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will in and of itself be transformational for Athens-Clarke County. That every project is estimated to be completed within six-anda-half years means we will see actual results while we can still remember the vote!

I would like to applaud the T-SPLOST Citizens Advisory Committee, the mayor and commissioners, staff and citizens of Athens-Clarke for a job well done; and to After two decades of public school also make the point that the transformateaching in Britain and New Zealand, it tional aspect can easily be magnified as we disappoints me to see the CCSD report on move ahead. student achievement delivered and divided During a recent edition of “Athens News solely on race. It is simplistic, divisive and a Matters,” T-SPLOST Citizens Advisory secondary factor in achievement, and we as Committee chair Alice Kinman remarked educators should be looking at what other that compiling the project list was made countries have been talking about for years: easier by previous efforts from other poverty. groups, many of which are public-private Georgia ties with Kentucky as the sixth partnerships with significant citizen parpoorest state in the country. Athens-Clarke ticipation, such as Firefly Trail, Inc. and County ranks 60th in the state in terms of the Rail-Trail Committee, the Oconee River affluence. Athens has many private schools Greenway Commission, the “Athens in for the wealthy. (Finland has banned priMotion” Bike/Ped Master Plan commitvate schools and has the world’s highest tee and the collaborative group looking at academic achievement. It also has an ethnioptions for the West Broad neighborhood. cally diverse population, despite popular That the T-SPLOST initiative passed by such belief.) So, Clarke County schools are teach- a wide margin throughout the county is, in ing some of the poorest students in the my opinion, directly related to the fact that United States. there was buy-in from the citizens involved America has long avoided the socioin each of these projects, and that the pubeconomic factors and divided the poor with lic at large was aware of and/or participated race. Nixon was in some aspect of aware of the power drafting these plans. of a united working Which brings BUMPERSTICKER OF THE WEEK: class and, after the me to how, moving Watts riots in L.A. forward, we can in 1968, intentionmagnify the transally introduced and formation these Send your sticker sightings to letters@flagpole.com. promoted divisive T-SPLOST projects policies among will bring: Five blacks, Hispanics and whites. of the projects included in the T-SPLOST As a teacher in the Clarke County School package are “buckets” of funding: for corDistrict, I have students in my advanced ridor improvements on Lexington Highway, class of all races. In fact, my advanced class Atlanta Highway and Prince Avenue; impleis majority black. My students are engaged, mentation of forthcoming recommendainquisitive and excited about school. We tions of Athens in Motion; and pedestrian should be looking at the socio-economic improvements in the West Broad neighbordata behind success, not the race data hood. It is imperative that the Mayor and behind failure. For example, the data on Commission include the public in setting Chase Street was not at all shocking given implementation priorities within each of the recent family homes on Virginia Avenue these projects. sold for between $400,000–$700,000. One Some of these areas have been studied would imagine the students who are falling extensively; others have consultants hired into the achievement gap at Chase are not or studies underway. Regardless of how or the new residents on Virginia Avenue. when studies have been conducted, citizens Of course racism exists in all facets of should be included in deciding how spendsociety—even, sadly, amongst educators at ing on these projects should be prioritized. times—but statistics based on purely race A community-driven process from start fuel the fire. The U.S. has a poverty rate of to finish—that will be transformational!

15 percent. Cuba has a poverty rate of 5 Tony Eubanks percent. Cuba has a 99.75 percent literacy Athens rate. The population of Cuba is both majority black and Hispanic. Go figure.

Martin Luther King Jr. declared himself Co-founder of the Savannah Tea Party a democratic socialist. Cesar Chavez fought Jeanne Seaver must have been drinking for dignity and humane wages for the farm some spicy tea when she wrote that Georgia workers of America. And Mahatma Gandhi Sen. David Perdue is against big spending told us all, “Poverty is the worst form of in the government and for a hefty tax break violence.”

Ella Salt for Georgians. Who does she think she is Athens talking to? She turns a blind eye toward Perdue’s slavish support of the Senate tax proposal that benefits the biggest corporations at the expense of individuals and Congratulations to the people of Athens- small businesses, gives the corporations a Clarke County for the overwhelming permanent tax break but phases out the support of T-SPLOST on the November miniscule one for the rest of us in a decade, ballot. Not only did the measure pass by and takes health care away from upwards of a nearly 3-1 margin, it passed in every 14 million people during that same decade precinct in every district. The T-SPLOST just so they can pass this ill-conceived bill vote represents a conscious decision by with only Republican votes in the Senate. voters to make a substantial investment Purdue is always moaning about the defiin bike/pedestrian infrastructure, which cit, yet he was willing to vote for this bill

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Consequences for Reckless Gun Owners One of the pleasures of living where I do is that I can read the local Sunday paper from cover to cover, stay informed and not be overwhelmed by current events. Of course, that has become harder this year, but that usually stems from national news, not the local police blotter. Unfortunately, they collide in this week’s news.

The local police blotter in a recent Sunday Banner-Herald listed six cases of gun “mishaps.” Most are listed as “gun theft,” but I’d like to reconsider that heading and replace it with “gun recklessness.”

Two are cases where personal guns were taken from unlocked vehicles, and one was taken from a local gas station after the gun owner left the weapon in a bathroom stall. If I were to leave $500 in a bathroom stall and walk away, I would say that I carelessly forfeited the money. At least in that case, no one could be immediately hurt or worse from my carelessness. Leaving a gun unsecured or, worse, in a bathroom stall, is beyond carelessness. It is reckless behavior and does not strike me as “theft.” We’ve reversed the crime and criminal here. The takers of the guns were certainly opportunists, but the owners are the ones putting the rest of us at risk.

All of the gun reports are disturbing to me, but the most alarming is the report of the gun “accident” in a home not too far from the above-mentioned gas station.

The incidents are unrelated except that both involve negligent behavior from a gun owner. In the second, two teens found a parent’s gun in their home, and one was nearly shot when the gun accidently discharged. The consequences could have been the parents’ worst nightmare, and one can only hope that such a scare encourages them to improve security around their firearms. But at what point can we decide that lax security is a threat not just to the children, but to all of us?

When I walk into my local grocery store, also just down the road from the gas station and neighborhood listed in the blotter, I feel safe because I recognize my neighbors and see folks I don’t know going through their regular day with their families much the way I do. I do not feel safer when I see the guy who often does his shopping with a gun and ammo belt in full display. I do not feel safer knowing that some of the shoppers are carrying concealed weapons. And now, I especially do not feel safer knowing that some of those packing can be reckless with their gun behavior to the point that their carelessness leads to near disaster in their own home.

When a motorist is found to be careless or reckless with their driving, they are cited and risk losing their license. When a business owner fails to follow local or state regulations, they are cited and risk losing their license. But when a gun owner leaves their weapons where they can do harm to others, there seem to be no consequences—at least not to them, the reckless gun owner.

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even though it will blow up the deficit by another $1.5 trillion over the decade.

Seaver can write what tea party propaganda she wants—this is still a free country—but that doesn’t mean that thinking, rational Georgians will swallow it. I’m having none of it, Ms. Seaver.

Regina Smith Athens

Thanks, ACC Public Utilities I’m guessing that few people thought of the Athens-Clarke County Water Business Office when they were musing about what to be thankful for last month, but I was.

About a month ago, we got a note on our door alerting us that our meter showed unusual water use and warning us that we might have a leak. A week or so later, we got a call from a very nice man at the water office repeating that message. We called a plumber, who ascertained that did indeed have a leaking toilet. He gave us a form to send into the water office, which documented the leak and repair. That form will apparently result in a refund of half our excess bill. How cool is that? Thank you, lovely water office people.

Cindy Hahamovitch Athens

Debt Isn’t Real Money I enjoyed reading your news piece about our national debt crisis, “Perdue Doesn't Care About Debt,” in the Oct. 25 issue of Flagpole. Like most of us in the U.S., I understand that there is a billionaire's club calling the shots for those of us who travel on this ship of state, but I feel that any discussion of debt that is not mindful of the U.S.'s relationship with debt might amount to a rearrangement of some proverbial deck chairs. The fact of the matter is that every single dollar which you or I have ever spent was borrowed into existence. The funding for my student loans or for your mortgage and auto loan did not necessarily exist before we signed on the dotted line to agree to repay the debt. Our fractional reserve system allows banks to loan money that they do not have; it allows banks to create money (debt) and loan it to us at interest.

Without debt, there would be no dollars, because every dollar is loaned to us by the Federal Reserve Bank.

On Earth, the power to rule is the power of money and money is the creation of a private corporation that guards its own interests. Governments and corporations serve this debt-money power, hoping for influence and access. We the People are left on the outside, believing ourselves to be at the mercy of a mysterious and mercurial financial system—perhaps even believing that we ourselves have a shot at attaining the heights of wealth and power and therefore lending our support and admiration to a system that disempowers entire populations of human beings.

In my lifetime, I would like to see us create a system of honest money; a currency that is not inflated by its dilution and not created at the whim of a powerful elite who do not serve the interests of humanity or of planet Earth. Perhaps a step toward honest money would be transparent discussions of our money: We the people are oppressed by the current system and our ignorance of the origins of money (debt) serves to compound the problem.

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EDWARDS’ NEW POLICY IS HOLDING INMATES FOR DEPORTATION, AND MORE LOCAL NEWS

By Blake Aued news@flagpole.com Five months ago, the Clarke County Sheriff’s Office quietly detainers for those with a felony conviction, three misdechanged its policy regarding cooperating with Immigration meanor convictions or who had already been deported and and Customs Enforcement and began holding inmates up illegally returned to the U.S. Now, ICE can request detainers to 48 hours after they would have been released so ICE for any reason. The largely conservative Georgia Sheriffs’ agents could pick them up and deport them. At a time Association also changed its guidelines on ICE holds to when the Trump Administration is ramping up immigramore strongly encourage sheriffs to abide by them. tion enforcement and even attempting to withhold funds So far, 17 inmates have been held at ICE’s request, and from “sanctuary cities,” the news sent a shockwave through 13 of them were deported, according to Capt. Hayden Athens’ sizeable immigrant community and their allies.

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After the progressive political group Athens for The sheriff’s department’s shift in policy puts it Everyone brought the issue to light, the sheriff’s departsomewhat at odds with the Athens-Clarke County Police ment issued a statement on the policy change: Department, which does not cooperate with ICE. Because “The Clarke County Sheriff’s Office policy on the sheriff is an elected constitutional officer, Chief Scott Immigration detainers was changed during July of 2017.

Freeman said there is nothing he can do, but he told The Department of Homeland Security Flagpole he continues to believe that revised their policy on issuing detainers enforcing federal immigration law at the to be more attentive to probable cause local level is unconstitutional. issues. In light of these changes, and in “My only comment would be, regardkeeping with our role and responsibility less of what the sheriff does… the police for community safety with respect to the department’s policy on cooperation or detention of individuals with outstanding lack thereof is not going to change,” warrants, we now recognize ICE detainFreeman said. ers that are supported by a Warrant Asked whether officers could exercise for Arrest or Warrant for Removal/ discretion in arresting suspects who Deportation. These holds are recognized might be held for deportation, Freeman for a strict 48-hour time period. We are said they don’t investigate anyone’s imminot seeking to arrest immigrants based gration status. “We have no way of knowon their lawful status in this country, ing whether that person has a detainer on nor are we participating in any immigrathem,” he said. tion roundups with federal officials. The Freeman said he only learned of the Sheriff is sworn to uphold the laws of this change in policy when a representative of state and is obligated to ensure the public Sheriff Ira Edwards the Athens Immigrants Rights Coalition safety of this community. The Sheriff’s informed him a couple of weeks ago. He Office only detains undocumented immigrants who have said he has requested a meeting with Sheriff Ira Edwards been arrested on other criminal charges and are wanted but has not received a response. by immigration officials. This underscores the need for all But members of A4E and other immigrants’ rights citizens to act responsibly and commit to obeying the laws groups did meet with Edwards and top brass last week, of our state and country. We are in discussion with local and they accused him of parroting Trump rhetoric about elected officials and citizens as we consider what is best for immigrants possibly being violent criminals or terrorists, the community at large.” although the crime rate among undocumented immigrants According to several news outlets and immigrants’ rights is actually lower than the general population, most likely groups, in March ICE expanded the circumstances under because they don’t want to call attention to themselves. which it would ask local law enforcement agencies to detain “I want to express how distressing it is to live in a town undocumented immigrants. Previously, ICE only requested where immigrants are [classified] as criminals or terrorists,”

• Bought a vacant school off Barber Street from the Clarke County School District for $400,000. There are no current plans for the property, but it could be used to expand the nearby water treatment plant or flipped to a developer.

• Tweaked a demolition moratorium on Milledge Circle and Castalia Avenue to make it easier to add on to a house, as long as the addition doesn’t change the facade or roofline.

• Approved budgets and timelines for transportation projects voters agreed in November to fund with a new 1 percent sales tax (T-SPLOST).

• Approved plans to replace an overloaded and leaking sewer line near the county’s College Station Road sewer plant with a larger pipe, over the strenuous objections of Commissioner Jerry NeSmith, who favored a different route.

• Approved plans for a QuikTrip on Oconee Street at the Loop, a Mexican restaurant called El Barrio in Five Points and renovating the former Oconee Street School/ACTION Inc. building into apartments.

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said Betina Kaplan of U-Lead Athens, a group that helps undocumented high-school students attend college. She was one of several activists who attended a Mayor and Commission meeting last week to urge them to put pressure on Edwards to change his policy regarding ICE. “Even forgetting to pay a traffic ticket could mean a life destroyed and a family torn apart,” A4E board member Eleanor Davis said.

Tim Denson—the group’s founder and former president—noted that ICE “warrants” aren’t signed by a judge, unlike criminal warrants, and like many immigrants’ rights groups and legal scholars, argued that detaining anyone past the time when they should be released is a violation of their Fourth Amendment rights. “It’s a request,” he said, “and I think it’s a request that we should deny.”

Melissa Link was the only commissioner to respond publicly. “It’s deeply disturbing to me that we have a sheriff that’s buying into this rhetoric,” she said.

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Casablanca ran on TCM last week, and of course I had to watch it again. It’s one of those touchstone films that help tell us who we are. You know the story: Refugees are crowded into Rick’s Café Americain in Morocco at the beginning of World War II, trying to make it to America to escape Nazi oppression in Europe. Meanwhile, America sleeps. We don’t want to get involved in foreign wars. “I stick my neck out for nobody,” Rick says for us.

