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from the blogs  CULTURE BRIEFS: An Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation tour of Pulaski Heights inspired David and Tracy Stroud to commission a mural of the neighborhood by Art Rosenbaum.  IN THE LOOP: What did the ACC Commission do on Tuesday? Find out here!  In the Loop: Mark Richt has lost control of his job.

athens power rankings: Nov. 30–DEC. 6 1. World leaders at the Paris climate talks 2. Greg McGarity 3. Drive-By Truckers 4a. Sharyn Dickerson ďˆą 4b. Andy Herod Athens Power Rankings are posted each Monday on the In the Loop blog on flagpole.com.

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and his writers explain and describe music I spent part of a summer driving for a in Athens every week in the paper and pracstatewide political candidate who, when he tically every day online. But their endorseintroduced me at gatherings, increasingly ment is not for sale. They write the truth exaggerated my status to enhance his own. as they hear it, and sometimes, this being a I started out as a political science graduate small community, they follow their mamas’ student, and by the end of the campaign, advice and refrain from saying something his driver was a lawyer. It would not have been politic for me to stand up and object, “I bad. You may not agree with their assessments, but you never have to worry that am not a lawyer.” So, of course I went along with it as one of those harmless political lies they were bought. That kind of enthusiastic and trusted exposure has done far more for that we excuse in our own candidates while the music scene than payola ever could. excoriating them in our opponents.

The same with the arts. Arts Editor There has been a lot written lately about Jessica Smith promotes Athens artists in the level of lying reached in the current her Art Notes colcampaign for presiShe tells you dent, with the canAthens would not be Athens umn. what their art is like didates increasingly without Flagpole. and where it is and untethered from how long it will be any need to adhere up and allows you to be the critic by going to a standard of truth. As observers have to see it for yourself, instead of telling you pointed out, the decline of objective jourwhat you ought to think. nalism, the lack of a commonly acknowlWith all the fragmentation and untrustedged truth and the absence of a consensus worthy voices that report the “news” or regarding the accuracy of facts leaves all bring you their own self-serving messages candidates free to make up their own verdisguised as news, Flagpole for the last sion of truth. And it doesn’t matter that we 28 years has remained a local voice you all have the means to run an instant check know and trust. It is important for Athens on facts, because many voters have been to have a local, trusted voice. On this, conditioned to believe that opinion is the same as fact. So now we see the spectacle of politicians who no longer need to twist facts; they can simply ignore them or make them up.

The late, peripatetic troubadour Gamble Rogers used to say that in a small town everybody knows what everybody else is doing; they just read the newspaper to find out who got caught.

But maybe Gamble’s paradigm has shifted, and by simply denying what’s in the paper, you can get off the hook.

Or maybe Gamble At least Britain had a lot of papers for there to be nothing in, as depicted in is still right, at least in this 1871 Punch cartoon by Sir John Tennile, famous as the illustrator of Alice a small town, where in Wonderland. everybody can see the truth with their own eyes and recognize it if Flagpole’s 28th birthday, we can say Athens would not be Athens without Flagpole. it shows up in the newspaper.

An added benefit, of course, is that That’s what makes somebody like local businesses know their advertising Flagpole City Editor Blake Aued so valuable in a town like Athens. His job is to write the in Flagpole is seen within the context of truth, as he sees it, regardless of his opinion Flagpole’s reputation for honesty and regard for the truth. Where you advertise is just about it. In the format of City Dope, he as important as what you advertise, and can even occasionally throw in his opinion, Flagpole advertisers buy into Athens by but you know exactly where he’s coming making their voices part of Flagpole’s voice. from, and you know where he lives, or at So, what you get in Flagpole—and have least where he works, and you can complain for 28 years—is the voice of your commudirectly to him by telephone, email, online nity, telling you what’s going on and offercomments or a face-to-face chat. Blake is ing you ways to enhance your experience of not some disembodied snark floating on our town. the Internet. He is a conscientious, serious, For 28 years, Flagpole writers and experienced journalist—a known quantity, advertisers have promoted and celebrated and he is trying to tell you what’s going on, our colorful town in all its richness and in spite of what politicians say. diversity. That’s why we call Flagpole the Music Editor Gabe Vodicka is a great “Colorbearer of Athens.” f proponent of the Athens music scene. He

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A Degree Is Getting Expensive The Cost of Attending UGA Has Tripled in 15 Years

By Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com If you have a child attending one of Georgia’s public universities, you may have the perception that the cost of college is going up faster here than just about anywhere else. That perception is accurate.

A new study released by the Urban Institute shows that from 2010–2015, tuition for four-year public colleges increased by 48 percent in Georgia, higher than every other state except Louisiana, where costs went up by 56 percent.

In 2001–02, Georgia provided an average of $10,598 in public funds for every full-time college student. Thanks to budgetcutting and an economic downturn, that amount was reduced to $8,553 in 2011–12.

Thankfully, the money Georgia allocates for colleges increased to $8,882 per student by 2013–14, but that’s still a substantial drop from what it once was.

As the state provided less money for colleges, the Board of Regents made up the difference by raising tuition rates. The average tuition has tripled since the 2002–03 academic year. There was a time when tuition only had to cover about 25 percent of the costs of attending college. Today, tuition has to cover about half the cost, placing more of a financial burden on students.

Here’s another important number: the amount of money allocated to instructional expenditures. This is what pays for professors’ salaries and for the facilities used by students. During the 2012–13 academic year, the national average expenditure per student for instructional purposes was $9,480. Georgia’s per-student expenditure for that year was $6,669, ranking it 46th in the country. Only Florida, Utah, Montana and South Dakota spent less per student.

These numbers are important because Gov. Nathan Deal has said that increasing

the number of people who attend college or technical college would be one of his top priorities. “By 2020, more than 60 percent of job openings in Georgia will require some form of postsecondary education,” Deal said during his first term. “To meet this demand, we must increase the number of students graduating with post-secondary degrees in a timely, cost-effective manner.”

When you keep boosting tuition rates, however, you ensure that fewer people will be able to afford college. Since 2011, the total enrollment in Georgia’s public college has declined slightly or stayed flat.

University system enrollment is now about 318,000 students, which is where it was in the fall of 2011, even though the state’s overall population has continued to grow.

There are now more than 136,000 students in Georgia who have to take out a loan to help pay college costs. This represents more than half of the University System’s undergraduates. Many students who do manage to earn a degree must sign for loans that can take them years to pay off—if indeed they can ever liquidate them. Last year, according to the University System, there were 9,500 students on the verge of being dropped from the college rolls because of money shortages. About 3,000 of them were able to obtain “gap funding” to help pay final costs, but the rest were presumably kept out of school.

Deal is correct when he says Georgia needs to increase its number of graduates.

That’s the sort of thing all governors should strive for and it would be good for the future of this state.

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Is the Eastside the Leastside?

Yes, It’s Been Struggling, but the Eastside Has Potential

By Blake Aued news@flagpole.com as a major problem. Step one is fixing the Loop interchange at Barnett Shoals Road, and the Georgia Department of Transportation—right now, at least—is planning on tackling that in the next couple of years. “It’s been in GDOT’s plans to rebuild it since God was a child, and they’ve finally got the money to do it,� Herod said.

Cars, of course, are just one mode of transportation, and not necessarily one we want to encourage. The ULI report also recommends express buses, as well as a system of trails. Finally, the long-awaited Firefly Trail between

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Eastsiders have always viewed their part of town as sort of the red-headed stepchild of Athens. While downtown and intown neighborhoods on the Westside seem to get all the love—from both businesses and the local government—the Eastside, like Atlanta Highway, has been seeing more than its fair share of decay lately.

Broadly speaking, the Eastside is seen as a place that lacks an identity. Conversation is shifting toward how we can take advantage of what the Eastside has to offer to help it live up to its potential. An Urban Land Institute report commissioned by a Lexington Road study committee and released in late October details strategies for bringing growth to the Eastside, and the civic group the Federation of Neighborhoods held a panel discussion on the same topic a few weeks ago. “The option of doing nothing will lead to further decline,� says the ULI report, written by outside experts in planning, real estate and development. “This area must grow or die.� Here’s how all the pieces could come together.

Retail: Lexington Road is a prime commercial corridor anchored by Walmart, Lowe’s and Ovation Cinema, which serve not only 30,000 Eastside residents, but also those from neighboring Oglethorpe County. It’s also dotted with empty big boxes, like the old Kmart, due in part to demographic changes (students moving away) and corporate downsizing, leaving Eastsiders with fewer shopping options. “If Some vacant big boxes on the Eastside are filling back up, but more still sit empty. you want a tie, you have to drive 20 minutes across Dudley Park and the Loop is under construction, and the town,� said Commissioner Sharyn Dickerson, who repreNorth Oconee River Greenway in a few years will extend sents the area along with Andy Herod. through campus to the College Station Road area. The ULI Some of those big boxes are being filled; for example, report goes further, recommending a multi-use path along by the Ollie’s that recently opened in the once-failing Lexington Road. The path would connect Firefly Trail, the Willowood shopping center, where a Goodwill opened a greenway, the park-and-ride lot and a “wellness node� with couple of years ago. A recently approved zoning tweak to a new park to downtown and the commercial nodes further the Walmart shopping center allowing outparcel buildings east. to face Lexington Road will make finding tenants easier.

Left unresolved is the way the Loop and the Eastside’s Aldi is still poking around. four- and five-lane roads slice up neighborhoods, making Much more can be done to spur commercial investthem less walkable. In particular, Lexington Road is difment. Better transportation, new housing options and tax ficult to cross and the Loop is nearly impossible. People try subsidies could all play a role. For example, ULI envisions all the time, but they’re risking their lives. They shouldn’t Athens-Clarke County capitalizing on the craft-beer craze by using tax incentives to put breweries in vacant big boxes, have to. drawing tourists to the area. The University of Georgia’s Housing: The Eastside has an aging housing stock, with sinnew veterinary teaching hospital could be an industry hub, gle-family neighborhoods that date back to the 1960s and too, just as human hospitals are for the Westside. former student apartments of around the same age that have become Section 8 complexes, leading to a perception Transportation: New businesses won’t be enticed to the of crime, even if the crime rate is actually low, according to Eastside unless customers have a way to get there, and an the ULI report. online survey of more than 700 local residents cited traffic

Strictly enforcing quality-of-life ordinances could “force bad landlords to clean up their act,� Herod said. Again, tax incentives could also spur redevelopment—those property owners aren’t likely to make improvements or sell as long the government checks keep rolling in. Increasing density in multifamily zones could also make redevelopment more feasible financially.

Housing for retirees is a hot topic, and ULI sees the area near Walmart and Southeast Clarke Park as perfect for a senior-oriented development. Likewise, developers are building plenty of expensive intown infill, but not enough new housing for young families “who can’t afford a $500,000 mortgage quite yet,� Planning Commission Chairwoman Alice Kinman said. A $150,000–$200,000 price point is ideal, according to ULI. The Airport: One of the Eastside’s most overlooked assets is Athens-Ben Epps Airport. While it currently lacks a commercial carrier, it does a brisk business in general aviation, especially charter and corporate jets flying executives on business trips to Athens. Without the airport, we’d never have landed Caterpillar. “Those planes are in and out of the Athens airport quite frequently,� Airport Manager Tim Beggerly said. “We’re one of the busiest small airports in the state,� with about 100 flights a day. A new air-traffic control tower and a recent runway extension that’s safer and lets jets fully fuel up before taking off will make Ben Epps even more attractive.

Now if we could just get a commercial carrier. It’s tough, since the major airlines don’t want to fly small planes out of small cities anymore, especially since Atlanta is nearby. But that leaves an opportunity for entrepreneurs to take over those “puddle jumper� services, Beggerly said. The airport also needs better signage, ULI told us, but commissioners, knowing we were about to lose our airline, scrapped plans for a highly visible Lexington Road entrance and scaled back a planned commercial terminal.

Cleaning Up: A lot of the ideas for the Eastside are longterm, but one quick and simple thing to do is just spruce up the joint a bit—some planted medians and public art, for example, would not only make the Eastside easier on the eyes but help “brand� it. “If things look like crap, you don’t want to be there,� Herod said. “That’s a technical term we use in government.� An easy place to start would be all of the ACC buildings along Lexington Road, like the police station and the tag office.

Many of ULI’s recommendations, the authors said, can be achieved within three years, including right-of-way acquisition for trails, beautification, zoning changes and putting tax-incentive tools into place. That is, if someone (Herod? Dickerson?) takes ownership and keeps all the lines of communication open. Our biggest weakness as a city isn’t planning, but the political will to follow through. “There’s no shortage of vision, no shortage of opportunities,� said David Hamilton, the Federation of Neighborhoods president and a Cedar Creek homeowner. “How we make that a reality is how we tend to run into a brick wall sometimes.� f

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Letters to the Future

Will the U.N. Climate Change Conference Succeed?

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orld leaders from more than 190 countries have convened in Paris during the first two weeks of December for the long-awaited United Nations Climate Change Conference. Will the governments of the world finally pass a binding global treaty aimed at reducing the most dangerous impacts of global warming… or will they fail in this task?

Letters to the Future, a national project involving more than 40 alternative weeklies across the United States, set out to find activists, authors, artists, scientists and others willing to get creative and draft letters to future generations predicting the success or failure of the Paris talks—and what came after. Some participants were optimistic about what is to come; some not so much. We hereby present some of their visions of the future.

We Really Did Try

By Rich Rusk

For this American, with rising seas, record droughts and raging fires already upon us, with terrible climate impacts coming even if fossil fuel use ended tomorrow, these are discouraging times.

Words of wisdom? Let’s start with an apology—to my own children and grandchildren and the billions yet unborn. I am so sorry.

This 69-year-old baby boomer with his Ivy League education, strong mentors and full awareness of what Al Gore, James Hanson and climate scientists have been predicting for 30 years, has no excuse. Even my own father, Dean Rusk, former secretary of state for John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s, sat me down in 1994, several weeks before his death.

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your generation,” he warned. “You need to get after it!”

I adored my aging father, and that should have done it. But I did like everyone else: I kicked the climate can down the road for another 12 years.

What finally got me involved? For this fly fisherman, it took trout dying in North Georgia streams and state hatcheries during the 2006–2007 droughts. They rolled up dead in low water and 85 degree stream temperatures. Something precious for me had to die before my very eyes.

We are playing catch-up now. Millions of Americans remain skeptical of the science, with climate-change denial a cottage industry. Our politics are awash with fossil fuel money, Congress is at an impasse, and the upcoming 2016 elections are uncertain.

Yet this Georgian and millions of fellow activists are working hard and doing all we can. Just a few weeks ago, I witnessed former Vice President Al Gore in Miami, splashing through downtown streets flooded by rising seas and high tides, to deliver his achingly compelling message before 1,000 activists from around the globe. Rising from the ashes of his 2000 defeat, he redefined his life and launched his Climate Reality Project crusade into high gear—a last-ditch, impassioned, allout effort to rally the world and save our planet from irrevocable change.

“My fellow Americans, the climate crisis is not a political issue. It is a moral issue,” said Gore, lacing his message with words of hope, powerful reminders of global actions by ordinary people and America’s success in dealing with past threats.

“Political will is a renewable resource. It is time to renew it.

“When we have really important work to do,” he continued, “it can become a source of joy.

“We can make a huge difference,” he implored. “It is too late to avoid climate change. But with luck, it is not too late to avoid the truly catastrophic, civilizationending impacts.”

Intermixed with today’s brutal climate realities, Gore’s event was a giant pep rally.

Our hearts were in our throats.

To the billions yet unborn: When you look back at this 2015 Paris Conference, Gore and the way-late efforts of your ancestors, however this turned out, there were millions of us who really did try.

Rusk is secretary of the Georgia Climate Change Coalition, an advocacy group based in Athens.

The Revolution Was Televised

By Dan Everett

I had expected major demonstrations in Paris, but nothing like this.

I expected another show, like the last few climate summits: Well-dressed world leaders fly in from all over, give stirring speeches about bold action to save our beloved planet from climate chaos, then quietly head for the exits when the time comes to make binding commitments. But this time, the crowd refused to let them leave.

After 400,000 of us marched in New York in 2014, I had expected a million in Paris. And a million did show up, but that was just the beginning. The demonstrators self-organized into tens of thousands of Occupy-style discussions. A few members of each cluster volunteered to act as representatives for citizens of the rest of the world. A small farmer in Bangladesh, a slum dweller in Nairobi or a plantation worker in Indonesia would listen and speak out through their representative. They sent

their music, as well, and the streets of Paris throbbed with the beats of a hundred cultures. For the first time ever, the Internet was fulfilling its promise of enabling a global community.

Everyone wanted to be there. The first million was joined by another million and another, until the city of Paris was immobilized. But Paris still could eat, thanks to spontaneous cooperation of the bakers and grocers and truckers and the crowds who let them pass. They delivered fresh breads and fruits to the delegates and politely informed them that they could leave after they came up with a workable plan to quit using fossil fuels by 2030 and create a carbon-neutral world by 2050. Millions of world citizens were asking why they gave their loyalty to an economic order that impoverished them while it destroyed their planet.

The world’s business leaders decided enough was enough. They knew that the world was transitioning to renewables anyway, just from market forces. They knew that pushing the transition through in 15 years instead of 50 would require putting a couple of trillion bucks on the table in the short term, but they’d get the money back from the growth in the global economy; and besides, it was better than having their mansions burned down by angry mobs.

When push came to shove and capitalism itself was threatened, the rest of the corporate world threw the oil and coal companies under the bus.

You kids today have seen a couple of gasoline engines at the Old-Timers’ Car Club, but you don’t know all the wars we fought and the people we killed over that stuff. You haven’t read about how sick kids in Beijing used to get from the coal pollution, or how they ripped the tops off of mountains.

You have no idea how hard my generation had to fight to save this world for you.

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However, there are groups of humans that realized the destruction and environmental impact we humans have brought on the earth. We formed organizations and smaller factions to spread the word and pass along our concerns and information to the higher-ups that ran the countries.

For some time, some of these government officials ignored or covered their eyes to the realities of global warming and opted to concern themselves with power, money and religion. Not all officials followed suit, and some even changed their tune to join the revolution. As these enviro-groups and organizations grew, we have gained more support.

We have been making baby steps to reverse the damages that we (and our ancestors) have caused. Some of us have even obliterated the mass-production notions of the early 20th Century and have

These words will bring you no solace and they bring no joy to me, but I feel that by way of confession I must say them nonetheless. I am sorry. Very, very sorry. As I think of the misery we have visited upon you and the coming generations, I mourn that you will never see a coral reef; never walk among majestic trees; never fish from a river that runs as cold as ice or lie among wildflowers as far as the eye can see.

To say that we have failed you is the biggest understatement of all time. It is not as if we did not see this coming. We did. Some of us rang the clarion bell, but too few of us joined in and even fewer paid any heed.

For decades, we knew that the planet was warming and that the oceans were turning to acid. Yet we carried on as if all was well, smug in the knowledge that the Earth has seen such cycles before, and things basically turned out OK. Why should we risk our comfortable lives when scientists refused to speak in certainties?

Yet we forgot about time—that what in the past had taken millennia, we were undoing in decades. When scientists described the pending calamity as “probable” or ‘likely” or “almost certain,” that left some room for doubt, did it not? If they were not 100 percent certain that such things would come to pass and that it was within our ability to control them, why should we concern ourselves with those things that might happen long after we have gone? Now it is you who must suffer the consequences of our indolence.

