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Summer in Review A Campus Carry Primer, and the Commission Wraps Up Unfinished Business By Blake Aued news@flagpole.com To our new freshman friends: Welcome to Athens, and to Flagpole. We’re your friendly neighborhood alt-weekly, bringing you all (well, most of) the news that’s fit to print, with a bit of a liberal slant. (You’re not in Cobb County anymore; in this town, the political spectrum runs from Hillary Clinton to Hugo Chavez.) City Dope is the column where you’ll find all sorts of news and analysis about local politics. We townies sometimes like to bitch and moan about the youngs, with their loud parties and lack of driving skills, but in reality we love students and know y’all are a big part of what makes this great city tick. As your four (or five, or six) years here go on, we hope you’ll stay informed and get involved. Politics in a strange city can be daunting at first, but if you stick with it and get to know the issues and personalities, you’ll also find it can be entertaining as hell. For all the freshmen and upperclassmen who left for the summer and UGA faculty and staff that maybe went to the beach and checked out, the big news over the past few months was that the new campus carry law took effect July 1, meaning that if you have a concealed-carry permit, you can carry a gun onto some parts of campus. It’s pretty
complicated, so let’s review. First of all, just because you can carry a gun doesn’t mean you should. It’s completely unnecessary—violent crime is extremely rare on campus, and if there were some sort of mass shooting, God forbid, law enforcement would prefer that you stay out of the way, because if you open fire, you’re liable to shoot an innocent person by accident or get yourself shot, because the cops won’t be able to tell the good guy with the gun from the bad guy with the gun. Now, if you insist on the Charles Bronson cosplay, here are the rules: • Not just anybody can carry a gun. You have to have a concealed-carry permit, which means you have to be 21, go down to the courthouse, fill out the paperwork and go through a background check. • Handguns only. No rifles, shotguns, bazookas, RPGs, etc. Or knives, swords, baseball bats or nunchuks, for that matter. • Concealed means concealed: The weapon has to be hidden under your clothes. • Guns remain banned at athletic events and in dorms, on-campus fraternity and sorority houses, and faculty and staff offices. So, you can pack while you tailgate,
Correction: In last week’s City Dope, I wrote about the partisan dynamics in the nonpartisan race to replace retired Superior Court Judge David Sweat and reasoned that Republican Gov. Nathan Deal’s appointment would be considered the Republican in the race. One of the three finalists, state Rep. Regina Quick, is unquestionably a Republican. However, another, Oconee County Magistrate Judge Richard Connelly, has donated to candidates from both parties, according to campaign finance records, and the third, Chief Assistant DA Brian Patterson, ran for Clarke County solicitor general as a Democrat. So it is not quite so clear-cut as I made it out to be. Even worse, I misidentified Deborah Gonzalez, the Democrat who is running for Quick’s House seat, by conflating her with another similarly named candidate who ran for the legislature years ago. Flagpole regrets the error.
but not in Sanford Stadium. And you can pack in class—most of the time; we’ll get to that later—but you can’t keep your gun in your dorm room or take it with you to talk to your professor during office hours. • UGA will not supply gun lockers or other storage facilities, so if you’re going from a place where guns are allowed to one where they’re not, your best option will be to go back to your car and lock it in the glove box. • Carrying in the classroom is allowed— unless a dual-enrollment high-school student is in the class. Privacy laws prevent your professor from announcing when a high-school student is present, so you are supposed to call the registrar’s office to check if you plan on carrying in class. • In general, it’s the gun carrier’s responsibility to know the rules and follow them, so please do so. A lot of people on campus are on edge about this law already.
Taking Care of Business Conveniently, for our summer-in-review purposes, the Athens-Clarke County Commission wrapped up several pieces of unfinished business that have been lingering for a few months. At their Aug. 1 meeting, the commission finally approved a list of transportation projects that would be funded by a 1 percent sales tax up for a vote in November that made everyone at least moderately happy. Funding to complete Firefly Trail all the way from Dudley Park to Winterville has been restored, and money was added for pedestrian improvements in the West Broad area and new bike lanes, all without touching the precious $26 million for road repaving. One kink: Manager Blaine Williams told commissioners they could cut $4 million earmarked for buying new buses because the county has received federal and state grants, but it’s come to light that Athens Transit was not consulted on that decision. The cut could mean ACC won’t have enough funding to match future grants, and that Athens Transit will continue to fall behind on replacing aging buses due to lack of funding. Commissioners also unanimously approved a study area for a potential
Milledge Circle historic district, which some homeowners have been seeking to stem a spate of tear-downs to make way for outof-scale houses in the neighborhood. In the process, the western side of Milledge Circle—where support for the historic district is slim—was removed both from the study area and a demolition moratorium the commission declared in May. “I gotta vote yes, I guess,” said even Commissioner Diane Bell, who kicked off the vitriolic process by allowing a Milledge Circle demolition to move forward without neighbors’ knowledge or consent.
Chase Street Reboot The long national nightmare that was the Chase Street road diet is over, too—for now. After weeks of complaints from business owners in the Chase/Oneta/Newton Bridge industrial area—some of whom were incredibly rude at a public forum last month—the formerly four-lane portion of the street will be returned to its original configuration, if it hasn’t been done already. Delays averaging 58 seconds southbound on Chase, stemming from the removal of one of two left-turn lanes at the Loop, have been untenable for the truck-reliant businesses in the area, especially during afternoon rush hour. And tempers flared at the July 26 forum, with the group of business owners in attendance frequently interrupting Transportation and Public Works Director Drew Raessler to berate him for a decision he didn’t even make. (The reconfiguration was based on his predecessor David Clark’s recommendation.) At one point, cycling advocate Gretchen Elsner asked what could be done to get workers on bikes. Another attendee scoffed at the idea. “We work for a living. We sweat,” he said. “What you’re talking about, you’re foolish.” As several business owners and executives explained, many workers commute from other counties, so it’s not practical to bike. Which begs the question: Why do so many workers at Athens plants live outside of Athens? It could have something to do with housing costs. The workforce housing study released last year noted that not enough single-family homes are being built
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How not to campus carry, Exhibit A: these two guys at the State Botanical Garden acting like Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors is about to jump out.
in Athens to keep up with demand. Incomes and housing costs are out of whack, with the median home far out of reach of the average worker, and so many families whose breadwinners work in Clarke County are forced to live elsewhere. Businesses aren’t the only ones affected, though. Vinson Drive residents could bike down Chase to Prince Avenue—if it were safe. Parents use Chase to take their kids to Holland Park. Boulevard residents have to deal with speeding cars and trucks coming off the Loop. Some can hardly even pull out of their driveways. And pedestrian and bike, along with vehicle, traffic is likely to increase as vacant industrial properties like Southern Mill are redeveloped as mixed use. “It’s several things coming together at once,” Commissioner Jared Bailey said. “We need to figure out how to best deal with those traffic interactions.” As part of the lane re-reconfiguration, the never-striped bike lanes along Chase north of Boulevard will be removed, even the ones through the residential portion of the street. “We feel like it’s more dangerous
to have a small section where you’re merging with cars than have it consistent there,” Williams said. However, more changes might be coming. The consultant who’s working on the countywide bike and pedestrian master plan study will turn in a Complete Streets report for Chase in November. Solutions might include “teardrop roundabout” interchanges at the Loop, or routing cyclists down Oneta to less-busy Barber Street, Raessler said. “We can’t simply go back and say, ‘that’s it,’ in my opinion,” he said. In the meantime, the new crosswalk at Chase Street Elementary will be installed this month, and plans for sidewalk and crosswalk improvements on Chase at Nantahala are not affected by the vote.
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Final T-SPLOST List Airport capital improvements: $1.5 million Bus replacement: $4 million Bus stop improvements: $500,000 U.S. 29 transit service: $940,000 Oconee Rivers Greenway extension: $10 million Firefly Trail: $16.8 million Pavement rehabilitation: $25.6 million Tallassee Road bridge replacement: $6 million Clayton Street infrastructure: $7.1 million Whitehall/Milledge roundabout: $2.5 million Bike lanes: $6 million Sidewalks: $11 million West Broad pedestrian improvements: $4 million Lexington Road corridor: $4 million Atlanta Highway corridor: $4 million Prince Avenue corridor: $4 million Acquisition of private streets: $340,000 City of Bogart: $109,500 City of Winterville: $271,000
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Enjoying Athens Is the Only Way to Avoid a Life of Mindless Conformity By Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com Why do all of us still left in the newspaper business feel it is incumbent upon us this time of year to give advice to students? That is absolutely the last thing they want to hear, and fortunately for them, they don’t read anyway, unless it’s on their phone (which this is—sorry, kids). But anyway, the possibility that nobody is reading what she writes has never deterred a newspaper columnist, and that’s not the point, anyway. A newspaper column is like a writing assignment in college: You have to do it because it’s assigned, and you have to put enough into it to get a decent grade, so that the fact of having done it is more important than what you say.
of the nostalgia and football and all that ties us to the Golden Age. But there are some among us who somehow realize while they’re in Athens that there’s something about our town itself that can supply clues about an alternate reality not built on the assembly line. Those students who catch on find their world expanded in a way that not only enriches their time in college but also provides a lasting antidote to the soulless sameness awaiting in corporate America. And it’s not just Athens, because there are plenty of hints right there on campus of qualities that can be added to degree preparation. There’s good theater, dance, music and art that can open your eyes to other
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In fact, you could say that applies to the whole enterprise of going to college. For most students, the fact that they have “gone to college� far outweighs anything they might actually encounter in the way of thought and ideas. So, you attend class and turn in the papers, and you keep on doing it until they hand you a diploma, and then you trade that in on a job, where you are already trained to listen to what the boss says and hand in your reports on time. No wonder students attempt to postpone the inevitable by constructing social lives built on denying that they’re on a treadmill to the rest of their lives of sameness and repetition. Fraternities and sororities provide instant identification with other people who will help distract from the looming future and will also be friends for life to remind you that there was a time once (was there, really?) when you were carefree enough that you could go to class hung over and laugh about it 30 years later with some of your old frat brothers on a weekend off from work, except that you have that report due Monday. Well, well, well: Many of us have been right there, too, and we can’t get enough
realities that make you feel more alive— good stuff that can enhance a lifetime. Once you catch on to the possibilities of this added value, you’re prepared to explore what awaits you in Athens: something different, something that sounds, tastes and looks different from the same old same old—music that will blast your brain, art that will rip the scales from your eyes, beer that makes that stuff you’ve been drinking taste like swill, food that awakens taste buds you didn’t even know were in there. And all this stuff is being made by people your age or close enough to you that they’re still learning how to invent lives that suit them better than the straitjackets that await most college graduates. So, you might say that your very survival depends on your getting out and finding yourself in Athens. Flagpole is here to help. We’re filled up every week with hot tips on cool music, art, theater, dance, food and drink. Grab a copy or find us at flagpole. com. The Flagpole Guide to Athens is all over town, too, and gives a good overview. Do not go gently into that lifeless conformity that awaits those who fail to discover Athens. f
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By Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com When it comes to the two nuclear reactors Georgia Power has been trying to build at Plant Vogtle, there never seems to be any good news. The latest wave of negative news hit last week in the form of disclosures by the top executives of Southern Co., the Atlantabased holding company that owns Georgia Power and several other utilities. They confirmed that the total cost of the Vogtle project is now going to be somewhere between $25 billion and $27 billion. That is nearly double the original estimated cost of $14 billion when the Public Service Commission approved it eight years ago. Georgia Power is responsible for 45.7 percent of that cost, with the remainder divided up among partners Oglethorpe Power, MEAG Power and Dalton Utilities. These cost overruns, as we have noted before, will inevitably be passed along to the customers of these utilities in the form of higher monthly power bills—much higher monthly bills. But wait, there’s more: The service date for the Unit 3 reactor has been pushed back to the period between February 2021 and March 2022, while the Unit 4 reactor won’t start operating until sometime between February 2022 and March 2023. When the project was initially authorized by the PSC, Georgia Power said Unit 3 would be operating by 2016 and Unit 4 by 2017. That means the project is now at least five to six years behind schedule. There is one faint bit of optimism for the Vogtle partners. Westinghouse, the primary contractor on the project, was forced into bankruptcy in March because of the cost overruns. Southern Co. has now assumed management responsibility for completing the reactors. Toshiba, the parent company of Westinghouse, has said it will pay the
Vogtle partners $3.68 billion because of the bankruptcy, an amount that would be deducted from the current cost estimate of $25 billion. That would seem to be some good news among all the bad. However, Toshiba is on increasingly shaky financial ground itself and could eventually end up filing for bankruptcy as well, which puts the future of that $3.68 billion payment very much in doubt. The PSC’s public interest advocacy staff has already suggested that Georgia Power’s shareholders should have to eat the cost if Toshiba skips out on that $3.68 billion payment. That recommendation set off a nuclear reaction from Georgia Power’s chief attorney, Kevin Greene. He fired off a letter to the PSC demanding that the commissioners reject the recommendation—which would, of course, enable the utility to pass off that possible loss of funds to the ratepayers. While all of this bad news came crashing down in Georgia, two South Carolina utilities made the decision to kill another nuclear project. The South Carolina venture involved the construction by Westinghouse of two reactors that are identical to the reactors at Vogtle. Like Vogtle, the project had nearly doubled its original construction budget. Southern Co. will soon be faced with the same decision. Company officials say they will tell the PSC by the end of August whether they are going to cancel the Vogtle project or continue with construction. But even pulling the plug on Vogtle would not be cheap. “If a decision is made to cancel the project, we have estimated Georgia Power’s cancellation cost at approximately $400 million,” Southern Co. CEO Tom Fanning said. That cost would also be passed along to ratepayers, in case you were wondering. f