Even asleep, though, America is the beacon for these oppressed people, whose hero is the freedom fighter, Victor Lazlo, also trying to escape to America with his wife Ilsa, who had a romance with Rick in Paris before the Germans came, back at Rick’s Bel Aurore café, where Sam played “As Time Goes By” on the piano, back when Ilsa thought her husband was dead.

Well, he wasn’t, so she had to ditch Rick, but she couldn’t tell him why, because it would jeopardize Lazlo, and Rick has been bitter ever since—mean-drunk bitter and sticking his neck out for no man. Then, Lazlo and Ilsa come waltzing into his café desperately hoping, like everybody else, to score some exit visas so that Lazlo can continue his resistance from the safety of America before the Germans grab him again and finish him off.

The Germans are in Café Americain, too, led by that quintessential Nazi, Maj. Strasser, the arrogant, snarling, menacing personification of all America should be fighting against, if only she would wake up.

Casablanca was a thrown-together B-movie shot on Hollywood’s back lots, with the script hastily written barely in time for the next day’s filming, but with a first-rate cast and exquisite timing. Just before it was released, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met in the real Casablanca to coordinate wartime plans, America by then having been awakened by Japanese bombs.

Unless you’re one of those who want to go through the whole Nazi thing again, you can’t help but thrill when Lazlo stands up to the Germans and then Rick does, too, and even the cynical Vichy-leaning Capt.

Renault. Rick and Ilsa reconcile, and he sends her off to help her husband because he knows that if she doesn’t, she’ll regret it. “Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life.”

Their love story is charming and heartwarming, but the real story is America and what our country represents in that world.

In the movie, we represent freedom from the Nazi oppression personified by Maj. Strasser, and we finally wake up and, with our allies, defeat the Germans and make the world safe for democracy again. In truth, of

course, when Casablanca came out, we were not welcoming the Jewish refugees trying to escape the Nazi concentration camps and the mass murder of the gas chambers and ovens that “cleansed” Germany of its Jewish problem.

Today, as we rewatch this iconic film, our borders are closed to those fleeing Isis, one of the worst of the modern-day murderous oppressors. Our country is withdrawing from international agreements to limit the spread of nuclear arms, from international economic cooperation, from international efforts to halt the global warming that is devastating our planet more thoroughly than the Nazis ever could. With the world in flames, America is going back to sleep, is building walls to keep out the world and is sliding back toward the America First ideology that would have allowed the Nazis to complete their conquest of Europe.

I guess the “good people” who rallied in Charlottesville and continue to idealize a fascist America view Casablanca, if they watch it at all, as an example of American weakness in refusing to join forces with the master race. They no doubt thrill to other movies such as Birth of a Nation that idealize freedom fighters like the Klan that liberate our own country to pursue our own interests without meddling from foreigners.

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The Year of Women FEMALE CANDIDATES DOMINATED GEORGIA POLITICS IN 2017

By Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com In the Nov. 7 elections, a wave of women who had never run for office before won races across the country, in many cases ousting male incumbents.

These new candidates had the most impact in Virginia, where they were largely responsible for Democrats nearly wiping out a 32-seat advantage for Republicans in the state legislature.

Here in Georgia, we have seen women from both parties win political offices that previously belonged to men.

Earlier this year, Republican Karen Handel won the 6th Congressional District seat that once belonged to Tom Price. Kay Kirkpatrick won a state Senate seat that Judson Hill vacated.

In last week’s runoff elections, Democratic women swept four legislative seats that were up for grabs in the Metro Atlanta area, with women candidates beating male candidates in three of those races.

Attorney Jen Jordan defeated pediatric dentist Jaha Howard in Senate District 6, officially flipping that seat from Republican to Democratic and ending the Republicans’ super-majority in the Senate.

In DeKalb County’s House District 89, Bee Nguyen beat attorney Sachin Varghese.

Nguyen will be the first Vietnamese American to serve in the General Assembly.

In Atlanta’s House District 60, Kim Schofield defeated DeAndre Pickett and will replace Keisha Waites in the House.

The only legislative contest involving two women candidates was in Atlanta’s Senate District 39, where Nikema Williams edged out Linda Pritchett.

In the runoff for mayor of Atlanta, we already knew that the next holder of that office would be a woman who would replace the termed-out Kasim Reed. That woman is Keisha Lance Bottoms, who finished

with a narrow lead of 759 votes over Mary Norwood. For Norwood, it marked the second time she nearly won the mayor’s race but fell just short. In 2009, she lost a runoff to Kasim Reed by just 714 votes.

In the race for city council president, Felicia Moore was yet another winner for women, defeating Alex Wan. In Athens, Deborah Gonzalez defeated a better-funded male opponent, Houston Gaines, in House District 117.

The wave of women winners is a trend that has swept the nation since the election of Donald Trump as president. Trump’s presence in the Oval Office seems to have energized more women to run for office than they have in past years.

Another factor that could motivate women to run in 2018 is the “#MeToo” movement that has seen them come forward with complaints of sexual harassment by men in the media, the entertainment world, and in politics.

Sen. Al Franken and Reps. John Conyers and Trent Franks, have already resigned from Congress over sexual harassment accusations. Movie producer Harvey Weinstein, TV hosts Bill O’Reilly and Matt Lauer and comedian Louis CK are out for the same reason.

The “#MeToo” movement has even hit the Georgia General Assembly. Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and Speaker David Ralston disclosed last week that they have appointed a special committee that will review the legislature’s current sexual harassment and workplace conduct policies.

I see the emergence of women in politics, for whatever reason, as a positive development. For more than two centuries, American politics has largely been the domain of middle-aged white males. It’s time to get a wider variety of viewpoints. f

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“Ultimately what I mean by being the most radical city on the planet is giving people more access,” he told my colleague Jaisal Noor. “We do this through the… movement of people’s assemblies that allow people to speak to their conditions, and so that is very important to us.”

People’s Assemblies are “vehicles of Black self-determination and autonomous political authority of the oppressed peoples and communities in Jackson,” according to the Jackson-Kush Plan, a document produced by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) and the Jackson People’s Assembly. “The Assemblies are organized as expressions of participatory or direct democracy, wherein there is guided facilitation and agenda setting provided by the committees BAYNARD WOODS

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Noted racist and President Donald Trump had the audacity to attend the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson last Saturday.

“I knew a little before everybody else, but I’ll simply say this without even referencing Trump himself,” Jackson’s mayor, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, told me when the visit was announced. “The opening of the Civil Rights Museum is an important moment of a recognition of struggle, and out of that struggle we’ve seen people historically rescue themselves in a state that has been known for some of the most negativity that the world has ever seen.”

Lumumba took Trump’s election last year with a certain level of equanimity, saying that on the day after the election, “I woke up in Mississippi, which means whether it is Obama, Clinton or Bush, Mississippi is still at the bottom.”

But Trump’s refusal to condemn the white supremacists in Charlottesville, VA caused many civil rights leaders, including John Lewis, to threaten to boycott the opening if the president attended. But it wasn’t just Charlottesville.

White supremacy may be the only consistent ideology of the Trump administration.

“We have to observe this corrosion of integrity and this erosion of people’s human and civil rights, and identify what role or what steps we’re willing to take,” Lumumba said. “It’s important that we recognize that struggle. But any celebration of struggle, any recognition of struggle must consider what the next step Chokwe Antar Lumumba forward is.”

Trump, being Trump, made the controversy worse by seeming to support a justification of slavery. Days before the presidential visit to the first state-sponsored Civil Rights museum, Roy Moore, the Alabama senatorial candidate who is supported by the president despite allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior with minors, went viral saying that America “was great at the time when families were united—even though we had slavery, they cared for one another.”

Just in case there was any question about what Trump thought of this definition of his catchphrase, the very next day he tweeted: “LAST thing the Make America Great Again Agenda needs is a Liberal Democrat in Senate where we have so little margin for victory already. The Pelosi/ Schumer Puppet Jones would vote against us 100% of the time. He’s bad on Crime, Life, Border, Vets, Guns & Military. VOTE ROY MOORE!” When he finally got to Jackson, Trump, who was invited by the state’s white Republican governor, Phil Bryant, spoke to a small crowd, primarily reading from a script, and not at the main event. “The fight to end slavery, to break down Jim Crow, to end segregation, to gain the right to vote and to achieve the sacred birthright of equality—that’s big stuff,” Trump said. “Those are very big phrases, very big words.”

Lumumba has some more big words for Trump. He wants Jackson, a city in deeply red Mississippi with a long history of racism and white supremacy, to be the “most radical city” in the world. Bigly.

that compose the People’s Task Force, but no preordained hierarchy.”

The movement grew out of a collaboration of Black activist groups forming in the Mississippi River Delta in the wake of Hurricane Katrina’s destruction and quickly managed to take over the city of Jackson when Lumumba’s father won the mayorship in 2012.

“Free the land” was a common refrain in the elder Lumumba’s first campaign. It came from his trip to Mississippi in 1971 to start an autonomous black nation in that state with the “Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika.” To get to their land, Lumumba and his comrades had to face down the Klan. This weekend, with the president’s visit, his son, who succeeded him as mayor, had to take a similar stand.

The younger Lumumba had resisted repeated calls to run for office. But when his father died in 2014, he decided to run. He won a decisive victory last year, giving some hope as to what a city can do outside of larger national trends.

Lumumba and the People’s Assemblies offer a serious alternative to Trumpian authoritarianism.

“A radical is a person who seeks change,” he said. “A radical is a person who does not accept the conditions as they see them. But we look at the conditions of our community and we see a need for change. Then the reality is we need to be as radical as the circumstances dictate we should be.” f Baynard Woods is a reporter for the Real News Network and the founder of Democracy in Crisis. Twitter: @baynardwoods

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hannon Martinez always felt like the black sheep in belonging. “All I had to do to belong and have this sense of her family. Growing up in the 1980s, she had always family was to say, ‘I hate brown people, I hate black people, been drawn to counterculture—so much so that for I hate Jews, I hate anyone who doesn’t look like me,’” she four years, Martinez was a skinhead. said.

Roughly 30 people turned out to Live Wire Athens last Living with other white-power people, the home became Wednesday to hear Martinez’s story of becoming a part, an echo chamber. “The way that hate works, in order to and eventually breaking free, of the white-supremacist maintain a life of hatred, it has to continue to amplify,” she neo-Nazi movement. Martinez’s speech was part of the said. “You start singing songs, then you start using racial Mediocre Education Hour monthly epithets, then you start drawing lecture series, which grew out of a graffiti.” By the time she got out, They’re all misfits like me. Martinez was “running guns and popular local Facebook group for women called Mediocre Ladies. throwing tear gas into nightclubs,” Maybe I can find a sense Struggling with her identity she said. of belonging here. throughout her teenage years, The white supremacy movement, Martinez, now in her 40s and living she said, is built less on a shared idein Athens, said she often turned to sports, primarily volley- ology and more on the community surrounding it. “It has ball, to find a sense of purpose and belonging. She and her nothing to do with the ideology,” Martinez said, referring family moved from Philadelphia to rural southern Michigan to white supremacist beliefs. “It all centers around the idea while Martinez was in middle school, where she later began of community and value, the sense that I could go anywhere attending a private all-girls Catholic high school just across in the country and, because I looked a certain way and said the border in Ohio. When a law regarding out-of-state athspecial words, I was accepted.” letes prevented her from playing sports, Martinez found a Martinez was able to escape the movement when she new outlet in the punk movement. escaped the echo chamber by moving into her boyfriend’s mother’s house in Houston. By this point, her own family had thrown her out of the house, and while her boyfriend was also a skinhead, his mother challenged Martinez’s ideology and set boundaries. “She began to dream dreams that I couldn’t dream for myself anymore,” she said. “I had lost all personal value. I had all this unprocessed trauma, and I felt worthless. I had no value.”

With her boyfriend’s mother’s help, Martinez decided to start a new life, moving back in with her parents in Augusta. “I knew the moment I get off this bus, it’s all behind me. I was going to start a new life,” she said.

That meant not talking with any previous friends or colleagues, skinhead or not. As a result, Martinez was often lonely. During one of many latenight drives to occupy her time, Martinez stopped at a church, sitting at a volleyball court nearby and gazing up at the moon, her “oldest friend,” she Shannon Martinez speaks about her experience in the neo-Nazi skinhead movement Dec. 6 at Live Wire. said. When a couple of other people found her and they all joined “They’re all misfits like me. Maybe I can find a sense of in a game of volleyball, one of Martinez’s favorite sports, belonging here,” she recalled. she felt better. “You need something to fill in [the sense of The big turning point was two weeks shy of her 15th community’s] place during the transition,” Martinez said. birthday, when she went to a party, drank a lot of vodka Martinez later went to St. John’s College for a year, until and was raped by two men. “I didn’t know at the time that her father stopped paying her tuition after she got pregwould be the pivotal pothole that would change my life tranant and decided to have the baby, putting it up for adopjectory,” she said. tion. After marrying the child’s father, the two moved to Feeling she could not tell her parents for risk of being Annapolis, MD, where they started a family. blamed for her own sexual assault, Martinez said she Her second child, the first she kept, brought with him instead buried the trauma inside her. That unprocessed a sense of closure, she said. Soon after he was born, the trauma eventually began to fester into rage, she said, and trauma of her rape years earlier finally hit her. “It was she discovered the angriest punk group on the outskirts of cathartic, because it was in the context of love for my son,” the scene—the skinheads. “They are my people,” she recalls she said. Martinez’s seven children led her to strive to heal, thinking. “I wanted part of that rage.” she said, something she continues to do everyday, even 20 For the next four years, Martinez became a self-identiyears later. fied skinhead. She shaved her head. She got a Celtic cross Martinez now does volunteer work for Life After Hate, a tattoo on her leg, which is still there today. She began using group of reformed neo-Nazis working to help other people racial slurs in her everyday speech. Soon, she moved in with leave white supremacy groups, utilizing her experience to a group of skinheads in Marietta. For her, it was a sense of assist others. f

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their children and announced to Seward that they’d had their first date at Vision Video. “That was really moving,” fter 31 years and five locations in North Georgia, he says, “to realize what an important role you’ve played Vision Video will be permanently closing its last in people’s [lives]. We’ve really enjoyed being part of this location on Barnett Shoals Road at the end of the town.” month. Charles Seward, who opened the first Vision Video Jeremy Dyson agrees. As Count Zapula, he hosts on Broad Street with his brother, Hank, says he’s very movie trivia and double features at local bars, and he also grateful to have had such a long run in the business and is hosted last year’s Flagpole Athens Music Awards with thankful to the community of Athens. former Vision Video employee Mark Weathersby, aka DJ “We never expected the store to go on forever,” he says, Mahogany. He’s been renting from Vision Video since 2005, acknowledging the changes in the market. “There are hardly and hung out there so much that many people thought any video stores left. Anywhere.” he worked there, too. “Random Streaming services and automated always thought that I I’ll miss the community aspect customers rental machines have put a seriworked there,” Dyson says, “even of running into friends there ous hurting on brick-and-mortar if I was wearing my work uniform rental stores’ bottom lines. Just from Dollar General. and participating in super nerdy look at Blockbuster Video, an “My first night as a resident of conversations with the staff. international franchise that Athens, I went to Vision,” he says. opened only a year before Vision “I was so stoked because not only Video and went bankrupt in 2013 before slowly closing all did they rent VHS, but you could rent five movies for five but 12 locations as of April 2017, according to Forbes and bucks for five nights.” the Daily Mail.

