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Nancy Denson Did This to Herself There are two things that I wish to note before I proceed: I’ve known Nancy Denson for at least 15 years and I’ve never had a cross word with her, not one. I voted for Nancy. And the Athens-Clarke County Democratic Committee is a partisan committee. It’s in the name.

Nancy, as mayor of Athens-Clarke County, held a fundraiser this past month for Houston Gaines, a Republican candidate. This is a direct violation of one of the bylaws of the ACCDC. That bylaw is: “12.1. The Committee is explicitly prohibited from supporting a Democratic candidate who has opposition in a primary or special election, nor shall a member use his/her office to support an opposed primary or special election candidate. No member shall publicly support another candidate other than the Democratic nominee in a partisan general election.”

People have dissected this in numerous ways, and with many readings people have inflicted numerous interpretations on it.

Let’s start with the first half of the first sentence. “The Committee is explicitly prohibited from supporting a Democratic candidate who has opposition in a primary or special election…” This was established by the committee to keep them impartial when they have numerous Democratic candidates running for one office. Not until one candidate is chosen by primary can the committee commit itself to that candidate.

Note the word “Democratic.” I’ve seen this interpreted to show that Nancy was not in violation because her candidate is Republican. More on that before I finish.

Now, the second half of the first sentence, “…nor shall a member use his/ her office to support an opposed primary or special election candidate.” In this case, she is in direct violation of the bylaw. On the invitation, she used her title of Mayor Nancy Denson. She clearly used her office to support her candidate.

And the last sentence, the one that seems to have everyone preoccupied, is, “No member shall publicly support another candidate other than the Democratic nominee in a partisan general election.”

This has been interpreted to mean that a non-partisan election does not have to follow these guidelines. That interpretation only applies to that sentence, not the whole of the bylaw.

Mayor Nancy Denson, a member of the ACCDC (a partisan committee) violated bylaw 12.1.

Nancy Denson could have avoided all of this. All she had to do was to resign from the committee before she chose her nominee. The committee gave her the opportunity to resign from her post before it took a vote to remove her. She declined.

She was voted off of the committee with an overwhelming majority (34–4). This is what she wanted. She seems to think this will help her nominee.

It later came to my attention that she denied being asked to resign on the Tim Bryant show on Oct. 2. She said, “There were statements made that I was approached privately about

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quietly resigning. That did not happen,” and, “If one of my friends or one of my acquaintances on the committee had come to me and said ‘Nancy, this really looks kind of bad. You think maybe it’s a good idea to resign?’ I would have done it on the spot.” I’m surprised that she wasn’t asked to resign by more than one of her friends.

She has friends and acquaintances on the committee, even now. There were long debates involving people that consider her a friend. These people are not “extremist,” as Gaines called us. And her resignation is not the responsibility of the committee. It was her responsibility. She knew she should have resigned. She made it quite clear on the Tim Bryant show that she has read the bylaws. It’s only a couple of pages.

She has said she was going to resign from the ACCDC in 2018 so she could endorse Houston Gaines in the general election. It’s odd that she didn’t resign now. She has only been to one committee meeting in the past two years. She removed herself from being an active member of the ACCDC and was uninformed of their current direction by her own choice.

Now, we are seeing Houston Gaines trying to use this as political fodder for his campaign. It won’t work, and it’s a weak platform. Democratic voters are not going to turn against their candidate, Deborah Gonzalez, because of this. He is a Republican candidate. Of course a partisan Democratic committee is opposed to him.

One of our members with a prominent title chose to go against the committee. It has to stand united against the action she took.

She knew she would make it more difficult for our candidate, Deborah Gonzalez. This was not an innocent mistake. This was done with intent.

Nancy and her supporters have pointed out her Democratic credentials from years past. She does have a long history with the Democratic Party, but currently she is playing for the other team. You can have someone on your team for 30 years, and they’ve been a good member, but when that teammate starts playing for the opposition, you remove them from your team. They are no longer an ally.

Remember, this was her choice.

The Athens-Clarke County Democratic Committee has one nominee in District 117, Deborah Gonzalez, and it is fully behind her.

The Athens-Clarke County Democratic Committee has one nominee in District 119, Jonathan Wallace, and it is fully behind him.

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Gonzalez Is the Best Candidate for Athens I don’t know the Gaines family, which includes the illustrious, fair-minded Judge Gaines, now deceased, and his grandson Houston, who, in his early 20s, is running for the state House in Georgia.

Because I’m not in their social sphere, I don’t feel, but can imagine, family friends’ sense that they should show their respect

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by opening their wallets to kickstart the young scion’s political ambitions. And I bet they like the personable young man, a former student body president and member of a fraternity at UGA. Seems harmless enough, but these goodold-boy support systems are what invisibly underpin racism and other social ills. We often don’t give jobs to the best candidates, but to the families we know best.

On the other hand, Houston’s opponent, Deborah Gonzalez, doesn’t have a name that resonates as well in these here parts.

She hasn’t lived a life of privilege. Her dad was in the military—like mine—and risked his life in two tours of duty in Vietnam.

She put herself through college and law school while working full time at a factory making a little more than $3 an hour. She raised two children, sometimes skipping meals to be sure her kids had money for their school projects and other things that help children from working-class families feel like they belong, too. She has lived the challenges faced by so many people in our state who need health care, affordable housing and decent wages.

Houston’s dad wrote to some of the doctors in town, saying: “Houston will be a friend of health care.” But no details were given about his views on urgent health care issues. And to ask would be rather impolite, wouldn’t it?

Houston’s website says that he will be a champion for conservative values. Are those the old values, for example, that once sought to conserve our nation’s land for generations or the ugly values that seek to secure social status for generations?

I understand the pressure to pony up for Houston’s campaign. It’s a kind of social cement that helps hold things in place.

But once people step into the privacy of the voting booth, I hope they’ll choose the better candidate—for a better Georgia.

Pat Priest Athens

Democrats Are Hypocrites for Ousting Mayor Denson Having spent a few decades in and out of the political campaign trenches, as a campaign staffer, adviser and volunteer, as well as senior staff member with stints in Washington, DC and under Georgia’s Gold Dome, I’ve encountered many people whose worldview is almost always skewed through the prism of partisanship.

We are all Americans, with so much in common, and yet our political activists and leadership seemingly seek and so often prefer to divide us. I’ve learned that fine people and leaders come from both major political parties. The best also understand that their party has no monopoly on solutions or no singular purity as it relates to a path to achieving them.

Clarke County, home to the University of Georgia, is the smallest county by land mass in our great state. Athens Mayor Nancy Denson, nearing the completion of her second term, previously served Clarke County well for decades as tax commissioner, prior to winning the office of mayor. Athens-Clarke has a consolidated government, where Mayor Denson has been a fiscal conservative as long as she has been a lifelong Democrat.

A member of Clarke’s legislative delegation in the General Assembly, Rep. Regina Quick (District 117), is Republican.

A strong legislator, I expect Quick will fast establish a strong record as a jurist following her recent appointment to the bench.

Quick’s move to the judicial branch created an opening and special election for her House seat. All candidates for the office will run simultaneously. The top two finishers, barring any candidate receiving 50 percent plus one vote, will likely vie for the office in a special election runoff.

[Editor’s note: Only two candidates are running in District 117, so there will be no runoff.]

At the age of 19, Houston Gaines, a UGA freshman, became campaign manager for Nancy Denson’s re-election campaign for mayor in 2014. Though his beard might have caused you to consider young Gaines a few years older, it was his sharp mind, tactical thinking and ability to build and form a strong ground organization for the mayoral campaign that would have caused you to believe he was a decade older. And after that near-landslide win, and while maintaining his studies at the University of Georgia, Gaines began building coalitions there, too, first elected and serving as vice president and later president of UGA’s Student Government Association.

Denson surveyed the potential candidate field and assessed, as she nears the end of her final term, which candidate would be best for her beloved Athens-Clarke County and the University of Georgia. Denson chose to back Gaines, who is running as a Republican. Denson hosted a fundraiser in her home and donated to the Gaines campaign. Gaines has raised an incredible $66,000 for the special election, and his support is deep, bipartisan and across the district.

For this act of bipartisan outreach, the Athens-Clarke County Democratic Committee has chosen to excommunicate its mayor, and the titular head of the local party, via her position as the highest elected local official.

One choice, one special election, and party activists and loyalists are calling Mayor Denson a traitor… a Benedict Arnold. Ironically, or hypocritically, depending on your point of view, these same party leaders, within days of denouncing their mayor, pronounced U.S. Sen. John McCain, a maverick Republican from Arizona, as a patriot, hero and true leader for breaking with his party, president and majority leader to vote in opposition to the Graham-Cassidy Bill. The bill was the Senate GOP health-care plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. McCain breaks with his party and Athens Democrats lionize him. Mayor Denson breaks with her party, and she gets fed to the lions. Double-standard much?

Denson has seen Houston Gaines in action, and she knows well the fine measure of this young man. She has said nothing publicly in opposition of the other candidates, nor raised a stink or fought back against the small-minded members of the local Democratic Party, which she supported and helped lead for decades.

Tomorrow the sun will rise and again set, and some will view each day through roseor blue-colored glasses… but if the world is truly a rainbow, as many Democratic activists would espouse, you are really blocking and missing out on some of the best hues.

Bill Crane Decatur

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Don’t Forget to Vote Nov. 7 T-SPLOST AND TWO HOUSE RACES ARE ON THE BALLOT, AND MORE LOCAL NEWS

By Blake Aued news@flagpole.com Tuesday, Nov. 7, voters will go to the polls in half of Clarke and Oconee County to elect two new state representatives for districts 117 and 119. If you’re not caught up on those races, visit flagpole.com/news to read our coverage. In addition, Clarke County has a referendum on a 1 percent sales tax for transportation; flip to p. 8 for more on that.

Early voting continues at the Board of Elections downtown next door to City Hall from 8 a.m.–5 p.m. through Friday. If you vote on Election Day, be aware that a few polling places have changed: East Athens Baptist Church is now Gaines Elementary School; Barnett Shoals Elementary is now Whit Davis Elementary; the former Clarke County School District headquarters on Mitchell Bridge Road is now Georgia Square Mall, upstairs near Sears; Timothy Baptist Church is now Timothy Road Elementary; and Oglethorpe Elementary is now Whitehead Road Elementary. Polls will be open from 7 a.m.–7 p.m.

Visit mvp.sos.ga.gov for more information on precincts and which House district you’re in.

Commission Forum Thursday This year’s elections aren’t over yet, but it’s never too early to start thinking about next May’s Athens-Clarke County Commission races. A newly formed nonpartisan group called the Athens Council on African-American Affairs is sponsoring a forum for commission candidates from 6:30–8:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2 at First AME Church (at the corner of Hull and Dougherty streets) “to increase civic engagement and awareness about local issues, includ-

A Dog Whistle From Houston Gaines?

The Oct. 23 Federation of Neighborhoods candidate forum was a relatively uneventful affair— or so we thought at first. But Republican House District 117 candidate Houston Gaines’ inability to cleanly field a softball question later exploded into accusations of racism.

During the forum, Gaines kept referring to the Is being young, white or male what makes Houston Gaines unique? “unique perspective” he’d bring to the legislature.

One would think that Gaines, who just graduated ing T-SPLOST, that impact African-American residents of from the University of Georgia in May, was referring to his Athens,” according to organizer Kelli Clifton Ogunsanya. youth. When Flagpole intern Nate Harris asked him what made him unique, though, Gaines’ answer was anything but clear. (Visit flagpole.com to hear the audio.) After much hemming and hawing, Gaines—who is running against A local developer has filed plans for an 8,000-seat Deborah Gonzalez, a woman of Puerto Rican descent—at amphitheater off Commerce Road just north of the Loop. one point said, “It’s obvious just by looking at us that we And far from obstructing Classic Center Executive Director have a different perspective.”

Paul Cramer’s plans for a downtown arena, the amphitheWas that “unique perspective” about his youth, as ater could clear the way.

Harris suggested in his line of questioning? The AJC’s Greg The amphitheater plans filed last week call for “a large Bluestein sought out Democratic Party of Georgia spokesman Michael Smith, who drew a different conclusion: Smith front plaza, terraced turf seating, box seating, covered pavilion seating, concessions, stage, sky suites, office, lodgcalled Gaines’ remarks “disgraceful and disqualifying” ing for performers and service area for performers and and compared it to “racist filth.” “Character counts, and vendors,” as well as 1,803 parking spaces, according to the Houston Gaines is found wanting,” he added. (Smith is not Athens-Clarke County Planning Department. It will host to be confused with Athens Democrat Michael Smith, who acts that are too big to play the Classic Center but too small is supporting Gaines.) for a stadium, said James Warnes, the zoning lawyer for the Even factoring in Gaines playing cute about his supproject. port for our race-baiting president, that might be a stretch.

The developer is Clint Larkin, a former University of Gaines spokesman Brian Robinson responded that the Georgia football player who lives in nearby Carlton and is candidate was referring to himself as “the voice of a new generation of leaders.” He called it “just one more ridiculous also involved in the Hyatt Regency under construction next door to the Classic Center, Warnes said. and inane example of Democrats resorting to identity poliPart of the 49-acre parcel is zoned residential, so the tics.” Except, if Gaines meant to call himself “the voice of a project will require a rezoning to commercial-general. The new generation of leaders,” he could’ve easily said as much ACC Planning Commission will get its first look at the projin response to Harris’ questions. But he didn’t. ect Thursday, Nov. 2.

Gaines’ campaign also provided the AJC with remarks Construction will take about a year from the time perGonzalez, his Democratic opponent, made to WUOG, the mits are approved, Warnes said.

UGA student-run radio station. “‘I know that they say he’s Assuming the amphitheater is successful, a hotel and a nice guy and that he’s a different candidate,” she said in restaurants could be built on three commercial outparcels the WUOG radio interview. “But when I look at Houston along Commerce Road, he added.

Gaines, I see white. Male. Very wealthy. Supported by speLarkin did not return a call seeking comment, but ACC cial interest groups.”

Commissioner Kelly Girtz, who represents that area, said Gonzalez, a Latina, raised two daughters as a single he has spoken with the developer about buffering the mom while working and putting herself through college amphitheater from the adjacent Creekstone subdivision and night school. Gaines, meanwhile, is the grandson of a off Boley Drive. “It’s set up to minimize any impact on the judge and was raised in affluent Oconee County. neighborhood,” he said.

Race, class, gender—these things are common issues in Vehicular access would be off both Commerce Road and campaigns, but rarely are they brought out into the open.

Boley Drive, but Warnes said off-duty police will direct trafIf Gaines’ answer was a dog whistle rather than a mere fic, so it should not be an issue. Some concert-goers will stumble, everyone has now heard it.

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also arrive by bus or shuttle, he said, and the plans call for a link to the North Oconee River Greenway across the street.

The Athens Downtown Development Authority has kicked around an idea for an approximately 2,500-seat amphitheater on city-owned land near the Classic Center, but the Commerce Road amphitheater probably reduces the odds that the downtown amphitheater will ever be built, Girtz said. While former ADDA director Pamela Thompson had pushed for the amphitheater, which is included in the downtown master plan, current ADDA co-director David Lynn wasn’t even aware such a discussion had taken place.

At the same time, Classic Center Executive Director Paul Cramer has been eyeing that adjacent property for an approximately 7,000-seat arena, which he says could host about 125 events a year, rain or shine, including family shows, concerts, large conventions, trade shows and highschool athletic tournaments. “Certainly we want to bring in music acts, but it’s much more than that,” he said.

Warnes said he and Larkin have met with Cramer about their plans. “They really complement each other,” Warnes said. “Paul was favorable toward it.”

Cramer confirmed his support for the amphitheater. “What I said to [Larkin] was that Athens is such a great music town, we should be able to support an arena and an amphitheater,” he said.

Unlike the privately funded amphitheater—a type of venue that’s relatively inexpensive to build and maintain—the arena will require public funding. The price tag is $70 million, and Cramer said he intends to try to get it on the project list for the next SPLOST coming up in 2018. (Part of the cost will be covered by the private sector, he said.)

A study prepared by ODELL, a Charlotte-based company, found that there is a niche available for a 6,500–8,000-seat arena, with no such facility between Duluth and Clemson, SC. Interviews with people in the entertainment industry revealed that Athens has a need for a venue between the size of the Georgia Theatre (with a capacity of 1,000) and Stegeman Coliseum (10,500). The arena would bring in more than $4 million in revenue annually (including a $2.1 million profit) and have an economic impact of $35 million, according to the study.

Girtz, for one, said he isn’t sold on the idea, and it could be a tough sell after a $25 million expansion in 2011 that barely made the list and angered many citizens by creating a wall along Thomas Street cutting off downtown from the Multimodal Center and the river. But as he showed in 2010, Cramer can be very persuasive. “I’m hopeful when [people] see all the data, they’ll support this multi-use facility,” he said.

U.S. Colleges Were Built on Slavery When the bodies of about 100 African Americans, almost certainly former slaves, were discovered underneath Baldwin Hall in 2015 and reinterred off-campus last year, it forced the University of Georgia to at least begin grappling with its legacy of slavery. But UGA isn’t alone—slavery was intertwined with American higher education from its beginnings until the Civil War, according to Steven Craig Wilder, an MIT professor who spoke at the UGA Chapel last week.

Even Northern colleges were built with donations from slave traders and plantation owners, and sent recruiters to plantations in the South and the West Indies looking for students from wealthy families, in some cases even allowing them to bring a slave with them, said Wilder, the author of Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery and the Troubled History of America’s Universities. Some, like Brown and Rutgers, bear the names of slave-owning benefactors who saved those colleges after the devastation of the Revolution. In perhaps the best-known case, the Jesuits sold 272 slaves in 1838 to pay off Georgetown University’s debts.

Universities are reluctant to acknowledge that history.

“They don’t own it. No,” Wilder said. “They should, but they don’t.” That’s partly out of fear of having a conversation about the present day—universities “have tense relationships with communities of color and low-income communities right now.” But increasingly, student-activists, graduate students researching dissertations, faculty, archivists and librarians are forcing the issue, he said. f

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Republicans Attack Themselves

THIS ELECTION IS ALL ABOUT ATHENS

LAGGING GOP CANDIDATES SAVAGE THE GOP-RUN STATE GOVERNMENT

By Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com

By Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com

This election is not about Republicans or Republican governor. Talk about local conDemocrats, liberals or conservatives: It is trol and home rule! about Athens.

So, I’m simply saying that citizens of Here’s why. As you already know, Athens Athens-Clarke County should cast a protest has a liberal majority in its voting populavote this time around, instead of rewardtion—not a big majority, but a majority— ing those who have sliced and diced our which tends to vote Democratic. When home. In House District 117, the Gaines Republicans gained control of the state kid is a smart cipher who excelled at Athens legislature, they passed several redistrictAcademy and the university and managed ing plans that reduced the Democratic vote the mayor’s re-election campaign against in Athens by splitting Athens and Clarke County into several districts that now include large chunks of the surrounding rural counties.

