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Like many from Athens, my family values heritage and honoring those who I just read the letter from Heather M. protect our way of life. Before joining the Fletcher (“Athens Needs Growth,” Oct. 4), Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement, I a Realtor in Athens. She states that the sided with those in favor of keeping monudevelopers who are building the high-rise ments in place and honoring their historical student housing complexes and the expenvalue. sive condos on Mitchell Street are what After learning the historical signifiwe should expect due to the nature of the cance and true meaning of the Confederate supply and demand of desirable property— monument on Broad, however, I no longer the choice properties will be bought up at support its position at the center of our premium prices and will sell for premium great city. prices. Fletcher states that the good news I refuse to ignore the statue’s origin, is that these types of development will specifically its ties to the Ku Klux Klan. The provide the taxes that Athens needs for the statue, in part funded by Klan members, services we all benefit from, such as schools, symbolized the rebirth of the Klan here transportation, etc. in Athens. The monument references the I’m not willing to accept that point Klan with the inscription “Bright angels of view. I still believe that the people we come and guard our sleeping heroes.” The elected to represent us should listen to Klan burned crosses and held marches our voices when decisions are made about in front of it. The monument served as a future development. symbol of oppresFletcher notes sion, intended to that “developer” strike fear into the BUMPERSTICKER OF THE WEEK: is not the same as hearts of anyone “philanthropist,” challenging white which is obvious, supremacy, and conbut it shouldn’t be tinues said purpose the same as “greedy for many today. mother-----,” either. While readers, There should be like I did, may feel some sort of comthe urge to protect Send your sticker sightings to letters@flagpole.com. promise with regard this statue, I urge to what’s being built all to consider what in our town. this monument We still need affordable housing. OK, we means to those feeling the sting of instigive up on having an affordable downtown. tutional racism and segregation. Consider But there is no affordable housing being the experiences of others, and allow this built anywhere in Athens. The only things monument to be relocated, as it already has being built are the expensive high-rises. been—twice. Athens residents, speak up to your comWilliam Lowe missioners and other public officials. The Athens Comprehensive Plan is being prepared now, and it will finalize the direction for growth in Athens-Clarke County for the next I disagree with Tom Crawford’s recent decade. If you care about what’s going on column (Georgia Report, Oct. 25), and I’m in Athens, and if you don’t like what you’re very glad to see Republicans get one step seeing, call, write or speak to your commiscloser to fixing our tax code. I know my sioner to voice your opinion. family and many other Georgia families If you’re a Realtor, you might not think would like to have more of their money to there’s anything worth saving or changing. spend or invest as they see fit—not how the Just let the developers have their way with our town until no one can afford to live here federal government sees fit. The “budget” Sens. Perdue and Isakson except students being bankrolled by their voted for [on Oct. 19] isn’t even really a wealthy parents in Atlanta, and their parbudget at all. Congress hasn’t abided by a ents who buy the expensive condos which budget for years. That’s one of the things they’ll use for football weekends (and rent Sen. Perdue has been calling out. All this as Airbnbs the rest of the year). If that’s OK “budget” did was set in motion tax reform, with you, then do nothing. Paula Loniak since Democrats refuse to partner with Athens Republicans to change the tax code. As someone who has been active in the tea party and grassroots movement since the beginning, I know a big-spending Republican when I see one. David Perdue is not that. He’s a serious, committed conserRegarding recent pieces on the Athens vative who’s doing all he can to give us all a Anti-Discrimination Movement and backtax break and stop Washington’s ridiculous lash concerning the movement of Athens’ spending habits. You won’t find someone Confederate monument: more committed than him, and I’m proud I’m an Athens local and a graduate stuGeorgia has him in the Senate. dent with UGA’s School of Social Work. Jeanne Seaver With the Athens Anti-Discrimination President & Chairman of GA Grassroots Movement, I spoke in favor of moving Coalition; Former GA Grassroots Coordinator, Broad Street’s Confederate monument Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.; before the Mayor and Commission. Co-Founder of Savannah TEA Party

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Democrats Dominate TWO STUNNING STATE HOUSE WINS, AND MORE LOCAL NEWS By Blake Aued news@flagpole.com NICOLE ADAMSON

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*Record scratch* *Freeze frame* “Yup, that’s me, Jonathan Wallace. So you’re probably wondering how I got myself into this situation…” Wallace, along with fellow Democrat and political newcomer Deborah Gonzalez, pulled off stunning upsets last week in two right-leaning Athens-area state House of Representatives districts. He beat three Republicans on the way to winning a dominant 57 percent of the vote, while Gonzalez fended off a Republican opponent, Houston Gaines, who raised four times as much money as she did. This marks the first time that all three Athens/Oconee House seats have been held by Democrats since the 1990s, back when everyone was a Democrat. Ironically, Republicans laid the groundwork for this moment six years ago, when they shifted voters around to create two Republicanleaning districts out of a red one and a blue one. Although the majorities of both districts consist of heavily Democratic Clarke County, the surrounding counties tended to tilt even more strongly toward Republicans, and turnout in Oconee always swamped Clarke’s, so both districts were deemed safe. Democrats didn’t argue, opting not to contest either seat in 2012, 2014 or 2016. Years passed. Clarke County turned a slightly deeper shade of blue. Donald Trump was elected president, but he didn’t break 50 percent in District 117 and only won 119 by six points. Then, last summer, Gov. Nathan Deal appointed Rep. Regina Quick to the bench and tapped Rep. Chuck Williams to take over the Georgia Forestry Commission. A special election was called for Nov. 7 to fill the seats. Gonzalez had already been prepping to run when she discovered her opponent would be Gaines, a popular young man from

a prominent local family who was only a few months removed from serving as UGA student government president. Tapping his family, SGA and mentor Nancy Denson’s connections, Gaines raised enough money to scare off any other potential opponents. For Wallace, running was a game-time decision—he didn’t make up his mind until the weekend before qualifying started, giving him just two months to campaign. Gonzalez had planned to run regardless of whether the election was in 2017 or 2018, but seemed to get off to a slow start before hitting her stride. Both had incredible ground games, with teams of volunteers and paid staffers going door-to-door in neighborhoods. “I always believed we could win this,” Gonzalez said on election night. “We’ve been canvassing for the last two weeks consecutively and getting really good feedback.” Not many people shared that belief. The Gaines campaign was a juggernaut, raising $200,000, and he had the full backing of Atlanta’s GOP and business establishment. The mayor’s endorsement and subsequent expulsion from the Athens-Clarke County Democratic Committee had created a rift in the party. Democrats privately were glum about Gonzalez’s chances. As it turned out, Denson had no sway— Gonzalez won 64 percent of the vote in Clarke County, showing that rank-andfile Democrats were united behind her. If anything, the Gaines endorsement may even have created a backlash that helped Gonzalez. Gaines made some strategic choices that, in retrospect, obviously didn’t work. He labeled himself “the voice of a new generation,” but surrounded himself with old-school Athens figures like Denson and Vince and Barbara Dooley. It seemed like he was the only person in his campaign photos under 70. Past ACCDC chairman Russell

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Edwards hounded him about Trump, and he so unbelievable that I had to double-check never could figure out a good answer. Then to confirm there wasn’t some hidden box of he stumbled again when Flagpole lobbed votes down there left to be counted. A cheer him a softball about his “unique perspecwent up at Wallace’s election night party in tive,” and he responded that, “It’s obvious an office on Milledge Avenue when journaljust by looking at us that we have a differists called the race on Twitter. Around the ent perspective.” He might have meant their same time, Gonzalez—who wasn’t followage, but he was running against a Latina ing the returns at a private dinner party she woman, so not everyone took it that way. hosted at her home—received a phone call In the end, Gaines couldn’t justify why from Gaines conceding. he was running as a 22-year-old, other than Bob Trammell must have known somethat a lot of powerful people liked him. thing we didn’t. House Democrats recently Gonzalez has a lifetime of experience as a elected the Luthersville representative working-class mom and a lawyer, and voters grew more comfortable with her as they got to know her. “I think it was a lack of motivation” among Republicans, said Watkinsville City Councilman Dan Matthews. “[Gaines] didn’t have an issue that fired people up, and the lack of experience led people to not want to vote for him.” Meanwhile, Wallace’s Republican opponents—Tom Lord, Steven Strickland and Marcus Wiedower—all wholeheartedly embraced Trump. Oconee Street School That didn’t work, either. While Gonzalez emphasized progressive, populist positions like their leader—replacing Stacey Abrams, Medicaid expansion, a $15 minimum wage who resigned to run for governor—and he and net neutrality, Wallace ran a more trekked all the way to Athens to drop in on centrist campaign focused on pocketbook Gonzalez and Wallace. After years of leaving issues like lowering Georgia’s car insurance deep-red districts uncontested, Democrats rates, which are among the highest in the ran for all eight open seats and flipped nation. “My goal in entering this race was to three of them. push the conversation back to the middle, “I think the takeaway is we should always where I think most of this district, this strive to have competition,” Trammell said. state, this country lives,” Wallace said. “We should contest districts like this [119] That makes sense, given that 119 is a bit where we haven’t had candidates, because more conservative than 117. Still, no one— voters are craving choice.” no one—even entertained the possibility Turnout in Clarke County nearly that Wallace would win without a runoff matched that in Oconee County, 22 perwith a field of four candidates. At least until cent to 23 percent. (And if you don’t think results from Oconee County came in, and 22 percent is a lot, in the last countywide he had a surprising 38 percent of the vote. special election, in 2007, it was 16 percent.) Clarke County lagged behind, but when Much of that was driven by Trump, accordthe first batch hit the Secretary of State’s ing to Trammell. “People understand that website, Wallace had 52 percent, clinching elections have real consequences, and the victory. (He won an astounding 76 percent differences between candidates is someof the vote in Clarke County.) Still, it was times stark,” he said.

But Democrats should not get too comfortable. “Our reward for having won these seats is to [go] right back out and do it again,” Gonzalez said. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has already raised the possibility of Republicans redrawing these districts in an effort to win them back in 2018. Gaines likely has six figures in his campaign account; we could very well see him again. Maybe former Rep. Doug McKillip takes another crack at it. However it plays out, hanging on to these seats will be a challenge. “Our House Republican Caucus and Georgia GOP are already working to reclaim those seats lost last night in next year’s elections, when a greater percentage of Georgians will go to the polls,” House Speaker David Ralston told the AJC. Special elections can be flukey things (see: Broun, Paul). 2018 will tell whether Democratic gains are real. Chalis Montgomery, for one, wants to believe that they are. She’s running against ultra-conservative U.S. Rep. Jody Hice in the ultra-conservative (except Athens) 10th Congressional District, and sent out a press release pointing to Gonzalez and Wallace’s wins, as well as Milledgeville electing its first female African-American mayor, as proof she’s a viable candidate. “With the Congressional election just under one year away, now is the time to keep our eyes on the prize— which is regaining a majority in Congress,” Montgomery said. “I’m ready to continue the fight, all the way to Washington.” Stranger things have happened.

T-SPLOST Is T-Spectacular Oh, by the way, T-SPLOST passed by a 74-26 margin. That means sales taxes in Clarke County will go up 1 percent Jan. 1, and also that the city will fill a whole bunch of potholes and build new sidewalks, bike lanes, crosswalks, trails and bus shelters, improve the airport and expand bus service on Highway 29.

New Life for Oconee Street School The dark brick building on the hill off Oconee Street has sat empty for several years, since the nonprofit ACTION Inc. moved out, and it sat empty for 15 or so years before that, in between when the school closed around 1971 and ACTION bought it in the late 1980s. Although it doesn’t look great, the old masonry building is structurally sound, according to Amy Kissane, executive director of the AthensClarke Heritage Foundation. Ten years ago, the Athens-Clarke County Commission rejected a plan to raze the 1908 schoolhouse for townhomes, which would have allowed the financially struggling nonprofit to pay off its debts. That decision has finally paid off, as ACTION is debt-free, and Atlanta developer Wesley DeFoor is converting the building and a 1950s annex into 16 apartments—most likely student-oriented, he said, given their proximity to campus, although a final decision hasn’t been made. DeFoor is using federal historic-preservation tax credits to help finance the project, which requires him to repair or restore just about everything but the asbestos, down to the window frames and moldings. “We can’t even touch the chalkboards,” he said at a Nov. 8 open house. Or the pull-down walls between classrooms that allowed them to be converted into auditoriums for large meetings, said Maxine Easom, who taught there in the 1960s. But restoring and repurposing such buildings may not be possible for long. It’s usually cheaper for developers to raze them and start over, and federal tax credits (about 20–25 percent of the $2.2 million construction cost, in this case, DeFoor said) are all that makes them financially feasible. Such credits were used to rehab Whitehall Mill and the Bottleworks, as well as Southern Mill, where Creature Comforts is locating its second brewery just north of Boulevard. But the Republican tax-reform bill would repeal the tax credit in 2020, making it much tougher to save historic structures. “Think about what the value is for AthensClarke County,” Kissane said. “It will hurt a lot of small towns.” f

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Democrats Show Signs of Life THEY FLIPPED THREE SEATS IN LAST WEEK’S SPECIAL ELECTION By Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com Georgia Democrats have not had much to smile about in recent election cycles. Republicans have dominated legislative races and have a tight grip on all statewide offices. But as the election returns poured in last week, Democrats were grinning from ear to ear—they were able to win three seats in the legislature that for years had been held by Republicans. In the days before the election, hardly any of the political experts predicted that those seats would be flipped. Most of them never saw this coming. When the smoke cleared, however, Democrats had won two House seats. In another election for a state Senate seat, two Democrats were headed to a Dec. 5 runoff. Deborah Gonzalez, an attorney, upset Republican Houston Gaines to win in House District 117, which is mostly located within Athens-Clarke County. Even more astonishing were the results in House District 119, much of which is in neighboring Oconee County. Jonathan Wallace, a software developer, received nearly 57 percent of the vote to win without a runoff over a group of three Republican candidates. Here’s a bit of history to show how unlikely Wallace’s feat was: The last time a Democrat held this House seat was way back in 1997. “It’s surreal,” Wallace observed. “We expected to be competitive; we didn’t think we’d be that strong.” The victories of Gonzalez and Wallace illustrate a basic adage of politics: You can’t win if you don’t play. In both of the House districts, Democrats had not even bothered to field a candidate in the 2012, 2014 or 2016 elections. When Democrats finally did step up and run, they won. “We were not going to let another election go by with just the Republican incumbent,” Gonzalez said. “We were

going to make sure there was Democratic opposition.” Democrats will also take control of a previously Republican seat in Senate District 6, which stretches from Smyrna to Buckhead. Democrats Jen Jordan and Jaha Howard both made it into the runoff because of a peculiarity in the state’s election laws known informally as the “jungle primary.” In special elections, every candidate is on the same ballot regardless of party affiliation, and if no one gets a majority, the top two vote-getters go to a runoff. In Senate District 6, five GOP candidates split the vote among themselves enough to make it possible for the two Democrats to slide into the runoff. To be sure, the Democratic victories will hardly affect the balance of power in Georgia’s General Assembly. Republicans still have a 116–64 advantage in the House of Representatives and a 37–19 edge in the Senate. At this point, it doesn’t appear likely that the GOP will lose control of either chamber in the upcoming 2018 elections. A Republican lawmaker is already drafting a bill that would eliminate jungle primaries in special elections and make it impossible to have a situation where a single party could hold both spots in a runoff. The Republican legislative leadership is also expected to redraw the lines of the Athens-area House districts, along with the boundaries of Senate District 6, to get rid of some Democratic-leaning precincts and make the districts more amenable to GOP candidates. When you’re the majority party, you can engage in that type of gerrymandering to keep yourself in power. Nevertheless, for one night, Georgia Democrats had a chance to celebrate some long-sought good news. f