The Dyson-Mahogany friendship should probably be Seward credits the local-loving community of the Athens credited to Vision Video, since that’s where they met. “As area with Vision’s staying power over the years. “We’re just I frequented the place more, one of the employees started really happy and grateful that it lasted as long as it did—31 to take notice of the movies that I rented and started to years,” he says. “It’s been a great, long ride, and we got a lot freak out as I constantly rented John Carpenter films,” of support from the Athens community. We’ve had some Dyson says. “I specifically remember him freaking out customers who’ve been with us the full 31 years, and you when I rented Play Misty for Me. That employee was Mark really get to know people.”

Weathersby… We instantly became the greatest of friends.”

The outpouring of community support was quite touchWeathersby loved his time at Vision Video and chalks up ing for Seward. When they announced the closing, people its uniqueness to the community that it attracted and the came from all directions to share their appreciation for relationships he forged while working there. “Working at their local indie video store. In fact, a couple came in with the Broad Street location was like working at a super-cool

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community center,” he says. “I met and made so many friends, a lot of whom I now consider family, there.” Seward remembers Weathersby quite fondly, remarking, “We’ve had a great crew of people who have worked here over the years.”

That seems to be the biggest difference between streaming a movie and renting one from an indie shop: community. “I’ll miss the community aspect of running into friends there and participating in super nerdy conversations with the staff,” says Weathersby. Dyson expresses the same sentiment, saying, “Really, my favorite part about watching movies is talking about them afterwards. That is the thing I will miss the most about Vision—being able to go in there and talk about movies. It was like a coffeeless café for me.”

Although Seward accepts that streaming is the future of home movie viewing, he seems to have no axe to grind with Netflix. “We’ve had a lot of customers who do both—they subscribe to a streaming service, but they’ll also rent from us,” he says. “Being in business for so long [means] we have an inventory of over 40,000 titles, so there’s a lot of movies that we have that you can’t easily find anywhere.”

Hopefully, the industry will find a way to address the issue of rare movies and hard-to-find titles, especially in the face of the brick-and-mortar decline. Almost 30,000 video rental shops were open nationally in 1989, according to the L.A. Times, but the Chicago Sun-Times reported that number had dwindled to just 6,000 in 2014, and only 150 of those were independently owned.

The entire stock of Vision Video will be on sale at competitive prices (four seasons of a very-hard-to-find BBC classic on DVD only cost this reporter $16) through Dec. 23. f

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hile 2017 seemed to fly by at the speed of sound, a lot actually happened in Athens music.

And while there were plenty of milestones and moments to celebrate, other developments left us bummed, bereft or just plain bewildered. Here, our writers revisit some of the biggest stories of the past year (or so) and examine how they impacted the scene, for better or worse.

HIGH: Scene and Heard Visual representation of female-identifying, transgender, gender-nonconforming and gender-fluid artists in the music and arts communities around town has been steadily increasing for the past few years, but this year was especially exciting for these under-represented artists.

Lingua Franca, aka Mariah Parker, was extremely active musically and politically, and also helped foster an increasingly supportive music community with the Hot Corner Hip Hop series. Peepashow and Vamp Camp’s Maizy Stell booked almost exclusively non-male artists as part of their Go Bar residency. Many experimental, “weirdo” and alternative rock groups were created this year, while others continued to flourish, like Lea Lea, Lambda Celsius, Beverly, Emileigh Ireland, Immaterial Possession, Goddess Complex, Jim Goldy, Dagmar Vork, Saline and Harlot Party, among others.

Some of Athens’ heroines resurfaced, too. Cindy Wilson of the B-52s and Vanessa Briscoe Hay of Pylon came back in full force after major hiatuses from the scene. After not playing for over 10 years, Adrya Stembridge, of Vomit Thrower and The Girl Pool, started playing live again with Tears for the Dying. Altogether, it suggests that there is no reason why any show in Athens should be solely comprised of cis white men, when so many talented female and gender-nonconforming folks are continuously contributing to the local music scene. [Frances Newton]

LOW: Clermont Controversy Last fall, four employees of the Athens-based public relations firm Team Clermont resigned after a client accused co-founder and CEO Nelson Wells of making inappropriate comments, including offering the band lower rates if it introduced him to its “lovely lady friends.” In December, Bitch Media ran an article on sexism in music PR that included an overview of the incident, triggering a response from co-founder Bill Benson, who admitted that

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“[s]omething insensitive and unprofessional was said,” adding, “[u]nfortunately, situations like this do come up from time to time.”

Aside from insisting that his controversial remarks were taken out of context, Wells himself has remained mum about the incident over the past year. Reached for this story, he declined to comment on the staff exodus or whether Team Clermont has since implemented any policy changes, instead touting the firm’s success in 2017.

Indeed, the company has continued to enjoy local support, including a steady stream of student interns from UGA’s music business program. However, program director David Barbe tells Flagpole he recently decided to discontinue the MBUS/Clermont partnership, citing an undisclosed reason.

Meanwhile, former employees have moved on to other ventures. Most notably, radio promoter Shil Patel founded Tiger Bomb Promo, which, in addition to building an impressive national client roster, has made a point to spotlight Athens music, representing Kishi Bashi, Scooterbabe, Nana Grizol and others. [Nathan Kerce and Gabe Vodicka]

HIGH: Flagpole’s 30th In November, this little ol’ rag celebrated 30 years as the Colorbearer of Athens Alternative Music with a starstudded variety show and print retrospective from current and former writers and editors. (Plus, we published Pete’s dang book.) And while we don’t wanna toot our own horn too much, one thing that became crystal clear as we looked back was that, since the beginning, Flagpole has played a key role in keeping our local music scene abuzz and afloat.

So, for us and for it, we say: Here’s to 30 more. [GV]

LOW: Gone Too Soon Tragedy struck too often in 2017, as Athens music lost some of its most talented and beloved creators. Among those who died this year were Strictly Rickli’s Ash Rickli, Anthony “Versatyle tha Wildchyld” Little, Little Tigers’

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HIGH: Celebrating Vic Those lucky enough to have known the late Vic Chesnutt cherish memories of one of Athens’ greatest creative forces.

This year, vinyl reissues via New West Records, a two-night celebration of his songs at the 40 Watt Club and the debut of the Classic City Rotary Club’s Vic Chesnutt Songwriter of the Year Award—given to Mosaic’s Andrew Huang— created new, bittersweet memories for old friends and new converts. [Bobby Moore]

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LOW: The Mothers Vacuum Athens’ indie-rock landscape certainly wasn’t quiet in 2017, but a tangible void was created after Mothers hit the road to tour behind their breakout 2016 album, When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tired. While their subsequent departure for Philadelphia left us with one less nationally known name to call our own, two shifts in the band’s lineup have left Athens with two creative forces spanning a number of projects and roles within the Classic City scene: former bassist Patrick Morales with his involvement in Grand Vapids and long-running solo venture The Viking Progress, and former guitarist Drew Kirby with his solo project, Civils, the Marching Banana label and recording/ mixing credits on forthcoming releases. [Andy Barton]

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HIGH: Stratocasters in the Stratosphere With a long-awaited album release and an accompanying killer performance, Double Ferrari had a big year. The experimental metal band tells stories without vocals, making for one of the coolest Athens releases of 2017.

Double Ferrari took almost 12 years to make, and boy, was it worth the wait. Tracks like “Triumph Fatigue” and “National Anthem” are standouts, but the whole album is an adventure, with sweltering highs and calm lows. With rave reviews coming in from national publications, the reign of Double Ferrari is just getting started. [Maria Lewczyk]

LOW: Bye-Bye, Bands They say that for every Athens punk band that breaks up, at least 10 more will pop up in its place, with at least five of those featuring Jason Griffin on drums. This year, we toast three punk (or punk-adjacent) groups that left us in 2017: Fishmonger, Einschlagen and The Powder Room. No matter how much these bands loved or hated (and we mean really hated) Flagpole, we recognize that all three of them left enough of a mark to deserve at least a slow-motion in-memoriam montage soundtracked by a sad Sarah McLachlan song—or a year-end blurb, at the very least. [NK]

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Marshall Moore—as The Quiet Pack—gave out healing crystals, while murk daddy flex hosted a performance, art and food expo complete with homemade curry for attendees to enjoy. These items happened to be free, but there was creative merch for sale, too. Roadkill Ghost Choir introduced a set of La Croix-themed koozies, The Hernies created a dog doodle shirt that you can’t go anywhere without seeing, and Nihilist Cheerleader sold out of (super cute!) underwear printed with its name. [ML]

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By Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com GOOD PEOPLE DOING GOOD THINGS: Longtime Athens-area musician and current mayor of Winterville Dodd Ferrelle will once again host the Strung Out Like the Lights at Christmastime benefit at The Office Lounge Friday, Dec. 15. Now in its ninth year, this benefit helps needy Athens area families, via the Empty Stocking Fund, with muchneeded wintertime expenses such as heating, rent and utilities. It’s been a wonderful success in the past, and this year should continue that tradition. The lineup features Rev. Conner Tribble, Kate Morrissey, Clay Leverett, Pickled Holler, Me’an Mills (Ferrelle and Jon Mills, who moved to Athens together in 1993 with their band), Ferrelle and Betsy Inglesby (Ferrelle’s cousin), Ralph Roddenbery, Caroline Aiken and Catch a C.A.B., Elite tha Showstoppa, Will White & the Howlin’ South and Ty Manning and the Slawdawg Biscuits. As always, there will be a raffle held for the annual Ferrelle family painting, which you can view on this page.

The show begins sharply at 6 p.m. so don’t dawdle, and bring the $10 suggested donation. This is a benefit, after all, so cough it up.

HATS OFF: The folks behind the Athens Cowboy Choir, along with hosts Pete McBrayer and Matt Hudgins, will host A Very Townie Christmas at the 40 Watt Thursday, Dec. 14.

SEASONAL SPECTACULAR: The Morton Theatre will host Holiday at the Morton on Tuesday, Dec. 19 at 7 p.m. The all-star lineup is drawn from Athens’ diverse and talented community that resides just outside our more-often celebrated rock and roll scene.

Participating in the celebration are the East Athens Educational Dance Center, the kids of Athens Creative Theatre, Shimmy Mob, Celest The 2017 Ferrelle family painting Divine, Florence King, the Classic City Jazz Band, ¡MOYUBA! and Athens’ own world-traveling star of Among the featured acts are Dave Marr, Don Chambers, the stage Calvin Orlando Smith. This show is free, open to Claire Campbell, T. Hardy Morris and Bain Mattox. Expect the public and will most assuredly be packed. Plan to arrive to hear all your favorite Christmas songs and some “deep early. For information, see mortontheatre.com. cuts” and lesser appreciated tunes, too. This show is acting as a food drive for local food banks, so it’s gonna run ya $10 NOW HEAR THIS: A brand-spankin’ new collection of classic to get in, or a mere $5 if you bring a canned good. live tracks from Squalls—appropriately titled Live—is out now. It features 24 tracks recorded by legendary 40 Watt BACK AGAIN: Two weeks ago, I told you about the new two Club soundman Pat “The Wiz” Biddle between 1980–1985. track release from Space Brother named Mountains. Now, Biddle selected the tracks from five complete shows he there’s a full-length companion piece to it named Deep recorded back in, you know, “the day.” Longtime listenEnd—which carries on the theme and is written as D = = |> ers should be happy to see the inclusion of well-known = |\| D—whose contents are shorter and thus more comfavorites like “Na Nanana,” “Elephant Radio,” “Waltzing pact. There’s a loose theme of departure and travel here, Mathilda” and early single “Crickets.” All of this was but that’s likely my own interpretation and not intentional. recorded before the band released its debut album in 1986, Objectively, there are glitchy and is such a cool primer on Squalls in particular and this electronics, more dubera of Athens music in general. It’s available at cdbaby.com oriented rhythms and locally at Wuxtry Records and Low Yo Yo Stuff. and the like. Head to spacebrother.

TOOT YOUR OWN HORN: As the holiday season intensifies, bandcamp.com and everyone’s calendar becomes increasingly packed. Well, listen in. f clear the decks, buddy, because TubaChristmas is happening at Georgia Square Mall Saturday, Dec. WUOG 90.5 FM’s 10 Most-Played Recordings 16, and if you’re a tuba or Nov. 29–Dec. 5 euphonium player, you may participate. First, you’ll 1. Hoops Tapes #1–3 (Fat Possum) need to rehearse on your 2. Julien Baker Turn Out the Lights (Matador) own with a copy of the 3. Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile Lotta Sea Lice (Matador) songs, available at tuba 4. Flat Worms Flat Worms (Castle Face) christmas.com. Then, you’ll 5. Hippo Campus Warm Glow EP (Grand Jury) need to arrive on the 16th 6. murk daddy flex Bring On the Major Leagues (Independent Release)* at 9 a.m. to register as a 7. Giraffage Too Real (Counter) player, be available at 9:30 8. King Krule The Ooz (True Panther/XL) a.m. for rehearsal and per 9. Protomartyr Relatives in Descent (Domino) form with everyone at 11:30 10. Dirty Fences Goodbye Love (Greenway) a.m. Registration costs $10, * local release · Get the latest WUOG news, including the Live in the Lobby schedule, at wuog.org. and it looks like music costs are between $20–$25. All

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the information you’ll need is at the aforementioned website, including information explaining its origin. Locally, this event is being arranged by the folks behind facebook. com/AthensTubaCmas. If you have any questions, hit them up there or drop a line to athenstubachristmas@gmail.com.