Historically, for instance, Clarke County and Oconee County were in the same state senatorial district with a part of Oglethorpe County. That wasn’t enough for the Republicans, so they added a large part of Walton County to offset liberal Athens with conservative Monroe and its surrounding rural environs.

The Republicans split Is there a pattern here? Gaines, Kemp and anti-T-SPLOST? Kemp, you recall, is off the rest of Athens another Athens boy from a prominent family who made a right turn in Atlanta. into another senatorial district with Elbert, Madison, Barrow and Jackson counties. an unknown opponent. He calls himself a Before the Republicans got ahold of “consultant” to a group that advises nonthem, Athens and Clarke County had two profits, and he is not listed on their website state House districts wholly within Athensas a member of their staff. He is ready to Clarke County. After several Republican be molded by his Republican mentors in redistrictings, ACC has only one House Atlanta. His opponent, Deborah Gonzalez, district and two with a strong rural vote didn’t grow up here, but she has vast realoutside Athens-Clarke. life experience and accomplishments of Now, politically, that’s cool. The the sort that only lie in the future for a Democrats were shameless gerrymanderyoungster like Gaines. Republicans hold a ers when they controlled the legislature, majority in the 117, but so do Athenians. so, more power to the Repubs. But, here’s If Athenians, regardless of party, vote for the rub. Nobody except our Athens-Clarke Athens and against those who have hurt County Rep. Spencer Frye is in a position to Athens politically, Gonzalez could win. If… speak for Athens and vote for Athens in the In District 119, Jonathan Wallace is Georgia legislature. The rest of them must the lone Democratic candidate and the represent the outlying areas where their one most likely to represent Athens in the Republican majorities lie. Sens. Cowsert legislature. A strong Athens vote can help and Ginn owe their positions to the voters get him into a runoff and perhaps into in Walton County and Madison County, office, and would be a rebuke to those who respectively. They get a lot of Republican continue to work against the interests of votes out of Athens, but it is country music Athens. that calls their tune. The same was true of And talk about the interest of Athens: former representatives Chuck Williams and this T-SPLOST vote is all about making Regina Quick, now rewarded with appointAthens better connected through street ments to higher offices. and sidewalk improvements and enhancing Here’s how hard their representation our bus system and our walking and biking comes down on Athens. After the Mayor trails. T-SPLOST is all about Athens, but and Commission, in accordance with our not surprisingly, the anti-T-SPLOST crowd charter, sent to our legislators a redistrictis working for its defeat. Needless to say, ing plan based on eight districts and two they’re the same bunch whose political pri“super districts,” Sens. Cowsert and Ginn orities lie elsewhere than Athens. ignored our local government and introSo, this time around, vote for Athens— duced legislation dividing Athens-Clarke in District 117, in District 119 and all over County into 10 districts. Their plan was Athens-Clarke County for T-SPLOST. Send approved by the Republican Senate and by the message: We live here. Don’t mess with the Republican House and signed by the Athens! f

Several candidates for higher office are employing an old campaign strategy: attack the establishment as being hopelessly corrupt and promise to clean up the mess.

There can be something downright heroic about the lonely crusader who takes on the corrupt, powerful people in charge and actually vanquishes them. Thus we have Geoff Duncan, a former legislator from Forsyth County and a candidate for lieutenant governor, saying this: “Our state Capitol is a mess. Let’s be honest. The special interests run the show—in both parties. Contracts are handed out for favors.

You, the taxpayers, get left out. That’s got to change. As lieutenant governor, I’ll fight for ethics reform—to clean up the cesspool.”

Then we have state Sen. Michael Williams, also from Forsyth County and a candidate for governor, saying this: “It is time to destroy crony capitalism and root out the elite and corrupt players who orchestrate it… Our campaign is powered by the people, not lobbyists and special interest groups.”

There is also former legislator Hunter Hill of Atlanta, who is running for governor: “Career politicians support the status quo to ensure they don’t offend the lobbyist and special interests. What they don’t do is deliver results.”

There’s just one little problem with this approach. Duncan, Williams and Hill are all Republicans. They are attacking a state government establishment that is totally populated by members of the Republican Party. If there is as much corruption as they claim, then it’s happening in a government run by their own party.

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over both the state Senate and House of Representatives. No bill passes unless the Republican leadership says it’s OK. Democrats don’t pass important bills in the legislature, because they only have about one-third of the votes. They don’t award state contracts or steer state business to their favored cronies. That’s entirely a function of the majority party. Lobbyists do wine and dine a few Democrats, but far more of their attention and spending is devoted to Republicans. They’d be crazy to do otherwise.

The criticisms of Williams, Hill and Duncan would make sense if Georgia’s government was controlled by the Democrats.

But it’s not—their own party has held an iron fist over all the proceedings for the past 12 years. When they say the things they do, they’re slandering the political party that they’ve been part of for so long.

You wonder when Sonny Perdue or Nathan Deal is going strike back.

There’s a good reason why these candidates are taking this anti-establishment approach. They are running behind against candidates who are more palatable to the establishment. Williams and Hill have both been running in single digits in the few public polls that have been released for the GOP primary, far behind Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle. While Williams constantly reminds voters he was the first Georgia legislator to endorse Donald Trump, that hasn’t done him a lot of good. He’s been stuck down at 3 or 4 percent in the early polls.

There hasn’t been much polling of the race for lieutenant governor, but Duncan is considered the underdog at this point to state Sen. David Shafer (R-Duluth), who has raised a ton of money.

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Although Kaul notes that Athens is already home to several wonderful science events, “events like STEMzone are able to reach a larger community of people who wouldn’t necessarily seek out these opportunities,” she says, such as busy parents with jobs and young children.

This event is of personal significance to Kaul, who lost her mother, a third-grade

with my nieces and nephews, and even any random little kid, because who doesn’t get excited about robots or oozy, slimy things, or bugs, or snakes, or whatever your little kid’s heart’s desire is? It’s just really rewarding to be able to share my passion with other people,” she says.

The first of what Kaul hopes will become an annual event will be held on the Miller Learning Center lawn during But Kaul saw an opportunity the home game against South to bridge the gap between these Carolina on Nov. 4 from 11 a.m.– communities, and in response, 3:30 p.m. The MLC lawn is located she founded a science outreach around the corner from where the event—STEMzone UGA. During Dawg Walk takes place, so interthis event, UGA graduate stuested parties can simply “take dents in STEM disciplines (scithe longer route” to get to the ence, technology, engineering stadium. Updates and teasers will and math) will highlight their be posted on the event’s Facebook research in an interactive format. page (search for “STEMzone Participants will drive underwater UGA”). The rain date for the event robots, extract DNA from strawis the Nov. 18 home game against berries, build super-bouncy balls Kentucky. by manipulating polymers and As for the future of this event, meet snakes from the Savannah Kaul is in the last stages of her River Ecology Laboratory.

PhD program, but she hopes that “I’m coming at this event someone will carry STEMzone because not only do I love scion after she leaves UGA and ence, I know that research done that more events like this will be One of the groups at Saturday’s STEMzone event, ECOGIG, will bring an underat UGA can make people’s lives offered on campus. water robot that Bulldog fans can drive. better, whether that means that “If you got me really dreaming their parents live longer, their big, it would be awesome if we kids are healthier, their costs at the grocery science teacher, five years ago. Often the could have an SEC-wide or an NCAA-wide store are lower,” she says. “I think science guinea pig for her mother’s classroom science and football Saturday,” she says. has a real value that not everybody is aware experiments, Kaul feels she benefited from “Regardless of what campus you go to, of, and so this event is a way to start that having a hands-on science education and you’re going to hear about some awesome conversation with the idea that we’re all has carried on her mother’s legacy. research that’s done at the campus that coming to the table with the commonality “As an adult, I’ve now taken the legacy you’re visiting. But that’s pie in the sky. of loving UGA.” that my mom has left and picked it up Baby steps first.” f

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eni Kaul emerged from her home onto the streets of downtown on Apr. 22.

Her dog, Cray—a wagging ball of browns, whites and blacks described by Kaul as a “mutt with eyebrows”—happily walked alongside her, pink tongue hanging, greeting visitors with a small sign attached to his side that read “Science Keeps Me Healthy.”

She was on her way to join a crowd of Athens residents on the post office lawn for the March for Science. G-Day, UGA’s annual spring scrimmage game, happened to fall on the same day, and tailgaters armed in red and black also wandered downtown, discussing this year’s team and preparing for the game ahead. Kaul was accustomed to others noticing Cray because of the sometimes-too-energetic way he greets strangers. But today, Kaul saw both smiles and sneers.

The PhD candidate at the Odum School of Ecology is a scientist. But she is also a UGA lover. She noticed an unspoken division in Athens that day, and she found it disheartening. “I felt a little bit torn as far as we had these two groups with overlapping interests, but instead of coming together, we went our separate ways, reinforcing our differences,” she says.

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you’re experiencing déjà vu when you hear “T-SPLOST,” you’re not going crazy.

Athens voters already (sort of) approved T-SPLOST in 2012. That is to say, Athens voters approved of the idea of raising sales tax by 1 percentage point to pay for transportation improvements. But Athens was lumped into a region with 11 other counties where voters didn’t agree, and so the tax didn’t pass.

This time, the pennies spent in Athens will stay in Athens. Crucially, that includes pennies from people who live outside of Athens-Clarke County, as well as residents.

“We need everyone who uses our local transportation network to help fund it,” says Alice Kinman, who heads the T-SPLOST Citizens Advisory Committee, which recommended projects to the Mayor and Commission and is now charged with promoting the list. “That includes people who live here and people who work, play and visit here.”

Critics fret that raising the local sales-tax rate to 8 percent could push businesses and consumers over the county line, although Kinman doubts that’s the case, noting that the tax hike amounts to just $1 on a $100 purchase. “It doesn’t really seem like this is going to motivate people to spend that extra $1 on gas to shop elsewhere,” she says.

An estimated 40 percent of local sales taxes are paid by non-residents. The alternatives to T-SPLOST are to go without these amenities—not an option, in the case of necessities like crumbling roads and bridges—or raise property taxes to pay for them, putting the burden solely on home and business owners in a county where more than half the land is tax-exempt. T-SPLOST will raise an estimated $110 million over five years—the equivalent of a $427 tax hike on a $200,000 home.

Kinman believes that the majority of voters favor T-SPLOST, but since it’s the only thing on the ballot for half of Clarke County on Tuesday, Nov. 7 (others will be voting in one of two state House special elections), she’s worried that supporters won’t be motivated to turn out. Athens is “kind of in a boom time,” she says, with steady population and job growth and a rising graduation rate, so we should invest in economic development and prepare for future growth.

Here’s how the project list breaks down:

TRANSIT SERVICE EXPANSION ($940,000): A new bus line along the U.S. Highway 29 corridor, serving Athens Tech, the Department of Driver Services, the Veterans Administration clinic, Kroger, Ingles and other amenities.

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OCONEE RIVERS GREENWAY ($10 MILLION): Will create a true greenway—as opposed to merely a wide sidewalk—along MLK Drive, as well as extend the Greenway south toward College Station and Barnett Shoals roads.

FIREFLY TRAIL ($16,752,000): Extend the trail from Old Winterville Road through Winterville to the county line and build a pedestrian bridge to replace the Murmur trestle over Sandy Creek.

PAVEMENT REHABILITATION ($25,600,000): Repave streets that have gone without maintenance thanks to state cuts in grants for local road work.

TALLASSEE ROAD BRIDGE REPLACEMENT ($6 MILLION): Replace an aging bridge over the Middle Oconee with one that’s wide enough to accommodate bikes and pedestrians as well as cars.

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DOWNTOWN TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS ($7,097,000): Supplement SPLOST 2005 funding for Clayton Street utility and sidewalk work that proved to be insufficient when the project was put out for bid.

WHITEHALL ROAD AT SOUTH MILLEDGE ($2.5 MILLION): Replace the signalized intersection with a safer roundabout.

BICYCLE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM ($6 MILLION): Funding to implement Athens in Motion, ACC’s updated bike and pedestrian master plan, due to be released next year.

PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM ($11 MILLION): Athens has a 25-year backlog of sidewalk requests, and this money will pay to build them, based on priorities set by the Athens in Motion plan.

WEST BROAD PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS ($4 MILLION): Sidewalks, bike lanes, crosswalks, trails and/or intersection improvements in the historically underserved neighborhood bordered roughly by Baxter Street, Alps Road, Hancock Avenue and Milledge Avenue.

ATLANTA HIGHWAY, PRINCE AVENUE AND LEXINGTON ROAD ($4 MILLION APIECE): This funding is set aside to improve Athens’ “gateway corridors,” which could include beautification as well as bike- and pedestrian-safety improvements recommended by various studies over the years.

ACQUISITION OF PRIVATE STREETS ($340,000): Funds to repair privately owned streets that developers never deeded over to ACC and have since neglected.

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By Tyler Dewey and Jason Perry news@flagpole.com

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the current discussion of the upcoming T-SPLOST referendum, old cliches and past arguments have returned. A persistent myth used to denigrate bicycle and sidewalk projects says that riding a bike is a frivolous leisure activity that only a few Lycra-clad loners enjoy.

We’ve heard it angrily shouted, “Regular folks don’t ride bikes! The bike lanes and other improvements in the T-SPLOST referendum are a waste!”

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day, for weeks. Our recipients use the bikes for the same reasons we all drive cars, take the bus, walk or ride bikes: to get to work, to the libraries, to parks, to the doctor or maybe just to have fun, exercise and spend time with family.

The bikes that we donate get used, and used hard. People request them, mainly, to provide critical personal transportation.

Since January, BikeAthens has donated 71 bikes to people through our partner organizations. We also provide free continuous maintenance on all of those bikes. In the last two months, we A bike frees people from have fulfilled 44 requests for mainrepairs and replacement. having to burden friends tenance, And we know that with our limited and family with ride requests. resources, we are just scratching the surface of a much bigger need.

Numbers are impressive, but they obscure the people who ride the bikes. Mike needed to air up his tires. Tony needed a new front light after his was stolen. Darrell’s bike was run over in a gas station parking lot—hit and run—so we worked with him to find a replacement. We put a new seat on Jacob’s bike. We put bigger bars on Bobby’s bike because his knees and back ache, and he wants to sit upright.

We replaced Davis’ front wheel when he broke some spokes. Reggie grinds out so many miles to get to work that we’ve had to replace his drivetrain more times that we can count.

After a client rolls back out the door, we know that they are going to encounter unfriendly—and The daily work in the BikeAthens worksometimes downright dangerous—riding shop refutes that argument. BikeAthens conditions. Many of us who ride by choice works with local social-services agencies to have the freedom to avoid busy, dangerprovide refurbished bikes for people who ous streets. When a bike is your only form need them, and we work with clients to of transportation, you have to ride where keep their bikes rolling. Our Fix Your Own the jobs are, even if the job is way out Bike (FYOB) sessions attract even more on Lexington Road or Atlanta Highway. community members who need inexpensive BikeAthens has advocated for safe infraoptions for bike maintenance. Every day, structure for decades now, but we still have we serve people who ride bikes for transa long way to go. portation—regular people who do not call A safe, connected city will make it easier themselves “cyclists” and do not own Lycra. for people to get to work, and will give They ride bikes because a bicycle is vastly many a way to rise out of poverty. As a commore affordable than a car and faster than munity, Athens-Clarke County is working walking. on plans to connect bike lanes to transit, There is overwhelming evidence that neighborhoods and community centers. bike-inclusive infrastructure makes driving Athens Transit has a vision to improve safer and easier, improves public health and and expand the bus system. Voting YES would create a more vibrant Athens. More on T-SPLOST will turn these visions into importantly to our clients, access to inexreality. Projects like the West Broad Area pensive transportation—bikes and quality Pedestrian Improvements, Bus Stop & bus service—is, according to an ongoing Transfer Facilities Improvements, Transit Harvard study, the most crucial factor in Service Expansion, Tallassee Road Bridge upward mobility. Our volunteer mechanics Replacement and the Bicycle and Pedestrian see this played out day to day and year to Master Plans, not to mention the trail and year. paving projects, will weave a network of A bike frees people from having to bursafer, more comfortable streets. They will den friends and family with ride requests. provide more transportation choices. They It expands the scope of the bus system. It will improve the lives of real people. Vote is faster than walking three miles to work.

YES. f We remember giving a bike to a client who Perry is president and Dewey is executive director broke down crying because he had been of BikeAthens. walking an hour to work one way, every

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Through the Looking Glass DAWGS BREAK GATOR CURSE, PROVE AGAIN THEY’RE FOR REAL

By Cy Brown news@flagpole.com he ran for 137 yards and two touchdowns on them. The Bulldogs ran 42 plays in the game, 35 on the ground. Like we’ve done so many times this season, we ground-andpounded our way to a win. Florida knew what we were going to do, it just couldn’t stop us.

Our eyes saw the defense almost pull off something no team has done against Florida since the ’80s. Florida had scored in 367 consecutive games coming into the Cocktail Party, the longest scoring streak in FBS history. That was almost snapped by a ferocious Georgia defense, which created ANDY HARRISON / UGA ATHLETICS

To quote legendary Georgia defensive coordinator Erk Russell, “Screw Florida and the mule they came in here on.”

To quote myself watching Georgia bludgeon Florida in front of a half-empty stadium (the Gator half) at the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, “Ahahahahhahaha hahahahahahahahahahahaha!”

The Bulldogs went down to Jacksonville and laid a historic beatdown on the Gators, 42-7. It’s Georgia’s most decisive Cocktail Party win since 1982 when, as you might remember, it went on to play Penn State in the Sugar Bowl for a national championship.

Rodrigo Blankenship received a rare honor for a kicker last week—his own hype video. Watch it at flagpole.com.

All week—hell, all season—fans pointed to the Cocktail Party game as the barometer for these Bulldogs. As the season progressed and the Dawgs kept winning games, confidence grew that this Georgia team is better and more ready to compete for a title, both SEC and national, than any of its predecessors for the last few decades.

But the specter of Florida and all the pain it has inflicted upon Georgia over the years hung around like a stale fart. Anyone with eyes good enough to watch a game or read a stat sheet could see Georgia is the superior team, but that didn’t stop some part of our lizard brains from convincing us Florida holds some preternatural advantage.

Heading into this weekend, Florida was 7-1 when facing Georgia teams ranked in the top 10. We all remember the upsets in the series: 2002, 2003, 2005, 2014. Losses that ruin a promising season, like those, linger and put a pain in your gut. Then your gut convinces your brain that those disappointments will always be the outcome.

Well, Dawg fans, I think it’s time we stop using our guts and start using our eyes.

Our eyes saw Georgia run up a 21-point lead in the first quarter. It took less than eight minutes of game time for the Bulldogs to score three touchdowns. By the time the second one was on the board, there was little doubt where the game was headed. It was just a matter of getting there.

