so to speak. You have just bathed your insides with a whole bottle of champagne and therefore do not need another drink. There is nothing left to do but bask in the brilliance of brunch. And maybe stop by the Golden Bough and pick up a copy of Merriam-Webster so you can learn fun, new words like portmanteau and such.

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Multi-platinum selling southern rock group The Marshall Tucker Band will headline this year’s Georgia Jam with two separate performances. The group is set to perform at the Capitol Cox Theatre in Macon on November 3 and also at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta on November 4.

“The Marshall Tucker Band has a lot of history in Georgia, so coming down to headline the Georgia Jam will be a trip down memory lane,” says MTB lead singer Doug Gray. “Can’t wait to see you in Atlanta and Macon and hopefully give you a big Doug hug!”

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By Traci Burns When Karen Bray talks about her defiant teenage years, she doesn’t immediately call to mind the usual struggle – “I did a year at the University of Richmond,” she says. “It’s the kind of college campus with sororities, frats, lots of tradition – it wasn’t that authentic to who I am, and I ended up dropping out after freshman year, but I was rebelling against my lefty hippy parents.” Okay, so there was a nontraditional, Alex P. Keaton-esque situation here – subverting the usual paradigm of wild kids sloughing off the burdens of stodgy conservative parents by being the traditionalist kid defying the hippies. She goes on to talk about her life after finishing her undergrad degree at the New School in NYC: “I was working as a union organizer, and wasn’t sure yet what I wanted to do with my degree – public policy, psychology, communications, political speechwriter. I went to see a family friend get ordained as a Unitarian minister, and something shifted in me as I heard people talking about what it means to be a minister, how you walk with people in intimate moments like marriage and death, how you’re called to give a talk each Sunday that inspires and challenges. I started to think that intellectually maybe there was something to that kind of work. I didn’t name it that at the time, but now I see it as a call from God to become a minister.” She pauses for a beat before continuing: “I was raised for the first nine years of my life in a Communist psychotherapy cult on the upper west side of Manhattan, and my parents were ardent atheists,” she says. “So I didn’t know what I was doing. I cried for two weeks, and didn’t tell anybody anything.”

The Sullivan Institute for Research in Psychotherapy – Sullivanians for short, though Karen grew up calling them the Fourth Wall, after the

East Village theater of the same name that they owned – was a radical experiment in communal living; part therapy clinic and part polyamorous commune, Sullivanians – who counted several famous people, such as Jackson Pollock, Wes Craven, and Judy Collins among their ranks - believed that the nuclear family and binary bonds were damaging and dangerous, and its leaders worked with a heavy hand to control and reprogram members. “They’d have people go on thirty dates a month, so they wouldn’t get focused on any one person,” Karen says, and parents weren’t permitted to bond with their children in the traditional ways – in fact, most children, even very young ones, were sent away to boarding school. Not Karen and her twin sister, though – their mother got permission from leaders to “do a baby project” and was subsequently encouraged by leaders to sleep with multiple men to facilitate the pregnancy.

This led to the fascinatingly rare heteropaternal superfecundication – that is, Karen and her twin sister have two different biological fathers.

“You know that movie Twins, with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito? I used to joke with my sister that she was Danny DeVito – even though now I gotta say I wouldn’t mind being Danny DeVito – but that actually is, in a way, what happened with us,” laughs Karen.

It will come as no surprise that growing up as a Sullivanian has had lasting repercussions for Karen. Children of higher-up leaders were given special treatment; one of Karen’s childhood babysitters told her later in life that those kids got to eat first, while less-important children waited for what was leftover – “That’s how you train dogs to know who’s the alpha,” says Karen grimly – and if she ever got into an altercation with a leader’s child, she automatically lost. “I never got to be Barbie – I always had to be Skipper,” Karen says. “This narrative of ‘you are less than they are’ has totally affected

me going forward, and I still sometimes live in fear that people around me will find out that I’m supposed to be a peripheral figure – it’s just ingrained.”

Karen’s family left the Sulivanians in 1992, when she was nearly ten years old – her father had broken with the cult and sued her mother for custody of her and her sister, and the story had become very public, with coverage in every major newspaper, People magazine, The Joan Rivers Show, Larry King, and many others. Finally her parents settled on joint custody, and just like that, they packed up and moved to New Jersey, where they were expected to move forward as ‘regular’ kids and leave the past in the past. “That was hard,” Karen says, “and now as a result I overtell the story, I’m very low-boundary about who I share all this with, because the silence was as traumatic to me as the actual experience.” She’s had lots of opportunities to share her side of things – while she was a graduate student at Harvard Divinity School, she was given money to research and write about it, which was useful – “Being able to put a narrative to it made me feel like I had some control over things,” she says – and currently, Keith Newton, whose parents were two of the highest-up Sullivanian leaders, is making a documentary entitled Fourth Wall about the group, and Karen has been interviewed extensively for that.