In 2015, we had one final opportunity to get it right, but our collective misunderstanding of the scientists kept us from doing so. The inherent distrust that existed between nations kept us from doing so. Our selfishness and lack of regard for you, our own flesh and blood, kept us from doing so.

So we did next to nothing. Too little, too late.

Do not blame our parents, or our grandparents or those who came before them.

True, it was mostly they who set this wheel in motion, but they knew little of the consequences of their actions. We, however, have

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At the time of this writing, it is hard not to imagine that your world is a postapocalyptic mess completely dissolved of natural resources, with very few animals, vegetation or the in-between organisms.

We could also assume that there is hardly any clean water for you. It may seem funny or strange to you that we had stores miles away from home that constantly gave out plastic bags to put your food in to carry about 500 feet to your vehicle that ran on fossil fuel and parked on asphalt. Some generations of humans even eradicated various animal species, while forced overbreeding of other species, in turn, seriously disrupted many ecosystems and the overall well being of this beautiful sphere and its inhabitants.

It may even seem stranger to you that there were groups of humans who refused to believe that global warming even existed, much less was exacerbated by humans.

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Farmer is a professor of cellular biology at the University of Georgia.

The Home Office

By Donnell Alexander

Good day, my beautiful bounty. It probably feels redundant to someone rockin’ in 2070, a year that’s gotta be wavy in ways I can’t imagine, but… Your great, greatgrandpappy is old-school.

And when my old-school ass thinks about how the backdrop to your existence changed when the Paris climate talks failed, it harkens to the late-20th Century rap duo Eric B. & Rakim. Music is forever. Probably it sounds crazy that the musical idiom best known in your time as the foundation of the worldwide cough syrup industry could ever have imparted anything enlightening.

You can look it up, though—before the Telecommunications Act of ‘96, such transformations happened not infrequently.

But that’s another letter. MC Rakim had this scrap of lyric from “Teach the Children”—a pro-environment slapper that hit the atmosphere closer to Valdez newspaper headline days than when the Web gave us pictures of death smoke plumes taking rise above Iraq. For you, these are abstract epochs. Alaska still had permafrost, the formerly frozen soil that kept methane safely underground. The domino that fell, permafrost. And I could tell you that humans skied Earth’s mountains. Yes, I know: Snow.

An antique reference, no question.

That Rakim verse. It went: Teach the children, save the nation I see the destruction, the situation They’re corrupt, and their time’s up soon But they’ll blow it up and prepare life on the moon.

My bounty, it’s easy to Monday-morning quarterback—the NFL will be around forever, like herpes—from my 2015 vantage point. But I did not do an adequate job of teaching the children about what our corporate overlords had in store for them. Didn’t do it with Exxon or Volkswagen. Didn’t do it when Rakim initially sold me on the premise. And, to be honest, I haven’t done a bunch of it this year, as sinkholes form and trees fall in parts of the Arctic that Mother Earth could only ever imagined frozen solid.

Make no mistake: I want these words to function as much as a godspeed note as one of confession. Good luck with your new methane-dictated normal, and the sonic pollution and spiritual upset of those executive flights to colonized Mars. Or, as the president calls that planet, the Home Office. Conditions should have never come to this though. And we’ll always have Paris to remind us of what might have been.

Alexander is the author of the memoir Ghetto Celebrity and has written for ESPN The Magazine, LA Weekly and other publications.

Sorry About That

By T.C. Boyle

Dear Rats of the Future: Congratulations on your bipedalism; it’s always nice to be able to stand tall when you need it, no? And

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great on losing that tail too (just as we lost ours). No need for that awkward (and let’s face it: ugly) kind of balancing tool when you walk upright, plus it makes fitting into your blue jeans a whole lot easier. Do you wear blue jeans—or their equivalent?

No need, really, I suppose, since you’ve no doubt retained your body hair. Well, good for you.

Sorry about the plastics. And the radiation. And the pesticides. I really regret that you won’t be hearing any bird songs anytime soon, either, but at least you’ve got that wonderful musical cawing of the crows

exactly mouth-watering, when prepared with sage and onions. Do you have sage and onions? But forgive me: Of course you do.

You’re an agrarian tribe at heart, though in our day we certainly did introduce you to city life, didn’t we? Bright lights, big city, right? At least you don’t have to worry about abattoirs, piggeries, feed lots, bovine intestinal gases and the like—or, for that matter, the ozone layer, which would have been long gone by the time you started walking on two legs. Does that bother you?

The UV rays, I mean? But no, you’re a nocturnal tribe anyway, right?

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to keep your mornings bright. And, of course, I do expect that as you’ve grown in stature and brainpower you’ve learned to deal with the feral cats, your one-time nemesis, but at best occupying a kind of ratty niche in your era of ascendancy. As for the big cats—the really scary ones, tiger, lion, leopard, jaguar—they must be as remote to you as the mammoths were to us. It goes without saying that with the extinction of the bears (polar bears: they were a pretty silly development anyway, and of no use to anybody beyond maybe trophy hunters) and any other large carnivores, there’s nothing much left to threaten you as you feed and breed and find your place as the dominant mammals on earth. (I do expect that the hyenas would have been something of a nasty holdout, but as you developed weapons, I’m sure you would have dispatched them eventually.)

Apologies too about the oceans, and I know this must have been particularly hard on you since you’ve always been a seafaring race, but since you’re primarily vegetarian, I don’t imagine that the extinction of fish would have much affected you. And if, out of some nostalgia for the sea that can’t be fully satisfied by whatever hardtack may have survived us, try jellyfish. They’ll be about the only thing out there now, but I’m told they can be quite palatable, if not

Anyway, I just want to wish you all the best in your endeavors on this big blind rock hurtling through space. My advice?

Stay out of the laboratory. Live simply. And, whatever you do, please—I beg you—don’t start up a stock exchange.

P.S. In writing you this missive, I am, I suppose, being guardedly optimistic that you will have figured out how to decode this ape language I’m employing here—especially given the vast libraries we left you when the last of us breathed his last.

the world does the same for you. I’m fighting for you, for everyone in your generation across the world, to ensure that you have more than a fighting chance at that bright future. A world without the dangers of global climate change is the world that you will inherit.

What is climate change? Never heard of it? I’m so very glad if you haven’t. Let me try to explain. I warn you, though, this can be kind of scary.

When we first started building up our cities, roads and towns in what was called the Industrial Revolution, we burned all sorts of fuels—coal, oil and natural gas.

While these things helped us heat our homes, drive our cars and expand our cities, we didn’t realize that they also clouded our air, dirtied our water and made us sick.

More than that, the burning of all those fuels made our planet sick. All the other animals and plants that we share this world with were getting sick, too. The planet became warmer, which created a mixed-up chaos of terrible hurricanes, tornadoes, raging wildfires, drought and increased hunger, growing rates of asthma and lung disease and the extinction of animals at an unprecedented rate.

So, my dear grandchildren, we faced a choice. We could keep doing what we had been doing, or we could make the choice to take a stand for our future—your future and the planet’s future—by creating the framework to begin to move away from this scary legacy.

The wind turbines and solar panels that power your world, electric cars, high-speed trains and solar airplanes weren’t so commonplace in my time. They required a revolution in how we think about energy, about our relationship to the world, about our faith in our own capacity to innovate and change.

What took us so long? Sigh. It’s a long story, but like many of the children’s books you grew up with, it was a story of greed, short-sightedness and wizards with too much gold. But against these challenges, sometimes with great bravery, people— young and old from every nation—stood up and demanded that we take the steps to curb this terrible scourge.

I hope you will know this to be true. I hope you will remember that many years ago, your grandma and many others across the world stood up and demanded that we make the world a better place. I hope you know that it was a difficult path, just like my parents so many years ago. And I hope you know we did it thinking of you and the future you now inherit.

T.C. Boyle has published 14 novels and more than 100 short stories.

Rhea Suh is the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization.

I’m Fighting For You

Beautiful Creatures

I can only imagine the wonderful world you are growing up in. I think of that world—your future—almost every day. I think about how to make sure it is a place where all your hopes and dreams can come true.

A long time ago, my parents traveled across the world from Korea to the United States in search of a brighter future for me and my sisters. Today, I am writing you from Paris, a city that I have traveled across the world to get to, in order to make sure

Already I know some of you, with your quick liquid eyes, your supple movements, the way you look and listen in your world.

I’ll write to you, and to your descendants, the ones I will never know, you whose lovely quick shapes and minds will illuminate their own world.

Let me tell you what this world is like, the world I grew up in, about its beauty and variety.

Let me tell you about the miraculous Monarch butterfly, a shimmering flicker

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of amber that alights in our meadows, and feeds on our ragged milkweed plants. It lays eggs on the leaves, eggs that become fat striped caterpillars, which become tiny glowing gold-rimmed jade urns. These, magically, contain the butterflies, which turn dark and vivid as the moment of their emergence approaches. The butterflies themselves, flimsy, erratic, fly thousands of miles to a place theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never seen, to spend the winter. This quick amber miracle has been mine to admire every summer of my life.

And let me tell you about the polar bear, the largest land mammal, a bear of unimaginable size, with a pelt of pewter-white, a color to freeze your blood, and well it might, because they live at unimaginable temperatures, cold so deep it will freeze your breath inside your chest, freeze the salt sea, freeze the wind in the sky, but not the polar bear.

Vast and unstoppable, the polar bear will swim through the frozen seas, pad over wrecked floes, slide in and out of water, fog, ice and snow. He is an apex predator, 12 feet high and weighing 2,000 pounds. He has 42 curved ivory teeth, and his paws are 12 inches across, armed with curved, lethal claws. Beautiful, wild, invincible, he has no animal enemies. It took 100,000 years for the polar bear to evolve from their nearest cousins, the brown grizzly, and now polar bears rule the arctic, with their lazy gait, their deadly black stare, their great majestic presence.

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Let me tell you about the little brown bat, a small nocturnal flier that kindly eats our insects, flickering wildly through our evenings in pursuit of our mosquitoes.

Bats flooded out of those louvers in our old barnâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen the pictures of itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; every evening, all summer, hundreds of them, speeding out into the quiet dusk. We watched them, standing on the lawn: It was like a natural fireworks show, the silent, darting glimpses of wings flashing against the darkening sky.

Let me tell you about the frogs, leopardspotted, with dark spherical marks ringed with gold, green frogs with round black eyes, that sat motionless beneath a leaf, waiting for an insect. Or the gray tree frog, the tiny one that climbs into the tall eupatorium plants in the garden, disguising its tiny mottled body among the leaves.

There are more I could tell you about, thousands of animals and birds and insects

whom we are lucky to have now in our lives.

But I think you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know them, dear descendants. I think that by the time you read this many of them will be gone. There is always a reason to kill a creature, it turns out, and it always makes money for someone to do so. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how it is in our world.

I wish I could show you these quick and beautiful creatures who were entrusted into our care, and not just describe them. I wish I could show them to you.

A novelist and essayist who writes often about the natural world, Robinson is president of the Authors Guild.

Political Boneheads

By Jim Hightower

Hello? People of the futureâ&#x20AC;Ś Anyone there? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your forebears checking in with you from generations ago. We were the stewards of the Earth in 2015â&#x20AC;&#x201D;a dicey time for the planet, humankind and life itself. Andâ&#x20AC;Ś well, howâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d we do? Anyone still there? Hello.

A gutsy, innovative and tenacious environmental movement arose around the globe back then to try lifting common sense to the highest levels of industry and government. We had made great progress in developing a grassroots consciousness about the suicidal consequences for us (as well as those of you future earthlings) if we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t act pronto to stop the reckless industrial pollution that was causing climate change. Our message was straightforward: When you realize youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve dug yourself into a hole, the very first thing to do is stop digging.

Unfortunately, our grassroots majority was confronted by an elite alliance of narcissistic corporate greedheads and political boneheads.

They were determined to deny environmental reality in order to grab more short-term wealth and power for themselves.

Centuries before this, some Native American cultures adopted a wise ethos of deciding to take a particular action only after contemplating its impact on the seventh generation of their descendants. In 2015, however, the ethos of the dominant powers was to look no further into the future than the three-month forecast of corporate profits.

As I write this letter to the future, delegations from the nations of our world are gathering to consider a global agreement on steps we can finally take to rein in the looming disaster of global warming. But at this convocation and beyond, will we have the courage for boldness, for choosing people and the planet over short-term profits for the few? The peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movement is urging the delegates in advance to remember that the opposite of courage is not cowardice, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conformityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just going along with the flow. After all, even a dead fish can go with the flow, and if the delegates donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dare to swim against the corporate current, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all dead. k continued on next page

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Back around the turn of the century, flying to space was a rare human privilege, a dream come true, the stuff of movies (look it up) and an almost impossible ambition for children the world around.

But I was one of those fortunates. And what I saw from the cold, thick, protective windows of the space shuttle is something that, despite my 40 years of dreaming (I was never a young astronaut), I never remotely imagined.

Not that I was new to imagining things.

As you may know, I was somehow born with a passion for the sky, for flight and for the mysteries of the atmosphere. I built and flew death-defying gliders, learned to fly properly, earned university degrees in the science of flight and then spent the rest of my life exploring Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s atmosphere from below it, within it and above it. My hunger was never satisfied, and my love of flight never waned at all, even though it tried to kill me many times.

As I learned to fly in gliders, then small aircraft, then military jets, I always had the secure feeling that the atmosphere was the infinite â&#x20AC;&#x153;long delirious burning blueâ&#x20AC;? of Mageeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poem, even though of all people, I well knew about space and its nearness. It seemed impossible to believe that with just a little more power and a little more bravery, I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t continue to climb higher and higher on â&#x20AC;&#x153;laughter-silvered wings.â&#x20AC;? My life was a celebration of the infinite gift of sky, atmosphere and flight.

But what I saw in the first minutes of entering space, following that violent, life-changing rocket-ride, shocked me. If you look at Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s atmosphere from orbit, you can see it â&#x20AC;&#x153;on edgeâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;gazing towards the horizon, with the black of space above and the gentle curve of the yes-itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-round planet below. And what you see is the most exquisite, luminous, delicate glow of a layered azure haze holding the Earth like an ethereal eggshell. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s it?!â&#x20AC;? I thought.

The entire skyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;MY endless skyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;was only a paper-thin, blue wrapping of the planet, and looking as tentative as frost.

And this is the truth. Our Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s atmosphere is fragile and shockingly tinyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; maybe 4 percent of the planetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s volume. Of all the life we know about, only one species has the responsibility to protect that precious blue planet-wrap. I hope we did, and I hope you do.

After 36 years as an astronaut, Robinson retired from NASA in 2012. He is now a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, Davis.

Nevada desert was my home. Our family didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t travel or take vacations, but we were able to visit Fort Piute Springs, which was just 15 miles from our home.

Fort Piute Springs was a starkly beautiful place. From the gushing ponds of water to the beautiful lily pads and cattails, Fort Piuteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beauty was magical. Decades later, I returned to visit Fort Piute Springs and found the magical place of my childhood in ruins. I remember thinking how sad it was that my descendants would never get to appreciate the stark beauty of the desert I cherished as a child. It was in that moment that I decided to fight to protect our environment.

Throughout my career, I fought to protect my home and my country from the permanent damage of climate change. I thought about the world you would live in, the burdens you would face and the health issues that could one day challenge your very existence. You deserve a chance to experience the beautiful world that I grew up in. We all need clean air, clean water and natural resources to lead healthy lives. The idea that our actions could jeopardize your future was simply unbearable.

The only way to solve this problem was if we all worked together to save the planet for you and future generations. During my lifetime, the overwhelming majority of scientists across the world concluded that pollution from burning fossil fuels was beginning to raise temperatures and alter our climate. These scientists predicted that if countries failed to work together to replace fossil fuels with cleaner energy sources, the world would face uncontrollable rising temperatures and sea levels, water shortages, climate-fueled migration crises and landscape-altering wildfire, drought and extreme weather.

At the close of 2015, the world finally did something about it. Everybody knew we needed to address climate change, and that a failure to lead could destroy the progress we fought so hard to achieve and endanger your future. In the face of this reality, the United States pressed on and led a historic global agreement to change the course of climate change worldwide. We had already done so many things to make Nevada a cleaner, greener placeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but now the entire world was ready to join us.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m proud of the work we did to protect our environment for you. I hope by now you can run just about everything on renewable energy and you no longer have to worry about if your children will suffer from asthma because of smog.

Today you may face a number of issues I could have never imagined. My hope has always been that the United Statesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; efforts to combat climate change would create a cleaner future for my descendants and future Nevadans. I hope that you are no longer burdened with the issue of climate change and can enjoy more of the Nevada I have always known. But if you face similar challenges, draw strength from my experiences and continue to fight for a cleaner environment.

Incredible People

By Annie Leonard

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to imagine writing to the granddaughter of my own daughter, but if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re anything like herâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;strong, smart, occasionally a little stubbornâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;then I have no doubt the world is in good hands.

By now, your school should have taught you about climate change and how humans helped to bring it about with our big cars, big homes, big appetites and an endless desire for more stuff. But what the teachers and textbooks may not have passed on are the stories of incredible people who helped make sure the planet remained beautiful and livable for you.

These are stories of everyday people doing courageous things because they couldn’t stand by and watch communities poisoned by pollution, the Arctic melt or California die of fire and drought. They couldn’t bear to think of New Orleans under water again, or New York lost to a superstorm. Right now, as politicians weigh up options and opinion polls, people are organizing an uprising. It’s amazing to see and be a part of.

In the year that led up to the 2015 meeting of global leaders on climate change in Paris, kayakers took to the water to stop oil rigs. Nurses, musicians, grannies, preachers and even beekeepers took to the streets.

The message was loud and clear: “We want clean, safe, renewable energy now!”

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Were it not for this glorious rainbow of people power, I don’t know whether President Obama would have stepped up and canceled oil drilling in the Alaskan Arctic or the sale of 10 billion tons of American coal that were set to tip the planet towards climate chaos. But he did.

This paved the way for an era of unprecedented innovation, as entrepreneurs and academics fine-tuned the best ways to harness the unlimited power of our wind, waves and sun, and make it available to everyone. We’ve just seen the first ever oceanic crossing by a solar plane, and I can only imagine what incredible inventions have grown in your time from the seeds planted in this energy revolution we’re experiencing right now.

I want to tell you about this because there was a time we didn’t think any of it was possible. And there may be times when you face similar challenges. Generations before you have taken acts of great courage to make sure you too have all the joys and gifts of the natural world—hiking in

forests, swimming in clean water, breathing fresh air. If you need to be a little stubborn to make sure things stay that way, so be it.

Onwards!

Currently the executive director of Greenpeace USA, Leonard made the 2007 film and wrote the 2010 bestselling book The Story of Stuff, which chronicle the life of material goods.

This Abundant Life

By Geraldine Brooks

I just flushed my toilet with drinking water. I know: You don’t believe me: “Nobody could ever have been that stupid, that wasteful.” But we are. We use air conditioners all the time, even in mild climates where they aren’t a bit necessary. We cool our homes so we need to wear sweaters indoors in summer, and heat them so we have to wear T-shirts in mid-winter. We let one person drive around all alone in a huge thing called an SUV. We make perfectly good things—plates, cups, knives—then we use them just once, and throw them away. They’re still there, in your time. Dig them up. They’ll still be useable.

Maybe you have dug them up. Maybe you’re making use of them now. Maybe you’re frugal and ingenious in ways we in the wealthy world have not yet chosen to be. There’s an old teaching from a rabbi called Nachman who lived in a town called Bratslav centuries ago: “If you believe it is possible to destroy, believe it is possible to repair.” Some of us believe that. We’re trying to spread the message.