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Trump Encourages Police Violence And DC Police Took Him to Heart on Inauguration Day By Baynard Woods democracyincrisiscolumn@gmail.com (which “produce loud explosive noises and bright flashes of Donald Trump’s authoritarian streak has been on full dislight”), and stingers or stingballs (which are described as play in recent weeks, nowhere more so than when talking “explosive devices that release smoke, rubber pellets and a to cops in Long Island. chemical irritant”). “Please don’t be too nice,” he said, and told the officers In video recently obtained by Democracy in Crisis, that when they arrest someone, they don’t need to protect several officers toss dozens of such devices into crowds of the prisoner’s head. “I said, ‘You can take the hand away, people. In one video, embedded into this column at flagOK?’” pole.com, an officer to the far right of the screen tosses a Despite the applause and laughter in the room, the line grenade. The camera follows it was widely condemned, including through the air. It strikes someby police departments around the It is new for the president of one in the hip, exploding and country. White House press secretary the United States to encourage knocking them down. Then it appears to hit the ground and Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared such behavior in such a blatant way. bounce up before exploding again it a joke in a press briefing. When on a man’s head (it could be a asked if police brutality is funny, second device), knocking his red hat off amidst clouds of she said, “Not at all. I think you guys are jumping and trychemical smoke. ing to make something out of nothing. He was simply makPolice have argued that the protesters were part of a ing a comment, making a joke.” “black bloc” conspiracy to destroy property. But neither of This is the kind of joke Trump told at his rallies when the people hit by the grenade were wearing black. The only he urged his supporters to be rough with protesters and person in black, to the left of the screen, is wearing a black reporters. When he was a candidate, it was violent dematracksuit with white stripes and a red hat, looking more like goguery. But now that he is the president—urging members of the police force to commit violence—it is something a German tourist than a member of an anarchist conspiracy. It wasn’t a MAGA hat, but it would be hard for a cop to far more sinister. tell from a distance. Ultimately, more than 200 people were corralled into a kettle, pepper-sprayed and subjected to similar grenades. But what happened after they were in custody, according to the ACLU suit, is even worse. The kind of treatment that Trump was “joking” about “felt like the weirdest horror movie I had ever got stuck inside of,” said Shay Horse, one of the plaintiffs in the ACLU suit, who was arrested while working as a photojournalist on Inauguration Day. Charges against him were later dropped. “Without warning, Defendant Officer John Doe 150 grabbed Mr. Horse’s testicles and yanked on them,” the complaint reads. “He then put his finger into Mr. Police advance on protesters on Inauguration Day in Washington, DC. Horse’s rectum, through his underwear. As Defendant Officer John Doe 150 pushed his Though the “joke” got all the attention, there’s a more finger into Mr. Horse’s rectum, he ordered Mr. Horse not to interesting and insidious part of Trump’s Long Island flinch.” speech, in which he also applauded the use of military The officer, identified as John Doe 150, then did the weaponry by police departments. same thing to another plaintiff, Milo Gonzalez, and others. “You know, when you wanted to take over and you used “Defendant Officer John Doe 150 did not change gloves military equipment—and they were saying you couldn’t do when he moved from one individual to the next.” it—you know what I said? That was my first day: You can According to the complaint, five to 10 other officers do it. In fact, that stuff is disappearing so fast we have none watched this and some of them laughed, just as the officers left.” in Long Island did when Trump told them they didn’t need Trump can be pretty unintelligible and slippery, but it to protect the heads of prisoners. seems like he is either talking about the protests during Despite Trump’s attempt to take credit for it, none of Inauguration Day or those in Portland, OR on the day after the election. (The White House did not respond to a request this behavior is new. In Baltimore, MD, Freddie Gray died after being pushed roughly into a police vehicle, and the for comment by press time). A recent lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice report on the city’s police departACLU on behalf of four plaintiffs against Washington, DC’s ment shows how African Americans, in particular, have Metropolitan Police Department details both the use of been subjected to such degrading treatment for years. military weapons and the infliction of post-arrest injury on It is new for the president of the United States to Inauguration Day. encourage such behavior in such a blatant way. And it The DC government has denied a Freedom of doesn’t work. Information Act request filed by Democracy in Crisis seek“I’m completely distrustful of anyone in a uniform, ing a list of weapons used against the protesters that day, any kind of law enforcement person,” said Emily Lagesse, citing “pending civil and criminal litigation.” But the ACLU another plaintiff who had never been arrested or in any lawsuit provides a long list of weapons they believe were trouble before. “That is probably like ‘no kidding’ to a lot of deployed by police against protesters, some of whom threw people of color, but it is a huge thing for me to feel less safe rocks and bottles at police. The list includes pepper spray, around people who are supposed to be keeping me safe.” f smoke flares, concussion grenades, flash-bang grenades
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A Perambulatory Primer for Navigational Novices By Jason Perry news@flagpole.com
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he return of the school year brings with it a few weeks of transportational chaos as thousands of new residents appear in Athens, many of whom are learning how to navigate campus and town for the first time. Though everyone can use a refresher, it’s for that group that I present this guidance on how to get yourself around without a car. But before my motorized readers skip this article, texting and driving is illegal in Georgia, and that includes doing it while your car is stopped in traffic. People in a crosswalk have the right of way, and if you’re turning at an intersection, you have to let them cross first. There is a 3-foot passing law in Georgia, which means that the driver of a motor vehicle must leave 3 feet of space between his or her vehicle and a person on a bicycle when passing. If you can’t safely pass with 3 feet of clearance, then, as Gandalf says, you shall not pass. There—glad we got that out of the way.
By Bike A bike is by far the fastest way to get around campus. I once raced notable Athens music scenester and biologi-
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are also visible on Google Maps, thanks to a project by the 2015 LEAD Athens civic leadership class. Both systems have maps and bus tracking available on their respective web sites, as well: transit.uga.edu and athensclarkecounty. com/transit. County buses have had bike racks on the front of them for years, but starting this semester UGA buses will have them too. This allows people with bikes to have much more flexible transportation options and cover a broader range. The bike racks are easy to use but may be intimidating the first time. Luckily, they are the same as the ones used by Transit Authority of River City (Louisville, KY), which produced an awesome video about them.
According to 2014 data, Athens-Clarke County has the fourth busiest transit system per capita in the country, when looking at combined ridership between the UGA and Athens-Clarke County transit systems. Campus Transit handles the vast majority, with about 12 million rides per year. Campus Transit buses are free for anyone to use, and they stop at every stop on the route. You can hop on and hop off at any stop. There’s more space out than in, so just remember to step back and let people get out of the bus first, and take your backpack off if it’s crowded. Athens Transit buses are Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. free for anyone with a valid UGA ID card, which riders swipe at the farebox when entering at the front of the bus. UGA Transportation and Parking Services uses the student transportation fee to pay the county a discounted fare per swipe. County buses do not automatically stop at every stop on the route, so you have to pull the stop request cord that runs along the windows. The UGA Mobile App has extremely useful transit maps and bus trackers that work with both the Campus and ACC Transit systems. Use it to find stops near you, which routes go where, and how soon the next bus will arrive. Bus stops
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UGA Auxiliary Services is teaming with campus and community partners for a transportation safety event to launch the Watch for Dawgs campaign. It will feature hourly prize giveaways, safe cycling demonstrations, bike tune-ups, a Campus Transit bus with a bike rack to practice on, UGA’s Taqueria 1785 food truck and other activities.
A well maintained bike is a safe bike, and now that you’re away at school, you’re the one responsible for keeping your bike rideable. There are four FixIt stations with pumps on campus (you can find them in the UGA Mobile App) and one on College Avenue outside of the parking deck downtown. Keeping air in your tires is a fundamental way to keep your bike happy, but to do more, you can bring your bike to BikeAthens on Thursdays for Fix Your Own Bike nights to learn basic to advanced maintenance and repair skills (see bikeathens.com/fyob). Students without bikes who want to take a ride can check out a Bulldog Bike from one of the UGA libraries. See sustainability.uga.edu/bulldogbikes to register. (Psst: While this program is only available to active students and employees, UGA is investigating options to make bike-sharing available at more campus locations and for any campus visitors.) If you don’t remember anything else about riding a bike here, remember this: Be Visible, be predictable, and be courteous. For more information about biking at UGA, visit sustainability.uga.edu/bike, or email questions to bike@uga. edu.
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cal engineer Dan Geller on his scooter from the Driftmier Engineering Center to the Arch (the southern and northern extremes of campus). While I won’t say who won, I will say that I made it on my bike in 10 minutes without breaking any laws, and I didn’t have to pay for parking. For those new to biking for transportation in an urban environment, it is important to know that bikes are considered legal street vehicles in Georgia and must be operated according to the same applicable rules of the road as a car. That means stopping at red lights and stop signs, yielding to pedestrians when they have the right of way and signaling turns. It is illegal to ride on the sidewalk in Athens, but there are wide multi-use paths throughout campus, as well as the Greenway, where bikes are allowed. Know that when you ride at night, you must have at least a white headlight and red rear reflector (though a red taillight is better), and it’s a $150 ticket if you’re caught without them. Georgia Bikes is a great resource to learn more: See georgiabikes.org for bike laws and safe riding tips. You can also pick up a copy of their Bicyclist Pocket Guide from the UGA Office of Sustainability, or from BikeAthens at 1075 W. Broad St. BikeAthens also offers Traffic Skills 101 classes and other educational opportunities (see bikeathens.com/ education).
If you visit the UGA subreddit this time of year, there are a lot of people asking if they can walk from building A to building B within a 15-minute class change. The answer is usually yes, but thanks to the new centralized classroom scheduling that may put your biology class in the Fine Arts building, sometimes no. To give you a sense of scale, it takes this average adult about 35 minutes to walk the full north-south length of campus. Most people can walk a quarter-mile in five minutes, but be sure to account for time getting in and out of buildings when you decide on your own travel strategy. If you have been here for orientation, then you probably experienced the “pedestrian scramble” at Baxter and Lumpkin, where the pedestrian crossing cycle allows people to walk in any direction while cars wait. This is a great solution for this busy intersection, but don’t assume that this is the norm: There are very few pedestrian-only cycles elsewhere on campus or in town. Also, some intersections in Athens have automatic pedestrian crossing signals, while others won’t activate unless you push the “beg button.” If you see a button, push it, or be left awkwardly waiting. As the most vulnerable road users, people on foot paradoxically wield the most power, as they have the ultimate right of way at crosswalks. With great power comes great responsibility, so—I can’t believe I have to tell you this— look both ways before you step off the curb, and don’t assume bikes and cars will be able to stop in time for you. Crosswalks are not force fields, and unfortunately people do get hit in them here. Finally, I don’t know how to say this without sounding like a grumpy old dude, so I’ll just say it: Put your damned phone away while you’re walking, especially when crossing the street. If you must look at your phone, take a step out of the way and do it. Everyone around you will appreciate it. f
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here’s no doubt that technology makes college more convenient than ever, but in particular, taking advantage of helpful apps can streamline your organization, research and life in general. Here are a few every student should consider downloading.
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Venmo (iOS/Android): You’ll be going out a lot this fall. Whether it’s restaurants, bars or shopping, you’ll wind up owing a friend money or going in on a bunch of tickets to a show. Venmo lets you easily send payments to friends or remind them that they owe you for last week’s movie.
Dropbox (iOS/Android): Geared more towards businesses but useful for group class projects, Dropbox offers secure data backup and easy file sharing.
Mint (iOS/Android): It’s never too early to be financially wise! Create a budget, study Garry Knight / Flickr
Google Drive (iOS/Android): Keep, edit and share your files, photos, visuals and more with this free Google app and never worry about losing your paper or project.
Feed.ly (iOS/Android): Simplify the news you take in. Let feed.ly weed out the junk you don’t want, and get streamlined news about the things you care about.
Scribd (iOS/Android): Subscribe monthly for access to millions of books and audiobooks that can help you find the best material for your research or leisure. EasyBib (iOS/Android): A citation generator that takes away part of the stress of research papers, EasyBib is checked by librarians and teachers, has all the citation styles and is as easy as scanning a barcode.
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dictionary.com (iOS/Android): Are you like the president and have all the best words? If not, you could use a dictionary. Oxford Dictionary (iOS/Android): A dictionary to make you feel a little fancier. Resume Star (iOS) and My Resume Builder (Android): Resume formatters that can help you personalize and target your resume for the perfect internship or job. Evernote (iOS/Android): Organize notes across devices, share ideas and photos, easily save clippings from the web—“your second brain.� GroupMe (iOS/Android): Stay up-to-date with your besties, your family or your group project partners. DuoLingo (iOS/Android): A daily languagelearning app. Spend a few minutes a day on fun exercises to keep you one step ahead of the class. Quizlet (iOS/Android) and Brainscape (iOS/Android): For simple, clear-cut flashcards without having to carry a big stack of cards, try Quizlet. For more personalized, cognitive science-based flashcard help, try Brainscape. iStudiez (iOS/Android): A calendar for the hyper-organized.
your spending habits, track bills and even view your credit score with Mint. Headspace (iOS/Android): Classes, studying, your social life—it’s hard to get a moment to yourself sometimes. Headspace is a daily meditation app that can help you focus your mind and relieve stress in short sessions. Companion (iOS/Android) and Circle of Six (iOS/Android): Sometimes you find yourself walking home alone, or you go to a party and it isn’t an atmosphere you feel safe in. Whatever the scenario, apps like Companion and Circle of Six can keep an eye on you when you feel vulnerable. Companion will virtually walk you home, with a friend or authorities ready to call at the push of a button or if you haven’t reached your destination on time. Circle of Six lets you preset your six closest friends or family and alert them with two taps on your phone that you need to talk or need to be picked up immediately. Clockwork Tomato (Android) and Focus Keeper (iOS): A great way to focus for the easily distracted or the common procrastinator. Based on the Pomodoro Technique, these apps will take your big tasks or projects and break them into smaller segments of time: 25 minutes of work and then a fiveminute break. Four work sessions earns you a longer break. f
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Fall Can Be Fun, Too Arts and Culture Opportunities Abound for Local Students By Abigail Sherrod music@flagpole.com
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his month, college and K-12 students are leaving behind their summer activities to return to school, but that doesn’t mean fun must be traded in for boredom. Whatever time of year it is, plenty of local nonprofit, on-campus and city-run organizations offer opportunities for students looking to expand their cultural horizons. Here are four such groups to check out. Find lots more helpful listings in this year’s Flagpole Guide to Athens, on stands and at flagpole.com now.
Move The East Athens Educational Dance Center is an Athens Clarke County-funded facility with opportunities for students young and old, new and experienced. Under the leadership of Facilities Supervisor Nena Gilreath, the center is expanding. New programs include pre-pointe, boys drum and dance, African dance workshops and adult stretching alongside traditional ballet, jazz, tap and modern classes. The latter four are offered for students who want to dance for fun in single classes and those who are more serious about the craft in accelerated, gifted and junior gifted programs. Groups perform periodically throughout the community and at the Morton Theatre. These opportunities are made available to a greater portion of local students through the center’s scholarship program, which offers support from 25–75 percent. This way, “everyone gets a chance,” Gilreath says. “We have a very diverse population of students, ages, races [and] cultures.” These opportunities allow the center to be “very representative of what art is—it brings everyone together.” Fall registration began Aug. 5, so jump online to secure a spot at athensclarkecounty.com/2763/East-AthensEducational-Dance-Center.
Play If you want to learn almost any instrument of your choice, you don’t have to look far. UGA’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music houses the Community Music School. Teachers include CMS’s faculty, HHSOM undergrads, graduate students and a smattering of professors and staff members. They teach individual lessons and classes, which are available for most instruments and voice. Students range from 4-year-olds learning the Suzuki method to senior-citizen members of the New Horizons program, which places students in band, orchestra or piano classes. Director Kristin Jutras says the CMS wants “to take you from where you are to where you want to go. We want you to enjoy music.” As a bonus, the CMS has a very relaxed attitude, because “not everyone is trying to become a professional musician.” Registration and more information is available at ugacms.uga.edu.