The Georgia offense was ruthless in the win, and didn’t need to hold the ball long to score. Sony Michel got just six carries, but

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the early lead by getting a couple three-andouts and an interception early in the first.

The Gators eventually scored in garbage time when Georgia played its reserves.

It was a brilliant display by the defense, but also one of their worst of the season.

Florida gained 183 yards on the ground, the most of any opponent this season. That should tell you just how good this unit is.

Our eyes saw the empty stands on the Florida side of EverBank Field. I didn’t hear a single Gator fan running his mouth before the game, probably because they were well aware of the beating that was about to befall them. By the end of the game, the Florida fans who bothered to show up for their team’s funeral had turned tail and run.

EverBank Field was a sea of red. The only blue in sight was the empty seats left by fleeing Gator fans.

Between Georgia’s ascension under Kirby Smart this year and the turmoil Florida found itself in under Jim McElwain—who was bought out of his contract Sunday—it’s never been clearer these two programs are moving in different directions. And for once, it’s Georgia that’s moving up instead of down. Florida may not make a bowl game. Georgia may play for the national title. Games like the one Saturday may be the new normal in the Cocktail Party.

Our eyes have seen Georgia dominate almost every game this season, and there’s no reason to think that’ll change in the next four games. To quote myself once again.

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Behind the Music ‘ATHENS POTLUCK’ FEATURES THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF JASON THRASHER

By Jessica Smith arts@flagpole.com

which can now be seen hanging at White Tiger. The title also speaks to the collaborative nature of the project; creatively, each musician brings something to the table when they invite the next participant. Hay was selected as the 33rd and final person, reaching the magic number Thrasher had kept in mind as a reference to 33 1/3 RPM records.

“I’m very lucky that I was in the right place and in the right mindset to capture this when I did. As an artist, I’ve always wanted to focus on the personal and the local,” he says. “I love Athens and the creative spirit of this place. I tried to make this book about the bigger picture of Athens, but also really wanted it to be about the individual[s] and the relationships they have to each other. It was really the stories that each person wrote that really helped push it to another level.”

The concept and method of how musicians would be selected dawned on Beth Art Rosenbaum Thrasher the same day Jason was shooting a band photo of Elf Power. He realized how exciting it would There are, of course, plenty of beautiful be to start with Laura Carter out on the portraits with instruments, like Andrea Orange Twin compound, and so the project DeMarcus of Cicada Rhythm leaning was launched. against her towering stand-up bass, Jill Coincidentally, it was years later, as they Carnes of Thimble Circus smiling beside were eating dinner with Carter and her her miniature piano and Kevin Sweeney of father, that she told the story that would Hayride playing guitar in front of a wall of become included in the book. This new idea amps. Just as many reflect the characters’ of having each musician write his or her other roles and interests, such as a tender own story solved the challenge of how to shot of Jim Wilson chatting with future allow personalities to shine through, while wife and Avid Bookshop owner Janet also avoiding the humdrum of straightforGeddis, as well as a tremendous studio shot ward biographies. While some musicians with Art Rosenbaum, standing peacefully JASON THRASHER

in the eye of a storm composed of paints in every color of the rainbow and a monumental work in progress.

“I really just wanted to photograph them in their homes. I thought that by going into their personal spaces, I would find things that would relate to the history of Athens, and that would help tell a bigger story,” says Thrasher.

Pictures are unlabeled in order to keep the design clean, but it’s not difficult to discover recurring images that imply synchronicity and add to the underlying awareness of how undeniably interconnected the music scene is. Musician, artist and Elephant 6 co-founder Will Cullen Hart, who appears on the cover of Flagpole this week, can be observed not only on his designated pages but also on Carter’s, due to his colorful paintings on her wall.

“If you look closely, you’ll pick up on details like Jeff Mangum’s suitcase from the first Neutral Milk Hotel tour, or Andrew Rieger’s journal with a list of every show he’s ever seen, or a beautiful photo of Michael Stipe’s parents.

I was also able to reference other Athens artists, like Terry Rowlett and Cindy Jerrell, and Georgia legends, like Howard Finster and R.A. Miller.”

Several years in the making, Athens Potluck is hot off the press from Deeds Publishing. On Sunday, Nov. 12 from 1–4 p.m. at Nuçi’s Space, a handful of musicians will read their contributed stories. Hosted by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the event is part of UGA’s two-week Spotlight on the Arts festival. On the following Thursday at 6 p.m., the Athens-Clarke County Library will host Thrasher for its Cafe au Libris series.

Though closing out with Hay felt like a meaningful stopping point, Thrasher hopes to one day create a second installment.

“How could I not keep going?” he asks.

“Vanessa just told me who she wants to pick, and I can’t wait to meet and photograph her.” f

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Providing an intimate glimpse into the private lives of local musicians, Jason Thrasher’s new photography book, Athens Potluck, is a stream-of-consciousness exploration that embodies the interconnectedness of the scene. Thrasher, who has produced band photos and music videos for years, knew he wanted to approach the Athens music scene with special emphasis on individuals. But after living in town and getting to know its residents for over 20 years, how would he narrow down and select his subjects? His wife Beth’s idea was to choose the first musician, who would select the subsequent artist, and so on.

Each musician was also tasked with coming up with questions to ask their invitee, and these handwritten interviews effectively serve as personal introductions, as if facilitating a getting-to-know-you conversation between the reader and her Potluck guest.

Remarkably, the book successfully manages to avoid getting locked into any one particular genre or friendship circle, reflecting not only how diverse the music scene is here, but how open-minded people are of others’ projects. The book bounces between rock, jazz, experimental pop, folk and punk, dropping into the lives of Julian Koster (The Music Tapes), Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers), Jason Griffin (Apparition), Dave Marr (The Star Room Boys) and Andy LeMaster (Now It’s Overhead), among others. Even the late Ross Shapiro (The Glands), who initially dodged several requests, eventually acquiesced.

“I feel that this book is just a story of Athens. It’s not the whole story. There could have been a thousand other versions of this,” says Thrasher.

The title was inspired by “The Last Potluck,” a recreation of Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece that Thrasher created featuring Vanessa Briscoe Hay’s band Supercluster,

offer origin stories of how they came to live in Athens, others choose to share fleeting memories—not unlike meeting someone in person for the first time. (It should come as no surprise if you’ve met him, but proof of how many lives painter, musician and dance machine Vernon Thornsberry has touched is evident by how many tales he appears in.)

Nearly all of the photographs appear to have been taken during daylight hours and in private spaces or places of personal significance. In a social-media-driven culture where live performances can be documented and shared in real time, this collection intentionally sets out to offer something different: rare access to the musicians’ lives when they’re not on stage.

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A YEAR OF PROTEST SONGS: From Athens & Beyond A

year after Donald Trump—Donald Trump!—was elected president of the United States, the country continues to grapple with the implications of the unprecedented and, frankly, still unfathomable event. (Donald! Trump!) While activists, organizers and Democrats continue to debate the most effective ways to #resist Trump’s nationalist agenda, musicians have responded the best way they know how. Below, check out a playlist of protest songs from Athens and around the country, as selected by Flagpole and other Association of Alternative Newsmedia member papers and compiled by Democracy in Crisis columnist Baynard Woods. Hear the music at flagpole.com. [Gabe Vodicka]

Lonely Horse: “Devil in the White House” (San Antonio)

Shots fired! Lonely Horse come out guns blazing with “Devil in the White House.” Opening with a sludgy cadence that crescendos into a tumultuous rock and roll explosion, the “desert-rock” duo of Nick Long and Travis Hild make very clear their feelings about the 45th POTUS. [Chris Conde]

Keith Morris: “What Happened to Your Party?” (Charlottesville, VA)

Known to at least one of his fellow musicians as “our rockin’ protest grouch in chief,” Keith Morris has a slew of protest songs, such as “Psychopaths & Sycophants,” “Prejudiced & Blind” and “Brownsville Market,” from his Dirty Gospel album, plus “Blind Man,” “Peaceful When You Sleep” and “Border Town” from Love Wounds & Mars. His latest release: “What Happened to Your Party?” [Erin O’Hare]

Trombone Shorty & Dumpstaphunk: “Justice” (New Orleans)

A melange of funk, jazz and New Orleans brass band sounds, the video for “Justice” slyly marries video footage of Trump against pointed lyrics. “Inauguration day seemed to be an appropriate time to voice the need for equal say and opportunity for all people,” says Dumpstaphunk’s Ivan Neville. “We entered a new year with a lot of unanswered questions on the subject of ‘justice’ that we all felt a little uneasy about. But there’s only so much we can do, and this track is our way of expressing our worries.” [Gambit Weekly] AUSTIN STEELE

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OG Swaggerdick: “Fuck Donald Trump” (Boston)

Among hip-hop heads, Boston’s underground rap scene is renowned as one of the most lyrically elaborate and intellectual anywhere. Over the past year, such acts as STL GLD and, more recently, The Perceptionists have released their most compelling works to date. But when it comes to straight-up protesting and verbally impaling the potty-mouthed POTUS, there’s something undeniably satisfying, even admirable, about OG Swaggerdick’s simple and straightforward election anthem. From the fittingly filthy rhymes to the strangers on the street who gladly join along in the video, they’re protest lyrics that you’ll still be able to remember and perhaps even rap for relief on occasions when the president leaves you otherwise speechless. [Chris Faraone]

Dooley, Lor Roger & TLow: “CIT4DT” (Baltimore)

This Boosie-tinged Thee Donald diss, which dropped long before the inauguration, still thrills: “Boy ain’t even white, you yellow/ You said you’d date your own daughter, you a sicko.” Stakes are high here, too—the mastermind behind it, Dooley, is Muslim—and right-wing semi-fascist snowflakes took the song totally seriously, denounced it as a “death threat” and bemoaned its Baltimore origins, where protest morphed into property damage and, as far as a lot of us were concerned, verged gloriously on revolution. Meanwhile, the trio responsible for it thought the shit was hilarious. [Brandon Soderberg]

The After Lashes: “We the Sheeple” (Coachella Valley, CA)

Frontwoman Esther Sanchez explains the inspiration behind the band’s song “We the Sheeple,” which “was an easy song to write, because it came from a place of frustration and growing resentment toward the current powers that be, and, of course, more specifically, Donald Trump,” she says. “We have a president who calls anything he doesn’t like ‘fake news’ while simultaneously spending an insane amount of time tweeting nonsense and [lying] like a crazy person… The song is very much about uniting against a tyrant, because that is precisely what we believe Trump to be.” [Brian Blueskye]

Priests: “Right Wing” (Washington, DC)

There’s been no shortage of scathing political protest songs coming out of D.C. since, well, the birth of punk. But in recent years, post-punk quartet Priests have succeeded in reminding the rest of the country that D.C. is, and always has been, pissed the fuck off. “Right Wing,” off the band’s breakthrough EP Bodies and Control and Money and Power, captures the ass-backwardsness of living in a country controlled by capitalists, fascists, racists and warmongers. It reads like a short, poetic treatise on how the toxicity of right wing ideals infects everyday life. [Matt Cohen]

Withdraw: “Disgust” (Columbia, SC)

On its 2017 debut EP, Home, Withdraw oscillate violently between bristling, pedal-to-the floor emo (think At the Drive-In) and brutal, clawing crust-punk. On “Disgust,” the band proves the virtue of its versatility, shifting from an unflinchingly blackened hardcore blitz that bashes sexual abusers to a more expansive, anthemic coda that seeks to lift up the victims. It’s a potent statement, a searing declaration of allyship in musical realm more often derided for problematic gender politics. [Jordan Lawrence]

NODON: “Alt-Wrong” (Burlington, VT) Lingua Franca: “A Man’s World” (Athens, GA)

Shortly after Inauguration Day, two Athens studios invited 19 local bands to commemorate the dawn of the Trump Age, tracking 20 songs in a marathon 48-hour session. While much of the resulting album, Athens Vs. Trump Comp 2017, is suitably bleak—check out The Powder Room’s roaring “On Notice” or Shehehe’s snotty “Red, White, Fuck You” for a more nihilistic take on the 2016 election—ascendant emcee Lingua Franca’s “A Man’s World” stands out for its sheer defiance. “Frenzied and indiscreet,” it’s a fiery feminist anthem for the resistance. [GV]

Thunderfist: “Suck It (Demo)” (Salt Lake City)

Sure, there are more articulate ways to denounce Trump. And revolution by example— countering blustery, bigoted bullshit with artfully composed, well-reasoned takedowns—is how we’ll effect change. That doesn’t mean we can’t occasionally vent our rage by strapping on Les Pauls, cranking up Marshalls, raising middle fingers and offering a blues-based, punk rock invitation to fellatio. [Randy Harward]

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NODON are an anti-fascist, anti-hate power-punk duo born out of the 2016 presidential election. Seething with caustic epithets, their songs condemn xenophobia, sexism, homophobia, white supremacy and, above all, President Donald Trump. “Alt-Wrong,” from their 2017 EP, Covfefe, delivers a swift and vicious kick to the alt-right’s figurative crotch.

Over razor-sharp guitar riffs and seething drums, they scream their battle cry: “Annihilate this hate! Not right! Alt-wrong!” [Jordan Adams]

Clint Breeze: “Blood Splatter” (Indianapolis)

Featuring over a dozen guest contributors, including poets, rappers and jazz musicians, Nappy Head weaves a phantasmagoric assemblage of words and sounds into a razor-sharp critique of racial oppression in modern America. “Blood Splatter” is the record’s most cutting track, featuring spoken word artist Too Black, with cascading cymbal cracks and careening sax. [Kyle Long and Katherine Coplen]

Rmllw2llz: “So Amerikkkan” (Louisville, KY)

When you think of the Louisville music scene, your mind probably bounces to My Morning Jacket, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy or maybe even White Reaper—all of whom are great—but our city’s hip-hop scene is packed with poignant artists, and if you’re looking for a pure protest song, look no further than Rmllw2llz’s “So Amerikkkan.” The song was released a few

months ago, but, if you give it a listen, you can hear a lot of the country’s past, present and future angst packed into a few powerful minutes. [Scott Recker]

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Michael Bone: “My Peace Will Outlive You” (Chico, CA)

Michael Bone is a musician, husband and father who has a day job teaching music to developmentally disabled kids, a night job playing drums for jazz combo Bogg and dozens of side projects, including running the 1day Song Club. The latter is a songwriting group that receives a one-word prompt, after which participants are tasked with writing, recording and submitting a song to be posted online within 24 hours. “My Peace Will Outlive You,” an angst-ridden yet hopeful slice of psychedelic pop, is Bone’s contribution to the prompt of “Trump.” [Jason Cassidy]

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Dais: “Atrocity” (Rochester, NY)

Dais tells you exactly where it stands on “Atrocity,” the first track off its self-titled debut EP. The post-hardcore band makes a racing, pounding apology to the Earth before (sort of) slowing down to confront the powers that be. “The person who the States had elected was talking about withdrawing us from the Paris Climate Accord,” Rankin says. “We felt betrayed and began writing this song. It’s an apology to the earth for us not being as good to it as it has been to us.” [Jake Clapp]

Iris DeMent: “We Won’t Keep Quiet” (Iowa City, IA)

Back in February, Iowa City held a Solidarity Rally Against the Ban, proclaiming support for immigrant populations and refugees in the wake of Trump’s first and most ridiculous attempted travel ban. In between the community leaders, local politicians and youth speakers, a variety of area musicians performed, including the brilliant Iris DeMent. She debuted a song, “We Won’t Keep Quiet,” that captured the feeling in the crowd that day in a really powerful way. [Little Village]

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Asante, best known for fronting the bands Amasa Hines and Velvet Kente, is also a photographer, someone who delights in the tangible process of making art. It’s in his latest work that this becomes most evident, with Asante hunching down over a briefcase stuffed with loop stations and processors. “In times of distress and turmoil, it’s easy to get kinda caught up in the collective despair, so the lyrics are very much about, like, yeah, times are tumultuous, but there’s also a lot of really wonderful magical things that are going on in your life…

That is probably the supreme act of defiance: to be joyful, to be loving.” [Stephanie Smittle]

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The Whiskey Farm: “Flag Pin” (Madison, WI)

Formed in 2010, The Whiskey Farm has produced four albums and won Madison Area Music Awards in the Folk/Americana and Ensemble Vocals categories. The band’s most recent album, Songs of Resistance, is its first record comprised entirely of social and political music, covering topics including immigration policy, faux patriotism, money in politics, gun control, equal rights and gerrymandering. “Flag Pin” is a tongue-in-cheek, bluesinspired indictment of opportunistic patriots. The band released Songs of Resistance as a benefit for the ACLU of Wisconsin. [Catherine Capellaro]

Cheap Perfume: “Trump Roast” (Colorado Springs, CO)

Cheap Perfume are a four-piece band who follow in the tradition of feminist punk acts like Le Tigre and The Slits. “Trump Roast” is, not surprisingly, one of their biggest crowd-pleasers, as Stephanie Byrne and Jane No deliver a “Dear Don” letter to the resident president, culminating in a final verse that grows more timely, and more serious, with each passing day: “You wanna ban Muslims? Well, we wanna ban you/ Your fascist ideas wrapped in red, white, and blue/ Your KKK clones won’t be the ones to choose/ Enjoy your last gasp, ’cause racism’s through.” [Bill Forman]

E-Turn: “Ill Legal Alien” (Orlando, FL)

Everything about Orlando MC E-Turn is a particularly eloquent middle finger in the face of Donald Trump. The Persian-American, outspoken, femme MC is a firebrand on the mic, and her lyrics deftly meld the personal with the political in ways that hardcore dudes could only dream of. The fury and technique with which she drops bars—and other, usually male, MCs—on stage is the proud definition of a nasty woman. Her anthemic “Ill Legal Alien” may predate Trump’s election, but the Swamburger-produced track is still furiously of-themoment. [Matthew Moyer and Bao Le-Huu]

DBL DRGN: “Trim the Bushes” (Charleston, SC)

DBL DRGN filmed the video for “Trim the Bushes” on Election Day. With Bad Mojo dressed as a dragon, high-fiving passersby, the silly aspect of the visuals was meant to complement the circus-like atmosphere of the 2016 election. The video was released on Inauguration Day, another attempt to lift the spirits of those who felt the doom and gloom all too well that January morning. In the single, the duo rather brilliantly mash up George W. Bush with Bob Marley, while the video shows footage of Trump’s remarks on everything from immigration and Mexicans to birtherism, Putin, John McCain and women. The acknowledgment of all the things we as progressives find disturbing about the administration coupled with the sense that folks should keep their heads up (and alert) and stick together for the duration of the hand we’ve been dealt was the perfect combo. [Kelly Rae Smith] f

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From Field Goals to Fab Grooves CATCHING UP WITH FORMER GEORGIA KICKER BILLY BENNETT

By Bobby Moore music@flagpole.com

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ormer UGA placekicker Billy Bennett had a memorable tenure as a student athlete between 2000-’03, becoming the first of only three SEC players with more than 400 career points. It was quite the run for a local athlete who went from playing on Fridays for Athens Academy to an important role on a great Dawgs team in 2002.