Friends are working on genetic editing that will bring back the heath hen, a bird that went extinct almost 80 years ago. The last member of the species died in the woods just a few miles from my home. Did we succeed?

Do you have heath hens, booming their mating calls across the sand plains that sustain them?

If you do, it means that this idea of repair caught on in time, and that their habitat was restored, instead of being sold for yet more beachside mansions. It means that enough great minds turned away from the easy temptations of a career moving money from one rich person’s account to another’s, and instead became engineers and scientists dedicated to repairing and preserving this small blue marble, spinning in the velvet void.

We send out probes, looking for signs of life on other worlds. A possible spec of mold is exciting—press conference! News flash! Imagine if they found, say, a sparrow.

President addresses the nation! And yet we fail to take note of the beauty of sparrows, their subtle hues and swift grace. We’re profligate and reckless with all this abundant life, teeming and vivid, that sustains and inspires us.

We destroyed. You believed it was possible to repair.

Brooks is an Australian-American journalist and author. Her 2005 novel March won the Pulitzer Prize.

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theater notes

Bad Santa’s American Dream Singing Assassins, Dancing Nutcrackers and More

By Dina Canup arts@flagpole.com Assassins Nothing says “Happy Holidays” like a singing collection of wannabe and actual assassins, right? How about if one of them is wearing a Santa suit? Director Drew Doss and the cast are setting out to demonstrate the fact that Stephen Sondheim can make beautiful music out of anything with the award-winning musical about the American Dream gone murderously sour. As the New York Times put it when the show was revived on Broadway some 10 years ago, Assassins “is not your average bubbly toetapper.” Bah humbug, indeed.

It’s a series of songs and scenes based on real men and women who were dissatisfied with their lives, and who had the urge to right personal wrongs and change the world by killing an American president. The group, from various times and places, meets in a bar, where John Wilkes Booth (Josh Darnell), first among presidential assassins, inspires them all to fight for their perceived rights. The Balladeer (Matt Hardy), who personifies the American dream, tells the stories of the madmen and women (Amy Coenen, Avery Leigh Draut, Andrew Rabanal, Adam Shirley, Jonathan Sparks, Timothy Swaim, Steven Walter, Jase Wingate) and leads the ensemble of “normal” citizens (Katie Chapman, Jeff Chen, Lucy Haskill, Nate Jones, Bekah Lee, Amy Miller, Narke Norton, Murray Weed). The Proprietor (Don Smith) hands out guns in a carnival setting and eggs on the criminals to win the game of American life by dispensing death.

In the 25 years since the play opened off Broadway, the world has seen all too well how one finger on one gun can change the world (“The Gun Song”). The Broadway revival was supposed to open in November 2001 but was cancelled after 9/11. It was poor timing for a show that includes a scene of a guy in a Santa suit who wants to hijack a plane and crash it into the White House to assassinate Nixon.

Sure, the crazies in the show are all-American, but we’ve also seen too many vindictive homegrown shooters in the years since the show first premiered. In today’s news, the presidential targets have been replaced by everyday people like the ones making up the chorus of Assassins. Now we know the bloodthirsty killers, singing, “Everybody’s got the right to be happy/ Everybody’s got a right to their dream,” aren’t just incomprehensible relics of the past.

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an imprudent romance between Santa’s elf and Mrs. Claus and “the Fabulous Futrelle Sisters.” It’s a bit of lighthearted holiday cheer written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten (the team behind The Hallelujah Girls, recently produced by Winder-Barrow Community Theatre).

Encore Productions presents the show at Elbert Theatre on Friday, Dec. 4, Saturday, Dec. 5, Friday, Dec. 11 and Saturday, Dec. 12 at 7 p.m., with 2 p.m. matinees on Sunday, Dec. 6 and Sunday, Dec. 13. Tickets are $16, $11 in advance or $9 for students, and available at 706-283-1049.

Visit elberttheatre.org for more information.

The Nutcracker The famous ballet has been adapted by June Walker Rogers into a stage play with dance scenes, in which Clara’s godfather gives her a toy soldier nutcracker at a Christmas Eve party. The nutcracker comes to life, reveals he’s a prince in disguise under an enchantment by the Mouse King and takes Clara on a night of adventures.

Winder-Barrow Community Theatre presents this timeless classic at the Winder Cultural Arts Center Friday, Dec. 4 and Saturday, Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 6 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $12.50, $10 for teachers and students in advance or $13–15 at the door, and available at 770-8673106. Visit winderbarrowtheatre.org for more information.

You can also catch the traditional ballet, featuring the State Ballet Theatre of Russia, at the Classic Center on Saturday, Dec. 19 and Sunday, Dec. 20 at 3 p.m. Visit pac.uga.edu for more information.

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Don Smith plays the Proprietor in Town and Gown Players’ production of Assassins.

agree with Santa suit-wearing assassin Samuel Byck that “All I want for for Christmas is my constitutional right to publicly petition my government for a redress of grievances,” then this is the perfect way to celebrate the season.

Assassins (by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidnam) is presented by Town & Gown Players at the Athens Community Theatre Friday, Dec. 4, Saturday, Dec. 5 and Thursday, Dec. 10–Saturday, Dec. 12 at 8 p.m., with 2 p.m. matinees on Sunday Dec. 6 and Sunday, Dec. 13. Tickets are $18, $15 for members/seniors/students, $10 on Thursdays for students and members, and available at townandgownplayers.org or 706-206-8696.

Dashing Through the Snow Silly Southern humor and a cast of eccentrics descend on the town of Tinsel, TX and the Snowflake Inn: a frazzled innkeeper, feuding relatives,

Festivus The winter trapeze show at Canopy Studio is Saturday, Dec. 5 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Visit canopystudio.org or call 706-549-8501 for more information.

The Rocky Horror Show UGA Next Act presents an encore performance of the musical on Saturday, Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the UGA Chapel on North Campus. Tickets are $8 and will be sold at the door. For details, visit facebook. com/uganextact.

Comic Strip Comedy Show “Show Up & Go Up” Open Mic Night is every Monday at 8 p.m. at The Office Lounge.

The headliner Monday, Dec. 14 is Anthony Driver. For information, call 706-546-0840 or visit facebook.com/ athenscomicstrip.

Pamoja Dance Company This UGA student dance group is presenting their fall showcase, “Dope: A ‘90s Compilation” at the Fine Arts Theatre Friday, Dec. 4 and Saturday, Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $7 or $5 for students, and information is available at pamojadanceco.webs.com.

Aurora Theatre Gwinnett County’s professional theater has four Christmas offerings: Christmas Canteen 2015, A Christmas Carol, La Noche De Velas and 12 Dates of Christmas. Most run through Sunday, Dec. 20, but visit auroratheatre.com for more information. f

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Holiday Market Roundup

flagpole’s Annual Guide to Local Artist Markets

By Jessica Smith arts@flagpole.com

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Holiday Sale on Saturday, Dec. 5 and Sunday Dec. 6 from 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Several new forms the artist has been experimenting with will be available, like cake stands, hanging wall vases and large coil pots, all decorated with her signature sketch-like drawings of animals, plants and faces. Food

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multitude of local artist markets concentrated into the month of December each year is a true testament to the entrepreneurial spirit of Athens’ flourishing arts scene. The value of shopping from local artists during the holiday season is two-fold: While you score a one-of-a-kind gift that’s sure to impress yourself or a loved one, the artists receive the encouragement and monetary support they need to continue pursuing their creative endeavors.

With over two dozen artist events scheduled, original and handcrafted work is more accessible and affordable than ever.

In the spirit of tradition, let Flagpole make shopping locally a little simpler this year with our annual Holiday Market Roundup, a list of artist markets, studio open houses and craft sales going on in Athens and nearby.

For a little bit of everything, swing by the Holiday Social on N. Jackson Street on Friday, Dec. 4 from 6–9 p.m. Community, Dynamite Clothing, Adam’s Optics, Kristen Ashley Artist Shop, Jittery Joe’s and Athena Jewelers will each stay open late for a collaborative event featuring sales,

The UGA Ceramic Student Organization hosts its annual Holiday Pottery Sale on Wednesday, Dec. 2 and Thursday, Dec. 3 from 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. in the first-floor lobby of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, located at 270 River Road.

The works, which were created by students and faculty, range from functional pottery like teapots, mugs, plates, vases and bowls to small, hand-built sculpCap Man at OCAF’s annual holiday market. tures and decorative pieces. special vendors, a holiday photo booth and Proceeds support educational field trips refreshments. For more information, call to ceramics conferences and also bring in 706-207-9106. visiting artists. Hourly parking is available in the nearby Performing Arts Center deck.

In addition to the abundance of local and Visit art.uga.edu for more information. sustainable produce that the Athens Farmers Market regularly offers every While on campus, pop over to Phi Beata Saturday morning at Bishop Park, located Heata’s Jewelry and Metals Sale, held 10 at 705 Sunset Dr., its special Holiday a.m.–5 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 2 at the Craft Markets on Dec. 5, 12 and 19 from Lamar Dodd School of Art and Thursday, Dec. 3 at the Tate Student Center. Members 9 a.m.–12 p.m. feature a good selection of handmade items like pottery, jewelry, of the student organization will present handbags, textiles, soaps, blown glass and their latest one-of-a-kind pieces and handmore. For details, check out athensfarmerscrafted metal objects. In case you miss out market.net. on these days, Phi Beata Heata will host an additional sale at the Lyndon House Arts Center on Saturday, Dec. 12 from 10 a.m.–4 Take a tour of Marmalade Pottery, the home studio of Maria Dondero at 775 p.m. For more information, find Phi Beata Pulaski St., during her seventh annual Heata on Facebook.

and desserts will be provided by her father, Tim Dondero of Donderos’ Kitchen. This will be Marmalade’s last annual sale in its current location; the artist is planning to open a new ceramics studio on Cleveland Avenue soon. To view examples of Maria’s most current work, visit mariadondero. com.

Local potter Carter Gillies offers two different events this season. View an eclectic mix of functional and decorative work during the Carter Gillies Pottery Open House on Saturday, Dec. 5 and Sunday, Dec. 6. The following weekend, on Saturday, Dec. 12 and Sunday, Dec. 13, Carter will be joined by fellow potters Geoff Pickett, Jeff Bishoff and Kyle Jones for the annual Carter and Friends Pottery Market. In

a unique approach to sparking children’s interest in pottery, any kid willing to tell a story, sing a song or draw a picture for the artist will receive a free handmade tree ornament. Kids can also pick out smallersized pots at half off the adult price. Both events are from 10 a.m.–4 p.m. and are located at his home studio, 572 Nantahala Ave., in the Boulevard neighborhood.

Call 706-546-7235 for more.

The mother of all artist markets, Indie South Fair’s Ninth Annual Holiday Hooray offers a lineup of 110 individual booths covering virtually everything handmade or collected, from original art in every medium, toys, bath and beauty products, knits and artisanal food to vintage clothing, home goods and furniture. Indie South features some of the more established artists in the area—like Chris Hubbard, Kenneth Kase, Keith Rein and Lauren Gregg—while always retaining a strong DIY ethos. Unique items include gemstones from RockBelly, reclaimed wood tables by Sons of Sawdust, folk art chicken gourds by Those Kooky Chickens, handmade books from Bound by Tradition and natural skincare products

by Little Barn Apothecary.

Indie South is unique from the majority of other markets in that it incorporates a wide selection of collectors, this year including Forgotten Feather Vintage, Maddox & Rose Vintage, Playground Love Vintage, Strange Magick Vintage, Valentine Vintage and Kith & Kin Vintage. The twoday open-air market, which also promises music, snacks and kids’ activities, takes place on Saturday, Dec. 5 and Sunday, Dec. 6 from 10 a.m.–6 p.m. at 660 N. Chase St., just off Prince Avenue. For more details and a full list of participating art vendors, visit indiesouthfair.com.

Native America Gallery, located at 195 E. Clayton St., hosts its 18th annual Holiday Open House on Saturday, Dec. 5 from 10 a.m.–7 p.m. The storewide jewelry sale features door prizes for the first 200 guests who visit, as well as an unusual promise of “real elves, meatballs and oodles of holiday k continued on next page

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artwork in the North Gallery and Resource Library. The guild will host a Holiday Open House on Saturday, Dec. 12 from 2–4 p.m.

For more details on the Lyndon House, located at 293 Hoyt St., visit athensclarkecounty.com/lyndonhouse.

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Offering an alternative to the traditional gift exchange experience, the annual Benevolence Market presents a way to give back to the local community this holiday season. Attendees are invited to select items off a shopping list of “symbolic gifts,” which breaks down how monetary donations can be used to assist 30 local nonprofit agencies in their missions. Gifts are as diverse as a week at camp for a child with a disability through Extra Special People, neutering a foster dog through the Athens Canine Rescue and a bag of groceries for a homebound senior through the Athens Community Council on Aging. This ecumenical tradition has been going strong since 1994, and is currently sponsored by the United Way and nine participating congregations. The First Presbyterian Church of Athens at 185 E. Hancock Ave. hosts the market, which also features live music and a light lunch, on Sunday, Dec. 6 from 12–2 p.m. To see a list of requested gifts, go to firstpresathens.org/benevolencemarket.

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cheer,” according to the shop’s flyer. From now until Christmas Day, a “thank you” gift of a turquoise pendant on a sterling silver chain is complimentary with each purchase.

Call 706-543-8425 for more information.

the bon fire. The lineup includes jewelry

by Rhys May and Kenneth Kase, pottery

by Jorie Berman, sculptures by Barbara Odil, all-natural soaps and soy candles by Songbird Soaps, paintings by Heidi Hensley, geometric works by Lou Kregel and bird-

The Holiday Sale at Normaltown Pottery, slated for Friday, Dec. 11 from 4–9 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 12 from 9 a.m.–4 p.m., will feature handmade, functional pottery by studio owner Juana Gnecco, along with ceramics by Nancy Green and paintings by Larry Forte. Normaltown Pottery is located at 410 King Ave. For more information, call 762-728-0575.

During the annual Holiday Open House at the State Botanical Garden on Sunday, Dec. 6 from 1:30–4 p.m., kids are invited to take photos and share their wishes with Santa, as well as make holiday crafts. The festively decorated tropical conservatory will be filled with music, as the Georgia Children’s Chorus performs at 2:15 p.m., followed by The Solstice Sisters at 3:15 p.m.

The garden’s gift shop, which features many items designed by students, will be open for adults to browse for potential presents. For more information, visit botgarden.uga.edu.

Deck the Walls, a holiday market held annually by the Lyndon House Arts Center, will be open Tuesdays–Saturdays, Dec. 8–Jan. 6 from 12–5 p.m. This year’s theme is “Innovations,” and offerings range from frames, jewelry, photography, pottery, hats and folk art, plus seasonal cards, ornaments and wreaths. The Visual Arts Guild of Athens, which manages the Lyndon House’s gift shop, has arranged for guest artists of Long Road Studios to display pottery in the lower atrium’s cases. Guild member Par Ramey will also have a special display of her

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5–9 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 12 from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. at 160 Tracy St. More than a dozen vendors will display their goods, like Necklush, Lisa Freeman, Thready for Anything, Make Nice Design Co., GFB Dragon Lamps, Little Cuckoo and Gemnglass. The gallery itself also has two creative stocking stuffers for art lovers this year. A full-color 2016 calendar of local contemporary artists includes prints of works by Jim Barsness, Stanley Bermudez, Missy Kulik, Carol John, Cindy Jerrell and others. “Outside the Lines,” an all-ages coloring book the gallery created in collaboration with its neighbor Pixel & Ink, includes pages drawn by the likes of Matt Blanks, Cameron Bliss, Mike Groves, David Hale and Margot Ecke. ATHICA’s market happens to coincide with the Athens Area Arts Council’s fifth annual Art Crawl on Saturday, where many of the businesses inside of the Chase Park Warehouse will host special art exhibitions and performances. For the market’s full lineup, visit athica.org.

Rebecca Wood and her team of potters are almost as busy as Santa’s elves this holiday season as they gear up for their Holiday Sale on Saturday, Dec. 12 from 9 a.m.–4 p.m.

R. Wood Studio, located at 450 Georgia Dr., will have many of the brightly colored pieces that the studio is known for, in addition to several one-of-a-kind pieces, seconds and discounted works. To view samples of the potters’ work, check out rwoodstudio. com.

Shoppers meet vendors at Big City Bread’s annual market.

An outdoor patio under twinkling lights makes for a festive setting at the juried Athens Holiday Market, held at Big City Bread on Thursday, Dec. 10 and Friday, Dec. 11 from 5 p.m.–9 p.m. Peruse the works of 55 local artists while the Red Oak Southern String Band performs around

houses by Frank Saggus. Big City Bread Cafe is located at 393 N. Finley St. and can be reached at 706-353-0029.

New to this year’s lineup is the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art’s Holiday Market, held Friday, Dec. 11 from

In addition to an abundance of locally sourced produce, honey, eggs, soaps and prepared food items, the vendors of the West Broad Farmers Market will offer a special Holiday Market on Saturday, Dec. 12 from 10 a.m.–2 p.m. The market, which is hosted at the old West Broad School, 1573 W. Broad St., aims to develop new foodbased entrepreneurs, build a neighborhoodcentered economy and increase access to healthy, affordable foods. For more information on the market’s goals, visit athenslandtrust.org.

Heirloom Café and Fresh Market hosts one of the last opportunities for seasonal shopping on Sunday, Dec. 13 from 10 a.m.–2 p.m. during brunch hours.

Handmade wares will range from jewelry, gourmet foods, woodwork, ceramics, soaps and bath products, textiles, vintage scores and “farm finds,” with the 20-name vendor list including Piedmont Provisions, Pale Blue Dot Soap, Double Dutch Press and Jess Dunlap. While at Heirloom, which is located at 815 N. Chase St., be sure to stop next door at the house of painter Susie Burch, who will have her home studio open. Visit heirloomathens.com for details.

Treehouse Kid & Craft presents its sixth annual Handmade Hollyday Artist Market across the street at Starlite Showroom, located at 750 W. Broad St., on Sunday, Dec. 13 from 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Swing by to peruse the creations of two dozen vendors, including letterpress stationary by Smokey Road Press, dyed goods by Maddie Zerkel, home decor by Mineral Forest, accessories

by Simply Me and fragrances by Tabletop Craft Collective. Unique items for little ones include handmade teddy bears and plush animals by Erin Jay and heirloom kids’ clothing by Willaby.

Outside of Athens The family-run Bendzunas Glass Studio and Gallery, located at 89 W. South Ave. in Comer, will keep extended holiday hours from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. through Wednesday, Dec. 23, with live glassblowing demonstrations throughout. With 40 years in town, artist Paul Bendzunas has passed his craft down to his three children, who also work in the studio. Although operating primarily as a wholesale business that distributes to galleries countrywide, a public gallery displaying some of the family’s best mouthblown functional and decorative glass art works will be on display. For more information, call 706-783-5869.

The Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation’s 21st annual juried Holiday Market includes the works of 70 regional artists and crafters this year, ranging from paintings, stained and fused glass, jewelry, photography, fiber art, ceramics and more. The Market is open Friday, Dec. 4 from 5–9 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 5 and Sunday, Dec. 6 from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Admission for all three days is $3.

