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Saturday, March 3rd @ 1:00PM

2018 Black History Bowl Celebration and Michael L. Thurmond Lecture Series

presented by The Athens Area Black History Committee Saturday, March 10th @ 7:30PM

Motown and More! The Ultimate Live Tribute

presented by McIntosh Entertainment Wednesday, March 21st @ 7:00PM

Night at the Morton

Presented by The Athens Music Project, University of Georgia Thursday, March 22nd @ 7:00PM

The Al Huda Islamic Center served traditional Arabic and East Indian foods at its open house on Saturday. See more on p. 10.

Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 NEWS: City Dope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Georgia Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Planning Commissioners Discuss Comp Plan

This Modern World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

NEWS: Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Is CCSD Prepared for an Active Shooter? MUSIC: Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Dale Watson Was Born to Wing It ARTS: Theater Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

The Wizard of Oz and More on Local Stages

Democracy in Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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The Flaming Lips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Threats & Promises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Record Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 The Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Bulletin Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Art Around Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Movie Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Flick Skinny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Hey, Bonita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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Comp Plan Confusion PLUS, SOUTHERN JOURNALISM, THE CITY-COUNTY DIVIDE AND MORE NEWS By Blake Aued news@flagpole.com The planning commission is woke. Two weeks after hearing complaints about a proposed future development map that’s part of Athens-Clarke County’s once-a-decade comprehensive plan, ACC planning commissioners did some soul-searching about issues like equity. Dozens of people showed up at a comp plan steering committee meeting earlier this month to oppose the way that commercial corridors through historically black neighborhoods, such as West Broad Street, Baxter Street and Hawthorne Avenue, were being treated. As planners consolidated future land-use categories, those areas were labeled “general business” rather than “Main Street business.” What difference does it make? Planners said they made those changes to more accurately reflect the zoning that already exists, which is “commercial general,” the most permissive category, which allows things like big-box stores. And the land-use map isn’t zoning. It doesn’t carry the force of law; it’s just a glimpse at what the community envisions being built 20 years from now. But many people, including ACC Commissioner Melissa Link, don’t think those corridors ought to be commercial-general, pointing to furor over a rumored development on the Varsity property at Milledge and Broad. A conversation on downzoning to something like the less intensive commercial-neighborhood category will have to come later, but if it does happen, relabeling corridors as “Main Street” business will make it much harder for a developer to argue for a rezoning. After hearing those concerns, the steering committee (mainly made up of planning commissioners) made the requested changes. Concerns about equity in local

planning decisions, as well as the vagueness of the entire comp plan, remain. Engagement on equity across racial and class lines is at an all-time high, and the government needs to do a better job of educating citizens on these documents, said one speaker, Kelli Clifton. Tyler Dewey, executive director of BikeAthens, and others said they like the goals expressed in the plan but are frustrated that the path to get there is vague. Imani Scott-Blackwell came armed with a specific platform gleaned from Movement for Black Lives, including a progressive income tax, a mansion tax, a tax on real-estate speculators, tax breaks for low-income homeowners and variable utility rates based on income (at least some of which would be illegal in Georgia). The criticism was well received. “This community is growing, and a younger generation is coming along,” planning commissioner Hank Joiner said. “They need to be sitting up here in these chairs, not old guys like me.” The comp plan has to be couched in terms like “work towards” a goal to avoid consequences for not achieving them, ACC Planning Director Brad Griffin said. “If you submit a document where you’re going to save the world, and you come back in five years and say, ‘Well, those were great ideas, but we never got to any of them,’ [the state Department of Community Affairs] would eventually get to the point where they start withholding funds,” he said. It became clear as the meeting went on that no one—not the citizens who spoke nor planning commissioners themselves— had a clear idea of what the planning commission’s role is or should be in ensuring social equity. The planning commission is merely an advisory board, but members