In the years after graduating, Bennett discovered a passion and talent for music, applying his competitive drive to engineering others’ music and writing his own psychedelic-inspired material. This identity change from jock to audio wiz came about in a uniquely Athens way, allowing Bennett to be the toast of both fraternity parties and album-release shows at the 40 Watt.

A child of the South, Bennett grew up in a household that revered Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley. By the time he played for coaches Jim Donnan and Mark Richt, his own musical tastes had become admittedly mundane. “Radiohead and Coldplay were about as indie as I got,” he says.

Fortunately, Athens’ legacy of outsidethe-box musicians coexists peacefully with its proud football traditions, meaning Bennett was a few new friends away from expanding his own creative horizons.

“When I started hanging out with the

Whigs guys, they started showing me Pavement and bands like that on a little more offbeat path,” he says.

Another chance meeting that wouldn’t have happened for a kicker in Auburn, Tuscaloosa or Knoxville inched Bennett closer to his future career path. “I was at a Glands show on the Chi Phi lawn one night around 2003,” he says. “It might’ve been the summer after my last season of football. I met Dave Barbe there.

I heard he had a studio, so I told him I’d like to come by and take out the trash, make coffee and do whatever and watch him. He knew what I was getting into, but I didn’t quite know what I was getting into. We exchanged numbers, and the first thing he called me on was an R.E.M. iTunes original session.”

An internship at Barbe’s Chase Park Transduction turned into an extended stay there, positioning Bennett to begin an unlikely post-football career.

Eventually, Bennett developed a working relationship with indie stars MGMT,

moving to New York and working as the band’s live sound engineer. He also engineered the band’s second album, 2010’s Congratulations. “[T]heir first record was a worldwide smash success, and the second record was pretty widely panned, because the band had evolved beyond a lot of the electronic hits,” Bennett recalls. “They’d gotten into stranger

song forms and out-there musicianship.

Those guys are so beyond the norm as far as talent.”

In 2013, Bennett moved to Nashville at the behest of his Whigs pals. He’s currently an adjunct professor at Belmont University,

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sharing nearly 15 years of hands-on experience in audio engineering courses. “I’d never taught before, but I needed a break from the studio hours,” he says. “Going in at 9 in the morning and leaving at 10 or 11 at night was wearing on me a bit.”

Bennett records his own music, with recent singles “Patchwork Man” and “Centimental” teasing a sunshiny, psychpop vision. Despite the presumed divide between college football and underground rock fans, there’s some temptation to try bridging that gap. “I’d like to find a way to cross-promote them, but every time I do it seems a little forced,” he says. “Like, ‘Oh, maybe I should put out a record and sell it at the Georgia game.’ But are those people even going to like psychedelic, Harry Nilsson-like Beach Boys pop?”

Plans are in place to record songs this fall for an EP. In the meantime, Bennett spends his Saturdays enjoying the Dawgs’ current playoff run, despite tempered expectations. “I hedge my excitement, because I’ve seen it, and I’ve been on those teams,’ he says. “We’re great, and everyone has the talent. It seems like you’ve got to have a little bit of luck involved, unless you’re Alabama, to go all the way. I’m just along for the ride, man. I think every year we’ve got a shot.” f Hear Bennett’s music on Spotify or at billythemusical.bandcamp.com.

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By Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE: I know absolutely nothing about Nov. 10–12 at the Canopy Studio (160 Tracy St.). This is low-key bedsit-pop project Happy Cheese. I’ve no idea if the first time the studio’s repertory company has done an songwriter “Bill O’Reilly” is using his real name and, furentire show set to music. Using a script written by member ther, no idea who drummer “Black Ro” and bassist “Chris” Mary Jessica Hammes, director Melissa Roberts is quoted are. Nor do I have any idea where “Apartment 27”—where in a press release as saying, “We literally have built a narraHappy Cheese records—is located. And, for the first time tive around Don’s music, and created pieces that will reflect in a long time, this type of mystery is utterly refreshing the storytelling.” For those uninitiated into the Southern and pretense-free. The new album, Secular Theatre, is stungothic world of Chamber’s songwriting, Canopy describes ning in its clarity of self-awareness and bold testament to unannounced reflection. Musically, the songs are relatively simple guitar/bass/ drums arrangements that are easy to hear but not exactly gentle in a traditional way. Pretty much everything here exists at the crossroads of lo-fi indie-pop, Townes Van Zandt and Scud Mountain Boys. Lyrically, I suppose it’d be easy to mention something about “diary” and “personal” and blah-blah-blah, but in actuality, it feels as if everything went through very thoughtful compositional stages. There are no ragged, throw-away lines, stupid choruses or phony, self-effacing humor. Every word has a place. Of particular interest are the instrumentals “Lou Pfohl” and “27,” which employ smart samples of unknown origin. At times, they seem to exist only in the air. Out of the lyrical songs, Happy Cheese if I was forced to choose only one, it would be “Alexithymia.” Secular Theatre runs 11 tracks, and through multiple listenings, as each finished, I couldn’t wait it as a “stew of storytelling, at once dark and beautiful, until the next one came on. Here’s hoping your mileage is intense and ethereal, like some gritty, rock and roll mix of similar. Start your engines at happycheese.bandcamp.com.

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Popfest, but the original lineup of Love Tractor returns to Athens to play the 40 Watt Club Saturday, Nov. 18. Joining HEY, JOE: Athens songwriter Joe Cat just released his new them are 1990s Athens stalwarts Magnapop. (Love Tractor album Preachin’ Drunk. He recorded it with Joel Hatstat, will also play the night before at Atlanta’s Vista Room with and it features Jim Wilson on drums and bass and Cody the deservedly legendary and all-around wonder Swimming Stalvey on piano. Cat’s music is straight-up Americana Pool Q’s.) Member Mark Cline reports that Love Tractor’s of the Steve Earle variety and all that implies. His songs back catalog is due to be re-released on vinyl in 2018, and are populated with ghosts and highways and grit. Cat is a the band is planning an album of new material, too. No former U.S. Marine and has a heart for the heartland. That further details regarding either are available right now. said, his songs exhibit a strong but troubled patriotism, Advance tickets are on sale for $10 at 40watt.com. evident on the double shot of “Here Lies My Brother” and “America’s Best.” For my money, the best song on the album HIGH FLYIN’: Aerial dance and trapeze studio Canopy and is “Red Hawk,” which benefits from its unobvious melody longtime Athens musician and songwriter Don Chambers and strong lyricism. Check it out at joecatmusic.bandcamp. will host their collaborative project “Everything That Rises” com, and see joecatmusic.com for more information. f

record review Roadkill Ghost Choir: False Youth Etcetera (Freakout) DeLand, FL transplants Roadkill Ghost Choir have always aspired to make sounds bigger than themselves. Their first EP, Beggars Guild, released before they made the move to Athens, was an early indication of the soaring, roots-rock tunes the band was capable of producing. The group’s latest full-length, the first half of which was released in February, doesn’t just build logically on where it’s been headed for the past few years; it finds the Shepard brothers overshooting that trajectory with near-limitless ambition.

Despite hearing a few of these tracks months ago, it’s difficult not to be mesmerized once again by the elaborately textured synth washes and chorus-effected lead lines of opener “Vision on Vision/Undo” or the somber, sweeping ballad “Severed Hand of God.” Both songs possess their own brand of epic beauty, the former containing multiple movements, between which the band gracefully segues, while the latter shifts so suddenly it brings a smirk of satisfaction every time.

On the surface, these are Springsteen-influenced anthems engineered to reach the cheap seats at the back of the festival, but taken under a microscope, this is some superior songcraft, channeling complex emotions into equally complex song structures. That it’s so unabashedly experimental while maintaining its mass appeal is all the better. [Andy Barton]

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ast fall, Washington Post travel writer Diane Roberts wrote a piece tipping her hat to Athens’ “burgeoning food scene,” highlighting some of this city’s great restaurants—Five & Ten, The National—but also waxing philosophic over an heirloom tomato she found at the Athens Farmers Market.

Her discoveries may have been news to outsiders, but Athens foodies who saw the article probably weren’t surprised. This

to Athens might reveal about our city.

Already scheduled to present her new book about the history of cocktail culture in New Orleans at the Decatur Book Festival, Williams found her way to Athens in September by way of an invitation from local resident Becky Ford. “I knew that [the food scene] must be pretty good, because I got the impression that Becky wanted to show it off,” Williams says. “I definitely wasn’t disappointed.”

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Liz Williams (left), director of the Southern Food & Beverage Museum.

is a town that embraces food and drink, the more local the better. Our love of local food supports two farmers markets, two CSAs, a grocery co-op, two coffee roasters, five breweries and several bakeries, not to mention the number of restaurants serving up local products. Yet, despite the many articles floating around touting the Classic City’s culinary prowess, our food culture can feel overshadowed by Athens’ renowned music reputation and, obviously, Georgia football.

That may change, however, after a recent visit from New Orleans native Liz Williams. As president of the National Food & Beverage Foundation and director of the Southern Food & Beverage Museum, it’s safe to say that Williams knows her way around food cultures.

The National Food & Beverage Foundation takes a holistic approach to food and drink. Since everybody eats, food culture can “reveal the state of the world.”

The Southern Food & Beverage Museum tells the story of different food cultures through objects, which, says Williams, was missing in conversations about food in 2008, when the museum was founded.

“One of the important things, I think, for historians is that there are the artifacts,” she says. “For example, if you cook a stew in a big cast-iron pot over an open fire, and you have to lift that pot and deal with the fire, you have a totally different impression of cooking in the 19th Century than a person who just reads, ‘it was heavy, hot, sooty,’ whatever it may be.”

Williams wasn’t sure what her first trip

Williams was treated to a whirlwind of a tour, stopping in at Little City Diner in Winterville, White Tiger, The National, home.made and Condor Chocolates. She sat in on a slow food meeting, sampled Georgia wines and even gave a reading from her book over daiquiris and Sazeracs at Ciné.

Williams will be the first to admit that there was more to see and eat, but her 48-hour venture yielded a handful of notable discoveries.

She was especially surprised to learn that Jittery Joe’s is growing its own chicory root. “Of course, as a New Orleans native, that impressed me,” she says. Chicory coffee is a staple in New Orleans cuisine, and chances are if you’ve had chicory coffee, you had it there.

Another thing that impressed Williams was the strength of Athens’ appetite compared to its size. “Considering how small Athens is as a town, it had a very robust and in-depth food culture, which I thought was very exciting,” she says.

Perhaps more important than any verbal praise, Williams took a few pieces of Athens food culture back to New Orleans. If you find yourself roaming through the exhibits at the Southern Food & Beverage Museum, you may spy a knickknack from Jittery Joe’s or Condor.

While these items alone can’t represent the breadth of our food culture, it’s nice to know a little piece of Athens is included the story of Southern food the museum seeks to tell. Of course, Williams isn’t finished collecting. She will return to Athens, she says, excited to sample another taste. f

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Proper Pizza Comes to Watkinsville PLUS, THE OFFICE MOSTLY MISSES THE MARK

By Hillary Brown food@flagpole.com

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PIZZA PIZZA: Not every restaurant I write fold and a fairly thin edge crust that doesn’t about is the most exciting thing in the puff up much. The sauce doesn’t interfere. world, which doesn’t mean they don’t all It’s not too full of red pepper or sugar or, have their place or their audience. There is really, anything. It’s just there to provide something to be said for a restaurant that a hit of sweet and salt between the cheese fills a niche or a need in a particular neighand the crust, both of which take preceborhood, which is exactly what Fully Loaded Pizza Kitchen (1260 Mars Hill Road, 706705-6150) is for Watkinsville.

Apart from Your Pie and, sort of, Peppino’s (in Athens, but close), Watkinsville didn’t have an independent pizza restaurant until now.

Fully Loaded occupies the spot formerly held by Fifth Avenue Pizza (pizza ovens being expensive and difficult to install or replace means one pizza restaurant often follows another in the same space), and the decor hasn’t changed much. A large bar with big TVs mounted above it pours some local brews on tap, and various pizza-themed paraphernalia decks the walls. There’s a good covered patio off to the side, and the work on Mars Hill Road that has been slowing traffic there for some time seems to be done, meaning it’s much easier to enter and exit Fully Loaded Pizza Kitchen the shopping center.

The pizza is both available in a wide variety of topping combinations dence. A slice is always going to show off (for example, the El Chapo, with olive oil, the pizza maker’s best side, especially as garlic, mozzarella, chorizo, onion, jalapeños compared to the middle of a thin-crust pie and a fried egg) and totally good. Judged that bears a lot of toppings, but the full pies by the standard of a plain cheese slice, it are good, too, and priced in the ballpark of a ranks very highly, with plenty of oil and salt Little Italy or an Automatic Pizza. (but not too much of either), nicely crisped Fully Loaded also does wings, as you’d edges, a thin crust that doesn’t require a expect, and they are on the meaty side but

could stand to be fried a bit more aggressively. Both the ranch and the blue cheese dressing you can choose from as an accompaniment are homemade. The other thing you need to know is that you can order something called a “pizza dog,” which is just what it sounds like: a sort of Italian-ish version of pigs in blankets, with one or two hot dogs rolled in pizza dough, baked and served with ketchup and mustard. It is not bad, and it comes in a kids’ version, should you be so unlucky that your children do not or cannot eat regular pizza.

The restaurant also has sandwiches (a decent meatball sub), salads (fine, not very exciting), chicken fingers, kids’ meals,

nachos, various fried apps, cannoli, zeppole and ice cream. It does take-out, plans to offer online ordering, has a full bar and is open for lunch and dinner every day.

OFFICE POLITICS: The problem with The Office Sports Bar and Grill (135 W. Washington St., 706-521-5898) is that

it is maybe too invested in its theme.

Everything on the menu has some sort of a clever heading (“Overtime” for desserts, “Office Banter” for mixed drinks, etc.), and the decor is intended to evoke a sort of bygone, clubby atmosphere that is no longer the norm, with lots of leather and one fancy booth lit by Edison bulbs. Even the actual menu comes in a thick leather book, as though you’ve walked into a fancy steakhouse.

That’s fine, and there’s a place for grownup lunch and dinner options downtown (lawyers gotta eat, too), but you also have to make good on what you promise. The rosemary chicken, which is described as being “tossed with our rosemary alfredo sauce” and pasta, is almost a soup, it has so much sauce. The fried ravioli as an appetizer is totally fine, but closer to frozen pizza rolls than to anything high-end.

The tacos that can be made with fried or grilled fish are burrito-sized, presenting good value, but not well suited for a business lunch.

It’s confusing whether the place wants to be a sports bar (lots of TVs, a light-up ticker that runs scores and news, wings) or a place to make realestate deals. It really tries to be both, which means it ends up being, approximately, an Applebee’s: a place that offers a lot of comfort food choices, like mushroom risotto, roasted brussels sprouts and mashed potatoes topped with bacon, plus TVs so you have something to gaze at to fill awkward silences.

Tuesdays bring a $5 burger special, which is an excellent deal, and the burgers are decent, with a whole bunch of topping options. The Office is open for dinner every night, for lunch Monday through Saturday and for brunch on Sunday, with hours until midnight most nights. It has a full bar and a patio and promotes various specials through its Facebook page. f

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JIGSAW (R) Jiggy’s back after nearly a decade, and absolutely nothing has changed. John “The Jigsaw Killer” Kramer (Tobin Bell) has hand-selected another cohort of interchangeable sinners—the only vaguely recognizable performer is Laura Vandervoort, aka Supergirl from “Smallville,” who still might slip by due to

By Drew Wheeler movies@flagpole.com her now darkened tresses—to put through his Rube Goldberg torture devices. While THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE (R) Judging Schumann and his wife, Saskia, Koale gives the players in Jigsaw’s game avoid spinning from the trailer, the directorial debut of the film’s truly standout performance; the saw blades, falling knives and a brand-new American Sniper writer Jason Hall looks New Zealand-born actor seems more solmeat-grinder device, Callum Keith Rennie’s like another patriotically simple look at the dier-turned-actor than actor playing soldier. dirty detective Halloran and bland medical brave men and women fighting for the red, Thank You for Your Service does not aim examiner Logan Nelson (Matt Passmore) white and blue. The film is actually a deeper, to change anyone’s mind about the war. Its each suspect the other of restarting the late tougher war movie more reminiscent of a target is the country’s heart, which could Kramer’s game of moralistic murder. post-Vietnam film like Coming The Spierig Brothers (Undead, Home than American Sniper.

Daylight and Predestination) revive Three soldiers—Sgt. Adam James Wan and Leigh Whannel’s Jigsaw Schumann (Miles Teller), Spc. franchise but do little to remodel Tausolo “Solo” Aieti (Beulah its plot and twists. Anyone familKoale) and Pfc. Billy Waller (Joe iar with the series will have no Cole)—struggle to adjust after trouble solving the whodunit or returning home from Iraq. Their predicting its reveals. Passmore spouses want in, but cannot relate leaves less than an impression, to the stresses of combat; some but at least he’s not Costas simply walk away. The VA is tied Mandylor, whose toxic Hoffman up by too many veterans and too tainted Saws IV–VII. Only Hannah much red tape to help them adjust Emily Anderson’s redheaded to life with PTSD. Thank You for pathologist proves a potential Your Service is not the first film killer or red herring remotely to tell this story; Boys Don’t Cry’s worth remembering.

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Kimberly Peirce examined the The Spierigs add nothing new battle soldiers fight after combat to the mythology in a ninth entry ends in Stop-Loss nearly a decade ago. certainly be more charitable to its heroes. and cherry pick most of their ideas from Thank You for Your Service never feels par- If a viewer feels offended or singled out, earlier Saws. The booby-trapped farmhouse tisan or anti-war while convincingly critiqu- maybe he needs to consider what he votes calls back to the unfairly maligned Saw II; ing a system designed to lionize warriors for the next time a bill crosses his desk. (I the final ankle-chained decision could be and turn its back on veterans. While Teller am assuming members of Congress occafrom the first, groundbreaking entry; the and Haley Bennett make a nice anchor as sionally go to the movies, or read reviews.) twists have all been done before. Despite its derivative nature and way-too-bright TV lighting, Jigsaw is a mid-tier Saw, ahead of all the sequels from the post-Darren Lynn Bousman era. If nothing else, Jigsaw’s corpse FX are exceptional.

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SUBURBICON (R) George Clooney has had a strong, if short, directing career. Good Night, and Good Luck remains a masterpiece, and every other film is watchable, even if The Monuments Men, The Ides of March and Leatherheads are rather forgettable. Unfortunately, Suburbicon is not very appealing. The black-hearted satire is without a lick of humor, which is odd, as the original script was provided by the Coen brothers, who know how to squeeze humor out of the bleakest of scenarios.