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important political conspiracy trial of a generation—one that could change the way we think about our data and other records of our actions. Almost any statement made by Petrohilos about the day’s protest evidence was at play in what was to be the final hearing before this week’s trials. The Nov. 9

existence of the podcast could be evidence of conspiring. “Saying that coming on a podcast recorded for public consumption to talk about a public demonstration is evidence of conspiracy is like saying that someone writing a column in High Times is proof that they are in a drug cartel,” Paul Hernandez, a member of the It’s Going Down editorial collective, wrote to me. “The state is trying to make the case that anyone that attends a demonstration or protest is thus involved in a conspiracy.” Petrohilos is not among those to stand trial this week. The prosecution classed all of the defendants into four categories based on their alleged involvement in planning or participating in the riot. He is in Category

hearing was intended to establish the fact of the conspiracy, a move that would make co-conspirators’ statements admissible in court, despite hearsay rules. Prosecutor Jennifer Kerkhoff cited statements made on the “It’s Going Down” podcast as evidence of conspiracy. At one point, the judge, Lynn Leibovitz, surmised that appearing on a podcast required planning, so if Petrohilos was going on the podcast to talk about the protests, perhaps the

Two, which Kerkhoff has referred to in court as the “planners.” “Dylan Petrohilos said, ‘Come with me if you want to talk about black bloc. I am black bloc,’” Kerkhoff said in court, citing the planning meeting that was infiltrated. “Black bloc” is the essence of a large part of the J20 charges. It is a political strategy in which wearing identical clothing and face masks allows a group to move collectively through the city in protest, mimicking

Conspiracy Theories PLAN A PROTEST, AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT CAN CHARGE YOU By Baynard Woods democracyincrisiscolumn@gmail.com

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A year ago, after the election of Donald Trump, Dylan Petrohilos hung an Antifa flag out in front of his house. “I had [the flag] flying outside my home because Trump was elected, and there was a belief he was a fascist, and so we had this idea that we needed to bring back the moniker of anti-fascism,” Petrohilos told me at a bar where he was discussing the Washington, DC Riot Act case with other defendants arrested in connection with the protests of Trump’s inauguration. When Petrohilos’ home was raided by D.C. police in April, the flag was the first thing they took. They also took seven small black flags, copies of The Nation and In These Times magazines and a banner, made during the financial crisis, that read “Kiss Capitalism Goodbye.” These items are evidence in the J20 case, the first mass trial of which begins this week. Most of the defendants were arrested on Inauguration Day, after a protest (which the government has deemed a riot) resulted in several broken windows. Police officers threw more than 70 “non-lethal” grenades, sprayed dozens of canisters of pepper spray and cordoned off around 200 people in a “kettle” flanked by riot police and walls on all sides. Though the Department of Justice claims Petrohilos conspired to plan the riot, he was not arrested that day. He says he was not even there. But the fact that he spoke about J20 on a podcast and was recorded by undercover police and the farright sting video site Project Veritas at protest-planning meetings has put Petrohilos at the center of what could be the most

the black flag of anarchism and making it harder for police to identify individuals, which is why the government is using clothing as evidence of conspiracy. Isaac Dalto, Petrohilos’ friend, who is also included in Category Two as a planner, says the government is using affiliation with the Industrial Workers of the World union, for whom he organizes, as evidence of conspiracy. “Because they went to legitimate, above-ground union meetings about forming a union in their workplace, their Google calendars say IWW, and that’s being used against them to prove membership in this criminal conspiracy that we’re alleged to be part of,” says Dalto. “Conspiring to commit lawful acts is not a crime. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s called organizing,” he said. “That’s the real danger of this case to democracy and dissent in this country— that any form of organizing or civil resistance stands to become a crime.” The threshold for conspiracy is so low that two journalists, Aaron Cantú and Alexei Wood, are still facing charges for following a group that they were covering. Wood is part of the group that demanded a speedy trial and so goes to court this week. With long hair, black clothes and a leather wide-brimmed hat, Wood may have looked a bit like an outlaw at the hearing, but he was arrested and charged with conspiring because he was livestreaming the political actions. “The chilling effect is obvious,” he said. “It took me months to go document another protest. Even the most like, Grannies Against Trump thing, I didn’t want to go to. I was traumatized. Absolutely traumatized.” Finally, he says, on May Day, he was fed up. “I was like, ‘Fuck it, this is what I do. This is my beat. This is what I’ve done for years,’” Wood said. “I didn’t do anything wrong. I live-streamed myself from beginning to end, and the entire world can decide whether I incited a riot… it’s out there for the whole world to decide, and I’m glad it is.” f

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America, we commonly think of press freedom and censorship in terms of the First Amendment, which focuses attention on the press itself and limits the power of government to restrict it. But the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, drafted in the aftermath of World War II, presents a broader framework. Article 19 reads: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” By highlighting the right to receive information and ideas, Article 19 makes it clear that press freedom is about everyone in society, not just the press, and that government censorship is only one potential way of thwarting that right. That’s the perspective that has informed Project Censored from the beginning, more than 40 years ago. Even though Project Censored’s annual list focuses on specific censored stories, the underlying issue has never been isolated examples. They serve to highlight how far short we fall from the fullyinformed public that a healthy democracy requires—and that we all require in order to live healthy, safe, productive, satisfying lives. It’s the larger patterns of missing information, hidden problems and threats that should really concern us. Each Project Censored story provides some of that information, but the annual list helps shed light on these broader patterns of what’s missing, as well as on the specifics of the stories themselves. During the 1972 election, Woodward and Bernstein were reporting on the earliest developments in the Watergate scandal, but their work was largely isolated, despite running in the Washington Post. They were covering it as a developing criminal case; it never crossed over into a political story until after the election. That’s a striking example of a missing pattern. It helped contribute to the founding of Project Censored by Carl Jensen, who defined censorship as “the suppression of information, whether purposeful or not, by any method—including bias, omission, underreporting or self-censorship—that prevents the public from fully knowing what is happening in its society.” In the current edition’s introduction to the list of stories, Andy Lee Roth writes, “Finding common themes across news stories helps to contextualize each item as a part of the larger narratives shaping our times.” In Project Censored’s Top 10 list, three main themes clearly seem evident: threats to public health; threats to democracy, both at home and abroad; and an out-of-control military. But don’t let this overview pattern blind you to other patterns you may see for yourself.

supply in January 2016, Reuters reporters M.B. Pell and Joshua Schneyer began an investigation of lead contamination nationwide with shocking results. In June 2016, they reported that although many states and Medicaid rules require blood lead tests for young children, millions of children were not being tested. In December 2016, they reported on the highly decentralized data they had been able to assemble from 21 states, showing that 2,606 census tracts and 278 zip codes across the United States had levels of lead poisoning more than double the rates found in Flint at the peak of its contamination crisis. Of those, 1,100 communities had lead contamination rates “at least four times higher” than Flint. In Flint, 5 percent of the children screened had high blood-lead levels. Nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 2.5 percent of all U.S. children younger than 6—about 500,000 children—have elevated blood-lead levels.

Widespread Lead Contamination After President Barack Obama declared a federal emergency in Flint, MI based on lead contamination of the city’s water

Pell and Schneyer’s neighborhood focus allowed them to identify local hotspots “whose lead poisoning problems may be obscured in broader surveys,” such as those focused on statewide or countywide rates. They found them in communities that “stretch from Warren, PA… where 36 percent of children tested had high lead levels, to… Goat Island, TX, where a quarter of tests showed poisoning.” What’s more, “In some pockets of Baltimore, Cleveland and Philadelphia, where lead poisoning has spanned generations, the rate of elevated tests over the last decade was 40–50 percent.” But there’s a deeper infrastructure problem involved, as Farron Cousins reported for DeSmogBlog in January 2017. “Lead pipes are time bombs,” and water contamination is to be expected, Cousins wrote. The U.S. relies on an estimated 1.2 million miles of lead pipes for municipal delivery of drinking water, and much of this aging infrastructure is reaching or has exceeded its lifespan. In 2012, the American Water Works Association estimated that a complete overhaul of the nation’s aging water systems would require an investment of $1 trillion over the next 25 years, which could triple household water bills. As Cousins reported, a January 2017 Michigan

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State University study found that, “while water rates are currently unaffordable for an estimated 11.9 percent of households, the conservative estimates of rising rates used in this study highlight that this number could grow to 35.6 percent in the next five years.” As Cousins concluded, “While the water contamination crisis will occasionally steal a headline or two, virtually no attention has been paid to the fact that we’re pricing a third of United States citizens out of the water market.”

$6 Trillion in Unaccountable Army Spending In 1996, Congress passed legislation requiring all government agencies to undergo annual audits, but a July 2016 report by the Defense Department’s inspector general found that the Army alone has accumulated $6.5 trillion in expenditures that can’t be accounted for over the past two decades. As Dave Lindorff reported for This Can’t Be Happening!, the DoD “has not been tracking or recording or auditing all of the taxpayer money allocated by Congress— what it was spent on, how well it was spent or where the money actually ended up.” But the Army wasn’t alone. “Things aren’t any better at the Navy, Air Force [or] Marines,” he added. The report appeared at a time when “politicians of both major political parties are demanding accountability for every penny spent on welfare… Ditto for people receiving unemployment compensation,” Lindorff wrote. Politicians have also engaged in pervasive efforts “to make teachers accountable for student ‘performance,’” he added. Yet, he observed, “the military doesn’t have to account for any of its trillions of dollars of spending… even though Congress fully a generation ago passed a law requiring such accountability.” In March 2017, after President Trump proposed a $52 billion increase in military spending, Thomas Hedges reported for The Guardian that “the Pentagon has exempted itself without consequence for 20 years now, telling the Government Accountability Office that collecting and organizing the required information for a full audit is too costly and time-consuming.” The most recent DoD audit deadline was September 2017, yet the Pentagon, Congress and the media have not paid any attention.

The Pentagon’s Fake al-Qaeda Videos Concern over Russian involvement in promoting fake news during the 2016 election is a justified hot topic in the news. But what about our own involvement in similar operations?

In October 2016, Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith reported for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism on one such very expensive—and questionable—operation. The Pentagon paid a British PR firm, Bell Pottinger, more than $660 million to run a top-secret propaganda program in Iraq from at least 2006 to December 2011. The work consisted of three types of products: TV commercials portraying al-Qaeda in a negative light, news items intended to look like Arabic TV and—most disturbingly—fake al-Qaeda propaganda films. A former Bell Pottinger video editor, Martin Wells, told the Bureau that he was given precise instructions for production of fake al-Qaeda films, and that the firm’s output was approved by former Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of the coalition forces in Iraq, and on occasion by the White House. They reported that the United States used contractors because “the military didn’t have the inhouse expertise and was operating in a legal ‘grey area.’” The reporters “traced the firm’s Iraq work through U.S. Army contracting censuses, federal procurement transaction records and reports by the Defense Department’s inspector general, as well as Bell Pottinger’s corporate filings and specialist publications on military propaganda.” Black and Fielding-Smith also interviewed former officials and contractors involved in information operations in Iraq. It’s remarkable that an operation on this scale has been totally ignored in midst of so much focus on “fake news” here in the United States.

Voter Suppression in the Presidential Election The 2016 election was the first election in 50 years without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act, first passed in 1965. In Shelby County v. Holder (2013), a 5-4 conservative majority in the Supreme Court struck down a key provision requiring jurisdictions with a history of violations to “preclear” changes. As a result, changes to voting laws in nine states and parts of six others with long histories of racial discrimination in voting were no longer subject to federal government approval in advance. Since Shelby, 14 states, including many Southern and key swing states, implemented new voting restrictions, in many cases just in time for the election. These included restrictive voter-identification laws in Texas and North Carolina; English-only elections in many Florida counties, as well as last-minute changes of poll locations; and changes in Arizona voting laws that had previously been rejected by the Department of Justice before the Shelby decision. Ari Berman, author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, was foremost among a small number of non-mainstream journalists to cover the suppression efforts and their results. In May 2017, he reported on an analysis of the effects of voter suppression by Priorities USA, which showed that strict voter ID laws in Wisconsin and other states resulted in a “significant reduction” in voter turnout in 2016 with “a disproportionate impact on African-American and Democratic-leaning voters.” Berman noted that turnout was reduced by 200,000 votes in Wisconsin, while Donald Trump won the state by just over 22,000 votes. Nationwide, the study found that the change in voter turnout from 2012–2016 was significantly affected by new voter ID laws. In counties that were more than 40 percent African American, turnout dropped 5 percent with new voter ID laws, compared to 2.2 percent without. In counties that were less than 10 percent African American, turnout decreased 0.7 percent with new voter ID laws, compared to a 1.9 percent increase without. As Berman concluded, “This study provides more evidence for the claim that voter ID laws are designed not to stop voter impersonation fraud, which is virtually nonexistent, but to make it harder for certain communities to vote.” As Berman noted in an article published by Moyers & Co. in December 2016, the topic of “gutting” the Voting Rights Act did not arise once during the 26 presidential debates prior to the election, and “[c]able news devoted hours and hours to Trump’s absurd claim that the election was rigged against him while spending precious little time on the real threat that voters faced.”

Big Data and Dark Money in Politics When Richard Nixon first ran for Congress in 1946, he and his supporters used a wide range of dirty tricks aimed at smearing his opponent as pro-Communist, including a boiler-room operation generating phone calls to registered Democrats, which simply said, “This is a friend of yours, but I can’t tell you who I am. Did you know that Jerry Voorhis is a Communist?” Then the caller would hang up. In 2016, the same basic strategy was employed, but with decades of refinement, technological advances and massively more money behind it. A key player in this was right-wing computer scientist and hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer, who contributed $13.5 million to Trump’s campaign and also funded Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics company that specializes in “election management strategies” and using “psychographic” microtargeting—based on thousands of pieces of data for some 220 million American voters—as Carole Cadwalladr reported for The Guardian in February 2017. After Trump’s victory, Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix said, “We are thrilled that our revolutionary approach to datadriven communication has played such an integral part in President-elect Trump’s extraordinary win.” Cambridge Analytica’s parent company, Strategic Communication Laboratories, was more old-school until recently in elections across Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. In Trinidad, it paid for the painting of graffiti slogans purporting to be from grassroots youth. In Nigeria, it advised its client party to suppress the vote of their opposition “by organizing anti-poll rallies on the day of the election.” But now they’re able to micro-target their deceptive, disruptive messaging. “Pretty much every message that Trump put out was data-driven” after they joined the campaign, Nix said in September 2016. On the day of the third presidential debate, Trump’s team “tested 175,000 different ad variations for his arguments” via Facebook. “Suddenly, a random billionaire can change politics and public policy—to sweep everything else off the table—even if they don’t speak publicly, and even if there’s almost no public awareness of his or her views,” Trevor Potter, former chair of the Federal Election Commission, told Mayer. With the real patterns of influence, ideology, money, power and belief hidden from view, the very concept of democratic self-governance is now fundamentally at risk.