OCAF’s Artist’s Shoppe, which features handmade items created by more than 50 of the gallery’s members, opens in conjunction with the Holiday Market on Friday, Dec. 4 from 5–9 p.m. and will remain open through Saturday, Dec. 19. Homemade treats baked by OCAF members, as well as Greek pastries by members of St. Pilothea Philoptochos Society, will also be available. OCAF is located at 34 School St. in Watkinsville. For more details, visit ocaf. com.

Venture over to Farmington Pottery’s December Open House on Saturday, Dec. 5 and Sunday, Dec. 6 from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. to view the latest creations of Geoff and Lisa Pickett. A wide variety of Geoff’s wood and gas-fired pots and planters for the home and garden will be on display, as well as a selection of soaps and botanical skincare products made with fresh herbs grown by Lisa. Farmington Pottery is located at 1171 Freeman Creek Road in Farmington. For

more information, visit pickettpottery.com and farmingtonherbals.com.

This year’s lineup at Wolf Creek Pottery promises a diverse array of traditional and contemporary ceramic pieces, with participating potters including Juana Gnecco, Jen Graff, Nancy Green, Rich Panico and Minsoo Yuh. Hand-printed textiles and paper by Sara Lee Parker will also be available. Located at 1500 Tappan Spur Road in Watkinsville, the studio’s annual Holiday Sale is on Saturday, Dec. 5 and Sunday, Dec. 6 from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Call 706-410-5200.

Tour the home studio of Woodruff Pottery, located at 35 S. Main St. in Watkinsville, during its Annual Holiday Open House on Saturday, Dec. 5 and Sunday, Dec. 6 from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Artist Alice Woodruff has over 40 years of experience in creating pottery, and makes both decorative and functional porcelain works like large platters, bowls, teapots, teacups and kitchenware. Seconds are half off, and anyone who buys a pot can take one of a comparable value home for half off as well.

For details or to make a separate viewing appointment, call 706-207-5175.

Among the fine art, folk art, jewelry, stone work and metal work created by the dozen or so members who run the historic Farmington Depot Gallery, the Holidaze Festival on Saturday, Dec. 5 and Sunday, Dec. 6 from 10 a.m.–6 p.m. features an artist market with handmade creations by additional regional artists.

Highlights include wildlife paintings by Will Eskridge, folk art by Peter Loose, printed textiles by Crispy Printz, collectibles from John Gingridge and jewelry by Annette Paskiewicz. The event also promises food, hayrides for children, live music by Lily Herne at 3 p.m. each afternoon and a demonstration on Raku, a ceramic firing technique, on Sunday afternoon. The gallery is located at 1001 Salem Road in Farmington, at the corner of Salem Road and Highway 441. For more information, visit farmingtondepotgallery.com.

While in the area, visit the annual J.B. (Jeff Bishoff) Pottery Sale for new works. Occurring on Saturday, Dec. 5 and Sunday, Dec. 6 from 10 a.m.–5 pm., the sale is located at 1790 Salem Road in Watkinsville. Call 678-863-1847.

For vibrant, richly glazed pieces of pottery that draw inspiration from nature, check out the works of David Morgan, a regional potter who has been creating functional stoneware for the past 30 years. The David Morgan Pottery studio, located at 3747 Old Wildcat Bridge Road in Danielsville, opens for a Holiday Sale Saturday, Dec. 12 from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. & Sunday, Dec. 13 from 12–5 p.m. Call 706-795-3418 for more information.

Ceramic artist group Long Road Studios will host a Holiday Open House & Gallery Closeout on Saturday, Dec. 12 and Sunday, Dec. 13 from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Held at 4860 Macon Hwy. in Bishop, the sale includes ceramic work by Laura B. Cooper, Eduardo de la Torre Berón, Erika Galloway, Juana Gnecco, Nancy K. Green and Julie Greene.

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music

feature

music

feature

Hardknock Life

Don’t Look Back

T. Hardy Morris Gets Tough and Twangy

Inside Lonnie Holley’s Future-Folk

By Dan Mistich music@flagpole.com

By Marshall Yarbrough music@flagpole.com

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itting still isn’t in the cards for T. Hardy Morris. The Dead Confederate frontman, who is enjoying a second musical life as an acclaimed solo artist, is gearing up for dates with former Black Lips member Ian Saint Pé, as well as similarly buzzworthy groups Justin and The Cosmics, Roadkill Ghost Choir and Shakey Graves.

In addition to touring, during stretches when Dead Confederate isn’t playing, Morris stays busy writing songs for future solo records. He says he’s gotten used to working outside of the confines of one particular project. “I see myself now as a recording artist more than a band leader,” Morris says from his home in Athens.

Morris’ No. 1 priority at the moment is supporting his latest solo effort, Drownin on a Mountaintop, released this summer on Los Angeles’ Dangerbird Records.

The record was helmed

by Adam Landry and Justin Collins, the same production team that worked with Morris and his colleagues in the indie supergroup Diamond Rugs.

Recorded in Nashville at Landry’s backyard studio, Playground Sound, as well as Chase Park Transduction in Athens, the 11 tracks that comprise Morris’ newest LP are louder and more raucous than those on his previous solo offering, 2013’s Audition Tapes, which was a sparser, spookier effort. In contrast, Drownin showcases riff-heavy twang with plenty of crunchy country guitars. “I had done a couple of songs in the past that dipped my toe in the country-ier side of things, but [I] went a bit more angular and rowdier,” he says of his latest record’s direction.

Tracked to tape and credited to T. Hardy Morris and The Hardknocks, the album features several Athens scene vets who have worked with Morris for years, including Matt Stoessel on pedal steel, Vaughan Lamb on bass and Nick Sterchi on drums. Morris says everyone was in lockstep during the sessions. “You just get in the right room with the right people, and you’re speaking the same language,” he says. “We were looking for the same end result.”

The response has been encouraging. “I wrote some songs… and they didn’t seem all that strange to me,” he says. “But then I noticed the reaction that it got from other people.” The album has garnered buzz from national outlets like Consequence of Sound and American Songwriter.

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If its production choices make Drownin feel like a unit unto itself, that’s because Morris steered the songs around similar sounds and a common thread. “I’m in the old model. I’ve always liked albums,” he says. “I don’t think I’ve made but a couple of mixtapes in my life. I guess I wanted to write an album and keep that in mind.”

Although Morris emphasizes that the discussion over the integrity of the album as an art form is a “whole ‘nother rabbit hole,” he says a long-player is simply “the right-sized canvas” for his music. Still, while he embraces the full-length, his approach to songwriting is decidedly less rigorous.

“I just kind of tinker around and if something catches my ear, I go after it,” says Morris. Even with so many outlets available to him, Morris says he doesn’t start off writing for one project or another, adding, “[A song] reveals itself as to what box it should wind up in.”

While Dead Confederate is not as active as in years past, Morris says the band that initially brought him to Athens is still in his field of vision. “It’s more of a springboard than an institution-type band,” Morris says of the group. “And that’s fine—that’s just the nature of what artistic projects do.”

Still, he says new material may very well be on the horizon.

“We keep threatening to record a new album, but it’s just a matter of finding the right time frame to do it in,” Morris says. “I like to wear a bunch of different hats, and Dead Confederate is just one of those.”

Having toured with big-name acts from Deer Tick to Drive-By Truckers, Morris says his success has been built on agreeing to play with whomever will extend an invite.

And while there’s nothing solidly planned for 2016, Morris is confident that his schedule will fill up just like it always does.

“Music is all about relationships, really,” Morris says. “I’ve never looked at it like, ‘Oh, I can’t play with that band because they’re too loud. Or, ‘I can’t play with them because they’re too quiet.’” f

WHO: T. Hardy Morris, Roadkill Ghost Choir, Justin and the Cosmics WHERE: Caledonia Lounge WHEN: Friday, Dec. 4, 9 p.m.

HOW MUCH: $10 (21+), $12 (18–20)

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olk music in the U.S. tends to be understood in the past tense. First there were Alan Lomax’s field recordings, then Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music and, finally, Greenwich Village in the 1960s. At each step along the way, the range of what got to be called folk narrowed to form a particular genre and market segment with a distinctly backwards-looking aesthetic.

Lonnie Holley makes music that is folk in the old sense—broadly, of the people.

His music is a mixture of personal expression and cultural record-keeping. Holley isn’t overtly polemical, however. As one song title, “From the Other Side of the Pulpit,” suggests, he is more listener than preacher; one voice among the crowd, not a leader set above it.

The video for “Pulpit” shows Holley in the studio with Bradford Cox of Deerhunter and Cole Alexander of Black Lips.

Describing the song, Holley says, “We found all types of sounds.

We turned all kinds of things into instruments.” In the video, Holley is shown beating on metal and throwing weights into a wheelbarrow. He explains, “I was trying to show that there is so much more on the other side of the pulpit that we can use to help humanity.”

Holley, who was born in Birmingham, AL in 1950, first became known for his visual art, which he began exhibiting in the ‘80s. Around this time, he says, “I bought a Casio keyboard at a thrift store. I looked at it and believed that it was something I could play. My way. A few years after I bought the keyboard, I saw a karaoke machine on sale at Goodwill. I always went to Goodwill with my grandmother. And there was this karaoke machine with a tape recorder. It was just what I needed.”

Holley began making cassettes for friends. Among those who heard the tapes was Matt Arnett, Holley’s friend and road manager. Arnett’s father, William Arnett, whom Holley calls “a big supporter of my art,” is the founder of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, an organization “dedicated to documenting, researching, preserving, and exhibiting the work of self-taught AfricanAmerican artists of the American South.”

On a visit to Atlanta, Holley performed to a gathering in Matt Arnett’s home. In attendance were Lance and April Ledbetter, who run the Dust to Digital label, which puts out collections of archival and field recordings from around the world. Lance liked what he heard and signed Holley up.

On his two Dust to Digital releases, Holley still uses a keyboard as his principal instrument but also takes full advantage of the range of sounds available to him in the

studio. The instrumentation is all secondary to Holley’s voice—sometimes gruff and guttural, sometimes sweet and keening—and to what that voice is saying. “The lyrics tie it together,” says Black Lips’ Alexander.

The lyrics can range from abstract to surreal. 2013’s Keeping a Record of It begins with “Six Space Shuttles and 144,000 Elephants.” The song, recorded in Gee’s Bend, AL, tells a story that in its eschatological arc recalls Neil Young’s “After the Gold Rush.” Holley sings of space shuttles “as big as the Hindenburg and the Titanic all put together” that leave “for the expiration of the planet Earth” and then return, able to “heal the air and fix the water, too.”

It’s strange to think that a man who began by recording cassettes on a thrift

store karaoke machine is making the most technologically advanced folk music you’re likely to encounter today, and stranger still that he is doing so as one of the only active artists on his record label. Unlike much contemporary folk, there are no markers of antiquity in Holley’s music—no jugs or washboards. Holley’s debut, Just Before Music, includes references to “American Idol” and Oprah Winfrey; one song, “The End of the Film Era,” discusses Hollywood’s switch from film to digital.

Paradoxically, the quotidian touches contribute to the music’s timeless feel, making it, in Alexander’s words, “hypersophisticated without being pretentious.”

On “Looking for All (All Rendered Truth),” Holley speaks of “an internal place that I call myself.” As he explains, “I can only tell [people] of this place in me and hope that they can find that place in themselves.” f

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By Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com EVERYDAY HERO: It certainly took me long enough, but let me welcome Playground Hero to this column. The band, composed of vocalist E.M. Watson, guitarist Davon Watson, bassist Ian Rowland and drummer Wade Stephens, released its first full-length album, On Broad Street, in July. Although most of its 11 tracks are reminiscent of not much more than standard pop-rock/alternative fare—albeit decidedly guitar-based and deliberately played, with a dedication to clean execution—the draw for me is E.M. Watson’s voice, which maintains a solid, smooth and forceful command of the group and especially shines on “Swing Away” Nigel Ashton

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and “Don’t Be Judgin’ Me.” The latter is also probably the best song on the record, too, and its video was recently recognized with two awards at the Gwinnett Center International Film Festival. Also, fans of old English indie band Orange Juice will find some affinity here. Stream the album at playgroundhero.bandcamp.com, and keep up at facebook.com/BeAPGHero.

MONDAY FUNDAY: The Slingshot Festival and Creature Comforts Brewery, in association with the folks from house-show organization Rowdy Dowdy, will host this month’s Industry Night Monday, Dec. 7 from 5:30–8:30 p.m. Stretching out their bill of entertainment to include three groups this time, they’ll present performances from Brooklyn, NY band Hank & Cupcakes, along with Athens’ own Chief Scout and The Hernies. As usual, this event is free for those who work in restaurant, bar or package sales establishments, so long as proof of employment is shown upon entering.

Everyone else pays the normal tour admission. Any questions can be submitted to Katie Beauchamp at Creature Comforts via katie@ccbeerco.com, and for ongoing info on all things Slingshot, see facebook.com/ AthensSlingshotFestival.

THANK HUGH: OK, this is a good ways off, relatively speaking, but it’s gonna sell out for sure. Graduate Athens and The Foundry will host chef Hugh Acheson Sunday, Jan. 10 for an evening of “Southern fare, live music and philanthropy” to benefit Acheson’s newly formed Seed Life Skills charity. This organization focuses on educating kids about food sustainability and is a really cool step into the gap left wide open by the gutting of practical-skills-based education at the lower levels. Live music will be provided by 6 String Drag, and the whole thing takes place from 5–8:30 p.m. Tickets for the concert event and family-style meal, which includes a threecourse menu created by Acheson, are $75 per person. For those wishing to skip dinner and just catch the show, you can squeak by at $25.

Tickets are on sale now, so head to thefoundryathens.com to purchase.

For more information on Seed Life Skills, see seedlifeskills.org.

DO THE MOST GOOD: Congratulations are in order to local punks Muuy Biien on their recent signing to heavyweight booking agency The Billions Corporation. This is no small feat, and associated props should be given to their most recent label, HHBTM Records, for pushing the group’s profile well beyond the borders of Athens. Although currently label-less, the band is shopping its upcoming album around as we speak, and if things go well for them, you’re gonna have a hell of a time glomming onto their guest lists in the near future. To grab previously released material, head to hhbtm.com, stream via muuybiien.bandcamp.com, and keep relatively up to date at facebook.com/ muuybiienofficial, even though they’ve not updated that page in almost two months.

DOUBLE VISION: There are two shows this Saturday, Dec. 5 that deserve your divided attention. First, legendary folk artist and musician Lonnie Holley will appear at the 40 Watt Club with John Fernandes and Alec Livaditis, Half Acid and Athens’ own Vernon Thornsberry, who has been graciously coaxed out of semi-retirement for this great gig. Right next door at the Caledonia Lounge will be the first Athens appearance of synth-driven Nashville, TN band Nightblonde, which features Ryan Breegle, who was once part of popular electro-duo The Lolligags. Psychedelic trippers Mind Brains and the genre-less Marshmallow Coast will also take the stage this night. Take a date! Go alone! The night is yours to miss! f

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By Hillary Brown food@flagpole.com SNACKS: One of the few benefits of cheap-o strip-mall buildings is that small restaurants tend to find their low rent attractive, which often leads to greater culinary diversity.

The building just a few blocks from downtown Athens that mostly houses Southern Video, the windows of which display exciting lingerie, used to be home to Quickly, a bubbletea-and-fast-food worldwide chain that never seemed to find a large enough audience in our town. 180°F Cafe (660 W. Broad St., 706-521-5380) is doing something similar but better executed, serving xiaochi (street-food snacks), bubble tea, smoothies and some larger dishes.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the standard Americanized Chinese, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also not so exotic that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll scare folks off. If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like five spice, your options are more limited; the combination of star anise, cinnamon, cloves, hot pepper and fennel perfumes many a dish, including the Taiwanese-style chicken nuggets, tiny battered and fried chunks served in a paper sleeve. More exterior than interior, they slightly numb the lips and have an addicting quality.

Thai fish cakes come six to an order, threaded three at a time onto long skewers, and are bouncy and fragrant with scallions and spices. Steamed bao are the Taiwanese equivalent of soft tacos, consisting of a small, thick circular bun enfolding fried tofu (a little bland in its spicing), fried chicken with a sweet sauce and pickled vegetables or pork belly with strips of daikon and carrot. The bun itself holds up to the ingredients nicely, not falling apart by the time you finish.

In the bento section, most dishes come with a tea egg (a hard-boiled egg peeled and simmered again in soy sauce and five spice), the vegetable of the day (cabbage, perhaps), white rice and a protein (the sliced braised pork, recommended by the friendly dude behind the counter, is a showstopper, featuring thick slabs of almost pure fat; thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also chicken katsu and tonkatsu, braised chicken leg or pork with five spice, the Taiwanese chicken nuggets, pork chop and chicken). The staff also recommends the wings, which are tasty and come in flavors including teriyaki and Korea spice.

The beverage section is robust, with golden milk tea, Thai chai, black tea and jasmine tea, each of which can be flavored with one or two selections from among almond, avocado, matcha, apple, strawberry, lavender, ginger and on and on, then accented with various jellies and boba.

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BRAND CREEP: Both Independent Baking Co. in Five Points and Sweetie Pie by Savie on the Eastside have done well keeping their business models simple: bread and viennoiserie in the former case (and one gets the feeling that owner Thom Leonard would remove the latter from the menu if he had his druthers), sweets in the latter.

Nonetheless, both have recently begun venturing into new territory.

Sweetie Pie has added some savory pastries, available most afternoons during regular hours, although the Thanksgiving holiday threw the schedule off a little. Tiny pies in flavors including green curry with chicken, eggplant and basil and Galanga with bacon, onion and lime were unavailable on a recent Wednesday, but Thai curry puffs (essentially empanadas, baked rather than fried) made for

a tasty lunch at two to an order. The dough enclosing the steamy filling is a touch too thick and unseasoned, but the stuff inside it is stomach-warming and flavorful.

Independent, meanwhile, has been experimenting with an occasional pizza night, usually announced on Facebook.

Orders can be placed either via phone or in store starting at 4:45 p.m. and are taken until the pizza runs out. Things could run a little more smoothly (the ovens donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bake all that many pizzas at once; the staff seems harried and tends to forget names), and the small store gets pretty jammed up, but the results are relatively worth the wait. Two different pies are available each time, usually a margherita (tomatoes, basil, mozzarella) to which one can add sausage for $1.50 and a changing specialty pizza, both sized at about 10 inches in diameter.

The margherita is good but not the best in town, although the crust is unsurprisingly excellent. On the other hand, a white pizza with onion confit, gorgonzola and fresh rosemary was worth every penny of its $12: delicate in execution but strong in flavor, not too sweet and balancing its many different elements with aplomb. In theory, mission creep isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily a good thing, but in practice, both of these places seem to be making it work. f

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SPOTLIGHT (R) Some great films are tough CREED (PG-13) Now a heavyweight franto watch. Spotlight, the latest film from The chise entering its seventh round, Rocky is Station Agentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tom McCarthy, is definitely rebooting like many other aging properone of those pictures. You probably do not ties. Sylvester Stalloneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Italian Stallion, want to end up at this one with grandma Rocky Balboa, is no longer the heavyweight while home for the holidays. Like last champion; he is now the long-in-the-tooth monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Truth, Spotlight dramatizes the trainer Ă la Burgess Meredithâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mickey. actual events surrounding a news organizaEnter the illegitimate son of Apollo Creed tionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attempts to check one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (played so memorably by Carl Weathers). most powerful institutions. Taking down Adonis Johnson (Michael B. Jordan)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;he a sitting U.S. president is one thing; taking uses his motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nameâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has a white-collar down the Catholic Church is something else day job and fights at night in Tijuana. entirely. Over the course of 2001 and 2002, Wanting to follow in his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s footsteps, the four journalists that made up The Boston Adonis travels to Philadelphia, where he Globeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spotlightâ&#x20AC;? team shed light on one convinces a lonely Rocky to train him. of the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s darkest secrets: the cover up Writer-director Ryan Coogler burst of child sexual abuse by hundreds of priests. onto the scene with the excellent Fruitvale At the urging of their editor, Marty Station, which also featured his Creed star Baron (Liev Schreiber), the Spotlight team, Jordan. Taking over franchise writing and led by beloved editor and lifelong Bostonian directing duties from star Stallone, Coogler Walter â&#x20AC;&#x153;Robbyâ&#x20AC;? Robinson (Michael Keaton, not only does the classic underdog-turnedabsolutely killing it), risked everything champion justice; he gives the lonely icon a reason to live. Adrian and Pauley are dead; Mickey Creed and Apollo are dead.