Act For students with dreams of the stage, community theater is a great place to gain experience. The Athens Creative Theatre offers many opportunities. ACT’s fall productions open to students are A Christmas Story (ages 8 and up) and Almost Maine (high school and up). For those looking ahead, ACT offers classes starting in January, including Monologues and More, a program designed to teach teens and adults with special needs basic theater skills, and Beginning ACTing Workshop (ages 8–12). ACT also offers Teen Encore Camps to teach students theatre tech, light and sound skills (ages 13–18) and musical theater and theater performance programs (ages 8–12) in the summertime. Program Leader Daniel Self says ACT welcomes all regardless of skill level. “All are welcome at ACT.” Programming is subject to change, so keep an eye on athensclarkecounty.com/act for any possible additions.
Create Another cultural staple, the Lyndon House Arts Center offers classes for all ages, though Toni Carlucci, program leader in art education, says it’s best to “start while you’re young.” This fall, Lyndon House offers several unique art programs for K-12 students. For children ages 4–6, there are three sections of Art Time, a class dabbling in drawing, painting, clay and crafts. Other classes include Art for Homeschool Students, which looks at art from many cultures through painting, pottery, beading and mosaic; Books That Turn, Twist, Pop and Drop, where 7–11-year-old students learn to build their own books; Teen Cartoon Illustrators Club, a club for 12–18-year-olds, UGA Community which meets every other Thursday to create anime and other cartoons with pizza and soda; and Through the Lens, a video/filmmaking class for 9–12-yearolds. Most classes run for six weeks and cost $42 for ACC residents. Further details can be found at athensclarkecounty.com/2496/ Youth-Art-Classes. Sign up ASAP; registration opened for ACC residents Friday, Aug. 5 at 9 a.m., and classes, particularly those for children ages 4–6, fill up quickly. f
Give Back: Volunteer Opportunities Abound in Athens By Kat Khoury news@flagpole.com
During the stressful years of college, it can be difficult to make time for yourself, much less total strangers. But giving back to your community can be a rewarding way to challenge yourself and learn more about the larger community of Athens, outside the comfort zone of the university. Whether it’s behind-the-scenes work like organizing donations or personal interaction through tutoring or an after-school program, there’s a way for everyone to contribute. These are only a few of the many volunteer opportunities in Athens; read Flagpole’s weekly Bulletin Board section for an up-to-date listing.
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College students and retired teachers engage in one-on-one tutoring in areas like reading, math, science and social studies. A summer STEM program matches students majoring in the sciences with kids interested in the same areas of study.
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Make a difference in someone’s life by providing a meal to a family in need. Assist with childcare on Monday and Tuesday evenings while mothers attend evening programs. Tutor kids after school, or consult the needed-items list online and collect donations for the shelter.
Northeast Georgia Food Bank 706-354-8191 · foodbanknega.org Help feed the hungry population of Athens. Work inside organizing and stocking the food pantry or outside in the food garden cultivating and harvesting. Organize and collect food for the drives, or prepare sack lunches for school kids. Other volunteer options are also available.
Bear Hollow Zoo 706-613-3580 · athensclarkecounty.com/2757/Bear-Hollow-Zoo
Athens’ only zoo is run heavily by volunteers who get to spend one-on-one time with the animals feeding, cleaning and socializing. There’s an intern program for students studying animal sciences.
Sandy Creek Nature Center 706-613-3615 · athensclarkecounty.com/2772/Sandy-Creek-Nature-Center
Spend your day in the woods as a trail guide or a trail keeper at one of the extensive Sandy Creek trails. Be an animal care volunteer or general volunteer at special events. For teens, there’s a Naturalist Assistant Program.
Athens Humane Society 706-769-9155 ·athenshumanesociety.org
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Three volunteer options at the Athens Humane Society can make a difference in an animal’s happiness. As a spay-and-neuter volunteer, assist with prepping the animals, the surgery itself, cleaning supplies and caring for the dog or cat afterward. Socialize with dogs by signing up online, then taking the pups out for a walk and playing with them. Cuddle with cats, clean their litter boxes and feed them. Athens Pets is another nonprofit that helps ACC Animal Control care for and adopt out lost and abandoned animals at the city pound.
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Here We Are Now, Entertain Us Seven of Athens’ Top Fall Cultural Highlights By Dan Jackson news@flagpole.com
the famous political parable and barnyard power struggle to the stage using puppets and actors. Director Anthony Marotta experimented with the adaptation in a spring 2017 production at Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts. Given our current cultural climate, Animal Farm provides Marotta with an opportunity to address current political and moral questions. It’s a no-holds-barred takedown of the Establishment. The character of Squealer is presented, naturally, as an analog to deposed flack Sean Spicer.
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World-famous concert pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for an afternoon performance of Leonard Bernstein’s “The Age of Anxiety,” a post-World War II homage to W.H. Auden’s long poem that gave that troubled era its name. Bernstein wrote that he felt compelled to write the symphony for piano and orchestra about Auden’s depiction of four lonely souls at a bar
Painter Martha Odum was married to famous University of Georgia ecologist Eugene Odum, who was considered by many to be the father of modern ecology. The exhibition commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Eugene P. Odum School of Ecology. According to the GMOA website, “Martha Odum’s eye was attuned to the web of life in the landscapes she loved to paint. Many of her works focus on areas such as the coast, the water’s edge, swamps and streams—all veritable cradles for evolution and life. Her vision of the landscape shows an energetic environment. She also created silver that used botanical and animal forms as inspiration.” Visit georgiamuseum.org for schedules and more details.
very fall, as we stash away the beach towels and buy new school supplies, cultural offerings both high and low kick into high gear in Athens. And while thousands come to town to participate in Athens’ favorite fall rituals on Saturday afternoons, the rest of us can take in a concert by a world-class performer, attend a play or wander through a new art exhibition. Here are some highlights that might just coax you out of the house instead of bingewatching Netflix.
Aug. 9, 7 p.m. at The Foundry, $7
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The very popular Rabbit Box monthly storytelling series usually draws a standingroom-only crowd to hear locals spin true tales up to eight minutes in length on a new topic each month. Events take place at The Foundry on the second Wednesday of “just about” every month. August’s subject is “I Didn’t Sign on for This,” and September’s storytellers will be telling of their “Toils and Troubles.” Go to rabbitbox.org for info to learn how you can stand up and tell your story. The organization aims high: Its slogan is “Creating Community, One Story at a Time.”
Sept. 24, 3 p.m. at Hodgson Concert Hall, $66–$76
Oct. 7–Dec. 31 at the Georgia Museum of Art, FREE!
The Ninth Annual Wild Rumpus
Oct. 27–28, various locations downtown
Steve Earle & The Dukes Sept. 5, 8:30 p.m. at the Georgia Theatre, $25–$28
Legendary Grammy-winning Nashville musician Steve Earle stakes out broad musical territory that ranges from barn dance Wild Rumpus is Athens’ very own Mardi Gras. to honky tonk to Transcendental Blues. His sharing their lives, calling it “a record of our difficult and new album So You Wanna Be an Outlaw sees him “acknowlproblematical search for faith.” He gives the pianist the role edge where I’m coming from,” even as he’s made New York of “autobiographical protagonist” in the quest for meaning his home for the past decade. Husband-and-wife duo The and faith. Mastersons open. Yoel Levi, once the ASO’s music director, said of Hodgson Concert Hall that “if you hear the Atlanta Symphony in this hall, you hear it for the first time,” citing its “clarity and warmth of sound.” ASO will also perform Sept. 15, 8 p.m. at Hendershot’s, $15–$20 George Gershwin’s sprightly 1928 orchestral piece “An This French-born Gypsy guitarist who channels jazz guitar legend Django Reinhardt appears at this extremely com- American in Paris.” Visit pacuga.edu for tickets. fortable coffee house/bar/music and performance venue, one of the few venues in the South where he will perform during this tour. Hendershot’s hosts everything from Monsignor Donovan’s choir to UGA’s renowned mystic poet Oct. 4–8 at Seney-Stovall Chapel, $12 ($7 for students) Coleman Barks and boasts a great patio, too. Orwell seems to be in the air these days. UGA brings
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Local artist and musician Timi Conley is the mad genius, master of ceremonies and “lead spaz” behind Athens’ signature street party, and he speaks of it in terms that a shaman might use to describe a transformative pagan ritual. “One of my favorite things about Rumpus,” Conley says, “is the way all the divisions in our lives are gone for the night. Everyone is there to howl at the moon and have a good time.” Inspired by a visit to Mardi Gras, where he observed the parade participants having all the glittery, costumed fun while spectators simply drank, milled around and begged for beads. Conley set out to encourage everyone to bring their wildest, most creative side to the party, and his thousands of Rumpusers comply enthusiastically with costumes, drums and myriad other forms of artistic expression. In its ninth year, the event draws people from around the world. Conley said that a Norwegian couple comes annually. The Friday-night event is family-friendly, while Saturday’s is an all-out bacchanal, starting with a parade, followed by a dance near City Hall and an “Official After Party.” Special favor, Timi? Conjure up your pitch-perfect Bowie persona for the dance. Please? Visit wildrumpus.org for details as they evolve. f
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ARTSCAPE OCONEE: The Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation (OCAF) and City of Watkinsville expanded two public art exhibitions this summer, planting even more artworks into roadside landscapes. In addition to four of last year’s sculptures by Benjamin Lock, William Massey, Stan Mullins and Robert Clements that will remain on view, “Public Art Watkinsville: A Pop-up Sculpture Exhibit� now features “Glory� by Clements, “Delirium� by Joni Herzog-Younkins and “Peace Bench� by Harold Rittenberry Jr. Partially funded by a grant from the Georgia Council for the Arts, “Artscape Oconee: The Monuments of Artland� is a collection of painted 4-foot-by-6-foot and 4-foot-by-8foot panels scattered across Watkinsville. Nine new panels have been created, with highlights including Peter Loose’s folksy “The Mother of All Armadillos,� Nack’s (Nick Morris) zigzagging “Simple Fields of Confusion,� Andy Cherewick’s surreal “The Drawing Room for ‘Us and Everything All the Time’� and Claire Clements’ serene “Moon Glow.� Other new panels are “Endangered Menagerie / Flatwoods Salamander� by Cameron Hampton, “House of Celebration 2.2017� by Kemp Mooney, “Little Big Girl� by Lisa Freeman, “Leaving the Nest� by students at Oconee County High School and “Artists Extraordinaire� by painting students at University of North Georgia. Eleven of last year’s pieces will also remain on view, with contributions from Cecel Allee, June Ball, Robert Clements, Will Eskridge, Manda McKay, Leslie Moody, Alex Murawski, Scott Pope, Art Rosebaum, UNG students under the direction of Stacy Koffman, and Whitehead Road Elementary students under the direction of Charles Blair. Brochures with a map of where to find each artwork can be picked up in Oconee County at the Welcome Center, City Hall, Chamber of Commerce, library and OCAF, or downloaded from ocaf.com.
New Public Art in Athens and Nearby Gyroscope House, Artscape Oconee and Art Decko By Jessica Smith arts@flagpole.com GYROSCOPE HOUSE: The city’s newest public artwork, Lawrence Stueck’s interactive Gyroscope House, was permanently installed at the World of Wonder playground at the Southeast Clarke Park last month. Supported by the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission, the 14-foot-tall structure resembles a round, open gazebo topped with a mobile windmill. A 360-degree panel circling the top of the structure gradually blends between shades to create a giant color wheel. Promoting exploration and discovery, the painted panel is covered with imagery that ranges from mathematical equations, double helixes, coordinates, roads, flying saucers and gentle reminders to “be kind� and “question everything.� Four benches surround a map of Athens that was sandblasted onto the concrete floor, offering a shady place for caregivers to keep an eye on their kids. Steuck, who holds a doctorate in art education from UGA, currently teaches at Athens Academy and also works as an independent contractor. Specializing in educational art, his portfolio includes over 80 creative playscape installations designed to introduce children to educational concepts through engaging, fun methods. By focusing on visual elements of motion and maps, Gyroscope House specifically aims to inspire children to contemplate geography and their unique place in the world. The Gyroscope House was selected from a pool of 11 submissions entered during a second open call, held after the initial round yielded only three proposals—none of which fully met the project’s requirements. Guided by the ACAC, which was established to advise the government Lawrence Stueck’s Gyroscope House on public art, the selection committee community. The Gyroscope House is the first SPLOSTincluded commissioners Sharyn Dickerson and Andy affiliated commission completed since the Public Art Herod, representatives from ACC Leisure Services and Master Plan was approved in March. Central Services departments and a few members of the
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Athens Goes Pop What to Expect at This Year’s Athens Popfest T his Wednesday through Saturday, Aug. 9–12, the Athens Popfest returns to downtown. Despite the name, founder Mike Turner’s carefully curated lineup spans an impressive range of genres, from indie-pop to post-punk, hip hop, folk and lots more. In addition to our Popfest preview, you can find the full festival schedule in this week’s Calendar, and make sure to look for the official festival program inserted in this issue.
ESG Just Wants to Make You Dance David Thayer
Block by block, borough by borough, New York in the late 1970s and early ’80s was a fertile music mecca. Virtually every strain of modern music took root in the city’s mean streets, shaping the Laetitia Sadier hearts and minds of America’s youth. From punk to disco, hip hop to no wave, everyone from Television to the Ramones, Grandmaster Flash, Philip Glass and James Chance laid the groundwork for an amorphous scene in the city that never sleeps. In the midst of it all was ESG, a group of four sisters from the South Bronx projects—leader and vocalist Renee, drummer Valerie, bass player Deborah and singer and percussionist Marie Scroggins, along with singer and percussionist Tito Libran—who crafted murky and minimal funk that, over time, proved to be some of the most sampled music ever created. The band’s name stood for Valerie and Renee’s birthstones—emerald and sapphire. The G was a nod to the gold record they hoped to one day reel in. With the group’s 1981 debut EP for 99 Records, produced by Martin Hannett (Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays), a singularly lumbering gait of lo-fi bass and slow staccato drum beats became ESG’s signature sound. Songs such as “You’re No Good” and “Moody,” plus the eerie sci-fi tempo of “UFO,” proved a vital influence in the secret history of post-punk and dance music. ESG’s music was more celebratory than the nihilistic tendencies of the no-wave scene with which the group is often associated. For Renee Scroggins, who turns 58 in September, ESG’s music was all about embracing the diversity of its surroundings. “Playing festivals now reminds me of what New York was like growing up and playing music in the late ’70s,” Scroggins says over the phone from her current home in McDonough. “There were so many different kinds of music going on at all times, just by virtue of it being New York. It didn’t matter what your race was, your religion or your sexuality. Music brought us all together, and we all sat back and listened.” Sisters Valerie and Marie make occasional appearances
with ESG, if their health and schedules allow for it. Younger sister Deborah filed a 2016 lawsuit for writing credits and royalty disputes over the song “UFO,” which has been sampled by everyone from J Dilla to the Notorious B.I.G. “That song was just me seeing one too many Star Wars and Close Encounters kind of movies,” Scroggins says. “I thought, ‘What would it sound like if a UFO landed in the middle of the club?’ That’s how that song came about.” Still, Scroggins keeps the band a family affair. Her daughter Nicole Nicholas plays bass, son Nicholas plays percussion, and nephew Charlie Moore plays drums. “Each person brings their own personality, feeling and rhythm to the drums, and it keeps it a living, breathing band,” she says. New ESG material is in the works through the group’s self-run ESG Records and CD Baby. The band is still wait-
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ing for that gold record to come its way, but its live show is where the action is. “People just need to be ready to dance when we play,” Scroggins says. “That’s what ESG was always about. We bring energy to the stage, so be ready for it.” [Chad Radford] ESG plays the Georgia Theatre on Saturday, Aug. 12 at midnight.