Naval Training’s Toll on Wildlife The U.S. Navy has killed, injured or harassed marine mammals in the North Pacific almost 12 million times over a five-year period, according to research conducted by The West Coast Action Alliance and reported by Dahr Jamail for Truthout. This includes whales, dolphins, porpoises, sea lions and other marine wildlife, such as endangered species like humpback whales, blue whales, gray whales, sperm whales, Steller sea lions and sea otters. The number was tabulated from the Navy’s Northwest Training and Testing environmental impact statement and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Letter of Authorization for the number of “takes” of marine mammals caused by Navy exercises. “A ‘take’ is a form of harm to an animal that ranges from harassment, to injury, and sometimes to death,” Jamail wrote. “Many wildlife conservationists see even ‘takes’ that only cause behavior changes as injurious, because chronic harassment of animals that are feeding or breeding can end up harming [them], or even contributing to their deaths if they are driven out of habitats critical to their survival.” As the Alliance noted, this does not include impacts on “endangered and threatened seabirds, fish, sea turtles or terrestrial species” due to Navy activities, which have expanded dramatically, according to the Navy’s October 2015 environmental impact statement. “With little oversight on Navy training activities, the public is left in the dark regarding their environmental impacts, including especially how Navy operations impact fish in the North Pacific and marine life at the bottom of k continued on p. 11

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the food chain,” Project Censored noted. “There has been almost no coverage of these impacts in the corporate press.”

A Record Year for Internet Shutdowns

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In 2016, governments around the world shut down internet access more than 50 times, according to the digital rights organization Access Now, “suppressing elections, slowing economies and limiting free speech,” as Lyndal Rowlands reported for the Inter Press Service. “In the worst cases, internet shutdowns have been associated with human rights violations,” Rowlands was told by Deji Olukotun of Access Now. “What we have found is that internet shutdowns go hand in hand with atrocities,” Olukotun said. Kevin Collier also covered the report for Vocativ, noting that Access Now uses a “conservative metric,” counting “repeated, similar outages”—like those which occurred during Gabon’s widely criticized internet “curfew”—as a single instance. The Vocativ report included a dynamic map chart, designed by Kaitlyn Kelly, that vividly depicts internet shutdowns around the world, month by month for all of 2016, as documented by Access Now. “Many countries intentionally blacked out internet access during elections and to quell protest. Not only do these shutdowns restrict freedom of speech, they also hurt economies around the world,” Project Censored noted. As Olukotun told IPS, one way to stop government shutdowns is for internet providers to resist government demands. “Telecommunications companies can push back on government orders, or at least document them to show what’s been happening, to at least have a paper trail,” Olukotun observed. On July 1, 2016, the U.N. Human Rights Council passed a nonbinding resolution signed by more than 70 countries lauding the internet’s “great potential to accelerate human progress,” and condemning “measures to intentionally prevent or disrupt access to or dissemination of information online.” It noted that “the exercise of human rights, in particular the right to freedom of expression, on the internet is an issue of increasing interest and importance.” Yet, “understanding what this means for internet users can be difficult,” Azad Essa reported for Al Jazeera in May 2017. Advocates of online rights “need to be constantly pushing for laws that protect this space and demand that governments meet their obligations in digital spaces just as in non-digital spaces,” he was told by the U.N.’s special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye.

spreading antibiotic resistance around the world, according to an assessment issued by the European Public Health Alliance, which served as the basis for Davies’ news report,” Projected Censored explained. One strain of drug-resistant bacterium that originated in India in 2014 has since spread to 70 other countries. Superbugs have already killed an estimated 25,000 people across Europe—thus globally posing “as big a threat as terrorism,” according to UK National Health Service Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies. Superbugs are especially threatening modern medicine, in which a wide range of sophisticated practices—organ transplants, joint replacements, cancer chemotherapy and care of preterm infants—“will become more difficult or even too dangerous to undertake,” according to Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organization. “Although the threat of antibiotic-resistant microbes is well documented in scientific publications, there is little to no coverage on superbugs in the corporate press,” Project Censored noted. “What corporate news coverage there is tends to exaggerate the risks and consequences of natural outbreaks—as seen during the Ebola scare in the U.S. in 2014—rather than reporting on the preventable spread of superbugs by irresponsible pharmaceutical companies.”

Antibiotic-Resistant ‘Superbugs’ The problem of antibiotics giving rise to more dangerous drug-resistant germs (“superbugs”) has been present since the early days of penicillin, but has now reached a crisis, with companies creating dangerous superbugs when their factories leak industrial waste, as reported by Madlen Davies of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in September 2016. Factories in China and India—where the majority of worldwide antibiotics are manufactured—have released “untreated waste fluid” into local soils and waters, leading to increases in antimicrobial resistance that diminish the effectiveness of antibiotics and threaten the foundations of modern medicine. “After bacteria in the environment become resistant, they can exchange genetic material with other germs,

vote was cast. The lawsuit was filed against the DNC and its former chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in June 2016 by Beck & Lee, a Miami law firm, on behalf of supporters of Bernie Sanders. A hearing was held on suit in April 2017, in which DNC lawyers argued that neutrality was not actually required and that the court had no jurisdiction to assess neutral treatment. As Michael Sainato reported for the Observer, DNC attorneys claimed that Article V, Section 4 of the DNC Charter—which instructs the DNC chair and staff to ensure neutrality in the Democratic presidential primaries—is actually “a discretionary rule” that the DNC “didn’t need to adopt to begin with.” In addition, DNC attorney Bruce Spiva later said it was within the DNC’s rights to “go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way.” Sainato also reported that DNC attorneys argued that specific terms used in the DNC charter—including “impartial” and “evenhanded”—couldn’t be interpreted in a court of law, because it would “drag the court… into a political question and a question of how the party runs its own affairs.”

Jared Beck, representing Sanders’ supporters, responded, “Your Honor, I’m shocked to hear that we can’t define what it means to be evenhanded and impartial. If that were the case, we couldn’t have courts. I mean, that’s what courts do every day, is decide disputes in an evenhanded and impartial manner.” Not only was running elections in a fair and impartial manner a “bedrock assumption” of democracy, Beck argued earlier, it was also a binding commitment for the DNC: “That’s what the Democratic National Committee’s own charter says,” he said. “It says it in black and white.” Much of the reporting and commentary on the broader subject of the DNC’s collusion with the Clinton campaign has been speculative and misdirected, focused on questions about voter fraud and countered by claims of indulging in “conspiracy theory.” But this trial focuses on documentary evidence and questions of law—all publicly visible yet still treated as suspect, when not simply ignored out of hand.

The Growing Threat of Maternal Mortality The U.S. maternal mortality rate is rising, while it’s falling elsewhere across the developed world. Serious injuries and complications are needlessly even more widespread with shockingly little attention being paid. “Each year, over 600 women in the U.S. die from pregnancy-related causes, and over 65,000 experience lifethreatening complications or severe maternal morbidity,” Elizabeth Dawes Gay reported, covering an April 2016 congressional briefing organized by Women’s Policy Inc. “The average national rate of maternal mortality has increased from 12 per 100,000 live births in 1998 to 15.9 in 2012, after peaking at 17.8 in 2011.” “The U.S. is the only nation in the developed world with a rising maternal mortality rate,” Rep. Lois Capps stated at the meeting. “Inadequate health care in rural areas and racial disparities are drivers of this maternal health crisis,” Project Censored summarized. “Nationally, African-American women are three to four times more likely than white women to die from pregnancy-related causes, with rates even higher in parts of the U.S. that Gay characterized as ‘pockets of neglect,’ such as Georgia, where the 2011 maternal mortality rate of 28.7 per 100,000 live births was nearly double the national average.” The Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health has developed safety bundles of “best practices, guidelines and protocols to improve maternal health-care quality and safety,’” Gay wrote. “These ‘bundles’ include equipping hospital labor units with a fully stocked cart for immediate hemorrhage treatment, establishing a hospital-level emergency management protocol, conducting regular staff drills and reviewing all cases to learn from past mistakes, among other things.” More broadly, Kiera Butler reported for Mother Jones that doctors rarely warn patients of the potential for serious injuries and complications that can occur following birth. “Women have a right to make informed decisions about their bodies and serious medical situations; however, when it comes to birth and its aftereffects, Butler found that doctors simply are not providing vital information,” Project Censored summarized. Many state laws require doctors to inform women of the potential complications and dangers associated with delivery, but none require them to discuss potential long-term problems, including the fact that some complications—such as pelvic floor disorder, which can cause incontinence and prolapse—are more prevalent in women who give birth vaginally, rather than by C-section. f Paul Rosenberg is a senior editor at Random Lengths News.

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All that is to say, Georgia can still achieve everything it dreamed of before this season and more. The Dawgs are already scheduled to play in the SEC Championship Game. They’ll go to the CFP, probably ranked No. 1, if they win out. But to do that, they’ll need to learn from the mistakes made against Auburn. The first issue that must be corrected is dumb penalties. Penalties didn’t cost Georgia this game, but they did put it in a mighty deep hole. The Bulldogs had seven for 75 yards compared to Auburn’s five for 29. The penalty numbers would’ve actually been close if it wasn’t for a couple of boneheaded 15-yarders, one when Deandre Walker leapt to try and block a punt, another when Sony Michel scrapped with an Auburn player following a punt. Both of those drives ended in Auburn touchdowns. The good news is penalties, especially personal fouls, are, in theory, easy to correct. If this team is mentally tough, we won’t see those kind of penalties happen again this season.

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Saturday, something that hadn’t happened to the Dawgs yet this season. The problem is there is no easy solution, other than to say, “play better.” And Georgia must play much better on the lines to win the SEC championship, regardless of the opponent. In some ways, this loss simplifies things for Georgia and maybe puts the players in a better headspace for the stretch run. This team knows it can be beat now, and the players know they can’t let that happen again. It won’t play the final games trying to protect a perfect record and make the CFP. It’s just trying to make the CFP. Now we have to win our way in and beat Alabama or Auburn to make it to the postseason, and that’s the way I prefer it. You don’t want your team to back into the CFP, feeling lucky to be there. You want them to go in on a hot streak, guns blazing, ready to take on all comers. You never want to lose to a hated rival like Auburn. But if it serves to light a fire under Georgia players for the final four or five games of the season, I’ll take it. f

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strides towards playing together again, reissuing its back catalog and even working towards new material, distance and dynamics have proven to be a hurdle. “Stuff just keeps getting in the way,” Wellford says. Yet they keep inching closer. Last August, the trio reunited for the first time in years, alongside members of We Love Tractor, to play Athens Popfest. “[W]e were playing basically the order of the first album,” Wellford says, referring to 1982’s Love Tractor. “We changed it up a little bit,” he continues, “but it sounds just like it, except for even better.

rockers: former Glands drummer Joe Rowe, Drive-By Trucker Jay Gonzalez and Elephant 6-er Bryan Poole. By Wellford’s account, “That helped get the core three together, because we had such a fabulous kind of real Love Tractor show.” The process of corralling the band’s three original members—Wellford, Cline and Mike Richmond—has proved difficult, with each living in a different state up and down the East Coast. As the core trio makes

“Those guys have instinct that you can’t really get with musicians in other places,” Wellford says, grappling with how to best describe Athens’ elusive quality and draw. “We’re from the vintage Athens scene, but it seems like all the bands that have come out of there, especially the Elephant 6 collective, [have] all been interesting and original, and everybody’s trying to sound different and unique,” he continues. “It’s such an Athens thing.”

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hile Athens has many easily identifiable qualities that attract and retain individuals from all walks of life—a great university, low cost of living, a vibrant arts scene— there’s something about the Classic City that remains inexplicably appealing and difficult to pin down. Those drawn to our town because of the latter of those three conditions often feel this indelible, indescribable quality most strongly—or at least it’s made the most evident through their expressions and media, their photographs, poems and songs. Armistead Wellford feels it as much now, in his Richmond, VA home of nearly 15 years, as he did living off Barber Street in the early ’80s. “There’s something about Athens—it’s so life-giving and spiritual to make music with musicians down there,” Wellford says by phone. He bristles with excitement while reminiscing about jamming with his friends, Athens’ musical legacy and even the distinct smell of Georgia pines. Wellford’s band Love Tractor, one of Athens’ seminal rock groups of the early college-radio boom, has slowly been picking up steam again over the past few years, reuniting in various incarnations and using various names, seemingly under the presumption that something new and exciting is on the horizon. Then again, maybe it’s just good to experience that hard-to-describe Athens feeling every once in a while. Talk of re-releasing at least the band’s first two albums has been intermittent, as it

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The core threesome will reunite again this week for two shows—one at Atlanta’s Vista Room with Southern new wave stalwarts the Swimming Pool Q’s and an Athens show at the 40 Watt Club with altrockers Magnapop—making yet another move towards some big 2018 happenings. In addition to the continued talk of reissues, Wellford and Cline both indicate that a fresh album is in the works for release next year. “We have a few songs we never released, so we want to go in and rework those a little bit,” says Wellford. “We all have some music that we can bring in and put it in the cooking pot, put it through the Love Tractor mill,” he adds. But again, getting them all together in the same room will be crucial to the development of the material. Wellford stresses the importance of being in the same room together when playing and recording, as opposed to emailing tracks back and forth. “I know we can do this over the computer, but I’d just like to get us into a room the old-fashioned style and jam it out,” he says. “When we get together, exciting stuff happens. That’s why I want us to get into a room if we’re going to do new stuff, because all these surprises happen.” As Love Tractor finds renewed purpose and spirit, one thing becomes clearer about that peculiar Athens feeling: Whatever it is, it doesn’t have to go away. “We are focusing on the early years of Love Tractor because it’s so present now,” Wellford says. “There’s something about the energy of that, playing. I just warp back to being 22 years old again. It just evoked this feeling.” f

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Family Tradition WHITEY MORGAN KEEPS HIS GRANDFATHER’S COUNTRY SPIRIT ALIVE By Bobby Moore music@flagpole.com

lthough he released a bevy of good music with his 2015 album Sonic Ranch, Flint, MI-based country singer Whitey Morgan’s most touching song remains 2014’s “Grandpa’s Guitar.” It’s the true story of Morgan’s grandfather, an outlaw who taught his grandson everything he knew about country and bluegrass music.