Set in a 1950s suburban “utopia,” Suburbicon homes in on Gardner Lodge (Matt Damon), who becomes a single father after his wife, Rose (Julianne Moore), is murdered by a couple of home assailants (Glenn Fleshler, an HBO regular on “Boardwalk Empire” and “True Detective,” and Alex Hassell). Soon, his late wife’s twin, Margaret, is changing her hair color and picking up the marital slack, which is suspicious enough to warrant an investigation by an insurance man named Bud Foster (Oscar Isaac, whose scenes are the only ones with zip), who shows up to question Gardner and Margaret’s motives. Eventually, things fall further apart, during a protest targeting Suburbicon’s first black family.

Alas, Clooney and co-writer Grant Heslov fail to find or add any humor to this old Coens script; their pitch-black comedy has one genuine laugh. Instead, they gift audiences a subversive, Coen-esque mashup of Hitchcock and film noir, which is 100 percent absurd and not a bit amusing. f

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Helms Alee

ART | SUN, NOV 5

Artists Reception

Avid Bookshop (Prince Ave.) · 6:30 p.m. · FREE! Athens Academy · 2–4 p.m. · FREE! In her new book Words at the On view at the Myers Gallery, Threshold: What We Say as We’re Nearing “Coalition of the Willing: The UNG Faculty Death, Athens linguist and educator Lisa Show” shares creations by 20 instructors Smartt studies and interprets end-of-life at the Dahlonega, Oconee and Gainesville communication to better understand the campuses of the University of North physical, mental and spiritual changes Georgia. Media ranges from painting, people undergo in their final days. Pulling sculpture, photography, printmaking and from over 100 case studies that include ceramics, with artists including Stanley interviews and transcripts, she explores Bermudez, Heather Foster, Jennifer Graff, the relationship between terminal illness Vivian Liddell and Erin McIntosh. In and cognitive function. Smartt will be the Bertelsmann Lobby Gallery, Becky joined by Raymond Moody, a philosopher, Bundrick and Jaquelynn Faass share psychologist, physician and author who paintings, while Don Bundrick offers ruswrote the foreword of her book. A leadtic designs. In the Harrison Center Gallery, ing authority on research pertaining to “ANIMALS: Paintings, Sculpture and life after death, Moody coined the term Drawings” features works by Leigh Ellis, “near-death experience” in 1975 in his Caroline Montague, Leslie Moody, Jan book Life After Life. [Jessica Smith] Perkins and Alice Woodruff. [JS]

Tuesday 31 CLASSES: Windows Basics (Oconee County Library) Learn how to navigate Windows and understand files, settings and accounts.

Registration required. 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee CLASSES: Facebook for Beginners (ACC Library) Registration required. 10 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens EVENTS: Halloween Spectacular (Creature Comforts Brewery) DJ Comforts, human and dog costume contests, and special beers on draft.

5–9 p.m. www.creaturecomfortsbeer. com EVENTS: Halloween Tarot Readings (Avid Bookshop, Five

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Points) Bookseller and seer Kristen Carter offers tarot readings. 6:30– 7:30 p.m. www.avidbookshop.com EVENTS: Swing Dance Night in the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) UGA Swing Dance Club presents a night of dancing in the tropical conservatory. Halloweenthemed music will be played and costumes are encouraged. No previous dance experience or partner required. 7 p.m. (dance lessons), 8–10 p.m. (open dance). $6. www. athensswingnight.com EVENTS: Tricks and Treats for Adults (Southern Brewing Company) Festivities include a costume contest, yard games, rare Halloween beers, food trucks and a spooky playlist. 5 p.m.–12 a.m. www.sobrewco.com

FILM: Flicker Film Society (Flicker Theatre & Bar) “31 Days of Darkness” concludes with the bastard child of the Halloween series, Halloween 3: Season of the Witch. 7 p.m. FREE! flickertheatreandbar.com GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) General trivia with host Jamie Pisarich. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-8508561 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) Westside and Eastside locations of Locos Grill and Pub feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia at Johnny’s (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Play for cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706354-1515 GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) Hosted by James

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Caledonia Lounge · 8 p.m. · $10–12 It’s apparent on Seattle trio Helms Alee’s most recent record, 2016’s Stillicide, that the band was intent on continuing to tamper with the trappings of both hard rock and being a three-piece.

While its thick sound is still intact, at times coated in sludge and at others dissonantly shoegazing, new approaches to song structure and rhythm have surfaced from the deep. Drummer Hozoji Margullis’ dexterity and the shared vocal dynamics between her and guitarist Ben Verellen are especially striking on tracks like “Tit for Toe” and “Dream Long,” where a vast array of styles blend into one cohesive behemoth. Monday night’s bill is rounded out by heavy locals Motherfucker and Marses. [Andy Barton]

40 Watt Club · 8 p.m. · $10 The name Local H should ring a bell if you came of listening age in the Clinton era—the group’s most well-known single, the crisp, catchy “Bound for the Floor,” became an alt-rock radio staple after it was released in 1996. Unlike many one-hit wonders who spend their career trying to replicate early successes, the Chicago duo has soldiered on in DIY fashion, releasing a steady stream of fulllengths and maintaining a grueling tour schedule, earning it a modest but fiercely devoted fanbase. Its latest album, Hey, Killer, released in 2015, finds frontman Scott Lucas and new-ish drummer Ryan Harding in top rock and roll form. Locals Shehehe open Monday’s 40 Watt show.

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Majure. 6 p.m. FREE! www.therookandpawn.com GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Nic. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-7289 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 drinks, sweet treats and gift cards.

Every Tuesday on the patio. 5–7 p.m. FREE! www.tedsmostbest.com KIDSTUFF: Trunk or Treat (Baxter Street Police Substation) Costumed goblins and ghouls can collect candy. 5:30–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensclarkecounty.com/halloween KIDSTUFF: Trunk or Treat (Bogart Library) Little ghosts and goblins are invited to trunk-or-treat for goodies

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and games. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Preschooler Storytime (Oconee County Library) Stories, songs and crafts for preschool-aged children and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee KIDSTUFF: “Spooktastic” Reptile Zoo (ACC Library) Teens will learn about snakes, toads, salamanders and more with the UGA Herpetological Society. Ages 11–18.

4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens KIDSTUFF: Trick-or-Treat (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Stop by anytime in costume for trickor-treating while supplies last. All Day. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison

LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Barnes & Noble) Tracy L. Adkins will read and sign her book Ghosts of Athens: History and Haunting of Athens, Georgia. Have your tarot cards read and participate in a costume contest. 7 p.m. FREE! 706354-1195 MEETINGS: ACC Democrats Happy Hour (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Discuss issues at the county, state and national level at the water cooler end of the bar. 5:30–7 p.m. www.clarkedemocrats.com PERFORMANCE: Bassoon Recital (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) UGA’s bassoon studio presents a Halloween recital. 6 p.m. FREE! www.music.uga.edu SPORTS: Table Tennis Matches and Training (East Athens

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Community Center) Beginner to advanced skill levels welcome.

Tuesdays, 6:30–8:30 p.m. & Saturdays, 1–4 p.m. FREE! www. ttathensga.com

Wednesday 1 ART: Opening Celebration (UGA Performing Arts Center) A kaleidoscope of art student performances and presentations. Part of Spotlight on the Arts. 7 p.m. FREE! arts.uga. edu ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Shawnya Harris leads a tour of “Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête-à-tête.” 2 p.m.

FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Spotlight on the Arts After Party (Lamar Dodd School of Art) SEWW presents Hallokween Havoc with wrestling matches including Dragon Yer Ass vs. Marie Fury. Part of Spotlight on the Arts. 8 p.m. FREE! arts.uga.edu EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Creature Comforts Brewery) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods, crafts and live music. 4–7 p.m. FREE! athensfarmersmarket.net FILM: Defining Hope (ACC Library) The documentary looks at nurses and patients as they face death and embrace hope. 7 p.m. FREE! ww.hope.film FILM: Cult Classic Wednesday (The Foundry) Watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show on the big screen. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.thefoundryathens.com 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 (Your Pie, Eastside) Every Wednesday. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Gather a team. Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. willys.com GAMES: Bingo Bango (Highwire Lounge) Drop in and win prizes!

8–10 p.m. FREE! highwirelounge. com GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) Gather a team and compete. 8 p.m. saucehouse.com GAMES: Dirty Bingo (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Hosted by Garrett Lennox every Wednesday. Prizes and house cash. 8 p.m. FREE! www. grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Dirty South Trivia offers house cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, Washington St.) Play to win. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com KIDSTUFF: Stop-Motion Animation (ACC Library) Learn how to make your own movie using stop-motion animation and Hue Animation Studio. Meets the first Wednesday of every month. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ athens KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Children of all ages are invited for bedtime stories every Wednesday. 7 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Preschool Storytime (ACC Library) Stories, songs, puppets and more. Ages 18 months to 5 years. 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Preschool Pals (Bogart Library) Preschool aged children

will learn social and language skills through songs stories and crafts.

Ages almost 3–almost 5. 10:15 a.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Preschooler Storytime (Oconee County Library) Stories, songs and crafts for preschool-aged children and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Library Adventures (Bogart Library) A storytelling program with hands-on activities.

Ages 3.5–8. 11:30 a.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/bogart LECTURES & LIT: Word of Mouth Poetry (The Globe) Open mic poetry readings. This month’s featured readers are Jason Allen and Andrea Jurjevic. 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/athenswordofmouth LECTURES & LIT: NaNoWriMo Kick Off Party (Avid Bookshop, Prince Ave.) Kick off National Novel Writing Month. Get tips from experienced local authors. 6–7:30 p.m.

FREE! www.avidbookshop.com LECTURES & LIT: Ghosts of Athens (The Foundry) Tracy L. Adkins reads from her book Ghosts of Athens: History and Haunting of Athens, Georgia. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.thefoundryathens.com OUTDOORS: Guided Rambles (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Volunteers will lead a guided walk on the trails. 9 a.m. FREE! www. athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreeknaturecenter PERFORMANCE: UGA Percussion Ensemble (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) The ensemble will perform a program featuring the work of Steven Snowden. 3:30 p.m. FREE! www. music.uga.edu

KIDSTUFF: Bear Hunt (ACC Library) Go on a bear hunt with stories, crafts and an obstacle course. Ages 3–9.

3:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens KIDSTUFF: Adventure Club (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Participants will learn about far-off places with Carley Guillorn. Ages 5–10. 4:30 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison KIDSTUFF: Teen Sewing Club (ACC Library) Ms. Lorena will teach

drag show featuring Kellie Devine, Eva Destruction, Yasmine Alexander and more. Jacqueline Daniels hosts.

8 p.m. $5. facebook.com/lambdausa PERFORMANCE: Thursday Scholarship Series (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) UGA students will perform chamber works form the Renaissance to the modern day. 7:30 p.m. $6 (w/ UGA ID), $20. pac.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Hodgson String Quartet (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) The group is one of only three

EVENTS: Friday Night Dance Party (UGA New Dance Theatre) The Ballroom Performance Group offers a free beginner east coast swing lesson at 7 p.m., followed by social dancing 8–10:30 p.m. 7 p.m. $3–5. www.ugaballroom.com EVENTS: Friday Football Tours (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) “Covered with Glory” is an exhibition celebrating the first 25 years of football at UGA. Guided tours offered each Friday before home games. Meet in the

Thursday 2 ART: Arts and Drafts (Southern Brewing Company) See an exhibition of paintings by Betsey Withington and celebrate National Stout Day. 5–9 p.m. $12. www.sobrewco.com EVENTS: Student Spotlight (UGA Tate Student Center, Tate Plaza) Performances throughout the day.

Part of Spotlight on the Arts. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! www.arts.uga.edu EVENTS: Homecoming Celebration (The Lavonia Cultural Center) The Franklin Community Players host an evening of live entertainment, refreshments and a preview of what the Players have planned for their new season. 6–8 p.m. 706-491-9374 EVENTS: KnitLits (Bogart Library) Knitters of all levels are welcome.

6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/bogart EVENTS: Athens Science Café (The Foundry) Roger Hunter, a project manager with NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology presents “NASA and Small Spacecraft: Big Things Do Come in Small Packages.” 7 p.m. FREE! athenssciencecafe.wordpress.com FILM: Americans in Paris Film Series (Georgia Museum of Art) Watch An American in Paris, held in conjunction with the exhibition “Louise Blair Daura: A Virginian in Paris.” 7 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org GAMES: Trivia at Johnny’s (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Play for cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706354-1515 GAMES: Music Trivia (Saucehouse Barbeque) Meet at the bar for a round of trivia. 8 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/saucehousebbq GAMES: Duplicate Bridge (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Beginner and experienced players welcome. 6:30 p.m. ejstapler@gmail.com

Artwork by Rose Shelton is currently on view at Krimson Kafe through November. the basics of sewing. Ages 11–18.

4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Avid Bookshop, Prince Ave.) Raymond Moody, a leading authority on near-death experiences, joins author Lisa Smartt to discuss her book Words at the Threshold: What We Say As We’re Nearing Death. See Calendar Pick on p. 20. 6:30 p.m.

FREE! www.avidbookshop.com MEETINGS: Oconee Rivers Audubon Society (UGA Ecology Building) Artist Philip Juras will speak on “Falling in Love with Grasslands: Paintings from Prairie to Páramo.” 7 p.m. FREE! www. oconeeriversaudubon.org MEETINGS: Non Partisan 2018 Commission Candidate Forum (First AME Church) The Athens Council on African American Affairs hosts a forum to raise awareness about local issues that impact African-Americans in Athens. 6:30 p.m. FREE! na.aarem@gmail.com OUTDOORS: Nature Ramblers (State Botanical Garden of Georgia, Meet at Shade Garden Arbor) Learn more about flora and fauna of the garden while enjoying fresh air and inspirational readings. Ramblers are encouraged to bring their own nature writings or favorite poems and essays to share with the group. 9:30 a.m. FREE! www.botgarden.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Count Dragula’s Halloween Extravaganza (UGA Memorial Hall, Ballroom) The Lambda Aliance and LGBT Resource Center presents a Halloween-themed

endowed student chamber music ensembles at UGA. 6 p.m. FREE! www.music.uga.edu SPORTS: UGA Hockey (The Classic Center) The UGA Ice Dawgs face off against Liberty University. 7 p.m. $10. www.ugahockey.com

Friday 3 CLASSES: Foundation Directory Class (ACC Library) Learn how to use the revamped database, Foundation Directory Online, to find grants and funds for nonprofit organizations. 10 a.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens CLASSES: Yoga in the Tree Room (159 Oneta St., Unit 5) Practice Rocket Yoga in the Athens Tree Room. Registration required. 5:30 p.m. FREE! m3yoga.com EVENTS: Tales on the Porch (Sandy Creek Nature Center, Log House) Roast marshmallows by the fire while Jackie Elsner tells the tale of “Panther Man,” a Creek Indian story. Ages 13 & up. 7:30–9 p.m. $3–5. www.athensclarkecounty.com/ leisure EVENTS: Friends First Friday (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) This month’s topic is “Indigo’s Colorful History.” RSVP by Oct. 27.

9 a.m. $12. 706-542-6138 EVENTS: Morning Mindfulness (Georgia Museum of Art) Participate in a guided meditation session in the galleries. Meet in the lobby. 9:30– 10:30 a.m. FREE! branew@uga.edu, www.georgiamuseum.org

rotunda on the second floor. 3 p.m.

FREE! www.libs.uga.edu/sci KIDSTUFF: Spanish Storytime (ACC Library) Share books, songs, rhymes and activities en Español.

Ages 3–8. 3:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Sensory Exploration (Oconee County Library) Preschoolers can explore different stations filled with sensory materials. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee LECTURES & LIT: Conversation with Michael Lehman (UGA Robert G. Edge Recital Hall) Lehman, long-time artist manager of Gregg Allman, will talk about his career.

Allman established a scholarship endownment in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music prior to his death.

Part of UGA’s Spotlight on the Arts. 3 p.m. FREE! www.arts.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Seizing Serendipity (UGA School of Law, Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom) Former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears and biographer Rebecca Shriver Davis hold a conversation. Part of UGA’s Spotlight on the Arts. 12 p.m. FREE! www.arts. uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Avid Bookshop, Prince Ave.) Meet Heidi Lynn Nilsson for the launch of her book For the Fire From the Straw. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com PERFORMANCE: UGA Trombone Choir (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) The choir plays original literature, classical repertoire, transcriptions

of popular music and more. 6 p.m.

FREE! www.music.uga.edu SPORTS: UGA Hockey (The Classic Center) The UGA Ice Dawgs compete against South Carolina. 7:30 p.m. $10. www.ugahockey.com THEATER: Cabaret (UGA Fine Arts Building) The Tony Award-winning musical follows the lives of an aspiring novelist and a wannabe starlet in 1920s Berlin. Nov. 3, 8–11, 8 p.m.

Nov. 5 & 12, 2:30 p.m. $12–16. ugatheatre.com

Saturday 4 ART: Southern Star Studio Open House (Southern Star Studio) The pottery studio features work by Maria Dondero, Lori Demosthenes, Chona Leathers, Allya Maerz, Regina Mandell and Kerry Steinberg. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! mariadondero. com CLASSES: Women’s Self-Defense Workshop (M3Yoga, 159 Oneta St., Unit 5) The workshop includes situational awareness, body language, wrist grabs, bear hugs, choke defense and ground defense.

12:30–2:30 p.m. $20. nursenick@ m3yoga.com, www.m3yoga.com EVENTS: Athens Car Show (Southern Brewing Company) Check out cars, UGA football and puppies from the Athens Canine Rescue.

2:30–9 p.m. www.sobrewco.com EVENTS: STEMzone UGA (Miller Learning Center, Lawn) Students in science, technology, engineering and math disciplines will share their research in interactive ways. 11 a.m.–3:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/stemzoneuga EVENTS: Tailgate Athens Pop Up Shop (The Foundry) Former UGA quarterback David Greene will make an appearance for a special game day signing. Shop for apparel from Kendra Scott. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! info@graduateathens.com EVENTS: West Broad Farmers Market (West Broad Market Garden) Shop for fresh and affordable produce and prepared foods.

The market also includes kids activities, cooking demonstrations, educational booths and entertainment. Today is an African American Heritage & Urban Agriculture Fest that celebrates history and traditions, particularly those surrounding West Broad School. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! www.athenslandtrust.org EVENTS: Job Fair (All Kroger stores in Athens) Kroger will host a hiring fair for over 50 positions in various departments. 12–4 p.m. FREE! jobs. kroger.com EVENTS: Athens Montessori School Annual Fall Festival (Athens Montessori School) This family-friendly event features music, magic shows, moon walks, crafts, a book fair, a bake sale, pony rides and more! 10 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! info@ athensmontessori.com EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods, crafts and live music. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: WIllson Center Waffle House Tailgate (Willson Center for Humanities & Arts) Tailgate for the game with live music by Stewart Marshall, Winfield Smith and other guests. 12:30 p.m. FREE! www.arts. uga.edu EVENTS: Athens Heritage Lions Club: Roll, Walk, Job, Run 5K (Sandy Creek Park) Shirts, prizes and refreshments. Proceeds benefit a transportation program being started

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THE CALENDAR! chair start), 9:15 a.m. $25. www. active.com GAMES: Planewalkers for Diversity Chapter Meeting (Tyche’s Games) Play Magic is a welcoming atmosphere. 6 p.m.