Campaign News Recently resigned Athens-Clarke County commissioner Harry Sims made the second strongly worded speech of his mayoral campaign last week at another fire station outside the Loop, this one on Whitehead Road. Sims, who was first elected two years after city-county unification in 1991, complained about lack of services for rural residents, such as sewer and trash pickup. “We are one Athens,” he said. “We have a shared goal and a shared destiny. Gone will be the days of city versus county. Gone will be the days of allowing a few elite to determine what their fellow citizens deserve.” In the past, the commission has opted not to extend sewer service into rural areas, worrying that dense development will follow and, particularly in the case of Trail Creek, about the potential environmental impact of sewage spills into sensitive ecosystems that make up the source of Athens’ drinking water. Sims characterized those decisions as anti-affordable housing, and criticized efforts to extend buffers “around ditches and creeks” as “tak[ing] over people’s entire yards,” although buffers only prevent development. “Living outside the Loop [shouldn’t] condemn you to five trash trucks running down your street every trash day,” he said. You should not have to shell out thousands of dollars and hours of your time to take down a tree that is threatening your house. You cannot and should

Flagpole Editor and Publisher Pete McCommons—soon-to-be recipient of the first annual Rollin M. “Pete” McCommons Award for Distinguished Community Journalism—speaks at a recent UGA panel discussion as Bitter Southerner editor Chuck Reece and journalism professor Valerie Boyd look on.

said they do consider it within their limited purview of making recommendations on individual zoning decisions. As an example, Lucy Rowland pointed to the recent QuikTrip approval, where planning commissioners pushed for improved access to the Firefly Trail that will run behind it. “It always comes into play whenever we consider a rezoning, I think,” she said. Planning commissioners also emerged with a new commitment to putting pressure on the Mayor and Commission, the policymakers, by passing resolutions urging them to study issues like affordable housing. “It’s our charge to consider equity, and people affected need to help us see,” planning commissioner Alice Kinman said.

Journalism in the South “Nobody else is as obsessed with themselves as we are,” New York Times Atlanta bureau chief Richard Fausset observed during a panel discussion last week, “Journalism in the Contemporary South,” sponsored by UGA’s Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.

not have a future plotted by those who barely appreciate where [you] live and could hardly find it on a map.” The trash issue deserves some background: Inside the old city limits, the “urban services district,” ACC picks up trash (which those residents pay for), and private haulers pick it up in what’s now known as the “general services district.” Based on complaints from constituents, about 10 years ago the commission considered taking over trash pickup for the whole county (which was rejected because of the millions of dollars in up-front costs to buy trucks) or franchising—appointing one company to pick up trash in each neighborhood. Private haulers (and many of their customers) strongly opposed both options, and it’s tough to square the idea of the local government being unfriendly to business with the idea that it should ban a half-dozen businesses from operating in the county. Ultimately, the commission put a cap on the number of private haulers. Qualifying for local races—mayor, six commission seats, five school board seats and Superior Court judge—as well as Congress and state offices from governor on down to state representative, takes place next week, so we’ll officially know who’s running for what. The qualifying period runs from 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday, Mar. 5 through Thursday, Mar. 8 and ends at noon Friday, Mar. 9. Candidates for local office can sign up at the ACC Board of Elections, while state and federal qualifying takes place at the state capitol. Be prepared to plunk down a fee equivalent to 3 percent of the job’s

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Nobody is obsessed over as much as we are, either. Grady College professor Valerie Boyd said she has a friend in Brooklyn, NY who, when she tells people she’s from the South, “they look at her like she came in on the Underground Railroad. They don’t understand the contemporary South.” And the contemporary South is a diverse South—urban and rural, Ozarks and Delta, with an increasing number of immigrants mixed in. “The South is not a homogenous region, and that’s something people who aren’t from the South don’t understand,” said Eliza Borné, editor of the Arkansasbased literary magazine Oxford American. But that’s not why people find the South so fascinating. It’s the conflicts within our past that reverberate to this day. “Our nation’s most painful history [slavery] has its roots in the South, and obviously we’re still reckoning with that,” Borné said, in a sentiment echoed by other panelists. The South has made progress, but the “Dukes of Hazzard” stereotypes remain. Perhaps more insidious than “some good ol’ boys” who “never mean you no harm” but happen to have a Confederate flag painted

