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Athens Hices Over Plus, Downtown Grows, Southern Mill, UGA Remains and More News By Blake Aued, Rebecca McCarthy and Kristen Morales news@flagpole.com Republican U.S. Rep. Jody Hice was in Athens Mar. 6. Unless you were eating fried chicken, vegetables and salad in the Holiday Inn with the genial Classic City Rotary Club, you probably didn’t see him. And you’re not going to—at least not in a town hall meeting. Open to the public, a town hall meeting is what many congressmen traditionally hold in their districts during a recess in Washington to find out the concerns of their many constituents. Hice may have a “coffee with the congressman” in other parts of the district with a small number of invited guests, or he may meet with Athens Republicans, but that’s about it in AthensClarke County. Rotary club meetings are open only to members and guests of members. Outside the Holiday Inn and at the Arch on Monday, a few people gathered to protest Hice’s reluctance to hold a town meeting in Athens. The signs read, “Am I scary?” and “Be brave host Athens town hall” and “Where is Jody Hice.” With Donald Trump receiving 28 percent of the vote in our community, a public reception for a Republican representative would likely yield more questions than what Hice fielded from the Rotary Club. There were a few questions at the Monday meeting—one member asked about Do Not Call and another asked about FairTax. Hice said he’s working on tax reform, which includes cutting corporate taxes, reducing tax forms to the size of a postage stamp and making the IRS a service-oriented agency. He said there’s no constitutional authority for the Environmental Protection Agency or the
federal Department of Education to exist, and he wants the country to return to a “constitutional form of government.” He also said “some of these agencies have budgets the size of small countries’.” Rotary member Debbie Heisman told the congressman she disagrees with “99.99 percent of everything you are for,” and then asked about the possibility of Congress creating “an intelligent work visa program.” She also said lawmakers are underestimating the impact that agriculture has on Georgia’s economy. It’s necessary for farmers to employ immigrants to help harvest fruits and vegetables, something forgotten by those advocating deporting 11 million people. Hice said he favors a guest worker program and believes there will be some such provision in immigration reform legislation. When asked whether he supports an investigation into the ties between the Trump Administration and Russia, he said, “There’s no question Russia’s not a friend of the United States” and that “they’ve been trying to hack us for years.” But “the investigation needs to go beyond this administration.” There are so many needs and issues and he’s working so hard in Washington, Hice said, that he won’t be back in the district— other than his regular weekend trips home—until mid-April. Athens For Everyone has scheduled a town hall meeting with Hice on Apr. 22 at 4 p.m. at the ACC Library, but neither he nor his staff members have confirmed he will participate. Since he was elected to Congress in 2014, Hice has yet to hold a public town hall meeting in Athens.
Protesters outside the Holiday Inn were not allowed inside for Rep. Jody Hice’s Mar. 6 speech to a private group.
Classic City Rotary Club President Sarah Morang emphasized that the group is nonpartisan. “The club doesn’t take a position on political matters, so our invitation to speak is not an endorsement, but is an opportunity to hear him speak on matters important to our district and ask some questions,” she said. [Rebecca McCarthy]
UGA Remains On Mar. 1, the University of Georgia announced that it would reinter dozens of remains that were discovered buried underneath a Baldwin Hall parking lot in 2015 while the university was adding onto the building. And oh, by the way, DNA testing showed that those remains belonged to African Americans, not white people as earlier believed. Fred Smith suspected that all along. Three days later, he and other local black leaders held a news conference outside the historic Morton Theatre—Athens’ most prominent black landmark—to express their displeasure with the way UGA has handled the remains and demand input into what is done with them, considering that they likely belonged to slave ancestors of Athens residents. But by Mar. 7, the remains were already
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After years of sputtering and stalling, construction at Southern Mill finally kicked off Mar. 6. The mixed-use development will restore much of the deteriorating mill buildings located off Chase Street, converting them into commercial space as well as one- and two-bedroom apartments. Carter Broun of Millworks Holdings, which is overseeing the project, said work on the residential portion will likely begin in June or July. In the meantime, crews will focus on the 35,000-square-foot restoration and buildout of “Building A”—home to the expansion of Creature Comforts Brewing Co. “We’ll come in and do all the infrastructure work, pave the parking lots, put in all new water, sewer and electric,” said Broun. “And we will
build the building to a shell space—they will come in after that and start to put in equipment and things like that.” The plan is to get Creature Comforts access to its space by May. “Luckily with these buildings, there’s not so much interior stuff that you have to worry about,” added Broun, noting that even a partially collapsed exterior brick wall is a simple fix. “That’s going to be [demolishing] the rotted wood and rebuilding from the ground up. Out of all the buildings, [Building A] is by far the most straightforward.” Once the crews get to the residential portion this summer, he said, construction gets more complicated. The build-out of the more than 100 apartments will be different for each one to accommodate the quirks of the historic mill building. Built around 1900, Southern Mill produced denim for jeans and remained occupied for nearly 100 years. In recent years, the buildings have suffered under the weight of snow, heavy rain and disrepair. Millworks has been working on plans to redevelop the 18-acre complex for more than two years, racing the clock as the buildings begin to crumble. When completed, the apartments will be rented at market rate, per the requirements of federal historic tax credits received for the project, targeting young professionals and retirees as tenants. [Kristen Morales]
How Big Is Downtown? It’s no secret that downtown has grown since the Athens Downtown Development Authority was created in 1977, pushing well past boundaries set 40 years ago. So Athens-Clarke officials want to expand those boundaries, north of Dougherty Street and along Prince Avenue, North Avenue and Oconee Street. Almost every downtown property owner is on board— but not downtown’s largest development. Several commissioners criticized the developers of The Mark—the massive luxury student apartment complex under construction on Oconee Street—for being the only major development downtown to opt out of the expanded downtown boundaries the commission approved Tuesday. The authority gave property owners the choice of opting out of the district. Despite paying an additional one mill in property taxes ($1 per $2,500 of property value), only the owners of two townhouses and two small businesses did not want to be a part of the ADDA, in addition to The Mark. “The one-mill tax for [The Mark owner Landmark Properties] is sizable bucks,” attorney Jim Warnes said when the ADDA approved the new boundaries Feb. 10. “They didn’t feel like the benefits available would be a benefit to them.” Those benefits include grants to improve building facades, revolving loans for small businesses, support for special events like AthFest and advocacy, said ADDA board member and Commissioner Mike Hamby, who serves on the ADDA board. In addition, the authority recently hired two new executive directors to share duties, with the goal of taking on more of a forward-looking planning and economic development role in addition to overseeing parking, marketing downtown and serving as a sort of clearinghouse for complaints (dirty sidewalks, panhandling, etc.). Commissioner Jerry NeSmith noted that The Mark’s approximately 1,000 residents
will be using downtown infrastructure without paying what others are paying. Yet the development is using its location as a marketing tool, Commissioner Melissa Link said. “I picked up their brochure, and the first thing they tout is the ultimate downtown location, so they are certainly marketing themselves based on being downtown, and their zoning is commercial-downtown,” Link said. “I just want to express my disappointment at this development not being a part of downtown officially, yet they’ll definitely be enjoying all the amenities of being downtown.” Mayor Nancy Denson came to The Mark’s defense, and warned commissioners not to second-guess Landmark. “I really think we need to be careful about publicly criticizing one of the people in our business community who makes a business decision that we don’t know all the details behind. And perhaps we didn’t do a good enough job of giving them the benefits of being in downtown, or they might have decided to do something sooner,” Denson said. “It was disturbing to me to hear criticism of a business that’s increasing our tax base significantly, and I believe they’re doing a good job on their product because of the business decision they made.” Although The Mark opted out, other major property owners—including the owners of the Bottleworks, the mixed-use development planned for the St. Joe property, Hotel Indigo and other downtown apartment complexes—did not. Although the ADDA could have forced the issue, The Mark was allowed to opt out because Athens’ state legislators said they did not want to carry a bill that included borders with unwilling properties inside. Those legislators are now expected to introduce a bill in the General Assembly to expand the boundaries. [BA]
More Commission News The commission also voted to send back to committee a requirement that large special events such as AthFest and Twilight purchase $10 million worth of insurance coverage, up from the current $2 million. The requirement would have cost those events nearly $10,000 each, jeopardizing them in the future and, in AthFest’s case, taking arts and music funding away from local schoolchildren. The insurance requirement grew out of an initial assignment to streamline the event-permitting process (which was also approved last Tuesday) in the wake of the ADDA’s struggles to put on a last-minute Fourth of July fireworks show last year. The ADDA won’t be doing it again, but Agora co-owner Russell Edwards brought several other downtown business owners to the meeting to urge the Mayor and Commission to keep the fireworks downtown. In addition, the commission voted to scale back funding for Leisure Services scholarships for children from low-income families, which the department hopes will cut down on the number of no-shows at popular programs like summer camps. Instead of covering the full cost, the new scholarship program will only cover 25, 50 or 75 percent. But commissioners worried that some families may not be able to afford even a quarter of the full fee, so they passed a motion by Link requiring county staff to create a private sponsorship program by July 2018. [BA] f
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seem beautiful to “me,” seen through the windshield of a luxury automobile. Forgive me. Rachel has made me jumpy. It just seems like selfishness is the new normal. I know it always has been, but lately it seems to have the government stamp of approval. Hazel Moates said, “No man with a good car needs to be justified.” Apparently, the same thing is true for health insurance under the new Republican plan. Anybody who can afford a Volvo S90 will get a good insurance rate and a fat tax break. It’s those who can’t afford luxury
Don’t get me wrong. I depend on advertising for my living, and Flagpole in its earlier years used a lot of movie stills in ads, until that day we received a letter from The Humphrey Bogart Foundation informing us that we owed them $8,000 for using a picture of Bogey wearing a white dress shirt in an ad for Gibson’s Menswear. It all turned out OK, but it surely taught us a lesson. If you’re like me, and you stay glued to MSNBC to keep your outrage screwed to the sticking point, then you’ve been bombarded lately with the advertisement for the new Volvo S90, in which a cool guy with dark hair and a neatly trimmed beard takes off on a road trip, while the voiceover cherrypicks a few lines from Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road.” I guess old Walt’s copyright ran out a long time ago, so he’s fair game to try to help the former Swedish Walt Whitman in Bogey’s white shirt. auto company seem cars who won’t be able to afford health quintessentially American, even though it’s insurance, either, and will have their insurnow owned by the Geely Holding Group, a ance subsidies cut instead of their taxes. Chinese multinational corporation. The Republicans can say with Walt Now, y’all: Believe me, I love Volvos. I Whitman, “All seems beautiful to me,” drive a Volvo so old it was made in Sweden. because it is all rigged now to benefit the I’m happy for the guy in the ad who takes guys with the big cars. Those walking, not his road trip and has that staring contest so much. with the fox. But look: Google yourself up a In fact, Joe Wisenbaker, the “Grumpy copy of Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road.” There’s a whole education waiting for Retiree,” notes that the “death panels” are back. Read the whole thing on his Grumpy you right there in that one glorious “barRetiree Facebook page. Here’s his gist. baric yawp,” as Emerson called it before he “My take is that our majority-party warmed to Walt. members are in the process of acting as a “Song of the Open Road” is a glorious death panel—something that never existed evocation of all-embracing life—men, under the ACA. The kinds of ‘economies’ women, blacks, whites, rich, poor, everythey are looking to impose will put many body—and life lived outside, “in the open people at risk for the ‘benefit’ of being able air,” not in an air-conditioned car. Walt Whitman writes about getting out amongst to ultimately reduce the taxes paid by the well off. Further, the consequences on our the folks, all the folks. He took to the open road literally afoot, and he sings the song of health ‘system,’ as flawed as it is, will do the America he passed through, challenging nothing but imperil the lives of retirees such as ourselves. Precipitous and ill-conus all to celebrate each other in all our difsidered changes to health care economics ferences and to open our eyes to the glories in the service of a political agenda will kill of this wonderful country. The voiceover for the car ad, on the other far more surely than refugees turning to terrorism.” hand, seems to stress how it is all “mine.” Makes it pretty difficult to be lightSelecting those few lines out of Walt’s hearted. f sprawling, all-inclusive poem, makes it all
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Red Menace or Redneck? Russia, Race and Jeff Sessions By Baynard Woods democracyincrisiscolumn@gmail.com the idea that I was part of a ‘continuing exchange of information’ during the campaign between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government is totally false,” Sessions said. After a few moments of this, I needed to smoke some of the weed, and so retired to an undisclosed location. Sessions’ Alabama accent, which sounds so familiar to me from growing up in the South, lingered in my mind. His red neck is at least as concerning as his connections with the red menace. Sessions has made a career of stoking fear, and his policies amount to a war on black and brown people. “Inner city crime,” “terrorism,” “drugs” and “immigration” are all code words that allow him to attack African Americans, Muslims and Latinx people. Sessions has made a His Justice Department will likely ignore the epicareer of stoking fear, demic of African Americans and his policies amount to killed by police, and he is against consent decrees, a war on black and brown legal agreements between people. the DOJ and local police departments with patterns and practices of abuse or constitutional violations, intended to curb the unchecked power of local cops. “I think there is concern that good police officers and good departments can be sued by the Department of Justice when you just have individuals within a department that have done wrong,” Sessions said in early January. “These lawsuits undermine the respect for police officers and create an impression that the entire servative in the British Parliament, is among the most department is not doing their work consistent with fidelity prominent Wolverines who think Putin murdered Andrew to law and fairness.” Breitbart and a group of North Carolina hackers are behind In Baltimore—where the last consent decree under Anthony Weiner’s sexts. Mensch has made some solid Obama’s DOJ was negotiated—on the day after Sessions’ points—reporting on a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance press conference, seven officers were indicted on federal Act wiretap at Trump Tower before the election—but racketeering charges after a long-running investigation. As seems misguided in her belief that, any day now, “Trump is if to disprove Sessions’ claim that “you just have individugoing down for obstruction of justice, and it’s beautiful.” als” doing wrong, a few days later, the Baltimore police I mean, it would be beautiful. I momentarily succumbed commissioner dissolved the entire plainclothes intelligence to the dream-like logic of thinking something had to give division of the department. a couple weeks ago, when Jeff Sessions announced a press The civil rights division of the DOJ has also typically conference to discuss the revelation that he had lied about investigated voter suppression. But given the Trump two meetings with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. regime’s false claims of voter fraud, the division is more And, for the briefest moment, everything I know gave way to the absurdity that press conferences matter and Sessions likely to turn its resources to trying to keep people from voting. Sessions has already dropped an objection to voting might actually tell the truth. So, I decided to race across rights restrictions in Texas. When civil rights leaders met town to hear what he had to say. with him on Mar. 7 and laid out their position on voting Problem was, I had weed in my pocket, and though it rights and police reform, according to Sherrilyn Ifill of the is legal in the District—for now—it is not legal on federal property, and Sessions is the one person in the country who NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Sessions “listened respectfully and said that I was ‘articulate.’” still has a major hard-on for arresting people with pot. Sativa and Sessions are a bad combo. I needed a drink. I dashed up out of the Metro station and started runAt an Irish pub near the Capitol, I ended up on a stool ning the few blocks toward the Department of Justice beside Thomas Perez, the former Secretary of Labor and the building, with the livestream of the conference primed on my phone. Before I could get there, Sessions started talking. newly elected chair of the Democratic National Committee. Perez had also served twice as assistant attorney general. So At least I didn’t have to worry about the weed. I stood I figured I’d ask him about Sessions. outside, right across from Trump International Hotel, “I think he should resign,” Perez said, a beer in hand. and watched Sessions on my phone. And somehow that moment—watching on my device as a man likely lied about “I think he’s unfit to serve. I worked for the Justice Department three different tours of duty, and, as Jeff lying across from the president’s hotel with something that Sessions said in 1999 in the Bill Clinton impeachment hearis neither legal or illegal in my pocket—seemed to embody ing, ‘No one is above the law.’” all the contradictions of our world. He walked away. I took a swig of beer. “Isn’t it pretty to “I never had meetings with Russian operatives or think so,” I muttered to myself. f Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign. And Washington these days has the paranoid atmosphere of a John Le Carré novel, with whispers of shady Russian connections lingering in the air like stale cigarette smoke and old tweets. Existential dread is the dominant mood—not only the dread of nuclear annihilation, but also of continuing to exist under a regime so topsy-turvy it makes imagining what will happen tomorrow impossible. Everyone is overwhelmed, simultaneously addicted to the constant upswell of scandal and false hope of normalcy. We’ve all become spies. Obviously, the Trump people keep lying about it and should be investigated. But I’m not going to go full Louise Mensch or anything, either. Mensch, who was a conGlenn Fawcett / U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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thick fog is rolling in over Sunshine Week (Mar. 12–18), the annual event when government transparency advocates raise awareness about the importance of access to public records. We are entering an age when officials at the highest levels seek to discredit critical reporting with “alternative facts,” “fake news” slurs and selective access to press conferences, while making their own claims without providing much in the way to substantiate them. But no matter how much the pundits claim we’re entering a “post-truth” era, it is crucial we defend the idea of proof. Proof is in the bureaucratic paper trails. Proof is in the accounting ledgers, the legal memos, the audits and the police reports. Proof is in the data. When it comes to government actions, that proof is often obtained by leveraging laws like the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and state-level public records laws—except when government officials seek to ignore the rules to suppress evidence. At the same time, this is also par for the course. As award-winning investigative reporter Shane Bauer recently posted on Twitter: “I’ve been stonewalled by the government throughout my journalistic career. I’m seriously baffled by people acting like this is brand new.” For the third year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation presents “The Foilies,” our anti-awards identifying the times when access to information has been stymied or
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when government agencies have responded in the most absurd ways to records requests. Think of it as the Golden Raspberries but for government transparency, where the bad actors are actually going off-script to deny the public the right to understand what business is being conducted on its behalf. To compile these awards, EFF solicited nominations from around the country and scoured through news stories and the #FOIAFriday Twitter threads to find the worst, the silliest and the most ridiculous responses to requests for public information.