FREE! www.tychesgames.com KIDSTUFF: Teen Kitten Snuggle Party (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Meet an adorable adoptable from the MadisonOglethorpe Animal Shelter. Ages 13 & up. 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/madison KIDSTUFF: Nature’s Trading Post (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Trade one or two objects found in nature for points or other nature objects in the center’s collection. 11 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: Day of the Dead Celebration (ACC Library) Celebrate Dia de los Muertos by learning about Jose Guadalupe Posada and his skeleton calavera art. Ages 4–11. 11 a.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens OUTDOORS: Naturalist’s Walk (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join the SCNC staff for a walk around the property. Bring a camera or binoculars. All ages. 10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 PERFORMANCE: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (The Pub at Gameday) The Athens Showgirl Cabaret presents performances. Dotte Comm from Atlanta makes a guest appearance.

10:30 p.m. $3. www.athensshowgirlcabaret.com SPORTS: UGA Football (Sanford Stadium) UGA vs. South Carolina.

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Nature Center) YogaSprouts leads warm-up stretches, followed by a 100 meter Sprout Run and a strollerfriendly 5k. 1:30–3 p.m. FREE (sprout run), $25. lifespanmontessori.com KIDSTUFF: Cartwheel Clinic (Bishop Park) Improve upper body strength through drills and hands-on spotting. For ages 5–9. 3 p.m. $20. www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure LECTURES & LIT: Georgia Writers Hall of Fame Author Discussion (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) Hugh Ruppersburg will moderate a panel discussion between poets Alfred Corn and Kevin Young. 5 p.m. FREE! www.libs.uga.edu/russell

featured in or inspired by literature.

Food-related outfits are encouraged.

6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee EVENTS: Georgia Writers Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (UGA Special Collections Library) The Georgia Writers Hall of Fame will host this event to mark the induction of James Cobb. 10 a.m. FREE! www. libs.uga.edu/russell GAMES: General Knowledge Trivia (Beef ’O’ Brady’s) Win house cash and prizes! Every Monday night. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-8501916 GAMES: Duplicate Bridge (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Beginner players welcome.

1 p.m. $4. ejstapler@gmail.com GAMES: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Highwire Lounge) Test your general

and under. Caregivers will recieve pointers for building literacy and language skills. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime (ACC Library) Designed to nurture language skills through literature-based materials and activities. Parents assist their children in movements and actions while playing. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Avid Bookshop, Prince Ave.) Meet Sandra Worsham in celebration of her book Going to Wings. 4:30 p.m.

FREE! www.avidbookshop.com LECTURES & LIT: Communicative Input, Creativity and Comedy (UGA Aderhold Hall, Room 317) Learn new approaches for foreign language and ESL classrooms. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.arts.uga.edu

Library for Political Research and Studies. Meet in the rotunda on the second floor. Part of UGA’s Spotlight on the Arts. 2 p.m. FREE! jclevela@ uga.edu EVENTS: “4 minutes 33 seconds” Spotlight on Scholarship (Georgia Museum of Art) Graduate students have four minutes and 33 seconds to describe their research in a chance to win $433. This competition is inspired by John Cage’s landmark 1952 composition 4’33.”

Part of Spotlight on the Arts. 7 p.m.

FREE! www.arts.uga.edu GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) See Tuesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 GAMES: Trivia at Johnny’s (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Play for cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706354-1515

PERFORMANCE: Jazz Ensembles I and II (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) The groups perform jazz, swing and Latin pieces, plus two works featuring associate professor of trumpet Brandon Craswell. 6 p.m. FREE! www.music.uga.edu THEATER: It Can’t Happen Here (Circle Ensemble Theatre Company) The Circle Ensemble Theatre will host a staged reading of It Can’t Happen Here, adapted from Sinclair Lewis’ novel. 7 p.m. FREE! fsgiles@ uga.edu

GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) See Tuesday listing for full description 6 p.m. FREE! www.therookandpawn.com 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 GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) See Tuesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern 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 event will look at works in the permanent collection. 10 a.m.

FREE! callan@uga.edu, www.georgiamuseum.org KIDSTUFF: Teen Library Council (Oconee County Library) Have a say in future YA events. Grades 6–12. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ oconee KIDSTUFF: UGA EcoReach (ACC Library) Investigate Natural Mysteries in the ecosystem. Ages 11–18. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens

Sunday 5 ART: Sunday Spotlight Tour (Georgia Museum of Art) Docents lead a tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 3 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org ART: Artist Reception (Athens Academy) See three different art shows in galleries across campus.

See Calendar Pick on p. 20. 2–4 p.m. FREE! www.athensacademy.org EVENTS: Downtown Athens Walking Tour (Downtown Athens) Discover the history of downtown.

Part of the Athens Heritage Walks tour series. 2–4 p.m. $12–15. www. achfonline.org EVENTS: Come Sing the ABC’s of Educational Initiatives in Athens (Taylor-Grady House) Athens Tutorial Program, Books for Keeps and Clarke County Mentor Program host a joint fundraiser. 5–7 p.m. $50. 706-543-0802 EVENTS: The Souper Bowl (Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market) Soups, cornbread, live music by Constantino Garrito and drink specials. Ten percent of sales benefits the Athens Area Homeless Shelter.

Receive $5 if you bring a coat to donate. 6–8 p.m. $10. www.heirloomathens.com FILM: Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers (Winder Cultural Arts Center, Winder) Filmmaker Maisie Crow discusses her film, Jackson. 4 p.m. www.winderculturalarts.com GAMES: Shadowrun RPG Demo (Tyche’s Games) Visit Seattle in 2071, when magic and megacorps clash. 12 p.m. FREE! www.tychesgames.com GAMES: Netrunner Open Play (Tyche’s Games) All are welcome to join in. 12:30–4:30 p.m. FREE! www. tychesgames.com KIDSTUFF: Lifespan Montessori 5K and Sprout Run (Sandy Creek

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LECTURES & LIT: King Cotton in the Georgia Piedmont (Madison Morgan Cultural Center) Learn how to cotton industry dictated the present-day Morgan County and Piedmont region in the King Cotton symposium. 2–4 p.m. FREE! www. mmcc-arts.org PERFORMANCE: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center performs a program entitled “Essential String Trios” with works by Beethoven, Penderecki and Mozart. 3 p.m. FREE! pac.uga.edu SPORTS: UGA Hockey (The Classic Center) The UGA Ice Dawgs compete against Liberty University. 3 p.m. $10. www.ugahockey.com THEATER: Cabaret (UGA Fine Arts Building) See Friday listing for full description Nov. 3, 8–11, 8 p.m.

Nov. 5 & 12, 2:30 p.m. $12–16. ugatheatre.com

Monday 6 EVENTS: Books on the Menu (Oconee County Library) Eat and talk books at a potluck where attendees are encouraged to bring a dish

knowledge for prizes. 8–10 p.m.

FREE! highwirelounge.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 KIDSTUFF: Nerd Herd (Oconee County Library) Hang out with fellow nerds for a low-key hour of fun.

Grades 6–12. 6 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Open Chess Play for Kids and Teens (ACC Library) Teen chess players of all skill levels can play matches and learn from members of the local Chess and Community Players, who will be on hand to assist players and help build skill levels. For ages 7–18.

Registration required. 4–5:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Percy Jackson Program (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Discover myths with activities and games inspired by the Percy Jackson series by Rich Riordan. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/madison KIDSTUFF: Monday Funday (Bogart Library) Songs, finger plays, wiggles and giggles for ages three

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Tuesday 7 CLASSES: Herbal Creams & Salves (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Discover a variety of recipes for using herbs and essential oils. Prepare and take home several small containers of creams, salves and lip balms. 9:30–11:30 a.m. $30. www.botgarden.uga.edu EVENTS: Tuesday Tour at 2 (UGA Special Collections Library) Take a guided tour of the exhibit galleries of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Richard B. Russell

KIDSTUFF: Mommy and Me at the Zoo (Memorial Park, Bear Hollow Zoo) Hear stories, make crafts and meet animals. Ages 1–6. 10 a.m. $3–4. www.athensclarkecounty.com/ leisure KIDSTUFF: KidsKnit (Bogart Library) Leran to knit with Ms. Deborah.

Ages 9–13. 4 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/bogart 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: Preschooler Storytime (Oconee County Library) Stories, songs and crafts for preschool-aged children and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee LECTURES & LIT: Author Reading (Oconee County Library) Meet local, award-winning author Denise Weimer. Weimer will discuss her publishing journey and share tips on turning historical research into fiction. 6 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES & LIT: Kristen Iskandrian and Mike McClelland (Ciné Barcafé) Kristen Iskandrian’s has been featured in McSweeney’s and Ploughshares.

Her latest novel is Motherest. Mike McClelland’s first book is Gay Zoo Day. Part of Spotlight on the Arts. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com LECTURES & LIT: Politics in Georgia (Baldwin Hall, The Pinnacle Room) Professors of political science Charles Bullock and Robert M. Howard present “Politics in Georgia: From the Three Governors Controversy to Now, a Conversation on Georgia Politics Past and Present.” Part of UGA’s Spotlight on the Arts. 2:30 p.m.

FREE! www.arts.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: UGA Choral Showcase (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) Performances by the UGA Hodgson Singers, Collegium Musicum, Men’s and Women’s Glee Clubs and the African American Choral Ensemble. 8 p.m. FREE! www.pac.uga.edu SPORTS: Table Tennis Matches and Training (East Athens Community Center) Beginner to advanced skill levels welcome.

Tuesdays, 6:30–8:30 p.m. & Saturdays, 1–4 p.m. FREE! www. ttathensga.com

Wednesday 8 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Docents lead a tour of highlights from the permanent collection.

2 p.m. FREE! georgiamuseum.org ART: The Exhibit (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) Celebrate the non-profit art gallery with live music, art and prizes. All proceeds benefit ATHICA. 6–8 p.m. $5–7. athica.org ART: Jack Davis Visiting Artist Lecture (Lamar Dodd School of Art, Dodd Auditorium S151) Rick Meyerowitz began contributing illustrated articles to National Lampoon in 1970. Part of Spotlight on the Arts. 5:30 p.m. www.arts.uga.edu CLASSES: Women Who Wine (J’s Bottle Shop) A wine appreciation class. 6 p.m. $75/six classes. 706353-8881 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Creature Comforts Brewery) See Wednesday listing for full description 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Rabbit Box (The Foundry) Storytellers share true-life tales. This month, Rabbit Box partners with Nuci’s Space to present stories about mental illness. 7 p.m. $7. rabbitboxstories@gmail.com

EVENTS: Holiday Open House (House Electric) There will be special discounts, refreshments, door prizes and giveaways. Nov. 8, 10 a.m.–7 p.m. Nov. 9, 11 a.m.–3 p.m.

FREE! www.houseelectricathens.com EVENTS: Flagpole’s 30th Anniversary Variety Show (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) Flagpole celebrates its 30th birthday with a variety show featuring music, comedy, performance and much more. 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com EVENTS: Breaking the Stigma (Miller Learning Center, Room 171) Refreshments and resource table swill be available followed by a panel discussion on mental health with members from NAMI on Campus, HOSA and AMSA. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ namioncampusuga FILM: Dr. Strangelove (Ciné Barcafé) The UGA Willson Center for Arts and Humanities and the School of Public and International Affairs present a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 Cold War satire.

Followed by a discussion on nuclear proliferation and public discourses on nuclear war. Part of UGA’s Spotlight on the Arts. 7 p.m. www. arts.uga.edu GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Trivia (Copper Creek Brewing Company) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m.

FREE! 706-546-1102 GAMES: Bingo Bango (Highwire Lounge) Drop in and win prizes!

8–10 p.m. FREE! highwirelounge. 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: Dirty Bingo (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Hosted by Garrett Lennox every Wednesday. Prizes and house cash. 8 p.m. FREE! www. grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) Gather a team and compete. 8 p.m. saucehouse.com GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie, Eastside) Every Wednesday. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 KIDSTUFF: Preschooler Storytime (Oconee County Library) Stories, songs and crafts for preschool-aged children and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Library Adventures (Bogart Library) See Wednesday listing for full description 11:30 a.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Avid Bookshop) Meet author Nic Stone in celebration of her book Dear Martin. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www. avidbookshop.com LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Avid Bookshop, Prince Ave.) Meet C. Morgan Babst for her debut novel, The Floating World. 6:30 p.m.

FREE! www.avidbookshop.com PERFORMANCE: Bumper Jacksons (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) The group combines early styles of jazz, blues and country swing. Nov. 8–9, 8 p.m. $39. pac. uga.edu THEATER: Cabaret (UGA Fine Arts Building) See Friday listing for full description Nov. 3, 8–11, 8 p.m.

Nov. 5 & 12, 2:30 p.m. $12–16. ugatheatre.com

LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 31 Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com KICK THE ROBOT Power-pop trio from Athens with infectious energy.

THE BROKEN STRING BAND Athens band blending Western folk with indie rock.

BEAU & LUCI Folk-rock sister-sister duo from South Georgia.

Creature Comforts Brewery 5 p.m. FREE! www.creaturecomfortsbeer.com DJ COMFORTS Spinning Halloweenthemed tunes.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com AS DUSK FADES Local band playing a set of Halloween covers.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com BOOTY BOYZ DJs Immuzikation, Twin Powers and Z-Dog spin dance hits into the night.

The Foundry 7:30 p.m. $5. www.thefoundryathens. com REV. TRIBBLE AND THE DEACONS Old-fashioned rock and roll with a sprinkle of good-humored irreverance.

THE STAR LIGHTERS Local cover band led by Carla Le Fever and featuring an all-star backing cast.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $20 (adv.), $25 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com PERPETUAL GROOVE This local group has long stirred crowds into a frenzy with its exciting jams and spirited cover tunes.

TAUK Jammy, instrumental rockfusion band from NYC. On the Rooftop. 11 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com LUTHI Funky, horn-centric group based in Nashville, TN. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DJ MAHOGANY Popular local DJ spins freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves.

Jerzees Sports Bar 10 p.m. 443-579-5566 L.A. DARIUS The DJ formerly known as Kayez spins the hottest dance records, with a mix of dance, top 40, hip hop, Latin and dancehall beats.

Max 10 p.m. FREE! 706-286-0339 DJS CHIEF ROCKA & Q Local DJs spin Top 40, hip hop, funk, soul and more.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 SO NASTY Athens group led by saxophonist and vocalist Gnarly G and featuring a rotating cast of local musicians.

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com THE PIERRES New alt-rock group from Athens.

UNTIL THREE Athens-based rock and roll duo.

DYLAN LOFTIN Member of punk band Nihilist Cheerleader plays a solo set of melancholy indie-folk.

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Brothers, Dead and Co.) is joined by an all-star group of musicians.

JAIMOE’S JASSSZ BAND Allman Brothers percussionist leads his group through a set of both classics and original tracks.

On the Rooftop. 11 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com LITTLE BIRD Four-piece from Annapolis, MD blending surf-rock, jazz and Americana.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com SCOTT BAXENDALE Guitar dynamism from the owner of Baxendale Guitars. Classic bluesy riffs and a lot of soul.

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 Globe 8 p.m. www.jazzathensga.org THE HOT HOTTY-HOTS Local swing and hot jazz ensemble playing music of the 1910s, ’20s and ’30s.

10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 HIP HOP OPEN MIC A weekly battlestyle open mic that uses silent-disco headphones to encourage audience participation. Performers can bring their own beats, or the house will provide backing.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com KYSHONA ARMSTRONG Soulful singer-songwriter with a rootsy, bluesy sound.

NATHAN ANGELO Atlanta singersongwriter with a soulful voice that pairs elements of gospel and lyrical storytelling.

Iron Factory 8 p.m. FREE! 706-395-6877 OPEN MIC Hosted by Katie Collins.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 THE LAST JAMURAI New local good-time funk rock and roll band.

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 Enjoy an evening of original music, improv and standards.

Thursday 2 The Bar-B-Que Shack 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-6752 BLUEGRASS JAM Bring your own instrument! All pickers are welcome every Thursday.

Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 LEAVING COUNTRIES Louis Phillip Pelot plays solo sets of country-rock and acoustic Southern soul.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18–20). www. caledonialounge.com MIDNIGHT MADNESS Featuring Muddy Gang, Harry Wright, Keem, 404 Giani and DJ Pi. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com TEARS FOR THE DYING Local death-rock group fronted by longtime Athenian Adrya Stembridge.

HECKLEHAMMER Athens-based stoner/doom-metal outfit.

STRANGE DREAMS Goth- and postpunk-influenced band from Athens featuring former members of The Girl Pool.

SUPPORT GROUP No information available.

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The Foundry 8 p.m. FREE! thefoundryathens.com KINKY WAIKIKI Relaxing, steel guitar-driven band following the traditions of Hawaiian music.

Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC A weekly open-mic jam hosted by Louis Phillip Pelot.

Backline provided!

Georgia Theatre 7:30 p.m. $27 (adv.), $30 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com OTEIL AND FRIENDS Blues-rock bassist Oteil Burbridge (Allman

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!

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 BACK CITY WOODS Macon-based bluegrass/Southern rock and roll band.

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.

Friday 3 Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. 706-369-3040 PAT COOPER BAND Country group led by singer-songwriter and Georgia native Cooper.

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $10 (21+), $12 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com ROADKILL GHOST CHOIR Folkinfluenced psych-rock six-piece from Athens. Album release show!

YALLWEH New local psych-rock band featuring members of Hot Fudge, Marshmallow Coast, Dark Meat and Harvey Milk.

Creature Comforts Brewery 5 p.m. FREE! www.creaturecomfortsbeer.com DJ OSMOSE International touring DJ and Athens resident lays down an all-vinyl set of funk, soul, boogie and more.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com MIKE MANTIONE The Five Eight frontman performs a solo set.

ANTLERED AUNT LORD Fuzz-pop project fronted by local songwriter Jesse Stinnard.

SEAN KNISELY Electronic-tinged folk singer-songwriter from Nashville.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $15 (adv.), $20 (door). www.40watt.com PATRICK DAVIS AND HIS MIDNIGHT CHOIR Singersongwriter out of Nashville touring with an 11-piece backing band. k continued on p. 25

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THE CALENDAR! The Foundry 8 p.m. $10 (adv.), $15 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com KINCHAFOONEE COWBOYS Longrunning country band from Albany.

JAMES MASON Young, up-andcoming singer-songwriter from Blackshear.