annual salary. District 5 Commissioner Jared Bailey will be among those who qualifies. Bailey has been fairly quiet and did not raise any money as of the end of January, leading to speculation that he might not run for a third term, but he told Flagpole he is absolutely, positively running again. There you have it. It’s never been in doubt that District 3 Commissioner Melissa Link would be running for re-election, but she’s hosting a campaign kickoff event Saturday, Mar. 3 from 5:30–7 p.m. at Little Kings. And a new candidate has jumped into the District 2 race to replace Sims: Mariah Parker, aka Linqua Franqa, a hip-hop artist, activist and doctoral student in linguistics who was featured on last week’s cover. Parker, who had been running District 9 candidate Tommy Valentine’s campaign, is running on a platform of affordable housing, child care, transportation options, job training, a broader anti-discrimination ordinance and access to healthy food. She’ll host a launch party at 5 p.m. Sunday, Mar. 4 at her home at 387 Flint St. CORRECTION: Finally, this column mistakenly reported Feb. 14 that the Clarke County NAACP had contributed to commission District 9 candidate Ovita Thornton’s campaign. In fact, Thornton wrote a check to the NAACP to buy an ad in the organization’s Freedom Fund banquet. The NAACP has not endorsed any candidates in any commission races.

on their car is the vision of the South presented by Garden & Gun, a lifestyle magazine for affluent Southerners. It was the topic of an exchange between Boyd, who wondered why it didn’t feature more people of color sipping $12 cocktails, and Fausset, who insinuated that at least some of its subscribers didn’t want to see that. So how does one tell the story of the contemporary South? For Fausset and his national audience, it involves “helping people understand the South” and “exploding stereotypes” while also producing stories that “feel right” to Southerners. For Scalawag, a North-Carolina based journal and website covering politics and the arts, it means “putting resources in the hands of communities” so they can tell their own stories for a larger audience, Managing Editor Alysia Nicole Harris said. For Flagpole Editor and Publisher Pete McCommons, the answer is simple: Cover Athens. “Athens has all of the South here in town,” he said—the food, the music, a diverse population.

community journalism. Community journalists like Pete are not some talking head in New York or D.C. We’re your friends and neighbors. We’re a different breed, and one that may not survive as the news media continues to shrink and consolidate. Hopefully, Pete’s award will encourage Grady students to follow in his footsteps toward a rewarding (if not so lucrative) journalistic career masquerading as the “Colorbearer of __________.” The inaugural award will be bestowed upon Pete on Friday, Mar. 2 by the Grady College.

Hi, Hybrid Buses! They’d already been on the road for a few days, but Athens Transit officially unveiled 12 new diesel-electric hybrid buses at the Multimodal Center last Friday. The buses represent half of Athens Transit’s fleet, replacing older diesel buses that were, on average, eight years overdue for retirement. They’ll cut pollution by as

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Then there’s The Bitter Southerner, a website dedicated to longform journalism from every Southern point of view. “Particularly along racial lines, we don’t understand each other,” Editor Chuck Reece said. A mission statement is no good without the ability to keep the lights on, though. Flagpole’s revenue comes from old-fashioned ad sales, which, McCommons acknowledged, is a struggle and always has been. Scalawag, a nonprofit, is funded mostly by grants and subscriptions, and for years its editors worked for free in their spare time so writers and photographers could be paid. Subscriptions and ad sales pay for OA, also a nonprofit, although it’s also been branching out into memberships and events. The Bitter Southerner might have the most unique model, although Reece said he wouldn’t recommend trying to replicate it. “I certainly never thought I’d work for a journalistic enterprise funded primarily by the sale of T-shirts and dish towels,” he said. Grady College Dean Charles Davis also announced that Pete—can we dispense with the formality here?—will be the first recipient of the Rollin M. “Pete” McCommons Award for Distinguished Community Journalism. Having known Pete since well before I came to work for him, he has devoted most of his life not only to informing Athens, but advocating for Athens and working to make the city a better place, which is the true spirit of