And, for those of you who aren’t players, just go and enjoy the show. I’m betting this will be something to see.

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Community Creations ATHICA’S ‘MEMBERS’ EXHIBITION’ SHOWCASES ITS SUPPORTERS

By Jessica Smith arts@flagpole.com For independent art galleries, artist memberships can be invaluable sources of support, alongside grants and donations from the community. The annual “Members’ Exhibition” at the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art recognizes its supporters by offering an opportunity to share work in a professional setting. Works by several well-known artists are included, such as Michael Lachowski’s chaotic charcoal “Wind” drawing, Robert Clements’ golden sculpture of a couple of “Tourists,” Didi Dunphy’s larger-than-life hot pink “Picket Fence” and Lisa Freeman’s mixed-media assemblage “The Shed,” a tiny replica of an artist’s studio. Excitingly, the exhibition also includes works by artists who are new to town, new to creating artwork or experimenting with a new medium.

Julia Wynn Safer’s unusual portrait “Chickadee Del-EYE-te at Night” depicts a wide-eyed woman with her tongue stretched out beneath a small, glowing bird.

Eyes dot the dark blue sky like stars, a detail inspired by eyes unexpectedly appearing throughout art history, particularly within Surrealist works. The eyes also represent the idea of women both watching and being watched, an idea that is strengthened when considering “bird” or “chick” being used to reference women in slang.

Safer, who recently moved to Athens from Atlanta, received her MFA in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design and currently teaches courses in art appreciation at Chattahoochee Tech and GSU-Perimeter.

David Noah’s “Grandmother Sheep” is an intriguing portrait of an anthropomorphic sheep reclining backwards with a relaxed expression. Primarily a photographer who specializes in black-and-white images, Noah continues his inclination towards monochrome in this painting, which explores

color relations through warm sepia tones.

The character was inspired by his grandmother, who was blind from cataracts and lived with his family when he was a child, spending most of her days in a rocking chair, listening to books on records, playing the harmonica and dipping snuff.

“She was a fierce presence, and told stories that could make us laugh or scare the dickens out of us. In my mind, she was not only a teller of tales, but a creature out of a fairy tale herself. A bit like Baba Yaga, maybe,” says Noah. “That transformation from human to animal seemed entirely possible. I can’t exactly explain why I gave her a sheep’s head rather than some other animal, but it might speak to her vulnerability. I painted this directly from the subconscious, without understanding what I was doing or why, but now it’s an important image for me. I hope it does some justice to “Chickadee Del-EYE-te at Night” by Julia Wynn Safer my memories of her.”

Noah’s painting hangs in close proximity to Helen Kuykendall’s “Turnip,” compleKuykendall is a former landscape archi“I love seeing. Photography gives me mentary in its earthy color palette as well tect who practiced park planning for the an opportunity, a reason, a purpose to see as its underlying uncanniness. The turnip is National Park Service and Denver Parks more: to see more sights, more patterns, uprooted and flying across a sky, serving as and Recreation for over 20 years, and now more constructions, more views, more an invitation to contemplate the relationenjoys tending to a big garden with her hus- details in everything I encounter,” says ships between humanity and the earth. band at their home on the Middle Oconee Johnson. “With photography, I can share The deep pink and soft golden tones of the River. Currently serving as part of the what I see with others, sometimes showing vegetable align with the pastel cotton-candy Athens Cultural Affairs Commission, she is patterns in a landscape or the personality of clouds of a sunrise, balancing realism and a fairly new to painting and excited to reprewildlife, bringing out the subtle colors in a more dreamy romanticism. sent landscapes in imaginative ways. shell or rock, or odd reflections that reflect “I have a deep angst about our conSimilarly emphasizing the beauty of the upon not just an image, but an idea.” nection to nature as our society becomes natural world through her art, Liz Minkert This year's “Members’ Exhibition” feamore and more urbanized. So, some of that Johnson uses her camera to immortalize tures 30 artists, with others including disconnection has become more broadly rel- landscapes, wildlife and macro perspectives June Ball, Cameron Bliss, Claire Clements, evant in my work,” she says. “The beauty of of the interesting details she comes across.

Melody Croft, Dorian Edwards, Lauren vegetables are under-appreciated in our aes- Shot with a DSLR camera, her photographs Fancher, Jennifer Hartley, Mike Landers thetics, but vegetables are more and more are enhanced through software including and Jon Vogt. The show will remain on view important in the health of our society on so Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop. Some, through Sunday, Jan. 14, with the excepmany levels—human health, environmental such as the vibrant “Purple Waterlily” at tion of Monday, Dec. 18–Wednesday, Jan. health, climate, water, organics, GMOs, big ATHICA, are printed on metallic paper, 3, when the gallery will be closed for the agriculture, immigrants.” which adds a subtle sparkle. holidays. f

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feature

Cook the Hodgson Way AMATEUR ATHENS CHEF SHARES HIS CULINARY KNOWLEDGE

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ttention, men: If you’re going children, Patti was preparing family meals, to cook for someone other than and Tom was traveling the country for his yourself, then you have to do it job, eating with colleagues at some of the all—shop, prep, cook and clean, refusing all best restaurants one could find. He noticed offers of help from your guest(s). the food seemed to taste better when it was That’s the advice from veteran cook Tom arranged nicely. So when his youngest child Hodgson, one of many nuggets of informaleft home about 10 years ago and he started tion that will allow you to offer guests a cooking again, he made sure to plate the good meal and a nice food to be beautiful. atmosphere. He’s The first dish he The positive—even created and self-pubmastered, he says, lished a cookbook of envious—reception was vodka pasta, folsimple, elegant dishes, lowing a recipe from he received after posting on called The Sunday The New York Times.

Facebook some photos of his Night Cookbook, that If the Facebook posts anyone, male or dinner dishes prompted him to are an indication, female, can make on Hodgson likes to cook share his culinary knowledge. fish with some kind of their own with a little preparation. He’s even accompaniment. That illustrated every dish with his own color pasta Alfredo he made decades ago? Now he photos, “taken with an iPhone with the filmakes “pasta Alfred and stuff,” adding vegters on,” he says. etables and other ingredients.

Writing a cookbook was a vanity project, “Everything I do well seems to be on the he says. The positive—even envious— stove top,” he says. “I don’t bake, and I don’t reception he received after posting on use an outdoor grill.”

Facebook some photos of his dinner dishes For the past 25 years, the Hodgsons and prompted him to share his culinary knowlfour other families have assembled for a edge. Everyone wanted to eat the food or learn how to make it.

The first thing he had to do was design recipes, since he usually cooks without them, preferring to create his own. He began the project earlier this fall and found that, like his mother, the late Mary Ann Hodgson, he liked writing. Mary Ann, however, didn’t like to cook, which is another reason her son started cooking—so he could eat better.

The Sunday Night Cookbook has about 20 dishes and 40 pages. It’s available at Heery’s Too! downtown and retails for $25, with a portion of the profits going to the Clarke County Mentor Program and the Athens Community Council on Aging.

An Athens native, Hodgson—yes, one of the Hodgson Oil Building Hodgsons— started cooking as a bachelor in Manhattan week of vacation at the beach. Tom happily in the late 1970s. He had a great onehelms the kitchen, making dinner each evebedroom apartment with a balcony, but he ning for about 30 people, “but I don’t clean couldn’t afford to take dates out to nice res- up,” he adds quickly. taurants. He rarely ate out himself, because If he could make a meal for three guests, even then, eating out in Manhattan was he would serve melon wrapped with proexpensive. So he started cooking at home. sciutto, blackened grouper with sautéed “I’d make pasta Alfredo or grill fish on rapini, a small Sunday night salad (the the terrace,” he says. “My first date with recipe is in the cookbook) and bananas Patti [whom he married] was dinner at my Foster. He would share the meal with his apartment.” mother, James Beard and Charlize Theron.

The couple eventually moved to Atlanta.

And you can bet the presentation would be While they were rearing their three beautiful. f

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by Bud Light’s “Dilly Dilly” ad campaign, which presents terrible, weak beer as a signifier of camaraderie (because you certainly can’t sell it on taste). If you want to look at it in a more positive light, it’s a sign that the beer market has changed tremendously, and that people are demonstrably more interested in the kind of beer people actually drank back in olden times.

Akademia Brewing Co. (150 Crane Dr., 678-7262288) fits in with the latter, with a strong commitment to making odd and interesting beers. The former Musician’s Warehouse, near Best Buy, is a huge space, with a patio

want to sample a bunch. The Dom, a German kölsch-style ale, is light and sparkly and goes well with food. On the other hand, there is some crazy stuff down at the bottom of the menu, which starts light and ends up heavy. For example, the Horn of Plenty is a cranberry sour stout with cinnamon and Bulleit bourbon-soaked Jack Daniel’s wood chips that the menu describes as “Thanksgiving in a glass.”

It is insanely fragrant and hard to drink more than a small glass of, but also impressive and complex.

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What sets Akademia apart from its fellow brewing companies is the fact that it’s also a full-service restaurant, complete with high chairs. The kitchen can be a little slow when there’s a large party booked, and some things on the menu need some work, but the bar snacks are solid, and there’s even a kids’ menu, with inexpensively priced PB&J and the like. Anything described as a “flatbread” is closer to pita—yes, technically a flatbread, but not really the kind of thin pizza that word usually conveys—which means it gets soggy when piled with toppings. The deconstructed pork souvlaki falls into that category.

More ambitious things, like the Mediterranean shrimp with roasted tomatoes, herbed feta cheese and large couscous, don’t really come together, but both the fried cheese curds and the french fries that come with beer-based dipping sauces are tasty. Ditto for the burgers, which feature good combinations of ingredients and some of the same excellent sauces but are made on a pretzel bun that is better in theory than in practice, because it dissolves into nothingness due to moisture. Keep it simpler; you’ll be happy.

The opposite is perhaps true of the beer, the menu for which changes frequently. You can get full pours, half pours or pick four small glasses to make yourself a flight if you

besides bitterness. Akademia also has guest taps (plus wine) and sells crowlers of beer. It’s open every day, from 11 a.m. until at least 11 p.m.

EXTRACURRICULARS: Watkinsville’s Chops and Hops (2 S. Main St., 706-310-1101), which has been open a number of years now, recently hired Josh Aaron, formerly of Jefferson’s The Savory Spoon (and Akademia, where he was originally going to be the chef), to run its kitchen, and the result is a restaurant that is now a great option for vegetarians, despite the meat in its name. Aaron has always loved and celebrated vegetables. His roasted okra at his original restaurant was revelatory. Chops and Hops now has a vegetable plate that changes frequently enough to be market priced and have its components chalked on a board at the entrance of the restaurant.

On a recent day, the selections included: two salads (one with tomatoes and a lovely, mild mozzarella; the other with spinach, a tangy feta, strawberries and candied pecans); half a spaghetti squash, roasted and topped with marinara sauce; large brussels sprouts, lightly roasted and topped with an agave syrup; and a sort of mushroom casserole with copious amounts of cheese.

It’s not quite the power lunch at The National in terms of sophistication and top-to-bottom excellence, but it shows appreciation of nature’s bounty and is cooked with affection. A “loaded vegetable” soup, also on special, was based on a deeply flavored vegetable stock, and the pimento cheese available as an appetizer seemed to be spiked with pimentón and is fantastic. Vegetarians, go check it out. The hours remain lunch and dinner every day. f

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By Drew Wheeler movies@flagpole.com THE DISASTER ARTIST (R) The Room transcends so-bad-it’s-good. In 2003, Tommy Wiseau created a disaster piece on par with Ed Wood’s best (worst?). Just what Johnny and his friends are actually doing in that room is a mystery to everyone but Wiseau himself. However, the experience of watching this movie—especially with an audience—is not to be missed. (If you have yet to do so, take advantage of one of Ciné’s late shows!) It’ll tear you apart… with laughter! The motivations of the characters are sketchy at best, and the tin-ear dialogue is actually improved by the questionable line readings of the “professional” cast. Yet it is more fun than you will have at a theater this year. The only other film that may come close is James Franco’s love letter to The Room.

not, Roomies: Franco feels genuine affection for Wiseau’s debut, as does his core group of pals. The Disaster Artist opens with Kristen Bell, Adam Scott, Kevin Smith and others waxing nostalgic about what they truly believe to be a great work of cinema.

Franco’s film, based on a script by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (the excellent screenwriting duo behind 500 Days of Summer and adaptations of The Fault in Our Stars and The Spectacular Now), shares that love and posits Wiseau as an inspirational underdog when one expects casual, comic callousness.

An odd bird himself, Franco seems to earnestly comprehend Wiseau’s vision. His film pays tribute to Wiseau, and his awardworthy performance goes beyond simple impression. Sure, he looks like Wiseau, he dresses like Wiseau (all those belts!), and Just Getting Started he sounds like Wisea, but he also feels deeply like Wiseau.

The Room is not a film bereft of emotion; it is simply a film that never has the proper emotion when it should (it laughs when it should cry, etc.).

A lesser filmmaker would seek to simply poke fun at Wiseau’s idiosyncrasies. The intelligent, compassionate Franco knows Wiseau’s failures as a Your old man hat has got nothing on my old man hat. filmmaker are born from a lack of talent, The Disaster Artist recreates the pubnot a lack of heart, a lesson harkening back lished recollections of Wiseau’s second lead, to Ed Wood, who was gifted his own generGreg Sestero (here played by Dave Franco). ous biopic by Tim Burton. Do know that at Sestero befriends the mysterious auteur least one viewing of The Room is a prereq(director Franco) in an acting class in San uisite for enjoying The Disaster Artist, an Francisco. Soon, the duo is moving to L.A. exquisite comedy that may make you laugh to live in Wiseau’s self-described pied-àmore than any other in 2017. terre. Then, Wiseau writes a script to give Sestero and himself a shot at Hollywood JUST GETTING STARTED (PG-13) Many flaws stardom after the traditional route of plague this bland old-fogey comedy that agents and callbacks fails. cannot even be slightly saved by its three The only thing as amusingly strange as charismatic leads—Morgan Freeman, The Room is the story of filming The Room.