Georgia Theatre 7:30 p.m. SOLD OUT. www.georgiatheatre.com 311 Chart-topping alt-rock band that fuses reggae, pop and metal styles.

THE NORM Local group that combines funk, reggae, pop, rock and hip hop.

On the Rooftop. 10 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com DJ CROWE & RETROGRADE Spinning a “Stranger Things”themed dance party.

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B.Y.V. & Y.O.D Two local hip-hop collectives team up.

SQUALLE Athens-based hip-hop artist with a thoughtful, throwback sound.

LIL BOOLY Local hip-hop artist.

DONNY KNOTTSVILLE Local hiphop artist combines modern and traditional rap styles.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com PALE LUNGS Ambient indie-rock group out of Nashville.

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 RCI “Purveyors of only the finest in filth and chicanery” from Athens.

JET PHASE Local grunge-influenced indie-rock band.

LYDIA SERA Local visual artist and musician.

SEA WALL Songwriter Chris Ingham plays a set of loop-heavy solo jams.

Iron Factory 8 p.m. FREE! 706-395-6877 DAVID LOCOCO Local singer performs classic jazz standards in the styles of Sinatra and Bennett.

The World Famous 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens MERMAID MOTOR LOUNGE Local aoustic alternative-rock band led

by Packway Handle Band member Josh Erwin.

Tuesday 7 Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com NIHILIST CHEERLEADER Buzz band playing energetic, lo-fi punk rock.

FRUIT & FLOWERS Surfy psychpunk band from Brooklyn.

JUAN DE FUCA Driving indie-rock band fronted by Jack Cherry.

Creature Comforts Brewery 5 p.m. FREE! creaturecomfortsbeer.com WHALE YOUTH Athens-based, fivepiece group featuring an inspired

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. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke!

Saturday 4 Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. 706-369-3040 BRENT GAFFORD Nashville-based country singer-songwriter.

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com CAULFIELD High-energy local garage-rap band.

Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC A weekly open-mic jam hosted by Louis Phillip Pelot.

40 Watt Club 7 p.m. $20 (adv.), $25 (door). www.40watt.com JAPANDROIDS Acclaimed, highoctane alternative rock duo out of Vancouver, BC. CLOUD NOTHINGS Hard-rocking indie band from from Cleveland, OH.

Highwire Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com LIVE MUSIC Rotating local jazz and bluegrass bands play every Friday and Saturday night.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 JGBCB Local musicians pay tribute to “one of the greatest cover bands of all time, The Jerry Garcia Band.”

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Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com SCOTT BAXENDALE Guitar dynamism from the owner of Baxendale Guitars. Classic bluesy riffs and a lot of soul.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com STEWART & WINFIELD Folky duo with harmonized vocals and classic rock vibes.

Iron Factory 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-395-6877 SUNNY SOUTH BLUES BAND Local band combining a blues and soul spirit with riffy rock and roll.

SUNSAP Alternative blues sounds with rocking guitars and thundering bass.

BRAD COCHRAN Member of Atlanta band Rolling Nowhere plays solo.

The World Famous 8 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens FIRST TUESDAY A monthly hiphop showcase hosted by Montu Miller and Chief Rocka. Featuring Bizziemade, Rocboizay and D33P, plus another installment of the Beat Wars battle series.

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com PANSY Athens punk band influenced by indie rock and ’80s hardcore.

SEX SNOBS Punky alt-rock group out of Oklahoma.

SWAMP Melodic and wiry local indierock band.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 NEIGHBOR LADY Twangy, melodic rock group led by local singersongwriter Emily Braden.

ROSE HOTEL “Bedroom-rock” alter ego of Kentucky songwriter Jordan Reynolds.

DJS TWIN POWERS & SLIP-NFALL Two DJs team up to lead a dance party.

Hilton Garden Inn 6 p.m. FREE! 706-353-6800 CLAY LEVERETT Local songwriter Leverett, joined by John Neff, is a country-minded rocker whose songs are both tough and tender.

TODD COWART Southern-fried local singer-songwriter plays a set.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 RESINATED Funky stoner-reggae outfit from Florida.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. FREE! www.georgiatheatre.com HEAVY PETTY Local all-star Tom Petty cover band.

Pale Lungs play Flicker Theatre & Bar on Saturday, Nov. 4.

THE FLATS Poppy indie-rock band on tour from Ohio.

PLATOON DADDY New local experimental punk act.

NEW TREE No information available.

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. $15 (adv.), $20 (door). www.40watt.com WAX TAILOR Popular French triphop and hip-hop producer.

DIRTY ART CLUB Psychedelic electronic group from Charlotte, NC. The Foundry 8 p.m. $7 (adv.), $10 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com HOLMAN AUTRY BAND Described as “a little bit of Hank, a little bit of Metallica and a healthy dose of Southern rock.”

HUSH MONEY Hard Southern rock band out of Ellijay.

Georgia Theatre 7:30 p.m. $12 (adv.), $15 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com DANIEL LEE BAND Local Southern rock/country outfit.

JACOB BRYANT Country singer and guitarist from Jasper.

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.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 LAVENDER HOLYFIELD Experimental pop project from local musician Charlie Key. DJ MAHOGANY Popular local DJ spins freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta faves.

NINEVEH’S GARDEN Local progressive metal band.

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Mama Jewel’s Kitchen 10 a.m. FREE! 706-850-9797 MAX WOOLERY Acoustic singersongwriter.

Caledonia Lounge 8 p.m. $10 (21+), $12 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com HELMS ALEE Sludge-metal and noise-rock band from Seattle. See Calendar Pick on p. 20.

MOTHERFUCKER Hard-driving, riffy local rock and roll trio.

MARSES Local “party-doom” fourpiece band.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 THE OTHER BROTHERS BAND Allman Brothers tribute band from Athens and Statesboro.

The Office Lounge 9 p.m. 706-546-0840 REV. TRIBBLE AND THE DEACONS Good old-fashioned rock and roll with a sprinkle of good-humored irreverance.

Willson Center for Humanities & Arts Waffle House Tailgate. 12:30 p.m.

FREE! willson.uga.edu STEWART & WINFIELD Folky duo with harmonized vocals and classic rock vibes.

Sunday 5 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!

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 7 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com GIFT ECONOMY Local acoustic folkpunk project.

BED DETH Athens-based lo-fi, confessional indie-folk project.

take on traditional Eastern music with sitar and percussion.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $10. www.40watt.com LOCAL H Long-running alt-rock duo known for hit singles like “Bound for the Floor” and “Eddie Vedder.” See Calendar Pick on p. 20.

SHEHEHE Local band that draws from old-school punk and arena rock to create a fist-pumping atmosphere.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.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 BLUES NIGHT WITH BIG C Nobody in Athens sings the blues quite like Big C. Expect lots of soulful riffs, covers and originals. Fifth anniversary show!

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $16 (adv.), $18 (door). www.40watt.com HIPPO CAMPUS Indie four-piece described as “kinda pop.”

REMO DRIVE High-energy emo-punk group out of Bloomington, MN. The Foundry Terrapin Tuesday. 7 p.m. $5. www. thefoundryathens.com WEST KING STRING BAND Bluegrass outfit from St. Augustine, FL. Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com CRAIG BROWN BAND Detroit-based rootsy gargage-rock band.

SONIC GRAFFITI Soul-drenched psychedelic garage-rock group from Florida.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 LOUDERMILK & MOON Experimental folk outfit from Atlanta.

SUBSCRIBER Local psych-pop project of songwriter Jeff Webber.

GARRETT HATCH Local songwriter and member of blues-rock band Mother the Car plays a solo set.

LEA LEA Dreamy indie-folk artist from Atlanta.

ROPER No info available.

The Globe 8 p.m. www.jazzathensga.org THE HOT HOTTY-HOTS Local swing and hot jazz ensemble playing music of the 1910s, ’20s and ’30s.

10 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 HIP HOP OPEN MIC A weekly battlestyle open mic that uses silent-disco headphones to encourage audience participation. Performers can bring their own beats, or the house will provide backing.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 PADGETT & POULIN Local guitar virtuoso Chris Padgett teams with violinist Adam Poulin.

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 Enjoy an evening of original music, improv and standards.

The World Famous 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens FIVE EIGHT Legendary Athens band that consistently pumps out boisterous, thoughtful rock and roll.

LEE BAINS III & THE GLORY FIRES Gritty, socially charged rock and roll band from Alabama.

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Art AAAC BOARD MEMBERS (Athens, GA) The Athens Area Arts Council is seeking new board members to assist with organizing events, lectures, public art projects and more.

Email for details. info@athensarts. org, www.athensarts.org AAAC GRANTS (Athens, GA) The Athens Area Arts Council is seeking applicants for its quarterly $500 grants. All local artists, arts organizations or arts-based projects are welcome to apply. Deadline Dec. 15. info@athensarts.org, www. athensarts.org ART DECKO: CALL FOR PROPOSALS (Athens, GA) Art Decko is a public art mural project located in the stairwell of the College Avenue Parking Deck. The Athens Area Arts Council is seeking eight artists to create original paintings on 4’x8’ wood panels. Panels will be provided, and artists will be compensated $500 each. Fill out the proposal form and design template online. Deadline to apply is Nov. 1. artdeckoathens@gmail.com, www. athensarts.org/art-decko-call-for-art

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 CALL FOR ARTISTS (Southern Brewing Company) Seeking wallbound artwork for monthly exhibitions. Send examples of work to walter@sobrewco.com CALL FOR ARTISTS (KA Artist Shop) The shop is seeking artwork that explores the theme “What does ’home’ mean to you?” Submission deadline Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. Find guidelines online. www.kaartistshop. com CALL FOR ARTISTS (Hip Vintage and Handmade) Local art and crafts vendors needed for Handmade Holiday Market. 10x10 spaces are $35. Event on Dec. 2, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. www.hipvintagehandmade.com

art around town A LAFERA SALON (2440 W. Broad St.) Photography by Wendy Garfinkel.

Through December.

AMICI (233 E. Clayton St.) A colorful exploration of forms in nature and abstracted figures by Beth Orehosky. Through December.

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

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

ATHENS ACADEMY (1281 Spartan Lane) In the Myers Gallery, view pieces by faculty members of the University of North Georgia. Opening reception Nov. 5.

Through Feb. 9. • In the Bertelsmann Lobby Gallery, see paintings by Becky Bundrick and Jaquelynn Faass as well as rustic designs by Don Bundrick of Wild Wood Works. Through Dec. 21. • In the Harrison Center Foyer Gallery, this year’s permanent exhibit “Animals: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings” features pieces by Leigh Ellis, Caroline Montague, Leslie Moody, Jan Perkins and Alice Woodruff.

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.) “Primal/Dreams: Paintings by Will Eskridge” examines the idiosyncrasies and behavior of animals. Through Nov. 22.

ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (ATHICA) (160 Tracy St.) The “Third Annual Juried Exhibition” features over 30 works selected by Harry H. DeLorme Jr. of the Telfair Museums in Savannah. Through Nov. 12.

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

CIRCLE GALLERY (UGA College of Environment and Design, 285 S. Jackson St.) “A Partial View: Paintings by Cecile Martin.” Through Dec. 15.

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.

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OPEN STUDIO MEMBERSHIP (Lyndon House Arts Center) Local artists can access studio facilities through a new open studio monthly membership program. Studios include ceramics, jewelry, painting, fiber, printmaking, photography and woodshop/sculpture studios.

Life drawing classes are currently offered on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. as a membership perk. $65/month or $175/three months. www.athens clarkecounty.com/leisure STATEWIDE ART COMPETITION (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Seeking student artwork to use on items in the garden’s gift shop.

Open to GA students in ninth grade or above. Winners can receive up to $1,000. Deadline Dec. 1. www.botgarden.uga.edu

Auditions STUDENT DIRECTED ONE-ACTS (Athens Little Playhouse) Young actors get to take a turn as directors.

Auditions Nov. 6 & Nov. 7, 6–7:30 p.m. Performances on Dec. 8–9, 7 p.m. & Dec. 10, 3 p.m. www.athens littleplayhouse.net

The “Georgia Small Works Exhibition,” which includes this assemblage by Kemp Mooney, is on view at the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation through Friday, Nov. 3.

THE LITTLE MERMAID (Athens Little Playhouse) Athens Little Playhouse presents a children’s spring musical. Auditions Jan. 3–4, 6–7:30 p.m. www.athenslittleplay house.net

Classes ART CLASSES (Lyndon House Arts Center) Registration begins Nov. 11 for winter art classes. Classes include painting with Charles Warnock and Will Eskridge, jewelry/ metals with Jessie Jordan, printmaking book arts with Katherine Miller, ceramics with Jorie Berman, metalsmithing with Will Stephanos and

ings by René Shoemaker. Through Dec. 3.

DONDEROS’ KITCHEN (590 N. Milledge Ave.) Artwork by Mike Shetterley.

Through November.

EARTH FARE (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) Artwork by Tom Hancock. Through November.

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Artwork by Josh Evans.

Through November.

GALLERY@HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Magical Mystery Tour” toys with surreal psychedelia through artwork by Jaime Bull, Dana Haugaard, Brian Hitselberger, Jourdan Joly, Jacob Wenzka and Orion Wertz. Through Jan. 13.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “Modern Masters from the Giuliano Ceseri Collection” includes 19th- and 20th-century works on paper by masters of the medium. Through Nov. 12. • “Louise Blair Daura: A Virginian in Paris” includes paintings, drawings and prints. Through Dec. 10. • “Martha Odum: Art Intersects Ecology” shares paintings and silver

by Odum in celebration of the UGA School of Ecology’s 50th anniversary.

Through Dec. 31. • “Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête-à-tête” shares over 40 works by the acclaimed African American artist. Through Jan. 7.

GLASSCUBE@INDIGO (500 College Ave.) Lucha Rodriguez’s site-specific installation incorporates handout paper, translucent color film and LED lights for a floating display that changes color.

HEIRLOOM CAFÉ (815 N. Chase St.) Davy Gibbs presents “Empires,” a collection of large color photographs focused on the changing face of the Southern economy. Through Nov. 6.

HIP VINTAGE & HANDMADE (215 Commerce Blvd.) See a private collection of approximately 100 sculptures, paintings, photographs and drawings by the late Beverly Buchanan. Quilts by Bea Brown are also on view. Through November.

JUST PHO…AND MORE (1063 Baxter St.) “Stilled Life” includes drawings and paintings by Emily Morrison and Mikaila Guerra.

KRIMSON KAFE (40 Greensboro Hwy., Watkinsville) Teen artists Havivah Z. Saltz and Rose Shelton present a collection of watercolors and ink drawings of women, mermaids, pop culture icons and astrological signs. Through November.

LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) “Rosemary Mayer: Beware of All Definitions” shares works by the post-minimalist and feminist artist.

Through Nov. 10. • “Undermined” features collaborative works between MFA ceramic students Yeonsoo Kim and Esther Mech and MFA textile design students Amanda Britton, Erin Geagon and Johanna Norry. Through Nov. 9. • “To Be Black and Female: Reflecting on Black Feminism and African American Women’s Art in Museums.” Through Nov. 10.

LOWERY GALLERY (2400 Booger Hill Rd., Danielsville) The gallery celebrates “24 Years of Art” with Giclee prints, originals, photographs and sculptures by over 24 artists including Claire Clements, Ben Rouse, Peter Loose, Kip Ramey and more.

LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) Held in celebration of the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation’s 50th year, “Captured in Time” presents a

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drawing with Toni Carlucci. www. athensclarkecounty.com/leisure ARTIST WORKSHOPS (KA Artist Shop) “Classic City Calligraphy Club.” Nov. 2 & Dec. 7, 5:30–7 p.m.

“Modern Calligraphy: Beginners Basics with Kristen Ashley.” Nov. 13, 6:30–8:30 p.m. www.kaartist.com CLASSES (Winterville Center for Community and Culture) “Chinese Calligraphy,” Mondays at 5:30 p.m. “Pilates,” Tuesdays at 5 p.m.

“Qigong and Tai Chi,” Wednesdays at 10 a.m. “Belly Dancing,” Wednesdays at 7 p.m. “Mahjong,” Thursdays at 1 p.m. “Gentle Yoga,” Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. 706-7420823, wintervillecenter@gmail.com, www.wintervillecenter.com

CLAY CLASSES (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” classes ($20/person) introduce participants to the potter’s wheel every Friday from 7–9 p.m.

“Family Try Clay” classes show children and adults hand-building methods every Sunday from 2–4 p.m. $20. www.gooddirt.net CUBAN-STYLE SALSA (Contact for Location) The UGA Salsa Club hosts dancing every Sunday. The beginner 1 class is free. Times and locations vary. Email for details. ugasalsaclub @gmail.com, www.facebook.com/ ugasalsaclub GUITAR STRUM AT HIP (Hip Vintage and Handmade) This is a group guitar lesson for adults taught

by Caroline Aiken. Bring a guitar,

collection of photographs from Growing Up in Athens. “Unidentified Houses of Athens.” Through Nov. 1.

MADISON COUNTY LIBRARY (1315 Highway 98 W., Danielsville) The Mother’s Dream quilt titled “Helping Hands” is created by and dedicated to members of Moms Demand Action to symbolize the human toll of gun violence in America. Through Nov. 4.

MADISON MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) A partnership between the Madison Artists Guild and the Morgan County Primary School, “Farm” celebrates the agrarian lifestyle of the rural South through paintings, photography and sculpture. Through Jan. 4.

MAMA’S BOY (197 Oak St.) Susan Pelham’s collages are influenced by Magic Realism and Surrealism.

OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (OCAF) (34 School St., Watkinsville) The eighth annual “Georgia Small Works Exhibition” features artwork measuring 14 inches or less. “Roy Ward: Watercolors and Woodblock Prints” includes landscape paintings and reliefs of botanicals. “Southern Breezes: Visions of Another Era” shares artwork by Ann Breelove Powers.

Through Nov. 3.

RICHARD B. RUSSELL JR. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIES (300 S. Hull St.) “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. Through Dec. 5. • “Covered with Glory: Football at UGA, 1892–1917.” Through Dec. 22.

SOUTHERN BREWING COMPANY (231 Collins Industrial Blvd.) Betsey Withington shares paintings inspired by hiking in north Georgia as well as travels and adventures away from home. Opening reception Nov. 2. Through November.

THE SURGERY CENTER (2142 W. Broad St.) Weaving by Dreamweaver teacher Erika Lewis. Through October.

TERRAPIN BEER CO. (265 Newton Bridge Rd.) Artwork by Amanda Burke.

Through October.

TRIO CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY (766 W. Broad St.) “Specter” explores folklore, fantasy and fear through works by Timi Conley, James Greer, Ed James, Andrew Shearer, Ali Norman and many more. Through Dec. 9.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF ATHENS (780 Timothy Rd.) “What the Refugees Left Behind” features photographs taken by William (Bud) Newton in 2015 of the refugee camps and beaches of Behramkale, Turkey. Through November.