Morgan’s fans to another great talent. Sweet memories flood Morgan’s mind when he performs live. “Sometimes when I play a show and there’s 1,000 people there, singing along to the songs that I wrote, I also do a few songs still that I sang with him or that he taught me when I was 12 years old,” he says. “It’s kind of surreal. What would he think? I’m pretty sure he thought

William Henry Morgan followed factory jobs from Kentucky to Flint. A performer in his own right, the elder Morgan played honky-tonks filled with Southern transplants who’d moved north to work for General Motors. By the time he was a grandfather, hard living gave way to picking bluegrass at church events. “He taught me to play when I was really young,” Whitey Morgan says. “I loved playing guitar, and he taught me a lot of chords while we played along to bluegrass and country songs.” Morgan drifted away from his grandfather’s music as a teenager, opting instead to play punk rock. He came back home, creatively speaking, after his musical mentor’s death. “He passed when I was 17 or 18, and I inherited his guitar and his country record collection,” Morgan says. “I started focusing more on playing that acoustic and singing country songs. There was something about it that made me feel different… Even my first show when I played country music, I hadn’t had that much fun on stage before, and I’d probably been playing since I was 13. I realized what I should be doing, and I’ve been doing it since.” Grandpa’s wilder days mystify the past, making for interesting chats with Grandma. “By the time I was old enough to know him, he’d already quit the rowdy shit,” Morgan says. “To this day, I still hear stories I’d never heard.” Along with his grandfather’s guitar, Morgan inherited a cassette recording of him playing and singing a few of his favorite songs. A cover of bluegrass classic “It Takes One” from the cassette closes out the Grandpa’s Guitar album, exposing

I was a lost cause in my teens, because I was playing all kinds of different stuff. I didn’t come back to [country] until he passed, so I imagine it’d be quite a surprise to him to see where I’m at now and to see what I’ve dedicated my entire life to, basically.” The musical detours Grandpa didn’t take remain important to Morgan’s ongoing career, as his punk days fostered an appreciation for do-it-yourself touring. “I talk to a lot of up-and-coming people… and they’re struggling,” he says. “They don’t know what to do when the label shelves their record. And they don’t know how to tour on their own, because they’ve never had to do it… I have no problem with that. I could go back to booking my own shows and driving the van. I still book the hotels and do a lot of stuff on my own, because I just have to be in control. I wouldn’t be where I am now without that mentality being instilled into me at a young age.” Asked whether his appreciation of bluegrass and grassroots fan support reflects a kinship with his grandfather’s Kentucky upbringing, Morgan praises everything great about the state—aside from college basketball. “I grew up going to family reunions down there, and I’ve always loved that state,” he says. “It’s beautiful to drive through, and the people are great. And I have a deep love of bluegrass music and bourbon, also.” f

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FOR THE FAITHFUL: Songwriter, guitarist and rock photographer of note Chris McKay has outdone his ever-prolific self this month. He’s just released a 55-track compilation of demos, home recordings and other tracks. It’s titled Music for Survivors, and he compiled most of it while recuperating at home from an auto accident. He’s broken the tracks down into five sets of songs. Each set comprises a “disc,” and the tracks are labeled as such. The fifth set is actually a brand new album named Euno that is also available separately. Some of these tracks were meant to be songs for McKay’s band The Critical Darlings, and others are songs that didn’t fit that project for whatever reason. Mostly, this massive set reflects McKay’s signature big pop sound, which he maintains with a tasty sense of melody. The liner notes explain this entire project pretty thoroughly, so why not read them when you’re checking this all out over at chrismckay.bandcamp.com.

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THE ART OF STAYING ON TASCAM: Drew Kirby released a new record under his Civils moniker recently. And, as founder and head honcho of Marching Banana Records, it makes sense that’s the label that released it. It’s titled Tape Doctor, and according to its notes, it was envisioned as a “no singing” album. That’s not what happened, though. Instead, through a huge amount of analog reel-to-reel tape manipulation and layering, these tracks became actual songs. It starts off with the Ween-ish “Herculo Montana,” which is pretty bad and derivative, but the whole thing quickly Chris McKay gets much better. The title track is a nervous wreck of a thing worthy of hardcore remixing; “Burner Ethics” is going to sell out fairly quickly, especially with gift-buying bouncy and glitchy in a Death Grips kind of way; and “Eyes season upon us. So, if you want one, grab a copy at your Like Test Tubes” is musical self-immolation via its laborious local bookseller (aka the Avid Bookshops) soon. pacing, sound disintegration and distinctly bad mood. So, overall, it’s tops! Loop around to marchingbanana.bandRIP: Flagpole’s thoughts are with the friends and family camp.com or civils.bandcamp.com and listen in. of local musician Ash Rickli, who died unexpectedly last weekend. More in next week’s column and at flagpole.com. ELBOW RUBBIN’ TIME: The UGA Sports & Entertainment [Gabe Vodicka] Law Society is hosting a music industry mixer at the 40 Watt Club Wednesday, Nov. 15. All musicians and industry LEMME IN: The raffle is open for the 2018 Nuçi Pass, which folks—or wannabe industry folks—are welcome to attend will allow a winner, plus guest, free admittance to an enorthis free event. Although there’s no information provided mous amount of shows. The field of participating venues about this specific gathering, these things generally have is now staggering, and includes non-Athens joints such as some information available about industry-run charitable the Buckhead Theatre, Center Stage, Eddie’s Attic, Red Clay programs, a couple of short talks about specific industry Theatre, Smith’s Olde Bar, Terminal West, The Loft, Variety topics and so on. While the direct benefit to musicians Playhouse, Vinyl and Macon’s Cox Capitol Theatre. Raffle is always a little iffy—though there can be some—these tickets are only $5 each, and things can be a great way to meet people who can help you you can buy as many as or can be aided by your help. Whatever your status, don’t you like. The drawing ever be intimidated by meeting industry people. Literally is held Dec. 17, and everyone had that first job where they didn’t know a thing you can gather addiand had to ask a bunch of questions. Also, keep in mind tional information that at any given time in the music world, there’s only at nucipass.org. f about $40 going around and everyone’s trying to get it, so be sure to distinguish yourself in some way.

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Fall Feasts HARVEST DINNERS RAISE FUNDS FOR SNAP AND OTHER PROGRAMS By Lauren Baggett news@flagpole.com and therefore have one of the largest financial burdens to contribute to the program.” The SNAP doubling program is supported statewide by Wholesome Wave Georgia and allows SNAP benefit users to double their dollars when they purchase produce from farmers markets. “When customers do this, we see our local and organic produce match and sometimes beat big-box retailers’ lower-quality produce,” she says. There is an obvious health benefit from eating more fresh fruits and vegetables, but low-income families can struggle to afford these types of foods. In June, AFM partnered with the the Athens Nurses Clinic DON SHELNUTT

Communities have been celebrating successful autumn harvests for centuries, when the season’s crops took center stage at town-wide public feasts. There are echoes of these festive, “eat and be merry” occasions in our modern Thanksgiving, but the connection to the land and to the community has gotten lost in the mix. These days, we still celebrate big moments with food, but among the weddings, banquets and galas, Athens’ local food community is reviving the traditional autumn harvest feast in the hopes that a celebration of bounty will beget bounty for others in need.

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The Athens Land Trust’s Harvest Moon dinner raised funds for programs like the West Broad Market Garden.

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In October, the Athens Farmers Market, Athens Land Trust and UGArden all hosted fall feast events. Each of these groups represent local growers, whether they are family farmers working the land outside city limits or urban community and school gardeners. They all offer a source of fresh produce. All of these groups also work behind the scenes to make sure they don’t leave out Athens’ most vulnerable communities. UGArden’s Meals in the Middle Benefit Dinner raised money to continue its culinary programs in Clarke County middle schools. The Athens Land Trust threw a Harvest Moon dinner to support its many urban ag and food-access programs—the West Broad Market Garden has filled a crucial gap in food access for the Hancock Corridor community. As one of the largest markets in the region, the Athens Farmers Market is trying to do its part to connect everyone in Athens with local food. “We believe that local, fresh, organic and nutrient-dense produce should be accessible to all members of our community,” says Sarah Thurman, AFM’s manager. The market held its seventh annual Autumn Harvest Feast on Oct. 8. “This is our large annual fundraiser that goes to fund our SNAP doubling program at the market,” Thurman says. “We are the third largest redeeming market in the state,

and UGA’s SNAP-Ed program to launch the Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program (FVRx), which allows medical professionals to prescribe healthy produce for patients with diet-related illnesses. Each patient receives $1 per day per family member to spend at the farmers market. At the end of the evening, the market had raised $21,000 to support these programs. “We were incredibly blessed with generous community donations to the silent auction, great local sponsors as well as an abundance of the best food that this community has to offer,” Thurman says. The best of Athens’ culinary talent prepared a smorgasbord of appetizers, breads, soups, salad, meats, veggies and desserts. For many farmers, says Thurman, the Autumn Harvest Feast is an “annual treat” at the end of a long, hot growing season. Thurman believes these types of feasts are becoming more popular in Athens because they are more than fundraising events. “I think that food is the foundation of community, and genuine, loving bonds with people are what we need most in life,” she says. “Locally grown food prepared with love is unbeatable. Those who have sat down at a table and eaten food grown and prepared locally know that there is something sacred about it, something deeply gratifying.” f

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A Non-Cook’s Guide to Thanksgiving WHERE TO GET TAKE-OUT FOR TURKEY DAY By Hillary Brown food@flagpole.com Hi, Athens. Some of you love to slave for hours in the kitchen, shaving brussels sprouts thinly or whipping cream by hand. Others would prefer to put their feet up and have a glass of wine. This list of places around town offering Thanksgiving eats is for those of you in the latter group.

brussels sprouts ($15/quart), red wine gravy ($8/pint; $15/ quart), cranberry sauce ($8/pint; $15/quart), six rolls from Independent Baking Co. ($5.34), apple pie ($18), pumpkin pie ($15) and pecan pie ($17). Fill out the order form at donderoskitchen.com by Nov. 17 (Nov. 16 if you want to

sweet potato gratin with celery cream and brown butter breadcrumbs; roasted fall vegetables with fresh herbs and pecans; and mac and cheese with brown-butter breadcrumbs. You can also get cranberry pepper jelly ($5/8 ounces), ready-to-bake Sister Schubert yeast rolls ($6 per 24-roll tray) and two kinds of desserts at $20 each (pumpkin icebox pie and North Georgia caramel-apple upside-down cake). Order via 706-850-7186 or info@homemadeathens.com by noon on Nov. 20 to schedule your pickup for Nov. 21 or 22.

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Lindsey’s Culinary Market has the full meal, mostly priced per person: roasted turkey for $5/pound, breast for $6/pound, gravy for $14.50/quart, sourdough and cornbread dressing for $4.25, garlic and chive mashed potatoes for $3.75, sweet potato casserole with pecans and mini-marshmallows for $3.75, squash casserole for $3.75, corn pudding for $3.75, “Not Your Mama’s Green Bean Casserole” for $3.75 and cranberry-orange compote for $9/pound. Bourbon pecan, apple and pumpkin pies are $18 each. Order at 706-353-0558 by Nov. 18 or at lindseysculinarymarket.com/eat. Mama Jewel’s Kitchen has casseroles that serve 12–14 and sides. You can even pick them up hot if you want. Your options are sweet potato soufflé for $35.95, cornbread dressing for $36.95, scalloped potatoes for $39.95, mac and cheese for $36.95, squash casserole for $32.95, corn casserole for $36.95, green bean casserole for $36.95, broccoli rice casserole for $32.95, collard greens for $8/pint or $16/quart, ambrosia for $12/pint or $24/quart, cranberry relish for $12/pint or $24/quart, marinated vegetable salad for $24, giblet gravy for $10–$20, deviled eggs for $18/dozen and dirt rice for $24.95. Also: muffins, biscuits, pumpkin cake, sweet potato pie, monkey bread and more. Whew. Call 706-850-9797 to order by 2 p.m. Nov. 19 for pick-up by 2 p.m. Nov. 22. They can also make them in your own casserole dishes, should you prefer.

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Athens Farmers Market will have its annual preThanksgiving market in the parking lot of Heirloom Cafe on Wednesday, Nov. 22 at 11 a.m., if you want to buy the ingredients to cook your own meal. Big City Bread Cafe has pumpkin pie ($18), pecan pie ($20) or pear frangipane tart ($25), each of which serves eight; orange-cranberry bread ($14.50) and pumpkin bread ($16.50; gluten-free), each serving eight to 10; cranberry pecan batard ($5.75; sort of like a baguette); and pull-apart rolls ($4.50 for seven rolls). Call 706-353-0029 to order by Saturday, Nov. 18 for pick-up Nov. 22. Cabin Creek BBQ has whole turkeys at $7.99 per pound (6–8-pound average weight), hams at $7.99 per pound and sides in half pans ($19.99 to feed 15 people) and whole pans ($39.99 to feed 30 people): cornbread dressing, giblet gravy, sweet potato soufflé, squash casserole and green beans. Call 706-757-2267 before Nov. 18 to order. Donderos’ Kitchen has its usual huge selection of stuff, including roasted whole turkey (10, 14, 18 or 22 pounds for $4.95/pound), sides at $11 to feed two to four people or $24 to feed eight to 12 (herbed dressing with sausage or pecans, which you can also get gluten-free, corn pudding, herbed roasted sweet potatoes, green bean casserole), mashed potatoes ($13/quart), mashed rutabagas ($13/ quart), red cabbage with apple ($13/quart), creamed

ensure a turkey) and pick up Nov. 21 from 4–5:30 p.m. or Nov. 22 11 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Five Bar is doing its fourth annual Thanksgiving Feast on Nov. 23 from 11 a.m.–4 p.m. If you’ve missed this in the past, the meal is free, but donations are accepted to benefit Project Safe. They also take volunteers. The Fresh Market has stuff with which to cook your own meal, but also à la carte eats and an entire dinner that serves 12–14 people. Order online at thefreshmarket.com/ holiday-meals or in-store. Heirloom has its usual handy online form for orders at heirloomathens.com/holidayorderform. Choose from green bean casserole for $13, root vegetable hash for $14, sweet potato soufflé with pecan crumble for $12 or cornbread, apple and chorizo stuffing for $13, each of which serves three or four people. Also: Southern-style braised greens for $8, turkey gravy for $6/pint, cranberry orange relish for $7/pint, apple pie with oatmeal streusel for $28 and salted caramel pecan pie for $28. Place orders by Sunday, Nov. 19 at 10 p.m. Pick up between 11 a.m.–8 p.m. on Nov. 22. home.made is doing sides in six-person servings at $22 (select the number you want on the website): tomato pie with savory crust, basil, parmesan, cheddar and ricotta; herbed wild rice with dried cranberries and toasted pecans;