much as 96 percent and fuel consumption by 125 percent over previous models, and their brakes will only have to be replaced half as often. “It’s going to help keep our community clean… but also it’s going to save us a lot of money over a period of time,” Mayor Nancy Denson said. In 2016, Gov. Nathan Deal allocated $75 million for capital expenses for transit—the first time the state had ever funded public transit. Athens Transit received a $6 million GO! Transit grant, which, combined with $2.4 million in matching local and federal funding, paid for the 12 buses. UGA received $10 million for 19 electric buses that arrived on campus earlier this year. To get into specifics, the new 40-foot buses are 2018 Gillig low-floor heavy-duty models with a new design and color scheme built in Livermore, CA. They seat 37 passengers—including six seats reserved for seniors and the mobility impaired—in a new configuration facing each other, which Athens Transit Director Butch McDuffie said will make the them easier to clean and make passengers more comfortable. There’s also standing room for 24 people. In addition, the buses feature bike racks, internal and external security cameras and an automated vehicle locating system that will allow riders to track buses through the MyStop app or the Athens Transit website. They look good, too—so good that Denson said she’s asked the commission to reconsider selling ads on buses. “I hate to see something so beautiful get messed up,” she said. f

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up and speak out. This is what democracy looks like. This is the power of civic engagement. This is the future of Athens. And this is the community that I want to continue to live in and see grow, prosper and thrive. There is still much work to be done in many aspects of our community, but I am confident that an emerging number of residents involving themselves in their local government will help shape a more inclusive, fair and accessible community for all. Thank you, Athens. Deborah Gonzalez

Athenians have inspired me with their courage, determination and civic engagement. Last week at an Athens-Clarke County Planning Department meeting, community members expressed their desire for a vivid, healthy, more inclusive environment that is centered around the needs and aspirations of local residents. It gave me hope as we continue to tackle the issues of development and zoning. You see, I attended the 2018 Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee meeting on Dougherty Street that was held Gonzalez represents the 117th District in the on Wednesday, Feb. 7. Several constituents Georgia House of Representatives. had reached out to me to express their concerns regarding the comprehensive plan for development in Athens. Some felt that the Is who we are really where we’re from, meeting for public input of the state-manand does where we’re from mean from a dated 10-year plan was announced without place or from blood? Is it from space or adequate time for residents to review the from time? Or is who we are more like posted document and make arrangements what we do, maybe despite what we say? to attend. They were worried that things Is it what we think, or is it how we feel? It were moving too quickly for hard-working might be about how we treat others, about individuals like themselves to be able to how we behave in a social setting. It may be do anything about it. However, what actuabout the level of our regard and respect for ally transpired showed promise that when others. individuals make Nationalist time to engage with Bumpersticker of the Week thinking is a bucket their local governof paint holding ment, they can alter a broom-handled the course of their brush so handy for community for the the broad strokes better. that make labeling I was lucky to have arrived early, because what I witnessed of people so easy. Our so-called populist leadership, whose current popularity scores was standing room only at the Athensrecord lows, makes so much of national oriClarke County Planning Department. gin as a qualifier of individuals that the very A diverse and varied body of concerned notion of nationhood is exposed as the false members of the community all took turns providing valuable perspectives. I saw work- category it has always been. George Saunders’ 2005 novella The Brief ing professionals, entrepreneurs, college and Frightening Reign of Phil reduces the students, activists and folks who had called idea of national origin to the absurd level Athens “home” their entire lives. I also it deserves. The story is of a nation named heard a common theme resonate from each Inner Horner that is so small it can contain speaker who was brave enough to stand only one of its seven inhabitants at a time. at the podium and provide their input. The others have to wait their turn to be in Despite the diversity in age, gender, race their own country on a rotating basis. They and vocation of each person who spoke to have to wait outside the border in a larger, the committee, their voices reiterated simsurrounding nation called Outer Horner, ilar concerns and created a unifying theme for the night: inclusion, fairness and access. where there is a lot of space and very few The power of this display of civic engage- inhabitants, who come to resent the Inner Hornerites that nervously stand around ment by local residents is heartening to see while they wait their turn to be at home. for many reasons, the least of which being Kurt Vonnegut spoke of nationalist that it is far too easy, and understandably so, to believe that an individual has no sway thinking as a kind of mental disorder. As a phenomenon of “mass mentality,” it has over the power of their local officials and been the mother of multiple atrocities. government agencies. However, as a direct Not long ago, we enjoyed a national leadresult of the determination and courage ership that preferred to point out the cateof those who took time out of their day, gories of our commonality rather than the the steering committee responded to their ridges of our differences. The current crowd constituents. Instead of moving forward that shouts “Look away! Look away!” at the with the comprehensive plan, the committhreats on our southern border is picking tee scheduled another meeting. This would the pockets of everyone it fools. allow the members time to assess and anaTo those whose pockets get fleeced lyze the public comments received that eveby the grafter-in-chief, there is recourse, ning, allow for time to collect more input and allow time for the committee to address granted your ID survived the grope, grab and run. During a coming event called midthe concerns brought before them by local term elections, pink slips may be issued to residents. the errant and incompetent among elected I would like to personally say thank you leaders. to all who took time out of their evening Jim Baird that night, to all those who stepped away Comer from family, friends and loved ones to show