Tommy Lee Jones and Rene Russo. Jones’ Under the direction of Wiseau, a first-time irascible appeal is unexpectedly weak, and filmmaker who may have never seen a this is an Oscar winner who made the U.S. movie, much less visited a set, the process is Marshal-at-a-sorority-house flick Man of the tense, off-putting, abusive and the perfect House supremely watchable. No such luck incubator for whatever magnetically awful with Just Getting Started. experiment it creates. A crew of frustrated Freeman is Duke, the BMOC for a professionals—headed by the perfect pairCalifornia retirement community. He is ing of Seth Rogen and Paul Scheer—are the No. 1 stud in the bedroom (because confused and butt heads with Wiseau, old-people-still-like-sex jokes are très leaving Sestero to play peacemaker and, 2017)—just ask his three lady friends (one as Wiseau’s sole pal, explain his inscruof whom is played by the late, great Glenne table motivations. Inevitably, he cannot, Headly)—at the poker table and on the golf and eventually, the whole strange affair course, until Jones’ cowboy, Leo, shows up. breaks down before a redemptive premiere, I am shocked Ron Shelton (the dual arranged by Wiseau to rival that of a true sport classics Bull Durham and Tin Cup) was Hollywood release. not merely a director-for-hire on this hackThe biggest potential risk facing Franco neyed flick; he wrote this stale holiday mobas he recreated The Room and Wiseau for edy, too! Even undiscriminating fans of The Disaster Artist is that the result would Freeman and Jones will be unable to make be a smug, self-satisfied takedown. Fear excuses for this flick. f

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David Bromberg

MUSIC | THU, DEC 14

MUSIC | SAT, DEC 16

ART | SUN, DEC 17

The Foundry · 8 p.m. · $25–30 Septuagenarian folk singer-songwriter David Bromberg has enjoyed a lengthy and fruitful career as both a bandleader and solo artist, not to mention collaborations with some of the most iconic names of his generation, including Bob Dylan, George Harrison and Jerry Garcia.

Bromberg’s latest recording, last year’s The Blues, the Whole Blues, and Nothing But the Blues, was a faithful ode to that all-American genre that DownBeat named its Blues Album of the Year in last year’s critics’ poll. The guitarist brings his quintet to The Foundry on Thursday, where he’ll be supported by local Americana duo MrJordanMrTonks. [Gabe Vodicka]

40 Watt Club · 8 p.m. · $12–15 Athens has many holiday traditions: artist markets, the Parade of Lights and our very own Slackpole, to name just a few. The annual Bloodkin and Friends concert, where the long-running local roots-rock crew is joined by a few (dozen) of their best musical pals for an evening of mirth and music, is surely near the top of the list. This year’s event returns to the fabulous 40 Watt Club, where attendees can expect to rock and roll in the spirit of the season. A VIP reception precedes the event, featuring a meet-and-greet with an open bar and light appetizers, plus a copy of the show poster, designed by artist JT Lucchesi. [GV]

ACC Library · 2:30 p.m. · FREE! KA Artist Shop · 7–9 p.m. · FREE! On view in the Quiet Gallery, “heARTThis gallery show invited artists work: Resilience in the Midst of Struggle” to contemplate what the concept of presents art by Athens natives James “home” means to them. Manicured or Barnes and Broderick Flanigan. Barnes messy, intimate or inviting, these pieces often uses colored pens and stencils to reflect a level of comfort and familiardecorate canvases full of animals, buildity. Highlights include a portrait of a girl ings, words and patterns. Flanigan is with her houseplants and black cat by an artist and activist who offers classes Cameron Bliss, a found object assemthrough Flanigan’s Portrait Studio in blage by Lisa Freeman, photographs of East Athens, and also leads children beautiful old homes by Emily Llamazales, and teens through creating murals under and a folkloric graphite-and-ink illustrahis Helping Art Reach Public Spaces tion by Kristen Hyink. Thirty-three art(HARPS) project. During the opening ists contributed work, including Andrea reception, the two artists will offer a slide Wellnitz, Chris Taylor, Cricket Bancroft, talk describing how their art is informed Lea Purvis and Melody Croft. The exhibiby activist initiatives. [Jessica Smith] tion is on view through Jan. 15. [JS]

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Tuesday 12 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. 12:30 p.m. FREE! athensfiber.org CLASSES: Creating Stamped Gift Wrap (Farmview Market) Designer Maria Ava Totina Ramos leads a workshop on using fruits and veggies for stamping patterns onto wrapping paper. 5 p.m. $30. www. farmviewmarket.com CLASSES: Athens Swing Night (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) A one-hour lesson is followed by a two-hour dancing session. No experience or partner necessary. The last event of the season will feature holiday music. 7–11 p.m. $4–6. www.athensswingnight.com

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CLASSES: Winter Rain Barrel Workshop (ACC Planning Auditorium, 120 W. Dougherty St.) Learn about stormwater runoff and rain barrel uses, maintenance and installation. 10 a.m. FREE! stormwater@athensclarkecounty.com EVENTS: 2nd Tuesday Tasting (Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market) This month’s theme is “Holiday Wines.” 6 p.m. $20. 706-354-7901, www.heirloomathens.com EVENTS: Swing Dance Night Holiday Party (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) UGA Swing Dance Club presents a night of dancing in the tropical conservatory. No previous dance experience or partner required. 7 p.m. (dance lessons), 8–10 p.m. (open dance). $4–6. www.athensswingnight.com EVENTS: Have a Sustainable Holiday (Creature Comforts Brewery) Bring in unwanted clothes and see what you find during a clothing swap. Seamstresses will

be available to help with alterations.

Hosted by the Georgia Climate Coalition. 5–8 p.m. ccbeerco.com EVENTS: University Woman’s Club Holiday Luncheon (Athens Country Club) The University Woman’s Club will recognize the UGA scholarship recipient. 11 a.m. $30. www.womansclub.uga.edu EVENTS: Holiday Garden Gift Shop (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) The tropical conservatory will be decorated for the holidays with live music, gifts and later hours.

5–7 p.m. www.botgarden.uga.edu FILM: Bad Movie Night: Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toymaker (Ciné Barcafé) Killer rollerblades, robotic santas and Mickey Rooney star in an upsetting holiday classic. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/badmovienight GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) Hosted by James Majure. 6 p.m. FREE! www.therookandpawn.com

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GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) General trivia. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706850-8561 GAMES: Trivia at Johnny’s (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Play for cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706354-1515 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) Westside and Eastside locations of Locos Grill and Pub feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Nic every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706354-7289 GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) (2301 College Station Rd.) Every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern KIDSTUFF: Toddler Tuesday (Georgia Museum of Art) Families and children 18 months–3 years can take a tour tailored for young children, listen to stories and participate in a hands-on activity. This month’s

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event will look at the artist Louise Blair Daura. 10 a.m. FREE! callan@ uga.edu, www.georgiamuseum.org KIDSTUFF: Drawing with Jayln (ACC Library) Learn different drawing techniques. Ages 11–18. 4:30 p.m. FREE! athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Family Crafts and Open House (Bogart Library) Drop in for cookies, hot cocoa and crafts for the little ones. 4–6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Santa’s Workshop (East Athens Community Center) Activities include a bounce house, bingo, crafts, face painting and photos with Santa. Grades K–5.

Registration required. 5:30 p.m. $1–2. 706-613-3593, www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure MEETINGS: ACC Democrats Happy Hour (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Discuss issues at the county, state and national level at the water cooler end of the bar. 5:30–7 p.m. www.clarkedemocrats.com

PERFORMANCE: Michael Jackson Tribute Show (Morton Theatre) America’s #1 Michael Jackson impersonator, Danny Dash Andrews pays tribute to the King of Pop. 8 p.m. $25–50. mortontheatre.com SPORTS: Table Tennis Matches and Training (East Athens Community Center) Beginner to advanced skill levels welcome.

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

Wednesday 13 ART: Artful Conversation (Georgia Museum of Art) Callan Steinmann leads a conversation on selected works from the exhibition “Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête-à-tête.” 2 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Holiday Make & Take (Farmview Market) Florist Gail Zorn leads a workshop on how to make a

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unique table-top runner. 5 p.m. $45. www.farmviewmarket.com EVENTS: Rabbit Box (The Foundry) Storytellers share true-life tales. This month’s theme is “Holidazed.” 7 p.m. $7. rabbitboxstories@gmail.com EVENTS: 1 Million Cups (Athens Area Chamber of Commerce) 1MC is a national program designed to educate, engage and connect entrepreneurs. Each week, a local startup presents their company to a supportive audience. 8:30 a.m. FREE! www.1millioncups.com/athens EVENTS: Santa Ming (Hi-Lo Lounge) Take a holiday photo with Sexy Santa Ming Vase. 8–10 p.m. www.hiloathens.com GAMES: Trivia (Your Pie) (Eastside) Every Wednesday. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) (2440 W. Broad St.) Compete for prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Gather a team. Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. willys.com GAMES: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) (Washington St.) Play to win. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: 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 GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) Gather a team and compete. 8 p.m. www. saucehouse.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Dirty South Trivia offers house cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Children of all ages are invited for bedtime stories every Wednesday. 7 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Anime: Christmas Special (Oconee County Library) Anime fans can watch Christmas episodes from anime shows. Grades 6–12. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Preschool Storytime (ACC Library) Stories, songs, puppets and much more. Ages 18 months to 5 years. 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens KIDSTUFF: GingerFest (Bogart Library) Celebrate winter with sweet snacks and sugary crafts. Ages 3–8.

10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Preschooler Storytime (Oconee County Library) Stories, songs and crafts for preschool-aged children and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Fight Back! (ACC Library) Teens will learn how to battle winter illness like the cold and flu and evaulate their own cleanliness. Ages 11–18. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens LECTURES & LIT: YWCO Brown Bag Lunch Series (Athens YWCO) Piedmont Athens Regional Hospital Sleep presents a conversation oh how to get and maintain a good night’s sleep. Bring a lunch. 12–1 p.m. FREE! b.galvin.ywco@gmail. com PERFORMANCE: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center performs Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. 8 p.m. $30–76. pac.uga.edu

THEATER: 5th Yuletide Celebration (Rose Hall) Rose of Athens Theatre presents It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.

Dec. 13–16, 8 p.m. Dec. 17, 2:30 p.m. $15. www.roseofathens.org

Thursday 14 ART: Opening Reception (Ciné Barcafé) “La rentrée, René returns from France” features paintings on silk and serigraphy by René Shoemaker. 5–8 p.m. FREE! www. athenscine.com ART: Art Party (Creature Comforts Brewery) An artist market will feature original works from artists who offer prints through Pixel & Ink’s Athens Art Prints. Tatiana Veneruso will host Silent Art Trivia through headphones.

5–10 p.m. creaturecomforts.com ART: Athens Holiday Market (Big City Bread Cafe) An outdoor market featuring artists and craftspeople from around the region, live music and a fire. 5–9 p.m. www.bigcitybreadcafe.com CLASSES: iRest Bliss for Your Brain (Athens Five Points Yoga Studio) (Five Points Yoga) iRest is a transformative practice that leads to psychological, physical and spiritual healing and well-being. 5:30 p.m. $20. www.athensfivepointsyoga.com CLASSES: Tech Tips (ACC Library) Learn about settings and advanced features in Google Maps. 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 EVENTS: Release Party (Terrapin Beer Co.) Celebrate the release of Raspberry Truffle Wake-N-Bake, a coffee oatmeal imperial stout. 5:30– 7:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com EVENTS: Star Wars: The Last Jedi Preview & Costume Happy Hour (Ciné Barcafé) Show off your Star Wars costumes with special guests The 501st Legion. 5 p.m. www.athenscine.com GAMES: Music Trivia (Saucehouse Barbeque) Meet at the bar for a round of trivia. 8 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/saucehousebbq GAMES: Trivia at Johnny’s (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Play for cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706354-1515 KIDSTUFF: Teen Gaming (ACC Library) Play WiiU and board games.

Ages 11–18. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Lego Club (Bogart Library) Build Lego creations. 4 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart 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 KIDSTUFF: Gingerbread Workshop (Rocksprings Community Center) Ages 2–6 and their parents can build gingerbread houses together. 10–11:30 am. $5–7.50. www.athensclarkecounty. com/holidayevents KIDSTUFF: Hanukkah Storytime (Oconee County Library) Celebrate the season of lights with stories, songs and food. 4 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Grinch Party (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Celebrate the season with Dr. Seuss’ classic story, crafts, activities and snacks. For ages 6 & up. 4:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Happy Hanukkah (ACC Library) Learn about the season of lights with stories and crafts. Ages 3–11. 3:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens

PERFORMANCE: The Kourtesans (Sister Louisa’s Church) The drag troupe performs every third Thursday. Tonight is a special Hard Candy Christmas Drag Show. 9 p.m.

FREE! sisterlouisaschurch.com PERFORMANCE: Christmas on Ice (The Classic Center) (Atkins Ford Arena) Ice Creative Entertainment presents an ice show performance.

Dec. 14–15, 7 p.m. Dec. 16, 1 p.m. $15–30. 706-357-4444 THEATER: Curtains (Athens Community Theater) The murdermystery musical comedy is like Agatha Christie meets 42nd Street.

to bring a project but the favorite project wins a prize. Food provided.

5–10 p.m. FREE! www.facebook. com/hatchathens 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) Decorate cupcakes in “Cupcake Wars.” Registration required. Ages 11–18. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Pre-School Pajama Holiday Party (Lay Park) Ages

Wednesday listing for full description Dec. 13–16, 8 p.m. Dec. 17, 2:30 p.m. $15. www.roseofathens. org

Saturday 16 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 ART: Bendzunas Glass Open House (Bendzunas Glass) (Comer) The family-run glassblowing studio

Lucha Rodriguez’s site-specific installation “Amorphous Dislocations of Ultramarine” is currently on view in the Glasscube@Indigo through April.

Dec. 14–16, 8 p.m. & Dec. 17, 2 p.m. $10–18. townandgownplayers.org THEATER: Shenandoah Christmas (Oconee County Civic Center) Travel back to the late 1800s in the Blue Ridge Mountains during the Civil War to meet a close-knit family, the Morgans. Dec. 14–15, 7:30 p.m.

Dec. 16, 2:30 pm. & 7:30 p.m. Dec. 17, 2:30 p.m. $12–15. www.brightstoneathens.com THEATER: 5th Yuletide Celebration (Rose Hall) See Wednesday listing for full description Dec. 13–16, 8 p.m. Dec. 17, 2:30 p.m. $15. www.roseofathens. org

Friday 15 ART: Athens Holiday Market (Big City Bread Cafe) See Thursday listing for full description 5–9 p.m. www.bigcitybreadcafe.com EVENTS: Hackathon (The Hatch, 160 Tracy St.) Craft, paint, draw, sew, build, repair, solder and hack things. Participants do not need

2–5 are encouraged to wear their jammies and get cozy for stories and crafts. 10–11:30 a.m. $5–7.50. www.athensclarkecounty.com/holidayevents LECTURES & LIT: Perk & Pages (Oconee County Library) Join the library for a cup of joe.