The Make America Opaque Again Award
President Donald Trump
A commitment to public transparency should start at the top. But from the beginning of his campaign, President Trump has instead committed to opacity by refusing to release his tax returns, citing concerns about an ongoing IRS audit. Now that he’s been elected, Trump’s critics, ethics experts and even some allies have called on him to release his tax returns and prove that he has eliminated potential conflicts of interest and sufficiently distanced himself from the businesses in his name that stand to make more money now that he’s in office. But the Trump Administration has not changed its stance. No matter where you stand on the political spectrum, the American public should be outraged
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that we now have the first sitting president since the 1970s to avoid such a baseline transparency tradition.
The Hypocrisy Award
Former Indiana Governor—and current Vice President—Mike Pence Vice President Mike Pence cared a lot about transparency and accountability in 2016, especially when it came to email. A campaign appearance couldn’t go by without Pence or his running mate criticizing Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton for using a private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State. In fact, the Foilies honored Clinton last year for her homebrewed email approach. But Pence seemed much less bothered by those transparency and accountability concerns when he used a private AOL email address to conduct official business as Indiana’s governor. The Indiana Star reported in February that Pence used the account to communicate “with top advisors on topics ranging from security gates at the governor’s residence to the state’s response to terror attacks across the globe.” That means that critical homeland security information was kept in an account likely less secure than government accounts (his account was reportedly hacked, too), and Pence’s communications were shielded from government records requirements.
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The Whoa There, Cowboy Award
at city hall in March 2016 to demand missing documents, he was escorted out in handcuffs, locked in a holding cell for an hour and charged with a misdemeanor for “remaining after being forbidden.� What’s worse is that Nakamoto was summoned to appear before the “Mayor’s Court,� a judicial proceeding conducted by the very same mayor Nakamoto was investigating. Nakamoto lawyered up, and the charges were dropped two months later. “If anything, my arrest showed that if they’ll do that to me, and I have the medium to broadcast and let people know what’s happening to me, think about how they’re treating any citizen in that town,� Nakamoto says.
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The Frogmarch Award
Town of White Castle, LA The only thing that could’ve made reporter Chris Nakamoto’s public records request in the small town of White Castle, LA a more absurd misadventure is if he’d brought Harold and Kumar along with him. As chief investigator for WBRZ in Baton Rouge, Nakamoto filed records requests regarding the White Castle mayor’s salary. But when he turned up with a camera crew
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Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke rose to prominence in 2016 as one of then-candidate Donald Trump’s top surrogates, prone to making inflammatory remarks about the Black Lives Matter movement, such as calling them a hate group and linking them to ISIS. But the press has also been a regular target. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Political Watchdog columnist Daniel Bice filed a series of records requests with the sheriff’s office, demanding everything from calendars, to details about an NRA-funded trip to Israel, to records related to a series of jail deaths. So far, Clarke has been extremely slow to release this information, while being extremely quick to smear the reporter on the sheriff’s official Facebook page. Clarke frequently refers to the publication as the “Urinal Sentinel� and has diagnosed Bice with “Sheriff Clarke Derangement Syndrome.� “I deal with open-records requests with local governments and police departments. I do it at the city, county and state level,� Bice says. “He’s by far the worst for responding to public records.� In May 2016, Clarke published a short essay on Facebook titled “When Journalism Becomes an Obsession.� Clarke claimed that after he rejected Bice’s request for an interview, Bice retaliated with a series of public-records requests, ignoring the fact that these requests are both routine and are often a reporter’s only recourse when an official refuses to answer questions. “This lazy man’s way of putting together newspaper columns uses tax-paid, government employees as pseudo-interns to help him gather information to write stories,� Clarke wrote. Memo to Clarke: Requesting and reviewing public records is tedious and time-consuming, and certainly not the way to score an easy scoop. If anything, ranting on Facebook, then issuing one-sentence news releases about those Facebook posts, is the lazy man’s way of being accountable to your constituents.
The Fake News Award
Santa Maria Police Department In 2015, the Santa Maria Police Department in California joined many other agencies in using the online service Nixle to distribute public information in lieu of press releases. The agency told citizens to sign up for “trustworthy information.� Less than a year later, police broke that trust. Santa Maria police posted to their Nixle account a report that two individuals had been arrested and deported, which was promptly picked up the local press. Months later, court documents revealed that it had all been a lie to ostensibly help the individuals—who had been targeted for murder by a rival gang—escape the city. Police were fiercely unapologetic. The agency has yet to remove the offending alert from Nixle or offer any kind of addendum, a direct violation of Nixle’s terms of service, which prohibit the transmission of “fraudulent, deceptive or misleading communications� through the service.
The Least Productive Beta Testing Award
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The Wrong Address Award
U.S. Department of Justice America Rising PAC, a conservative opposition-research committee, has been filing FOIA requests on a number of issues, usually targeting Democrats. Following Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s passing, the PAC sent a FOIA to the Attorney General seeking emails referencing the death. But America Rising never received a response acknowledging the DOJ received the request. That’s because the DOJ sent it to a random federal inmate serving time on child pornography charges. The offender, however, was nice enough to forward the message to the PAC with a note railing against the “malicious incompetence� of the Obama Administration.
The FBI spent most of 2016 doing what might be charitably described as beta testing a proprietary online FOIA portal that went live in March. But beta testing is probably a misnomer, because it implies that the site actually improved after its initial rollout. The FBI’s year of “beta testing� included initially proposing a requirement that requesters submit a copy of their photo ID before submitting a request via the portal, and also imposed “operating hours� and limited the number of requests an individual could file per day. Yet even after the FBI walked back from those proposals, the site appears designed to frustrate the public’s ability to make the premier federal law-enforcement agency more transparent. The portal limits the types of requests that can be filed digitally to people seeking information about themselves or others. Requesters cannot use the site to request information about FBI operations or activities, otherwise known as the bread and butter of FOIA requests. Oh, and the portal’s webform is capped at 3,000 characters, so brevity is very much appreciated! Worse, now that the portal is online, the FBI has stopped accepting FOIA requests via email, meaning fax and snail mail are now supposed to be the primary (and frustratingly slow) means of sending requests to the FBI. It almost seems like the FBI is trying to make it hard to submit FOIA requests. k continued on next page
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The Undermining Openness Award
U.S. Department of Justice
Documents released in 2016 in response to a FOIA lawsuit by the Freedom of the Press Foundation show that the U.S. Department of Justice secretly lobbied Congress in 2014 to kill a FOIA reform bill that had unanimously passed the U.S. House of Representatives 410-0. But the secret axing of an overwhelmingly popular transparency bill wasn’t even the most odious aspect of DOJ’s behavior. In talking points disclosed via the lawsuit, DOJ strongly opposed codifying a “presumption of openness,� a provision that would assume by default that every government record should be disclosed to the public unless an agency could show that its release could result in foreseeable harm. DOJ’s argument: “The proposed amendment is unacceptably damaging to the proper administration of FOIA and of the government as a whole,� which is bureaucratese for something like “What unhinged transparency nut came up with this crazy presumption of openness idea, anyway?� That would be Obama, whose FOIA guidance on his first day in office back in 2009 was the blueprint for the presumption of openness language included in the bill. Perhaps DOJ thought it had to save Obama from himself? DOJ’s fearmongering won out, and the bill died. Two years later, Congress eventually passed a much weaker FOIA reform bill, but it did include the presumption of openness DOJ had previously fought against. We’re still waiting for the “government as a whole� to collapse.
fashion. But no regulation could take affect without public hearing. So he went through the motions and dispatched an underling to sit at a table and wait out the public comment—but didn’t keep any kind of record of what was said. A close-up captured by a Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism reporter showed a pen lying on a blank pad of paper. Asked by a reporter about the lack of notes, the underling said, “I was just here to conduct this hearing. That’s all I can say.�
The Lethal Redaction Award
States of Texas and Arizona BuzzFeed reporters Chris McDaniel and Tasneem Nashrulla have been on a quest to find out where states like Texas and Arizona are obtaining drugs used in lethal injection, as some pharmaceutical suppliers have decided not to participate in the capital punishment machine. But these states are fighting to keep the names of their new suppliers secret, refusing to release anything identifying the companies in response to BuzzFeed’s FOIA requests. At the crux of the investigation is whether the states attempted to obtain the drugs illegally from India. At least one shipment is currently being detained by the FDA. The reason for transparency is obvious if one looks only at one previously botched purchase the reporters uncovered: Texas had tried to source pentobarbital from an Indian company called Provizer Pharma, run by five 20-year-olds. Indian authorities raided their offices for allegedly selling psychotropic drugs and opioids before the order could be fulfilled.
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Secretary of the Massachusetts Commonwealth Updates to Massachusetts’ public records laws were set to take effect in January 2016, with Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin tasked with promulgating new regulations to clear up the vague language of the law. But Galvin didn’t exactly take his duty seriously. Instead, he crafted a regulation allowing his office to dodge requirements that public records appeals be handled in a timely
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The Redaction of Interest Award
General Services Administration One of the threads that reporters have tried to unravel through the Trump campaign is how the prolific businessman would separate himself from his financial interests, especially regarding his 30-year contract with the federal government to build a Trump International Hotel at the location of the federally owned Old Post Office in D.C., a paper airplane’s flight from the White House. BuzzFeed filed a FOIA request with the General Services Administration for a copy of the contract. What they received was a highly redacted document that raised more questions than it answered, including what role Trump’s family plays in the project. “The American taxpayer would have no clue who was getting the lease to the building,� says reporter Aram Roston, who was investigating how Trump failed to uphold promises made when he put in a proposal for the project. “You wouldn’t know who owned this project.� After pushing back, BuzzFeed was able to get certain sections unredacted, including evidence that three of Trump’s children—Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric—all received a 7.425 percent stake through their LLCs, seemingly without injecting any money of their own.
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The Stupid Meter Award
Elster Solutions, Landis+Gyr, Ericsson In May 2016, several smart-meter companies sued transparency website MuckRock and one of its users, Phil Mocek, in a failed attempt to permanently remove documents from the website that they claimed contained trade secrets. Some of the companies initially obtained a court order requiring MuckRock to take down public records posted to the site that the City of Seattle had already released to the requester. But in their rush to censor MuckRock and its user, the companies overlooked one small detail: the First Amendment. The Constitution plainly protected MuckRock’s ability to publish public records one of its users lawfully obtained from the City of Seattle, regardless of whether they contained trade secrets. A judge quickly agreed, ruling that the initial order was unconstitutional and allowing the documents to be reposted on MuckRock. The case and several others filed against MuckRock and its user later settled or were dismissed outright. The documents continue to be hosted on MuckRock for all to see. But, uh, great job guys! f The Foilies were compiled by EFF Investigative Researcher Dave Maass, Frank Stanton Legal Fellow Aaron Mackey and Policy Analyst Kate Tummarello. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a San Francisco-based nonprofit that defends civil liberties at the crossroads of technology and the law. Read more about EFF and how to support its work at eff.org.
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A local citizen in Portland, OR filed a records request to find out everyone city Commissioner Amanda Fritz had blocked or muted from her Twitter account. This should’ve been easy. However, Fritz decided to go the long way, scribbling down each and every handle on a sheet of paper. She then rescanned that list in, and sent it back to the requester. The records did show that Fritz had decided to hush accounts that were trying to affect public policy, such as @DoBetterPDX, which focuses on local efforts to help homeless people, and anonymous self-described urban activist @jegjehPDX. Here’s a tip for officials who receive similar requests: All you need to do is go to your “settings and privacy� page, select the “muted accounts� or “blocked accounts� tab and click “export your list.�
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year full of celebration is in order for the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation as it turns 50 this year. After the National Historic Preservation Act was passed in 1966, the ACHF came together to save the Church-Waddel-Brumby House (circa 1820) in 1967. Since then, the house, now the home of the Athens Welcome Center, has stood as a symbol of the effort to reclaim and preserve historic resources across the city. But to Amy Kissane, the executive director of ACHF for 15 years, celebrating 50 years is as much about looking back as it is about looking forward. One of the toughest challenges historic preservation faces in general is complacency, Kissane says. People tend to Amy Kissane at the Church-Waddel-Brumby House, aka the Athens Welcome Center. take their historic resources, search criteria could be entered to pull up “Places aren’t just historic because of the environment and their neighborhoods photos associated with a certain location. where they’re built, but because they’re for granted. “Because they’ve always been “Our No. 1 request is for historic photos where our memories are,” she says. “They’re here, people tend to think they will always of a building, and most of the time I don’t a part of our social identity. Just our assobe here,” she says. “It’s not until emergency have them,” she says. An archive would ciation with things make them matter. This or tragedy strikes that people realize we program will begin to illustrate that historic enable anyone who has photos of certain could be without those things.” buildings or locations to submit their phopreservation is about more than architecACHF’s biggest goal this year is to tos to be scanned into the system, creating ture, it’s about the history of our lives, our increase community engagement across a vast resource of digital history for anyone heritage. the board, especially with groups such to use. “I hope just to start laying the foun“It will help people understand that as younger Athenians and University of Georgia students that haven’t been as much these things do matter to us,” she says. “The dation this year,” she says. As it looks back on its 50 years, although natural and the built environment all have of the focus in the past. Kissane hopes it’s suffered some defeats, the list of historic to do with our quality of life, so we have to to localize a National Trust for Historic landmarks ACHF has helped to restore and be conscious of how we treat them.” Preservation project called This Place save is a long one. A strong push for historic A digital historic photo archive is Matters. Athenians of all ages would subpreservation swept through Athens in the another initiative Kissane hopes to see mit pictures of places that matter to them, ’60s as locals realized what older, important started this year. She envisions an online regardless of their connection to a famous historic resources they were losing, Kissane directory in which a street address or other historical event or when it occurred.