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Did Deal Hand Cagle the Gov’s Race? BY RAMMING THROUGH TAX BREAKS, THE LT. GOV. GETS AN EDGE By Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com As Gov. Nathan Deal, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, and House Speaker David Ralston faced the crowd at a news conference last week, they were all grinning like Cheshire cats. The widest grin of all may been the one sported by Cagle, and little wonder. After all, Deal was about to make an announcement that could very well wrap up the governor’s race for Cagle. The three had agreed on a bill (HB 918) that would lower Georgia’s top income tax rate from 6 percent to 5.75 percent for the 2018 tax year, and potentially to 5.5 percent the year after, if the legislature determined it wouldn’t blow a hole in the state budget. The bill also doubles the standard deduction Georgians could take on their tax returns. For married couples filing jointly, it would go from $3,000 to $6,000. This was all a result of the massive federal income tax cut that Congress passed in late December, a cut that primarily benefits America’s wealthiest taxpayers. The many changes in the federal tax law had caused a major misalignment with Georgia’s tax code, creating the potential for the state to realize a windfall increase in revenue over the next five years estimated at between $3.5 billion–$5 billion. Deal wanted to wait and see what the full effects of the federal changes were before adjusting the state tax law, but with an election year coming up, Cagle and others running for election insisted on doing something this session. In true General Assembly fashion, this complicated measure was introduced on Tuesday, rammed through committee without any real vetting, and moved on to the floor by Thursday for a vote. There was not even a fiscal note outlining the bill’s financial impact, which is usually a legal requirement for tax legislation.

Rep. Carolyn Hugley (D-Columbus) tried to remind her colleagues of what happened the last time they rushed to pass such a sloppily drafted piece of legislation. In 2012, when lawmakers changed the system of taxing the license plates on vehicles, that bill was also introduced late in the session, rushed through committee and then placed before legislators who had no time to really examine it, but were told to vote on it. Legislators have been trying to patch holes in that vehicle tax law ever since. “We have to keep coming back year after year after year to fix it,” Hugley said. “We need to be thoughtful and take our time to learn the full impact before we make a decision.” HB 918 also gives a break worth $50 million primarily to Delta Air Lines by eliminating the sales tax on jet fuel. Evidently, legislators forgot that they voted three years ago to take away this exemption. Rep. Earl Ehrhart (R-Powder Springs) insisted on that because Delta’s executives had opposed a religious freedom bill. Ehrhart evidently got over his snit at Delta. This time, he voted to give them back their tax break. HB 918 is now out of the House and has been transmitted to the Senate, where perhaps senators will actually take the time to read it before they vote on it—but don’t hold your breath. The real purpose of the bill is to give Cagle something to run on as he seeks the Republican nomination for governor. (Cagle is the favorite of the capitol establishment as the anointed successor to Deal.) Cagle can claim that he gave “hard-working Georgians” the chance to “keep more of their money in their own pockets.” That’s a potent issue for an election year, and it will make it that much more difficult for whoever wins the Democratic nomination, Stacey Evans or Stacey Abrams. f