Complimentary coffee and breakfast cookies for the holidays to go along with your reading. 10 a.m.–12 p..

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee PERFORMANCE: Christmas on Ice (The Classic Center) See Thursday listing for full description Dec. 14–15, 7 p.m. Dec. 16, 1 p.m. $15–30. 706-357-4444 THEATER: Curtains (Athens Community Theater) See Thursday listing for full description Dec. 14–16, 8 p.m. & Dec. 17, 2 p.m. $10–18. townandgownplayers.org THEATER: Shenandoah Christmas (Oconee County Civic Center) See Thursday listing for full description Dec. 14–15, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 16, 2:30 pm. & 7:30 p.m. Dec. 17, 2:30 p.m. $12–15. brightstoneathens.com THEATER: 5th Yuletide Celebration (Rose Hall) See

offers handmade glass items. Live demos until 3 p.m. 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

FREE! www.bendzunasglass.com EVENTS: West Broad Farmers Holiday Market (West Broad Market Garden) The market will offer handmade crafts, wreaths, jewelry, flowers, fruitcake and more.

Activities include a gingerbread house station, cooking demo, pictures with santa, DIY Christmas stocking workshop, live music and kids activities. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! www.athenslandtrust.org EVENTS: A Night of Poetry & Music (Go Bar) Performers include Life the Griot, Gift Economy, Celest Divine, Reno Roberts and Katie Orton. Chess on-site. Proceeds benefit Chess & Community. 9 p.m. $5–10. www.facebook.com/chessandcommunity EVENTS: Snow on the Square (Downtown Washington) Play in the snow on The Square. 5:30–6:30 p.m. washingtonwilkes.org EVENTS: Contra Dance (Memorial Park) A dance presented by Athens Folk Music & Dance Society with live music by Reel Play and calling

by Rob Harper. 7:30 p.m. (lesson), 8–11 p.m. (dance). $8 (adults), $4 (ages 11–17) FREE! (ages 11 & under). www.athensfolk.org GAMES: Holiday Board Game Party (The Rook and Pawn) Play games and enjoy holiday snacks.

Bring a wrapped gift of a game valuing approximately $25 for the white elephant board game gift exchange and canned goods for the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia. 1–6 p.m. www. therookandpawn.com KIDSTUFF: Grinchy Christmas (ACC Library) The special storytime has stories and crafts to help the Grinch’s heart grow. Ages 2–9. 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ athens KIDSTUFF: Family Movie (Bogart Library) Catch a screening of Despicable 3. Popcorn and lemonade served. 2 p.m. FREE! ww.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Breakfast with Santa (Memorial Park) Eat breakfast, get a photo with jolly old St. Nick, make crafts and participate in holidaythemed activities. 9–9:45 a.m. or 10-10:45 a.m. $5-7.50. www.athensclarkecounty.com/holidayevents KIDSTUFF: Breakfast with Santa (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Eat breakfast and take photos with Jolly Old St. Nick. This holiday event also includes crafts and activities for children. 8, 9 or 10 a.m. $5–7.50. www. athensclarkecounty.com/leisure LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Authors (Barnes & Noble) Meet local author Patrick Garbin and Steve “Shag” Davis in celebration of the Dawgs Gone Wild: The Scandalous ’70s of UGA Football.

2-4 p.m. FREE! 706-354-1195 LECTURES & LIT: Pop-Up Book Sale (ACC Library) The Friends of the Athens-Clarke County Library host a book sale in the lobby with children’s books, cookbooks, puzzles, games and more. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. www.athenslibrary.org/athens PERFORMANCE: TubaChristmas (Georgia Square Mall) Tuba players can receive a copy of songs online.

Arrive early to rehearse with the group. All tuba players are welcome.

9 a.m. (register), 11:30 a.m. (performance). $10 (registration), $20–25 (music). athenstubachristmas@ gmail.com, tubachristmas.com PERFORMANCE: Christmas on Ice (The Classic Center) See Thursday listing for full description Dec. 14–15, 7 p.m. Dec. 16, 1 p.m. $15–30. 706-357-4444 SPORTS: Table Tennis Matches and Training (East Athens Community Center) Beginner to advanced skill levels welcome.

Tuesdays, 6–8:30 p.m. & Saturdays, 1–4 p.m. FREE! www.ttathensga.com THEATER: Curtains (Athens Community Theater) See Thursday listing for full description Dec. 14–16, 8 p.m. & Dec. 17, 2 p.m. $10–18. townandgownplayers.org THEATER: Shenandoah Christmas (Oconee County Civic Center) See Thursday listing for full description Dec. 14–15, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 16, 2:30 pm. & 7:30 p.m. Dec. 17, 2:30 p.m. $12–15. www.brightstoneathens. com THEATER: 5th Yuletide Celebration (Rose Hall) See Wednesday listing for full description Dec. 13–16, 8 p.m. Dec. 17, 2:30 p.m. $15. www.roseofathens. org

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Monday 18 ART: Holiday Micro-Market (The World Famous) Pick up last-minute guifts from local artists. 5:30–9:30 p.m. FREE! morganjokelley@gmail. com EVENTS: Cookies & Cider (Oconee County Library) Celebrate the holidays with a cookie and cup of warm cider. Bring a holiday recipe to swap.

6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee FILM: Creature Comforts Creature Feature (Hi-Lo Lounge) Ming Vase presents the made-for-TV protoslasher Home for the Holidays. 9 p.m. FREE! www.hiloathens.com FILM: Flicker Film Society (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Get into the Christmas spirit with a screening of Die Hard followed by Die Hard 2 with free pizza. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.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: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Highwire Lounge) Test your general knowledge for prizes. 8–10 p.m.

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GAMES: Dirty South Trivia: Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Team trivia contests with house cash prizes every Monday night. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.grindhouseburgers.com KIDSTUFF: Toys for Rescue Pups (ACC Library) Make chew toys for shelter dogs to be donated to the Athens Humane Society, Athens Canine Rescue and Circle of Friends Animal Society. 4 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Visit with Santa (Oconee County Library) Meet Santa Claus and take a picture together.

4–6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Open Chess Play for Kids and Teens (ACC Library) Teen chess players of all skill levels can play matches and learn from members of the local Chess and Community Players, who will be on hand to assist players and help

register. 10 a.m. 5. 706-743-8341, www.athenslandtrust.org CLASSES: Computer Class (Bogart Library) “Intro to Excel 2010.” 10 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ bogart EVENTS: Candlelight Shopping, Santa & Snow on the Square (Downtown Washington) Play in the snow, meet Santa and shop from downtown businesses. 5–7 p.m. washingtonwilkes.org EVENTS: Blood Drive (Athens First UMC) To sign-up, contact Sarah Beth. 1 p.m.–6 p.m. FREE! 706-5431442, sarahbeth@athensfirstumc. org GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) See Tuesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 GAMES: Trivia at Johnny’s (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Play for cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706354-1515 GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Nic every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706354-7289

KIDSTUFF: Lego Club (Oconee County Library) Create Lego art and enjoy Lego-based activities. Legos provided. Ages 3–11. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (Bogart Library) Read aloud to a canine friend. RSVP. 3 p.m. FREE! 770-7259443, www.athenslibrary.org/bogart LECTURES & LIT: Adult Book Club (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Discuss One True Loves by Jenkins Reid. 6:30 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison PERFORMANCE: Holiday at the Morton (Morton Theatre) The community variety show will feature performances by East Athens Dance, Rose of Athens, The Shimmy Mob, ACT, Celest Divine, Classic City Jazz Band, Moyuba! drummers and Calvin Orlando Smith. Florence King will MC. 7 p.m. FREE! www.mortontheatre.com SPORTS: Table Tennis Matches and Training (East Athens Community Center) Beginner to

Zapula. 9:30 p.m. www.facebook. com/lkshuffleclub GAMES: Dirty Bingo (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Hosted by Garrett Lennox every Wednesday. Prizes and house cash. 8 p.m. FREE! www. grindhouseburgers.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. www. 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 KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Children of all ages are invited for bedtime stories every Wednesday. 7 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens

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20. 2:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens ART: Bendzunas Glass Open House (Bendzunas Glass) See Saturday listing for full description 10 a.m.–6 p.m. FREE! www.bendzunasglass.com ART: Sunday Spotlight Tour (Georgia Museum of Art) Docents lead a tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 3 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org ART: Opening Reception (KA Artist Shop) “Home for the Holidays” presents artists’ interpretation of the theme “home.” See Calendar Pick on p. 20. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www. kaartist.com EVENTS: Normaltown Flea (Indie South, 1377 Prince Ave.) Browse vintage, handmade goods and records. Free mulled wine while supplies last. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. $8. www.franklincommunityplayers.com KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Beginning readers read aloud to a certified therapy dog. 3–4 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 PERFORMANCE: Holiday Concert (Athens Academy) (Harrison Center Performance Hall) The Bethel Church Male Chorus will sing classic holiday songs. 2 p.m. FREE! www.athensacademy.org THEATER: Curtains (Athens Community Theater) See Thursday listing for full description Dec. 14–16, 8 p.m. & Dec. 17, 2 p.m. $10–18. townandgownplayers.org THEATER: 5th Yuletide Celebration (Rose Hall) See Wednesday listing for full description Dec. 13–16, 8 p.m. Dec. 17, 2:30 p.m. $15. www.roseofathens. org THEATER: Shenandoah Christmas (Oconee County Civic Center) See Thursday listing for full description Dec. 14–15, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 16, 2:30 pm. & 7:30 p.m. Dec. 17, 2:30 p.m. $12–15. www.brightstoneathens. com

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Participants are encouraged to bring canned goods for the Athens Area Emergency Food Bank. 7 p.m. FREE! www.uuathensga.org

LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 12 Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com NEIGHBOR LADY Twangy, melodic rock group led by local singersongwriter Emily Braden.

THE HERNIES Local riff-heavy rock band displaying influences from classic to indie rock.

DEGA Local indie-pop duo featuring former Ponderosa frontman Kalen Nash.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com KATIE COLLINS Singer-songwriter playing classical piano with a melodic twist.

The Foundry Terrapin Tuesday. 7 p.m. $5. www. thefoundryathens.com NORTH GEORGIA BLUEGRASS BAND Local roots-music outfit led by longtime musical partners Chris White and Larry Saye.

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens 7 p.m. $15 (suggested donation). www. uuathensga.org DAVID ROTH Award-winning folk singer-songwriter from Cape Cod.

Wednesday 13 Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC A weekly open-mic jam hosted by Louis Phillip Pelot.

Backline provided!

Rev. Tribble and the Deacons play the Georgia Theatre on Thursday, Dec. 14. build skill levels. For ages 7–18.

Registration required. 4–5:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 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 KIDSTUFF: Books and Bites (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Read and snack in the library after hours. Ages 13 and up. BYOB (Bring Your Own Book) or choose one of the library’s. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison 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

Tuesday 19 CLASSES: Farm Business Workshop (Oglethorpe County Extension Office, Crawford) Beginner farmers can learn more about FSA loan programs, the NRCS cost share program and EQUIP, UGA Small Business Development Center opportunities and more. Call to

GAMES: Playtest Night (The Rook and Pawn) Try out new games from developers. 7:30 p.m. www.therookandpawn.com GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) See Tuesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! www. locosgrill.com GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) See Tuesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) See Tuesday listing for full description 6 p.m. FREE! www.therookandpawn.com KIDSTUFF: Teen Film and Fondue (Bogart Library) Teens will make sweet and savory treats using fondue then watch Home Alone. Grades 6–12. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Teen Council Meeting (ACC Library) Teens can come together to discuss plans for the ACC Library’s teen department’s collections and programs. Pick up application forms at the front desk.

Ages 11-18. 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Santa and the Grinch Holiday Celebration (Lay Park) Ages 3–10 are invited to play games, make crafts and take photos with Santa and the Grinch. 6–7:30 p.m. FREE! www.athensclarkecounty. com/holidayevents

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advanced skill levels welcome.

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

Wednesday 20 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Docents lead a tour of highlights from the permanent collection.

2 p.m. FREE! georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Learn to Read Tarot Cards (The Rook and Pawn) The focus of this class is “New Year Wishes.” 7 p.m. www.therookandpawn.com EVENTS: 1 Million Cups (Athens Area Chamber of Commerce) 1MC is a national program designed to educate, engage and connect entrepreneurs. Each week, a local startup presents their company to a supportive audience. 8:30 a.m. FREE! www.1millioncups.com/athens 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: Trivia (Your Pie) (Eastside) Every Wednesday. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.yourpie.com GAMES: Movie Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Hosted by Count

KIDSTUFF: Teen Movie (ACC Library) Unwind with a movie and snacks. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: PRISM (Oconee County Library) PRISM is a safe space for all teens who share a common vision of equality. The Christmas Party will have music, food and gifts.

Grades 6–12. 6 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Library Adventures (Bogart Library) A storytelling program with hands-on activities.

Ages 3.5–8. 11:30 a.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/bogart 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: Preschool Pals (Bogart Library) Preschool aged children will learn social and language skills through songs stories and crafts.

Ages almost 3–almost 5. 10:15 a.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: 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 PERFORMANCE: Turn, Turn, Turn: A Winter Solstice Celebration (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) The Unitarian Universalist

Caledonia Lounge 8:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18–20). www. caledonialounge.com SOLID GOLD CORPSE Dave Zwart (Daisy) and Creston Spiers (Harvey Milk) play hummable pop with an edge.

5000 Denver-based Meghann Jordan and Matt Youngblood are backed by Harvey Milk’s Creston Spiers and Paul Trudeau playing ’90s-inspired indie-rock originals.

BAX & FRIENDS Original songs blending rock, country and blues, with the distinctive guitar stylings of Scott Baxendale.

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

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

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com BRIAN SMITH Classical and avantgarde guitarist who incorporates various looping effects.

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!

Seth Hendershot, plus the All Star Peanuts Choir, perform the music of A Charlie Brown Christmas and more.

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Highwire Lounge 11 p.m. $1 (headphone). www.highwirelounge.com SILENT DISCO Dance the night away with wireless headphones and two channels of music. One of them is a request line!