says. Now, 50 years later, it is the buildings and resources from the era of ACHF’s founding that are in need of protection. “This post-war, ’50s, ’60s architecture— these are things we have to start looking at to preserve,” she says. “What makes them cool? What’s important about them? We have figure out the criteria that characterized this era.” Anniversary events will kick off with a Founder’s Day breakfast reception at the Church-Waddel-Brumby House on Thursday, Mar. 16 at 10 a.m., in honor of the date ACHF’s charter was signed. Mayor Nancy Denson will issue a proclamation, and a new “History of Preservation” tour will debut. • On May 22 at 7 p.m., a special 50thanniversary edition of the Historic Preservation Awards will take place at the Morton Theatre. • A formal Golden Jubilee Dinner at the Lyndon House Arts Center, one of ACHF’s programming partners, on June 4, with keynote speaker David Brown, executive vice president and chief preservation officer of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. • From June 5–Aug. 25, rare items connected to the history of the ACHF from the archives of the UGA Special Collections Libraries will be on display. • A collaboration with the Rabbit Box monthly storytelling series at 7 p.m. July 12 at The Foundry will draw from stories of those who experienced Athens during the 1960s historic preservation movement, as well as their relationship with historic buildings here. • A mid-century modern lecture and tour series, “The Art of the Retro,” on Oct. 6 and 7. • After taking a year off, on Dec. 3 the Heritage Holiday Gala home tour will return to wrap up the yearlong anniversary celebration. The ACHF website, achfonline.org, will also feature a neighborhood of the month. (January was Dearing Street and Henderson Avenue, and February was the Cobbham Historic District.) Finally, following last year’s New Year’s Eve party success, Kissane said another go-round might be on the itinerary. f
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is a music town, but it’s not really a music industry town. A new local company is looking to change that. Confirming rumors that have circulated for the past year, the owners of the Kindercore Records label tell Flagpole they will open a vinyl-record manufacturing facility in a warehouse on Fritz Mar Lane in north Athens. Kindercore Vinyl, which will begin operating as early as July, will be the only such facility in the state of Georgia, and one of about 20 currently operating in the entire country. “We’re bringing music infrastructure to Athens,” says local musician and Kindercore Vinyl President Ryan Lewis. “We’ve got world-class studios, we’ve got the [UGA] music business program. Bringing this next level of stuff into it [will be] really good for the town.” The vinyl biz is booming. U.S. sales rose 26 percent in 2016, and a whopping 40 million records are projected to sell worldwide in 2017. Major plants, saddled with outdated equipment and facing overwhelming demand, have found it impossible to keep up. Order wait times stretch up to a year, and the huge backlog has led to quality issues. “Vinyl is a seller’s market right now,” says Lewis. “There’s not enough capacity, so pressing plants ship terrible-quality vinyl.” Bill Fortenberry, a local recording engineer who’s in charge of “sales and sound” for Kindercore Vinyl, says it will focus on raising that standard. “One of the things I’d like for us to do is make sure our basic offering is substantively better [than other companies], in terms of consistency,” he says. Getting to this point wasn’t easy. Lewis and Fortenberry left steady jobs over a year ago to focus on the company. At various points, things looked grim. Chief Operating Officer Cash Carter describes being on the verge of eviction. “There were a lot of times that this almost crashed, and we were pretty close to giving up,” Fortenberry says. Early on, they met with representatives from local and state government. They found many well wishes but no financial support, which Chief Technical Officer Dan Geller calls “a real missed opportunity” for Athens-Clarke County. After much lobbying, they secured more than $1 million from a team of private investors led by entrepreneur Russell Bennett, whose LinkedIn page lists his specialties as “land acquisition and brokerage, sustainable farming, solar energy [and] biofuels.” An avid record collector, Bennett
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the last decade or so, vinyl plants have competed for a limited number of inefficient, inconsistent manual presses that date back to the 1970s. Late last year, a Canadian firm called Viryl Technologies unveiled a fully automated, computerized press dubbed the Warm Tone, with the goal of “help[ing] the industry get rid of its own bottlenecks,” as Viryl CEO Chad Brown told The Globe and Mail newspaper. Kindercore purchased three of the machines at a cost of over $200,000 each, and will be among the first to use the cutting-edge presses, which Geller refers to as “the Tesla of vinyl presses.” Their capacity is up to five times that of manual presses, meaning the Athens factory will be able to produce 2,000– 3,000 records each day. Using automated equipment also means the company’s staff will be smaller than what one might expect from a manufacturing facility. Kindercore Vinyl will employ five salaried, full-time workers, and will hire part-time employees on a per-project basis for packing, shrink-wrapping and other tasks. Lewis hopes the plant can serve as a prototype, a local example of what he calls “modern manufacturing.” “These aren’t really blue-collar jobs so much, because they require understanding of computer interfaces and technology,” says Lewis. “There’s gonna be a lot more thinking and a lot less bending and lifting.” Kindercore plans to market itself to small regional labels and unsigned bands as a friendly, convenient pressing option. It will be “more open” than its competitors, says Lewis, and will encourage local customers to avoid costly shipping fees by picking up their orders directly from the factory. It remains to be seen how the fledgling company The owner-operators of Kindercore Vinyl, from L-R: Ryan Lewis, Dan Geller, Cash will deal with what’s sure to be intense interest in Carter and Bill Fortenberry. its services. Perhaps tellingly, Lewis is looking to was swayed in part by Kindercore’s plan to replace—at least the craft-beer world for guidance—specifically Creature in part—petroleum, traditionally used in vinyl manufactur- Comforts, which opened downtown in 2014 to much fanfare and is soon to expand, with financial support from the ing, with a more eco-friendly material. city, into a second Athens location. Geller, who also works as a research engineer at UGA in Lewis is hopeful Kindercore Vinyl can follow a similar the field of bioenergy, admits it’s a lofty goal—Kindercore path. Still, he’s realistic about the amount of effort his team would be the first to pull it off—but is convinced it will will need to put in to make it happen. happen. “At first, it won’t be 100 percent,” he says, “but a “We’ll work the hours we need to work to get stuff done,” portion of [the petroleum] will be replaced with renewable he says, adding that sheer determination has gotten them materials.” this far. “People definitely told us we were crazy for wanting After raising funds, the company sought the necessary to do it,” he says. “But we did it.” f equipment, which, until recently, was hard to come by. For
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Love, Healing and Memory Four Exhibitions to See This Week By Jessica Smith arts@flagpole.com Circle Gallery: Dedicating the last four years of his career to exploring the complex relationships between the mind and body, Rich Panico is not only a board-certified psychiatrist, but also a yogi and visual artist. Much of his interest lies in incorporating the therapeutic applications of yoga and mindfulness into a holistic approach for physical healing. On view in The Circle Gallery at the UGA College of Environment and Design, his exhibition “Landscape, Remembrance and Healing� features 70 recent paintings reflecting on humanity’s unique ability to transform difficult experiences into something beautiful. Panico is the founder and former director of the Mind Body Institute at Piedmont Athens Regional, which specializes in meditation, yoga, tai chi, acupuncture and various forms of counseling. Now retired from that position, he continues to both practice and teach mind-body medicine part-time, and is a non-degree graduate student at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. His introduction to art was through a ceramics apprenticeship over 30 years ago, and he has created a large body of work through experimenting with indigenous clays and glaze materials. He began teaching himself how to use pastels in 2003, and his most recent landscapes and figurative drawings are characterized by quick gestural marks and bursts of bright colors. An opening reception will be held Thursday, Mar. 16 from 4:30–6 p.m., and an artist talk will be Thursday, Mar. 23 at 5 p.m. in lecture hall 123 of the Jackson Street Building. Panico’s exhibition will remain on view through Friday, Apr. 28. K.A. Artist Shop: The third annual group exhibition “Love in all Its Many Forms� embodies just that: manifestations of love represented through images of people,
places and concepts closest to the artists’ hearts. Highlights include contributions by Brittani Bumb (whose portrait appeared on Flagpole’s cover in celebration of Valentine’s Day), Carolyn Simonds, Dimelza Broche, Lisa Freeman, Manda McKay and Missy Kulik. A reception with the artists will be held at K.A. Artist Shop on Thursday, Mar. 16 from 7–9 p.m., and the exhibition will remain on view through March. Artists in Residence: Artists in Residence invites the public to visit the private homes and studios of well-known artists, offering an opportunity to hear a speaker share anecdotes, speak directly to the artists and view their collections and works in-progress—all while raising funds for public radio station WUGA. This month highlights Samuel Stabler, who holds a BFA in drawing and art education from UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art and a master’s from St. Martin’s College of Art and Design in London. Many of his pieces offer contemporary takes on classical paintings by recreating masterworks as pen-and-ink drawings accented with his signature neon yellow. Stabler and his wife relocated from Brooklyn, NY a few years ago after purchasing an adobe-style house that they had often admired during prior visits to town. The open house will be held on Saturday, Mar. 18 from 3–5 p.m. Admission for Friends of WUGA is $10, or $15 for nonmembers. Call 706-542-9842 or email thaxtona@uga.edu for reservations. ATHICA: Multi-disciplinary artist Jeremy Ayers played an essential role in the formation of Athens’ early music scene through writing songs for R.E.M. and the B-52s, and continued to document and contribute to
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Hathaway, Rick Hawkins, Mike Landers, Brittainy Lauback, Will Major, David Noah, Stacey-Marie Piotrowski, Jason Thrasher, Wilma and Rosemary Woodel. An opening reception for “Out There!� will be held Saturday, Mar. 18 from 6–9 p.m. Ayers’ final prose/poetry work, “Canray Poole,� will be shared during a special staged reading directed by New York-based performance artist Daniel Allen Nelson on Thursday, Mar. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Tree Room. ATHICA will host two events to close out the exhibition. A screening of Jim Herbert’s early-’80s short film Carnival—possibly the only recording of Ayers’ band Limbo District—will be followed by a panel discussion on Saturday, Apr. 22 at 7–9 p.m. Brooklyn-based musician Frank Hurricane will perform with additional acts the following night from 7–11 p.m. f
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The acting that brings Eilis and Tony’s love to life is the film’s greatest accomplishment. Cohen’s performance pays homage to Marlon Brando’s soft-spoken charisma in On the Waterfront, co-opting the late actor’s working-class romantic persona. Ronan’s expressive face makes Eilis’ inner world as fascinating as her blossoming social life. We see a character constantly in contemplation about her future in the film’s many closeups and shots of Eilis gazing into a mirror. However, especially in Tony’s presence, a smile occasionally manages to crack the surface of gloomy rumination, showing love’s persistence.
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or those looking to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by doing something more culturally immersive than drinking green beer, UGA will host Irish author Colm Tóibín for several events this week. Tóibín’s visit to Athens is part of his tenure as the Willson Center’s Delta Chair for Global Understanding, which hosts global scholars, creative thinkers, artists and intellectuals to teach and research at UGA. On Wednesday, Ciné hosts a screening of the 2015 film Brooklyn, based on Tóibín’s 2009 novel. (Tickets for the screening are currently unavailable.) Thursday, Tóibín will give an on-campus lecture and appear at Avid Bookshop for a reading and book signing. Finally, on Friday, he will engage in a conversation with writer Fintan O’Toole at the Seney-Stovall Chapel. (See the Calendar for times and more information.) Brooklyn is Tóibín’s most recognized work to date. Under-recognized in its year
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FP: So much of the film depends on Eilis being uncertain but also quite tough and resilient. How do you think Saoirse Ronan conveyed that balance? CT: She has a way of being able to express a great number of competing emotions, almost at the same time. John Crowley, the director, said that she would have made a great silent movie actress. So he let the camera linger on her face as her emotions changed. FP: Emory Cohen’s performance is also a highlight. When you were writing the book, did you see the character having the young Brando energy and mannerisms he brought to the role of Tony Fiorello? CT: I am not sure I visualize characters in that way when I am writing. But I did see him smiling a great deal, which Emory also does in the film.
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of release due to the critical rush to heap attention on The Big Short, The Revenant and Spotlight, the novel’s film adaptation earned three Academy Award nominations (Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actress, for Saoirse Ronan). Tóibín’s story, as directed by John Crowley, traces the immigrant experience of Eilis Lacey (Ronan), who comes to Brooklyn and falls in love with sensitive plumber Tony Fiorello (Emory Cohen). After tragedy strikes back home, she returns to Ireland, where she begins a flirtation with the upstanding Jim Farrell (Domhnall Gleeson) and questions which country is truly her home. Cinematographer Yves Bélanger’s palette resembles the antiquated Autochrome process of coloring black-and-white photographs, with bold reds and greens standing against sepia-tinged pastels. Seafoam green is common in the early parts of the film set in New York, reflecting Eilis’ feelings of being on the sea between continents. As Eilis gets accustomed to her new surroundings and realizes her love for Tony, red—the color worn by the experienced Ireland-toBrooklyn transplant who cares for a seasick Eilis in her transatlantic crossing—creeps into the frame.
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The Athens Jewish Film Festival Is an Eye-Opening Event By Barbette Houser arts@flagpole.com
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would almost be easier to draft a list of famous directors who are not Jewish. From Woody Allen to Billy Wilder, from Stanley Kubrick to Joel Coen to Paul Newman, there is a rich history there. Wait—Paul Newman is Jewish?! (Cue Adam Sandler’s “Chanukah Song.”) Many people are surprised when they realize how many Jews have contributed to film, literature and other art forms. Playwright Eve Ensler, creator of The Vagina Monologues, once wrote, “I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered. That’s part of the Jewish tradition.” Over the past decade or so, there has been an emergence of a number of Jewish film festivals, one of which is based in Athens. The Athens Jewish Film Festival, now in its ninth year, will take place Saturday, Mar. 18–Tuesday, Mar. 21. Nine films, a number of shorts and two special events will celebrate the Jewish experience. Comedies, dramas and documentaries will explore a variety of themes and subjects, including love, loss, sports, politics, the Holocaust, overcoming the odds—and your well-meaning Jewish family. (Before we proceed any further, a disclaimer: In further evidence that Athens is indeed the Fisher-Price town some of us remember from our childhood, this writer is currently serving on the festival’s board.) Abraham Tesser, while no longer directly involved in the festival, was its original founder. “The festival,” he says, ”was an Athens-area community effort from the beginning. [My wife] Carmen and I had been reviewing movies for the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival. Athens has a diverse and a culturally curious population. It occurred to us that this community might be interested in a Jewish film festival as well.”
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“Man plans, and God laughs” is an old Yiddish proverb (later lifted by Woody Allen). Tesser began moving forward with the festival just as the recession hit. In spite of this, the money came in. Longtime festival supporter Angela Meltzer helped Tesser get the Athens JFF off the ground. “Like any new, exciting venture,” Meltzer says, “you need lots of support from local businesses, and Athens came through in a big way… The Jewish Film Festival affords us not only entertainment, but more significantly exposure to cultural and historic experiences that we may not all be familiar or comfortable with.” The festival continues to grow. Many volunteers screen hundreds of films in preparation. Special events occur throughout the year; the festival hosts screenings and brings in speakers on topics like racism. But the culminating event happens in March. Athens JFF President Ron Zell says, “We are trying something completely new this year in an attempt to broaden our audience. After our opening movie, Moos, at Ciné, we are having an opening celebration with a local DJ at Hotel Indigo. The event will be reasonably priced, so that younger movie enthusiasts can attend.” The DJ is Andrew Byrd, and appetizers by home.made will add to the evening. Four films will be screened at Ciné on Sunday, including the family-friendly Abulele, a fantasy in which a 10-year-old boy meets a friendly and ancient monster. Watch On the Map if you like basketball and history, or just want to catch footage of eye candy Moshe Dayan. A Blind Hero and Fire Birds will also be shown. Monday brings The Kind Words, Fever at Dawn and Peter the Third. Fever at Dawn, described by Athens JFF Vice President Lynn Elmore as “very moving and sweet,” is by filmmaker Péter Gardo and based on love letters between his Holocaust-survivor parents written as they recovered
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in hospitals in Sweden after the war. Gardo has written a novel from his screenplay with the same name. The Athens JFF sponsors a short-film competition each year, and entries come from across the globe. Winners will be announced and screened on Tuesday. With intriguing titles like Jewish Blind Date, how can they not be wildly entertaining? Following the shorts competition, a closing party will be held. This year, live music will add to the festivities. Here’s hoping that More Popular Than Klaatu, featuring Timi Conley, Bryan Poole, Peter Alvanos and Michael Guthrie, reference the party’s “Star Trek” theme. The festival is encouraging moviegoers to don Trekkie attire, as the closing film is For the Love of Spock. For the Love of Spock is a documentary about Leonard Nimoy made by his son, Adam Nimoy. Nimoy has created a candid yet loving portrait of his father. The film would work sheerly on a kitsch and sentimental level, but goes a little deeper. The stories behind the character entertain. So, how did Spock come up with the Vulcan gesture for “Live long and prosper?” Find out at Ciné. f For the festival schedule and more information, visit athensjff.org.
About This Week’s Flagpole Cover Leonard Nimoy created his highly logical “Star Trek” character from his own deep understanding of emotion as a student of human behavior. However, Adam Nimoy’s documentary introduces audiences to a father who rarely engaged him emotionally during the height of the actor’s career. Adam smartly uses their relationship as the throughline for the film, often presenting a development in Leonard’s career immediately followed by its impact on their relationship. The director employs a visual motif reminding the viewer that For the Love of Spock is the Leonard Nimoy experience as filtered through Adam, banishing all possibility of objectivity. If we hear Leonard reading his book, I Am Spock, or a letter that he wrote to his son, we see Adam lounging on a couch reading the texts. This blunt but effective method, scattered throughout the proceedings, thoroughly grounds the documentary as a son’s story of his father, no matter how many of his father’s colleagues, famous fans or family give their two cents in interviews. [Jon Hogan]
Skull Island Impresses, Plus Two Foreign Flicks By Drew Wheeler movies@flagpole.com
Everything attempted in Kong sucKONG: SKULL ISLAND (PG-13) From Pacific ceeds. Vogt-Roberts ambitiously shoots for Rim to the latest Hollywood take on Godzilla, monster movies are having a sweet iconic, epic imagery and pulls off a task of massive hubris. The sequence where Tom renaissance. Kong is still king thanks to Hiddleston’s former SAS officer slices and Kong: Skull Island, a thrilling blend of ’70sdices flying monsters amidst a cloud of era war movie and current-gen CGI. Skull toxic green gas inspires awe, and it is merely Island masterfully blends rampaging monster mayhem, visual artfulness and THE SALESMAN (PG-13) Sure, the some whiz-bang FX into what may Kong: Skull Island current political climate assisted be the king of the already overpopIranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s ulated mountain of 2017 movies. It emotionally blistering drama with will be a shame if the exhilarating its Oscar win, but The Salesman creature feature is not one of the could have won on its own meryear’s biggest hits, as the inventive its. Anyone who appreciated A pop movie-making of Jordan VogtSeparation will be emotionally Roberts (The Kings of Summer) and drained by the domestic struggles crew will be hard to top. of another Iranian couple. Actors The smart script, written Rana and Emad Etesami (Taraneh by Oscar nominee Dan Gilroy Alidoosti and Shahab Hosseini) (Nightcrawler), Max Borenstein have just moved into a new apart(2014’s Godzilla) and Derek ment when Rana is attacked by an Connolly (Jurassic World), sends unknown assailant. The ensuing several scientists, including John OK… we get it… Skull Island… fallout strains their relationship Goodman and Straight Outta to the breaking point and threatens the the most memorable of a multitude of Compton’s Corey Hawkins, and a squadron production of Death of a Salesman, in which imaginative shots in a genre not necessarled by Samuel L. Jackson’s Col. Packard to they star as Willy and Linda Loman. ily known for trying so hard. He also nails an uncharted island ruled by everybody’s The Salesman starts with a narrative the first-person viewpoint popularized in favorite giant ape. Kong is not welcoming event similar to the also impressive Elle, but video games better than anyone besides to these bomb-dropping invaders, but it is looks at the repercussions from a decidedly Ilya Naishuller, the guy who made Hardcore another, meaner species of giant monsters different angle. Emad seeks vengeance— Henry. from which everyone should run. public humiliation seems to be among the worst punishments available in Iran—upon the perpetrator, if he can find him, where Rana seeks to be free of the ever-present distress wrought by such a violation. Farhadi handles a delicate subject with the cleverness expected of a filmmaker working within the confines of a repressive cinematic environment. One can imagine the difficulty in getting such a story past Iranian censors; the film was accused of siahnamayi, or disparaging Iran. But Farhadi is able to effectively tell this tale despite the limits placed on what he can show and his characters can say. The Salesman is a grand new example of a film that gained creative strength from what it did not show, rather than what it did.