BLOODSPORT AND MORE IN TRUMP’S MOVIE SYLLABUS By Brandon Soderberg That Bloodsport is Donald Trump’s favorite movie is, like so control that flexes and bloviates like the powerful, so it many things about Trump, thinly sourced, apocryphal yet appeals to powerful bloviators, the way rich coke-snorting pathetic, and regularly reported as fact. dickheads like The Wolf of Wall Street, or man-baby losers He once praised the 1988 Jean-Claude Van Damme vehi- love Garden State. cle, a crude tapestry of gnarled battles and scenery-chewing Trump’s Bloodsport love, meanwhile, is cast as yet about an American’s victory in a Hong Kong underground another example of how un-presidential he is. Worse, as fighting tournament, in Mark Singer’s 1997 New Yorker detailed in The New Yorker, is one of his sons fast-forwardarticle. And that’s about it. But facts don’t matter with Trump, and it makes cosmic sense that “Bloodsport”—which was released 30 years ago on Feb. 26—would be Trump’s favorite movie. It says something about political discourse too: The turning point involves its hero, Frank Dux (Van Damme) proudly punching someone squarely in the dick. Trump is full of it, and the real-life Dux was, too. Like Gatsby in a karate gi, West Coast martial arts instructor and veteran Dux turned his life into a grandiose story of covert operations and victory in a fighting tournament called the Kumite, which he recounted to karate magazines not so hot on fact checking. Eventually, his account of those events became Bloodsport. That’s when the Los “You lose, American asshole!” Angeles Times exposed its “true story” as a lunkheaded hustle: The Kumite trophies Dux won were from a Hollywood-based trophy manu- ing to the ass-kicking parts, squashing the movie into a facturer, a Kumite-related organization’s address was Dux’s supercut of thrills. Through this, you can learn something own, the “secret” medal of honor he was awarded seemed about the absurdity of respectability politics that mar politsketchy, and a few friends half-assedly corroborated his ical conversation: The problem with Trump is, as always, stories, (“If he says it’s true, it’s fine with me,” a high school not his opinion or his point of view so much, but how he buddy told the Times.) goes about it. He doesn’t even watch his favorite movie; As for Dux’s underground work in Asia—which included he races through it like it’s porn. As if Trump’s love of saving orphans from being trafficked by selling the sword “Bloodsport” would be praised if he sat back and enjoyed he won for winning the Kumite to buy their freedom—it’s the little things, like, say, Dux rocking a split atop a skyhard to prove, Dux explained, because these were “clandesscraper, a lighthearted Jacques Tati-like scene where army tine” missions. It is good mythography, and his audience officials chase Dux through the streets, or its coiled softof karate aficionados were primed to embrace it no matter serve synthesizer score. what. On the campaign trail, Trump often entered events to Trump frequently cites Citizen Kane as another favormusic from 1997’s Air Force One, a movie where the presite, because of course: It’s a massive critique of power and ident does away with all of the separations of power and