Marti’s at Midday has casserole sides in two sizes ($21 to serve four hungry people or $42 to serve eight hungry people). Choose from sweet potatoes with parmesan and brown sugar, roasted brussels sprouts tossed with housemade pesto, Southern squash casserole, Grammy Schimmel’s cornbread dressing, fresh green beans with Georgia pecans or smashed new potatoes. Marti’s also has homemade cranberry sauce and chicken gravy for $12/quart and pumpkin and pecan pies for $18 each. Order by Nov. 17 by email (meschimmel@gmail.com) or phone (706-543-3541). Pulaski Heights BBQ has 14–16-pound smoked turkeys with gravy for $75; 5 pounds of turkey breast with gravy for $65; and 5–6-pound pork shoulder hams for $55. Kick in an extra $75 and make it a meal with cornbread dressing, cranberry sauce and two sides (smoked cauliflower, mac and cheese, baked beans, squash casserole, potato salad, collard greens, green beans, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes or vinegar lime slaw). Pick up Thanksgiving Day between 11 a.m. and noon or arrange to pick up earlier, either hot or chilled. Call 706-583-9600 to order. Saucehouse is doing catering for $12 per person. That includes turkey or spiral-sliced ham, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, two sides (choose from mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, green bean casserole or sweet potato casserole) and Sister Schubert’s rolls; add $1 extra for tea or lemonade; $2 each for peach cobbler or pumpkin pie. The minimum order is 12 people, but you can include full service if you really want to kick back, or you can get just ham or bird for $65. Call 706-363-3351 to order. Wok Star is open on Thanksgiving Day, should you want something less traditional but still warm and tasty. f

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Stephen King on Screen HOW TWO DIRECTORS ADAPTED THE MASTER OF HORROR By Jon Hogan music@flagpole.com With the recent success of It, many moviegoers may have a renewed interest in the rich catalog of cinematic adaptations of the work of horror novelist Stephen King. Since Brian De Palma’s teen-horror milestone Carrie in 1976, fans of King’s novels have had over 60 opportunities to see his work on the big screen. Athens cinephiles can commemorate the 30th anniversary of one of these adaptations, 1987’s The Running Man, at Flicker Theatre & Bar on Monday, Nov. 20 (see The Calendar for details). The screening will be an installment of the bar’s ongoing Flicker Dinner Theater series, featuring Austrian and German foods (including soft pretzels, beer cheese, spätzle and more) from High Life Pop-Ups. After enjoying Arnold Schwarzenegger’s contributions to King’s story, curl up with another King adaptation enhanced with its adaptor’s signature touches: Toronto director David Cronenberg’s The Dead Zone.

Go Out and Watch THE RUNNING MAN (1987) In the far-off (at the time) year of 2017, totalitarianism has replaced the rule of law in the U.S. Citizens are pacified by television, and the most popular program is “The Running Man,” a game show pitting former convicts called “runners” against “stalkers,” heavily

Rollerball, The Running Man is at times a misbegotten patchwork of other, better films. Thank the film gods for Arnold Schwarzenegger, who makes The Running Man all worthwhile. His trademark idiosyncrasies—flat line readings, awful puns and the obsession with cigars—yield a performance that acknowledges the derivativeness of the film but absolves it of sin. As with the performances of fellow ’80s action star Bruce Willis, Schwarzenegger’s ironic detachment makes him seem above whatever silliness surrounds him. Rest assured, The Running Man provides enough silliness to make Arnold look like the ultimate figure in cool, wry action hero badassness.

Stay Home and Watch THE DEAD ZONE (1983) Professional weirdo Christopher Walken plays the generically named high-school teacher Johnny Smith in this adaptation of a novel by King. A car accident puts Smith into a coma. Once he awakens, he has the power to see the future of anyone he touches, and the film follows him as he uses his powers to save a pupil from drowning, hunt a serial killer and combat a megalomaniacal politician. Cronenberg’s calling card is body horror. Bodies transform, explode, deteriorate and are otherwise maimed in his

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armed killers with gimmicks that would be at home in pro wrestling. Two years after Neil Postman’s seminal exploration of the narcotizing properties of media in Amusing Ourselves to Death, director Paul Michael Glaser gives us a world where Postman’s prophecies of a human race oppressed by its need to be entertained have been realized. Unfortunately, Glaser—no stranger to television from his four seasons as Detective David Starsky on ”Starsky & Hutch”—gives the audience little else to enjoy visually. While a dystopia 30 years in the future offers a blank slate for creating the wildest future he could imagine, he instead opts for a hodgepodge of elements sourced from the science-fiction canon. His Los Angeles has tall, angular buildings raked by spotlights towering over steamy hovels littering the ground. Large screens advertising products and pyramid-like structures also dot the skyline. If this description elicits some déjà vu, it’s because you have seen Blade Runner, which Ridley Scott gifted to the world only five years prior. Along with anonymous, tinvoiced villains reminiscent of Star Wars’ stormtroopers and the “sports are the opiate of the masses” message of

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work. When a character commits suicide by forcing his head onto a pair of shears, his visceral death is a typical sight to Cronenberg’s films. The scene when his still-twitching but lifeless body is discovered is the sort of grotesquerie that the director treasures. Body horror takes on a new focus in the majority of The Dead Zone. As Johnny’s physician better understands the effects of his patient’s powers on his health, he says, “As the spells—the visions—grow stronger and more powerful, the body weakens.” The gradual and inevitable failure of the body is the ultimate terror. Cronenberg reminds us of this lingering specter throughout the film. Johnny requires crutches and canes even when he recovers from his coma, and his parents’ deteriorating health mirrors his own weakening. However, Johnny disregards the omnipresent threat to his well-being for the noblest goal of all: saving the bodies of others—including, at one point, the entire population of Earth. With The Dead Zone, Cronenberg’s penchant for body horror highlights the heroism and selflessness of his protagonist. f

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MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (PG-13) Certain viewers will enjoy the old-fashioned Murder on the Orient Express, whether or not you know how Agatha Christie resolves her popular mystery. Kenneth Branagh directs himself in this adaptation by Michael Green (his filmography is strong, including Blade Runner 2049, Logan and the By Drew Wheeler movies@flagpole.com CW’s criminally underrated “Everwood”). Branagh may be another in a long line THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER (R) The struggled to visualize its own moral of Hercule Poirots—he does give off more Lobster filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos does struggle. than a hint of Holmes—but his version not quite capture lightning in a bottle with As pretentious as its title would imply, is brilliant, anchoring a film populated his follow-up, a Michael Haneke-ish moralThe Killing of a Sacred Deer does generate by Johnny Depp as the devilish criminal, ity play. Heart surgeon Steven Murphy enough tension, terror and moral quandaPenelope Cruz as an overly religious lady, (Colin Farrell) has an odd relationship with ries to justify the time taken to engage with Willem Dafoe as a German professor, Dame Martin (Barry Keoghan, Dunkirk), a teenit. It forebodes with a plethora of awkward Judi Dench as continental royalty, Josh age boy without a father. As Gad as Depp’s assistant, Leslie we later learn, Martin lost his Odom Jr. as an English doctor, Murder on the Orient Express dad during a heart surgery Michelle Pfeiffer as a husband performed by Steven, and this hunter and Daisy Ridley as a tragedy leads Steven to his own governess. version of Sophie’s Choice. The film is brisk early, as it While technically brilliant, establishes its period credenThe Killing of a Sacred Deer suftials while Poirot solves a crime fers from a tonal lack of conin Jerusalem. The next two acts fidence. The movie knows it is are far more charming than the not a comedy, but cannot quite concluding one, which should commit to any other potential be way more successful if you genre. The oddly formal, nearly do not know the solution to stodgy dialogue read by Farrell, Christie’s mystery. Branagh’s Keoghan, Nicole Kidman (as finale gets way too stagy in its Steven’s suffering wife) and reveal, and the film is so oldBill Camp (as another docfashioned it is hard to imagine We will get to the bottom of this, Thomas. tor), as well as Raffey Cassidy younger audiences enjoying it and Sunny Suljic as Steven at all. It would seem easier to and Anna’s mysteriously ailing children, overhead shots and an aggressively cacophjustify watching the star-studded 1974 verstalls the initial connection between audionous score, until you realize its absurdity sion, but that version has little pop-culture ence and character. Despite its top-notch is funny. Both of Lanthimos’ last two films cache outside of Sidney Lumet. Maybe this performances, The Killing of a Sacred Deer are knowingly superb; The Lobster just fits Christie mystery just does not need to be ultimately comes off like Blindness, which his blueprint better. told again on the big screen.

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DADDY’S HOME 2 (PG-13) Daddy’s Home 2 doubles down on the daddies, adding Mel Gibson and John Lithgow to the potent duo of Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg. Having Mel back would be fantastic, if he were not playing such a caustic chauvinist amidst the current Hollywood climate. His distasteful Kurt, a former astronaut and serial womanizer, really hurts an already tone-deaf but mindlessly charming holiday comedy. Brad and Dusty (Ferrell and Wahlberg) may now be co-dads and pals, but the holidays bring renewed hostilities, especially when you add the dads’ dads, played by Lithgow and Gibson. The filmmakers are way too enamored with the gag of Brad and his dad kissing on the lips. Still, Lithgow rules as Don; his gabby former postal worker absolutely owns the movie. Unfortunately, a character that probably seemed harmless during filming now looks absolutely horrific. Kurt advises his grandson, Dylan (the genuinely sweet Owen Wilder Vaccaro), to give his crush a kiss followed by a swat on the caboose. What once seemed a squeamish joke becomes unacceptable (as it should be). That Gibson imbues this pig with his own brand of charismatic sociopathy only further harms the movie’s attempts at family humor. Ferrell and Wahlberg continue to charm, and Lithgow blows everyone out of the water. Gibson’s casting would have been brilliant if the writing were more nuanced. And relying on Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” for multiple gags would be fine, if the movie aimed to satirize that song’s cloying cultural insensitivity, rather than milk its nostalgic value. John Cena is unfairly wasted, as well. For what it’s worth, I laughed more than I should have. f

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PERFORMANCE | NOV 14–15

LECTURES & LIT | THU, NOV 16

ATHICA · 7–9 p.m. (Tue), 1–6 p.m. (Wed) · FREE! Presented by the UGA Student Composers Association, “Loop 10: Confinement/Restriction” is a pop-up exhibition for which 10 composition students were paired with 10 local artists to create corresponding works. Compositions will be performed near their artworks opening night, with recordings available the following day. Artists include Broderick Flanigan, Christopher Ingham, Courtney McCracken, Logan Shirah and Gunnar Tarsa, and composers include Nikolos Bacote, Annie Leeth, Monique Osorio, Sahada Buckley and Sydney Doemel. “Loop 10” will travel to Eyedrum in Atlanta later this week. [Jessica Smith]

Avid Bookshop (Prince Ave.) · 6:30 p.m. · FREE! A staple on any punk’s bookshelf, Banned in DC: Photos and Anecdotes From the DC Punk Underground (79–85) captures the energy of the mid-’80s scene through photographs, flyers and stories of bands like Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Void, Faith, Scream and Marginal Man. Photographer and NEA grantwinning artist Cynthia Connolly will offer a presentation and book signing to commemorate its seventh edition. Back in print for the first time in a decade, the hardcore classic now includes a new afterword detailing how the book came together with collaborators Leslie Clague and Sharon Cheslow in 1988. [JS]

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Tuesday 14 ART: Athens Metal Arts Guild Meeting (Lyndon House Arts Center) This month’s speaker is Mary Pearse, who will discuss “Jewelry Narratives: Lost and Found.” 5 p.m. FREE! athensmetalartsguild@gmail.com ART: Athens Fibercraft Guild (Lyndon House Arts Center) The Guild welcomes all amateur and professional fiber artists including knitters, crocheters, weavers, spinners, fabric designers, basket makers, quilters and embroiderers. In this meeting, Bonnie Montgomery will guide evertyone throguh the process of wheat braiding to make corn dollies. 12:30 p.m. FREE! athensfiber.org CLASSES: Adulting U (ACC Library) Make some beautiful and heartfelt

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holiday cards for friends and family. Supplies are provided. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 CLASSES: Athens Swing Night (Dancefx) A one-hour lesson is followed by a two-hour dancing session. No experience or partner necessary. Every Tuesday. 8–11 p.m. $4–6. www.athensswingnight.com EVENTS: 2nd Tuesday Tasting (Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market) This month’s theme is “American Wines from Nontraditional Growing Regions.” 6 p.m. $20. 706-3547901, www.heirloomathens.com FILM: Landfill Harmonic (ACC Library) This documentary follows the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a Paraguayan musical group that plays instruments made entirely out of garbage. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) Westside and Eastside loca-

tions of Locos Grill and Pub feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) Trivia with host Jamie Pisarich. 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 GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Nic every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706354-7289 GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) Hosted by James Majure. 6 p.m. FREE! www.therookandpawn.com GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, 2301 College Station Rd.) Every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern GAMES: Bingo (Ted’s Most Best) Win drinks, sweet treats and gift cards.

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PERFORMANCE | SUN, NOV 19

Caledonia Lounge · 9 p.m. · $5–7 Originally the solo studio project of Athens-based singer-songwriter Matt Martin, Wanderwild has become a for-real band with the recent additions of guitarist Ian White, bassist Taylor Cotton and drummer Wes Gregory. On the group’s debut LP, In Due Time, out Friday, Martin and his new bandmates make good on the promise of last year’s sleek Fleeting EP, crafting an artful and ambitious full-length that pulses and shimmers its way through nine thoughtfully composed tracks. Fellow local indie-rock centrists White Violet and Atlanta-via-Kentucky dreamer Rose Hotel share Friday’s Caledonia bill. [Gabe Vodicka]

The Classic Center · 7:30 p.m. · $25–80 Don’t look now, but we’re just about five weeks out from Christmas. If the holiday spirit hasn’t kicked in quite yet, head to The Classic Center on Sunday, when new-age icons Mannheim Steamroller will dose unsuspecting Athenians with a big ol’ hit of seasonal cheer. Led by composer Chip Davis, the long-running collective has explored soft prog, light jazz and modern classical sounds, though it’s primarily known for its baroque takes on holiday classics, having released no fewer than two dozen Christmas albums during its four decades of existence. Not even Santa himself could put you in a more festive mood. [GV]

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Every Tuesday on the patio. 5–7 p.m. FREE! www.tedsmostbest.com KIDSTUFF: Tea on Tuesday Book Club (Bogart Library) Make a nobake autumn harvest dessert and share fall stories. Girls, ages 8–10. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Drawing with Jayln (ACC Library) Learn different drawing techniques. Ages 11–18. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ athens KIDSTUFF: Robotics for Teens (Bogart Library) Participants will build an obstacle course for Spheros and Lego Robots with Natalie Wright. Snacks served. Ages 11–18. 6 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 &

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11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee LECTURES & LIT: African American Authors Book Club (ACC Library) This month’s title is Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall. Newcomers welcome. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Willson Center for Humanities & Arts) Celebrate the release of UGA Professor Valerie Babb’s latest book A History of the African American Novel. RSVP. 5 p.m. FREE! wsmith78@uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Loop 10: Restriction/Confinement (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) Hear new experimental works by student composers from the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. These works are inspired by specific works of visual art in the gallery. See Calendar Pick on p. 20. Nov.