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THEATER | Mar 16–18
PERFORMANCE | Fri, Mar 17
Cellar Theatre · 2:30 (Sun) & 8 p.m. · $7–12 Sophie Treadwell’s play follows a young woman (played by Eva Ramirez) who leads a life shaped by societal conformity and restricted by a loveless marriage to her boss (John Buisman). After an affair with a free spirit (Jordan Richards), she becomes determined to get the life she wants by any means necessary. Inspired by the story of Ruth Snyder, who was executed by electric chair for murdering her husband, the play reflects shifting social structures in 1920s America. Presented by University Theatre and directed by Marla Carlson, the production seeks to humanize the protagonist, while emphasizing expressionist dance and treating the script as a musical score. [Jessica Smith]
Hodgson Concert Hall · 8 p.m. · $6–20 Grammy-winning composer and conductor Craig Hella Johnson will lead UGA student performers through “Considering Matthew Shepard,” which provides a musical framework for honoring Shepard’s life while reflecting on the tragic event that brought international attention to hate-crime legislation. In 1998, the University of Wyoming student was tortured, tied to a fence and left for dead during an attack motivated in part by anti-gay sentiments. The piece weaves together a multitude of musical styles—chant, folk, country, choral and gospel—to represent various viewpoints. While emotionally challenging, the work hopes to inspire listeners to prevent history from repeating itself. [JS]
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Find new uses for your waffle iron. 1:30 p.m. $4–6. www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure CLASSES: Computer Class: Excel 2013 (ACC Library) Register by phone or in person at the reference desk. 10 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, www.athenslibrary.org/athens COMEDY: OpenTOAD Comedy Open Mic (Flicker Theatre & Bar) This comedy show allows locals to watch quality comedy or perform themselves. 9 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar.com EVENTS: 2nd Tuesday Tasting (Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market) This month’s theme is “Spring
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St. Pat’s Celebration
Southern Brewing Co. · 4:30 p.m. · $12 Friday is St. Patrick’s Day, which means the streets of downtown will be saturated with puddles of (festive green!) puke long before 2 a.m. There’s no shame in celebrating America’s drunkest holiday just like the rest of the country, but you can avoid the Irish Car Bombs in favor of something a little craftier. Southern Brewing’s second annual shindig features music from Irish folk-rock outfit Repent at Leisure, and the brewery will serve 26 of its tasty offerings, including the Cuchulainn Irish Red. The malt used to brew the limited-edition beer is imported from a small Irish farm, and is based on a 108-year-old family recipe. Doesn’t that sound nicer than Technicolor Bud Light? [Gabe Vodicka]
Whites.” 6 p.m. $20. 706-354-7901, www.heirloomathens.com GAMES: X-Wing Fan Track (The Rook and Pawn) X-wing is a tactical ship-to-ship combat game in which players battle in space. No experience required. 6 p.m. www. therookandpawn.com GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) Trivia with host Caitlin Wilson. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Nic. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-7289 GAMES: Sports Trivia (Champy’s Famous Fried Chicken) Hosted by TV, radio and internet personal-
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MUSIC | Fri, Mar 17
EVENT | Sat, Mar 18
Flicker Theatre & Bar · 9 p.m. · $5 No one is more thoroughly immersed in Athens music than John Fernandes, the longtime Wuxtry Records employee and Olivia Tremor Control/Circulatory System multi-instrumentalist who has lent his considerable talents to dozens of other local groups over the years. These days, Fernandes can often be found performing solo or in tandem with his son, Kiran, who has developed into a local-music notable in his own right. The two will join for a set on St. Patty’s Day featuring experimental duets for Korg and clarinet. Friday’s bill also features Athens singer-songwriters Andy Gonzales (of Marshmallow Coast) and Claire Cronin, as well as Mississippi psych-pop musician Ben Ricketts. [GV]
Hip Vintage & Handmade · 10 a.m.–5 p.m. · FREE! Having recently moved from its discreet downtown location to a spot inside the bustling new Hip Vintage & Handmade market at 215 Commerce Blvd. (near Georgia Square Mall, just off Atlanta Highway), local vinyl-record purveyor Secret Sounds has organized an ambitious all-day record fair to commemorate its new location. Stop in and peruse the store’s own stock, as well as a bunch of other local and outof-town collectors’ vast selections of LPs, CDs, cassettes, 8-track tapes, posters, music merchandise and more—or bring your own records to trade. Saturday’s event is free and open to the public, and tables for vendors are available starting at $35. [GV]
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ity Dave McMahon. Emphasis on Georgia athletics. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.champyschicken.com 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: Johnny’s Trivia (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Win house cash prizes every Tuesday and Thursday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-3541515 GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, 2301 College Station Rd.) Every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern
GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) Hosted by James Majure. 6 p.m. FREE! www.therookandpawn.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Taqueria Tsunami, Downtown) Surf the trivia wave every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.dirtysouthtrivia.com KIDSTUFF: Stranger Danger (Oconee County Library) Instructors from Borders Black Belt Academy will teach children the warning signs of dangerous situations and basic martial arts skills. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Preschooler Storytime (Oconee County Library) Stories,
songs, crafts and fun for preschoolaged children and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Secret Detective Case Solvers (Rocksprings Community Center) Parent and child can solve mysteries, make crafts and play games. Ages 4–6. 10 a.m. $4–6. www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure KIDSTUFF: Preschool Storytime (ACC Library) Ages 2–5. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens LECTURES & LIT: Ides of March Eve: Readings in Resistance (Normal Bar) An evening of
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original writing in resistance by Rashaun Ellis, Deirdre Sugiuchi, Liz Cunningham, Chris Nelms, Adrienne Hamil, Matthew Nye and Jordan Rothacker. 7 p.m. FREE! 706548-6186 PERFORMANCE: Music of Love and Loss (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Richard Zimdars (piano) and Lawrence Bakst (tenor) perform works by Liszt, Karol Szymanowski and Mahler. 8 p.m. FREE! pac.uga. edu PERFORMANCE: Passepartout Duo (The Dancz Center for New Music) Micoletta Favari (piano) and Chris Salvito (percussion) perform a program of contemporary works by Hannah Lash, Georges Aperghis, John Luther Adams, Wally Gunn and Robert Honstein. 6 p.m. FREE! pac. uga.edu
Wednesday 15 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Shawnya Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diaspoic Art, leads a tour of “Michael Ellison: Urban Impressions.” 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Brooklyn Screening with Colm Tóibín (Ciné Barcafé) Meet acclaimed author Colm Tóibín in a public reception and signing for his novel Brooklyn. A screening of the 2015 film adaptation will follow. See Story on p. 21. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com EVENTS: You Ain’t Nothing But a Pound Dog (The Foundry) The Athens Area Humane Society presents a yappy hour on the patio terrace with music by DJ Re>Ron. Meet adoptable dogs looking for furever homes. Well-behaved dogs are welcome as long as they’re kept on a leash. 6–9 p.m. $5 suggested donation. www.thefoundryathens.com GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Test your sports knowledge every Wednesday night. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Gaming Meetup (The Rook and Pawn) Meet new people over games. 7 p.m. www.therookandpawn.com GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie, Eastside) Every Wednesday. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-548-1920 GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, 2440 W. Broad St.) Play to win. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Movie Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Hosted by Count Zapula. 9:30 p.m. www.facebook. com/lkshuffleclub GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) Gather a team and compete. 8 p.m. saucehouse.com GAMES: Bingo (Highwire Lounge) House cash and drink prizes. Hosted by DJ LaDarius. 8 p.m. FREE! www. highwirelounge.com GAMES: Dirty Bingo (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Hosted by Garrett Lennox every Wednesday. Prizes and house cash. 8 p.m. FREE! www. grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Dirty South Trivia offers house cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Children of all ages are invited for bedtime stories every Wednesday. 7 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens
KIDSTUFF: Chess Club (Oconee County Library) Ages 7 & up are invited to play. All experience levels welcome. 5 p.m. FREE! 706-7693950 KIDSTUFF: Wednesday Library Adventures (Bogart Library) A storytelling program with hands-on activities. Ages 3.5–8. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Wednesday Walk (reBlossom Mama Baby Shop) Meet in the parking lot and get some fresh air in the company of other parents with young children. Wednesdays, 10 a.m. www.reblossomathens.com LECTURES & LIT: Talking About Books: Adult Book Discussion Group (ACC Library) This month’s title is The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle. Newcomers welcome. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org LECTURES & LIT: Panel Discussion (UGA Chapel) Mr. Harmony Bobga Mbuton, an African civil rights and criminal justice lawyer, will speak on the “Political Crisis in Cameroon” with Dr. Jeremiah Saliki and Dr. Harry AkohAsana. 2–4 p.m. FREE! afrst.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Friends of the Athens-Clarke County Library Book Sale (ACC Library) Thousands of titles available. Fill a bag for $10 on Saturday. Mar. 15, 2–6 p.m. (members-only preview, join for $25), Mar. 15, 6–8 p.m. Mar. 16, 9 a.m.–8 p.m. Mar. 17–18, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. www.athenslibrary.org MEETINGS: A Place for Everyone (Miller Learning Center, Room 102) “A Place for Everyone: Protecting Immigrants’ Rights in Athens and at UGA” is an opportunity to discuss issues affecting the local Latino immigrant community. Sponsored by the Undocumented Student Alliance at UGA and the Athens Immigrant Rights Coalition. 6:30 p.m. FREE! brianilliams@gmail.com MEETINGS: Tech Happy Hour (The World Famous) Meet local entrepreneurs, tech talent and other fellow Athenians who are making cool stuff at this weekly Four Athens networking happy hour. 6–7:30 p.m. FREE! www.fourathens.com/happy-hour MEETINGS: Brown Bag Lunch (Lyndon House Arts Center) This lunch’s topic is “The History and Future of the West Broad Street School.” Presented by the AthensClarke Heritage Foundation. 12 p.m. FREE! www.achfonline.org
Thursday 16 ART: Opening Reception (Circle Gallery) Medical practicioner, yogi and visual artist Rich Panico presents “Landscape, Remembrance, and Healing,” an exhibition of 70 new paintings. See Art Notes on p. 20. 4:30–6 p.m. FREE! mtufts@uga.edu ART: The Love Party (KA Artist Shop) Meet the artists of the exhibition “Love in all its Many Forms.” See Art Notes on p. 20. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.kaaartistshop.com ART: Third Thursday Art Series (Athens, GA) Seven galleries stay open late the third Thursday of every month. Participating galleries include the Georgia Museum of Art, Lamar Dodd School of Art, ATHICA, Lyndon House Arts Center, Ciné, the GlassCube & Gallery @ Hotel Indigo and The Classic Center. 6-9 p.m. FREE! www.3thurs.org ART: Opening Reception (Ciné Barcafé) Mike Calway-Fagen presents “Roses are Blue, Violets are Blue.” 6–8 p.m. FREE! www. athenscine.com ART: Thursday Twilight Tour (Georgia Museum of Art) View selections from the permanent col-
lection on a tour led by docents. 7 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum. org CLASSES: Mama-Baby Yoga (reBlossom Mama Baby Shop) This yoga class allows kiddos to practice alongside their parents. Free childcare is available for little ones who would rather play than practice yoga. 10 a.m. $5–10 donation. www. reblossomathens.com CLASSES: Tech Tips (ACC Library) This month’s topic is “20 Essential Mobile Apps.” 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens CLASSES: Soap Making 101 (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn the cold process method of making soap from natural ingredients. 5:30–8:30 p.m. $45. www.botgarden.uga.edu EVENTS: KnitLits (Bogart Library) Knitters of all levels are welcome. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/bogart EVENTS: Founder’s Day Breakfast (Church-Waddel-Brumby House) The Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation hosts a breakfast in honor of the date its charter was signed. Mayor Nancy Denson will issue a proclamation, and a new “History of Preservation” tour will debut. See Story on p. 14. 10 a.m. www.achfonline.org GAMES: Music Trivia (Saucehouse Barbeque) Meet at the bar for a round of trivia. 8 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/saucehousebbq GAMES: Duplicate Bridge (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Beginner and experienced players welcome. 7 p.m. ejstapler@ gmail.com GAMES: Johnny’s Trivia (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) See Tuesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! 706-354-1515 KIDSTUFF: Roy G. Biv (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Explore the colors of the rainbow with a special storytime. Ages 6 and up. 5 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (Bogart Library) Read aloud to a canine friend. RSVP. 4–5 p.m. FREE! 770725-9443, www.athenslibrary.org/ bogart KIDSTUFF: Outside the Box (Lay Park) Homeschooled children engage in the recreational aspect of learning with gymnasium-style games. 10–11:30 a.m. $5–7.50. www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure KIDSTUFF: Home School Science (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Participants will explore nature’s noises in “Sound Off!” Ages 4–12. 10 a.m. $4–6. www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure KIDSTUFF: Baby Music Jam (Oconee County Library) Preschool aged children and their caregivers play instruments, sing and dance together. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706613-3950 KIDSTUFF: The Iridescenc of Birds: A Henri Matisse Art Class (ACC Library) Hear stories about Matisse in his youth and create works in his style. Ages 4–11. 3:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens LECTURES & LIT: Women’s Studies Lecture (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, Room 271) Renowned historian and professor Dr. Evelyn Higginbotham presents “’The Metalanguage of Race’: Then and Now.” 6:30 p.m. FREE! iws.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Book Sale (ACC Library) Shop from thousands of books, including fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, hardbacks, paperbacks, DVDs, CDs and more. Proceeds benefit the ACC Library. On Saturday, fill an entire bag for
$10. Mar. 16, 9 a.m.–8 p.m., Mar. 17–18, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Most books $2 or less. www.athenslibrary.org LECTURES & LIT: Reading and Talk (UGA Chapel) Colm Tóibín presents “Staying Home, Leaving Home: Ireland and America.” See Story on p. 21. 3:30 p.m. FREE! www.willson.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: For the Philo of Philosophy Book Discussion Group (ACC Library) Read philosophy books from ancient Greece to modern times. This month’s title is Plato’s Phaedo. 6 p.m. FREE! mkapelewski@athenslibrary.org LECTURES & LIT: Friends of the Athens-Clarke County Library Book Sale (ACC Library) See Wednesday listing for full description Mar. 15, 2–6 p.m. (membersonly preview, join for $25), Mar. 15, 6–8 p.m. Mar. 16, 9 a.m.–8 p.m. Mar. 17–18, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. www. athenslibrary.org LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Avid Bookshop) Internationally acclaimed Irish writer Colm Tóibín will read, sign books and meet attendees. See Story on p. 21. 6 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com OUTDOORS: Nature Ramblers (State Botanical Garden of Georgia, Meet at Shade Garden Arbor) Learn more about flora and fauna of the garden while enjoying fresh air and inspirational readings. Ramblers are encouraged to bring their own nature writings or favorite poems and essays to share with the group. 9:30 a.m. FREE! www.botgarden.uga.edu THEATER: Boybutante Staged Reading of The Help (The Foundry) Local drag queens present a parody reading to draw parallels between the Civil Rights struggle of the ‘60s and the current political climate. Proceeds benefit the Boybutant AIDS Foundation. 7 p.m. $15. thefoundryathens.com THEATER: Machinal (UGA Fine Arts Building, Cellar Theatre) Loosely based on the notorious Rth Snyder case of 1927, Sophie Treadwell’s episodic play depicts a young woman’s disastrous efforts to conform to society’s rigid expectations of women. See Calendar Pick on p. 24. Mar. 16–18 & Mar. 21–25, 8 p.m. Mar. 26, 2:30 p.m. $7–12. drama.uga.edu
Friday 17 CLASSES: Intro to Excel (Oconee County Library) Learn the basics of Excel 2010. 2–4 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 EVENTS: Morning Mindfulness (Georgia Museum of Art) Join instructor Jerry Gale for a meditation session in the galleries. Meet in the lobby. 9:30–10:30 a.m. FREE! branew@uga.edu, www.georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: OCAF Thrift Sale (OCAF, Watkinsville) Over 10,000 items will be available at NE Georgia’s largest thrift sale. Proceeds benefit OCAF. Mar. 17, 7–9 p.m. $5. (preview sale). Mar. 18, 8 a.m.–2 p.m. www. ocaf.com EVENTS: Dancing with the Athens Stars Fundraiser (The Rook and Pawn) Play games and help raise money for Team 4 of Dancing with the Athens Stars, an event that supports Project Safe. 5–7 p.m. www. therookandpawn.com EVENTS: Dedication of Marker at Watkinsville Cemetery (Watkinsville Cemetery) The Oconee Historical Society will recognize and honor those whose names are not known but are buried in the Watkinsville Cemetery, Section B, with a marker to recognize their lives and contributions. 11 a.m. FREE! joannhubert@yahoo.com
EVENTS: St. Patrick’s Day (Southern Brewing Company) Celebrate with brewery tours, beer samples and live music by Repent at Leisure and Johnny Hatchet and The Alrights. The Holy Crepe food truck will be on-site to satisfy munchies. See Calendar Pick on p. 24. 4:30 p.m. $20. www.sobrewco.com EVENTS: Zumba After Dark (40 Watt Club) Zumba fever continues. 7 p.m. $10–12. www.40watt.com EVENTS: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (Go Bar) See up-andcoming kings and queens. 10:30 p.m. $3. www.facebook.com/athensshowgirls FILM: I Come From (Winder Cultural Arts Center, Winder) The documentary shows the experiences of six incarceratd poets and playwrights. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 678425-6836 FILM: The Banff Mountain Film Festival (Morton Theatre) A collection of action, environmental and adventure films for all ages to enjoy. 7–10 p.m. $12–15. halfmoonoutfitters.com GAMES: Friday Night Magic Draft (Tyche’s Games) Win prizes. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.tychesgames.com KIDSTUFF: Mother and Son Fun Night (Lay Park) Mothers and sons (ages 4–12) can play games, take photos and enjoy refreshments. 6:30–8 p.m. $7–10.50. www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure LECTURES & LIT: Stone, River, Sky (Avid Bookshop, Prince Ave.) Stone, River, Sky: An Anthology of Georgia Poems brings together the work of more than 140 poets. Several authors will read: Sara Amis, Rebecca Baggett, Sara Baker, Melissa Dickson, Sarah Gordon and Scott Wilkerson. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com LECTURES & LIT: Friends of the Athens-Clarke County Library Book Sale (ACC Library) See Wednesday listing for full description Mar. 15, 2–6 p.m. (membersonly preview, join for $25), Mar. 15, 6–8 p.m. Mar. 16, 9 a.m.–8 p.m. Mar. 17–18, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. www. athenslibrary.org LECTURES & LIT: Women’s Studies Friday Speaker Series (Miller Learning Center, Room 214) Dr. Jaclyn Nolan presents “Whose Willie McGree? Civil Rights, Far-Left Activism and Visions of Womanhood.” 12:20 p.m. FREE! www.iws.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Seney-Stovall Chapel) “A Conversation with Colm Tóibín” featuring Fintan O’Toole with a performance by Iarla O Lionáird. See Story on p. 21. 7 p.m. willson.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Book Sale (ACC Library) See Thursday listing for full description Mar. 16, 9 a.m.–8 p.m., Mar. 17–18, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Most books $2 or less. www.athenslibrary. org OUTDOORS: Friends of the Garden Annual Meeting (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Susan Haltom leads a program on Eudora Welty’s garden in Jackson, MS. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.botgarden.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Hocket (UGA Robert G. Edge Recital Hall) Los Angeles-based piano duo Hocket perform contemporary works. 6:30 p.m. FREE! pac.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Considering Matthew Shepard (UGA Performing Arts Center) This oratorio, composed and conducted by Grammy winner Craig Hella Johnson, will be performed by the UGA Hodgson Singers and Glee Clubs. In 1998, Matthew Shepard was attacked by two men, tied to a fence outside Laramie, WY, and left to die. Johnson’s oratorio