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EVENTS | Thu, Dec 3

Parade of Lights

Downtown Athens · 7 p.m. · FREE! Dozens of floats, marching bands, performance troupes and civic groups will bring in the holiday season during the parade, themed “It’s Christmastime in the City.” Look for the Athens music float—sponsored by Flagpole, the 40 Watt Club and AthFest—which stars the Athens Cowboy Choir singing western ballads and tunes from “just outside the city.” The procession kicks off at the corner of Dougherty and Pulaski streets, heads down Pulaski onto Clayton, then swings around on Thomas to march along Washington towards College Avenue. As per tradition, it will conclude in front of City Hall, where Santa and Mrs. Claus will host the lighting of downtown’s giant tree. [Jessica Smith]

Tuesday 1 CLASSES: Baby’s First Christmas Gift (The Pearl Girls) String together a bracelet with the smallest pearls.

6:30 p.m. $39. www.thepearlgirls. com CLASSES: Introduction to Pen & Ink Illustration for Comics & Cartoons (KA Artist Shop) Cameron Kirk will teach the basic techniques of inking. 6 p.m. $20. www.kaartist.com EVENTS: Tuesday Produce Stand (West Broad Market Garden) Shop for fresh produce straight out of the

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EVENT | Sat, Dec 5

Texan Ray Wylie Hubbard flirted with early success after one of his songs, “Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother,” was made a hit by Austin country vet Jerry Jeff Walker in the early 1970s. But Hubbard’s songwriting style—too folk to be country, too bluesy to be folk—made him a hard sell for the mainstream, and he languished in relative obscurity until the ‘90s, when a string of indie releases caught on with a small but dedicated listening audience. Hubbard has been touring and releasing music steadily over the past couple decades; his latest LP, this year’s The Ruffian’s Misfortune, is the second in a planned trilogy that began with 2012’s The Grifter’s Hymnal. [GV]

Downtown Athens · 7:30 p.m. · FREE! Oconee Co. Library · 3–4 p.m. · FREE! One of the coolest events of “Miniature Worlds” and Athens’ holiday season, Unsilent “Between Women and Children,” Night is equal parts concert, on display through December, parade, performance art and are evocative constructions outdoor party. Conceived of by of materials and messages.

New York-based electronic comFreeman creates sculptures poser Phil Kline in 1992, the that incorporate found objects, event centers around an airy, photographs, illustrations and sparkling musical piece “written fragments of text. The result is a specifically to be heard outdoors commentary on origins, secrets, in the month of December.” nostalgia and imagination. While Participants should download functioning in the realm of folk one of four tracks, available art, Freeman’s assemblages at unsilentnight.com, to their harken to the mid-20th Century iPhone or other mp3 player Neo-Dada movement. Her work beforehand. (If you’re old-school, communicates with viewers by you can bring a boombox; casestablishing an open network sette tapes will be available.) of relations rather than through Show up to Little Kings Shuffle a conventionally beautiful aesClub at 7:30 p.m., where thetic. The viewer’s imagined everyone will hit “play” simulresponse completes the artwork, taneously and march through speaking to the creative power of downtown. [GV] the mind. [Madeline Bates]

Southern Culture on the Ray Wylie Hubbard The Foundry · 7:30 p.m. · $18 (adv.), Skids $22 (door)

Caledonia Lounge · 8 p.m. · $15 (21+), $17 (18–20) A little bit punk, a little bit psychobilly and a lot bit camp, Southern Culture on the Skids have been dishing out hearty helpings of their lewd, groovy tunes since the 1980s, releasing a new album every couple years. The three-piece—Rick Miller on guitar and vocals, Mary Huff on bass and vocals and Dave Hartman on drums—pokes fun at Southern stereotypes while immersing themselves in the region’s multigenerational mystique. The balance is best observed on tunes like crowd favorite “Camel Walk,” where Miller name-drops Little Debbie as he hungers for a sexed-up Southern belle. [Gabe Vodicka]

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Held every Tuesday through Dec. 15. 4–6 p.m. 706-613-0122, www. athenslandtrust.org EVENTS: Holiday Book Sale (Georgia Museum of Art) Find new and used books in all genres. Dec. 1–4, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Outdoor Living Rooms (Multiple Locations) Public art planner Todd Bressi and visiting artist Matthew Mazzotta will offer “outdoor living rooms,” inviting the public to share their ideas on public art for Athens. The outdoor living rooms will happen on Dec. 1 on the UGA

Tate Plaza, Dec. 2 on College Square downtown, Dec. 3 at Bell’s Shopping Center on Hawthorne Dr., and Dec. 5 at the Athens Farmers Market at Bishop Park. 11 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3623 EVENTS: Bach & Beer with Cellist Steuart Pincombe (Creature Comforts Brewery) The concert connects Steuart’s approach to playing Bach with comments on the brewing method of each beer. 6 p.m. $15. www.musicinfamiliarspaces.com EVENTS: Tuesday Tour at 2 (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) Take a guided tour of the exhibit galleries. Meet in

Unsilent Night

the rotunda on the second floor. 2 p.m. FREE! www.libs.uga.edu/scl GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) Westside and Eastside locations of Locos Grill and Pub feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Nic. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-7289 GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) Compete in happy hour trivia. 5:30–6:30 p.m. FREE! www.therookandpawn.com GAMES: Bingo (Ted’s Most Best) Every Tuesday. 7 p.m. FREE! www. tedsmostbest.com

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GAMES: Dirty South Entertainment Trivia (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www. choochoorestaurants.com GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (The Savory Spoon) Compete to win prizes. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-367-5721 GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, 2301 College Station Rd.) Every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) With host Caitlin Wilson. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 KIDSTUFF: Kids Night (Buffalo’s Café) Featuring a balloon artist, col-

oring contests and photos with Buffy the Buffalo. 5:30 706-354-6655 PERFORMANCE: Bass Ensemble (UGA Robert G. Edge Recital Hall) An end-of-semester recital. 5 p.m.

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ART: UGA CSO Holiday Pottery Sale (Lamar Dodd School of Art) The sale features hand-built sculpture and functional pottery by the UGA Ceramic Student Organization and faculty. Dec. 2–3, 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! tsaupe@uga.edu ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) View highlights from the permanent collection. 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org ART: Phi Beata Heata Student Jewelry & Metals Sale (Multiple Locations) UGA’s jewelry and metalwork students present a sale of handmade pieces. Dec. 2 (Lamar Dodd School of Art) & Dec. 3 (Tate Center), 10 a.m.–5 p.m. www.art. uga.edu CLASSES: Socks That Fit Class (Session 1) (Revival Yarns) Take an advanced class and learn how to knit socks that will actually fit!

Session 1 will cover measuring and gauge setup. RSVP. 6 p.m. $30. www.revivalyarnsathens.com EVENTS: Supermarket of Veterans Benefits (The Classic Center) Learn about veteran benefits from federal, state and local government agencies. 10 a.m.–3 p.m.

FREE! veterans.georgia.gov EVENTS: Holiday Book Sale (Georgia Museum of Art) See Tuesday listing for full description Dec. 1–4, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Outdoor Living Rooms (Multiple Locations) See Tuesday listing for full description 11 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3623 EVENTS: Guided Trail Hike (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Take a guided walk on the trails to discover the beauty and variety of the center’s ecosystems. 9 a.m. FREE! www. athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreeknaturecenter GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Dirty Bingo (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Every Wednesday.

Prizes and house cash. 8 p.m. FREE! www.grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) House cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, Downtown and Broad St. locations) Every Wednesday. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ blindpigtavern GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday.

9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Movie Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Hosted by Jeremy Dyson. 9:30 p.m. www.facebook. com/lkshuffleclub GAMES: Bingo Bango (Highwire Lounge) Weekly themed games.

House cash and drink prizes. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.highwirelounge.com KIDSTUFF: Preschooler Storytime (Oconee County Library) See Tuesday listing for full description 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Ugly Sweater Competition (Oconee County Library) Make a tacky holiday sweater to wear all month long.

Supplies provided. Register by Dec. 2 at noon. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/oconee

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LECTURES & LIT: Community Conversation on Vaccinations (UGA Health Sciences, George Hall) Experts from UGA and Athens Regional will explain the science behind vaccine use and address vaccine safety. 5:30 p.m. FREE! public health.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Word of Mouth Poetry (The Globe) Open mic poetry readings. 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/athenswordofmouth LECTURES & LIT: Oconee Democrats Book Group (Chops and Hops) This month’s book is Jill Lepore’s The Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin. 7 p.m. FREE! oconeebooks@gmail. com LECTURES & LIT: Matthew Mazzotta (Lamar Dodd School of Art, S150) Conceptual artist Matthew Mazzota will present a lecture on “The Architecture of Social Space.”

2:30 p.m. FREE! art.uga.edu MEETINGS: Past Lives, Dreams and Soul Travel (ACC Library) This workshop is for all faiths to learn about dreams and past lives.

2–4 p.m. FREE! www.eckankar-ga. org

explore the exhibition “Samurai: The Way of the Warrior” during a tour led by Kristen Bach, then create their own samurai-inspired works of art.

Pizza and drinks included. Email to RSVP. 5:30–8:30 p.m. FREE! callan@uga.edu ART: Gallery Talk (Georgia Museum of Art) Dr. Masaki Mori, associate professor and assistant director of the Japanese Program at UGA, outlines “What Makes the Samurai Special? A Brief Introduction to Their History and Culture.” 5:30 p.m.

FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Outdoor Living Rooms (Multiple Locations) See Tuesday listing for full description 11 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3623 EVENTS: Holiday Book Sale (Georgia Museum of Art) See Tuesday listing for full description Dec. 1–4, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Downtown Parade of Lights (Downtown Athens) Over 60 local organizations will march through the streets of downtown. This year’s theme is “It’s Christmastime in the City.”

The parade begins at the corner of Dougherty and Pulaski Streets and ends in front of City Hall for the traditional tree lighting ceremony hosted by Santa. See Calendar Pick

KIDSTUFF: Teen and Tween Knitting (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Learn the basics of knitting and knit a pair of fingerless gloves in this two session workshop.

Registration required. Dec. 3 & 10, 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/madison KIDSTUFF: Crafternoon (Oconee County Library) Drop in for a selfdirected craft. Nov. 30, 6 p.m. Dec. 3 or Dec. 10, 2:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/oconee LECTURES & LIT: Dr. F. Stuart “Terry” Chapin III (UGA Chapel) Dr. Chapin will give a talk on “Conservation stewardship: Shaping pathways of large-scale change in social-ecological systems.” 12 p.m.

FREE! cicr.uga.edu MEETINGS: NAACP (East Friendship Baptist Church) Regular monthly meeting. Open to all. 7 p.m. FREE! naacpclarke@gmail.com MEETINGS: Oconee Rivers Audubon Society (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Wildlife researchers Maureen Murray and Shannon Curry will present “The Ecology and Health of White Ibis in Urban Florida.” 7 p.m. FREE! www.oconeeriversaudubon.org PERFORMANCE: UGA Holiday Concerts (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) Hugh Hodgson School of

The annual UGA Holiday Concerts will be held Thursday, Dec. 3 and Friday, Dec. 4 at 7:30 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall of the Performing Arts Center. The UGA Symphony Orchestra and School of Music’s combined choirs, pictured above, will perform seasonal favorites.

MEETINGS: Photo Sharegroup (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) The group meets at the Garden to share digital images of outdoor photography. 6:30 p.m. FREE! lpetroff@ chartner.net, bc.akin@charter.net MEETINGS: Tech Happy Hour (The World Famous) Meet entrepreneurs, tech talent and other Athenians who are making cool stuff. 6 p.m. www. fourathens.com/happy-hour

Thursday 3 ART: Great Dame Jewelry Pop-up Shop (BMA At Home) Great Dame is a local handmade jewelry line

by Katherine Ball. 5–8 p.m. www. bmaathome.com ART: UGA CSO Holiday Pottery Sale (Lamar Dodd School of Art) See Wednesday listing for full description Dec. 2–3, 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! tsaupe@uga.edu ART: Phi Beata Heata Student Jewelry & Metals Sale (Multiple Locations) See Wednesday listing for full description Dec. 2 (Lamar Dodd School of Art) & Dec. 3 (Tate Center), 10 a.m.–5 p.m. www.art. uga.edu ART: Teen Studio (Georgia Museum of Art) Teens ages 13–18 can

on p. 23. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athensclarkecounty.com/parade FILM: Samurai Film Series:Yojimbo (Georgia Museum of Art) Toshiro Mifune stars as a clever samurai who turns rival crime bosses against one another. It has been remade twice as A Fistful of Dollars and Last Man Standing. 7 p.m. www.georgiamuseum.org FILM: Elf (UGA Tate Student Center) Adopted elf Buddy travels from the North Pole to New York in search of his real father. 8 p.m. FREE! (w/ UGA ID), $3. www.union.uga.edu GAMES: Seinfeld Trivia (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Trivia about nothing.

Hosted by Ryan Vogel and Matt Weeks. 7 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com GAMES: Trivia (El Azteca) Win prizes with host Nic. Every Thursday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-2639 GAMES: Entertainment Trivia (Butt Hutt Bar-B-Q) Hosted by Dirty South Trivia. Every Thursday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8511 KIDSTUFF: A Very Muppet Holiday (Rocksprings Community Center) Participants will make muppet hand puppets, decorations and play games. Ages 2–5. 10 a.m. $4–6. www.athensclarkecounty.com/ leisure

Music ensembles come together for an an uplifting evening of seasonal favorites. Dec. 3 & 4, 7:30 p.m. $5 (w/ student ID), $18. www.pac. uga.edu

Friday 4 ART: OCAF Holiday Market (OCAF, Watkinsville) The market features pottery, paintings, fiber art, stained and fused glass, jewelry and more created by 70 of the region’s most gifted artists. An additional 50 OCAF artists will be represented in the Artists’ Shoppe. Dec. 4, 5–9 p.m.

Dec. 5–6, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. $3. www. ocaf.com EVENTS: Holiday Book Sale (Georgia Museum of Art) See Tuesday listing for full description Dec. 1–4, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: 8th Annual Not So Silent Night (Lyndon House Arts Center) A holiday benefit for Clarke County High School’s award-winning Iliad and Odyssey magazines features catering and local silent auction items. 7-9 p.m. $10. 706-490-7188 EVENTS: Holiday Celebration (Amvets, 1001 Winterville Rd.) The Athens Council of the Blind, Athens

Heritage Lions Club, Multiple Choices Center for Independent Living and the Disabled American Veterans Chapter 2 host an event to raise funds for families with children who have special needs. 2:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 p.m. 706-243-4828 EVENTS: Holiday Social on N. Jackson St. (North Jackson St.) Community, Dynamite Clothing, Adamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Optics,KA Artist Shop, Jittery Joes and Athena Jewelers present an evening of special sales, vendors, a photo booth and refreshments. 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m. communityathens@gmail.com EVENTS: Morning Mindfulness (Georgia Museum of Art) Join instructor Jerry Gale for a meditation session in the galleries. Meet in the lobby. 9:30 a.m. FREE! branew@ uga.edu, www.georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Botanical Garden Friends First Friday (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Dr. Wendy Zomlefer will discuss how her Public Service and Outreach fellowship integrates into The UGA Herbarium. RSVP by Wednesday.

9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10:30 a.m. $12. 706-542-6138 EVENTS: Healing Circle & Meditation (Body, Mind & Spirit) Experience different forms and modalities of meditation. Every Friday. 6 p.m. $5 suggested donation. 706-351-6024 EVENTS: Athens Coloring Book Kick-Off Event (1000 Faces Coffee Tasting Room) This locally made coloring book features 53 handdrawn images of iconic Athens locations. Pick up a book and grab some coffee. 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m. FREE! www.1000facescoffee.com FILM: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (UGA Tate Student Center) At the height of the Cold War, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin must work together to stop a criminal organization from creating a nuclear weapon. Dec. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6, 6 & 9 p.m. FREE! (w/ student ID), $3. www. union.uga.edu GAMES: Friday Night Magic Draft (Tycheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Games) Win prizes. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.tychesgames.com LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Broad 9A) Meet YA author James Dashner in celebration of The Game of Lives, Book 3. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com PERFORMANCE: Pamoja Dance Company (UGA Fine Arts Building) The UGA student dance group presents a showcase, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dope: A â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s Compilation.â&#x20AC;? Dec. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5, 7 p.m. $5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7. www.pamojadanceco.webs. com PERFORMANCE: UGA Holiday Concerts (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) See Thursday listing for full description Dec. 3 & 4, 7:30 p.m. $5 (w/ student ID), $18. www.pac. uga.edu PERFORMANCE: The Nutcracker Suite & Holiday Program (Morton Theatre) The first act of the program will feature a variety of dance styles in celebration of the holidays. The second act will feature Studio Dance Academyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adaptation of The Nutcracker. Dec. 4, 6:30 p.m. & Dec. 5, 10:30 a.m. $13. www. thestudiodanceacademy.com PERFORMANCE: Nutcracker Sweets and Other Holiday Dances (Oconee County Civic Center) The Encore Dance Theatre and students from Alice DePass Studio of Dance perform dances inspired by the beloved holiday ballet. Dec. 4, 7 p.m. Dec. 5, 3 & 7 p.m. $10. more.info.encore@gmail.com SPORTS: UGA Hockey (The Classic Center) The UGA Ice Dawgs face off against College of Charleston. 7:30 p.m. $10. www.ugahockey.com THEATER: The Nutcracker (Winder Cultural Arts Center, Winder) Winder-Barrow Community Theatre

presents this timeless classic about a nutcracker who comes to life on Christmas Eve. See Theater Notes on p. 14. Dec. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 6, 3 p.m. $10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;15. www.winderbarrowtheatre.org THEATER: Dashing Through the Snow (Elbert Theatre, Elberton) A group of Texans run a Christmasthemed bed and breakfast in this holiday comedy. See Theater Notes on p. 14. Dec. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 & 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12, 7 p.m.

Dec. 6 & 13, 2 p.m. $11. 706-2831049 THEATER: Assassins (Athens Community Theater) This Sondheim musical takes a look at the men and women who assassinated or attempted to assassinate presidents throughout American history. See Theater Notes on p. 14. Dec. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 & 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12, 8 p.m. Dec. 6 & 13, 2 p.m. $15â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18. www.townandgownplayers.org

Saturday 5 ART: J.B. & Friends Art Show and Sale (1790 Salem Rd., Farmington) Jeff Bishoff and friends share recent works of pottery and art. Dec. 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6, 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. 678-863-1847 ART: Holidaze Festival (Farmington Depot Gallery) An artist market with new work in the gallery, food, kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; activities, music and spontaneous merriment. Live music by Lily Herne.