VERONICA’S SWEET SPOT (149 Oneta St., #6C6) See work by local and regional artists, craftsmen, potters and sculptors.

VIVA! ARGENTINE CUISINE (247 Prince Ave.) Artwork by Antoine Stewart.

WINTERVILLE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY AND CULTURE (371 N. Church St., Winterville) “Spirit(s)” includes artwork and poetry by Ann Bunce, Monica Eisenman, Lisa Freeman, Jean Mann, Levon Register, Allyson Winter, Ruby Winter and Ken Wright. Through December.

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

Help Out COAT AND BLANKET DRIVE (Bogart Library) The library is collecting new and gently used blankets and coats of all sizes to donate to local charities. Through December.

770-725-9443, www.athenslibrary. org/bogart FILL THE PLATE FUNDRAISER (The Fresh Market) To help fight food insecurity among children, the

Kidstuff ART CLASSES (Lyndon House Arts Center) Registration begins Nov. 11. Art classes include Art Time (ages 4–6), Homeschool Artists (ages 6–11), 2D, 3D Drawing and Ceramics (ages 7–9), Through the Lens Video/Film Making (ages 9–12), Digital Photography in the Age of Instagram (ages 11 & up).

Register online. 613-3623, athens clarkecounty.com/lyndonhouse ATHENS AREA BLACK HISTORY BOWL (The H. T. Edwards Complex) Students in grades 5–12 can compete by displaying knowledge in various categories including economics, civil rights, education, science and entertainment. $50 registration fee. Deadline Nov. 28.

Competition on Mar. 24. 706-2476777, aabhbowl@gmail.com GIVE THANKS: CARD MAKING STATION (Bogart Library) Participants can drop in and make a card of thanks for someone in the community. The library will deliver to local school and city buildings.

Nov. 4–20. www.athenslibrary.org/ bogart KIDS CLASSES (Treehouse Kid and Craft) “Saturday Morning Craft.”

10 a.m. (ages 2–4) and 12 p.m. (ages 5–8). “STEAM Saturdays.”

First Saturday of the month, 1–4 p.m. (ages 9–14). Eight-week sessions require reservations and include “Homeschool Art School” on Tuesdays, 2:30 p.m. (ages 6–10); “Visioneers” on Tuesdays, 4 p.m. (ages 9–14); “Baby Art” on Wednesdays, 10 a.m. (12–24 mo.), “Art Schools I, II and III” (various ages); and “Fun Fridays” at 4 p.m. (ages 4–6). Visit website for descriptions and to register. www. treehousekidandcraft.com TEEN TUMBLING (Bishop Park) Registration is underway. For ages 12–15 from beginner through advanced levels. Mondays through Nov. 27, 6:30–8 p.m. $10–15/class. www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure WILD INTELLIGENCE NATURE CONNECTION PROGRAMS (Multiple Locations) Weekly, monthly or year-long programs.

Activities range from wilderness survival skills, plant identification, making primitative tools, crafts, games, tracking animals and more. Locations range from the State Botanical Garden, Earthsong and McBride Family Farm. Check website for dates, times, age requirements and tuition. www.wildintelligence.org YWCO PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAM (Athens YWCO) Technique Tuesdays for ages 2–12 includes singing, dancing, rhythms and rhymes. Explore acting, improv, costumes, mime and puppetry.

Through December. wootenwoopets @gmail.com, www.ywco.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 ATHENS TNG (Athens, GA) Athens The Next Generation is for ages 18–30 who are interested in nontypical relationship dynamics. Meets third Friday of the month. Email for location. athenstng@gmail.com 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. tinyurl.com/ DudesHelpingDudes, www.brainaid fest.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 MENTAL HEALTH PEER SUPPORT GROUP (Nuçi’s Space) Meets the second Wednesday of every month.

Open to anyone focused on improving their life and learning how to live with their condition. Next meetings Nov. 8 & Dec. 13. 6–7 p.m. FREE! www.nuci.org NAMI FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP (First Presbyterian Church of Athens) For family members, friends and caregivers of individuals with mental illnesses. 4th Tuesdays through Dec. 5. FREE! 770-2250804, www.namihall.org

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store will host a fundraiser where guests can make donations at check-out to support No Kid Hungry.

Through Oct. 31. www.thefresh market.com 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

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tuner, paper, pen and list of songs you’d like to learn. Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m. $15. www.hipvintagehand made.com INTRODUCTION TO QUILTING (Farmview Market) Learn how to piece and machine quilt with Jeannette Hart and Gay Rodriguez of Quilts by Hart. Tuesdays, Jan. 16–30. 5–7 p.m. $90. angelina@ farmviewmarket.com LOVE YOUR BODY AGAIN YOGA (Healing Arts Centre, Sangha Yoga Studio) This is a floor and propbased class with gentle movement for participants who want more flexibility, more energy, less tightness and improved self-image. Mondays, 12–1 p.m. $15/drop-in, $66/six classes. www.healingartscentre.net SALSA CLASSES (Dancefx) Learn how to salsa dance. No partner required. Tuesdays, 6:30–7:15 p.m. (beginner). 7:15–8 p.m. (intermediate/advanced). $10. natalie@ dancefx.org, www.dancefx.org SPANISH CLASSES (ALCES) ALCES offers beginner and intermediate classes in Spanish. $75 per month, plus materials. 706-549-5002, alcescenter@gmail.com TAI CHI (Rubber Soul Yoga) Tai Chi, Yang style, traditional long form.

All levels welcome. No experience necessary. Thursdays, 9–10 a.m.

770-630-1252 WILD INTELLIGENCE “Outdoor Essentials” is a crash course on camping basics. Nov. 11, 9 a.m.–2 p.m. $35. www.wildintelligence.org YAMUNA (Healing Arts Centre, Sangha Yoga Studio) “Intro to Yamuna Body Rolling & Foot Fitness” is a four-week series.

Begins Nov. 7, 7–8:30 p.m. $80. holistichealthrevolution@gmail.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 YOGA CLASSES (m3yoga, 159 Oneta St., Unit 5) m3yoga offers theraputic, rocket and vinyasa flow classes.

Donation Flow Yoga Classes are held every Saturday at 6 p.m. $5 yoga classes are offered to all veterans, and a “Community Warrior” membership offers reduced rates for local educators, active military members, firefighters, health care professionals and law enforcement. www.m3yoga.com YOGA: THE BREATH OF LIFE, AN INTRO TO CHAKRAS AND NADIS (Athens Five Points Yoga Studio) Through asana practice, prananyama and lecture, instructor Gota Cebrero leads a class on human energetic systems. Register online. Nov. 11, 12–4 p.m. $75 (before Oct. 31), $65. www.athens yogainstitute.com ZUMBA (East Athens Community Center) Zumba for ages 16 & up is held Mondays through Nov. 6, 6–7 p.m. and Saturdays through Nov. 11, 10–11 a.m. $5–7.50/class. www. athensclarkecounty.com/fitness ZUMBA (Georgia Square Mall) Dance away near Sears on the upper level.

Every Thursday, 6–7 p.m. zumbathens@gmail.com

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On The Street ANNUAL BIRD SEED SALE (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Proceeds support the Sandy Creek Nature Center, Inc., a non-profit organization which supports the SCNC in promoting environmental education and preservation. Pick-up Nov. 10–12. Order forms are available at the Nature Center, by mail or online. 706-6133615, ext. 235, sncinc@gmail.com DOWNTOWN PARADE OF LIGHTS (Downtown Athens) Now accepting entries. Prizes will be awarded for the most original float, best use of the theme and best use of lights.

This year’s theme is “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.” Deadline Nov. 16. Parade on Dec. 7, 7 p.m. $40. www.athensclarkecounty.com/ parade.

FREE SPEECH AND HEARING SCREENINGS (The UGA Speech and Hearing Clinic) The clinic is offering free screenings for adults and children ages 3 & up. 706-5424598, www.coe.uga.edu/csdclinic GO MOBILE MAMMOGRAPHY CENTER (Georgia Square Mall) Belk Gives offers free screenings to women age 40 and over who have not had a mammogram in the past year and have a primary care physician. Nov. 12, 12 p.m.–6 p.m. 855655-2662, www.belk.com/pink SENIOR ADULT TRIPS (Rocksprings Community Center) “Trip to Annual Native American Festival & Pow Wow.” Nov. 3, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. $25–41. “The Atlanta Comedy Theatre.” Nov. 17, 6–11 p.m. $35– 53. For ages 50 & up. athensclarke county.com/leisure THE PET CARE CLINIC (Pet Supplies Plus) The Athens Area Humane Society offers a low-cost clinic the first Saturday of each month, 1–4 p.m. Services include vaccines, deworming, microchipping, nail trimming, flea treatments and more. No appointment necessary. 706-769-9155 f

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AN UNQUIET MIND (in collaboration with Nuçi’s Space) November 8th 7PM • $7 at The Foundry Storytelling for Adults

Doors Open at 5PM for Dinner

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REAL ESTATE APARTMENTS FOR RENT Eastside quadraplex, 2BR/2BA, $500/mo. & 2BR/1BA, $475/mo. We have others pre-listing for next year. Call McWaters Realty: 706-353-2700 or cell: 706-540-1529.

COMMERCIAL PROPERTY Tr a n s m e t on Oglethorpe is for sale.

Awesome space, big kitchen, separate ba r, ro o f t o p p a t i o , accessible location.

Best part is the land comes with it! Call Reign at Give Back Real Estate: 706-3724166.

HOUSES FOR SALE Call Daniel Peiken if you are looking to buy or sell a house or condo.

Specializing in first time home buyers and in-town proper ties w/ over 15 years of Real Estate experience in Athens.

706-296-2941, dpeiken@ hotmail.com, www.Athens Home.com.

Sell your properties in Flagpole Classifieds! Call 706-549-0301 or email class@flagpole.com to place your ad.

PARKING & STORAGE Football Parking in the Flagpole parking lot! Only 1 mile to the s t a d i u m . Ta i l g a t i n g welcome. Competitive rates. 220 Prince Ave.

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Franchised ranch oak dining room suite: table, 8 chairs, hutch, china cabinet. Zuckerman Flemish harpsichord. Call Mary Jane: 706-543-7891 or 706-372-6785. Leave slow, clear message.

MUSIC EQUIPMENT Nuçi’s Space needs your old instruments & music gear! All donations are tax-deductible. Call 706227-1515 or come by Nuçi’s Space, 396 Oconee St. Borders! Pictures! Tons of categories to satisfy Athens classified ad needs with the lowest rates in town. Flagpole Classifieds helps you keep your ear to the ground!

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Instant cash is now being paid for good vinyl records & CDs in fine condition. Wuxtry Records, at corner of Clayton & College Dwntn.

706-369-9428.

Self Publish Your Book.

Local (Five Points) professional publishing service. Editing, design, layout and printing services. 25+ years experience. Let’s meet at Jittery Joe’s—The coffee is on me! 706-395-4874.

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Guitar Strum w/ the fabulous Caroline Aiken! All levels of experience welcome.

Wednesdays, 5:30–6:30. $15. Bring your guitar.

2 1 5 C o m m e rc e B l v d . hipvintagehandmade.com Lamar Studios: Beginner to advanced lessons in voice and piano. Fox Hall Trail.

50% introduction price.

Piano: 706-829-0272, 10keyfingers.com. Voice: 706-829-0715.

UGA Community Music School. Group and private instruction avail. for students 18 mos. through adult seniors! Private instruction in popular and classical styles. ugacms. uga.edu, ugacms@uga. edu, 706-542-2894.

Professional recording, mixing and mastering at The Glow Recording Studio. Super vibey! Super affordable! Text: 706347-3323, email jesse@ theglowrecording studio. com or visit www.the glowrecordingstudio.com.

SERVICES CLEANING P e a c h y G re e n C l e a n Co-op, your local friendly Green Clean! Free estimates w/ rates as low as $39. 706-248-4601, peachygreencleancoop. com.

Certified medium: Spiritual Guidance. Heal and resolve body, mind and spirit issues while receiving clarity, direction and tools for change.

Joseph, please text first: 404-312-0343.

JOBS FULL-TIME Athens Country Club is Hiring: FT line cook and PT dishwashers, servers and bartenders. Great pay and employee meals.

Apply in person: 2700 Jefferson Rd. Tue.–Sat., 2–4 p.m.

Visit athenspets.net to view all the cats and dogs available at the shelter

Graduate Athens seeking FT experienced Maintenance Engineer.

Great pay and benefits.

Prior experience and weekend/night availability req. Apply online: www. besthotelcareers.com.

Modern Age is hiring! FT positions avail. Vaping experience/knowledge a plus! Bring resumes into Modern Age. No phone calls please.

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Kesha (47412)

is excited to have finished her heartworm treatment!

Meet this cute girl today and play with her in the fall leaves.

Nimbus

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is a ray of sunshine with his goofy grin and elf ears.

He’s a fetch enthusiast and will retrieve any toy with lightning speed.

These pets and many others are available for adoption at: Athens-Clarke County Animal Control 125 Buddy Christian Way · 706-613-3540 Open every day except Wednesday 10am-4pm

Searching for the perfect employee to work at your business? Let us help get the word out through Flagpole Classifieds.

706-549-0301 or email: class@flagpole.com.

Smoker’s Den is hiring!

FT positions avail. Vaping experience/knowledge a plus! Bring resumes into Smoker’s Den. No phone calls please.

Taste of India is now hiring FT/PT bussers, hostess, servers and di s h wa s h e r s . F l e x i b l e hours and competitive pay. Apply in person. For further questions contact: indiaathens@gmail.com.

OPPORTUNITIES (Antarctica) American crew now recruiting team to investigate charred ruins and humanoid corpse at Norwegian camp. BYO sled dog. macreadyhair@fire.us.

PART-TIME Looking for a job w/ no angr y customers? No uniforms? A schedule that suits your needs? CBSG is open 15 hours daily, where you get paid to type. See www.ctscribes. com.

Leasing Assistant needed.

Hours: Tue, Thu, Fri, Sat. 1p.m.–6p.m. Hours are not flexible. Mostly clerical and administrative work.

P a y s t a r t s $ 9 / p e r h r.

Email resumes to office@ greenathens.net.

YWCO is hiring an Assistant Aquatics Director to assist with onsite pool mgmt, swim lessons and to serve as a lifeguard. Send letter of inquiry and resume to Gayla Chalmers: y w c o p o o l . c o m , w w w. ywco.org/about-the-ywco/ job-opportunities YWCO is hiring a yearround Lifeguard. Must be 18. Send letter of inquiry and resume to Gayla Chalmers: ywcopool.com, www.ywco.org/about-theywco/job-opportunities

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1986 Volvo wagon— manual five-speed.

Burgundy. Old, but well cared-for, like its owner. $1500. Call: 706-3402082.

If you can’t handle me at my Tonya, you don’t deserve me at my Nancy.

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MISSED CONNECTIONS Georgie: I picked up your severed arm when you dropped it during the Wild Rumpus! Will leave in a box for you on the corner of Pulaski and Hancock.

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ORGANIZATIONS After The End is a postapocalyptic book club currently reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. Dec. 7, 7 p.m.

ACC Library.

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Post a free listing for lost and found pets or valuable items. Email: class@flagpole.com.

Make a Cozy Cat Shelter for Strays: Cut a doorway in a lg Rubbermaid storage bin. Line the floor, top & walls w/ sheet styrofoam. Perfect cuts not necessary. Stuff the bottom of the bin w/ straw.

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How Do I Find a Support System?

ADVICE FOR ATHENS’ LOOSE AND LOVELORN

By Bonita Applebum advice@flagpole.com Dear Bonita, have one friend, and I hope that friend isn’t I am going to bring up the subject of being a jerk to you, seeing as how you’re bereavement, which I know is uncommon in already feeling this way. your column.

You seem to be counting on people disI have lived near Athens for over a year, and missing or minimizing your feelings and I avidly seek out Flagpole; the first thing I do is experiences, and that’s unfortunate. It read your column and enjoy it very much. speaks a lot to the quality of people you’ve I moved here from Miami, partly because of had around you in the past, and I’m sorry my 91-year-old mother who has deteriorated for that. You definitely need someone a lot. Needless to say, I am still undergoing a around to support you through your grief kind of culture shock, espeand recovery. I agree, cially because I live in the It’s time for you to It’s time for you to Maria: middle of the woods near meet new people. meet new people.

Carlton in a cabin, so I’m Start by accompanypretty isolated. I am Cuban ing your friend to social and feel out of my element, and have made events. Ease into it, though, and start with only one friend in Athens. I’m a caregiver to relaxed environments like barbecues or my mother, which is very stressful for strange sporting events—chill stuff that requires reasons that I won’t go into. less social posturing and more socializing.

Retired from many years of social and coun- I know Athens is a big change from Miami, seling work, I’m a practicing astrologer and where a Cuban astrologer is probably a drop work out of my home. I live with my family of in a flood, but I’m happy to inform you that cats. Recently, my dearest, beautiful, almost Athens has both very active Latinx and human cat Chucuti died. He was only 6 years crunchy scenes. I don’t know if your interold, suddenly got sick and went into extreme est in astrology extends into religion and kidney failure in one week, so it’s all very trauwhatnot, but Athens Area Pagans would be matic and unexpected. I’ve just gone through a good organization to reach out to for findseven weeks of nursing him constantly, hydrat- ing other people who share that particular ing him and praying a lot that he would live. interest.

Not knowing what happened to him makes I reached out to people I know in the it all worse, and I cannot accept the fact that Latinx community, and they mentioned the universe took him from me. He was a very Athens Latin, which hosts lots of after-dark loving, affectionate, intelligent cat who made events downtown and beyond. If dance parme laugh a lot. I find I have no way to ties and DJs aren’t your scene, replace this.

I’m physically, emotionally and mentally exhausted.

I have lost 15 pounds. I think other people going through similar experiences can relate to this.

The grieving process is complicated, because some friends do not consider the loss of a cat as very important and cannot relate/empathize.

At any rate, I feel I need some kind of support system and don’t know how to go about finding that. My two sons live in Arizona and Spain, and my family here is not you might enjoy supportive. Any suggestions from you will be something more laid back like Comida appreciated. for Community, which is a meal and a Thank you, fundraiser that happens at Little Kings to Maria benefit local families and support Dignidad Inmigrante en Athens, a local immigrant Dear Maria, rights group. There’s amazing Latin food, Thank you for being a devoted reader, great music and lots of people of all ages and I also want to offer my deepest condoand stripes who come out for it. Keep an lences for Chucuti’s passing. You say that eye out for the event on Facebook, as it most people wave off the loss of an animal usually happens on the fly. f friend, but you’d be surprised how compasNeed advice? Email advice@flagpole.com, use the sionate people can be when faced with a friend who is hurting like you are right now. anonymous form at flagpole.com/getadvice, or find Bonita on Twitter: @flagpolebonita.

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