As an adult, Karen has successfully worked her way through the traumas of her childhood to carve out space for herself in a career that’s gratifying for her and her students alike – her initial call to be a minister transitioned slightly into a call to teach. “I think of it as a ministry still,” she says, “I get to midwife other people’s difficult philosophical and theological work, and by far the place I come most alive is in the classroom.” She’s currently in her second year teaching at Wesleyan, where she’s

taught courses in ancient philosophy, postmodern philosophy, race and religion in U.S. ethics, and post-humanist thought. Her specialty is feminist, queer, and political theology, and her dissertation – titled Unredeemed – may be landing a book contract soon. Her vigorous intellect, obvious passion for what she does, and dynamic, insightful classroom presence won her the student-nominated award for Professor of the Year last year at Wesleyan, which is high praise in a career that can often be exhausting and all-consuming.

Transitioning socially into a new and different environment proved to be a little more difficult for Karen – she did have one good friend here, First Baptist Church of Christ pastor Scott Dickison, and that was of course helpful, but building a true nurturing community took time and work. “I just started to relentlessly put myself out there,” she says. “I used my organizing skills to connect with other people, and I started to feel different and deeper connections - those kinds of authentic relationships are what I crave. I felt like a Martian for awhile, being 34, single, and childless, but now I’m starting to feel like I’ve found my people.” Karen Bray has one of the more fascinating life stories I’ve ever had the pleasure of hearing, and she’s able to discuss difficult topics with quick, fluid depth and introspection – though her childhood spent in a therapy cult has left some dark imprints on her, it’s also brought some positivity with it. “I know that community matters,” she says, “and that it is possible to build friendships that are like family. I know that silence in times of strife isn’t an option and I’m not afraid to speak up.

And I’m not freaked out by anyone else’s story, because I’ve lived through something that could easily destroy someone. I know some people are able to compartmentalize things, but that’s not me – so I had to face it, process it, try to understand it.”

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Maní’s newest album, icanthearwhattheyresayingbutithinkigetit, may best be described as a harmonious blend of experimental and folk music sometimes extremely tranquil in its blend of instrumentation. Yet undertones of rumination are at the album’s core driving the listener to keep hitting replay. Maní consists of Zach Farr (guitar/ vocals), Steven Ledbetter (percussion), and Matt Boone (bass). I spoke with Zach and Steven about the meaning of maní, their new album, inspiration from Twin Peaks, and their likeness to Shrek.

How would you describe your new album?

Steven: Himalayan salt rock [laughter]. Yeah, that’s most adequate term we’ve found to describe the genre.

Zach: In comparison to the other music we’ve played this takes a little bit more of a serious tone.

[There’s] more of a collective tone too since we wrote it as a band and previously it hadn’t been that way. There’s a little bit more of a heaviness to this music.

Steven: Definitely still a lot of playfulness.

In your bio you say you are “a three-piece pretending to be a one-piece.” Explain this.

Zach: The way that we play we try to really gel as one mind to convey a sound that I think comes from one source. We’re also on the same page and it’s more of our intention to connect on such a deep level that we’re thinking with one mind.

When you say heaviness, what do you mean?

Zach: Just through the mood, not like hard rock kind of heaviness. A seriousness of looking within. The theme of the album had a lot to do with looking at the shadow and the mystery of the things that kind of freak us out and learning to make friends with it and being ok with it. But still a sense of humor is one of the tricks of seeing all that stuff as a positive thing.

How do you think that mindset relates to the sound of your band?

Steven: On a technical level or a sonic level the music can be very rhythmic and grooving in a way that almost sounds like the instruments start to blur together.

Zach: There’s lots of push and pull with tempos and rhythm. When we play live together it’s lots of eye contact. We’re not just necessarily keeping with one tempo or the same thing that we did the time before. It’s very much based on communication.

Explain the definition of Maní.

Zach: Maní is in a lot of Eastern traditions and means the wish fulfilling jewel. And the mantra Om Maní Padme Hum is behold the jewel in the lotus of the heart. So it represents that pure place within, behind all the melodrama. It’s just that place of pure being. I think the name being that is just a reminder for us to try to speak and play and act in that place and not get so caught up in the melodrama.