Laetitia Sadier Explores the Power of Pop The “pop” in Popfest, obviously, references the stylistic through-line of the festival’s lineup. But while there are elements of pop music in Laetitia Sadier’s catalog, 30 years of populist lyrics suggest it’s as apt as a reference to her politics. Her latest project is a solid example. Sadier has released a few solo albums under her own name, but after two decades fronting avant-pop pioneer Stereolab and three albums with Monade, she felt like she needed a real band
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name. The musician released Find Me Finding You this year under the name Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble. She liked the mysteriousness evoked by “source,” and “ensemble” means “together” in Sadier’s native tongue. May 1968 was one of the most transformative periods in modern French history, a month in which protests, strikes and civil unrest caused the president to briefly flee the country and the government to shut down. It’s also when Sadier was born in suburban Paris. The artistic and social forces that emerged from the movement shaped Sadier’s worldview, and she has always had a fascination with collectivism as a result. “We’re told to believe we’re alone on this planet,” she says. “There’s a whole ideology that tells us, ‘You are an individual, and you can do what you like, and you can have what you like when you like.’ There is a much bigger system out there, which rules us, which governs us. We’re part of a whole. The malaise in our world comes from this disconnection.” There is a connection between pop’s power to bring people together and the goals of collectivism. Music is useful as a vehicle for collectivist politics for the same reason it is useful emotionally: It can make you feel less alone. To hear your own feelings expressed in someone else’s music is a connective experience, allowing a listener to feel a sincere bond with a person she has never met. Thus, music is an appropriate salve for the current moment. “We may not always agree, but at least it creates a tissue that links us in a tangible way,” Sadier says. “Same about joining a political or activist group. There will be a moment, in the not too distant future, where all these groups can communicate among themselves. There is a natural function, which is largely overlooked, for people and the collective to harmonize.” Sadier believes art is becoming more political. The need for that collectivist vision seems especially crucial with a nihilistic, wannabe authoritarian sociopath in the White House, though Trump’s election is as much a symptom as a cause. The most important thing an artist can do, in Sadier’s estimation, is to explore one’s own “singularity” and express that to the world. The more we express ourselves and understand one another, the better we can understand the systems we are all a part of. Pop can be branded as lowbrow or frivolous, but in the hands of an artist like Sadier, it can be a uniquely powerful weapon. “Most people feel like they are strangers in their own environment,” Sadier says. “This is how capitalism operates. It needs to privatize everything. In that respect, in the sense of alienation people have from that, art should somehow reflect that and help people become aware of what is going on.” [Adam Clair] Laetitia Sadier plays the Georgia Theatre on Friday, Aug. 11 at 9:15 p.m.
Superchunk Returns to Its Second Home
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Formed in Chapel Hill, NC in 1989, Superchunk’s sloppy but vivacious power-pop made it one of the most heralded bands in ’90s rock and has kept it relevant long after other bands from that era have expired. That’s thanks in part to the group’s evolution in style. Over time, the clumsy but effective instrumentals that defined the band’s sound became Superchunk more refined, the songwriting improved, and Superchunk began to incorporate stronger melodies and synth lines for a more palatable pop sound. Yet according to lead singer and guitarist Mac McCaughan, the band has kept a singular focus since the beginning. “Hopefully we have gotten better as a band since 1989,” says McCaughan. “I think we’ve improved. One thing that hasn’t changed is our focus on songs and energy—the combination of those two things. I think we are better at executing that than we were back then, and just more comfortable doing what we do in general.” Also formed in 1989 was McCaughan and bassist Laura Ballance’s label, Merge Records. Though at first it was just a vehicle to release various Superchunk and related projects, Merge would go on to become one of the most revolutionary labels in indie rock. Artists like Arcade Fire, Waxahatchee, Dinosaur Jr., Titus Andronicus and Neutral Milk Hotel have called the label home. It’s also been home to all of Superchunk’s releases following the band’s split from Matador in 1993. Though Superchunk’s last album, I Hate Music, was released four years ago, the band has kept busy with a steady stream of reissues from its past discography. The group’s next big release is a remastered version of its self-titled debut, out Aug. 25. Earlier this summer, the band also recorded and released a split single featuring a new original song, “I Got Cut,” along with a cover of the Tom Robinson Band’s “Up Against the Wall.” Proceeds from the single went to Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. With a slow drip of songs and reissues, it seems like it’s time for an 11th addition to Superchunk’s pristine discography. McCaughan says the band has been in the studio, but laments that he can’t reveal anything quite yet. Though Chapel Hill is a five-hour drive from Athens, there is a certain kinship between the two towns as incubators of a certain type of alternative rock. For McCaughan, playing in Athens has been an important part of Superchunk’s history. “I’ve been going to see shows in Athens since I was in high school,” he says. “Obviously, the town held a lot of pull for me, the way it did for lots of other people. R.E.M., the B-52s and Love Tractor—all the great music from there felt really close to us in Chapel Hill. Then when we started playing music, [we] had great shows in Athens. We formed close relationships with artists like the Elephant 6 crew. Coming back means a lot. I’m looking forward to it.” [Nathan Kerce]
what I do and write the way I write and keep it all rooted in truth, I think,” she says. “That’s just kind of what came out.” That truth generated a change in Waxahatchee’s sound. The new record is more than just another breakup album to throw onto mopey playlists. It marks a deep new level of maturity. Crutchfield sings of a relationship in which she was smothered. “I laid down next to you/ For three years shedding my skin/ Dreaming about the potential/ The person I could’ve been,” Crutchfield sings in the closing track,
Superchunk plays the Georgia Theatre on Friday, Aug. 11 at at 11:15 p.m.
Waxahatchee Delivers a Bold Breakup Album Gilded with more than the usual amount of angst, Waxahatchee’s hot-off-the-press album Out in the Storm encapsulates the end of Katie Crutchfield’s relationship with former bandmate Keith Spencer. The album lands a striking punch. “I think there’s a lot of frustration and anger coming through, which is new for me,” Crutchfield tells Flagpole. “I kind of tend to sort of stick to the melancholy. I definitely strayed from that on this one.” Though Crutchfield feared the anger would come across as cheesy, in the end, “I think it’s just kind of trying to do
“Fade.” Earlier in the album, on “Sparks Fly,” after a powerful build-up, Crutchfield proclaims, “I’m a live wire, finally.” These themes of independence, redemption and newfound confidence spill over into the record’s sound. Until now, Crutchfield refused to record albums in a studio; her last, Ivy Tripp, was recorded in the home she and Spencer shared. But for Out in the Storm, Crutchfield says, “I wanted
to make it in the studio, and I knew I wanted my live band to play on it.” Playing with her band in a studio under the direction of producer John Agnello led to a change in the group’s sound. The rhythm section “sounds really big and huge, more powerful in that way,” Crutchfield says. “There’s a lot more atmosphere, too. I think in the past, my records have had a lot of space, and I think this one has a lot less space. I think it’s fitting, ’cause the record itself, lyrically, even, kinda feels a little bit claustrophobic.” Out in the Storm is more cohesive than Waxahatchee’s prior albums, thanks partly to Crutchfield embracing her influences. While in the past she shunned comparisons to other female indie-rock musicians, for this album, “My careerlong influences came through. I think on Ivy Tripp I was listening to more obscure indie music. With this record, I kinda went in the opposite direction,” Crutchfield says. “Like, really leaned into it. The Breeders, Sleater-Kinney, all of these powerful women making rock music. I’ve kinda leaned into that and want to do that on the tours, too. It’s just, like, cool women playing big, powerful rock music.” And if any of her listeners are in bad relationships or just got out of one, Crutchfield hopes her music reaches them. “Putting it out into the world and having people react to it, and many people, I feel like, relate to it—that feels great,” she says. “I mean, that’s kinda what I wanted. People will hear it and relate to it, and that will give them some sort of comfort. I’m hoping that’s what will happen.” [Abigail Sherrod] f Waxahatchee plays the Georgia Theatre on Thursday, Aug 10 at 11:15 p.m.
Five More Popfest Acts to See The Veldt Wednesday, Aug. 9, 12 a.m. @ 40 Watt Club
Started by twin brothers Daniel and Danny Chavis, psychedelic dream-pop act The Veldt released a couple of LPs in the ’90s—including the would-be classic Afrodisiac—before fading out of the public consciousness, largely due to the fact that labels (and, to some extent, audiences) didn’t know how to deal with a black shoegaze band. The group, which temporarily re-branded itself as Apollo Heights in the early 2000s, is back in action, having just released a new EP, The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur: The Drake Equation. [Gabe Vodicka]
The Apples in Stereo Thursday, Aug. 10, 12:15 a.m. @ Georgia Theatre
Founding Elephant 6 member Robert Schneider has done a fine job staying in touch with his old hometown, scooting over from Atlanta to play solo sets every now and again, including an appearance at last year’s Popfest. But it’s been several years since the full Apples in Stereo crew hit a local stage, so it’s a true treat to see them headlining this year’s shindig. Expect a typically jubilant set from the psych-pop legends. [GV]
Einschlagen Friday, Aug. 11, 7 p.m. @ Georgia Theatre
After a brief tenure, it’s time to say goodbye to local post-punk group Einschlagen. The band, which started as a three-piece spearheaded by Perfect Attendance Records and Pity Party proprietor Taylor Chicoine, morphed into an unbridled creative outlet over the past year with the addition of Aubry Meers on keys and vocals and Peyton Sarah lending spoken-word contributions. They’ll play their final show Friday of Popfest, opening up for Sadier and Superchunk—not a bad way to go out. [Andy Barton]
R. Ring Friday, Aug. 11, 8:30 p.m. @ Georgia Theatre
Rock duo R. Ring has existed since 2012, and finally released its debut full-length this April. The record, Ignite the Rest, refuses to be pigeonholed. It’s alternately pummeling and patient, representing an increasingly rare sort of exploratory indie-rock album. The group, which features Breeders co-leader Kelley Deal alongside multi-instrumentalist Mike Montgomery, makes its Athens debut Friday. [GV]
The Gotobeds Thursday, Aug. 10, 9 p.m. @ Georgia Theatre
Pittsburgh four-piece The Gotobeds channel ’80s source material like The Replacements, The Fall and Mission of Burma to create a ramshackle sound as cheeky as it is biting. On last year’s Blood // Sugar // Secs // Traffic—a jab at the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ similarly named 1991 album—the band treads a fine line between ironic, selfaware detachment and earnest social criticism across 11 supercharged tracks. [Andy Barton]
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pop/freak project from Steve Fitzpatrick (Radio: Tahiti, Houston), Tears for the Dying is the death-rock/dark pop project of Adria Stembridge (Vomit Thrower, The Girl Pool) originally formed in 2003, and rounding out the night is poet Davis Ripley Keller. Honestly, it’s Keller who ties this whole bill together, as he played a key role exposing each of the previous musicians to audiences in the 1990s when he helmed the incredibly missed Club Fred. The show begins at 9 p.m. Do your homework at facebook.com/ TearsForTheDying and unus-mundus.bandcamp.com.
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WELL, FINALLY: Heavy, mid-’60s-style psychrockers The Honey Sliders are set to release the new album Welcome Thursday, Aug. 10 at the 40 Watt Club. They recorded with engineer Zeke Sayer out at the impossibly cool and utterly rural Gypsy Farm studio. Joel Hatstat laid his mastering hands on it, and now it’s all complete. Hands down, this was worth the wait. The organ swells, the guitars fuzz and grind with just enough of each, and the whole thing is reminiscent of so many bands but no one you could accurately point a finger at. Hell, man, it’s rock and roll in its purest form. It’s loud, brash, tuneful, rude, a bit dumb and kinda clever. Hopefully by the time you read this they’ll have uploaded it to thehoneysliders1.bandcamp. com. If not, just enjoy their album Los Gatos de Tequila, which came out back in 2013.
SEE YA, MAN: Daniel Tanghal, one hell of a good songwriter and an incredibly prolific creator of quality albums, just released the swan song for his time in Athens. As a recent UGA grad, he’s headed off to do, I dunno, other things. In any case, he’s moving away, and while we’ll totally survive, the creative scene will be temporarily poorer for it. Tanghal elevated both the expectations and realizations of indie-pop/fuzz-punk fans over the past several years and did so via wildly understated methods. This new record is titled Every Night I Die in Athens. It features coughsyrupy versions of the previously released “College Degree” and “I Don’t Know,” as well as an actual cough-syrup title, “DXM.” There are seven songs total, including a cover of “Name Your Sound” by Japanese Breakfast. The final track, “Squalene Part 2,” is an ice-cold cry, if not necessarily and explicitly for help, of deep pain, bald-faced self awareness and anxiety. It’s honestly quite shuddering and an acutely conspicuous end to Tanghal’s farewell album. Grab this at danieltanghal.bandcamp.com, and dig deep in his releases going back to 2013 at methwax.bandcamp.com.
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THAT’S ALL, FOLKS: It’s closing time for the Swing Street Dance Band. The steady provider of salsa and swing music, if you couldn’t tell from the group’s name, is calling it quits. The group will perform one last time at Little Kings Shuffle Club before, uh, shuffling off. This final show happens Wednesday, Aug. 9 from 8:30–10 p.m.
between extreme metal and thrashy hardcore. There’s no way anyone who remembers “crossover” being alternately a slur and a mere descriptor could take it as the former. There’s no hardcore purist ethos left to betray, so it’s open season for all comers. And Apparition does a pretty damn killer job. Check out apparitionathens.bandcamp.com.