pulls inspiration from passages of Shepard’s person journal, interviews with his parents and writings by several poets. See Calendar Pick on p. 24. 8 p.m. $6 (w/UGA ID), $20. pac.uga.edu THEATER: Machinal (UGA Fine Arts Building) See Thursday listing for full description Mar. 16–18 & Mar. 21–25, 8 p.m. Mar. 26, 2:30 p.m. $7–12. drama.uga.edu
Saturday 18 ART: Opening Reception (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) “Out There! Photographs in the Spirit of Jeremy Ayers” includes recent work by the late Ayers as well as other photographers who share his quirky, iconographic aesthetic. See Art Notes on p. 20. 6–9 p.m. Donations suggested. www.athica. org ART: Lillian E. Smith Symposium (Piedmont College) This year’s symposium focuses on the role of public art (murals, graffiti, outdoor art installations and more) as a form of cultural expression and inspiration for social justice in Athens. Speakers include Jen Delos Reyes, director of Open Engagement; Ellen Elmes, who has completed more than 25 murals; Broderick Flanigan, freelance mural and portrait artist; Hope Hilton, artist in residence at Double Helix STEAM School; and Barbara Brown Taylor, professor of religion at Piedmont College. 8 a.m.–4 p.m. $45. www. piedmont.edu/symp ART: WUGA’s Artists in Residence Series (Contact for Location) See the home of Samuel Stabler, an artist who specializes in drawing and paper cuts. Proceeds benefit WUGA. See Art Notes on p. 20. 3–5 p.m. $10–15. 706-542-9842, thaxtona@ uga.edu, www.wuga.org CLASSES: Soils of the Georgia Piedmont (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn about the soil ecology and biology of the Georgia Piedmont. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. $50. www. botgarden.uga.edu CLASSES: Athens Free School (127 Herman St.) The workshop offers bike repair guidance. 3 p.m. FREE! brp@bikeathens.com EVENTS: Saturday at the Rock: Seed Swap (Rock Eagle 4H Center) Gardeners can trade their unused seeds for something new. 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. jtorhan1@uga.edu EVENTS: Open Log House (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Visit the circa 1800s log house and participate in activities from long ago. Live music by the Athens Folk Society String Band. 1–4 p.m. $2-3. 706-613-3615 EVENTS: Journey Through the Stars (Sandy Creek Nature Center) This month’s program is “Spring Skies.” 10–11 a.m. $2–3. www. athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreeknaturecenter EVENTS: Secret Record Swap (Hip Vintage and Handmade) Sift through thousands of records presented by local and out-of-town dealers. See Calendar Pick on p. 24. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. www.facebook.com/secretrecordswap EVENTS: UGA Law School Equal Justice Foundation Auction (The Foundry) EJF is a student-run organization devoted to the promotion of public interest law and raises stipends for summer law clerks who have chosen to work in unpaid, public interest positions. 6:30 p.m. www.thefoundryathens.com EVENTS: Athens Jewish Film Festival Opening Celebration (Hotel Indigo) Celebrate the annual festival with refreshments and dancing. Music provided by DJ Andrew k continued on next page
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THE CALENDAR! Byrd. See Story on p. 22. 7 p.m. www.ajff.org EVENTS: OCAF Thrift Sale (OCAF, Watkinsville) See Friday listing for full description Mar. 17, 7–9 p.m. $5. (preview sale). Mar. 18, 8 a.m.–2 p.m. www.ocaf.com EVENTS: Contra Dance (Memorial Park) A dance presented by Athens Folk Music & Dance Society with live music by Emerald Isle. Live calling by Charlotte Crittenden. 7:30 p.m. (lesson), 8–11 p.m. (dance). $8 (adults), $4 (ages 11–17) FREE! (ages 11 & under). athensfolk.org FILM: Athens Jewish Film Festival (Ciné Barcafé) Moos is a romantic comedy about a caretaker whose life changes after a surprise visit from her friend. See Story on p. 22. 5 p.m. $9.75. www.athensjff.org GAMES: Pathfinder Society Event (Tyche’s Games) Fantasy RPG. Bring your imagination. 12 p.m. FREE! 706-345-4500 GAMES: Learning Ally Game Night (Covenant Presbyterian Church) Bring a dish to share at the potluck dinner. The evening includes a silent auction, live dessert auction and plenty of games. 6 p.m. $10/ person, $25/family. scout@learningally.org KIDSTUFF: Alice in Wonderland’s Mad Tea Party (Lavonia Cultural Center, 12221 Augusta Rd., Lavonia) Enjoy refreshments, a craft and photos with characters from the Lewis Carroll classic. Proceeds benefit the Franklin Community Players Youth Summer Theatre Program. 11 a.m. or 1:30 p.m. $8. 706-491-1538 KIDSTUFF: YA Sewing Class (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Learn basic sewing machine stitches and make a simple pillow. Ages 11–18. Registration required. 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/madison KIDSTUFF: Saturday Cinema (Bogart Library) Watch a DisneyNature documentary on butterflies, hummingbirds, bats and bees. 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Boy Scout/Girl Scout Genealogy Exploration (ACC Library) Current and future scouts will learn about genealogy. Ages 5–11. 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Family Day: To Spin a Yarn (Georgia Museum of Art) View over 40 wooden spinning implements in the exhibition “To Spin a Yarn: Distaffs, Folk Art and Material Culture,” then learn how wool is processed from “sheep to shawl.” Kids can experiment with weaving with yarn. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! georgiamuseum.org LECTURES & LIT: Book Sale (ACC Library) See Thursday listing for full description Mar. 16, 9 a.m.–8 p.m., Mar. 17–18, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Most books $2 or less. www.athenslibrary. org LECTURES & LIT: Georgia Reads (Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation, Firehall #2) The University of Georgia Press and Georgia Public Broadcasting have launched a new virtual book club, “Georgia Reads.” It’s first title is Party of Bounds: The B-52’s, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia. David Barbe of the UGA Music Business Program will interview author Rodger Lyle Brown and a panel of local musicians including Vanessa Briscoe Hay of Pylon and Dana Downs of Go Van Gogh. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com LECTURES & LIT: Friends of the Athens-Clarke County Library Book Sale (ACC Library) See
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Wednesday listing for full description Mar. 15, 2–6 p.m. (membersonly preview, join for $25), Mar. 15, 6–8 p.m. Mar. 16, 9 a.m.–8 p.m. Mar. 17–18, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. www. athenslibrary.org SPORTS: Table Tennis Matches and Training (East Athens Community Center) Beginner to advanced skills welcome. 1–4 p.m. FREE! www.ttathensga.com SPORTS: 3x3 Adult Basketball Tournament (East Athens Community Center) Double elimination rounds. Register by Mar. 12. 10 a.m. $30/team. 706-613-3593 THEATER: Machinal (UGA Fine Arts Building) See Thursday listing for full description Mar. 16–18 & Mar. 21–25, 8 p.m. Mar. 26, 2:30 p.m. $7–12. drama.uga.edu
Sunday 19 COMEDY: The Deadbeats of Comedy (Jerzee’s Sports Bar) Carlos Valencia and Bubbs Harris headline the Here Comes Trouble Tour. Hosted by Alia Ghosheh. 9 p.m. $5. jarrod@jerzeessportsbar.net FILM: Athens Jewish Film Festival (Ciné Barcafé) View screenings of Abulele (1 p.m.), On the Map (3 p.m.), A Blind Hero (5 p.m.) and Fire Birds (7:45 p.m.). See Story on p. 22. $7.50–9.75 (each film), $45 (festival pass). www. athensjff.org GAMES: Netrunner Open Play (Tyche’s Games) All are welcome to join in. 12:30–4:30 p.m. FREE! www. tychesgames.com KIDSTUFF: Tail Waggin’ Tutors (Oconee County Library) Reading aloud to a dog creates a relaxed, non-judgmental environment that helps kids develop their reading skills and builds confidence. Register for a 15-minutes session. Grades K-5. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-7693950 KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Beginning readers read aloud to a certified therapy dog. 3–4 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (ACC Library) Beginning readers read aloud to certified therapy dogs. 3–4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, www. athenslibrary.org LECTURES & LIT: Solidarity Sunday: Personal Self-Defense (Barnett Tae Kwon Do Academy) This workshop is to discuss and teach the three A’s of personal selfdefense: Awareness, Assessment and Action. Learn basic tae kwon do skills. 3 p.m. FREE! www.facebook. com/100daysathens PERFORMANCE: Ten Tenors (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) The Australian group’s world tour celebrates their 20th anniversary. 3 p.m. $31–52. pac.uga.edu
Monday 20 EVENTS: RPG Night (The Rook and Pawn) Play Dungeon World with Mark Zimmer. 7 p.m. www.therookandpawn.com FILM: Women’s History Month Film Screening (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, Room 271) Watch No Job For a Woman: The Women Who Fought to Report to WWII. 6:30 p.m. FREE! iws.uga.edu FILM: Athens Jewish Film Festival (Ciné Barcafé) View screenings of The Kind Words (4 p.m.), Fever at Dawn (6:30 p.m.) and Peter the Third (8:45 p.m.). See
Story on p. 22. $7.50–9.75 (each film), $45 (festival pass). www. athensjff.org GAMES: Rock and Roll Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Get a team together and show off your extensive music knowledge! Hosted by Jonathan Thompson. 9 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub GAMES: Magic the Gathering Draughts and Drafts (The Rook and Pawn) Each draft pod gets you a three-pack draft, a participation pack and prize packs for wins. 6 p.m. $15. www.therookandpawn.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia: Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Team trivia contests with house cash prizes every Monday night. 8 p.m. FREE! www.grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: Duplicate Bridge (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Beginner players welcome. 1 p.m. $5. ejstapler@gmail.com GAMES: General Knowledge Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) Win house cash and prizes! Every Monday night. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-8501916 KIDSTUFF: Special Story Time (Avid Bookshop, Five Points) Miss Hannah offers a special story time celebrating Very Hungry Caterpillar Day. 11:30 a.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com KIDSTUFF: Open Chess Play for Kids and Teens (ACC Library) Teen chess players of all skill levels can play matches and learn from members of the local Chess and Community Players, who will be on hand to assist players and help build skill levels. For ages 7–18. Registration required. 4–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Monday Fun-Days (Bogart Library) Little ones ages birth to three and their caregivers can participate in songs, finger plays, wiggles and giggles. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ bogart KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime (ACC Library) Designed to nurture language skills through literature-based materials and activities. Parents assist their children in movements and actions while playing. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT: Third Monday Book Club (Oconee County Library) Discuss Touch by Alexi Zentner. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ oconee PERFORMANCE: Guest Artist Concert (UGA Robert G. Edge Recital Hall) Bassonist Reed Hanna will perform. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www. music.uga.edu
Tuesday 21 ART: Athens Metal Arts Guild Meeting (Lyndon House Arts Center) This month’s speaker is Athens jeweler Charles Pinckney. 5 p.m. FREE! athensmetalartsguild@ gmail.com CLASSES: Introduction to PowerPoint (ACC Library) Learn the basics of PowerPoint 2013. Registration required. 10–11:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3615, www. athenslibrary.org EVENTS: Athens Rock and Gem Club (Holy Cross Lutheran Church) Chester and Gail Karwoski will talk about their experiences at the Denver Gem and Mineral Show. 7:30 p.m. FREE! wwwathensrockandgemclub. org FILM: Athens Jewish Film Festival (Ciné Barcafé) View screenings of shorts (5 p.m.) and For the Love of Spock (7:30 p.m.) which will follow the festival’s
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closing party. See Story on p. 22. $7.50–9.75 (each film), $45 (festival pass). www.athensjff.org GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) See Tuesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! www. locosgrill.com GAMES: Sports Trivia (Champy’s Famous Fried Chicken) Hosted by TV, radio and internet personality Dave McMahon. Emphasis on Georgia athletics. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.champyschicken.com GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Nic every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706354-7289 GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) See Tuesday listing for full description 6 p.m. FREE! www.therookandpawn.com GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) See Tuesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 GAMES: Johnny’s Trivia (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) See Tuesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! 706-354-1515 GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) See Tuesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Taqueria Tsunami, Downtown) Surf the trivia wave every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.dirtysouthtrivia.com KIDSTUFF: Toddler Tuesday (Georgia Museum of Art) Families and children 18 months–3 years can take a tour tailored for young children, listen to stories and participate in a hands-on activity. This month’s theme is “movement” and includes a tour of Lin Emery’s kinetic sculptures. RSVP. 10–11 a.m. FREE! callan@uga.edu, www.georgiamuseum.org KIDSTUFF: Cooking with Jayln (ACC Library) Learn basic cooking skills with limited ingredients to whip up a tasty snack. Ages 11–18. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens KIDSTUFF: Lego Club (Oconee County Library) Create Lego art and enjoy Lego-based activities. Legos provided. Ages 3–10. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Tea on Tuesday Book Club (Bogart Library) Bring in or check out a biography to celebrate Women’s History Month. Girls, ages 8–10. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Preschool Storytime (ACC Library) Ages 2–5. 9:30 & 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens LECTURES & LIT: UGA Signature Lecture (UGA Chapel) Deborah L. Birx, an international leader in HIV/AIDS treatment, presents “The War Against AIDS, 35 Years and Counting: Are We There Yet?” 5:30 p.m. FREE! news.uga.edu MEETINGS: Classic City Toastmasters (Holy Cross Lutheran Church) Practice public speaking skills in a supportive environment. 12 p.m. FREE! 1779. toastmastersclubs.org PERFORMANCE: Double Reed Recital (UGA Robert G. Edge Recital Hall) Carlee Woodring, Alex Moore and Anna Wood perform. 8 p.m. FREE! music.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center performs a program entitled “French Virtuosity” with works by Debussy, Ravel and Chausson. 8 p.m. $42. pac.uga.edu THEATER: Machinal (UGA Fine Arts Building) See Thursday listing for full description Mar. 16–18 & Mar. 21–25, 8 p.m. Mar. 26, 2:30 p.m. $7–12. drama.uga.edu
Wednesday 22 ART: Artful Conversation (Georgia Museum of Art) In celebration of Women’s History Month, assistant curator of education Sage Kincaid leads a tour focusing on several works by women artists. 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: One-on-One Genealogy Assistance (ACC Library) Library staff offer assistance to genealogists and researchers. 10 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens CLASSES: Flower Arranging Unit 4 (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) This unit focuses on designs that incorporate fruits and vegetables. 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $45. 706542-6156, www.uga.edu/botgarden EVENTS: Secret City Burlesque (The Foundry) Secret City Burlesque presents video game-themed performances in “Arcade.” 7:30 p.m. $10–15. www.thefoundryathens.com FILM: Film Screening (ACC Library) Local musician Rick Fowler will lead a discussion after the screening of his film Mayhayley Lancaster: Legend of an Oracle. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie, Eastside) Every Wednesday. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com GAMES: Sports Trivia (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s) See Wednesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-548-1920 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, 2440 W. Broad St.) Play to win. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) Gather a team and compete. 8 p.m. saucehouse.com GAMES: Dirty Bingo (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Hosted by Garrett Lennox every Wednesday. Prizes and house cash. 8 p.m. FREE! www. grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: Bingo (Highwire Lounge) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 KIDSTUFF: Wednesday Library Adventures (Bogart Library) See Wednesday listing for full description 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Teen Council Meeting (ACC Library) Teens can come together to discuss plans for the ACC Library’s teen department’s collections and programs. Pick up application forms at the front desk. Ages 11-18. 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Children are invited for bedtime stories every Wednesday. 7 p.m. FREE! athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: PRISM (Oconee County Library) PRISM is a safe space for all teens who share a common vision of equality. Grades 6–12. 6 p.m. FREE! athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Wednesday Walk (reBlossom Mama Baby Shop) Meet in the parking lot and get some fresh air in the company of other parents with young children. Wednesdays, 10 a.m. www.reblossomathens.com LECTURES & LIT: Issue Release Party (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) The Georgia Review presents poet, trans-
lator and editor Joshua Beckman in celebration of the Spring 2017 issue. Beckman will read from his work and a reception will follow with music by Scott Creney and Brigette Adair Herron. 7 p.m. FREE! thegeorgiareview.com LECTURES & LIT: Fanfiction Addiction (Oconee County Library) Meet others who read or write fanfiction. Grades 6–12. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee MEETINGS: Lunch and Learn (Four Athens) Aprio’s Carli McDonald from R&D Tax Credit Services will discuss tax credits for startups. Lunch provided. RSVP. 12 p.m. FREE! www. fourathens.com MEETINGS: Tech Happy Hour (The World Famous) See Wednesday listing for full description 6–7:30 p.m. FREE! www.fourathens.com/ happy-hour PERFORMANCE: UGA Wind Symphony and MOD[ular] Ensemble (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) The MOD[ular] ensemble creates new works in mixed chamber settings. 8 p.m. FREE! music.uga. edu THEATER: Machinal (UGA Fine Arts Building) See Thursday listing for full description Mar. 16–18 & Mar. 21–25, 8 p.m. Mar. 26, 2:30 p.m. $7–12. drama.uga.edu
LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 14 The Foundry 7:30 p.m. $5. www.thefoundryathens. com LIVE BAND KARAOKE Sing your favorite ‘80s and ‘90s jams and beyond, backed by Saved by the Band. Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. $15. www.georgiatheatre.com OF GOOD NATURE North Carolina band that blends rock, reggae and funk. THE ORANGE CONSTANT Athensbased jam band with prog, pop and funk influences. ODD STREET No info available. HARVEY FUNKWALKER Athensbased trio steeped in deep funk roots and laced with tinges of jazz, blues and rock. Go Bar 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-5609 TOM VISIONS BAND Post-mystical, electronic, psychedelic music from Visions and his group. MANS TRASH Skewed pop sounds from Mercer West (The Dream Scene, Bubbly Mommy Gun). SPACE BROTHER Local experimental electronic artist. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 6 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com PIANO HAPPY HOUR Jason Fuller, Bart King, Grant Cowan, Caroline Aiken and guests play piano songs in the round. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 DJ WHOM Local DJ playing a mix of hip hop, ‘90s and 2000s music. The World Famous 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens MIDNIGHT PEOPLE New York-based band led by vocalist and multiinstrumentalist Holly Overton. SPACE DUNGEON This local collective features a dollop of hip hop, a pinch of space and a sprinkle of jazz.