Dec. 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6, 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 p.m. FREE! www.farmingtondepotgallery.com ART: Holiday Sale (Marmalade Pottery, 775 Pulaski St.) Tour the home studio of potter Maria Dondero and see her latest works as well as some limited edition porcelain pieces. Dec. 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6, 9 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. www.mariadondero.com ART: OCAF Holiday Market (OCAF, Watkinsville) See Friday listing for full description Dec. 4, 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m.

Dec. 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6, 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. $3. www. ocaf.com ART: Open House Pottery Sale (Farmington Pottery, Farmington) Geoff and Lisa Pickett offer a selection of all kinds of pots for the house and garden, as well as herbal soaps and skincare products. Dec. 5 & 6, 9 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. 706-769-8100 ART: Wolf Creek Pottery Sale (Wolf Creek Ceramics) Featuring new ceramic works by Juana Gnecco, Jen Graff, Nancy Green, Rich Panico and Minsoo Yuh. Handprinted textiles and paper by Sara Lee Parker. Dec. 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6, 9 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m.

706-410-5200 ART: Outside the Lines Opening Reception (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) Outside the Lines is a coloring book created

by ATHICA and Pixel & Ink that features coloring pages designed by local artists. The first volume benefits Clarke Middle School. Guests are invited to color in the drawings on the galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s walls. 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m FREE! www.athica.org ART: Opening Reception (Black Petticoat, 297 Prince Ave.) Art by Thea Grindeland. 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m. FREE! thea.grindeland@gmail.com ART: Carter Gillies Pottery Sale (572 Nantahala Ave.) View the latest works by local potter Carter Gillies.

Children willing to share a story, song or drawing with the artist will receive a handmade tree ornament.

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THE CALENDAR! ART: Alice Woodruff Pottery Sale (Woodruff Pottery, Watkinsville) Artist Alice Woodruff specializes in high gas fired functional and decorative porcelain pottery. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. 706-207-5175 CLASSES: Making Merry (ACC Library) Participants will learn how to make inexpensive holiday decorations. 1–4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens CLASSES: Memoir Writing Workshop (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, Room 285) Kathryn Gray White, Linda Hughes and Deeds Publishing teach the writing workshop and are available for book signings. 12:30 p.m. FREE! CLASSES: Writing Workshop Deeds Publishing presents a workshop on writing memoirs.

12:30–3:30 p.m. FREE! kgraywhi@ ggc.edu EVENTS: Oconee Farmers Market (Oconee County Courthouse, Watkinsville) Locally grown produce, meats, grains, flowers, soaps, birdhouses, gourds and more. 8 a.m.–1 p.m. www.oconeefarmersmarket.org EVENTS: Holiday Spirits Museum Mile Tour (Various Locations) This tour focuses on period holiday traditions spanning the 19th century by exploring four historic houses from the Federal, Greek Revival and Victorian periods. The tour includes live music, theater performances and refreshments. Dec. 5, 12 & 19, 2 p.m. $25. 706-353-1820 EVENTS: Outdoor Living Rooms (Multiple Locations) See Tuesday listing for full description 11 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3623 EVENTS: Santa Pub Crawl (Little Kings Shuffle Club) The Santa Pub Crawl will donate funds to the Athens Area Humane Society. 7:30 p.m.–2 a.m. $15–20. www.facebook. com/athenssantapubcrawl EVENTS: Unsilent Night (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Participate in a public performance of “Unsilent Night.” The 45-minute electronic piece, designed “specifically to be heard outdoors in the month of December” by composer Phil Kline, was debuted in New York City in 1992 and is performed around the world. Meet at Little Kings and bring portable music players for a walk around downtown. See Calendar Pick on p. 23. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. unsilentnight.com EVENTS: Barn Sale (Woods of Winterville, 835 Parkview Dr.) Browse antiques including textiles, silver, china, brass, pottery and vintage clothing. Dec. 5, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. & Dec. 6, 12–4 p.m. FREE! (to attend). 706-207-6843 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts. Live music by Caroline Aiken (10 a.m.). Home.made presents a pop-up kitchen. The market also will host special vendors for Holiday Craft Markets Dec. 5, 12 & 19. 9 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Holiday Open House (Native America Gallery) The open house features elves, libations and meatballs. Door prizes for the first 200 guests. 10 a.m.–7 p.m. www. facebook.com/nativeamericagallery EVENTS: West Broad Farmers Market (West Broad Market Garden) Featuring fresh produce, honey, crafts, soaps, baked goods, cooking demos, children’s activities and live music. Every Saturday. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. www.athenslandtrust. org

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EVENTS: Family Day: Embroidered Holiday Ornaments (Georgia Museum of Art) See examples of intricate needlework in the exhibition “Georgia’s Girlhood Embroidery: ‘Crowned with Glory and Immortality,’” then stitch up your own ornament. The Meridian Women’s Choir will perform. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamusuem.org EVENTS: Five Points Holiday Festival (Historic Five Points) Events include hot cocoa at The Pine, make-your-own holiday garlands at BMA Designs, makeyour-own ice cream cone ornaments at Hodgson’s Pharmacy, Kids with Guitars at Appointments at Five, and a visit with Santa at J. Christopher’s.

Pick up a map for a list of participating businesses. Pick up a map at Athens Classic Properties. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. infofpba@gmail.com FILM: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (UGA Tate Student Center) See Friday listing for full description Dec. 4–6, 6 & 9 p.m. FREE! (w/ student ID), $3. www.union.uga.edu GAMES: Shadowrun RPG Demo (Tyche’s Games) Visit Seattle in 2071, when magic and megacorps clash. 12 p.m. FREE! www.tychesgames.com GAMES: Netrunner Open Play (Tyche’s Games) Fantasy card game open play. 12:30–4:30 p.m. FREE! www.tychesgames.com KIDSTUFF: Cardboard Guitars (Madison County Library, Danielsville) This STEAM program lets participants explore circuits to build and play a cardboard guitar using the library’s Makey Makey kits.

2:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/madison KIDSTUFF: Breakfast with Santa (Camp Kiwanis, Danielsville) Children can work in the Elves’ Workshop to make a take-home craft and have a chat on Santa’s lap. 9–11 a.m. $10 (children), $5 (adult). 706795-2098 KIDSTUFF: Meet the Author (Lyndon House Arts Center) Meet author and psychologist Dr. Lynyetta Willis in celebration of her book My Forgotten Self. 3–4:45 p.m. www. myforgottenself.com KIDSTUFF: “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” Storytime (Barnes & Noble) Karen Hankins performs Dr. Seuss’ classic. 11 a.m. FREE! www. bn.com KIDSTUFF: Create a Webcomic with HTML & CSS (East Athens Community Center) Students will learn to use images, colors and words to craft a story and publish in the digital age. Ages 11 and up.

9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $46. www. fourathens.com KIDSTUFF: Breakfast with Santa (Tuckston United Methodist Church) The morning features a pancake breakfast, photos with Santa, crafts and stories. Participants are asked to bring an unwrapped toy. 9–11 a.m.

FREE! www.tuckston.org KIDSTUFF: Catch the Gingerbread Man (ACC Library) Help find Gingerbread Man. Crafts and cookies will be provided. Ages 4–8. 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ athens LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Barnes & Noble) Meet local author and Avid bookseller Will Walton in celebration of his first novel Anything Could Happen. 5 p.m.

FREE! www.bn.com LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Barnes & Noble) Local author and holocaust survivor George Dynin will discuss his book Aryan Papers.

2 p.m. FREE! www.bn.com

LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Barnes & Noble) Meet Valerie J. Frey in celebration of her book, Preserving Family Recipes: How to Save and Celebrate Your Food Traditions. 10 a.m. FREE! www. bn.com MEETINGS: Clarke-Oconee Genealogical Society Meeting (ACC Library) Come hear and share stories of genealogical experiences with COGS members then enjoy the holiday party. 2 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650, www.athenslibrary.org OUTDOORS: Naturalist’s Walk (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Take a hike around the property in search of seasonal happenings. Bring a camera and binoculars. 10–11 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3615 PERFORMANCE: Festivus Show (Canopy Studio) See the studio’s aerial classes performing feats of strength, marveling at festivus miracles and just plain making fun of the holiday season. 4 p.m. & 8 p.m. www.canopystudio.org PERFORMANCE: Pamoja Dance Company (UGA Fine Arts Building) See Friday listing for full description Dec. 4–5, 7 p.m. $5–7. www.pamojadanceco.webs.com PERFORMANCE: Nutcracker Sweets and Other Holiday Dances (Oconee County Civic Center) See Friday listing for full description Dec. 4, 7 p.m. Dec. 5, 3 & 7 p.m. $10. more.info.encore@ gmail.com THEATER: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (UGA Chapel) UGA’s musical theater troupe Next Act presents a stage musical of the cult classic starring Brad and Janet, Dr. Frank N. Furter, Riff Raff, Magenta and Rocky. 7:30 p.m. $8. www.facebook.com/uganextact THEATER: Assassins (Athens Community Theater) See Friday listing for full description Dec. 4–5 & 10–12, 8 p.m. Dec. 6 & 13, 2 p.m. $15–18. www.townandgownplayers.org THEATER: The Nutcracker (Winder Cultural Arts Center, Winder) See Friday listing for full description Dec. 4–5, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 6, 3 p.m. $10–15. www.winderbarrowtheatre. org THEATER: Dashing Through the Snow (Elbert Theatre, Elberton) See Friday listing for full description Dec. 4–5 & 11–12, 7 p.m. Dec. 6 & 13, 2 p.m. $11. 706-283-1049

Sunday 6 ART: Indie South Fair’s Holiday Market (660 N. Chase St.) See Saturday listing for full description Dec. 5 & 6, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. FREE! www.indiesouthfair.com ART: Holidaze Festival (Farmington Depot Gallery) See Saturday listing for full description Dec. 5–6, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. FREE! www.farmingtondepotgallery.com ART: J.B. & Friends Art Show and Sale (1790 Salem Rd., Farmington) See Saturday listing for full description Dec. 5–6, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. 678863-1847 ART: OCAF Holiday Market (OCAF, Watkinsville) See Friday listing for full description Dec. 4, 5–9 p.m.

Dec. 5–6, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. $3. www. ocaf.com ART: Opening Reception (Aurum Studios) See “Recent Decent Paintings” by Greg Benson. 2–5 p.m. FREE! www.aurumstudios.com ART: Open House Pottery Sale (Farmington Pottery, Farmington) See Saturday listing for full description Dec. 5 & 6, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

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Saturday listing for full description Dec. 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6, 9 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. www.mariadondero.com ART: Carter Gillies Pottery Sale (572 Nantahala Ave.) See Saturday listing for full description Dec. 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6, 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. www.cartergilliespottery.wordpress.com ART: Wolf Creek Pottery Sale (Wolf Creek Ceramics) See Saturday listing for full description Dec. 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6, 9 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. 706-410-5200 ART: Artist Reception (Oconee County Library) Meet artist Lisa Freeman whose work will be featured in the auditorium. See Calendar Pick on p. 23. 3â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/oconee ART: Alice Woodruff Pottery Sale (Woodruff Pottery, Watkinsville) See Saturday listing for full description 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. 706-207-5175 CLASSES: Calligraphy Class: Addressing Envelopes (KA Artist Shop) Learn how to address invitations. 12:30 p.m. $30. www. kaartist.com EVENTS: Athens Master Chorale (The Classic Center) This Christmas concert features Handelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Messiah, Vivaldiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gloria and Donald Fraserâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s This Christmastide. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athensmasterchorale.org EVENTS: Pawn Con #2 (The Rook and Pawn) Part-market, part-

nonprofit agencies and select items from a â&#x20AC;&#x153;shopping list of symbolic giftsâ&#x20AC;? to donate. 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2 p.m. www. firstpresathens.org/benevolencemarket EVENTS: Classic City Tour of Homes (Multiple Locations) UGA Miracle presents a tour of sorority and fraternity homes decorated for the holidays. Proceeds benefit Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Healthcare of Atlanta. 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. www.ugamiracle.com FILM: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (UGA Tate Student Center) See Friday listing for full description Dec. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6, 6 & 9 p.m. FREE! (w/ student ID), $3. www.union.uga.edu GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, 2440 W. Broad St.) Every Sunday. 6 p.m. FREE! www.blindpigtavern.com GAMES: Brewerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Inquisition (Buffaloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CafĂŠ) Sundays. 6:30 p.m. www.facebook.com/buffaloscafeathens GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Taqueria Tsunami, Downtown) Surf the trivia wave. 9 p.m. FREE! www. taqueriatsunami.com GAMES: Trivia (Brixx Wood Fired Pizza) Test your skills. Every Sunday.

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COMEDY: Comic Strip Show Up & Go Up (The Office Lounge) Open mic comedy. Hosted by Alia Ghosheh. 8 p.m. $5. www.thefoundryathens.com GAMES: Spelling Bee (Highwire Lounge) Test your spelling and win prizes. No bees on site. 8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 p.m.

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12:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5:30 p.m. FREE! www.therookandpawn.com EVENTS: Barn Sale (Woods of Winterville) See Saturday listing for full description Dec. 5, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. & Dec. 6, 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. FREE! (to attend). 706-207-6843 EVENTS: Winter Festival & Horse Show (Butterfly Dreams Farm, 2981 Hog Mountain Rd., Watkinsville) Butterfly Dreams Farm will host a festival with crafts, games, a silent auction and a horse show competition. 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m FREE! www.butterflydreamsfarm.org EVENTS: Holiday Open House (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Live music by the Georgia Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chorus at 2:15 p.m., followed by The Solstice Sisters at 3:15 p.m.

Children can create an art project and take photos with Santa. 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. FREE! www.botgarden.uga.edu EVENTS: Reindeer Run Tacky Holiday 5K (Stegeman Coliseum) Holiday attire encouraged. Proceeds will buy winter essentials for kids in the Oasis community. 8:30 a.m. $10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;25. www.eventbrite.com EVENTS: Benevolence Market (First Presbyterian Church of Athens) Meet representatives of local

PERFORMANCE: Stomp Out Domestic Violence (Cedar Shoals High School) In this spin-off of Project Safeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dancing with the Athens Stars competition, novice steppers are set up with experienced coaches to create step routines. 4 p.m. www.project-safe.org SPORTS: UGA Hockey (The Classic Center) The UGA Ice Dogs play against Johnson & Wales. 3 p.m. www.ugahockey.com THEATER: Dashing Through the Snow (Elbert Theatre, Elberton) See Friday listing for full description Dec. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 & 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12, 7 p.m. Dec. 6 & 13, 2 p.m. $11. 706-283-1049 THEATER: The Nutcracker (Winder Cultural Arts Center, Winder) See Friday listing Dec. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5, 7:30 p.m.

Dec. 6, 3 p.m. $10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;15. www.winderbarrowtheatre.org THEATER: Assassins (Athens Community Theater) See Friday listing for full description Dec. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 & 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12, 8 p.m. Dec. 6 & 13, 2 p.m. $15â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18. www.townandgownplayers.org

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THE CALENDAR! EVENTS: Economic Justice Coalition Holiday Assistance Program (ACC Library) Donate unopened toys, Athens transit bus passes, gift certificates and cash to help spread joy to low income families. 6–8 p.m. rickyrob@uga.edu EVENTS: Reopening Celebration (Escape the Space, 540 Hawthorne Ave.) Find out what Escape the Space truly is with puzzles, treats and raffles. Guests are encouraged to wear their tackiest Christmas sweater. 4–6 p.m. FREE! www.escapethespace.com EVENTS: Tuesday Tour at 2 (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) See Tuesday listing for full description 2 p.m.

FREE! www.libs.uga.edu/scl EVENTS: Foster Parent Information Meeting (Georgia Mentor, 220 Ben Burton Cir., Suite A, Bogart) Learn about becoming a foster parent. 10 a.m. & 6 p.m.

FREE! www.ga-mentor.com EVENTS: Tuesday Produce Stand (West Broad Market Garden) See Tuesday listing for full description 4–6 p.m. www.athenslandtrust.org GAMES: Dirty South Entertainment Trivia (Choo Choo Japanese Korean Grill Express) Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www. choochoorestaurants.com GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) See Tuesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Nic every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706354-7289 GAMES: Bingo (Ted’s Most Best) Every Tuesday. 7 p.m. FREE! www. tedsmostbest.com GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) See Tuesday listing for full description 5:30–6:30 p.m.

FREE! www.therookandpawn.com GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (The Savory Spoon) See Tuesday listing for full description 7 p.m. FREE! 706-367-5721 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) See Tuesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! www. locosgrill.com GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) See Tuesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern KIDSTUFF: Kids Night (Buffalo’s Café) See Tuesday listing for full description 5:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-6655 PERFORMANCE: Jim Brickman (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) Pianist Jim Brickman will perform “Comfort and Joy,” a special holiday concert featuring the Georgia Children’s Chorus along with guest artists Charlie Alan, Anne Cochran and Tracy Silverman. 8 p.m. $25–50. pac.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Grace (Morton Theatre) This is a special holiday performance featuring the DanceFx Dance Company, Dancefx Concert Dance Apprentice Company, Contact Dance Company and Xtensity. 7:30 p.m. $13–16. www.mortontheatre. com

Wednesday 9 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) George Foreman, director of UGA’s Performing Arts Center, leads a tour of “Before the March King: 19th-Century American Bands.” 2 p.m. www.georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Sustainable UGA Semester in Review (UGA Tate Student Center, Fifth Floor) Celebrate people, programs and

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courses that encourage sustainability at UGA with presentations, displays and lunch. RSVP. 11 a.m.–1 p.m. sustain@uga.edu GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) See Wednesday listing for full description 9 p.m.

FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, Downtown and Broad St. locations) Every Wednesday. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ blindpigtavern GAMES: Dirty Bingo (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Prizes and house cash. 8 p.m. FREE! www.grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Test your general knowledge!

7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-548-1920 GAMES: Bingo Bango (Highwire Lounge) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! www. highwirelounge.com GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) See Wednesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 KIDSTUFF: Preschooler Storytime (Oconee County Library) See Tuesday listing for full description 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Anime Club (Oconee County Library) Watch some anime and manga, listen to J-Pop music, eat Japanese snacks and share fan art. Ages 11–18. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES & LIT: Oxford American Georgia Music Issue Reading (Avid Bookshop) Oxford American editors and writers will read from the brand new annual music issue featuring the state of Georgia. 6:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com MEETINGS: Lunch and Learn (Four Athens) Michael Gargiulo of Athens tech startup ProxyServer will discuss the best SEO practices. Lunch is provided. RSVP. 12 p.m. FREE! www. fourathens.com MEETINGS: Tech Happy Hour (The World Famous) See Wednesday listing for full description 6 p.m. FREE! www.fourathens.com/happy-hour PERFORMANCE: Rak the Watt (40 Watt Club) Watch as bellydancers demonstrate their skills. 7 p.m. $5–8. www.40watt.com PERFORMANCE: Grace (Morton Theatre) See Tuesday listing for full description 7:30 p.m. $13–16. www. mortontheatre.com

LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 1 Caledonia Lounge 8 p.m. $8 (21+), $10 (18–20). www. caledonialounge.com JUCIFER Sludge-metal duo that tour constantly, living out of their vehicle.