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Steven: It kind of follows the Shrek archetype, if you will. It’s this grotesque beast. It’s like the listener is Fiona. And Shrek or the Shrek series is the album. And as Fiona approaches Shrek it is truly a terrifying force. But it turns out that the monster has a heart of gold. And that’s what we want you to see. That beneath the grotesque exterior of the monster there’s beauty.

What do you think was your biggest influence making this album, band-wise, art-wise, etc.?

Zach: Twin Peaks Season 3 was going on during the whole process. Whether we wanted it to or not, it was a pretty big influence. There’s the whole exploration of the dual nature of reality in Twin Peaks, the balance to be struck between the light and the dark. That’s very much a theme in the album. And certain sounds. There’s the use of electrical humming and certain darker sounding drones that we heard in the show.

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To celebrate 15 years publishing the arts, music and culture of Central Georgia, The 11th Hour throughout 2017 will highlight an article from the past decade worth revisiting.

Q&A WITH

CHRIS ROBINSON Originally published July 14, 2016 - By Brad Evans

Founded in 2011 by Chris Robinson, the Black Crowes frontman, the Chris Robinson Brotherhood came together around guitarist Neal Casal, drummer George Sluppick, bassist Mark Dutton, and Black Crowes keyboard player Adam MacDougall. The group’s studio debut, Big Moon Ritual, arrived in June the following year, with its sequel, The Magic Door, appearing just three months later. A part of our 2016 interview is re-printed below as we welcome CRB back to Macon!

Hey man. Thanks so much for doing this, I know you are a busy man.

One kid is at surf camp and one kid is at nature camp, so I’m actually free for a couple of hours!

I’m loving the new band. There is so much excitement about the upcoming show. When we originally posted that we were going to be interviewing you, we got so much response from fans. That’s so cool. I was just thinking that I haven’t been to Macon in forever.

I don’t remember the last time I was there.

A lot of people were saying that the last time you were here was with the Black Crowes around 1991.

That’s right! 1991. It’s funny because I was also there when the Allman Brothers did that record An Evening With the Allman Brothers. I was there for one of those shows. I was trying to think, was that before the Black Crowes show? I think the Black Crowes played and then I came back for that. We’d go see Mama Louise at H&H, and then go pay our respects to Duane and Berry. One time, we went out to the Big O Ranch.

Speaking of Otis, I did want to ask you about recording “Hard to Handle.” I don’t want to spend our time talking Black Crowes, I want to talk about Chris Robinson Brotherhood, but since it’s got that Macon connection, can you tell me how all that went down?

Yeah, we are giant Otis fans. How can you not be? I brought two songs to that recording. One was that Sam and Dave song, “Broke Down Piece of Man” off the Soul Man record. I love that song too. But then I had “Hard to Handle.” Otis was the man. At that time in my life, I would have been terrified to take on any other Otis tunes.

You know what I mean. But our producer really pushed us towards “Hard to Handle” and felt like it would work with our sound. And boy, did it work. I’m proud of that song. Maybe we turned a few people hip to Otis that didn’t already know about him. If we did that, then I did my job.

Starting a new band after the Black Crowes – that had to be refreshing, huh? It looks like you’re enjoying it, and I’m sure you wouldn’t be doing it if you weren’t. Tell me about that.

Yeah, man. We love our band. I know everyone says that, but we really do. In 2011, we figured out after sitting in a van and playing little clubs up and down – speaking of Santa Cruz, one of our first shows was there – anyway, we figured out we had something – most of all, an outlet, in a creative way, A social way. We’ve all been through a lot of things in our careers. And the big thing was, do we have the fortitude to say what we want to say? I had a lot of people come up to me at those early gigs and say: “Hey man, are you Chris Robinson?” “I am.”

“Well, why are you setting up your own shit?”

“Because nobody gives a shit about this yet.”

And you don’t see the Black Crowes’ name on anything, and we aren’t playing the Black Crowes’ music. Why would I pretend? Why ask people to come be a part of something that they don’t know about? We wanted to start a new band. For me it was kind of cool. Why couldn’t I do something different? Not all of us have to prostrate ourselves in front of the temple of our former selves. It’s not diminishing what I’ve done, not diminishing the Black Crowes. That was a great plan.

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station and you talked about how you had all met at South

By Southwest a couple years ago, can you share that story and experience with us?