Your Pie Noon & 6 p.m. FREE! 706-850-7424 (Five Points location) LEAVING COUNTRIES Louis Phillip Pelot performs solo sets of funky Southern folk rock ‘n’ roll. Noon & 6 p.m. FREE! 706-549-3179 (Beechwood location) AVERY DEAKINS Athens-based folk singer-songwriter.
The World Famous 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens CALEB DARNELL Member of the Darnell Boys plays a solo set. BLANKS AND POSTAGE Athensbased alt-rock band. LITTLE TUFTS Local singer-singwriter armed with an acoustic guitar and trafficking in the melancholy.
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Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 LEAVING COUNTRIES OPEN MIC JAM Bands are welcome, backline is provided and the jam rocks until 2 a.m.
Blue Sky 10 p.m. FREE! 706-850-3153 WARM GLOW BLUE SKY SHOW JJC plays disco, funk, soul & cetera. Every Thursday!
Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com MOTEL RADIO Southern-fried indiefolk band. THE HIGH DIVERS Four-piece twang band that plays rebellious Southern music. Dos Palmas Restaurant & Cantina 6 p.m. FREE! 706-353-7771 TRE POWELL Local singer-songriter playing bluesy acoustic tunes with soulful vocals. 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. FREE! www.40watt.com ROAD TO ROO One lucky Athens band will win a chance to perform at Bonnaroo 2017. The Foundry On the Patio. 6 p.m. www.thefoundryathens.com DJ RE>RON Playing your favorites. Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. SOLD OUT. www.georgiatheatre. com KANE BROWN Georgia-native country singer-songwriter. JORDAN RAGER Country singersongwriter from Loganville. The Globe 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 THE HOT HOTTY-HOTS Mary Sigalas, Dan Horowitz, Steve Key and surprise guests play swingin’ tunes from the ‘10s, ‘20s and ‘30s. Go Bar 10 p.m. $3–5. garbriella.andino@ gmail.com ANCESTRY NOW DJs and performers offer sets inspired by the people and places they derive from. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com CICADA RHYTHM Acoustic guitar and upright bass duo playing bluegrass-tinged indie-folk, filled with paired vocal harmonies. SINNERS AND SAINTS Folk-rock group from Charlotte, NC. JEREMY RAY Punky singer-songwriter from Atlanta. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 SHIMMY & THE BURNS Countryinfluenced folk rock band from Knoxville, TN. The Office Lounge 8 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 The longest standing weekly music gig in Athens! Enjoy an evening of original music, improv and standards.
Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com THE STIR Rock band from Athens and Atlanta. IDES OF JUNE Rock and roll group out of Atlanta. OLDE WORLD MONKEYS Local Southern rock four-piece. 40 Watt Club 7 p.m. $10. www.40watt.com LUKE PELL Country singer-songwriter and former “Bachelorette” contestant from Burnet, TX. Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. $7. www.georgiatheatre.com THE TUTEN BROTHERS Athensbased folk-rock family band. BACKUP PLANET Progressive funkrock group from Knoxville, TN. SARAH ELIZABETH Athens singer with a variety of musical influences. WUOG Night. On the Rooftop. 10 p.m. FREE! www.georgiatheatre.com THE QUIET PACK Athens-based experimental hip-hop project. SUPERBODY Lo-fi indie-pop outfit from Chattanooga, TN. DJ :’) Local DJ spins sensational sounds. Go Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred” Bowers and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more. Every Thursday! Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com THE GENTRY Traditional original Irish music trio. Highwire Lounge 11 p.m. $1 (headphone). www.highwirelounge.com SILENT DISCO Dance the night away with wireless headphones and two channels of music. One of them is a request line! Iron Factory 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-395-6877 SMOKEDOG This local band plays noisy, burned-out experimental rock and roll. DREMMY DROOPERS New local avant-folk duo of Caleb Plumley and Adam Bhame. The Manhattan Café 9 p.m. 706-369-9767 AS DUSK FADES Local acoustic group that sounds like “Renaissance doing Duran Duran covers.” Nowhere Bar 8 p.m. 706-546-4742 THE BIG SMOOTH Bluesy tunes with soulful vocals courtesy of Tre Powell and company. 11 p.m. 706-546-4742 ROBBIE DUDE Local DJ spinning “futuristic, hip hop, electro-soul, funky freshness, wine sippin’, bumpin’, grindin’ bass music.”
The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 REV. TRIBBLE AND THE DANCING MAGNOLIAS Local group led by Athens rock fixture Rev. Conner Mack Tribble. See story on p. 20.
Friday 17 Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com VINCAS Local downer-punk band featuring snarling guitars and doomy, psychedelic flourishes. TORO Atlanta-based heavy rock group fronted by guitarist Zack Hembree. MAXIMUM BUSY MUSCLE Hardhitting local math-rock trio. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com ANDY GONZALES Marshmallow Coast frontman plays a solo folkpop set. CLAIRE CRONIN Singer and poet Cronin plays folk music that’s both delicate and intense. JOHN & KIRAN FERNANDES Father and son team up for an experimental instrumental set. See Calendar Pick on p. 24. BEN RICKETTS Psychedelic pop singer-songwriter and visual artist from Oxford, MS. The Foundry 4 p.m. $7 (adv.), $10 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com ST. PATRICK’S DAY CELEBRATION Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with dance performances by the Athens Drake School of Irish Dancing and traditional Irish/Celtic music by The Company Stores, The Gentry and Green Flag Band. Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $16 (adv.), $18 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com TROYBOI Branding his genre “#MyStyle,” London’s TroyBoi blends a variety of genres to create his own flavor of EDM. NEBBRA Parisian electronic musician borrowing elements from trap, hip hop and EDM. MEDIUM TROY Bohemian dub group formed in Eugene, OR.
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The Hedges on Broad 10 p.m. www.hedgesonbroad.com AARON GIBSON Atlanta-based classic and contemporary singersongwriter who was a featured artist on season 11 of NBC’s “The Voice.” LEAVING COUNTRIES Local band playing smokin’ folk-country/ Southern rock and roll. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $10. www.hendershotscoffee. com ANSLEY STEWART The local rock singer and musician performs and celebrates her new album’s release. RICK LOLLAR Indie singer-songwriter from Tallahassee, FL. Highwire Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com LIVE MUSIC Rotating local jazz and bluegrass bands play every Friday and Saturday night. Iron Factory 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-395-6877 CHROMAZOME Athens group inspired by blues and classic rock sounds. LILY HERNE Local folk singersongwriter playing “12-string lucid dreams.” HEADFONE JUNKY Playing a popgroove dance set, both arranged and improvised. k continued on next page
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10:00 a.m. A family event designed for children ages four through twelve and their parents and grandparents. The Georgia Children’s Chorus performs a lively program called Rise and Shine! featuring interactive activities that encourage audience members to recognize their own artistic potential. Join us for a fun-filled time of making music together. . . . And it’s FREE!
HODGSON CONCERT HALL For more information call 706-542-4400. pac.uga.edu
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THE CALENDAR! Little Kings Shuffle Club 10 p.m. $8. www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub QUIET COYOTE Athens-based rock four-piece. GRECO Atlanta band of four brothers that plays rock music to make you dance. IDES OF JUNE Rock and roll group out of Atlanta. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 HARVEY FUNKWALKER Athensbased trio steeped in deep funk roots and laced with tinges of jazz, blues and rock. HAMBONE RELAY Soulful, jammy rock group from Philadelphia. The Office Lounge 6 p.m. 706-546-0840 REV. CONNER MACK TRIBBLE Tribble is a Georgia rock and roll fixture. Every Friday! 8:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 FUNKY BLUESTER Atlanta-based blues outfit inspired by traditional Chicago and Texas styles.
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Perk Avenue CafĂŠ and Coffee House 8:30 p.m. $10. www.perkave.com THE SQUIRRELHEADS Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in Madison, New Orleans-style. Southern Brewing Company 4:30 p.m. www.sobrewco.com REPENT AT LEISURE Celtic pub band playing “Irish rock,â€? including traditional, punk, modern and original Celtic music. See Calendar Pick on p. 24. JOHNNY HATCHET & THE ALRIGHTS Band playing “busted country rock.â€? Terrapin Beer Co. 4:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com STATION 7 Atlanta-based “spacey blues-rockâ€? group.
Saturday 18 Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com THE GOOD LOOKS Young band playing a custom blend of rock, blues, funk, punk and alternative. SLEEPING PILLS Post-punk band out of Tampa, FL. THE GRAWKS Local rock band that sounds like “Bazooka Joe bubble gum laced with shrapnel.� MURDER THE MOOD Local alternative rock band. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 TWIN POWERS Bouncy DJ Dan Geller spins the newest dance party jams and classic favorites. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com HOT CLUB OF ATHENS Multinational four-piece jazz project featuring locals Kishi Bashi, Keiko Ishibashi, Antoon Speters and Elijah Smith. Hi-Lo Lounge 9 p.m. www.hiloathens.com EINSCHLAGEN Local band influenced by dream-pop and post-punk. Album release show! FAKE FLOWERS Athens- and Atlanta-based shoegaze-inspired pop band. PANSY Athens punk band influenced by raw ‘80s hardcore.
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Highwire Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com LIVE MUSIC Rotating local jazz and bluegrass bands play every Friday and Saturday night. 11 p.m. $1 (headphone). www.highwirelounge.com SILENT DISCO Dance the night away with wireless headphones and two channels of music. One of them is a request line! Iron Factory 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-395-6877 DAVEY WRATHGABAR Visitations frontman performs a solo set of psychedelic folk. MARK WARREN Atlanta-based DJ going wild on a keytar. SACRED HOLLOW Local hard rock band influenced by blues and metal. No. 3 Railroad Street 7 p.m. $10. www.3railroad.org BETWEEN NAYBORS Local group playing semi-downer folk music with socially relevant lyrics and a just a touch of country twang. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 THE ARCS Local rock band featuring Dave Gerow, Kevin Lane, Brandon Reynolds and Ben Spraker. The Office Lounge 9 p.m. 706-546-0840 MIKE WATSON BAND Atlanta-based blues/Southern rock group. Southern Brewing Company 2:30 p.m. www.sobrewco.com REDSTONE RAMBLERS Local blues-folk group led by songwriter Mark Wilmot. Terrapin Beer Co. 4:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com SYLVIA NOVAK Alabama singersongwriter with sharp vibrato and a sharper fiddle. The World Famous 11 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens PAMELA_ AND HER SONS Improvisational electronic project from Atlanta. SEQUOYAH Atlanta-based composer inspired by classic Brazilian, African and contemporary pop music. YUNG YANG Creative live mixing of vogue house, dancehall, juke, bounce and other club oddities new and old.
Sunday 19 Beef ‘O’ Brady’s 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 OPEN MIC Sing loud, sing proud. Cali ‘N’ Tito’s Eastside 7 p.m. FREE! 706-355-7087 THE LUCKY JONES Rockin’ rhythm and blues from this local band. Every Sunday! The Foundry 6 p.m. $12 (adv.), $15 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com THE SEGAR JAZZ AFFAIR WXAG radio DJ Dwain Segar curates a night of smooth jazz, featuring John Dunn & the Jazzman Band. George’s Lowcountry Table 7 p.m. $25. 706-548-3359 ROCKERS GO ACOUSTIC John Keane, Caroline Aiken, Lisa Mende, Michael Wegner, David Ferguson, Sean VanMeter, Karen Bergmann and more cover
Joni Mitchell songs to benefit Dancing With the Athens Stars’ Team 8. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 5 p.m. FREE! hendershotscoffee.com CLASSICAL REVOLUTION UGA School of Music graduates and students play works by Dvorak, Ligeti, Bach and more. 8 p.m. $8. www.hendershotscoffee.com NANA GRIZOL Literate, heartfelt folkpunk band led by former Athenian Theo Hilton. Album release show! See story on p. 16. KENNY AND THE JETS “Beachy soul-rock� band from St. Augustine, FL. Iron Factory 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-395-6877 CHRISTOPHER WITHOUT HIS LIVER Songwriter Chris Ingham plays a set of acoustic folk-punk. SALATHIEL SALDANA Psychedelic, blues-inspired solo guitarist. Terrapin Beer Co. 1:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com THE BIG SMOOTH Bluesy acoustic tunes with soulful vocals. The World Famous 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens XOXOK One-man indie-soul outfit from North Carolina. DOUG HOYER Local chamber-pop singer-songwriter. Album-release show! See Record Review on p. 16. NICHOLAS MALLIS Mallis’ music is influenced by artists like David Bowie and Neil Diamond.
Monday 20 The Foundry 8 p.m. FREE! thefoundryathens.com ROAD TO ROO Four Athens bands battle for a chance to perform at Bonnaroo 2017. Georgia Theatre 7:30 p.m. $10 (adv.), $13 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com THE LONELY BISCUITS An eclectic mix of soul, funk and hip-hop based out of Nashville. WHISPERING GYPSIES Atlantabased blues-rock band “with a gypsy twist.� Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! hendershotscoffee.com OPEN MIC Showcase your talent at this open mic night every Monday. Hosted by Larry Forte. The World Famous 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens JOCK GANG Atlanta-based group influenced by no wave and art-punk. PANSY Athens punk band influenced by raw ‘80s hardcore. PALLAS Four-piece Atlanta indie-rock band.
Tuesday 21 The Foundry 7:30 p.m. $5. www.thefoundryathens. com LIVE BAND KARAOKE Sing your favorite ‘80s and ‘90s jams and beyond, backed by Saved by the Band. Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 9 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com STONI TAYLOR Guitarist of Atlantabased Stoni Taylor & the Miles of Stones plays a solo set of soulinspired rock.
Go Bar 9 p.m. 706-546-5609 TOM VISIONS BAND Post-mystical, electronic, psychedelic music from Visions and his group. TOMATO DODGERS Hip-hop and funk-influenced experimental pop group from Maryland. SAD FISH Atlanta-based band that deals in Brazilian-inspired surf tunes. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 6 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com PIANO HAPPY HOUR Jason Fuller, Bart King, Grant Cowan, Caroline Aiken and guests play piano songs in the round. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com DUSTIN LOUQUE Multifaceted singer-songwriter from Louisiana. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 DJ WHOM Local DJ playing a mix of hip hop, ‘90s and 2000s music. The World Famous 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens EUREKA CALIFORNIA Melodic, rough-edged, guitar-driven local garage-rock duo. MARATHON STATES Catchy, driving pop-punk group fronted by local songwriter Jason Thinh. OUTER SPACES Folk-pop band fronted by formerly local songwriter Cara Beth Satalino.
Wednesday 22 Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 LEAVING COUNTRIES OPEN MIC JAM Bands are welcome, backline is provided and the jam rocks until 2 a.m. Caledonia Lounge 7:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com 3 PM Baltimore pop-rock trio with pop-punk roots. OVER THE EDGE Peachtree Citybased pop-punk band. BROKEN CITY SKY Pop-punk band from Atlanta. CAROLINE ROMAN Atlanta-based pop and EDM singer-songwriter. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com HONEYWHEEL Athens-based progressive rock band. FAT NEPTUNE Up-and-coming Athens psych-rock four-piece. THE FINE HUNNIES New local band. 40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $6. www.40watt.com SELECTOR DUB NARCOTIC K Records founder Calvin Johnson plays “party-friendly excursions into dub, disco and hip hop.” PYLON REENACTMENT SOCIETY The songs of the legendary Athens band, as performed by Vanessa Briscoe Hay and an all-star cast of locals. Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. $27 (adv.), $30 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com BLUE OCTOBER Alt-rock band from Houston, TX known for radio hits like “Hate Me.”
MATTHEW MAYFIELD Acoustic singer-songwriter and Alabama native. On the Rooftop. 9 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com THE ORANGE CONSTANT Athensbased jam band with prog, pop and funk influences.
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The Globe 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 THE HOT HOTTY-HOTS Mary Sigalas, Dan Horowitz, Steve Key and surprise guests play swingin’ tunes from the ‘10s, ‘20s and ‘30s. The Office Lounge 8 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 The longest standing weekly music gig in Athens! Enjoy an evening of original music, improv and standards. The World Famous 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens SEXY NEIGHBORS New York-based garage-punk group. VIETRAHM Surf- and psych-inspired rock band from Chicago. HANNIE AND THE SLOBS New local garage project featuring members of The Rodney Kings and Muuy Biien. MIGHTY Alternative rock group from Atlanta.