START THE PIT: New band Apparition released its demo tape a few weeks ago, and it’s appropriately titled Demo. Across seven tracks, the foursome ups the ante on Athens hardcore in huge ways, exploring a crossover sound
PRICK UP YOUR EARS: A triple shot of old-school Athens outsider music will happen at Flicker Theatre & Bar Saturday, Aug. 12. Each performer has roots in Athens going back decades. Unus Mundus is the ongoing collapsing-star-
40 WATT BURGLARY: As reported at flagpole.com, the man who was recently charged with burglarizing the 40 Watt Club has died. According to police, Michael Simpson Wilson, 35, stole dozens of microphones, amplifiers and other equipment while the venue was closed the morning of July 28. Wilson was arrested Aug. 1, charged with burglary and released on a $4,600 bond. He died last Thursday at his home in Athens of an apparent suicide. [Blake Aued] f
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Summer Wrap-up What You Missed in Restaurant News By Hillary Brown food@flagpole.com
Normal Bazaar, with growlers, some produce, nice bread, dairy and a little more, opened right next to J’s Bottle Shop, for nearly one-stop shopping. La Dolce Vita changed
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Your humble food columnist spent a lot of this summer investigating various ice cream and popsicle options in an effort to cool down. As far as major closings, there weren’t a lot, although the months without most UGA students around are rough ones for the restaurant and bar industry. Fifth Avenue Pizza, in Watkinsville, shut its doors, and the side location of Ike & Jane in the Georgia Museum of Art closed, to be replaced Sept. 1 by a new cafe run by the UGA Hotel and Conference Center, with coffee, snacks, sandwiches and such. Cozy Yum Yum closed its space on East Clayton and moved back into its old location on Jackson Street. Metro Diner, the chain out of Jacksonville, appears not to be taking over the old East-West space on Broad downtown after all, which means that’s a lot of empty prime real estate. And Daily Groceries Co-op is no longer moving into the 100 Prince development that should start work soon.
opened a second location inside the Eastside Cali N Tito’s, with all the amazing ice creams, paletas and snacks of the original in a more compact space. Chill Spot Ice Cream, in Lexington, celebrated its first anniversary, and is a nice addition to its area. And the Pendergrass Flea Market, which is already a wonderland of culinary and other delights, added rolled ice cream at a stand called Beyond Ice Cream (and Spice Hut, an Indian restaurant that also does Mexican food). In Statham, Savvy Cakes, which used to be in Jefferson, does sandwiches as well as custom and premade cakes, gooey bars and other sweets, and scoops Greenwood ice cream.
percentage of its potential customers through some illadvised Facebook posts about its strict dress code and prohibition of children, leading to a big old internet kerfuffle, then deleted its Facebook page but is still in business. The former, a little breakfast place next to a gas station in downtown Watkinsville, did its best not to annoy its client base and seems to be thriving in the a.m. hours. In chain news, J. Buffalo Wings (which makes kinda good fried rice) opened in Beechwood, Charlie Graingers (hot dogs and brisket) opened on Epps Bridge, an Au Bon Pain opened in Amos Hall on campus, the area around Highway 29 North is adding a bunch of things (Dairy Queen, Taco Bell, Bojangles, plus the fourth location of Taqueria La Parrilla), Starbucks proliferated (in the Tate Center, with one in Target and one at Beechwood forthcoming), a JR Crickets has hung up a sign at the former Allen’s on Hawthorne, and Mamoun’s Falafel is looking at locations in Athens.
New Red Bowl Bistro opened on the Eastside, in the former Peking, with a lot of not very exciting standard Chinese and pan-Asian bento box and hibachi offerings but also, surprisingly, a wide array of actual Chinese food. Customers seem to have New Red Bowl Bistro had mixed experiences, and you might have to ask for the special menu, but if you do, you can feast on spicy cumin lamb, good housemade noodles, soups with pickled vegetables, plenty of organ meats and the like. It’s the only other option besides Winterville’s Wok Star for this kind of thing.
hands and names (to Dolce Vita Trattoria Italiana) but not menus. Hull added a place called Wing House Grill that serves beer, and Athens got a super-cute new food cart, Manila Express, that serves Filipino food and has made several outings so far.
Other places that should open soon (or less soon) include a Five Points location of Sakura, the second (Oconee) location of Mama’s Boy (in September), The Office Sports Bar and Grill (a second location of a place in Columbus, not to be confused with The Office Lounge in Homewood Hills), La Superior (a Mexican bakery in the same building as La Michoacana, in Hull) and Akademia Brewpub, out near the mall, with Josh Aaron of The Savory Spoon in the kitchen. Zombie Coffee and Donuts is looking to build out more of its building to provide a free space for co-working in Athens, and 1000 Faces Coffee is busy renovating the former Good Dirt building on Thomas Street downtown to move its roasting and retail business there (Lindsey’s Culinary Market will move in downstairs). Matt Downs is reportedly taking over the currently closed bowling alley in Homewood Hills, and his Liberty (in the former Harris Street Locos) may yet open. f
On the ice cream front, Condor Chocolates, in Five Points, started making popsicles in collaboration with Hip Pops. La Michoacana… Es Natural, by the Ingles in Hull,
Suncatcher Cafe and Pour Restaurant & Bar both opened in Watkinsville shortly before the end of the academic year. The latter promptly ticked off a large
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The Dark Tower Lacks Shine Kidnap Rides Aimlessly, While Detroit Catches the Cops By Drew Wheeler movies@flagpole.com
Criticisms of The Dark Tower could be easily dismissed as those of fanboys raging against changes to a holy text. Alas, The Dark Tower is just not an accessible portal to Roland’s home of Mid-World. The Dark Tower seems more suggestive of the novels by Stephen King than based upon them. The film imagines an alternative version of how Roland and Jake met to battle the Man in Black. It neatly wraps up its narrative like the big-screen pilot for that aforementioned weekly series it is. A franchise with major potential could still evolve from the DNA present in The Dark Tower; Elba does perfectly embody Roland. Nonetheless, bad adaptations of Stephen King works should surprise no one. King adaptations are a dime a dozen; good ones not so much. (No pressure, It.)
together its narrative bits with those of the THE DARK TOWER (PG-13) The vast army final novel. Instead of a sturdy entry into of readers who make up Stephen King’s this dense universe, the just-over-90-minDark Tower ka-tet (the author’s own term ute film offers a watered-down, abridged for a group formed by destiny) have been version of neither novel. Roland (Idris clamoring for and often promised an Elba) pursues the Man in Black (Matthew adaptation of the horror master’s magMcConaughey, who seems to be auditionnum opus. Previously attached names include J.J. Abrams and Ron Howard; Javier Bardem was The Dark Tower appealingly rumored to play KIDNAP (R) B-movies (someRoland Deschain, Gilead’s last times a letter grade or two gunslinger and everyone’s last lower) starring A-list actors hope to save the Dark Tower have become the bread and holding together the multibutter of the video-on-demand verse. A television series has world. It is rare that such movalready been revealed as the ies make it to theaters anymore, medium in which the advenand Kidnap, although a durable tures of Roland and his young example of the genre, shows pal, Jake, will continue. Those why. The taut, tiny thriller simplans may come to a screeching ply lacks the authority to make halt after this most misguided anyone go to the effort to see adaptation. it in a movie theater; watching After Howard moved on, Halle Berry chase down kidnapNicolaj Arcel took the helm pers in her minivan is no less in a seemingly brilliant move Well you can tell by the way I use my walk‌ gratifying when watched on based on his deft handling of your couch at the push of a button. ing for the role of Ron Wood in a Rolling the multi-part Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. This flick could just as easily be confused Stones biopic). The last gunslinger teams up Unfortunately, the script attributed to with Berry’s 2013 thriller, The Call. Here, with Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor), a teenArcel and Academy Award winner Akiva Berry stars as a single mom and waitress ager with the big “shineâ€? (mental powers) Goldsman (whose acclaim is baffling), needed to destroy the titular tower. The duo whose 6-year-old son is kidnapped from a among others, jettisons the series’ opening New Orleans park. Berry’s mom transforms assaults a place called the Dixie Pig. novel, The Gunslinger, in favor of smushing into action-movie mode, using her minivan to stalk the white-trash kidnappers in their white-trash-mobile. Director Luis PrĂeto keeps his foot on the gas and quickly passes some cringe-inducing moments of Berry talking to herself while in pursuit. For her part, Berry is believable and beautiful, despite several deadly automobile crashes; need we ask more of a movie star giving a paycheck performance? DETROIT (R) Kathryn Bigelow should probably clear her calendar for awards season. The award-winning director of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty will surely be invited to all the shindigs to honor her intense historical drama, Detroit. The film recounts the tragic horror movie that unfolded at the Algiers Motel in the midst of the weeklong 1967 riot in the Motor City. At the Algiers, a trio of sadistic policemen (Will Poulter, Ben O’Toole and Jack Reynor) terrorized a group of African-American men (including a member of a local singing group, The Dramatics, here portrayed by Algee Smith) and two white women while searching for an alleged sniper. Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal recreate the night as best they can, and the result is a true American horror story. No other 2017 film may be as topical as Detroit, a historic tale of police brutality to show just how far the justice system has not come in 50 years. This film unflinchingly flays American history to bare the bleached bones of police criminality. Detroit is not an easy film to watch—through no fault of Bigelow, who again shows an impeccable guiding hand for these sorts of high-octane, serious thrillers—but the story it tells is essential. f
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THEATER | Aug 10–13
Oconee County Civic Center · 7 p.m. (Thu–Sat), 3 p.m. (Sun) · $14–18 The Oconee Youth Playhouse presents the musical based on Amanda Brown’s novel and the 2001 rom-com. Athens Academy grad Annabelle Woodard plays Elle Woods, a sorority girl who attempts to win back her ex-boyfriend, Warner (Florida State’s Simon Beckham), by enrolling at Harvard Law. While interning for Professor Callahan (UGA student Zac Deaton) to defend fitness queen Brooke Wyndham (Chloe Carmichael), who has been accused of her husband’s murder, Elle falls in love with fellow student Emmett (Jeremiah Smith). OYP’s Terra and Shane Hannon have directed over 50 productions since launching the nonprofit nearly 20 years ago. [Jessica Smith]
Athens Community Theatre · 8 p.m. (Thu–Sat), 2 p.m. (Sun) · $5 ($10 Thu) In Town & Gown Players’ campy production, Nathan Altman stars as Angela Arden, an ex-pop singer who poisons her husband, Sol (Ed Long), in order to pursue her lover, Tony (Diego Wolf). Her children Edith (Kat Marie Mitchell) and Lance (Nick Ciarochi) conspire to avenge their father’s death by dosing Angela with LSD, resulting in a far-out comic thriller that is equal parts Hollywood kitsch and Greek tragedy. This is the T&G directorial debut of Leslie Kimbell, an active member of the Winder-Barrow Community Theatre for 15 years. Opening night will be a fundraiser for the Boybutante AIDS Foundation, with half of proceeds donated to support the nonprofit. [JS]
Legally Blonde
Tuesday 8 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: Release Party (Creature Comforts Brewery) Creature Comforts releases their new ale “Abstract.” Music by DJ Chiefrocka. 5–9 p.m. www.creaturecomfortsbeer. com EVENTS: 2nd Tuesday Wine Tasting (Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market) This month features “bbq and tailgate wines.” 6 p.m. $20. www.heirloomathens.com GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) Westside and Eastside loca-
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tions of Locos Grill and Pub feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: RPG Night (The Rook and Pawn) Learn the basics of Blades in the Dark. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. therookandpawn.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) Hosted by James Majure. 6 p.m. FREE! www.therookandpawn.com GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) (2301 College Station Rd.) Every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern GAMES: Bingo (Ted’s Most Best) Win delicious drinks, sweet treats and gift cards. Every Tuesday on the
patio. 5–7 p.m. FREE! www.tedsmostbest.com KIDSTUFF: Adventure Club (Madison County Library) Participants will learn about far-off places with Carley Guillorn. Ages 5–10. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/madison 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 Martin Johnson Heade. 10 a.m. FREE! callan@uga.edu, www. georgiamuseum.org MEETINGS: Cotton Patch Quilters (Lyndon House Arts Center) Quilter, designer and author Shannon Brinkley is this month’s speaker. 7 p.m. FREE! www.cpquilters.org
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MUSIC | Sat, Aug 12
MUSIC | Sat, Aug 12
40 Watt Club · 8 p.m. · $5 Athens band The Grawks have been on a steady upward path, in terms of both style and fidelity, since releasing a rough if promising batch of early demos a few years back. The group will celebrate the release of its new LP, All That Lasts, with a performance this weekend. The record’s lead single, “Outta My Head,” is a wonderfully nasty slab of tremololaden sleaze-rock. Saturday’s show doubles as the release party for Endless Summer, the new full-length from local power-punks Shehehe. Palace Doctor and Dusty Blades share the bill. After being burglarized late last month, the 40 Watt has recovered the majority of its stolen gear and is thankfully ready to rock again. [Gabe Vodicka]
Caledonia Lounge · 3 p.m. · $1–3 For a high-octane alternative to this weekend’s myriad Popfest goings-on, camp out at the Caledonia Lounge Saturday for an all-day lineup of punk, ska, hardcore and more. This year’s aptly named OTP Fest features bands from all across this great state of ours, including Columbus’ X-Ray Vision, Habersham County’s Taj Motel Trio, Ball Ground’s Crabhammer, Griffin’s Go-Nowheres, Dalton’s Sawed Offs and Augusta’s BullMoose and Gloom Cocoon, plus locals Nightmare Coast, Burns Like Fire, Karbomb, Pansy and a whole bunch of others. A few ITP Atlanta bands seem to have snuck onto the bill, too, like Joy Kills and The Lone Deaf Pig-Dog—but we’ll let it slide. [GV]
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Wednesday 9 ART: Artful Conversation (Georgia Museum of Art) Callan Steinmann, associate curator of education, leads a tour of Paul Cadmus’ painting “Playground.” 2 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Illustrator for Beginners (ACC Library) Learn how to create graphics with vectors using Adobe Illustrator. This is ideal for logos or artwork you want to print in multiple sizes. Registration required. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650, www.athenslibrary.org/athens CLASSES: Gardening Class (ACC Library) This month’s topic is “Introduction to Woody Ornamentals.” 6 p.m. FREE! atedrow@uga.edu
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EVENTS: Rabbit Box (The Foundry) Storytellers share true-life tales. This month theme is “I Didn’t Sign On For This.” See Story on p. 14. 7 p.m. $7. thefoundryathens.com EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Creature Comforts Brewery) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods and crafts. Live music by Maggie Hunter on Aug. 8. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) Test your trivia chops for prizes! Every Wednesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) (2440 W. Broad St.) Compete for prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Gather a team. Every
Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. willys.com GAMES: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) (Washington St.) Play to win. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie) (Eastside) Every Wednesday. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Dirty South Trivia offers house cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 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
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KIDSTUFF: Anime Club (Oconee County Library) Watch some anime and manga, listen to J-Pop music, eat Japanese snacks and share fan art. Ages 11–18. Crafts will be made during the second hour. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 KIDSTUFF: Craft Closet Cleanout (Bogart Library) Participants can make something with paper, paint, glitter and more. 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart LECTURES & LIT: AADM Workshop Series (ACC Library) The public meeting discusses restorative justice in “Ending School to Prison Pipeline.” 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.aadmovement.org LECTURES & LIT: Café au Libris: Dana Wildsmith (ACC Library) Georgia author and poet Dana Wildsmith will read from her latest book, Jumping. 7 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens
Thursday 10 CLASSES: Preserving Your Family Photographs (Lyndon House Arts Center) David Vaughan, Vaughan Estate Sales and Appraisals in Atlanta, will review various historic image types and provide information on how to preserve your family photographs. 6:30 p.m. 706613-3623 CLASSES: Knit Happens (Oconee County Library) Beginners can learn how to knit and intermediate knitters can get help on projects. 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee EVENTS: Wine Tastings (Normal Bazaar) Held every Thursday. 5–7 p.m. EVENTS: Granola Bar and Health Screening (Oconee County Library) Mix your own granola blend then get a health check. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee GAMES: Music Trivia (Saucehouse Barbeque) Meet at the bar for a round of trivia. 8 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/saucehousebbq KIDSTUFF: Lego Club (Bogart Library) Build Lego creations. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: 3D Printer Workshop (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Use Tinkercad to design a 3D creation and have it printed. Ages 8 and up. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison 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. 8:30 a.m. FREE! www.botgarden.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Legally Blonde (Oconee County Civic Center) Oconee Youth Playhouse presents the hit musical based off the film starring Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods, a California sorority girl who becomes a Harvard law grad. See Calendar Pick on p. 24. Aug. 10–12, 7 p.m. Aug. 13, 3 p.m. $14–18. www.oconeeyouthplayhouse.com THEATER: Die, Mommie, Die (Athens Community Theater) Ex-pop singer Angela Andrews is desperate to find happiness in a plot that reflects Greek tragedy and Hollywood kitsch. See Calendar Pick on p. 24. Aug. 10–12, 8 p.m. Aug. 13, 2 p.m. $5. www.townandgownplayers.org
Friday 11 CLASSES: Windows Basics (Oconee County Library) Learn how to navigate Windows and under-
stand files, settings and accounts. Registration required. 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee EVENTS: Preview Party for The Girl Who Kept Night in Her Closet (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) Support the Kickstarter campaign for the newest children’s book by Bart King and Jacob Wenzka. View artwork by Wenzka and hear a reading and music by King. Other performances include Jay Nackashi’s Tidal Wave and Normaltown Sound Machine. 7 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee.com EVENTS: Zumba After Dark (40 Watt Club) Zumba fever continues. 7 p.m. $10–12. www.40watt.com EVENTS: 20th Year Anniversary Party (Little Italy) The eatery celebrates 20 years of business with deals, giveaways and prizes. 11 a.m.–3 a.m. FREE! 706-613-7100 EVENTS: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (Go Bar) Watch the talent show then the house cast. 10 p.m. $3. www.facebook.com/athensshowgirls EVENTS: Adult Coloring Program (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Coloring sheets and pencils will be provided for participants to drop in, color and relax. 10 a.m.–6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/madison KIDSTUFF: Anime Club (ACC Library) Join other 6–12 graders to watch, read and talk about anime and manga. 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Kids Night Out (Frog Stomp Studio, 160 Tracy St. Unit 1A) Kids can make a project and eat pizza. Ages 3 and up. 6–9 p.m. www. frogstompstudio.com LECTURES & LIT: Perk & Pages (Oconee County Library) Join the library for a cup of joe. Complimentary coffee to go along with your reading. 10 a.m.–12 p.. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee THEATER: Die, Mommie, Die (Athens Community Theater) See Thursday listing for full description Aug. 10–12, 8 p.m. Aug. 13, 2 p.m. $5. www.townandgownplayers.org
Garden) Shop for fresh and affordable produce and prepared foods. The market also includes kids activities, cooking demonstrations, educational booths and entertainment. This week features Turnip the Beats with live music from SongFarmers, Greg Wagstaff Ukele Group, David Court and more. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! www.athenslandtrust.org EVENTS: Brewau (Terrapin Beer Co.) Get lei’d, listen to live music, sample Terrapin favorites and enjoy roasted pig and Polynesian sides. 4:30–7:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com EVENTS: Who Let the Dogs Out (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Bring your dog and take a hike with the Center’s staff, who will cover trail etiquette. 10 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable
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ART: Sunday Spotlight Tour (Georgia Museum of Art) Docents lead a tour of highlights from permanent collection. 3 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Shopping Day for Little Athens (Center City Ballet and Movement Arts, 750 N. Chase St.) Vendors include Noonday Jewelry, Color Street Nails, Lipsense and LuLaRoe. Kids can explore the Little Athens mobile exhibits. 3–5 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/littleathensmuseum EVENTS: Kindercore Vinyl Post Popfest Party (147 Fritz Mar Lane) Tour the brand new Kindercore Vinyl pressing plant. Live music by Outersea, Harry Carey,
EVENTS: The Down Dog Days of Summer (The Foundry) Lululemon Athens and Shakti Power Yoga Athens present a sunset flow class on the patio. 7:30 p.m. www.thefoundryathens.com FILM: Horror-ble Films (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Watch Forever Evil. 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.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: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Highwire Lounge) Test your general knowledge for prizes. 8–10 p.m. FREE! highwirelounge.com
Saturday 12 CLASSES: Open House (M3Yoga, 159 Oneta Unit 6, #50) The new studio will offer a variety of free classes and meditations throughout the day. Prizes include, free class passes, shirts and yoga gear. 10 a.m.–7 p.m. FREE! www.m3yoga.com CLASSES: Aikido Discussion (Aikido Center of Athens) Aikido Master John Smartt discusses nonviolent solutions for a troubled world. 11 a.m. FREE! www.everybodyaikido.com CLASSES: African American Genealogy Workshop (ACC Library) Emma Davis Hamilton shares her extensive expertise in researching African American genealogy. Participants will learn how to use the Freedmen’s Bureau Records and Freedman’s Bank REcords. 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens EVENTS: Health Fair (First AME Church) Screenings and exams range from breast health, prostate, hypertension, blood sugar, vision care and dental care. Call for schedule. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! 706-201-6859 EVENTS: Secret Record Swap (Hip Vintage and Handmade) Sift through thousands of records, CDs, tapes and more presented by local and out-of-town dealers. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. www.facebook.com/secretrecordswap EVENTS: West Broad Farmers Market (West Broad Market
Paintings by Aron Joslin are currently on view at The Grit through Sunday, Aug. 20. produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods, crafts and live music by Kimberly and Kris and the White Rabbit Collective. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net FILM: Second Saturday Movie (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Cool off with a cool family film. Popcorn will be provided. 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/madison GAMES: Shadowfist Dynamic Card Game (Tyche’s Games) Learn to play the Shadowfist Dynamic Card Game. 12 p.m. FREE! 706-3544500, www.tychesgames.com KIDSTUFF: Girls Out: Back to School (Lay Park) Plan for the academic year with crafts and confidence. Ages 12–14. 4:30–6 p.m. $5–7.50. www.athensclarkecounty. com/leisure THEATER: Die, Mommie, Die (Athens Community Theater) See Thursday listing for full description Aug. 10–12, 8 p.m. Aug. 13, 2 p.m. $5. www.townandgownplayers.org
BlackNerdNinja and The Hernies. 1–5 p.m. FREE! www.kindercore. com EVENTS: Eclectic Bazaar (Creature Comforts Brewery) Indie South Fair presents a market with over 25 vendors selling vintage and handmade items. 1–6 p.m. www.indiesouthfair. com EVENTS: Dedication Ceremony (105 Flint St., Comer) Madison County Habitat for Humanity celebrates its latest home. 2 p.m. FREE! GAMES: Netrunner Open Play (Tyche’s Games) All are welcome to join in. 12:30–4:30 p.m. FREE! www. tychesgames.com PERFORMANCE: Athens Brass Choir (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Hear marches and show tunes in the conservatory. 2 p.m. FREE! www.uga.edu/botgarden THEATER: Die, Mommie, Die (Athens Community Theater) See Thursday listing for full description Aug. 10–12, 8 p.m. Aug. 13, 2 p.m. $5. www.townandgownplayers.org
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 MEETINGS: The Federation of Neighborhoods (Ciné Barcafé) This forum presents a discussion on the benefits of “Greenways and Parks in Athens.” 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.accneighborhoods.org
Tuesday 15 CLASSES: Computer Class (Bogart Library) Learn “Intro to Word.” Registration required. 10 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart CLASSES: Computer Class (ACC Library) “Access 2013: Database Basics.” Registration required. 10
a.m. 706-613-3650, www.athenslibrary.org/athens COMEDY: OpenTOAD Comedy Open Mic (Flicker Theatre & Bar) This regular comedy open mic features established comedians and newcomers alike. 9 p.m. $5. www. flickertheatreandbar.com EVENTS: Open House (Multiple Locations) The Athens Neighborhood Health Center celebrates National Health Centers Week with free health screenings and voter registration. Aug. 15, 9 a.m.–6:30 p.m. (675 College Ave.). Aug. 17, 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. (402 McKinley Dr.). www.athensneighborhoodhealth.com EVENTS: Creative Networking Coffee (Ciné Barcafé) Athensarea homegrown brands, creative professionals and nonprofit directors will be able to network with 60 organizations for feedback and support. Hosted by Athensmade and Athens Area Community Foundation. 7:30–9 a.m. $8. www.athensmade. com/events GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) See Tuesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! www. locosgrill.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: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) See Tuesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) General trivia with host Jamie Pisarich. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-8508561 GAMES: Bingo (Ted’s Most Best) Win drinks, sweet treats and gift cards. Every Tuesday on the patio. 5–7 p.m. FREE! www.tedsmostbest.com KIDSTUFF: Lego Club (Oconee County Library) Create Lego art and enjoy Lego-based activities. Legos provided. Ages 3–11. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee 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 PERFORMANCE: Sunflower Music Series (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) This month’s performance features Randall Bramblett. 7 p.m. $5 (ages 6–12), $15. www.botgarden.uga.edu
Wednesday 16 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Docents lead a tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum. org CLASSES: InDesign for Beginners (ACC Library) Learn the basics to make brochures, flyers, or menus for a business. Registration required. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ athens EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Creature Comforts Brewery) See Wednesday listing for full description 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) Gather a team and compete. 8 p.m. saucehouse.com GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-1102 k continued on next page
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ELF POWER THE VELDT FEATHER TRADE KLEENEX GIRL WONDER RATFANCY HAPPY ABANDON WHITE VIOLET
Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 7 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com NIGHT FEVER New duo featuring Ansley Stewart and Jason Fuller playing ‘70s hits. On the Rooftop. 11 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com ANDY BRUH Local DJ Andy Herrington spins and mixes dubstep, EDM and bass music. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 VOLT Athens-based heavy rock duo. BLUE BODIES New local punk band. QUEST GIVER New local experimental indie trio.
rock, singer-songwriter, power-pop, British Invasion, originals and TV theme songs. On the Rooftop. 9 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com LIQUID DYNAMITE Local drummer phenom Dwayne Holloway leads this four-piece through improvised jazz, blues, and funk. The Globe 10 p.m. $2 (headphone rental). 706353-4721 SILENT DISCO Dance with wireless headphones and three channels of music. One of them is a request line! Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 EXPERIMENTAL NIGHT Featuring Dream Culture, Brad Bassler,
an evening of original music, improv and standards.
Thursday 10 The Bar-B-Que Shack 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-6752 BLUEGRASS JAM Bring your own instrument! All pickers are welcome every Thursday. Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com OAK HOUSE Melodic and complex post-rock group from Athens and Atlanta. EASTER ISLAND Lush, local postrock band with pop melodies, tender harmonies and shimmering guitars. Rebecca Cash
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GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie) (Eastside) Every Wednesday. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.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: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) (Washington St.) Play to win. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Gather a team. Every
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Oak House plays the Caledonia Lounge on Thursday, Aug. 10. Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. willys.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 KIDSTUFF: Teen Movie (ACC Library) Unwind with a movie and snacks. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Ice Ice Baby (Oconee County Library) Celebrate the end of summer with ice breaker games and ice cream. Grades 6–12. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee
LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 8 Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com JOHN & KIRAN FERNANDES Father and son team up for an experimental instrumental set. JACOB SUNDERLIN Local musician who incorporates elements of noise, folk, ambient and drone. LYDIA BRAMBILA Local singersongwriter and member of Outersea plays a solo set. The Foundry Terrapin Tuesday. 7 p.m. $5. www. thefoundryathens.com WEST KING STRING BAND Bluegrass outfit from St. Augustine, FL.
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Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 6 p.m. FREE! hendershotscoffee.com PIANO HAPPY HOUR Jason Fuller, Bart King, Grant Cowan, Caroline Aiken and guests play in the round. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 SOGGY PO’ BOYS Swinging, sevenpiece New Orleans jazz band.