Michael: So, three of us, David, Tyler [Rush, bassist], and I had been playing music together since high school with various bands, and we were playing with a different drummer at the time, and we were being a backing band for a Blues guy out of Dallas, we opened for him but he needed a band and asked if we could jump and be his band, and mid set, he asked one of his friends, a drummer, to switch out with our drummer at the time, and that was Tim, so, we met Tim and were jamming with him before we even knew his name. That was a cool experience.

Out of Austin, Texas, The Mammoths play an irresistible blend of Soul and Rock. The band, who was last in town in February, will be rocking The Bird Stage Saturday, September 9 with Voodoo Fix, out of Los Angeles. We were able to catch up with three of the four members of the band, lead singer David Kapsner, lead guitarist Michael Jekot, and percussionist Tim Durand to talk about their current tour and what we can look forward to in the future.

You released your five track EP Golden Spell in early January this year, tell me about the making of that project.

Tim: That was a fun project, it was with Omar Vallejo at 512 Studios, and we put a lot of work into it, but we just recorded three new singles with Chris Smith, aka Frenchie, and we’re releasing those one month at a time. We just put one out a couple days ago called “My Drug”.

It’s good to be having you guys back in Macon on Saturday, September 9 at The Hummingbird Stage & Taproom, what did y’all enjoy most about playing there the last time you were in town?

David: Smoking cigarettes inside [laughing], just kidding. No, it was a good crowd, we were pretty well received, People Exist opened for us and they were really good too. You guys do a really good job of promoting shows out there, too, so, that was really fun for us.

Yeah, I was just about to ask you about “My Drug” which we debuted on the air on Friday; tell me about that track.

David: Yeah, thanks for doing that, man. That one’s kind of been in the works for a little while, we were testing it out on tour since back in February when we were coming through Macon. We were playing it a lot differently on tour, and kind of came back and, we had this producer who recorded us, and he told us to speed it up, add a lot of background vocals, and make it a little catchier, so that’s what we did in the studio and we’re really happy with the final product.

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in February, you played two tracks. One was “So Cold” (off Golden Spell) and I believe you played “My Drug” too.

David: We did, it was a lot slower, and different, but that was an acoustic version of that song.

Y’all are on a big tour right now, you’re hitting the southeast, then heading up to the northeast before coming back down south and heading home to Texas, are there any cities or venues you’re particularly excited about playing these next couple months?

Michael: American Beauty in New York, Midtown, looks and sounds like an amazing place, heard some good things from some friends out there, so I’m pretty excited about that.

David: The Hummingbird, though, too. That place was awesome, we really loved it.

What’s the plan when y’all get back to Austin in the middle of October? Thinking about getting into the studio or just taking a break for a while?

David: There are no breaks. We’ll probably be releasing the second song closer to the end of tour, release the full EP later down the road. We have some shows lined up in Austin for November, but we’ll probably get back in the studio. We’re actually heading back Southeast in December, we’ll be the backing band for a band Acid Tongue, we’ll be opening up for him and then staying on stage and playing with him. So we’ll probably be back in December at the Hummingbird, I would assume.

Be sure to check out The Mammoths’ EP Golden Spell on iTunes and Spotify, and their new single “My Drug” on their SoundCloud page!

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Raelyn Nelson, granddaugter of musical icon Willie Nelson brings her country/garage rock to The Hummingbird Stage!

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go hear live music FRIDAY 15th 20’S PUB 9 p.m. Never a cover

B. KEITH WILLIAMS

Macon’s own B. Keith Williams will be rocking out at 20’s Pub for what is sure to be a night of great music!

Billy’s Clubhouse 10 p.m. No cover

MONCRIEF & FRIENDS

Local favorite Matt Moncrief will bring his friends to North Macon’s favorite music venue . Come out for a couple cold ones and tip your bartenders!

Cox Capitol Theatre 8 p.m. $15-$20

A.J. CROCE

The son of legend Jim Croce, the younger Croce will bring his twang to Macon’s favorite concert venue. Fans of The Creek have heard AJ being played for weeks now, so come on out to the Capitol Theatre for a great night of live music!

THE CRAZY BULL 8 p.m. $5 at the door

JACOB BRYANT W/ A2Z BAND

Up and coming Country Music sensation Jacob Bryant will be rocking The Crazy Bull stage along with local favorites The A2Z Band, so come out and have a great time at Macon’s Favorite Dance Club!