14, 7–9 p.m. & Nov. 15, 1–6 FREE! www.athica.org 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 15 ART: Artful Conversation (Georgia Museum of Art) Sage Kincaid leads a conversation on Charles Biederman’s untitled painting from 1936. 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: UGA’s College of Agriculture Colla-beer-ation (Southern Brewing Company) UGA College of Agriculture faculty and staff have a social. Music by

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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 LECTURES & LIT: Café Apollinaire (Ciné Barcafé) The program includes artwork, video, short plays and music. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com LECTURES & LIT: YWCO Brown Bag Lunch Series (Athens YWCO) Nancy Walton will present the benefits of a gluten free diet. Get tips on gluten free holiday baking. Bring a lunch. 12–1 p.m. FREE! b.galvin. ywco@gmail.com LECTURES & LIT: Meet the YA Author (Avid Bookshop, Prince Ave.) A meet-and-greet for author Jake Burt and his book, Greetings from Witness Protection. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com LECTURES & LIT: Talking About Books: Adult Book Discussion Group (ACC Library) This month’s title is Tenth of December by George Saunders. Newcomers welcome. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org LECTURES & LIT: McGill Lecture (Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Studio 100) Souad Mekhennet, national security desk correspondent at The Washington Post, presents the lecture “Being a Female Reporter Behind the Lines of Jihad.” 4 p.m. FREE! www.grady.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Loop 10: Restriction/Confinement (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) See Tuesday listing for full description Nov. 14, 7–9 p.m. & Nov. 15, 1–6 FREE! www.athica.org

players welcome. 6:30 p.m. ejstapler@gmail.com GAMES: Music Trivia (Saucehouse Barbeque) Meet at the bar for a round of trivia. 8 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/saucehousebbq KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (Bogart Library) Read aloud to a canine friend. RSVP. 4–5 p.m. FREE! 770725-9443, www.athenslibrary.org/ bogart KIDSTUFF: How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World (ACC Library) Participants will learn about different countries and cultures while making crafts and sampling pie. Ages 4–11. 3:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens

Potluck. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens LECTURES & LIT: For the Philo of Philosophy Book Discussion Group (ACC Library) Read philosophy books from ancient Greece to modern times. 6 p.m. FREE! mkapelewski@athenslibrary.org LECTURES & LIT: Banned in D.C. (Avid Bookshop, Prince Ave.) Author and photographer Cynthia Connolly offers a presentation and book signing for Banned in D.C., a music photography book documenting the now legendary punk scene of Washing D.C. See Calendar Pick on p. 20. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www. avidbookshop.com

music by Bach, Heinrich Schutz, Johann Hermann Schein and Felix Mendelssohn. A pre-concert lecture will be offered 45 minutes prior. 8 p.m. $30–76. pac.uga.edu

Friday 17 CLASSES: Computer Class (Bogart Library) Get one-on-one computer assistance. 11 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart EVENTS: Friday Night Dance Party (UGA New Dance Theatre) The Ballroom Performance Group offers a free beginner lesson at 7 p.m., followed by social dancing

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DJ Chief Rocka. 5–10 p.m. www. sobrewco.com EVENTS: Music Industry Mixer (40 Watt Club) Meet and mingle with some folks from the industry. 5 p.m. FREE! www.40watt.com EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Creature Comforts Brewery) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods, crafts and live music. This is the last Wednesday market of the season. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www. athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Healthcare Navigator Assistance (ACC Library) Kate Malone, a Health Plan Navigator will be on hand to help attendees sign up for insurance. 2–6 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens GAMES: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, Washington St.) Play to win. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie, Eastside) Every Wednesday. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Gather a team. Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. willys.com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, 2440 W. Broad St.) Compete for prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Dirty South Trivia offers house cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) Gather a team and compete. 8 p.m. saucehouse.com GAMES: Bingo Bango (Highwire Lounge) Drop in and win prizes! 8–10 p.m. FREE! highwirelounge. com GAMES: Dirty Bingo (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Hosted by Garrett Lennox every Wednesday. Prizes and house cash. 8 p.m. FREE! www. grindhouseburgers.com KIDSTUFF: Wednesday Reads Book Club (Bogart Library) Read books about monsters or magic and put a quote on the graffiti wall. 4th and 5th graders. 4 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: Teen Movie (ACC Library) Unwind with a movie and snacks. 4:30 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: 3-D Printing Ornaments (Oconee County Library) Create and print a handcrafted ornament. Grades 6–12. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ oconee KIDSTUFF: From Street to Stream Scavenger Hunt (East Athens Community Park, Trail Creek Park) Explore water’s journeys from Athens’ streets to its streams with ACC Stormwater. Snacks and prizes provided. Celebrate Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day. 3:30–5:30 p.m. FREE! stormwater@ athensclarkecounty.com 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 KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Children of all ages are invited for bedtime stories every Wednesday. 7 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens

Thursday 16 ART: Third Thursday Art Series (Athens, GA) Seven galleries stay open late the third Thursday of every month. Participating galleries include the Georgia Museum of Art, Lamar Dodd School of Art, ATHICA, Lyndon House Arts Center, Ciné, the GlassCube & Gallery @ Hotel Indigo and The Classic Center. 6-9 p.m. FREE! www.3thurs.org ART: Thursday Twilight Tour (Georgia Museum of Art) Docents lead a tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 7 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org ART: Holiday Market (Athens Academy) Shop handmade gifts and art from over 30 local artists. 8 a.m.–5:30 p.m. athensacademy.org CLASSES: Pearl Knotting Class (The Pearl Girls) Learn how to knot pearls with local business The Pearl Girls. Registration required. 5–7 p.m. $49. www.thepearlgirls.com CLASSES: Fire Safety During the Holidays (ACC Library) Prepare for the unexpected. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens CLASSES: Tech Tips (ACC Library) Learn about health and fitness apps. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens EVENTS: KnitLits (Bogart Library) Knitters of all levels are welcome. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/bogart FILM: Americans in Paris Film Series (Georgia Museum of Art) Watch The Moderns, 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: Duplicate Bridge (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Beginner and experienced

Dynasty’s birthday with the screening of a terrible holiday classic. Other festivities include a Star Wars wardrobe discussions, a herstory recap of the movie franchise and prizes. 10 p.m. FREE! hiloathens.com EVENTS: Bulky Items Drop Off (1005 College Ave.) CHaARM will accept furniture, carpet, cabinets/ shelving and large applicances free of charge on this day. ACC residents only. 2–6 p.m. FREE! www.athensclarkecounty.com EVENTS: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (Go Bar) Watch the house cast and Atlanta guest Dotte Comm. 10:30 p.m. $3. www.facebook.com/ athensshowgirls KIDSTUFF: Teen After Hours (ACC Library) Celebrate “Teensgiving” with a home-cooked meal. Registration required. Ages 11–18. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens KIDSTUFF: Tri-Wizard Tournament (Barnes & Noble) Compete for your Magical School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with a costume contest, crafts and prizes. All ages. 7–9 p.m. FREE! 706-354-1195 LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Poet (The Foundry, Ballroom) The Georgia Review and Avid Bookshop present renowned poet Eileen Myles for their book Afterglow (A Dog Memoir). 7 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com LECTURES & LIT: David Hurst Thomas (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) The curator of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History presents “Unearthing Georgia’s Deep Hispanic Heritage: Still Digging on St. Catherine’s Island.” 3:30 p.m. FREE! archlab@ uga.edu PERFORMANCE: The Kourtesans (40 Watt Club) The drag troupe present “Britney vs. Lady Gaga.” 8 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com THEATER: Eb Scrooge: A Southern Fried Carol (Elbert Theatre, Elberton) A Southern infused re-telling of Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas story. Nov. 17–18, 7 p.m. Nov. 29, 2 p.m. $9–11. 706283-1049 THEATER: Seussical Kids (Brightstone Productions, 560 Jerry Smith Dr. Watkinsville) The magical, musical extravaganza brings Dr. Seuss characters to life. Nov. 17–18, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 19, 3:30 p.m. $7. brightstoneathens.com

Saturday 18 The Athens-Clarke County Library will host a Café au Libris with Jason Thrasher in celebration of his photography book, Athens Potluck, on Thursday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. Athens Potluck includes portraits of 33 local musicians, including Don Chambers, featured above. KIDSTUFF: Color It Up! (ACC Library) Supplies provided. Ages 11–18. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Bear Hunt (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Hear classic stories about bears and go on a bear hunt in the children’s department. Ages 6 and up. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athensibrary.org/ madison KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime (Oconee County Library) This special storytime is for the youngest readers-to-be and their caregivers. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee LECTURES & LIT: Café au Libris: Jason Thrasher (ACC Library) Meet photographer Jason Thrasher in celebration of his book Athens

LECTURES & LIT: “A Rush to Judgment” (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) The panel discussion will explore Senator Richard B. Russell’s role on the Warren Commission. A light reception will follow. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.libs.uga.edu 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: St. Thomas Boys Choir of Leipzig (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Hear sacred

8–10:30 p.m. This week’s theme is Werst Coast Swing. 7 p.m. $3–5. www.ugaballroom.com 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 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 rotunda on the second floor. 3 p.m. FREE! www.libs.uga.edu/sci EVENTS: Star Wars Holiday Special Viewing Event (Hi-Lo Lounge) Celebrate Ming Vase-

ART: Coloring Club (Oconee County Library) Spend the morning relaxing with the therapeutic practice of coloring. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/oconee EVENTS: Contra Dance (Memorial Park) A dance presented by Athens Folk Music & Dance Society with live music by Whistlin’ Rufus and calling by Doug Singleton. 7:30 p.m. (lesson), 8–11 p.m. (dance). $8 (adults), $4 (ages 11–17) FREE! (ages 11 & under). www.athensfolk. org EVENTS: Saturday at the Rock: Guided Hike to the Mound (Rock Eagle 4H Center) Take a guided 2.5mile hike up Rock Eagle Mound to learn about the history of the effigy as well as local flora and fauna. 9:30 a.m. $3. 706-484-2881, jtorhan1@ uga.edu 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 entertaink continued on next page

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THE CALENDAR! ment. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! www. athenslandtrust.org EVENTS: Where Does Your Poo Go? (4100 Barnett Shoals Rd.) Tour the Cedar Creek Water Reclamation Facility and celebrate World Toilet Day. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.thinkatthesink.com EVENTS: Holistic Healing Fair (Unity Athens) Local practitioners demo reiki, sound therapies, chiropractic, aromatherapy and more. 12–5 p.m. FREE! unityathens.com EVENTS: Cherokee Rose 5K (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) A 5K race presented by Half-Moon Outfitters. All proceeds are donated to The State Botanical Garden. 9 a.m. www.halfmoonoutfitters.com EVENTS: Athens Free School Anniversary Fair (1085 Danielsville Rd.) Check out classes led by community creatives, live music, yoga and more. Classes include kombucha brewing (3 p.m.), natural cleaning supplies (4 p.m.), bike maintenance with Dean Merlin (5 p.m.), herbal medicine (5 p.m.), music looping (6 p.m.) and the basics of sewing (6 p.m.). 3–7 p.m. FREE! athensfreeschool@gmail.com EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods, crafts and live music by Rachael O’Neal and Scarlet Stitch Unplugged. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Athens Rock and Gem Club Show (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Showing gem and mineral collections from local enthusiasts. Participants will learn about local geology and participate in educational activities. 9 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! www.athensclarkecounty.com/sandycreeknaturecenter GAMES: Planewalkers for Diversity Chapter Meeting (Tyche’s Games) Play Magic is a welcoming atmosphere. 6 p.m. FREE! www.tychesgames.com KIDSTUFF: Turkey Time (ACC Library) Learn facts about turkeys with stories, crafts and games. Ages 2–8. 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: STEAM Saturday (Bogart Library) This month’s theme is nature-centered autumn art. 11 a.m. FREE! athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: YA Game Day (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Play board games, card games and video games with other teens. Ages 12–18. 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/madison LECTURES & LIT: Avid Poetry Series (Avid Bookshop, Prince Ave.) Hear poetry from Bruce Beasley and Cassie Gonzales. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com THEATER: Seussical Kids See Friday listing for full description Nov. 17–18, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 19, 3:30 p.m. $7. brightstoneathens.com THEATER: Eb Scrooge: A Southern Fried Carol (Elbert Theatre, Elberton) See Friday listing for full description Nov. 17–18, 7 p.m. Nov. 29, 2 p.m. $9–11. 706283-1049

Sunday 19 EVENTS: Presenting Table Beer (The National) Enjoy a vegan familystyle beer dinner celebrating the release of Table Beer by Creature Comforts. 6 p.m. $65. 706-5493450, reservations@thenationalrestaurant.com EVENTS: West Hancock Avenue Walking Tour (Call for Meeting Location) Discover the background

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of this historic urban black neighborhood. Part of the Athens Heritage Walks tour series. 2–4 p.m. $12–15. www.achfonline.org EVENTS: 2nd Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service (UGA Tate Student Center, Grand Ballroom) The Interfaith Clergy Partnership of Greater Athens offers a service. 4:30 p.m. denisehorton@gmail.com EVENTS: 23rd Annual Benevolence Market (UGA Tate Student Center) Meet representatives of 29 local nonprofit agencies and select items from a “shopping list of symbolic gifts” to donate. 5:30–6:30 p.m. mswintern.ihna@gmail.com GAMES: Pathfinder Society Event (Tyche’s Games) Fantasy RPG. Bring your imagination. 12 p.m. FREE! 706-345-4500

for full description Nov. 17–18, 7 p.m. Nov. 29, 2 p.m. $9–11. 706283-1049 THEATER: Seussical Kids See Friday listing for full description Nov. 17–18, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 19, 3:30 p.m. $7. brightstoneathens.com

Monday 20 EVENTS: Book Swap and Cider (Oconee County Library) Bring a book from home to trade and talk books with the Monday Book Club over tea and cider. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee FILM: The Running Man (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Flicker Dinner & a Movie presents two screenings of director Paul Michael Glaser’s Stephen King adaptation, plus a German/Austrian dinner menu served by High Life Pop-Ups. See

on hand to assist players and help build skill levels. For ages 7–18. Registration required. 4–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Monday Funday (Bogart Library) Songs, finger plays, wiggles and giggles for ages three 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: Outlandish in Athens Book Discussion (ACC Library) Get ready for the Dec. 2 Outlander fan event with a book discussion on Voyager (Book 3) by Diana Gabaldon on Nov. 4, Book 1

and Terry go on a gory Thanksgiving killing spree. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/badmovienight GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) See Tuesday listing for full description 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: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) See Tuesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) See Tuesday listing for full description 6 p.m. FREE! www.therookandpawn.com GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Nic every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706354-7289 GAMES: Bingo (Ted’s Most Best) Win drinks, sweet treats and gift cards.

on NOv. 6 and Dragonfly in Amber on Nov. 20. Nov. 4, 10:30 a.m., Nov. 5, 3 p.m. & Nov. 20, 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens MEETINGS: Oconee River Chapter of Trout Unlimited (Locos Grill & Pub, 1985 Barnett Shoals Rd.) ORCTU meets the third Monday of the month. Warnell student Shelby Chumley will talk about her work as a US Forest Service intern at Chugach National Forest in Cordova, Alaska. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.orctu.wordpress.com

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: Teen Council Meeting (ACC Library) Teens can come together to discuss plans for the ACC Library’s teen department’s collections and programs. Pick up application forms at the front desk. Ages 11-18. 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Lego Club (Oconee County Library) Create Lego art and enjoy Lego-based activities. Legos provided. Ages 3–11. 10 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories Storytime (Bogart Library) The Reader’s Delight Tenn Book Club at NOHS will lead a program with books, songs and crafts. Feel free to wear pajamas and bring a blanket. Ages 3–8. 6:30 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 SPORTS: Table Tennis Matches and Training (East Athens Community Center) Beginner to advanced skill levels welcome.