Wednesday 9 Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC A weekly open-mic jam. Creature Comforts Brewery Athens Farmers Market. 5 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net MAGGIE HUNTER Folky local singersongwriter. 40 Watt Club 7 p.m. www.athenspopfest.com ATHENS POPFEST Featuring White Violet (7:30 p.m.), Happy Abandon (8:15 p.m.), Rat Fancy (9 p.m.), Kleenex Girl Wonder (10 p.m.), Feather Trade (11 p.m.), The Veldt (12 a.m.) and Elf Power (1 a.m.). See story on p. 16. Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 7 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com JAY GONZALEZ Drive-By Truckers’ keyboardist plays your favorite yacht
Rude Dude and the Creek Freaks, Blush Fuss and Beverly. Iron Factory 8 p.m. FREE! 706-395-6877 OPEN MIC Hosted by Katie Collins. Little Kings Shuffle Club 2 p.m. www.athenspopfest.com ATHENS POPFEST Featuring Emileigh Ireland (2 p.m.), Forresters (3:15 p.m.), COEDS (4 p.m.) and Divine Feed (4:45 p.m.). See story on p. 16. 8:30 p.m. $5. www.facebook.com/ lkshuffleclub SWING STREET DANCE BAND Playing a mix of swing and salsa tunes. Locos Grill & Pub 6 p.m. FREE! 706-549-7700 (Timothy Road location) SALLY AND THE SIX GRAND Oldtime rock band. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN Local acoustic singer-songwriter and member of Mama’s Love. 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
Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com KATIE COLLINS Singer-songwriter playing classical piano with a melodic twist. LYDIA SERA Local visual artist and musician. LUCAS O’CONNELL No info available. HELLO KITTY KAT Solo sounds from local singer-songwriter Jimmy Taylor. 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com THE HONEY SLIDERS Detroitinfluenced rock band from Catropolis. Album release show! LOS CANTARES Local desert-rock supergroup featuring members of Old Smokey and Moths. PILGRIM Local hard-hitting, riffheavy rock band led by songwriter Paul McHugh. The Foundry 7 p.m. FREE! www.thefoundryathens. com DIABLO SANDWICH & THE DR. PEPPERS Local all-star Southern rock band blending country, gypsy, jazz and more. Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. www.athenspopfest.com ATHENS POPFEST Featuring Red Pony Clock (7:30 p.m.), Palehound (8:15 p.m.), The Gotobeds (9 p.m.), Marshmallow Coast (9:45 p.m.), Antlered Aunt Lord (10:30 p.m.), Waxahatchee
Go Bar 11 p.m. FREE! 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic Dr. Fred and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more. Every Thursday!
The Foundry 8 p.m. $8 (adv.), $10 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com CRESTON MAXEY BAND Group from Winder playing a mix of country and Southern rock. FIVE SPEED Athens-based country and Southern rock group. JORDAN ROWE Country singersongwriter from South Georgia.
Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 7:30 p.m. $8. www.hendershotscoffee. com HOT CLUB OF ATHENS Multinational four-piece jazz project featuring locals Kishi Bashi, Keiko Ishibashi, Antoon Speters and Elijah Smith.
Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. www.athenspopfest.com ATHENS POPFEST Featuring Einschlagen (7 p.m.), Big Quiet (7:45 p.m.), R. Ring (8:30 p.m.), Laetitia Sadier (9:15 p.m.), Eureka California (10:15 p.m.) and Superchunk (11:15 p.m.). See story on p. 16.
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!
Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com NSM Local all-star dance-pop group.
(11:15 p.m.) and The Apples in Stereo (12:15 a.m.). See story on p. 16.
Iron Factory 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-395-6877 MAGNA CUM LORD Post-punk/ psych-rock band featuring Thom Strickland, Larry Choskey and Nate Mitchell. Little Kings Shuffle Club 2 p.m. www.athenspopfest.com ATHENS POPFEST Featuring Ancient Whales (2:30 p.m.), DieAlps! (3:15 p.m.), Heavenly Creatures (4 p.m.) and Outer Spaces (4:45 p.m.). See story on p. 16. 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. The Rialto Room 8 p.m. $10–25. www.indigoathens.com BOWERS BROTHERS No info available. The World Famous 5 p.m. www.athenspopfest.com ATHENS POPFEST Featuring Procedure Club (5:15 p.m.) and Casper & the Cookies (6 p.m.). See story on p. 16.
Friday 11 Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 LEAVING COUNTRIES Popular local band playing a fusion of folk, country and Southern rock, with jazz influences. Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. www.caledonialounge.com REMEMBER THE KING A tribute to late local hip-hop trailblazer Timothy “DJ” Garrett, hosted by Chuck Garrett and featuring music by DJ Slim, with performances by C-Fresh, Lil Reese, King Hill, Nonstop, Mr. Nasty, Dictator and Tony B. All proceeds will benefit Garrett’s children. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com HANNIE AND THE SLOBS Garagerock project featuring members of The Rodney Kings and Muuy Biien. BIG BLISS Brooklyn-based goth-rock group. 40 Watt Club 10 p.m. $2. www.40watt.com ‘80S DANCE PARTY Dance to your favorite tunes from the 1980s.
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 THE ORIGINAL SPLITZ BAND This band’s wide range encompasses classic Motown, funk, disco and R&B. Little Kings Shuffle Club 2 p.m. www.athenspopfest.com ATHENS POPFEST Featuring Growl (2:30 p.m.), Schande (3:15 p.m.), Très Oui (4 p.m.) and Big Fresh (4:45 p.m.). See story on p. 16. See story on p. 16. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 THE AQUADUCKS High-energy funkrock band from Nashville. 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 THE ORIGINAL SCREWTOPS Crankin’ the blues since 1962. The World Famous 5 p.m. www.athenspopfest.com ATHENS POPFEST Featuring Matt Harnish (5:15 p.m.) and Claire Cronin (6 p.m.). See story on p. 16.
Saturday 12 Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net WHITE RABBIT COLLECTIVE Freeform psych-rock ensemble led by local musician Nick Bradfield. KIMBERLY & KRIS No info available. Caledonia Lounge 3 p.m. $1 (21+), $3 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com OTP FEST An all-day punk, ska and hardcore festival featuring Georgia bands Broken Glow, BullMoose, Burns Like Fire, Crabhammer, Eliminate Earth, Ganges Phalanges, Gloom Cocoon, Go-Nowheres, Hunger Anthem, Joy Kills, KarbomB, The Lone Deaf Pig-Dog, Nightmare Coast, Pansy, Resident One, The Sawed Offs, The Taj Motel Trio and X-Ray Vision. See Calendar Pick on p. 24. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com TEARS FOR THE DYING Longrunning, Atlanta-based death-rock group fronted by Adrya Stembridge.
UNUS MUNDUS Psychedelic blues and space-rock act. DAVIS RIPLEY KELLER Performing spoken-word poetry. 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com THE GRAWKS Local rock band that sounds like “Bazooka Joe bubble gum laced with shrapnel.” Album release show! See Calendar Pick on p. 24. SHEHEHE Local band that draws from old-school punk and arena rock to create a fist-pumping atmosphere. PALACE DOCTOR Dynamic rock trio fronted by former Modern Skirts bassist Phillip Brantley. DUSTY BLADES Local radio DJ spins in between sets and after the last band. Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. www.athenspopfest.com ATHENS POPFEST Featuring Superbody (7:30 p.m.), Lingua Franca (8:15 p.m.), Noon:30 (9 p.m.), Pylon Reenactment Society (10 p.m.), Tunabunny (11 p.m.) and ESG (12 a.m.). See story on p. 16. On the Rooftop. 10:30 p.m. www.georgiatheatre.com BOOTY BOYZ DJs Immuzikation, Twin Powers and Z-Dog spin dance hits into the night. The summer “VS” series pits two musical powerhouses against each other each week. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 JAKE TOBIN Experimental composer and pop singer-songwriter. MANS TRASH Skewed pop sounds from Mercer West (The Dream Scene, Bubbly Mommy Gun). JIM JIM No info available. SURFACE TO AIR MISSIVE Psychpop experimentation from local songwriter Taylor Ross. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 7:30 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee. com CHRISTOPHER ALAN YATES & ADELAIDE TAI Singer and visual artist Tai and songwriter Yates of The Sweet Tea Project come together to create fresh sounds. 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 ATHENS LATIN PARTY Enjoy an evening of bright, rhythmic Latin tunes. Little Kings Shuffle Club 2 p.m. www.athenspopfest.com ATHENS POPFEST Featuring Saline (2:30 p.m.), Dump Him (3:15 p.m.), Seafang (4 p.m.) and Scooterbabe (4:45 p.m.). See story on p. 16. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 URBAN SOIL Electrified jam band from Raleigh, NC. The Office Lounge 9 p.m. 706-546-0840 QUIG AND THE BOYS Local rock band playing old, new, blues and rock with a twist. k continued on p. 29
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Sunday 13 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! Iron Factory 9 p.m. FREE! 706-395-6877 PARADISE PATIO A bumpin’ deephouse outdoor dance party every Sunday, hosted by DJ Zelium.
Monday 14 Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 9 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com MISTER TIE DYE Local nine-piece instrumental fusion group with a potent horn section.
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(Dreams So Real), Jamie Derevere, Darrin Cook and Bo Hembree. Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 8 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com DAVID BARBE & INWARD DREAM EBB The Athens scene legend performs material from his new solo album, backed by members of New Madrid. Album release show! THE HERNIES Local riff-heavy rock band displaying influences from classic to indie rock. Nowhere Bar 9 p.m. 706-546-4742 TUESDAY NIGHT CONFESSIONAL This series, hosted by Fester Hagood, showcases acoustic solo sets from talented singer-songwriters from Athens and across the country. State Botanical Garden of Georgia Sunflower Concert Series. 7 p.m. $15. botgarden.uga.edu RANDALL BRAMBLETT This established Georgia singer-songwriter’s Southern-tinged music pulls from a variety of influences.
channels of music. One of them is a request line! Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com LOCUST HONEY Bluegrass band from Asheville, NC influenced by pre-war blues. PICKLED HOLLER Local “folk-grass” collective hosts a pickin’ session. Locos Grill & Pub 6 p.m. FREE! 706-549-7700 (Timothy Road location) REVEREND TRIBBLE AND THE DEACONS Good old-fashioned rock and roll with a sprinkle of good-humored irreverance. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 PADGETT & POULIN Local guitarist Chris Padgett teams with violinist Adam Poulin. The Office Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn. Porterhouse Grill 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT The longest standing weekly music gig in Athens! Enjoy
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David Barbe and Inward Dream Ebb play the Georgia Theatre Rooftop on Tuesday, Aug. 15. 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. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 SKANKNASTY Get down with some funky, horn-laden tunes courtesy of Gnarly G and company.
Tuesday 15 Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com MONSOON Local pop-punk band that dabbles in rockabilly and new wave. LUNG Cincinatti-based rock duo featuring cello and drums. VINCAS Local downer-punk band featuring snarling guitars. The Foundry Terrapin Tuesday. 7 p.m. $5. www. thefoundryathens.com STICKS AND BONES Local rock group featuring Barry Marler
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Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC A weekly open-mic jam.
8/17 DONNY KNOTTSVILLE / BLUE BODIES / LOUIE LARCENY / CALICO VISION (Caledonia Lounge) 8/17 CHRISTOPHER WITHOUT HIS LIVER / AJ GRIFFIN / LYDIA SERA / JOHN WILKES PHONE BOOTH (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 8/17 ACROSS THE WIDE (The Foundry) 8/17 PIP THE PANSY / SAM BURCHFIELD / EUGENE MARIE (Georgia Theatre) 8/17 HARDY AND THE HARDKNOCKS / GRINGO STAR / MIGHTY / COWBOY CURTYS (Georgia Theatre) 8/18 LAZER/WULF / MEAN QUEEN (Caledonia Lounge) 8/18 WILDWOOD REVIVAL / The Bones of J.R. Jones / Durand Jones & The Indications / Shakey Graves / Heath Haynes and The Hi Dollars (Cloverleaf Farm)
Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com ASHLEY WALLS Up-and-coming country singer from Marietta. RUHAA Local alt-rock group playing covers and originals. JORDAN ROWE Country singersongwriter from South Georgia. The Foundry 7 p.m. $5. www.thefoundryathens.com THE GENTRY Irish music trio. THE GREEN FLAG BAND Playing traditional Irish music. The Globe 10 p.m. $2 (headphone rental). 706353-4721 SILENT DISCO Dance the night away with wireless headphones and three
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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. Deadlines Sept. 15 and Dec. 15. info@athensarts. org, www.athensarts.org ATHICA 2017 Juried Exhibition (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) The gallery’s third juried show will be juried by Harry H. DeLorme, Jr., New Media Curator of Telfair Museums in Savannah. Up to three pieces may be submitted for review. Deadline Aug. 15. $25. info@athica.org, www.athica.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 based non-consumable equipment, programs and experiences, and professional development for educators or youth specialists. AthFest Educates awards up to $25,000 per grant cycle. 706-5481973, director@athfesteducates.org, athfesteducates.org 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 Sept. 20. www.athensclarkecounty.com/6657/ exhibition-proposal-form Indie South Fair (Multiple Locations) Sunday Holiday Market at Monday Night Brewing in Atlanta. Deadline Oct. 16. Event on Dec. 10, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Holiday Hooray at 660 N. Chase St. Deadline Sept. 25. Market on Dec. 2, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. and Dec. 3, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Find applications on website. www.indiesouthfair.com
Auditions Zombie Farms Casting Call (Zombie Farms) Zombie Farms seeks 60 actors to play zombies, humans, ghosts and more. Aug. 12 & Aug. 26, 7–10 p.m. www.zombie farms.com
Classes AWE-Wakening: Adult Mentoring Program (Private land in Oglethorpe County) This program is spread out over seven weekends throughout the year. Activities include games, play, exploration, wandering and quiet spaces. Begins Sept. 16. $645. 706-255-8937, sara@wildintelligence.org Active Hope Two-Day Workshop (Earthsong) Based on the work of Joanna Macy, this participatory workshop is designed
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medical research and training are blended into eight weeks of instruction and a one-day mindfulness retreat focused on reducing stress and anxiety and increasing general well-being. Classes begin Aug. 21, 6–8 p.m. $225/series. 706-5430162, mfhealy@bellsouth.net, www.mindfuliving.org One-on-One Computer Skills (ACC Library) Personalized instruction available for various computer topics. Thursdays, 9 a.m. 706-6133650, ext. 354, www.athenslibrary. org One-on-One Digital Media Center Tutorials (ACC Library) Get individual instruction for graphics, audio or video editing projects or learn to convert albums and cassettes to DVDs and CDs. Thursdays, 6 p.m. and Saturdays, 11 a.m. 706-613-3650 One-on-One Genealogy Assistance (ACC Library) Library staff offer assistance to genealogists and researchers. Aug. 23, 10 a.m. or Aug. 9 & 30, 2 p.m. Registration required. 706-6133650, www.athenslibrary.org/athens Tai Chi (Rubber Soul Yoga) Tai Chi in yang style and traditional long form. All levels welcome. No experience necessary. Thursdays, 9–10 a.m. 770-630-1252 Therapeutic Yoga (m3yoga, 159 Oneta St., Unit 4) m3yoga specializes in the healing aspects of yoga. All ages and experience levels welcome. Check website for classes. www.m3yoga.com Vinyasa Workshop (Fuel Hot Yoga) Cindy Lunsford will teach the foundations and flow of Vinyasa. $40/workshop, $80 for the weekend. Aug. 11, 6:30 p.m. and Aug. 12, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. www.fuelhotyoga.com Yoga (Rubber Soul Yoga) Ongoing classes in Kundalini, Hatha, gentle yoga, laughing yoga, acroyoga, karate and one-on-one yoga as well as guided meditation. Check website for schedule. Donation based. cal clements@gmail.com, www.rubber soulyoga.com Yoga (Athens Five Points Yoga Studio) Classes are offered in Iyengar yoga, flow yoga, gentle flow, hot power flow, restorative yoga, alignment yoga and meditation. Check website for weekly schedule. www.athensfivepointsyoga.com Zumba and Boot Camp Fitness Programs (East Athens Community Center) Zumba for ages 16 & up is held Mondays, Aug. 14–Nov. 6, 6–7 p.m. and Saturdays, Aug. 19–Nov. 11, 10–11 a.m. $5–7.50/class. Bootcamp covers circuit training and intervals to improve the heart and muscular health of participants of all fitness levels. Wednesdays, Sept. 6–Oct. 25, 7–8 p.m. $5/class. www.athens clarkecounty.com/fitness