Down the Line 3/23 WARM GLOW BLUE SKY SHOW (Blue Sky) 3/23 DJ MY CHEMICAL BROMANCE (Caledonia Lounge) 3/23 TARNATION / MURDER THE MOOD / CHAMELEON TECHNOLOGY (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 3/23 MOTHERS / BIG THIEF / JIANNA JUSTICE (40 Watt Club) 3/23 RAY WYLIE HUBBARD / DARRIN BRADBURY (The Foundry) 3/23 THE MYSTERY LIGHTS / THE NUDE PARTY (Georgia Theatre) 3/23 CITY AND COLOUR / GREYHOUNDS (Georgia Theatre) 3/23 KATIE COLLINS (Iron Factory) 3/24 JET ENGINE DRAGONS / FALLOW / BOOK OF WYRMS / NINEVEH’S GARDEN (Caledonia Lounge) 3/24 CORTEZ GARZA / THE SINGING BUTCHER / TIM MOORE / SARAH ZUNIGA (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 3/24 ’80S DANCE PARTY (40 Watt Club) 3/24 PAUL THORN BAND (The Foundry) 3/24 DINOSAUR JR. / EASY ACTION (Georgia Theatre) 3/24 BLUE BLOOD (Georgia Theatre) 3/24 DEAD RITES / DEAD RECKONING (Iron Factory) 3/24 THE LAST WALTZ ENSEMBLE (Nowhere Bar) 3/24 CONNOR BYERS (Terrapin Beer Co.) 3/25 CHIEF SCOUT / NEIGHBOR LADY / DREW BESKIN / BLANKO (Caledonia Lounge) 3/25 THE FUZZLERS / TROPICAL TRASH / LINDA / REAP (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 3/25 MUSCADINE BLOODLINE / PATRICK BRITT (40 Watt Club) 3/25 LOCAL NATIVES / LITTLE SCREAM (Georgia Theatre)
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Art AAAC Grants (Athens, GA) The Athens Area Arts Council is seeking applicants for its quarterly $500 grants. All local artists, arts organizations or arts-based projects are welcome to apply. Deadline Mar. 15, June 15, Sept. 15 and Dec. 15. info@athensarts.org, www.athens arts.org AthFest Educates Grant (Athens, GA) Individuals from nonprofit organizations, public schools or government agencies serving you in grades K-8 can apply for grants. Grants can be used for music and arts equipment, programs and experiences, and professional development for educators or youth specialists. AthFest Educates awards up to $25,000 per grant cycle. director@athfesteducates.org, athfesteducates.org Call for Artists (Farmington Depot Gallery) Now accepting applications for the Festifool Festival artist market on Apr. 1–2, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Email for details. farmington gallery@gmail.com, www.farmington depotgallery.com Exhibition Proposals (Lyndon House Arts Center) The center reviews proposals for future art exhibitions twice annually. Exhibitions can be by local, regional, national or international artists, exchange exhibitions from other states and countries, invitational or juried exhibitions, themed exhibitions or exhibitions of historical works owned by local collectors. Due date Apr. 20. www.athensclarkecounty.com/6657/ exhibition-proposal-form Marigold Festival Featured Artwork (Winterville, GA) The Winterville Marigold Festival is seeking artwork that will be featured on the poster, T-shirt, advertisements, festival program and more. A group of entries will also be selected to display work at the May/June art exhibition at the Winterville Center for Community & Culture. Deadline Apr. 2. Festival held May 20. www.marigoldfestival.com Open Studio Membership (Lyndon House Arts Center) Local artists can now access studio facilities through a new open studio monthly membership program. Studios include ceramics, jewelry, painting, fiber, printmaking, photography and woodshop/sculpture studios. Up to 32 hours per week. $65/ month or $175/three months. www. athensclarkecounty.com/leisure Pop-Up Gallery and Artist Market (Stan Mullins Art Studio) The Georgia Museum of Art Student Assocation is seeking local artists to show and sell their work at an event on Apr. 29, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Deadline Apr. 1. No entry fee. gmoastudent@ gmail.com Seeking Artists (Donderos’ Kitchen) Seeking artists to display their works. Email contact@donderos kitchen.com Seeking Artwork for Live Forward (Athens, GA) The Athens Area Arts Council is seeking submissions of donations of
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artwork for Live Forward (formerly AIDS Athens). Artwork will be hung in counseling and exam rooms, hallways and waiting areas. Artwork must be framed, uplifting and by an Athens artist. Donations are tax deductible. Email to arrange a donation. Deadline May 1. jessica@ athensarts.org Seeking Local Artists and Crafters (Hip Vintage and Handmade) Seeking submissions from local artists and crafters for the shop’s Maker’s Market shelves and monthly exhibitions. Originality and quality of goods is key. Visit website to submit photos of work. hip.vintage @outlook.com, hipvintagehand made.com The Mother Show 4 (Lowery Imaging Gallery) Visual artists in all media can submit work for “The Mother Show 4,” a thematic group exhibition addressing the theme of motherhood. 1-2 pieces per artist. Deadline Apr. 22. lowerygallery@ gmail.com, www.lowerygallery.com
Classes Active Dreaming: The Essential Workshop with Robert Moss (Healing Arts Centre) Robert Moss will lead participants through active dreaming and shamanic lucid dreaming. Mar. 18, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. & Mar. 19, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $275. shannon@heart pathstudio.org Artist Workshops (KA Artist Shop) “Creative Journaling for Adults with Hope Hilton” Apr. 4, 6:30–8 p.m. $20. “Watercolor Painting for Beginners with Katherine Dunlap” Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3 and 10, 6–8 p.m. $90. www.kaartist.com Beekeeping for Beginners (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) A seven-part series covers the fundamentals of beekeeping. Sundays through Aug. 13. $35/class, $215/ series. www.botgarden.uga.edu Breastfeeding Class (By Your Leave Family Resource Center) Anna Salzman hosts a class for expectant parents. Third Mondays. $25 per couple. 706-340-6856. Building Connections (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Wild Intelligence leads a course in “Deep Nature Connection,” “The Feathered Kingdom,” Plants, Trees and Fungi,” and more. Mar. 14–May 2. $145. www.wildintelligence.org Career Coach (ACC Library) A Goodwill’s Virtual Career Coach will assist patrons with job applications and resumes. First Tuesdays, 1–3 p.m. and last Thursdays, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. www.careerconnector.org Classes (Winterville Center for Community and Culture) “Reflexology Therapy Class.” Mar. 15, 4:30–6:30 p.m. “The Dirt on Soil: Everything Gardeners Should Know.” Mar. 15, 6–8 p.m. FREE! “Drawing Strength” is a class for sketching. Thursdays through Mar. 23, 6–8 p.m. $10. “Tai Chi for Seniors” improves flexibility and well-being. Mondays, 10–11 a.m. $7.50. “Pilates” focuses on
exercises to strength your core, legs, glutes and back. Tuesdays, 6–7 p.m. $7.50. “Plants of the Bible” provides an overview of plants mentioned in Christian and Jewish Bible texts. Mondays, 6–8 p.m. $7.50. “Tabata Boxing” is a workout that mixes cardio and strength training. Wednesdays, 5:30–6:30 p.m. $10. “Belly Dancing” teaches basic posture and combinations in a relaxed class for all ages and abilities. Wednesdays, 6–7 p.m. $10. “Gentle Yoga” is perfect for beginners. Thursdays, 5:30–6:30 p.m. $7.50. wintervillecenter@gmail.com, www.wintervillecenter.com G.E.D. Tutoring (First Baptist Church) Professional educators offer idividualized tutoring for adults. Meets every Monday and Wednesday, 12:15–2:15 p.m. FREE! www.firstbaptistathens.org Hot Yoga (Fuel Hot Yoga) Classes in hot yoga are offered seven days a week. Beginners welcome. Student discounts available. 706-353-9642, www.fuelhotyoga.com Key Anatomical Concepts for Yoga (Fuel Hot Yoga) Christopher Totaro, a NYC Bikram yoga teacher, will offer special workshops. “The Shoulder Joint Complex & The Knee Joint,” Mar. 17, 6:30–9 p.m. $40. “The Spine & Breathing,” Mar. 18, 12:30–3 p.m. $40. “Muscle Functionality & Homeostasis,” Mar. 19, 1:30–4 p.m. $40. www.fuelhot yoga.com Lunchtime Yoga (Ciné Barcafé) Annie Marcum teaches “Mindful Flow Yoga.” Mondays, 12 p.m. $5–10. BYO Mat. 706-372-1849 NAMI Family to Family (First Presbyterian Church of Athens) NAMI Family to Family is a free, 12-session educational program for family, significant others and friends of people living with mental illness. Mondays and Thursdays, Mar. 20–Apr. 28. www.nami.org Salsa Dance Classes (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Cuban-style salsa dance classes (Casino-Rueda) with SALSAthens. No partner necessary. Beginners welcome. Every Wednesday, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $10 (incl. drink). www.facebook.com/ salsaathens Tablet Computing Class (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Try out one of the tablets at the library. Tuesdays, Mar. 21 & 28, 2:30 or 6:30 p.m. 706795-5597, www.athenslibrary.org/ madison Women to the World (PALS Institute) The PALS Institute provides training in GED preparation, literacy, EFL, business and computer skills to women. Women to the World covers the cost of materials and testing fees. 706-548-0000 Yoga (Athens Five Points Yoga Studio) Classes are offered in Iyengar yoga, flow yoga, gentle flow, hot power flow, restorative yoga and alignment yoga. www.athensfive pointsyoga.com Yurt Yoga (Yurt Yoga Athens) Small classes offered in all levels of classical yoga are held in a beautiful natural environment. 706-548-3625, www.yurtyogaathens.com
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Margaret Agner’s exhibition of new silk hangings, “I’ll Fly Away,” is currently on view at the Madison Artists Guild Gallery through Friday, Apr. 14.
Help Out Call for Volunteers (Nuçi’s Space) The Athens Human Rights Festival is looking for volunteers to help with fundraising, publicity, organizing speakers and performers, the tabloid, social media, stage building and more. The 39th annual will be held downtown on May 6–7. Meetings are held every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. 706-202-9169, www. athenshumanrightsfest.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. 706-549-1313, scourt@learningally.org Seeking Mentors (PALS Institute) Women to the World offers programs for obtaining a GED, computer literacy, language and job-skill training. Mentors needed in all subjects. 706-548-0000, www.womentothe world.org Tutors Needed (410 McKinley Dr.) Athens Tutorial Program is seeking volunteer tutors for grades K–8. Sessions are scheduled Monday– Thursday, 3–6 p.m. 706-354-1653, athens.tutorial@gmail.com
Kidstuff Crawlers and Walkers Playgroup (reBlossom Mama Baby Shop) A weekly meeting for parents and their children, ages 8–24 months, to relax and socialize. Wednesdays, 10 a.m.–12 p.m., www.reblossomathens.com Intermezzo Piano Academy (The Church at College Station) Each day of summer camp offers classes in rhythm, music history, composition, theory and piano ensemble for beginning and intermediate pianists. Ages 5–12. Begins July 10–14. $160–260. intermezzo.academy@ gmail.com, www.intermezzopiano. com/piano-academy
Sportstime (Multiple Locations) Players will be introduced to basketball, football, golf, kickball, lacrosse, soccer and more. Ages 3–4. Mondays, Mar. 15–Apr. 19, 4:45–5:30 p.m. at Trail Creek Park. Tuesdays, Mar. 14–Apr. 18, 4:45–5:30 p.m. at Southeast Clarke Park. $65. www.athensclarkecounty. com/leisure Strong Girls Summer Camp (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) A camp designed to empower girls through creative activities, yoga and fun. June 5–9 or July 24–28, 1st grade and up. July 17–21, 5th grade and up. $180-200. wearestronggirls.com Teen Tech Bookmark Design Contest (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Teens can enter a bookmark they’ve designed around the theme “Be the Source of Change” through March. Part of Teen Tech Week. www.athenslibrary. org/madison Youth Sports Program Registration (Multiple Locations) Now registering. Youth soccer programs for ages 6–12 take place at Southeast Clarke Park. Mar. 15–Apr. 29. $65–98. Tennis for ages 5–16 at the Athens-Clarke County Tennis Center and Bishop Park. Mar. 21–Apr. 26. $60–90. www.athens clarkecounty.com/leisure
Support Groups Alanon 12 Step (Athens, GA) Recovery for people affected by someone else’s drinking. Weekly meetings are held at various times and locations around Athens. 478955-3422, www.ga-al-anon.org Alcoholics Anonymous (Athens, GA) If you want to drink, that’s your business. If you want to stop, we can help. 706-389-4164, www.athensaa.org Dudes Helping Dudes (Nuçi’s Space) A weekly support group for anyone who identifies as a man.
Park in the lot across the street on Williams Street. Thursdays, 6–7 p.m. (Not meeting Feb. 23 or Mar. 2.) Park across the street. tinyurl. com/DudesHelpingDudes, www.brainaidfest.com Emotions Anonymous (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) A 12-step program open to anyone with a desire to become well emotionally. Meets Sundays, 4–5 p.m. 706-202-7463, www.emotions anonymous.org New Mamas’ Group (reBlossom Mama Baby Shop) Meet other parents with babies. Tuesdays, 10 a.m. www.reblossomathens.com
On The Street AARP Foundation Tax-Aide AARP Foundation Tax-Aide volunteers offer tax assistance Mondays, 1–5 p.m. at the Oconee County Library; Wednesdays, 1–5 p.m. and Fridays, 9–1 p.m. at the AthensClarke County Library; Tuesdays 9–1 p.m. and Saturdays, 9–1 p.m. at Kroger on Epps Bridge. aarp.org/ taxaide Athens Area Men’s Baseball League (Lay Park) The 2017 AAMBL Season starts in April. Thedraft occurs in late March. 706207-8939, www.aambl.com Athens Pétanque Club (Outside of 1000 Faces Coffee) Play a friendly game of Pétanque, a French version of bocce ball, at the Pétanque terrain. Beginners welcome. RSVP. Sundays, 1:30–3 p.m. athenspetanqueclub@ gmail.com, athenspetanqueclub.wix. com/play Athens Street Hockey (YMCA, Hockey Rink) Players of all skill levels can play in a local hockey rink. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30–8:30 p.m. athensfloorhockey@gmail.com Call for Collectors (Lyndon House Arts Center) “Collections from the Community” is seeking weird and wonderful collections to display in the front atrium’s cases.
Email to submit proposal. celia. brooks@athensclarkecounty.com Call for Performers (Winterville, GA) The 2017 Marigold Festival is seeking family-friendly acts to perform on the children’s stage. The festival is on May 20. Email for details. aha. AthensHasArt@gmail.com Collective Harvest Spring CSA (Multiple Locations) Collective Harvest is a collaboration of local family farms committed to growing food using sustainable practices.
CSA pickups are available in Athens, Winterville and Watkinsville. collectiveharvest@gmail.com, www.collectiveharvestathens.com Food Not Bombs (Multiple Locations) Food Not Bombs serves free vegan and vegetarian food salvaged from local markets. Mar. 25, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. in front of Ben & Jerry’s. 706-206-3067 Marching Band Practice (Outside Rubber Soul on Pulaski St.) Practice fun and safe protesting. Wednesdays. 904-303-0522
art around town AMICI (233 E. Clayton St.) The Visual Arts Magnet students at North Springs Charter High School present an eclectic arrangement of artwork. Through March. 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 Harrison Center Foyer Gallery, “Seven Elements of Art” features sculptural works by Lawrence Steuck, Leonard Piha and Lorraine Thompson. • In the Bertelsmann Gallery, see a collection of drawings by Ray Lee as well as creations by the Athens Metal Arts Guild. Through Apr. 21. • In the Myers Gallery, “Transitions: Vessels for Sam” features clay sculptures by Alice Woodruff, who views the exhibition as a journey towards reconciliation with life following her son’s suicide. Paintings and drawings by Audrone Kirschner focus on botanicals as they transition back into pods and seeds. Through Apr. 21. ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (ATHICA) (160 Tracy St.) “Out There! Photographs in the Spirit of Jeremy Ayers,” curated by John English, celebrates the late artist through 33 of his works, as well as images by 14 other artists including David Noah, Jason Thrasher, Mike Landers, Wilma and Didi Dunphy. Opening reception Mar. 18. Stage reading of Ayer’s final poetry work Mar. 23. Closing events Apr. 22 and Apr. 23. BENDZUNAS GLASS (89 W. South Ave., Comer) The family-run studio has been creating fine art glass for almost 40 years. CINÉ BARCAFÉ (234 W. Hancock Ave.) Mike Calway-Fagen presents “Roses are Blue, Violets are Blue.” Opening reception Mar. 16. Through Apr. 20. CIRCLE GALLERY (UGA College of Environment and Design, 285 S. Jackson St.) “Landscape, Remembrance, and Healing” is a series of paintings by Rich Panico, a medical practitioner, yogi and artist. Opening reception Mar. 16. Lecture Mar. 23. Through Apr. 28. CITY OF WATKINSVILLE (Downtown Watkinsville) “Public Art Watkinsville: A Pop-up Sculpture Exhibit” consists of sculptures placed in prominent locations around downtown. Artists include Benjamin Lock, William Massey, Stan Mullins, Robert Clements and Joni Younkins-Herzog. “Artscape Oconee: The Monuments of Artland” features eight newly commissioned art panels and six refurbished panels of paintings. THE CLASSIC CENTER (300 N. Thomas St.) “Highlights” includes artists from the Classic Center’s permanent collection: June Ball, Greg Benson, Dianne Penny, Henry Ransom, John Ahee, Ana Anest and Lamar Wood. CREATURE COMFORTS BREWING CO. (271 W. Hancock Ave.) “Creature Moments” features paintings, drawings and handwritten stories created by staff members in response to the brewery’s beer. Through Mar. 18. • See an exhibition of works by the artists who painted hydrants for the Fire Up the Hydrants public art project. Reception Mar. 22. On view Mar. 21–Apr. 8. DONDEROS’ KITCHEN (590 N. Milledge Ave.) Artwork by Kathy Broyles. Through March. EARTH FARE (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) Artwork by Margaret Scruggs. Through March. FARMINGTON DEPOT GALLERY (1011 Salem Rd., Farmington) Owned and staffed by 14 artists, the gallery offers works by artists including Matt Alston, John Cleaveland, Peter Loose, Michael Pierce, Dan Smith, Cheri Wranosky and more. THE FINISHING SCHOOL (215 Thomas St.) The new gallery opens with “Parallel Play,” which includes works by Andrew Boatright, Kojo Griffin and Kirstin Mitchell. The show is curated by Candice Greathouse and Curtis Ames. Through Mar. 29. FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Artwork by Stacey Piotrowski. Through March. GALLERY@HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Ultra Bright” includes works in fiber, photography, paper and painting by Barbette Houser, Laura Noel, Jessica Smith, Vivian Liddell, Logan Shirah and Drema Montgomery. Through Apr. 8. GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.)“Artists of the New York School” contains paintings, sculptures and works on paper by artists who worked in abstraction in the 1950s and ‘60s. Through Mar. 19. • In the Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden, “Driving Forces: Sculpture by Lin Emergy” presents four large kinetic sculptures. Through Apr. 2. • “To Spin a Yarn: Distaffs, Folk Art and Material Culture.” Through Apr. 16. • “Advanced and Irascible: Abstract Expressionism from the Collection of Jeanne and Carroll Berry” includes pieces by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Hedda Sterne and more. Through Apr. 30. • “Expanding Tradition: Selections from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection” showcases over 50 works by African American artists. Through May 7. • “Michael Ellison: Urban Impressions” shares a selection of block prints produced by the Atlanta-based educator and printmaker. Through May 21.