THE HUMMINGBIRD 10 p.m. $5

RAELYN NELSON BAND

As an aspiring female country artist in Nashville, history suggests that the quickest path to success is somehow aligning oneself with one of the major publishers, producers, songwriters, labels, or managers that are the heart of Music Row. So what do you do if you are an aspiring female country artist in Nashville, and also happen to be the granddaughter of musical icon, Willie Nelson?

You hook up with an independent producer and veteran of the rock/punk scene, write some songs that are part Loretta Lynn, part Cheap Trick, and form the Raelyn Nelson Band.

A completely fresh and original sound, a true hybrid and referred to by some critics as “the first installment of a brand new genre in music: Country/ Garage Rock.”

WILD WING CAFE 9:30 p.m. Never a Cover BIG DADDY & CO. Big Daddy is a hot new Dynamic Variety Band, that plays a variety of different jams. They have a little something for all music likes, and tastes. All the members comprise a wealth of years of music and experience and knowledge on the local music scene.

SATURDAY 16th AP’S HIDEAWAY 8 p.m. Never a cover

THE SKEETERZ

Made up of Dawn Palmer, Jim Souleyrette, Richard Woods, Grant Kersey and Paul Campbell, Skeeterz is a local band that won the Georgia State Fair Battle of the Bands in 2011. The band has toured all over the state and have opened for Wet Willie and Molly Hatchet.

Billy’s Clubhouse 10 p.m. No cover

YESTERDAZE ROCK

YDR is made up of musicians from all musical styles and backgrounds, working closely to create a unique sound by adding their signature to the classics that they play. The musical format is comprised mainly of classic rock tunes with some blues and jazz influences mixed in along with a twist of country added for variety!

CAPITOL THEATRE 8 p.m. $25-$30

CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD

“Masterful players on a Grail-like search for the cosmic heart of California.” - MOJO” The Chris Robinson Brotherhood are on the road in 2017 supporting their fourth studio album, ‘Anyway You Love, We Know How You Feel,’ and its follow up companion EP, ‘If You Lived Here, You Would Be Home By Now,’ both out via Robinson’s Silver Arrow Records. Having spent the prior two years touring relentlessly, the CRB were road-tested and in peak form to capture their kinetic chemistry and immersive sound, which Uncut Magazine called, “...a celebration of how American musical traditions can be at once honored and psychedelically expanded.”

Rolling Stone raved that their album was “electrifying…boast[ing] a vintage rock vibe that’s at once quirky, trippy, soulful and downright magnetic!”

Robinson is as energized as he’s ever been in what’s already been a long and historic career as one of rock music’s most prolific and successful songwriters and front men. Joined by guitarist Neal Casal, keyboardist Adam MacDougall, bassist Jeff Hill and drummer Tony Leone, The CRB are on the verge of their most inspired and prolific year yet.

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TYLER HAMMOND BAND

This rising Country musician will take the stage at The Crazy Bull for a night of dancing and fun. Come on out to The Bull and have a great Saturday night!

THE HUMMINGBIRD 10 p.m. $5

SOUL MECHANIC

This progressive Rock band out of Chattanooga blends many different styles into its unique sound. Come have a few cold ones at The Bird and enjoy a great night of live music!

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THROTTLE 21

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SUNDAY 17th AP’S HIDEAWAY 2-6 p.m. Never a cover, on patio

BIG MIKE ON THE PATIO

Local Blues Legend Big Mike will be strumming every Sunday afternoon at Macon’s best kept secret.

GRANT’S LOUNGE

9 p.m. No cover SUNDAY JAM SESSION Sweet Jam session, Happens every Sunday! Showcasing hidden gems of musical talent in Macon. You never know who’ll drop by!

THURSDAY 22st THE HUMMINGBIRD 9 p.m. $5 cover

STOLEN RHODES

Combining blues and rock with a touch of country and a heap of nostalgia, Philadelphia, PA (USA) rockers Kevin Cunningham (guitar), Jack Zaferes (bass), Matt Pillion (vocals, guitar, keys, saxophone) and Larry Shotter (drums) have spent the past year and a half touring in support of their critically acclaimed Slow Horse EP. The tour included over 250 dates plus festivals such as SXSW, Sturgis, Daytona Bike Week, and Rocklahoma. They opened for iconic artists such as Lynyrd Skynyrd, Robert Randolph, Drivin’ N Cryin’ and Blackberry Smoke. They also spent a month touring as support for the Marshall Tucker Band.

FRIDAY 22nd 20’s Pub 9 p.m. Never a cover

Sabin Sharpe

Sabin Sharpe has that rebel voice of Swansea, South Carolina, which shines through in the

Billy’s Clubhouse 10 p.m. No cover

FREE LANCE RUCKUS

Local favorites Free Lance Ruckus will be rocking out at North Macon’s favorite music venue. Come have a cold one with these cool cats and enjoy a great night of live music.