Help Out ANIMAL SHELTER (Athens, GA) Volunteers are needed to help socialized adoptable cats and dogs, participate at adoption events around town, and assist at the spay/neuter
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Paintings by Nancy Everett are currently on view at Last Resort Grill through August. center and general shelter. www. athenshumanesociety.org COMMUNITY GARDEN VOLUNTEERS (West Broad Market Garden) Volunteers help with farm tasks like planting, weeding and harvesting. No experience required. Volunteers will receive fresh produce when available. Monday, Wednesdays & Fridays, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. www.athenslandtrust.org Disabled American Veterans Network (Athens, GA) Seeking volunteers to drive veterans to their medical appointments and assisting in the office with scheduling and dispatching. Contact Donna Ingram, volunteer coordinator, at 1-800-8365561 ext. 5959 or donna.ingram@ va.gov FREE IT (Free IT Athens) Volunteers wanted to refurbish and recycle computers. Free IT Athens provides technology resources to Athens residents and organizations. www. freeitathens.org/volunteer Gallery Volunteers (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) The gallery is seeking volunteers to assist in opening the gallery during exhibitions, preparing exhibitions, photography, graphic design and more. Must be at least 18 years old. volunteers@athica.org, www.athica.org GENTIVA HOSPICE (855 Gaines School Rd.) Volunteer with patient visits or administrative support. 706-549-5736, michelle.moulton@ gentiva.com PALS Volunteers Needed (PALS Institute) Women of the World is seeking volunteers to mentor young adult women in earning a GED. The program focuses on business training, computer skills and literacy. Spanish speakers needed. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 9:30 a.m.–1 p.m. www.womentotheworld. org
READERS NEEDED (Learning Ally) Learning Ally is looking for volunteers to train as readers to help create audio textbooks for people with print disabilities. 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. 706-548-0000, www.womentothe world.org
Kidstuff Academy Classes (Rose Hall, 150 Fritz Mar Lane) Rose of Athens Theatre presents a six-week program for young actors, “Stage Combat for Youth.” Topics include stage fighting and choreography. Ages 8–18. Fridays, Aug. 18–Sept. 22, 10–11 a.m. or 4:30–5:30 p.m. 706-3409181, academy@roseofathens.org, www.roseofathens.org Wild Intelligence Year-Long Programs (Multiple Locations) The Forest Caterpillars Year Long Program at McBride Family Farm is for ages 4–6. Begins Sept. 4, 3:30–6 p.m. $900. The Otters After School Program features nature-themed activities for ages 7–10. Begins Sept. 9, 3:30–6:30 p.m. $1100. The Gray Fox Year Long Homeschool Program is for ages 7–12. Begins Sept. 5, 9:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. $1350. Earthsong. In the Hawks After School Program, middle school participants develop sense of sight through scout skills. Begins Sept. 7, 4–6:30 p.m. $1100. State Botanical Garden. www. wildintelligence.org
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 Caregivers’ Support Group (Tuckston United Methodist Church) Find support with other caregivers. Non-denominational meetings are held the second Sunday of each month. 706-850-7272 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. except July 20, 6:30–7:30 p.m. 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 NAMI Family Support Group (First Presbyterian Church of Athens) For family members, friends and caregivers of individuals with mental illnesses. Meetings are held the fourth Tuesday of every month, 6:30–8:30 p.m. FREE! 770-2250804 ext. 700, namihallga@gmail. com, www.nami.org Reiki Healing Circle (Heart Path Studio) Reiki is an ancient Japanese technique of healing which reduces stress and promotes relaxation. Each circle involves meditation, sound healing, and Reiki treatments. Held the second and fourth Thursday of each month, 7–9 p.m. $10 suggested donation. kelli@following wisdom.com, www.heartpathstudio. org
On The Street Cause + Effect (Athens, GA) Cause + Effect, a progressive film competition and festival hosted by Alliance for a Better Georgia, is seeking short films focused on social, political, environmental or economic issues facing Georgia. Winners
receive a $1000 prize. Submissions accepted Aug. 15–Oct. 15. Winning films will be screened at Ciné in the fall. FREE! www.causeandeffect film.org Inclusive Book Club (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Adults of all abilities can read out loud and discuss a book from the “I Survived” series by Lauren Tarshis.
art around town AMICI (233 E. Clayton St.) Susan Pelham’s collages are inspired by Magic Realism, Surrealism and nursery rhymes. Through September. 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 AREA UROLOGY (2142 W. Broad St.) Landscape paintings by Mike Spronck. Through August. ATHENS ART AND FRAME (1021 Parkway Blvd.) Heidi Hensley’s paintings depict colorful and eclectic scenes of Athens and UGA. ATHENS-CLARKE COUNTY LIBRARY (2025 Baxter St.) “Metal Visions: The Work of Harold Rittenberry” shares a collection of the local folk artist’s sculptures. Through Sept. 17. ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (ATHICA) (160 Tracy St.) “Leticia Bajuyo: Event Horizon” repurposes CDs and DVDs to create a largescale installation of vortices, while theremins provide interactive sound elements. Through Sept. 10. BENDZUNAS GLASS (89 W. South Ave., Comer) The family-run studio has been creating fine art glass for almost 40 years. 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, Harold Rittenberry and Joni Younkins-Herzog. • “Artscape Oconee: The Monuments of Artland” features a total of 20 paintings on panels installed around town. Artists include Claire Clements, Peter Loose, Andy Cherewick, Lisa Freeman, Manda McKay and others. THE CLASSIC CENTER (300 N. Thomas St.) “Warm Days, Cool Nights” celebrates summer vibes through Ariel Lockshaw’s pool paintings, Frances Berry’s minimal golden hour photos, Wade Sheldon’s nautical night skies and Hannah Ehrlich’s cloud compositions. Through December. • Jackie Dorsey’s solo exhibition in Gallery II features watercolor portraits of musicians, artists, chefs and other familiar faces of Athens. Through December. CREATURE COMFORTS BREWING CO. (271 W. Hancock Ave.) Cast resin ice cream cone sculptures by Jourdan Joly. Through Sept. 3. DONDEROS’ KITCHEN (590 N. Milledge Ave.) Artwork by Jessica Harbinson. Through August. EARTH FARE (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) Artwork by Mark Hodges and Vidaya Persaud. Through August. FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Artwork by Erica Strout. Through August. GALLERY@HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Spotlight 2017” features artwork by Erin McIntosh, Paul Collins and Christina Foard. Opening reception Aug. 17. On view Aug. 10–Sept. 30. THE GRIT (199 Prince Ave.) Paintings by Aron Joslin. Through Aug. 20. GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “The Genius of Martin Johnson Heade” includes landscapes, marine scenes and still-life objects by the 19th century painter. Through Sept. 10. • “Local Color: Martin Johnson Heade Paintings from the Collection of Deen Day Sanders.” Through Sept. 10. • “Avocation to Vocation: Prints by F. Townsend Morgan.” Through Sept. 10. • “Modern Living: Giò Ponti and the 20thCentury Aesthetics of Design.” Through Sept. 17. GLASSCUBE@INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Rainbow Cube” is a site-specific installation by Candice Greathouse and Curtis Ames. Through October. HENDERSHOT’S COFFEE BAR (237 Prince Ave.) Jacob Wenzka shares prints of illustrations from the children’s book The Girl Who Kept Night in Her Closet. Reception Aug. 11. Through August. HIP VINTAGE & HANDMADE (215 Commerce Blvd.) Illustrations by Michael McGill and sculptures by
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Leslie Lawson. Through August. JUST PHO…AND MORE (1063 Baxter St.) “Make Me an Offer” includes new drawings and paintings by Patrick Linker. LAST RESORT GRILL (174 W. Clayton St.) Nancy Everett’s colorful impressionist style paintings celebrate the Southeast. Through August. LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) “Fold Unfold: An Exhibit of Contemporary Coverlets.” Closing reception Aug. 19. • In the Lounge Gallery, Katherine Burke presents “On a Whim,” a solo show of collages created in response to childhood memories. Through Aug. 24. • Held in celebration of the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation’s 50th year, the two-part exhibition “Captured in Time” presents a collection of photographs from Growing Up in Athens. “Unidentified Houses of Athens.” Through Nov. 1. “Downtown Athens through the Years.” Through Sept. 9. • “The Game Show” includes playful pieces by Esteban Patino, Curtis Ames, Mike Landers, Lea Purvis, Meg Aubrey, Noah McCarthy, Nicole Jean Hill Paul Pfeiffer, Hope Hilton and Kaleena Stasiak. On view Aug. 12–Oct. 17. Reception Sept. 7. MADISON MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) The “40 Years: Madison Morgan Cultural Center” exhibit celebrates the creation, history and evolution of the MMCC through photographs, artifacts and text. Through Aug. 27. MAMA’S BOY (197 Oak St.) Susan Pelham’s collages are influenced by Magic Realism and Surrealism. Through August. MASON-SCHARFENSTEIN MUSEUM OF ART (567 Georgia St., Demorest) “Gloria Victis: Three Artists Respond to War” includes works by painter Temme Barkin-Leeds, sculptor Jim Buonaccorsi and ceramicist Richard Notkin. Reception Aug. 15. Currently on view through Sept. 15. RICHARD B. RUSSELL JR. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIES (300 S. Hull St.) In the Russell Library Gallery, see “On the Stump: What Does it Take to Get Elected in Georgia.” Through Aug. 18. • In the Brown Media Library, see the “Steele Vintage Broadcast Microphone Collection.” • “Gold-digging in Georgia: America’s First Gold Rush” tells the story of Georgia’s antebellum gold rush through nuggets, historic maps, photographs, postcards and other artifacts. SMITH-WILLIAMS GALLERY, PIEDMONT COLLEGE (1021 Central Ave., Demorest) “Leticia Bajuyo: In-Finity” repurposes discarded CDs and DVDs into a large-scale installation. Closing reception Sept. 8. Through Sept. 10. SOUTHERN BREWING COMPANY (231 Collins Industrial Blvd.) Linoleum cuts and woodcuts Christopher Ingham. Through August. THE STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GEORGIA (2450 S. Milledge Ave.) Watercolors of natural scenes by Cameron Berglund. Through Aug. 13. THE SURGERY CENTER (2142 W. Broad St.) Rita Knight presents a new collection of paintings in “Women…a Journey from Childhood to SelfDiscovery.” Through August. TERRAPIN BEER CO. (265 Newton Bridge Rd.) Artwork by Marisa Mustard. Through August. TRIO CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY (766 W. Broad St.) Curated by Melissa Lee and Tatiana Veneruso, “Nasty Women Athens” is a group exhibition demonstrating solidarity through art. Through Aug. 20. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF ATHENS (780 Timothy Rd.) Jennie Snare shares a collection of acrylic still life paintings depicting objects in front of a home window with interesting light. Through September. VIVA! ARGENTINE CUISINE (247 Prince Ave.) Artwork by Antoine Stewart. WHITE TIGER (217 Hiawassee Ave.) New paintings, drawings and block prints by Cooper Holmes. WINTERVILLE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY AND CULTURE (371 N. Church St., Winterville) Several local artists interpret the theme “Ripening.” Through September. 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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Should I Get My Roomie Arrested? Advice for Athens’ Loose and Lovelorn By Bonita Applebum advice@flagpole.com I really needed a roommate for the fall, so I found one online. He moved in only a few days ago, and it’s already going badly. He smokes tons of pot inside and doesn’t seem to get why someone wouldn’t like that. He’s already signed the lease, so we’re stuck together. I’m not sure how to talk to him about this, but I’m thinking about just calling the cops. Why? What good would it do to have cops crawling all over your rented home, shaking down your space and shoving your roommate into the criminal system as a nonviolent offender? He’ll be dealing with the legal repercussions of smoking a joint for years if you call the police. He’ll be charged with possession, and he’ll have to waste a lot of time and money in court. Also—and this is the biggest point for me—this still doesn’t nullify your lease. You’re gonna get this guy arrested, and he’s still gonna be well within his rights to just come back to your place and continue living there. Not only that, but you’ll then be known as a snitch and as an untrustworthy person, and you’ll have to find roommates on Craigslist for the rest of your life. No one will trust you or want to live with you, and they will be right to judge you thusly. The legal system sucks, and you can’t just throw people into it on a whim. Be smart when exercising your access to the law. Call the cops when your life is in danger, not when you’re
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NOT shut up about wanting me to visit home every weekend. I did that a lot when I was living on campus, but I really don’t see myself wanting to drive three hours home every Friday and Saturday anymore. I let them know that I’ve gotten to like Athens over the years, and I wanna explore the town more. My parents insist that they can help with that, too! Now they wanna come here and visit ME every single weekend! I thought I was going about it the right way, but now it’s even worse. They’re just not listening to me, and I would love any tips you have for driving this point home. Are you an only child, or a late-in-life baby that came to older parents? This might be why they’re so attached and unable to let you become independent. They’ve spent years focusing on you and your needs, and clearly they’re not ready to let go and turn that focus back on themselves. When I left home, my parents took up their hobbies again. Daddy golfs and fishes, and Mama is just weird and awesome (she’s gotten into fashion). I also worry that your parents’ inability to let go might hinder your own growth as a young adult. I think you should talk to your parents and explain to them that it’s time to soldier on, that all three of you have new lives to live, and that it can’t—and shouldn’t—be avoided. I worry that they’re the type who would show up
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annoyed at pot smoke. He moved into your place, so you’re allowed to lay down some ground rules. Outlaw smoking in common spaces, or outlaw it indoors altogether. If you allow bedroom smoking, insist that he clear out the smoke by opening windows and/or burning incense. Absolutely do not renew any lease with this guy once it’s up, and when you look for new roomies, be very specific about the house rules before they sign on.
unannounced, so talk to them about that as well. Make sure they respect your home and your time. Your parents love you and obviously miss you greatly already, so while you’re asking for space, be sure to keep the lines of communication open. If you lose contact after a conversation like this, they might think the worst. Be sure to call them, text them selfies and (appropriate) memes, and see them at least twice a month. f
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