SAVAGIST Heavy-hitting metal band.

JUNA Sweeping local post-rock band featuring epic instrumentation.

The Foundry Jam for Justice. 7:30 p.m. $8 (adv.), $10 (door). www.thefoundryathens. com THE WELCOME HOME Local fourpiece indie rock band.

DESIGN COMPANY Countryinfluenced rock group from Perry.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 THE PLAGUE Original, ballsy rock harkening back to The Stooges, Sonic Youth and The MC5.

RABIES SCYTHE FIGHT Experimental/electronic local band.

BIG MIKE MYSTERY No info available.

RAT BABIES Doomy, psychedelic two-piece.

Little Kings Shuffle Club 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub THE RODNEY KINGS Scuzzed-out local garage-punk trio.

AREA MEN Local punk band featuring former members of Witches.

HUNGER ANTHEM Fuzzed-out, guitar-driven local indie rock band.

DEEP STATE Driving, punky, melodic guitar-rock.

Wednesday 2 Blue Sky 5 p.m. FREE! 706-850-3153 VINYL WEDNESDAYS Bring your own records and spin them!

Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 LEAVING COUNTRIES OPEN MIC JAM Showcase your original material. Contact louisphillippelot@ yahoo.com for booking.

Thursday 3 Caledonia Lounge 8 p.m. $15 (21+), $17 (18–20). www. caledonialounge.com SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS Campy, long-running psychobilly band from North Carolina.

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40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com MOTHER FORE Local band influenced by Pink Floyd.

THE OLD WORLD MONKEYS New local band.

NUCLEAR TOURISM Young local group playing covers and originals.

The Foundry 8 p.m. $15 (adv), $20 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com ANDY MCKEE Virtuosic acoustic guitarist and YouTube sensation.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $12 (adv.), $14 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com DOPAPOD Jam-funk band from Brooklyn.

THE NTH POWER Groovy five-piece soul band.

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com CALEB KEITH & THE CALAVERAS Local “dusty-boot Americana” outfit.

BLACKWATER DEEP Athens-based acoustic indie-folk band.

JACLYN STEELE Local singersongwriter by way of Iowa.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $8 (adv.), $10 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com LEE BAINS III & THE GLORY FIRES Gritty, socially charged rock and roll band from Alabama.

SUSTO Charleston, SC-based altcountry band.

BLUE BLOOD Melodic psych-pop project from Hunter Morris.

Hedges on Broad 9 p.m. www.hedgesonbroad.com VELCRO PYGMIES Rock group influenced by Van Halen and Air Supply.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 SMOKEDOG Noisy, burned-out experimental rock and roll.

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Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com DJ TONY CHACKAL Spinning an all-vinyl set.

Hi-Lo Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! www.hiloathens.com KARAOKE WITH THE KING Sing your guts out every Wednesday!

Live Wire 8 p.m. FREE! www.livewireathens.com OPEN MIC & LATE NIGHT JAM Come share your music, jam with others and have a great time!

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 MC FUNK JAM Funk all night.

The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn. Every Wednesday!

Porterhouse Grill 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT Enjoy an evening of original music, improv and standards.

Willy’s Mexicana Grill 7 p.m. FREE! 706-548-1920 CRAIG GLEASON Georgia-based songwriter plays beachy, folky acoustic tunes.

The Grotto 11 p.m. 706-549-9933 LEAVING COUNTRIES Local band playing smokin’ folk-country/rock.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com OLD SKOOL PRESENTS… OLD SKOOL Jason Fuller and Seth Hendershot get together to bring you some of their favorite sounds.

Live Wire 11 p.m. FREE! www.livewireathens.com TECROPOLIS Athens’ longest-running electronic dance music series, with guests Organik and Varient.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 OPPOSITE BOX Genre-bending experimental rock band.

The Office Lounge 8 p.m. 706-546-0840 REV. CONNER MACK TRIBBLE Tribble hosts an “all-star jam” every Thursday.

Saucehouse Barbeque 6 p.m. FREE! www.saucehousebbq.com JULIE HOLMES Singer-songwriter who specializes in acoustic jams.

Your Pie 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-355-7048 (Gaines School Rd. location) YOESHI ROBERTS Singer-songwriter playing “music that feels good.”

6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-7424 (Five Points location) LANDON TRUST Local singer-songwriter performs an acoustic set.

Friday 4 Buffalo’s Café 8 p.m. $15 (adv), $18 (door). www.buffaloscafe.com ELVIS AND HIS TCB BAND Elvis impersonator Chris Shupe’s performance features The Burning Love Brass. This is a Christmas show.

9 p.m. $10. www.buffaloscafe.com THE SPLITZ BAND This band encompasses funk, disco and R&B. Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $10 (adv.), $12 (18–20). www. caledonialounge.com T. HARDY MORRIS AND THE HARDKNOCKS Dead Confederate frontman performs a set. See p. 18.

ROADKILL GHOST CHOIR Psych band from Athens via Deland, FL. Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com RANCH Local cowboy-country band.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com ZALE Young, classically trained singer-songwriter leads her band.

CHELSEA SHAG Soul-pop singersongwriter from Atlanta.

SYDNEY RHAME Acoustic pop singer from Atlanta.

KAYLA BERRIE Local jazz-inspired singer-songwriter.

The Foundry 7:30 p.m. $18 (adv.), $22 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com RAY WYLIE HUBBARD The Texas legend performs a career-spanning set. See Calendar Pick on p. 23.

AARON LEE TASJAN Folk artist whose lyrics are honest and funny.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com GUMSHOE Lean, evocative songs with vivid imagery .

VFW 7 p.m. 706-543-5940 RAMBLIN’ COUNTRY BAND Georgia-based traditional country.

Saturday 5 Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 10 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net CAROLINE AIKEN Aiken has a bluesy voice and masterful technique.

Caledonia Lounge 10 p.m. $6 (21+), $8 (18–20). www. caledonialounge.com MARSHMALLOW COAST Athens band led by Andy Gonzales.

NIGHTBLONDE Nashville-based band featuring members of the Lolligags.

MIND BRAINS Experimental pop with skewed sensibilities.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com ATHENS TANGO PROJECT Local group playing Argentine tango.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $7 (adv.), $10 (door). www.40watt.com LONNIE HOLLEY Visual artist and musician. See story on p. 18.

JOHN FERNANDES & ALEC LIVADITIS Two local experimental musicians team up for a duo set.

HALF ACID Greg O’Connell experiments with synths and talk boxes.

VERNON THORNSBERRY Longtime local townie performs a set of his jazz- and folk-influenced music.

Highwire Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com LIVE JAZZ See Friday’s listing Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 ISAAC BRAMBLETT BAND Southern singer backed by a homegrown band.

The Office Lounge 9 p.m. 706-546-0840 THE FLAMETHROWERS Athensbased surf band.

Saucehouse Barbeque 6 p.m. FREE! www.saucehousebbq.com NATHAN SHEPPARD Local singersongwriter with a ‘70s pop style.

Sunday 6 The Foundry 6 p.m. $10 (adv.), $12 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com THE SEGAR JAZZ AFFAIR Radio DJ Dwain Segar curates a night of jazz, featuring Antonio Bennett.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 6:30 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee. com HOG-EYED MAN Local duo that plays Appalachian music. CD release show! Admission is free for kids.

Saucehouse Barbeque 6 p.m. FREE! www.saucehousebbq.com LEAVING COUNTRIES Louis Phillip Pelot plays a solo set.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 BLUES NIGHT WITH BIG C Expect lots of soulful riffs, covers and originals.

Tuesday 8 Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $5. www.georgiatheatre.com THE FUNK BROTHERHOOD Local party band performs horn-driven hits.

ROBBIE DUDE Local DJ spinning “bumpin’, grindin’ bass music.”

CRAIG WATERS & THE FLOOD Local blues guitarist and songwriter.

THE DICTATORTOTS Trashing the night with post-grunge grooves.

Highwire Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com LIVE JAZZ A trio of incredibly talented musicians play every weekend.

Live Wire 7 p.m. $8 (adv.) $10 (door). www. livewireathens.com SARAH ELIZABETH Local songwriter described as “the ‘girl next door’ of the South.” EP release show!

SHANE SNITEMAN South Carolinabased pop-country artist.

ASHLEY STRICKLAND New-country artist from Georgia.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 ALBATROSS Athens group creating a mixture of jazz, blues and funk.

The Office Lounge 6 p.m. 706-546-0840 REV. CONNER MACK TRIBBLE Tribble is a Georgia rock fixture.

8 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn!

Saucehouse Barbeque 6 p.m. FREE! www.saucehouse.com PAUL TURNER Acoustic soul singersongwriter.

The Foundry 8:30 p.m. $8 (adv.), $10 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com MOSES MO’S TWO TON MESSAGE Side project from Mother’s Finest guitarist Moses Mo. CAROLINE AIKEN One of Athens’ most talented songwriters plays with an all-star group.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $15 (adv), $17 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com RISING APPALACHIA New Orleans sister duo that plays world, folk and soul.

CICADA RHYTHM Local duo playing bluegrass-tinged indie-folk, .

AROUNA DIARRA Burkina Faso native based in Asheville, NC. Hedges on Broad 9 p.m. www.hedgesonbroad.com TYLER HAMMOND Southern rock songwriter from Milledgeville.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com SCOTT LOW & THE SOUTHERN BOUILLON The Americana singersongwriter leads his rocking band.

PULLIN’ STRINGS Bluegrass band playing originals and covers.

Monday 7 Creature Comforts Brewery Industry Night. 5:30 p.m. FREE (service industry workers), $12. www.creaturecomfortsbeer.com HANK & CUPCAKES Brooklyn-based electro/disco-pop band.

CHIEF SCOUT Bracing local rock band led by Trey Rosenkampff.

THE HERNIES Local indie rock band led by songwriter Henry Barbe.

Georgia Theatre 7:30 p.m. $23.50 (adv.), $27.50 (door). www.georgiatheatre.com BRENT SMITH & ZACH MYERS Members of Shinedown perform an acoustic set.

ZACK MACK Singer-songwriter.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OPEN MIC Every Monday.

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Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 LEAVING COUNTRIES OPEN MIC JAM Contact louisphillippelot@ yahoo.com for booking.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com ARI ROAR Dream-pop artist from Miami Beach via Texas.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $10 (adv.), $12 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com GEORGIA MUSIC ISSUE LAUNCH PARTY Oxford American celebrates the release of its Georgia Music issue with performances from Elf Power, The Historical Mercyland Abstract, Danny Hutchens and The Old Hoss Radbourn Experience, Shade and Ruby the Rabbitfoot.

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Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $15 (adv.), $18 (door). www. hendershotscoffee.com JONATHAN BYRD & THE PICKUP COWBOYS North Carolina songwriter who brings together Southern storytelling and hot guitar-picking.

CORIN RAYMOND Canadian singersongwriter.

Hi-Lo Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! www.hiloathens.com KARAOKE WITH THE KING Sing your guts out every Wednesday!

Live Wire 8 p.m. FREE! www.livewireathens.com OPEN MIC & LATE NIGHT JAM See Wednesday’s listing for full description Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 MC FUNK JAM See Wednesday’s listing for full description The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 KARAOKE See Wednesday’s listing for full description Porterhouse Grill 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT Enjoy an evening of originals, improv and standards.

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Art 41st Annual Juried Exhibition (Lyndon House Arts Center) The annual show will be juried by Jock Reynolds, director of the Yale University Art Gallery. All visual art welcome. Drop off entry forms and up to three works on Jan. 28, 12:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8:30 p.m. or Jan. 29, 10 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. Opening reception on Mar. 24. $25 submission fee. 706613-3623, www.athensclarkecounty. com/lyndonhouse AthFest Educates Mural Project (Athens, GA) AthFest Educates is commissioning a largescale public mural to commemorate its 20th anniversary. The organization is requesting proposals from youth-serving organizations interested in producing a mural as part of a multi-month arts program, from professional artists who would work with the group, and from local businesses willing to donate a wall space with high visibility. $20,000 budget.

Proposals due Jan. 11. 706-5481973, director@athfesteducates.org Call for Artists (Amici) Currently accepting artists for exhibitions. Email samples of work to ryan.myers@amici-cafe.com Deck the Walls (Lyndon House Arts Center) A special exhibition features art available for sale by 70 area artists, authors, crafters and musicians. Items include glass ornaments, pottery, sculptural works, embroidery, childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books, photography and more. Dec. 8â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 6. www.athensclarkecounty.com/ lyndonhouse Georgia DOT Art Competition (Athens, GA) The Georgia Department of Transportation is celebrating its 100th anniversary with an art competition open to students in grades K-12 at public, private or

home schools in Georgia. The theme is â&#x20AC;&#x153;What Moves You? Imagining Tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Transportation.â&#x20AC;?

Submissions can be done by hand, digitally, photographically or any combination. Written statement and entry form required. Deadline Jan. 22. www.dot.ga.gov/aboutGDOT/ gdotcentennial/ArtContest Outside the Lines (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) ATHICA and Pixel & Ink present a quarterly coloring book full of pages created by local artists.

An interactive coloring event will be held Dec. 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;13 at which the public can drop in and color a collection of line drawings along the galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s walls. Proceeds benefit Clarke Middle School. www.athica.org Standing with Paris (Lyndon House Arts Center) In honor of the country of France and the city of Paris, Lyndon House Arts Center will open the Painting and Drawing Studio to the community. Tuesdays through December, 5:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8:30 p.m. lyndonhouseartsfoundation.com Statewide Art Competition (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Seeking student artwork to use on items like totes, T-shirts, journals and scarves in the gardenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gift shop. Open to GA students in ninth grade or above. Winners can receive up to $1,000. Deadline Dec. 3. Visit website for complete guidelines and application. 706-542-6014, www.botgarden.uga.edu

Auditions The Graduate (Town and Gown Players) Town & Gown Players host auditions for The Graduate.

Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Dec. 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8, 7 p.m. www.facebook.com/towngown players

Classes Acting for Film (Film Athens Film Lab) George Adams teaches â&#x20AC;&#x153;Actorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gym: The Road to Becoming a Professional Actor.â&#x20AC;? Topics include creating dynamic characters, working as an actor in film and television, and the creative and business aspects of film. Register online.

Wednesdays, 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8:30 p.m. $75/ month. www.filmathens.net/edu Beekeeping for Beginners (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) A seven-part series that covers the fundamentals of beekeeping.

Sundays, Dec. 13â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 7. $215. www.botgarden.uga.edu Bikram Hot Yoga (Bikram Yoga Athens) Classes in hot yoga are offered seven days a week.

Beginners welcome. No experience necessary. Student discounts available. 706-353-9642, www.bikram athens.com Clay Classes (Good Dirt) Weekly â&#x20AC;&#x153;Try Clayâ&#x20AC;? classes ($20/person) introduce participants to the potterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wheel every Friday from 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Family Try Clayâ&#x20AC;? classes show children and adults hand-building methods every Sunday from 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 p.m. $20. 706-355-3161, www.gooddirt.net Intro to JavaScript Programming (Four Athens) This code class teaches the most popular programming language in the world. For ages 13 & up. Laptop required. Mondays & Thursdays, Jan. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 11, 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. $225. www.fourathens.com Intro to Ruby on Rails (Four Athens) Instructors will be available inside and outside class hours to teach Ruby on Rails. This code class meets Mondays and Thursdays, Jan. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 11. www.fourathens.com/ railscode2

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve Been Set Free and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve Been Boundâ&#x20AC;? and other works by Vivian Liddell are currently on view in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tranfers,â&#x20AC;? a group exhibition at the University of North Georgia Oconee Campus Gallery through Friday, Dec. 11.

Intro to Web Fundamentals (Four Athens) This four-week course will prepare students for the next level in web/software development.

It is recommended as preparation for Javascript, HTML/CSS or Ruby programming classes. Mondays and Thursdays, Jan. 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;28. www.four athens.com/webfundamentals Lunchtime Workout (CinĂŠ BarcafĂŠ) Rebecca Thaw and Jenny Hill Carter host full-body workouts during lunch hour. All skill levels welcome. BYO mat. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:45 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12:45 p.m. $5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10. www.athenscine.com Lunchtime Yoga (CinĂŠ BarcafĂŠ) Margaret Thomas leads Lunchtime Yoga for all levels. BYO mat.

Wednesday and Fridays. $5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10. margaretdthomasyoga.blogspot.com Pilates and More (All Body Studio) All Body Studio offers classes in pilates, belly dance and zumba. Check website for classes. www.allbodystudio.com Quilting (Sewcial Studio) Sewcial Studio has moved to a new location at 2500 W. Broad St., suite #305.

Quilting classes for beginner to advanced students cover both traditional and modern projects. www.sewcialstudio.com Traditional Karate Training (Athens Yoshukai Karate) Learn traditional Yoshukai karate in a positive atmosphere. Accepting new students. No experience necessary.

See website for schedule. Classes held Sundaysâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Thursdays. FREE! www.athensy.com Women, Whimsy & Soul (Spa Alchemy) A circle for women seeking lighthearted connections. Third Friday of every month. $15. www.alchemyathens.com Yoga (Rubber Soul Yoga) Ongoing classes in Kundalini, Hatha, gentle yoga, laughing yoga, acroyoga, karate and one-on-one yoga as well as guided meditation. Check website for schedule. Donation based. calclements@gmail.com, www.rubber soulyoga.com Yoga Classes (Keep it Simple Yoga, 1961 Barnett Shoals Rd.) This studio offers various classes to accomodate all practitioners. www.kisyoga.com

Yoga Classes (Chase Street Yoga) This studio teaches different types of yoga like gentle yoga, yin yoga and power heated Vinyasa, plus Zumba and Pilates. 706-316-9000, www.chasestreetyoga.com Yoga Teacher Training (Athens Yoga Institute, 1260 S. Milledge Ave.) Get certified at the 200-hour level with Yoga Alliance. Twelve month and 7.5 week options. www.athensyogainstitute.com Yoga Teacher Training (Keep it Simple Yoga) Keep it Simple Yoga and Yogaful Day (Bill Cottrell) offer a 200-hour training program through Yoga Alliance. Saturdays, Jan. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 21, 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8 p.m. $1650. www. yogafulday.com, www.kisyoga.com

PALS Volunteers Needed (PALS Institute) Women of the World is seeking volunteers to mentor young adult women as they study and prepare to get their GED and gain employment. Spanish speakers are needed. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 9:30 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1 p.m. 706255-8702, www.womentotheworld. org Readers Needed (Learning Ally) Learning Ally is looking for volunteers to train as readers to help create audio textbooks for people with print disabilities. scourt@learning ally.org, 706-549-1313

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Athens Code Camp (Four Athens) Four Athens offers after school and weekend code clubs in partnership with schools. Check the site for a full listing. www.fourathens.com/ athenscodecamp Districtwide Open House Attend an open house for the Clarke County Schools. Elementary Schools, Monday, Jan. 12. Middle Schools, Thursday, Jan. 15. High Schools, Tuesday, Jan. 13. RSVP. www.clarke.k12.ga.us

Bigger Vision (Bigger Vision Shelter) Bigger Vision is seeking volunteers to stay overnight at the shelter. Volunteers arrive at 9 p.m., sleep upstairs and arise at 5:30 a.m. to help with breakfast. Must be 21 years old or older. Daytime volunteers needed, too. 706-338-4707, www.biggervisionshelter.org Disabled American Veterans Network (Athens, GA) Seeking volunteers to drive VA furnished vehicles to transport vets living with disabilities to local clinics and Augusta hospitals. Weekdays, 8 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m., once or twice a month.