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

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 HEATHER GILLIS BAND Young, Florida-based guitarist and songwriter leads her soulful rock band.

Blue Sky 10 p.m. FREE! 706-850-3153 WARM GLOW BLUE SKY SHOW JJC plays disco, funk, soul & cetera.

Every Thursday!

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

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

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com MOON CHIEF Funky prog-rock group from Atlanta.

MAHEETA No info available.

MONK TESH Three-piece prog-rock band from Atlanta.

SATYR Proggy post-hardcore group from Atlanta.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com THE PLAGUE Original, ballsy rock harkening back to The Stooges, Sonic Youth and The MC5.

HARRY CAREY Reunited version of this raucous rock group fronted by songwriter Jim Willingham.

TRYCOH New local band featuring Frank Mcdonald, Matt Nelson and Aaron Simms.

40 Watt Club 7 p.m. $5 (with canned good). www.40watt.com A VERY TOWNIE CHRISTMAS The Athens Cowboy Choir presents a night of holiday cheer hosted

by Pete McBrayer and Matt Hudgins, and featuring Claire Campbell, Don Chambers, T. Hardy Morris, Paul McHugh, Dave Marr, Bain Mattox and Jay Gonzalez.

The Foundry 8 p.m. $25 (adv.), $30 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com DAVID BROMBERG QUINTET The legendary songwriter and session musician performs material from his vast catalog.

MRJORDANMRTONKS Tommy Jordan and William Tonks’ collaboration features rootsy guitar picking and paired vocal melodies.

Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. $5 (or unwrapped toy). www. georgiatheatre.com REV. TRIBBLE AND THE DEACONS Old-fashioned rock with a sprinkle of good-humored irreverance.

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 7:30 p.m. $10. www.hendershotscoffee. com THE GOOD GRIEF TRIO Greg Hankins, Luca Lombardi and

The Office Lounge Empty Stocking Fund Benefit. 6 p.m. $10. 706-546-0840 STRUNG OUT LIKE THE LIGHTS The Office Lounge’s annual Christmas celebration features Rev. Conner Tribble, Kate Morrissey, Clay Leverett, Pickled Holler, Me’an Mills, Dodd Ferrelle and Betsy Inglesby, Ralph Roddenbery, Caroline Aiken and Catch a C.A.B., Elite tha Showstoppa, Will White & the Howlin’ South and Ty Manning and the Slawdawg Biscuits.

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Creature Comforts Brewery 7 p.m. FREE! www.creaturecomfortsbeer.com ANDY BRUH Local DJ Andy Herrington spins and mixes dubstep, EDM and bass music.

ROBBIE DUDE Local DJ spinning “futuristic, hip hop, electro-soul, funky freshness, wine sippin’, bumpin’, grindin’ bass music.”

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com BLEACH GARDEN Three-piece grunge-rock group from Atlanta.

THE STYROFOAM TURTLES Grungy garage-rock band from Asheville, NC. THE GOOD LOOKS Young band playing a custom blend of rock, blues, funk, punk and alternative.

OLDE WORLD MONKEYS Athensbased Southern and stoner-rock outfit.

PROPERTY OF BOLTON New local rock four-piece.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com WOLVES AMONG RAVENS Area classic-rock group formerly known as Breathing Kansas.

LONA Long-running local country band led by songwriter Clay Leverett.

5000 Denver-based Meghann Jordan and Matt Youngblood are backed by Harvey Milk’s Creston Spiers and Paul Trudeau playing ’90s-inspired indie-rock originals.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 TWIN POWERS Bouncy DJ Dan Geller spins the newest dance party jams and classic favorites.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 7:30 p.m. $10. www.hendershotscoffee. com THE GOOD GRIEF TRIO Greg Hankins, Luca Lombardi and Seth Hendershot, plus the All Star Peanuts Choir, perform the music of A Charlie Brown Christmas and more.

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

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 THE GET RIGHT BAND Asheville, NC-based funk/rock/boogie trio.

Eat. Drink. Celebrate.

Terrapin Beer Co. 3 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com HALEM ALBRIGHT A blend of unique songwriting and electrifying guitar work.

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18–20). www. caledonialounge.com DOUBLE FERRARI This local band plays virtuosic, riff-laden, instrumental rock.

MEGA COLOSSUS “Adventuremetal” group from North Carolina.

PALADIN Power/thrash-metal band from Atlanta.

Flicker Theatre & Bar Brain Aid Holiday Hootenanny. 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com ANCIENT WHALES Fuzz-rock band led by songwriter and vocalist Enoch Bledsoe.

THE PROXIES Local Pixies cover band.

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

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

THAI CUISINE

Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net MARY SIGALAS Mary sings classic jazz/blues from the 1920s–50s with surprise arrangements and unexpected tunes.

Flicker Theatre & Bar Brain Aid Holiday Hootenanny. 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com HANDSOME HIGHWAY Local honky-tonk and Americana group led

by Southern swooner Barrett Smith.

SOHI Underground hip-hop MC formerly of Athens groups Mad Axes and Deaf Judges.

CIVILS Experimental solo pop sounds courtesy of Athens musician Drew Kirby.

FRENCH EXIT Local rock band featuring members of Circulatory System and Faster Circuits.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $12 (adv.), $15 (door). www.40watt.com BLOODKIN & FRIENDS The longrunning Athens quartet plays a bluesy style of roots-rock music with big guitars and sharply written lyrics.

The Foundry 8 p.m. $10 (adv.), $13 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com THE GRAINS OF SAND Local band with a four-piece horn section offering up your favorite ’60s and ’70s beach and Motown music. This is a special holiday show.

Go Bar 10 p.m. FREE! 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by Dr. Fred and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more.

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

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MARK YOUR CALENDAR & COME JOIN US THIS

NEW YEAR’S EVE for a festive Winter Wonderland celebration to ring in 2018 starring

THE SENSATIONAL SOUNDS OF MOTOWN cial e p S st Gue Featuring MR. MOTOWN

One of the nation’s hottest Classic Motown, R&B, and Soul Dance Bands Help us celebrate in the New Year with lots of fun, dancing, heavy, heavy hors d’oeuvres, and a champagne toast at midnight.

When: Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017 Where: VFW · 835 Sunset Dr. Doors: 7:30pm Price: $40/person

FREE Parking !

Dress: Dress Casual to Semi Formal

Advance tickets available, call Sherry 706-546-0543

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The Gift of Music for all your Elves!

Open Every Day Until Christmas Park in the Washington St. Deck • 245 N. Lumpkin St. (First 30 mins FREE!)

(next to the Georgia Theatre)

Monday - Saturday 11am-7pm • Sunday 1-5pm (706) 548-7233

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THE CALENDAR! channels of music. One of them is a request line!

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 THE FUSTICS Folk-rock band from North Carolina.

The Office Lounge 9 p.m. 706-546-0840 THE LUDDITES Rock band from Atlanta whose core members met in Athens.

Terrapin Beer Co. 3 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com ADAM COOPER Multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter from Suwanee.

Sunday 17 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!

The Foundry 6 p.m. $12 (adv.), $15 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com THE SEGAR JAZZ AFFAIR WXAG radio DJ Dwain Segar curates a

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Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 JOHN SWILLEY Local songwriter who blends gritty Southern rock, sultry rhythm and blues and Delta blues.

Wednesday 20 Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC A weekly open-mic jam hosted by Louis Phillip Pelot.

Backline provided!

Caledonia Lounge 8 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18–20). www. caledonialounge.com MAMIE DAVIS Young local singersongwriter influenced by grunge and folk.

EMILY CLEMENT Nashville-based folk singer-songwriter.

SIMONE ZJ Athens native playing acoustic folk music with soul.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com DEEP STATE Local band led by songwriter Taylor Chmura, playing driving, punky, melodic guitar-rock.

DO NOTHING Raw, Florida-based pop-punk group.

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.

Down the Line 12/21 BROTHER HAWK / THE PINK STONES / HINDSIGHT (Caledonia Lounge) 12/21 THE SHOAL CREEK STRANGLERS / GARRETT HATCH / THE WHITE LIGHT SHINES / CHIP MCKENZIE (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 12/21 SLEEPY BROWN / KILO ALI / DJ KELLY (40 Watt Club) 12/21 PHYSICAL JERKS / PAN AND FLASH (The Foundry) 12/21 THE LAST WALTZ ENSEMBLE (Nowhere Bar) 12/21 REV. TRIBBLE AND THE DANCING MAGNOLIAS (The Office Lounge) 12/22 JET ENGINE DRAGONS / THE ANCIENT VOID / BEAST MODE (Caledonia Lounge) 12/22 WANDERMONCH (Flicker Theatre & Bar)

Mega Colossus plays the Caledonia Lounge on Friday, Dec. 15. night of smooth jazz, featuring Madoca & Company.

Monday 18 Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OPEN MIC Showcase your talent at this open mic night every Monday.

Hosted by Larry Forte.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 JAZZ FUNK JAM Local jazz musician Mason Davis hosts this monthly jam session.

Tuesday 19 The Foundry 7 p.m. $5. www.thefoundryathens.com THE LUCKY JONES Rockin’ rhythm and blues from this popular local band.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $5. www.georgiatheatre.com GRAND VAPIDS Local alt-rock band with a dense, dreamy, slowcoreinspired sound.

PALACE DOCTOR Dynamic rock trio fronted by former Modern Skirts bassist Phillip Brantley.

T. HARDY MORRIS Local singersongwriter and guitarist plays twangy, reflective folk-rock.

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. Performers can bring their own beats, or the house will provide backing.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 VINTAGE PISTOL Jam-centric bluesrock group from Arkansas.

12/22 JINGLE JAM / Lingua Franca / Elite tha Showstoppa / Four Eyes / Blacknerdninja / LG / DK (40 Watt Club) 12/22 MONDAY’S ALIBI (The Foundry) 12/22 THE DARNELL BOYS / HOPE FOR AGOLDENSUMMER (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 12/22 RICK WILLIAMS’ BLUES OLYMPICS (Nowhere Bar) 12/22 REV. CONNER MACK TRIBBLE (The Office Lounge) 12/22 TRE POWELL (Terrapin Beer Co.) 12/23 BASKETBALL TEAM (The Foundry) 12/23 GIMME HENDRIX (Georgia Theatre) 12/23 THE SOLSTICE SISTERS (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 12/23 TRE POWELL (Terrapin Beer Co.) 12/24 THE LUCKY JONES (Cali ’N’ Tito’s Eastside) 12/28 STEVE COUGHLIN & PROBABLE CAUSE / PINK TRUCK BAND (The Foundry)

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bulletin board Deadline for getting listed in Bulletin Board is every THURSDAY at 5 p.m. for the print issue that comes out the following Wednesday. Online listings are updated daily. Email calendar@flagpole.com.

Art AAAC GRANTS (Athens, GA) The Athens Area Arts Council is seeking applicants for its quarterly $500 grants. All local artists, arts organizations or arts-based projects are welcome to apply. Deadline 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 (Amici) Currently accepting artists for exhibitions. Email samples of work to ryan.myers@amici-cafe.com

DECK THE WALLS (Lyndon House Arts Center) A special exhibition features art available for sale by 70 area artists, authors, crafters and musicians. Items include glass ornaments, pottery, sculptural works, embroidery, children’s books, photography and more.

Open daily through December. ww.athensclarkecounty.com/lyndon house 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 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. Visit website for weekly hours and to register. $65/ month or $175/three months. 706613-3623, www.athensclarkecounty. com/leisure

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 AREA UROLOGY (2142 W. Broad St.) Susan Pelham’s “Tales Told in Bits and Pieces” presents collages inspired by nursery rhymes, camp songs, poems, literature and Magic Realism. Through January.

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.)”heARTwork, Resilience in the Midst of Struggle” presents artwork by James Barnes and Broderick Flanigan. Opening reception Dec. 17. Through Feb. 17.

ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (ATHICA) (160 Tracy St.) The “2017 Members’ Exhibition” features works in a variety of media by current and new gallery members including Lisa Freeman, June Ball, Robert Clements, Mike Landers, Melody Croft, Timothy Adams and more. Through Jan. 14.

AURUM STUDIOS (125 E. Clayton St.) “Twist of Light: Sculpture and Wearable Art by Noah Saunders” features works made of wire. Through January.

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.) “La rentrée, René returns from France” shares works by René Shoemaker. Opening reception Dec. 14. Through January.

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Auditions CINDERELLA (Rose Hall) Rose of Athens presents its third show of the season. Prepare a one-minute contemporary monologue. Contact to sign up for an audition time.

Auditions on Jan. 8, 6–8 p.m.

Callbacks on Jan. 9. Also accepting resumes for stage manager, costume design/build, set design/build and composer/musician. 706-340-9181, danielle@roseofathens.org GARGOYLE AUDITIONS (Athens Little Playhouse) Kids can perform in The Gargoyle Family Goes to Easter Island. Auditions will be held on Mar. 6–7, 6–7:30 p.m.

Performances will run from May 4–6 & May 11–13. www.athenslittleplay house.net LOVE, ETC. The Franklin Community Players will hold auditions for an upcoming production of Victoria Young’s Love, Etc. The format is a cold read from the script. Call for details. Jan. 5 & 12, 5–7. p.m.

706-491-9374 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

“Twist of Light: Sculpture and Wearable Art by Noah Saunders” is currently on view at Aurum Studios through January.

Classes ACROYOGA JAM (Center City Ballet, 750 N. Chase St.) Work in trios and

St.) “A Partial View: Paintings by Cecile Martin.” Through Dec. 15.

CITY OF WATKINSVILLE (Downtown Watkinsville) “Public Art Watkinsville: A Pop-up Sculpture Exhibit” consists of sculptures placed in prominent locations around downtown. Artists include Benjamin Lock, William Massey, Stan Mullins, Robert Clements, Harold Rittenberry and Joni Younkins-Herzog. • “Artscape Oconee: The Monuments of Artland” features a total of 20 paintings on panels installed around town. Artists include Claire Clements, Peter Loose, Andy Cherewick, Lisa Freeman, Manda McKay and others.

THE CLASSIC CENTER (300 N. Thomas St.) “Warm Days, Cool Nights” celebrates summer vibes through Ariel Lockshaw’s pool paintings, Frances Berry’s minimal golden hour photos, Wade Sheldon’s nautical night skies and Hannah Ehrlich’s cloud compositions. Through December. • Jackie Dorsey’s solo exhibition in Gallery II features watercolor portraits of musicians, artists, chefs and other familiar faces of Athens. Through December.