Humming House plays The Foundry on Thursday, Nov. 16. KIDSTUFF: Tail Waggin’ Tutors (Oconee County Library) Reading aloud to a dog creates a relaxed, non-judgmental environment that helps kids develop their reading skills and builds confidence. Register for a 15-minutes session. Grades K-5. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-7693950 KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (ACC Library) Beginning readers read aloud to certified therapy dogs. 3–4 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, www. athenslibrary.org LECTURES & LIT: UUFA Sunday Forum (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Kate Blane speaks on “The Sixth Extinction.” 10 a.m. FREE! uuathensga.org PERFORMANCE: Georgia Brass Band (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) The state’s premiere British style brass band is made up of Atlantaarea musicians. 3 p.m. FREE! pac. uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Mannheim Steamroller Christmas (The Classic Center) Chip Davis’ show features Mannheim Steamroller Christmas classics along with a selection of compositions from his Fresh Aire series. See Calendar Pick on p. 20. 7:30 p.m. $25–80. www. classiccenter.com THEATER: Eb Scrooge: A Southern Fried Carol (Elbert Theatre, Elberton) See Friday listing

Double Feature on p. 18. 6:30 & 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com GAMES: Netrunner Open Play (Tyche’s Games) All are welcome to join in. 12:30–4:30 p.m. FREE! www. tychesgames.com GAMES: General Knowledge Trivia (Beef ’O’ Brady’s) Win house cash and prizes! Every Monday night. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-8501916 GAMES: Dirty South Trivia: Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Team trivia contests with house cash prizes every Monday night. 8 p.m. FREE! www.grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: Duplicate Bridge (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Beginner players welcome. 1 p.m. $4. ejstapler@gmail.com GAMES: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Highwire Lounge) Test your general knowledge for prizes. 8–10 p.m. FREE! highwirelounge.com KIDSTUFF: Tween Sewing Class (Bogart Library) Must have previous experience using a sewing machine. Ages 9–14. 2–4 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/bogart 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

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Tuesday 21 CLASSES: Athens Swing Night (Dancefx) A one-hour lesson is followed by a two-hour dancing session. No experience or partner necessary. Every Tuesday. 8–11 p.m. $4–6. www.athensswingnight.com CLASSES: Learn More About Your Tax Forms (ACC Library) Understand how to maximize your return. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens EVENTS: Athens Rock and Gem Club (Holy Cross Lutheran Church) Dave and Olga Larson talk about Michigan Copper and their 10,000 mile trip. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. athensrockandgemclub.org FILM: Bad Movie Night: Blood Rage (Ciné Barcafé) Twins Todd

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

Wednesday 22 EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Creature Comforts Brewery) See Wednesday listing for full description 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Thanksgiving Farmers Market (Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market) Pick up ingredients for Thanksgiving dinner. 11 a.m.–2 p.m. www.heirloomathens.com GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie, Eastside) Every Wednesday. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Gather a team. Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. willys.com GAMES: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, Washington St.) Play to win. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) Gather a team and compete. 8 p.m. saucehouse.com GAMES: Bingo Bango (Highwire Lounge) Drop in and win prizes! 8–10 p.m. FREE! highwirelounge. com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Dirty Bingo (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Hosted by Garrett Lennox every Wednesday. Prizes and house cash. 8 p.m. FREE! www. grindhouseburgers.com KIDSTUFF: Turkey Tales and Crafts (Bogart Library) This special Thanksgiving storytime includes turkey tales, folktales and a seasonal craft. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart 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: 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

LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 14 Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $10 (21+), $12 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com LYDIA LUNCH RETROVIRUS Avantgarde rock group fronted by legendary no-wave artist Lydia Lunch. BATAILLE Atlanta-based noise-punk outfit. DICAPRIO Atlanta-based indie-rock trio. Ciné Barcafé 7:30 p.m. www.athenscine.com HAWK PROOF ROOSTER Local oldtime string duo that sings and plays fiddle, banjo, ukulele, guitar and mandolin. Album release show! ART & MARGO ROSENBAUM Athens-based artists and folk musicians.

HOG-EYED MAN Local instrumental duo that plays traditional Appalachian music. The Foundry Terrapin Tuesday. 7 p.m. $5. www. thefoundryathens.com RUSS HALLAUER Folk and bluegrass musician and Welfare Liners member performs a solo set. ERIC CARTER Bloodkin member plays a solo set. Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com MISTER TIE DYE Local nine-piece instrumental fusion group with a potent horn section. PARTIALS Local psychedelic pop band with a rich, danceable sound. WHITEHALL JAZZ COLLECTIVE Local jazz pianist Greg Hankins leads his sizeable group through an eclectic set of music. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 TOM VISIONS BAND Post-mystical, electronic, psychedelic music from Visions and his group. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 GREAT BLUE Hard-grooving rock trio from Connecticut. The World Famous 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens TERI QUINN Indie-folk banjoist and singer-songwriter from Kansas City. ADAM JACO Acoustic folk and pop sounds from the See Bright Lights frontman.

Wednesday 15 Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC A weekly open-mic jam hosted by Louis Phillip Pelot. 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. The Foundry 6:30 p.m. FREE! thefoundryathens.com RACHEL O’NEAL Local solo folk artist. Georgia Theatre 6:15 p.m. SOLD OUT. www.georgiatheatre.com CROWDER Christian folktronica musician out of Atlanta. JIMI CRAVITY Christian musician playing a blend of pop, EDM and hip hop. THE YOUNG ESCAPE Christian rock group from Southern California. 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. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 FREESTYLE CYPHER NIGHT A night of rhymes and beats, featuring local and touring MCs and hosted by Lingua Franca. Iron Factory 8 p.m. FREE! 706-395-6877 OPEN MIC Hosted by Katie Collins.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 THE WOOFS New local funk-rock 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 The longest standing weekly music gig in Athens! Enjoy an evening of original music, improv and standards.

Thursday 16 The Bar-B-Que Shack 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-6752 BLUEGRASS JAM Bring your own instrument! All pickers are welcome every Thursday. Blue Sky 10 p.m. FREE! 706-850-3153 WARM GLOW BLUE SKY SHOW JJC plays disco, funk, soul & cetera. Every Thursday! Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 LILY ROSE Nashville-based pop-folk singer-songwriter. Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. www.caledonialounge.com SHILPA RAY New York-based artist playing dark, goth-infused postpunk. MOTHER THE CAR Founded by a brother duo, this garage-rock act incorporates blues and other influences. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com LUCAS O’CONNELL Athens-based singer-songwriter. LYDIA SERA Local visual artist and musician. MIKE BRANDT Local guitarist and songwriter. KATIE COLLINS Singer-songwriter playing classical piano with a melodic twist. The Foundry 7:30 p.m. $7 (adv.), $10 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com HUMMING HOUSE Band that pulls from diverse backgrounds like Americana, classical composition, bluegrass, soul and traditional Irish music. BECCA MANCARI Eclectic folk singer-songwriter based in Nashville. Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $15 (adv.), $17 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com BREAK SCIENCE Electronic duo from Brooklyn that combines soul, dubstep and glitch. COFRESI Project blending electronic music with acoustic drum performance. SPACE KADET Electro-funk collective from New York. 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! Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com JAZZ JAM Some of our town’s most talented jazz musicians get together at this monthly happening. Bring your axe, or grab a brew and a table and give an ear.

Highwire Lounge 11 p.m. $1 (headphone). www.highwirelounge.com SILENT DISCO Dance with wireless headphones and two channels of music. One of them is a request line! Live Wire 8 p.m. $10. www.livewireathens.com THE GRASS IS DEAD Bluegrass group paying tribute to the Grateful Dead. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 SNAP! Organ-heavy funk/jazz tunes delivered by locals Jason Fuller, Benji Shanks, David Yoke, Carlton Owens and Stephen Spivey. The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 REV. TRIBBLE AND THE DANCING MAGNOLIAS Local group led by Athens rock fixture Rev. Conner Mack Tribble. The World Famous 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens MERMAID MOTOR LOUNGE Local acoustic alternative-rock band led by Packway Handle Band member Josh Erwin.

Friday 17 Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com WANDERWILD Local indie-rock project led by songwriter Matt Martin. Album release show! See Calendar Pick on p. 20. WHITE VIOLET Local group led by songwriter Nate Nelson, playing brooding, atmospheric indie-pop. ROSE HOTEL “Bedroom-rock” alter ego of Kentucky songwriter Jordan Reynolds.

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The Classic Center 7:30 p.m. $32.75-$49.75. www.classiccenter.com JUSTIN MOORE Country artist out of Nashville known for hits like “Til My Last Day” and “Small Town USA.” DYLAN SCOTT Country singersongwriter from Bastrop, LA. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com GREG MEREDITH Local acoustic folk singer-songwriter and loop artist. ZAC CROOK Local singer-songwriter. The Foundry 7:30 p.m. $10 (adv.), $12 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com SUNDY BEST Country-influenced folk-rock duo from Kentucky. ASHLEY WALLS Up-and-coming country singer from Marietta. Georgia Theatre 9 p.m. $25. www.georgiatheatre.com WAKA FLOCKA FLAME Atlantabased rapper known for hits like “O Let’s Do It” and “Hard in Da Paint.” DJ WHOO KID Hip hop DJ and producer. CAULFIELD High-energy local garage-rap band. DJ Z-DOG Loveable local DJ spins top 40, old-school hip-hop and other danceable favorites. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 7 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com BLACKNERDNINJA POP-UP SHOP Local MC Blacknerdninja presents an evening of hip-hop and soul performances featuring LG, BlackSuperHeroesMuzik, Since When?, African Soul, Eli Eternal and Shed Barnett. k continued on next page

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

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $17. www.georgiatheatre.com WHITEY MORGAN Old-school honky-tonk country artist from Flint, MI. See story on p. 14. WARD DAVIS Singer-songwriter from Nashville, TN that has written for Trace Adkins, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard.

Iron Factory 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-395-6877 DJ MAHOGANY Popular local DJ spins freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 GIFT ECONOMY Local acoustic folkpunk project. BED DETH Athens-based lo-fi, confessional indie-folk project. HERE BE MONSTERS Solo folkpunk outfit.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 COLD DRAFT BEER Atlanta-based Top 40 cover band.

Sunday 19 Cali ’N’ Tito’s Eastside 6 p.m. FREE! 706-355-7087 THE LUCKY JONES Rockin’ rhythm and blues from this local band. Every Sunday! Creature Comforts Brewery 1 p.m. FREE! www.creaturecomfortsbeer.com THE BROKEN STRING BAND Athens band blending Western folk with indie rock.

The World Famous 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens ADRON The voice of Adrienne McCann meanders through her blend of Tropicalia and low-key jazz. PARTY FAVOR New supergroup featuring members of Muuy Biien, Surface to Air Missive, Neighbor Lady and more. RUPERT ANGELEYES Dream-pop singer-songwriter from Minneapolis.

Monday 20 Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 BREE COULEUR Newly local singersongwriter playing stripped-down folk music.

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

11/23 BLUEGRASS JAM (The Bar-BQue Shack) 11/23 WARM GLOW BLUE SKY SHOW (Blue Sky) 11/23 LEAVING COUNTRIES / (Boar’s Head Lounge) 11/23 SILENT DISCO (Highwire Lounge) 11/23 REV. TRIBBLE AND THE DANCING MAGNOLIAS (The Office Lounge) 11/24 GEORGIA DISH BOYS / TYLER KEY / THE DIRTY HANDS (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 11/24 LIVE MUSIC (Highwire Lounge) 11/24 HAPPY CHEESE (Nowhere Bar)

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. The Foundry 8 p.m. $10 (adv.), $15 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com THE NORMALTOWN FLYERS The long-running Athens-based band that labels its sound as “pickup

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The Office Lounge 6 p.m. 706-546-0840 REV. CONNER MACK TRIBBLE Tribble is a Georgia rock and roll fixture. Every Friday! 8:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 MONDAY’S ALIBI Local band specializing in ’70s and ’80s rock and roll.

Terrapin Beer Co. 4 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com TASTEBUD Eclectic Atlanta group with rock, funk and jazz influences.

Terrapin Beer Co. 4 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com BAD WEATHER STATES Americana and Southern rock outfit from South Carolina.

Saturday 18 Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net RACHEL O’NEAL Local solo folk singer-songwriter. SCARLET STITCH Straight-up rock and roll band playing an acoustic set. Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. 706-369-3040 COVER BOY Atlanta-based band featuring a former member of the Georgia Satellites. Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com DONKEY PUNCH The raucous Athens rock band reunites for a special performance. HAYRIDE Long-running three-piece local rock band. TIGHT BLACKS Local punk band inspired by Jawbreaker and Dinosaur Jr. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com SALINE Local four-piece “shoegrease” band with hints of post-punk and fuzz-rock. THE VILLAGE BICYCLE Selfdescribed “nap dreams” band out of Cleveland, OH. HAPPY CHEESE Local experimental bedroom-pop project. 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $10. www.40watt.com LOVE TRACTOR The original members of the Athens post-rock legends reunite. See story on p. 13. MAGNAPOP Linda Hopper and Ruthie Morris’ long-running punk-pop group is known for its high-energy shows. The Foundry 8 p.m. $8 (adv.), $10 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com REV. PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND Three-piece country blues group out of Indiana. THE DARNELL BOYS The Darnell brothers play country blues originals backed by upright bass, singing saw and junkyard percussion.

Justin Moore plays The Classic Center on Friday, Nov. 17. DJ MAHOGANY Popular local DJ spins freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta unexpected faves. 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 THE FLAMETHROWERS Athensbased surf-rock band. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 JIVE MOTHER MARY Rollicking Southern rock band from Burlington, NC. The Office Lounge 9 p.m. 706-546-0840 FUNKY BLUESTER Atlanta-based blues outfit inspired by traditional Chicago and Texas styles.