COX CAPITOL THEATRE 8 p.m. $15

BETTY CANTRELL CD RELEASE PARTY

The former Miss America from Warner Robins

debuts her new album Nicotine at this special event at the Cox Capitol Theatre. Betty will be joined by Charles Davis of The Creek and the Crossroads Band. How does someone go from growing up in a double wide trailer outside of Warner Robins, Georgia to becoming Miss America 2016? Well it sure ain’t ‘luck’.

At a young age Betty began singing with the musical influences of Linda Ronstadt and country music, singing songs like Harper Valley PTA with her Dad’s band. Betty began taking professional vocal and stage lessons at 14, continued studying at Mercer University Music program and never looked back with her non-stop drive and determination.

Due to her singing talent it was suggested to her by a friend to enter a pageant at age 19. Although she had never entered a pageant in her life she stepped up and just 24 months later and several pageants she was crowned Miss America 2016.

Now this has become just part of the growing story as Betty moves to the next step with the same determination and confidence in her career as a singer and country music entertainer.

THE CRAZY BULL 8 p.m. $5 at the door

Sabin Sharpe

Sabin Sharpe has that rebel voice of Swansea, South Carolina, which shines through in the singer/ songwriter’s music. Signed to Black Claw Entertainment, Sharpe has been a mainstay on the Southeastern Country music scene. For such a young act, Sharpe is experienced beyond his years and is a can’t miss act in every town that he visits.

Come out to The Bull for this exciting night of live music in Macon.

THE HUMMINGBIRD 10 p.m. $5

SANCTIFIED REVIVAL

Hailing from Atlanta, this band has a passion for Rock music, and puts their own Southern twist on the genre. Come on out to The Bird Stage for what will be a great night of live music!

WILD WING CAFE 9:30 p.m. Never a cover

JUSTIN DUKES

This Nashville recording artist is originally from Vidalia, Georgia. The rising Country star will be rocking out at The Crazy Bull, Macon’s favorite dance club, so come out for a great time!

SATURDAY 23rd AP’S HIDEAWAY 8 p.m. Never a cover

TREY HOMBRE

Straight out of Warner Robins, these local favorites will be picking and grinning down at one of my favorite hideaways, the famous AP’s, one of the best kept secrets in Downtown Macon.

Billy’s Clubhouse 10 p.m. No cover

AJ GAITHER OMB

This country artist out of Arkansas loves to have a great time when he comes to town. Come have a few drinks with this outlaw and hear some of his crazy stories and tunes.

THE CRAZY BULL 8 p.m. $5 at the door

BOBBY COMPTON

Straight out of Comer, Georgia, Bobby Compton has played every nook and cranny of the Southeast. This Country singer/ songwriter has won multiple competitions, including Athens’ University Idol and Dublin’s Redneck Idol. Compton has released two albums, Country Livin’ and Words Left UnSpoken, both available on iTunes and Spotify. Come see him for what should be a great Saturday night of live music at Middle Georgia’s best dance club.

THE HUMMINGBIRD 10 p.m. $5

THE NIGHT SHIFT

This band out of Atlanta was formed in 2014 and plays with so many different sounds, mixing Alternative Rock with psych and folk. Come enjoy another fantastic night of live music in Macon at The Bird Stage!

WILD WING CAFE 9:30 p.m. Never a cover

CAMPBELL AIRLINES

Come out for a great night of food and drink specials and awesome tunes at one of North Macon’s favorite restaurants and music venues.

SUNDAY 24th AP’S HIDEAWAY 2-6 p.m. Never a cover, on the patio BIG MIKE Local blues legend Big Mike will be strumming every Sunday afternoon at Macon’s best kept secret, Aps.

COX CAPITOL THEATRE 8 p.m. $22-25

SHOVELS & ROPE

Shovels and Rope has been a mainstay on The Creek since Day 1 on the air, and they will be having an intimate concert at Macon’s favorite place for live music. folk duo from Charleston, South Car-

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FOCUS GROUP: $10/HR

Six mock jury participants needed to hear legal arguments and enter decisions in a legal case. Focus group will be held in Macon attorney business office. $10.00/hour. One time, 3-4 hour commitment. September 12, 1:00 p.m. Must be willing to sign confidentiality agreement. Email resume or personal work history info to: focusgroupsatl@gmail.com.

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