CREATURE COMFORTS BREWING CO. (271 W. Hancock Ave.) “Athens Art Prints” features 33 of the 50+ artists who use Pixel & Ink Studio’s reproduction service by the same name. Event Dec. 14. Currently on view through Jan. 7.

DONDEROS’ KITCHEN (590 N. Milledge Ave.) Images by the Athens Photography Guild. Through December.

EARTH FARE (1689 S. Lumpkin St.) Artwork by Gitte Sorenson. Through December.

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Paintings by Stephanie Grey Reavis. Through December.

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.) “Martha Odum: Art Intersects Ecology” shares paintings and silver by Odum in celebration of the UGA School of Ecology’s 50th anniversary. Through December. • “Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête-à-tête” shares over 40 works by the acclaimed African American artist. Through Jan. 7. • “Artful Instruments: Georgia Gunsmiths and Their Craft.” Through Feb. 25.

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.

HEART PATH STUDIO (160 Tracy St., Suite 2C) Barbara Odil creates fascinating assemblages out of natural and found materials like seed pods, wood, cacti, shells and bones. Through January.

HEIRLOOM CAFE & FRESH MARKET (815 N. Chase St.) Mary Ann Cox offers “Mementos,” recent works with themes of nostalgia and all things vintage. Through December.

JUST PHO…AND MORE (1063 Baxter St.) “Stilled Life” includes drawings

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rotate through the roles of base, flier and spotter. Sundays, 8 p.m. $5. www.centercityballet.com CAREER COACH (ACC Library) A Goodwill’s Career Coach will assist

patrons with job applications and resumes. Dec. 28, 10 a.m.–12 p.m.

844-344-WORK CLASSES (Winterville Center for Community and Culture)

and paintings by Emily Morrison and Mikaila Guerra.

KA ARTIST SHOP (127 N. Jackson St.) “Home, for the Holidays” is a group exhibition sharing works that remind the artists of home. Reception Dec. 17.

Currently on view through Jan. 15.

LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) “BFA 2: Graphic Design, Art X, Sculpture, Art Education.” Closing reception Dec. 14.

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

LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) The Clarke County School District Student Art Exhibition’s theme this year is “Connect.” Through Jan. 13. • “Resonating Destinations” features mixed media works by Jim Wilson.

Through Mar. 3.

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.) “Covered with Glory: Football at UGA, 1892–1917.” Through Dec. 22. • “Wrestling Temptation: The Quest to Control Alcohol in Georgia.”

Through Sept. 21, 2018.

SOUTHERN BREWING COMPANY (231 Collins Industrial Blvd.) Anna Lee Shultz’s paintings are inspired by science and nature, and often combine plants and insects with geometric designs. Through December.

THE SURGERY CENTER (2142 W. Broad St.) See colorful paintings by Dr. Hildegard Timberlake. Through January.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF ATHENS (780 Timothy Rd.) Melody Croft’s “Illuminations” are portraits that use newspaper and magazine print to include poetry excerpts. Through February.

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.

“Community Coffeehouse,” Mondays–Thursdays, 9 a.m.–3 p.m.

“Needle Tatting,” Mondays at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. “Pilates,” Tuedays at 5:30 p.m. “Gentle 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.

“Mah Jongg,” Thursdays at 1 p.m.

“Line Dancing,” Thursdays at 4 p.m.

“Ballroom Dancing,” Thursdays at 6 p.m. 706-742-0823, winterville center@gmail.com, www.winterville center.com CLAY CLASSES (Good Dirt) Weekly “Try Clay” classes ($20/person) introduce participants to the potter’s wheel every Friday from 7–9 p.m.

“Family Try Clay” classes show children and adults hand-building methods every Sunday from 2–4 p.m. $20. www.gooddirt.net COMPUTER CLASS (ACC Library) “Excel 2013: Spreadsheet Basics.”

Tuesday, Dec. 12, 10 a.m. “Excel 2013: Formulas, Functions & Sorting.” 10 a.m. FREE! www.athens library.org/athens COMPUTER CLASSES (Oconee County Library) “Windows Basics.”

Dec. 9, 3 p.m. “Basic Computer Skills.” Dec. 15, 2 p.m. “Intermediate Excel 2010.” Dec. 22, 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee DANCE CLASS REGISTRATION (East Athens Educational Dance Center) Offering classes for beginners through advanced students.

Classes include ballet, modern dance, tap, urban soul and more.

Children, teens and adults. www. athensclarkecounty.com/leisure DIGITAL MEDIA CENTER CLASSES (ACC Library) “Video Editing for Beginners.” Dec. 13, 7 p.m. “After Effects for Beginners.”

Dec. 20, 7 p.m. FREE! www.athens library.org/athens FINDING A PLACE TO REST (Athens Physical Therapy/Physicians Back and Neck Clinic) This fourweek course is an introduction to mindfulness meditation. Call to sign up. Thursdays in January, 5–7 p.m. $120. 706-353-0709 GENTLE HATHA YOGA (St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church) Drop in for a gentle Hatha, mindfulnessbased class. Tuesdays, 5:30–7 p.m. $10. 706-543-0162, mfhealy@ bellsouth.net INTRODUCTION TO QUILTING (Farmview Market) Learn how to piece and machine quilt with Jeannette Hart and Gay Rodriguez of Quilts by Hart. Tuesdays, Jan. 16–30. 5–7 p.m. $90. angelina@ farmviewmarket.com ONE-ON-ONE COMPUTER SKILLS (ACC Library) Personalized instruction available for various computer topics. Thursdays through Dec. 21, 9 a.m. www.athenslibrary.org ONE-ON-ONE DIGITAL MEDIA CENTER TUTORIALS (ACC Library) Get individual instruction for graphics, audio or video editing projects or learn to convert albums and cassettes to DVDs and CDs. Thursdays, 6 p.m. and Saturdays through Dec. 16, 11 a.m. 706-6133650 SACRED PASSAGES (Athens, GA) A four-dayworkshop with Dr. Fernand Poulin on the teachings of the Medicine Wheel. $490. www. whitewinds.com TAI CHI (Rubber Soul Yoga) Tai Chi, Yang style, traditional long form.

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

770-630-1252 YOGA (Rubber Soul Yoga) Ongoing classes in Kundalini, Hatha, gentle yoga, laughing yoga, acroyoga, karate and one-on-one yoga as well as guided meditation. www.rubber soulyoga.com

YOGA CLASSES (m3yoga, 159 Oneta St., Unit 5) m3yoga offers theraputic, rocket and vinyasa flow classes.

Donation Flow Yoga Classes are held every Saturday at 6 p.m. $5 yoga classes are offered to all veterans, and a “Community Warrior” membership offers reduced rates for local educators, active military members, firefighters, health care professionals and law enforcement.

Check website for classes. www. m3yoga.com YOGA SUNDAYS AT THE HUMAN YOGI ASHRAM (The Human Yogi Ashram, 1307 Cleveland Rd. Bogart) Traci Jo Lee leads a weekly yoga class. Mats provided. Sundays, 2 p.m. FREE! www.kaliintegrative.com YOGA TEACHER TRAINING (Athens Five Points Yoga Studio) This teacher training program is grounded in self-study. Begins in February. www.athensfivepoints yoga.com

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 MLK DAY OF SERVICE (Athens, GA) Register to volunteer at 14 sites around Athens. Opening event Jan. 15, 8:30 a.m. at Clarke Central High School. www.athensclarkecounty. com/mlkday

Kidstuff GYMNASTICS REGISTRATION (Bishop Park) Now registering for the Jan.–Apr. season. Classes are offered for toddlers to teens. $105. www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure HOLIDAY CARD-MAKING STATION (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Send holiday greetings.

Materials provided. Dec. 8, 15 & 22. www.athenslibrary.org/madison HOLIDAY MINI CAMPS (Multiple Locations) “Adventures with Buddy the Elf Mini Camp,” Dec. 22, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. at Lay Park. $25–37.50.

“December to Remember” Day Off School Program, Dec. 22, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. at East Athens Community Center. $25–37.50. “Ugly Holiday Sweater Camp,” Dec. 20–22, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. at Rocksprings Park. $25–37.50. “Gymnastics Santa’s Helper Day Camp,” Dec. 20, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. at Bishop Park. $20–30. “Winter Creations Mini Camp,” Dec. 27–29, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. at East Athens Community Center. $25–37.50. “New Year’s Flashback Party,” Dec. 27–29, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. at Lay Park. $25–37.50. “Oh the Places You’ll Go,” Jan. 2, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. at Rocksprings Park. $15–22.50. www. athensclarkecounty.com/leisure THREE-DAY THEATRE CAMP (Athens Little Playhouse) Improvisation scenes, theater games and creative problem solving. Dec. 20–22, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. $100. www. athenslittleplayhouse.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 YOUTH BASKETBALL REGISTRATION (East Athens Community Center) The season takes place from Jan. 8–Feb. 17.

Ages 7–12. Register online. 706613-3991, www.athensclarkecounty. com/sports

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 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. athenschronic illness@gmail.com DUDES HELPING DUDES (Nuçi’s Space) A weekly support group for anyone who identifies as a man. Park in the lot across the street on Williams Street.

Thursdays, 6–7 p.m. tinyurl.com/ DudesHelpingDudes, www.brainaid fest.com EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) A 12-step program open to anyone with a desire to become well emotionally. Meets Sundays, 4–5 p.m. 706-202-7463, www.emotions anonymous.org MENTAL HEALTH PEER SUPPORT GROUP (Nuçi’s Space) Meets the second Wednesday of every month.

Open to anyone focused on improving their life and learning how to live with their condition. Next meeting Dec. 13. 6–7 p.m. FREE! www. nuci.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 BRING ONE FOR THE CHIPPER: CHRISTMAS TREE RECYCLING (Multiple Locations) Keep AthensClarke County Beautiful (KACCB) encourages citizens to recycle their undecorated trees and wreaths on Jan. 6, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Participants will receive a free tree seeding in return. Check website for drop-off locations. 706-613-3501 ext. 311, www.keepathensbeautiful.org DECK THE HOLLOW (Memorial Park, Bear Hollow Zoo) Celebrate the season with a self-guided walk through the holiday lights in the zoo.

Activities include live music, animal encounters and photo opportunities in the illuminated zoo. Now through Dec. 10 and Dec. 14–17, 5:30–7:30 p.m. $3. 706-613-3580, www.athens clarkecounty.com/holidayevents HEALTHCARE NAVIGATOR ASSISTANCE Kate Malone, an ACA Navigator with Insure GA, will provide assistance with Medicaid, Peachcare and Affordable Care Act applications. Dec. 10, 2–6 p.m. or Dec. 13, 4–7 p.m. 866-988-8216 ICE SKATING (The Classic Center) The Classic Center will offer ice skating in the indoor rink through Jan. 15 and the outdoor pavilion Jan. 29–Feb. 25. classiccenter.com STUFF THE BUS (ACC Library) Drop off non-perishable foods to the decorated Athens Transit bus in the parking lot. Dec. 12–13, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. www.athenslibrary.org/ athens f

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Sex Life Struggles ADVICE FOR ATHENS’ LOOSE AND LOVELORN

By Bonita Applebum advice@flagpole.com Dear Bonita, your concerns makes me wonder if he feels My boyfriend and I have been together just plain old pressured to put out, and hey, for two years, and living together for one. grrl—that ain’t OK. He is who he is, and his We love each other very much, but we only libido is perfect because it is his own. have sex a few times a month, and it’s been What to do, though? Hm. You’ve been REALLY frustrating for me. Last winter, when rocking with him now for two years, and he was stressed about school and work, we you don’t have any other complaints, and had sex once a month. I’m tired of bringing I’ve never thought of a slight difference in this issue up to him, libido as a reason to mainly because he gets a relationship. I Couples are able to have end upset and stressed out hope you have toys, healthy sex lives when whenever I do (which videos and other then makes him want to accoutrements that they have strong senses of have sex less, and then can keep you satiated their sexual selves.

I get more upset, and it when he’s not feeling becomes this awkward, randy, and don’t feel dumb cycle). We have a great life together othlike you’re settling or anything when it’s erwise, and I don’t want sex to be some obligatime for solo fun. Couples are able to have tory chore. But why won’t he bang me more healthy sex lives when they have strong and than once a week? He says that he’s trying and individual senses of their sexual selves. If thinks he’s doing better—but I don’t agree, you can’t love yourself, so to speak, how the hence this plea for help. hell can you love anyone else?

The rejection makes me feel unattractive, and incidentally, I feel less attracted to him. At I work at a restaurant, and working there this point, it’s more like he’s my best friend and is a pleasure, except for one manager. She roommate. How do we keep our relationship is vindictive, petty and cruel. She’s burned from slowly withering away? bridges with every single person there, kitchen P.S. Let me know if there’s more informaand waitstaff. The owner knows the stunts tion you need. I tried to keep it as brief as she’s pulled, yet she still has her job. One time possible. she came into the restaurant after-hours after going out, had a party that involved using the bar for her and her friends, doing coke and passing out in a booth while the restaurant sat unlocked and trashed. She even had underaged employees with her. The owner didn’t even fire her for this. How do I handle working there? At what point do I have to find something else?

I love the people I work with and don’t want to leave, but working under a toxic manager is awful.

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P.P.S. My therapist thinks he’s a good “Athens boyfriend” but probably not a “real world” boyfriend. Maybe his bias/judgment is skewing my view on the relationship?

P.P.P.S. I can’t think of a good pseudonym.

Hey P.P.P.S., Has this always been the case for you two, or is this a recent development? I’d be alarmed if you were used to mating like bunnies up until a few months ago. That could be a red flag for all kinds of things that I’d need more information on. Then again, if he’s always had a fairly mild sex drive, you might just need to accept that your boo isn’t as lusty as you are. Perhaps you’re just not well-matched in that particular way. His reaction when you voice

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Wow. Quit right now.

You do not have to tolerate treatment like that in a town with such a huge service industry. You could easily find a new job, and without their reference. When vetting a person for employment, most restaurant managers aren’t gonna bother with calling up every place on your resume to verify your employment or dig up dirt (not to mention that legally, there is only so much info they can share about your employment history). Just use another coworker from that job as a reference and not the offending manager, someone you know is cool and won’t throw you under the bus when a potential employer calls. f Need advice? Email advice@flagpole.com, use the anonymous form at flagpole.com/getadvice, or find Bonita on Twitter: @flagpolebonita.

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