Call Edward, 706-340-0544 Hands On Athens Hands On Athens, a program of the AthensClarke Heritage Foundation, is looking for volunteers to lead or assist with home repair and carpentry projects. HOA offers home repairs to low-income homeowners. 706-3531801, handsonathens.weebly.com HandsOn Northeast Georgia (Athens, GA) HandsOn NEGA is a project of Community Connection of Northeast Georgia that assists volunteers in finding flexible service opportunities at various organizations. Over 130 local agencies seek help with ongoing projects and special short-term events. Visit the website for a calendar and to register. www.handsonnortheastgeorgia.com

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Support Groups Alanon (540 Prince Ave.) Alanon: a 12 step recovery program for those affected by someone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drinking.

Noon to evening meetings on most days. FREE! www.ga-al-anon.org Alcoholics Anonymous (Athens, GA) If you want to drink, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your business. If you want to stop, we can help. 706-389-4164, www.athensaa.org Amputee Support Group (ACC Library) All are welcome. The next meeting is Dec. 3, 6 p.m. Meets every first Thursday of the month.

Contact Reyna, 706-498-4313 Emotions Anonymous (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) A 12-step program open to anyone with a desire to become well emotionally. Meets Sundays, 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 p.m. 706-202-7463, www.emotions anonymous.org

Overeaters Anonymous (Multiple Locations) Meetings are held on Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. at Princeton Methodist Church, Sundays at 3:30 p.m. at Covenant Presbyterian Church, and Tuesdays at 5:15 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens. www.oa.org Reiki (ARMC Loran Smith Center for Cancer Support) Experience the healing energy of Reiki, an ancient form of healing touch used for stress reduction and relaxation. For cancer patients, their families and caregivers. Call for an appointment.

Individual sessions held every Wednesday, 6 p.m. & 7 p.m. FREE! 706-475-4900 S-Anon (Cornerstone Church) S-Anon is a support group for family and friends of sexaholics, based on the 12 steps of AA. sunday. afternoons.sanon@gmail.com, www.sanon.org SLPAA (Campus View Church of Christ) Sex, Love and Pornography Addicts Anonymous is a 12-step program for sexually compulsive behaviors. Every Monday, 7:30–8:30 p.m. 706-372-8642

On The Street Bridge (Athens Bridge Center) Open Duplicate Bridge Games are held

Tuesdays at 1 p.m., Wednesdays at 7 p.m. and Fridays at 1 p.m. Non-Life Master (Beginner) Duplicate Bridge Games are held Wednesdays at 1 p.m. Party Bridge is held Thursdays at 1 p.m. All games $5. 706-2484809 Bring One for the Chipper: Christmas Tree Recycling (Multiple Locations) Keep AthensClarke County Beautiful (KACCB) encourages citizens to recycle their undecorated trees and wreaths on Jan. 2, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Participants will receive a free tree seeding and/or flower and vegetable seed packets. Drop-off locations include Cofer’s Home and Garden Showplace, Sandy Creek Nature Center, Chase Street Elementary School, Clarke Middle School, Georgia Square Mall, Winterville Public Works Recycling Center and the Lexington Road Tag Office. Free removal assistance for the elderly, disabled and veterans. 706-6133501 ext. 309, accbintern@gmail. com CCCF Scholarships (The Classic Center) The Classic Center Cultural Foundation is currently accepting applications from high school students for its performing arts and culinary arts scholarship program.

Visit website for application, eligibility requirements and audition information. The culinary arts deadline is

art around town AMICI (233 E. Clayton St.) Watercolor paintings of local scenes by Jamie Calkin. Through December.

ANTIQUES & JEWELS ART GALLERY (290 N. Milledge Ave.) New paintings by Mary Porter, Greg Benson, Chatham Murray, Candle Brumby, Lana Mitchell and more.

ART ON THE SIDE GALLERY AND GIFTS (17 N. Main St., Watkinsville) A gallery featuring works by various artists in media including ceramics, paintings and fused glass.

ATHENS ACADEMY (1281 Spartan Lane) In the Bertelsmann Gallery, “Rosa Bellum” features paintings of roses by John Gholson. Through Dec. 11. • In the Bertelsmann Cases, see a collection of sculptures made from natural materials by Barbara Odil. Through Dec. 11. • In the Myers Gallery, view “Living in History” by Aaron Hequembourg. Through Jan. 22. • In the Harrison Center for the Arts & Preschool’s Lobby Gallery, “Mentor/Mentee” features the work of professors and students from UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. Through May 20.

ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (ATHICA) (160 Tracy St.) “Outside the Lines,” a collaborative coloring book made between ATHICA and Pixel & Ink, includes pages designed by 10 local artists.

Opening event Dec. 5. Interactive coloring exhibit Dec. 5–13.

BENDZUNAS GLASS (89 W. South Ave., Comer) The family-run studio has been creating fine art glass for almost 40 years.

BLACK PETTICOAT (297 Prince Ave.) Artwork by Thea Grindeland. Opening reception Dec. 5. Through December.

CINÉ BARCAFE (234 W. Hancock Ave.) “Baby in a Corner” features photographs by Brittainy Lauback. Through Dec. 8.

CIRCLE GALLERY (285 S. Jackson St.) “Roads, Rivers, and Red Clay: Ceramics by Ron Meyers.” Through Dec. 18.

THE CLASSIC CENTER (300 N. Thomas St.) In Classic Gallery I, “Hello, Neighbor” features artwork by Terry Rowlett, Michelle Fontaine, Rene Shoemaker and Michael Ross. In Classic Gallery II, “Tableau” features works

by Mary Ruth Moore, Michael Oliveri, Ally White and Otto Lange.

DONDERO’S KITCHEN (590 N. Milledge Ave.) See 80 self portraits by first graders at Chase Street Elementary. Through December.

EARTH FARE (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) Artwork by Jacqueline Dorsey.

FARMINGTON DEPOT GALLERY (1011 Salem Rd., Farmington) Owned and staffed by 14 artists, the gallery exhibits paintings, sculpture, folk art, ceramics and fine furniture. Permanent collection artists include Matt Alston, John Cleaveland, Peter Loose and more. • C. Larry Wilson creates whimsical animal sculptures in clay. Through December.

FLANIGAN’S PORTRAIT STUDIO (585 Vine St., Suite 4) Artwork by Byron Deshaun Culbreth. Through December.

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Artwork by Hana Hay and Kayla Cox. Through December.

GALLERY@HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Day for Night” includes works by Eve Nettles, Hope Hilton, Zipporah Thompson, Clay Jordan, Donald Cope, Saegan Moran and Eileen Wallace. Through Jan. 6.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “Before the March King: 19th-Century American Bands.” Through Jan. 3. • “In Time We Shall Know Ourselves: Photography by Raymond Smith. Through Jan. 3. • “Samurai, The Way of the Warrior” includes swords, helmets, suits of arms and more.

Through Jan. 3. • “Georgia’s Girlhood Embroidery: ‘Crowned with Glory and Immortality.’” Through Feb. 28. • “George Segal: Everyday Apparitions.”

Through Mar. 6. • In the Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden, “Twists

Dec. 18 with auditions on Jan. 29.

The performing arts deadline is Mar. 4 with auditions by Apr. 11. 706357-4417, www.classiccenter.com Deck the Hollow (Memorial Park) (Bear Hollow Zoo) Celebrate the season with a self-guided walk through the holiday lights in the zoo.

Activities include live music, animal encounters and photo opportunities in the illuminated zoo. Dec. 10–13 and Dec. 17–20, 5:30–7:30 p.m. $3.

706-613-3580, www.athensclarke county.com/holidayevents Executive Leadership Program for Nonprofit Organizations (J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development) Accepting applications for an intensive week-long program exploring the latest knowledge in nonprofit management and leadership. Financial aid available.

Begins Jan. 10. $3000. ksmith@ fanning.uga.edu, www.elpno.org Holiday Cards for Heroes (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Swing by the library and make a holiday card for a soldier, veteran, police officer or whoever you see as a hero. Supplies are located in the DVD shelving area, and the library will mail them to the appropriate address. 706-795-5597 Ice Skating (The Classic Center) The Classic Center will offer ice skating in an indoor rink through

Jan. 12, then in the outdoor pavilion Jan. 16–Feb. 28. $10–12. www. classiccenter.com Nuci +1 Pass (Nuçi’s Space) Donate $5 to Nuci’s Space and be entered to win a year-long guest list spot for you and a friend at participating local music venues: The Foundry, 40 Watt, Lumpkin Street Station, Hendershot’s, Georgia Theatre, Normaltown Records, Live Wire Athens and Caledonia, plus select performances at the Classic Center and UGA Performing Arts Center.

Drawing takes place on Dec. 17.

Raffle tickets are available online. www.nuci.org Ripple Effect Film Project (Athens, GA) Filmmakers of all ages and levels of experience are invited to create original short films about water conservation and water stewardship. Finalists’ films will be screened at the Blue Carpet Premiere on Mar. 19. Visit website for official rules and entry form. $1,000 in cash prizes. Deadline Feb. 6. www.ripple effectfilmproject.org The Pet Care Clinic (Pet Supplies Plus) The Athens Area Humane Society offers a low-cost clinic the first Saturday of each month, 1–4 p.m. Services include vaccines, deworming, microchipping, nail trimming, flea treatments and more. No appointment necessary. 706-769-9155 f

and Turns: Sculptures by Alice Aycock” includes two sculptures, “Waltzing Matilda” and “Twin Vortexes.” Through Sept. 4.

GLASSCUBE@INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Scatterfield” by Zane Cochran is a large-scale interactive installation with 3,000 LEDs capable of producing over 16 million different colors. Through December.

THE GRIT (199 Prince Ave.) Artwork by Coop Holmes. Through Dec. 6. • Artwork by Jill Carnes. Dec. 6–Jan. 3.

HEIRLOOM CAFÉ (815 N. Chase St.) Artwork by Jen Holt. Through December.

HENDERSHOT’S COFFEE BAR (237 Prince Ave.) Artwork by Jamie Calkin and Leonard Piha. Through December.

JUST PHO…AND MORE (1063 Baxter St.) Silk wall hangings and paintings

by Margaret Agner. Through December.

LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) The “BFA Exit Show” recognizes graduating students in photography, sculpture, textile design and printmaking. Dec. 4–11. Closing reception Dec. 11.

LOWERY IMAGING GALLERY (2400 Booger Hill Rd., Danielsville) The gallery features paper and canvas giclee prints by Athens artists as well as artists’ renderings of Athens. Jamie Calkin is the featured artist through December.

LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) In the Lounge Gallery, view cut paper and collaged drawings by Adrienne Kitchens. Through Feb. 1.

OCONEE COUNTY LIBRARY (1080 Experiment Station Rd., Watkinsville) “Between Women and Children” features “miniature world” mixed media assemblages by Lisa Freeman. Reception Dec. 6. Currently on view through December.

RICHARD B. RUSSELL JR. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIES (300 S. Hull St.) An exhibit featuring original manuscripts, engravings, maps and natural specimens are presented in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of John and William Bartram’s natural history expedition. Through Dec. 23. • An exhibition celebrating The Pennington Radio Collection features tube radios, external speakers and other artifacts from 1913–1933. Through December. • “Seeing Georgia: Changing Visions of Tourism and the Modern South” includes photos, postcards, artifacts and other ephemera representing six Georgia tourism sites with histories of political and cultural battles.

Through July.

SEWCIAL STUDIO (2500 W. Broad St. #305) Hand-dyed art quilts by Anita Heady. Rust and over-dyed fabric on canvas by Bill Heady.

STEFFEN THOMAS MUSEUM OF ART (4200 Bethany Rd., Buckhead) Kenneth Proctor’s “Duino Suite” features 32 drawings inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s First Duino Elegy. Through Dec. 22.

SWEET SPOT STUDIO GALLERY (160 Tracy St., Mercury A.I.R.) The gallery presents paintings, ceramics, sculpture, drawings, furniture, folk art and jewelry from artists including Fain Henderson, Michelle Dross, Veronica Darby, John Cleaveland, Rebecca Wood, Nikita Raper, Natalia Zuckerman, Briget Darryl Ginley, Jack Kashuback, Barret Reid, Camille Hayes, Jason Whitley and Ken Hardesty. • “Deep” features new paintings of coastal seas, shipwrecks, sea creatures and beaches by Veronica Darby.

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA OCONEE CAMPUS GALLERY (1201 Bishop Farms Pkwy., Watkinsville) “Transfers” includes selected works by Alex Kraft, Vivian Liddell, Erin McIntosh and Jon Mehlferber, who are all faculty members of the Department of Visual Arts at UNG’s Gainesville and Dahlonega campuses. Through Dec. 11.

WHITE TIGER (217 Hiawassee Ave.) Watercolor images by Jamie Calkin and metal works by Leonard Piha.

THE WORLD FAMOUS (351 N. Hull St.) Permanent artists include RA Miller, Chris Hubbard, Travis Craig, Michelle Fontaine, Dan Smith, Greg Stone and more.

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Milledge. (706) 353-1111, www.argo-athens.com.

Eastside quadraplex, 2BR/2BA, $500/mo. & 2BR/1BA, $475/mo.

Eastside duplex, 2BR/1BA & FP, $525/mo. 3BR/2BA & F P, $ 7 0 0 / m o . C a l l McWaters Realty: (706) 353-2700 or cell: (706) 540-1529.

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3BR/1BA: nice, newly renovated, $650/mo. incl. water, Danielsville/Madison County. Tom (706) 2471259.

Roommate needed immediately for house just outside of Downtown Athens. Preferably employed, no short-term please. W/D, screened p o rc h . $ 2 5 0 / m o . C a l l today! Voice calls only: (706) 548-9744.

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W/D hookups, working FP. We pay all maint. and yard. No undergraduates.

P e t s c o n s i d e re d . O ff street parking. Avail. Dec. 15. $800/mo. (706) 2029805.

Pet Friendly, Fenced Brick 3BR. Safe East Side subdivision. City water & garbage.

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Seeking a roommate for a 2BR/1BA apar tment, avail. immediately. Within walking distance to campus/downtown. $325/ mo. excluding electric & internet, which run low.

Dogs welcome, gender irrelevant. Contact Seth at (706) 207-0460 or sethwyckoff@gmail.com.

Yo u n g p r o f e s s i o n a l seeks roommate in quiet, Watkinsville neighborhood.

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Exp. incl. Gibson & Benedetto Guitars. Appt. only. (615) 714-9722, www. eadyguitars.com.

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25 years experience. (706) 395-4874.

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Line/Prep Cooks Needed.The Georgia Center has several positions available 20–40 hrs./week. Pay DOE/ Minimum 3 years in full service restaurant. Email resumes to robh@uga.edu.

Now hiring Hosts, Counter Help and Line Cooks at Locos Grill and Pub, 2020 Timothy Rd. Apply in person between 2–4 p.m. or online: www.locosgrill. com/employment.

Screen Print Artist: Minimum 2 years exper.

Adobe CS as well as color separating exper.

Detail oriented, organized and have the ability to work at a brisk pace. nwgjobopportunities@ gmail.com.

Part-time Athens Montessori School has openings for PT afterschool assistants & d a y t i m e c l a s s ro o m assistant. Childcare e x p e r i e n c e p re f e r re d .

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Big City Bread Cafe is now accepting applications for early morning counter staff and dishwashers. Please apply in person. No phone calls please.

Development Director. The Madison-Morgan Cultural Center is searching for an experienced fund r a i s e r, e v e n t p l a n n e r a n d a d m i n i s t r a t o r.

The job includes but is not limited to: work w/ Board and Committees to develop and execute fundraising goals; work w/ Committee to develop and execute the Center’s annual fundraising plan; secure financial support from individuals and corporations; Manage E-tapestry database and oversee staff responsible for data entr y and gift processing; Develop and m a i n t a i n re l a t i o n s h i p s w/ major donors; Oversee organization of special events and fundraisers. The following qualifications are necessary: 4 year degree; 2+ years experience in development or event planning; Demonstrated excellence in organizational, managerial and communication skills; M i c ro s o f t O ff i c e . C a l l (706) 342-4743 or email kbrown@mmcc-arts.org.

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Get paid to type! SBSA is a financial transcription company offering PT positions. Create your own schedule.

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Green Properties Mgmt. is searching for a Leasing Assistant.

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She’s Cheating. Do I Tell Him? Advice for Athens’ Loose and Lovelorn

By Bonita Applebum advice@flagpole.com Dear Bonita, I saw a married friend of mine drunkenly making out with someone who is not her husband in a crowded downtown bar. Both husband and wife are friends, and seeing this happen so overtly is troubling. Nothing leads me to believe this would be acceptable behavior (not an open marriage). I’m conflicted as to whether I should mind my own damn business, tell her how inappropriate this is and to knock it off or somehow let the husband know what I and a bunch of other people saw.

Can’t Unsee What I’ve Seen

respect for people who disrespect agreements with their partners, no matter the relationship style. I’m not worried about her feelings or the fallout that this could cause for her. Drunk or not, she chose to dishonor her monogamous agreement with her husband in plain view of the public. Honestly, I’m wondering if he already knows. Snitch her out, but do it anonymously. This will put the truth in the air, and it’ll keep the drama away from you and yours.

Do white liberals in this town give a fuck about black people? I can’t tell.

Before I moved to Athens, I was once out running in my former Metropolis, and I White liberals love black culture but not passed a couple making out at a bus stop. I black people. If they loved black people the ignored it, initially, but then I realized that way they love our music and our fashion one of them was my roommate’s long-term and our hair and partner. Roomie was our cuisine and our getting ready to go I am not monogamous, asses, maybe #allon a really long tour but I have no respect livesmatter wouldn’t with his band, so be a stupid thing I wasn’t sure what for people who disrespect happening. Right the state of their agreements with their partners. now, we live in a time relationship was, where white people but over the next are very visible and public with their love few days, it became evident that they were of multiculturalism, but I see it as a facade, still very much together and monogamous. unless they are regularly questioning themIt also became evident that the person his selves and using their privilege to make our partner was smooching was my roomie’s world better. best friend of many years, and both the Quoting Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie friend and the partner would be left here isn’t gonna get you any brownie points with while roomie was off rockin’ and rollin’. me if you’ve never actually read her work.

Once roomie left, I saw his partner and Don’t tell me about your ethnic boyfriend if his best friend out drinking and canoothat’s the only pertinent information you’re dling, romantically smooching on an empty gonna share about him. Stop just sleeping patio, and that was enough for me. I made with women of color and actually date us, a fake email address and told my roomie OK? It is objectifying and tokenizing to that his partner only find us beautiful and exotic.

Dear white people: One of the best ways that you can be an ally to ethnic peoples is to be humble and accept that you still have learning to do. I have plenty of white friends who swear up and down that they #staywoke, but prove that’s hardly the case when they open their mouths or update Facebook.

America is not post-racial, white privilege is very real, and you benefit from it daily. These are facts that must be accepted if you’re going to be the ally you want to be. Listen and his best with humility to your friends of color, read friend were having more words about racism written by people an affair. I immediately deleted the email of color, and—this is a little complicated— address so that any emails would bounce don’t take everything personally, but underback to the sender. Roomie came back to stand that you need this knowledge and will the U.S. and dumped both of their asses, benefit from it. and he is ridiculously happy and successful now without the dead weight of a cheating Need advice? Email advice@flagpole.com, or use partner and lying best friend. the anonymous form at flagpole.com/getadvice.

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