Nominations for the 2016 Preservation Awards (Athens, GA) Nominate a project that helps celebrate Athens’ unique heritage. Categories include rehabilitation, adaptive use, new construction and more. Deadline Apr. 7. Ceremony on May 22. 706353-1801, www.achfonline.org/ preservation-awards Paint the Town Red (Multiple Locations) A portion of proceeds will benefit the Salvation Army in Athens during the second annual Paint
the Town Red fundraiser. Mar. 13: Taqueria La Parilla West, The Place. Mar. 14: Hilltop Grille. Mar. 15: Em’s Kitchen. Mar. 16: Amici Italian Café, Gigi’s Cupcakes. elkalber@ charter.net Spring Book Sale (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Thousands of books will be available for bargain prices, as will books on tape, CDs, VHS tapes and records. Proceeds benefit the Madison County Library. Through Mar. 18. www.athenslibrary.org/madison f
GLASSCUBE@INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Satisfaction System” is a sitespecific installation by Garrett Hayes that suspends circular forms woven with scrap denim, rope and Electro-Luminescent wire. Through Apr. 15. THE GRIT (199 Prince Ave.) Barrow Elementary School presents its annual showcase in celebration of Youth Art Month. Through Mar. 26. HEIRLOOM CAFÉ (815 N. Chase St.) René Shoemaker’s new silk paintings depict scenes from her strolls around Greenwich Village in NYC. Through Apr. 1. HENDERSHOT’S COFFEE BAR (237 Prince Ave.) Sue Grilli is a contemporary artist sharing her creative journey through mixed media, watercolor and collage. Through March. HIP VINTAGE & HANDMADE (215 Commerce Blvd.) Karen Adams works in oils, charcoal, watercolor, mixed media and sculpture. Through March. K.A. ARTIST SHOP (127 N. Jackson St.) “Love in all its Many Forms” is a group exhibition celebrating love. Reception Mar. 16. Currently on view through March. LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) In the Suite Gallery, “Nicole Pietrantoni: The Falls” shows printmaking work by the assistant professor of art at Whitman College. Closing reception Mar. 23. • In Gallery 307, the “2017 Student Scientific and Medical Illustration Juried Exhibition” shows works by UGA and Augusta University students. Reception Mar. 15. Through Mar. 24. • In Gallery 101, “condition: fresh - UTK 3D MFA” is an exchange between MFA sculpture students at UGA and the University of Knoxville, TN. Through Mar. 23. • In the Bridge Gallery, “Alter Ego” is a portfolio of works by printmakers assembled for last year’s Southern Graphics Council. Through Mar. 24. 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. LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) Collections from our Community presents “The 2017 Home School Show” in celebration of Youth Art Month. Closing reception Mar. 31. Currently on view through Apr. 1. • In the Lounge Gallery, see photography by Wilma, a well-known singer and neuromuscular massage therapist. Reception Mar. 23. Through Apr. 20. • “We Are the Other: A Photographic Portrait of Athens” was created through Wing Young Huie’s chalk talks, a public art project. Through June 1. MADISON ARTISTS GUILD GALLERY (123 S. Main St.) Margaret Agner’s exhibition “I’ll Fly Away” features silk hangings of moths, butterflies and other flying artworks. Through Apr. 14. MADISON MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) “Emissaries of Peace: 1762 Cherokee and British Delegations” presents the story of Lt. Henry Timberlake and Cherokee leader Ostenaco as they journeyed to each other’s countries in 1762 as Emissaries of Peace. The show includes memoirs, period artwork, artifacts and more. Through Apr. 9. MASON-SCHARFENSTEIN MUSEUM OF ART (567 Georgia St., Demorest) Gregor Turk’s “Power Projection” incorporates cartographic imagery and cultural markings into artwork that considers the context of contemporary political discord. Through March. OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (OCAF) (34 School St., Watkinsville) “The Oconee County Schools Youth Art Month Exhibition” highlights works by over 250 young artists. Through Mar. 23. RICHARD B. RUSSELL JR. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIES (300 S. Hull St.) In the Hargrett Library Gallery, see “Necessary Words & Images: 70 Years of the Georgia Review.” Through May 12. • In the Russell Library Gallery, see “On the Stump: What Does it Take to Get Elected in Georgia.” • In the Brown Media Library, see the “Steele Vintage Broadcast Microphone Collection.” • “A Championship Tradition: The NCAA Tennis Tournament in Athens” marks the 29th time the tournament has been held in Athens since 1972. Through May. THE SURGERY CENTER OF ATHENS (2142 W. Broad St.) Paintings by Anna Desio. Through March. TERRAPIN BEER CO. (265 Newton Bridge Rd.) Photography by John Griffiths. Through March. UGA BARROW HALL (115 D.W. Brooks Dr.) “1950s Fashion Inspired by Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn” is presented by the UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences. Through Mar. 25. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF ATHENS (780 Timothy Rd.) “Living in Nature” presents photographs by John W. Schell. Through March. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA OCONEE CAMPUS GALLERY (1201 Bishop Farms Pkwy., Watkinsville) The “Faculty Biennial” includes a wide variety of media and styles. Through Mar. 24. WHITE TIGER (217 Hiawassee Ave.) New paintings, drawings and block prints by Cooper Holmes. WINTERVILLE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CULTURE (371 N. Church St., Winterville) Presented by the Winterville Arts Council, “Beginnings” includes works by Lisa Freeman, Will Eskridge, Chris Taylor, Cheryl Washburn, Jacob Wenzka and more. 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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Exploring Jewish Identity Through Film SATURDAY 3/18 5 pm Moos
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The Kind Words 7 pm Opening Night 6:30 pm Fever at Dawn Celebration Drinks, music and 8:45 pm Peter the 3rd hors d’oeuvres. Catered by home.made at Hotel Indigo
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Abulele 3 pm On the Map 5 pm A Blind Hero 7:45 pm Fire Birds
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3 Winners of 2017 Athens JFF Shorts Competition
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Commercial Property 1000sqft. on Prince Av e . i n N o r m a l t o w n . Fully remodeled bldg. Concrete flrs, high ceilings. 2 bathrooms. A v a i l . n o w. O w n e r is a licensed agent. Sarah Ellis: 706-3386265. Saving Grace Cafe, Comer! 2.8 acres. Tu r n k e y. I n c l u d e s w o r k i n g C o m e rFarmers’ Market. Beautiful, one-of-akind zoned business/ residential. Endless possibilities! 706-3181841 for more info & appointment. vimeo. com/149984594, y o u t u . b e / KX2C2OHlf6s
Condos for Rent Just reduced! Investor’s West-side condo. 2 B R / 2 B A , F P, 1 5 0 0 sf., great investment, lease 12 mos. at $625/ mo. Price in $50s. For more info, call McWaters Realty: 706-353-2700 or 706-540-1529.
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1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 BR houses, walk to UGA/ town. Pre-leasing for Fall! Old world charm, modern amenities. Pet friendly. $795–2050/mo. Email: luckydawg96@ hotmail.com. Eclectic 3/4 BR House Avail. on quiet street in the heart of Normaltown, Chase St. Elementary Dist. $1600/mo. 706-2557374. Five Points 4BR/3BA: Primo location on M o r t o n Av e . A m p l e parking, tons of space, clean, fresh & adorable. Lease now for Fall. $550/BR. 706-546-6900, www.ValerioProperties. com. Normaltown 7BR/4BA: Fully renovated, absolutely gorgeous historic features. Mindful roommate-style floorpan. A must see. Will go fast, lease now for Fall. $600/ BR. 706-546-6900. www.ValerioProperties. com.
Scenic cottage overlooking Broad River avail. soon. Handyman/ gardener, single/couple pref. $650/mo. $500 dep. 1/2 hr. from Athens. Email cgcotter27@gmail. com.
Houses for Sale Call Daniel Peiken if you are looking to buy or sell a house or condo. Specializing in first time home buyers and in-town properties w/ over 15 years of Real Estate experience in Athens, GA. 706296-2941, Daniel@ AthensHome.com, www. AthensHome.com. Sell your house with Flagpole Classifieds! Reach thousands of Flagpole readers. Visit classifieds.flagpole.com
Land for Sale Lot for sale. S. Jackson Co. 1.84 acres. Recorded in Book 36, p. 221. Lot 12. Mature hardwoods. Basement lot. Below market value: $27,000. Terry: 706-2550832.
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Professional writer looking for furnished room (or studio apt.) to rent. Starting 4th novel. Want clean, quiet, no roommate. Reply to: gar ytowers53@gmail. com.
For Sale Antiques A r c h i p e l a g o Antiques: The best of past trends in design and art! 1676 S. Lumpkin St. Open daily 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. 706354-4297. Weekend A’ f a i r : Still Open w/ great merchandise. Antiques, fur niture, clothing, china, glassware, pottery, silver, jewelry, collectibles, vintage and accessories. 515 Gaines School Rd. Wed.–Sat. 10a.m.–5p.m.
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Champ (46620) is handsome, happy, gentle, well mannered, sweet and affectionate. He loves people and dogs too!
Reed (46618) Loves to run races with other dogs, play ball, is happy, friendly, ready for St. Patrick’s Day and under a year old.
These pets and many others are available for adoption at: Athens-Clarke County Animal Control 125 Buddy Christian Way · 706-613-3540 Open every day except Wednesday 10am-4pm
Music Equipment Nuçi’s Space needs your old instruments & music gear! All donations are tax-deductible. Call 706-227-1515 or come by Nuçi’s Space, 396 Oconee St.
Instruction Athens School of Music. Instruction in guitar, bass, drums, piano, voice, brass, woodwinds, strings, banjo, mandolin, fiddle & more. From beginner to expert. Visit www. athensschoolofmusic. com, 706-543-5800.
Music Services Instant cash is now being paid for good vinyl records & CDs in fine condition. Wuxtr y Records, at corner of Clayton & College Dwntn. 706369-9428. We built this city on rock and roll. Professional recording, mixing and mastering at The Glow Recording Studio. Super vibey! Super affordable! Te x t : 706-3473323, email jesse@ theglowrecordingstudio. c o m o r v i s i t w w w. theglowrecordingstudio. com.
Services Cleaning Peachy Green Clean Co-op, your local friendly Green Clean! Free estimates w/ rates as low as $39. 706-248-4601, peachygreencleancoop. com.
Printing Self Publish Your Book. Local (Five Points) professional publishing service. Editing, design, layout and printing services. 25+ yrs experience. Let’s meet at Jittery Joe’s— The coffee is on me! 706395-4874.
Jobs Full-time Athens’ Favorite Hair Salon (20112017) is looking for 2 experienced stylists to join our team of talented, very busy stylists. Please drop by w/ your resume and chat w/ Patrick. (Tattoos not required!) Republic Salon, 312 E. Broad St., 3rd Fl. (Entrance on Jackson St.)
Currently seeking PT or FT line cooks. Must be available on weekends. Please apply in person at Big City Bread between 2–4p.m. No phone calls please. Do you enjoy high energy activities and helping people? Would you like assisting a 24 year old young man with autism to achieve a n or ma l lif e. If s o, please call 770-6544915. F T & P T, S u m m e r & Ye a r Round. ClassicCityInstallation. com: Assistant S u p e r v i s o r s star ting at $12/hr & Assistant Managers (management req.) s t a r t i n g a t $ 1 8 / h r. Travel nationwide this summer- all expenses covered. Contact: info@ classiccityinstallation. com. Front Desk and Housekeeping needed. Must be flex. all shifts, 7 days. Wingate, 255 Nor th Ave. Apply in person, bring resume. 8:30a.m.–2p.m., M–F. Mr. Singh. Growing local company is hiring! Production artist positions and customer service opportunities avail. Apply online at uberprints.workable. com. Help wanted in front and back of house. FT and PT positions avail. Apply in person at George’s Lowcountry: 2095 S. Milledge Ave. Find your next great employee with Flagpole Classifieds! Check out our low weekly rates and options at classifieds. flagpole.com The UGA Hotel (Athens) is looking for a Housekeeping S u p e r v i s o r . Experience req.Apply at www.ugajobsearch. com,create online a c c o u n t a n d application then apply for job posting #20170321. Must be able to work weekdays, weekends and some holidays. Posting will describe duties and physical demands. Background investigation req.
One of Athens’ Favorite Hair Stylists (20122017) is looking for an assistant w/ experience and/or a license. An opportunity to learn from the best! Please apply in person. Republic Salon, 312 E. Broad St., 3rd Fl. (Entrance on Jackson St.)
Line/Prep/Banquet Cooks and Dishwashers needed. The Georgia Center has several positions avail. 20–40 hrs./wk. Pay: $8-11 DOE/Minimum 3 yrs in full service restaurant. Email resumes to: allen.summerour@ georgiacenter.uga.edu.
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Now Hiring at Ciné: PT Bookkeeper w/ experience in QuickBooks data entr y, invoicing and reconcilement, as well as preparing monthly sales tax returns and payments. Send resume and references to: manager@athenscine. com. No phone calls please.
(Jeju Island) Are you a mermaid with an iron will? Join the the Haenyo and dive deep for pearls with other women of the sea! College Grads N e e d e d to score student essays at GCA. Mon.–Fri., 30–40 hrs per wk. Begins Mar. 29, 2017. gca.coe.uga.edu/ employment for more information. Do you want to make $$$ with your music related business? Are you advertising in Flagpole? Call 706549-0301 for details.
Part-time Athens Country Club is hiring pool snack bar employees for mid-May–Labor Day. Apply in person: 2700 Jefferson Rd. Tue.–Sat. 9–11, 2–5. No phone calls please! Athens Country Club is looking for PT line cooks and a.m. servers. Experience pref. Apply in person: 2700 Jefferson Rd. Tue.–Sat., 2–4 p.m. In our relaxed work environment you create your own schedule and get paid to type! CBSG is a financial transcription company seeking those w/ s t ro n g t o u c h - t y p i n g and English grammar/ comprehension skills for our office on S. Milledge Ave. Learn about being an employee and apply at https://www.ctscribes. com.
The UGA Hotel (Athens) is looking for temporary, PT House keepers.Experience preferred.Must be able to work weekdays, weekends and some holidays. Apply at w w w. u g a j o b s e a r c h . com,create online account and application then apply for job posting #20151318. Posting will describe duties and physical demands. Background investigation req.
Notices Missed Connections I turned to stare at the face she would wear/ And I ran through the gallows, her heart was down there/ At the rifle range, I lost my heart.
Organizations After The End is a postapocalyptic book club currently reading Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. Apr. 6, 7 p.m. ACC Library. A new philosophy book discussion group meets Mar. 16 at 6 p.m. at ACC Library. Please join us to discuss Plato’s Phaedo.
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He Hates That I’m a Vegetarian Advice for Athens’ Loose and Lovelorn By Bonita Applebum advice@flagpole.com I’m a girl and a freshman in college. My boyfriend and I have been together since we were 14, and when I went to college, he did not. He’s a few hours away back in our hometown, working and taking care of his mom, who has PTSD and can’t work. I think distance makes the heart grow fonder, but he is very unhappy with me being so far away—it’s too far for day trips—and the ways I’ve changed. The main thing is that he’s really, REALLY rude to me about my recent decision to become a vegetarian. I’ve learned a lot this year about health and animal welfare, and being a vegetarian feels great to me. I’m very happy with this decision, but when I go home each weekend he never stops teasing and harassing me. Sometimes he’s clearly just trying to be funny—like, he’ll suggest Outback Steakhouse for a dinner date—but other times he really challenges me and picks at my resolve. He’ll point out that I have incisors, and talk about evolution and stuff like that.
Sometimes when we’re eating together and he’s having meat, he’ll put some of it in my face as if to offer me a bite. I used to laugh that off, but now it’s really pissing me off. Last time he did that, I didn’t let it go, and we had a pretty serious fight over it. I told him he was acting weird, and I didn’t understand why he cared so much about what I ate. He just says it’s stupid and pointless, and that I’m fighting nature. We’re back on good terms already, but I can’t let his rudeness go. It’s really bugging me, and I wanna talk to him about it, but he’s such a jerk about this. I love him, but he’s being pretty unforgivable right now. I feel like he’s trying to control me, and I hate that. How can we go forward from here? He’s definitely trying to control you, and he’s definitely a jerk. I’m proud of you for growing into yourself and figuring out what’s important to you—having ideals, living them and sticking to them. This guy is attached to the girl you used to be, not the woman you’re becoming. As you continue to age and evolve into your personhood, you’ll be less and less like the teenage version
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of yourself. Your boyfriend never left his hometown—or even his mother’s house— and he’s stuck there. You didn’t mention any other ways that you’ve changed, but you imply that he’s bothered by more than your vegetarianism. It sounds to me like you two are growing apart. Still, if you think the relationship is worth saving, sit him down and try to have a mature conversation about him respecting your choices and your lifestyle. But if he doesn’t take to that conversation, don’t ignore it. Right now is a very pivotal time in your life, and you have all the potential in the world. Keep moving forward. Dear Bonita, I have a friend who has some mental health issues—he’s been hospitalized a few times in his life—and we are very close. We talk on the phone all the time—maybe a little too much! Basically, he calls me every day—sometimes twice a day—just to ramble about this and that, and I know it’s a symptom of his bipolar. I have a job and a family, and I can’t always take his calls, even when I want to. I feel like his psychiatrist sometimes, and I don’t have time for that. I didn’t hear from him for a while, but then I got an email this weekend saying that he lost my number and would like it back, and I never responded. I feel horrible! But I’ve honestly been loving the peace and the silence. I wanna be there for him, but I need some time to myself. What should I write back to him? Sincerely, Reluctant Phone Therapist Therapist, You should write back to him with contact information for free and reduced-cost counseling in his area. You should tell him that you have responsibilities, and you can’t always pick up when he needs you. What he needs is what clinically trained therapists can provide, not you. In Athens, the Samaritan Center (downtown on Lumpkin Street) offers counseling and other therapeutic interventions on a sliding scale, and there are other reduced-cost counseling services dotted all over our great city. Help him in all the ways you can, like giving him rides to therapy, or even covering the cost if need be. But let him know that you can’t provide your ear so much anymore. You have every right to take that space, and you can still support your friend in need. f Need advice? Email advice@flagpole.com, use the anonymous form at flagpole.com/getadvice, or find Bonita on Twitter: @flagpolebonita.
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