KATIE PRUITT Nashville-based musician whose music is a combination of old-school blues, pop and rock. The Foundry 8 p.m. $12 (adv.), $15 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com HOT BUTTERED RUM Progressive bluegrass group out of San Francisco. Grindhouse Killer Burgers 1 p.m. FREE! 706-612-9327 JOE WILSON Member of local hardrock group Lullwater performs a solo set. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 6 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com CLASSICAL REVOLUTION UGA School of Music graduates and students play works by Dvorak, Ligeti, Bach and more. Iron Factory 8 p.m. FREE! 706-395-6877 DAVID LOCOCO JAZZ QUARTET Local group performs classic jazz standards in the styles of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and more.

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ANGELO FIARETTI Solo Americana singer-songwriter. ALEC STANLEY Athens-based singersongwriter. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! hendershotscoffee.com OPEN MIC Showcase your talent at this open mic night every Monday. Hosted by Larry Forte. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 JAZZ FUNK JAM Mason Davis hosts this monthly jam session.

Tuesday 21 The Foundry Terrapin Tuesday. 7 p.m. $5. www. thefoundryathens.com ADAM KLEIN & THE WILD FIRES Local songwriter playing a rustic blend of country, folk and Americana.

truck rock and roll” plays its annual Thanksgiving show. 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. The Office Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn. Every Wednesday! Porterhouse Grill 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT The longest standing weekly music gig in Athens! Enjoy an evening of original music, improv and standards.

11/24 REV. CONNER MACK TRIBBLE (The Office Lounge) 11/25 BATTALION OF SAINTS / NOBODY’S / THE CRYPTICS / APPARITION (Caledonia Lounge) 11/25 THE ORIGINAL SPLITZ BAND (The Foundry) 11/25 COSMIC CHARLIE (Georgia Theatre) 11/25 KATIE MARTIN (Terrapin Beer) 11/26 THE LUCKY JONES (Cali ’N’ Tito’s Eastside) 11/27 OPEN MIC (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 11/28 THE BEST OF UNKNOWN ATHENS / Liam Parke / Dana Downs / Drew Albenesius / Sarah Zuniga / Andrew Huang / Erin Lovett (The Foundry) 11/29 OPEN MIC (Boar’s Head Lounge) 11/29 KING ISRAEL / COUCHLOCKED / THE POWERS (Caledonia Lounge) 11/29 SCOTT BAXENDALE (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 11/29 MIKE COOLEY (The Foundry)

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Art 2017 MEMBERS EXHIBITION (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) The gallery’s “Members Exhibition” is open to new and current members. Find the submission form online. 2-D, 3-D, video and performance work accepted. Submit by Nov. 18. Exhibition on view Dec. 2–Jan. 14. www.athica.org/ call-for-entries 43RD ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION (Lyndon House Arts Center) The annual show will be juried by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, chief curator at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Drop off entry forms and up to three works on Jan. 25–26. 706-613-3623, www.athens clarkecounty.com/exhibits 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 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 ART (Trio Contemporary Art Gallery) Trio is now accepting submissions of artwork for 2018 exhibitions. Visit website for description of exhibitions and guidelines to submit works. trioathens@ gmail.com, www.trioathens.com CALL FOR ARTISTS (Southern Brewing Company) Seeking wallbound artwork for monthly exhibitions. Send examples of work to walter@sobrewco.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 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 DECK THE WALLS (Lyndon House Arts Center) A special exhibition features art available for sale by 70 area artists, authors, crafters and

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. 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. BENDZUNAS GLASS (89 W. South Ave., Comer) The family-run studio has been creating fine art glass for almost 40 years. CINÉ BARCAFÉ (234 W. Hancock Ave.) “In the Shadow of the Sea” features photographs from Cuba by Sean Dunn. Through Dec. 20. 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.

musicians. Items include glass ornaments, pottery, sculptural works, embroidery, children’s books, photography and more. Open daily through December. ww.athensclarkecounty.com/lyndon house 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. Up to 32 hours per week. Life drawing classes are currently offered on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. as a membership perk. $65/month or $175/ three months. 706-613-3623, www. athensclarkecounty.com/leisure STATEWIDE ART COMPETITION (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Seeking student artwork to use on items like totes, T-shirts and scarves 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. Visit website for complete guidelines and application. 706-542-6014, www.botgarden. uga.edu

Auditions GARGOYLE AUDITIONS (Athens Little Playhouse) Kids can perform in The Gargoyle Family Goes to Easter Island. Auditions Mar. 6–7,

Artwork by Ruth Allen is currently on view at Flicker Theatre & Bar through November. 6–7:30 p.m. Performances run May 4–6 & May 11–13. www.athenslittle playhouse.net STORIES AND SONGS OF CHRISTMAS (Lavonia Cultural Center) Sign-up to sing a song or tell a story for the yuletide production. Nov. 14, 6–8 p.m. 706-4919374 THE LITTLE MERMAID (Athens Little Playhouse) Athens Little Playhouse presents a children’s spring musical. Auditions Jan. 3–4, 6–7:30 p.m. Performances Feb. 16–18 & Feb. 23–25. www. athenslittleplayhouse.net

THE CLASSIC CENTER (300 N. Thomas St.) “Warm Days, Cool Nights” celebrates summer vibes through Ariel Lockshaw’s pool paintings, Frances Berry’s minimal golden hour photos, Wade Sheldon’s nautical night skies and Hannah Ehrlich’s cloud compositions. Through December. • Jackie Dorsey’s solo exhibition in Gallery II features watercolor portraits of musicians, artists, chefs and other familiar faces of Athens. Through December. CREATURE COMFORTS BREWING CO. (271 W. Hancock Ave.) Silk paintings by René Shoemaker. Through Dec. 3. DONDEROS’ KITCHEN (590 N. Milledge Ave.) Artwork by Aaron Joslyn. Through November. EARTH FARE (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) Artwork by Tom Hancock. Through November. FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Paintings and mixed media by Ruth Allen. 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.) “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, “Amorphous Dislocations of Ultramarine,” incorporates handout paper, translucent color film and LED lights for a floating display that changes color. Through April. HEIRLOOM CAFE & FRESH MARKET (815 N. Chase St.) Mary Ann Cox offers “Mementos,” recent works with themes of nostalgia and all things vintage. Through November. HIP VINTAGE & HANDMADE (215 Commerce Blvd.) See a private collection of approximately 100 sculptures, paintings, photographs and drawings by the late Beverly Buchanan. • Bea Brown makes quilts from vintage and modern fabrics. 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.

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Classes ACRO YOGA (Rubber Soul Yoga) For beginners and beyond. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:45–10:30 p.m. $5. www.rubbersoulyoga.com ART CLASSES (Lyndon House Arts Center) Register now. 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 drawing with Toni Carlucci. Register

online. 706-613-3623, www.athens clarkecounty.com/leisure CLASSES (Winterville Center for Community and Culture) “Community Coffeehouse,” Mondays–Thursdays, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. “Needle Tatting,” Mondays at 10 a.m. “Pilates,” Tuedays at 5:30 p.m. “Yoga,” Tuesdays at 6 p.m. “Tai Chi,” Wednesdays at 10 a.m. “Beginning Oil Painting,” Wednesdays at 1 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. “Bellydance, “Wednesdays at 7 p.m. “Beginner Chess,” Begins Nov. 22 at 10 a.m. “Mah Jongg,” Thursdays at 1 p.m. “Ballroom Dancing,” Thursdays at 6

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. LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) On view in the Lounge Gallery, Timothy Adam’s experimental, bold abstractions reflect an interest in minimalism, intense color and focused compositions. Through Nov. 25. • The Clarke County School District Student Art Exhibition’s theme this year is “Connect.” Through Jan. 13. 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. 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. Through November. 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. 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. WHITE TIGER (217 Hiawassee Ave.) CJ Simonds shares embroidery and watercolors on paper. Through Jan. 21. 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.

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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 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

Kidstuff ART CLASSES (Lyndon House Arts Center) 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, www.athensclarkecounty.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. Through Nov. 20. www.athenslibrary. org/bogart 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 THREE-DAY THEATRE CAMP (Athens Little Playhouse) Improvisation scenes, theatre games and creative problem solving. Concludes with a performance for friends and family. Register online. Nov. 20–22 or Dec. 20–22, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. $100. www.athenslittleplay house.net 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 DEBTORS ANONYMOUS (Covenant Presbyterian Church) Manage money problems. Sundays, 1:30–2:30 p.m. 949-235-2508 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

CHRONIC ILLNESS SUPPORT GROUP (ACC Library) Meet others who are dealing with chronic illness such as ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Lyme. Third Wednesdays, 12–1:30 p.m. athenschronicillness @gmail.com 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 meeting 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, namihallga@gmail.com, www.namihall.org

On The Street ACC LIBRARY BOOK CLUBS (ACC Library) Book Clubs include The African American Authors Book Club, Talking About Books, Philo of Philosophy, Last Monday Book Group and After the End: PostApocalyptic Fiction. www.athens library.org/athens AVID BOOK CLUBS Book clubs include Hot Fiction Book Club, The Classics Book Club, Paperback Book Club, The Social Justice Book Club, The SMall Press Book Club and The Young Adult (For Not-So-Young Adults) Book Club. Visit website for monthly selections and meeting dates. Join by email. 706-352-2060, avid.athens.rachel@ gmail.com, www.avidbookshop.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. HEALTHCARE NAVIGATOR ASSISTANCE Kate Malone, an ACA Navigator with Insure GA, will provide assitance with Medicaid, Peachcare and Afforddable Care Act applications. Nov. 19, 2–6 p.m. Nov. 26, 2–6 p.m. Nov. 29, 4–7 p.m. Dec. 3, 2–6 p.m. Dec. 10, 2–6 p.m. Dec. 13, 4–7 p.m. 866-988-8216 HOLIDAY MAIL FOR HEROES (Bogart Library) Make or sign a holiday card for wounded warriors, veterans, deployed services personnel and their families. Materials provided. Staff will deliver the cards to the Red Cross Nov. 27–Dec. 11. www.athenslibrary.org/bogart ICE SKATING (The Classic Center) The Classic Center will offer ice skating in the indoor rink Nov. 24–Jan. 15 and the outdoor pavilion Jan. 29–Feb. 25. classiccenter.com INCLUSIVE BOOK CLUB (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Adults of all abilities can read out loud and discuss a book from the “I Survived” series by Lauren Tarshis. Wednesdays, Nov. 15 & 29. www. athenslibrary.org/madison SENIOR ADULT TRIPS (Rocksprings Community Center) “The Atlanta Comedy Theatre.” Nov. 17, 6–11 p.m. $35–53. For ages 50 & up. All programs depart and return to Rocksprings Park. www.athens clarkecounty.com/leisure WINTER PROGRAM REGISTRATION (Athens, GA) Programs include art, sports, environmental science, recreation, holiday activities and mini camps. Register online. www.athensclarke county.com/leisure f

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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. Acura and Volvo of Athens is looking for FT and PT car washers. Avail. hours Mon.– Sat. If interested call Phillip: 706-546-1033 or email: phillip@volvocarsathens. com. City Garden Co is hiring Full Time Landscape Construction Crew Members. MUST have construction/landscape/ installation experience. www.citygardenco.com/ careers Collective Harvest - FT Wholesale Coordinator. Must have knowledge of local/seasonal produce, be detail-oriented, have a driver’s license. Sales experience prefered. Job description at collectiveharvestathens. com. D e n t a l A s s i s t a n t , F T, Mon–Fri. $15/hr during training $30/hr once trained. Computer literate & avail. to work for a min. 3 consecutive yrs due to training costs. Employer contributes 100% to retirement plan; excellent HS/college grades req. dentalathens@gmail.com Graduate Athens seeking FT experienced Maintenance Engineer. Great pay and benefits. Prior experience and weekend/night availability req. Apply online: www. besthotelcareers.com.

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I Need to Uncouple From My Friend ADVICE FOR ATHENS’ LOOSE AND LOVELORN By Bonita Applebum advice@flagpole.com Hi Bonita, I’ve got a childhood friend who leads a very different lifestyle than I do. For instance, she is still in our hometown, got her GED, didn’t go to college, works kind of sketchy blue-collar jobs, lives with her (fairly controlling) parents and is about to become a single mom. In general, we get along well, but are very different culturally, socially, etc. Since her pregnancy, she’s started to rely on me pretty heavily emotionally (lots of phone calls and messages). With all of our lifestyle differences, the distance between us is more than physical. I’ve been her friend for around 10 years, somewhat off and on, but never an argument or anything. Yet I have been feeling uncomfortable with some of the pressure she’s been putting on me—“Have a baby so they can grow up together,” calling me “auntie” or “forreal baby daddy,” urging me to move back home for no reason, asking if she could move in with me, etc.—as well as some of the life choices she is making for herself and the baby, from diet to child discipline/ socialization.

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on myself, she will get offended, since her problems are obviously more intense/immediate than mine. How do I be a supportive, good friend, but keep my mental health? How can I deal with her without offending her or ruining the friendship? Regards, A Wannabe Good Friend

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Hi Good Friend, You’re in a tough spot. I can gather a lot about you based on the way you describe your friend, and it’s clear that she likes you and envies you pretty intensely. I’m sure your life seems beautiful and carefree to her, with your obviously not-blue-collar job and no parents in your home. I think she’s living vicariously through you, and that’s why she keeps such regular contact. But she’s stressing you out in a major way, and you need to draw a line. Don’t drive yourself crazy for someone who wouldn’t do the same. To me, this sounds like a relationship that is mostly maintained out

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I know some of this stuff is just her joking, but it’s getting tiresome, and some of it she is serious about. I don’t want to make decisions for her, and I respect her ability to lead her own life. Although we would make many different decisions, I don’t think any of the decisions she’s making would put her or her baby in (serious) harm. I want to be a good friend and supportive, since she is about to be a single mom. However, I don’t really want to associate with someone who makes the types of decisions she does. I also have my own issues to work through, and don’t feel ready to deal with anyone else’s. (I’ve been single for a year, trying to continually work on myself, etc., plus I just got a biological niece.) My current relationship with her stresses me out, makes me worry and takes a lot of my time/energy. (Phone calls are often around or more than an hour a day, and it’s hard to get her off the phone.) I feel guilty for wanting to dissociate from her, but don’t know how else to stand it. I worry that if I say I want to work

of obligation, and while I believe that you care about this person and her well-being, I don’t think you have the desire to remain in contact with her. Y’all gotta break up. How? First, you’re gonna have to do something that I suspect you don’t want to do: You need to come clean about the state of your life and her impact on it. Talk about yourself and what you need right now. Let her know that friendship is not off of the menu, but you need space to get your life together. If she’s as invested in your health and happiness as you seem to be in hers, she’ll hear you and take a step back. And also, she’s an adult. If she can get pregnant, then she can make some local friends and build a more complete life for herself. Take a deep breath, and then take your space. f Need advice? Email advice@flagpole.com, use the anonymous form at flagpole.com/getadvice, or follow Bonita on Twitter: @flagpolebonita.

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