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literally defeats terrorists himself. Most movies are indoctrination. Bill Clinton, who signed the infamous 1994 crime bill, claimed one of his favorite movies was High Noon, a Western about a marshal who wants to be peaceful but just can’t because he feels responsible for all the baddies. George W. Bush loved Field of Dreams, a dim, signifying baseball movie dipped in nostalgia. Like Trump, Barack Obama apparently loves The Godfather, a lament for a certain kind of criminality, one that’s more decent, respectable—appropriate for 44, who quietly drone-bombed the hell out of many and deported plenty. Trump is all about bloodsport. His reality shows were bloodsport, the business world he stomped around in is bloodsport, the primaries were all about drawing blood for him, and when he offers up something like turning teachers into armed Charles Bronsons so they can get into shootouts with school shooters, that’s bloodsport. Our reality show president, the totally logical next step after Hollywood actor Reagan. Remember, that New Yorker article said Trump turned off 1996’s Michael, a sentimental snooze starring John Travolta as a schlubby angel, 20 minutes in and put on Bloodsport instead. And as Trump watched Van Damme drop down into a split, stick his fist straight out, and bop his opponent in the junk in slow-motion, a unique example of how Trump pops the hood on reality followed. “You want to write that Donald Trump was loving this ridiculous JeanClaude Van Damme movie,” Trump said to reporter Singer. “But are you willing to put in there that you were loving it, too?” He dares Singer to embrace Bloodsport and suggests that if he doesn’t he’s just denying himself a hard truth. This is the typically Trumpian dick-punch: His bullshit detector is strong, though his own propensity for bullshit is unmatched. A shabby epilogue courtesy of TMZ (who else): Van Damme, in 2016, holding a small dog, wearing a hat that says “JCVD” (the name of the first of two meta-action projects he has made where he plays a sundowning version of himself), loose as a goose, reedy, hardly the boyish Frank Dux, pacing around a parking lot, praising The Donald. “You’re talking about the wrong things in politics. Right now, you need a guy like—” Van Damme told TMZ cameras, then stumbled for a second and reset. “I would say, look, I love my brother Muslim. They love martial arts, I love them. I love everybody on Earth. Right now, we need Donald Trump.” f

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He’s reported to have met no such repeal the Second Amendment, ban assault weapons, do resistance when he broke out windows in classroom doors. much more to identify and treat mental illness, break the While some lessons about school design and construcNational Rifle Association’s stranglehold on elected offition have been learned in the years since Columbine, I cials, overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United have to wonder how much more school districts could do decision, arm teachers, help young males whose fragile with the right expert advice and supportive local comsense of manhood draws them to firearms, crack down on munities. One source of advice that I happened on just violent video games, enact “red flag” laws… I’m sorry, I’ve after the Parkland shootings is the National School Safety lost track. Center, established in 1984 as a joint project of the U.S. If not after Columbine, surely after Newtown the Departments of Education and Justice and now an indenation’s collective soul was shaken enough to muscle pendent nonprofit organization. through the measures, whatever they are, that would at least mitigate if not end the slaughter of innocents. Didn’t happen. Maybe it’ll happen this time. Or not. If history is any guide, local communities and school districts will be making a mistake to put their faith in Congress and state legislatures. Florida’s has already declined to consider a bill that would ban assault weapons. And back in 1994, when Congress enacted an assault weapons ban, it was riddled with loopholes, did little to reduce gun deaths and was allowed to expire in 2004. Even if your favorite gun-control measure were by some miracle enacted, future administrations could undo it. For example, in the waning days of his tenure, President Obama put in place a measure that would make it harder for mentally unstable people to buy guns. No sooner had Donald Trump taken office than he rescinded it. If we’ve learned anything since Columbine, it’s that school districts and the communities they serve are pretty much on their own in protecting their children. Government at all levels has proved to be an unreliable partner Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel visits Parkland shooting survivor Anthony Borges. in that urgent work. Point the finger of blame where you will; it doesn’t change the fact that local communities and school districts have more than To my layman’s eye, one of the center’s services worth enough reason to double down on protective measures investigating is its school safety assessment. I have no within their control while the blather and foot shuffling idea what an assessment costs or how valuable it is, but goes on elsewhere. it seems that all it would take to find out is a phone call But in the mountain of reporting and comment about from someone in our district office to the Atlanta Public the Florida shooting I’ve processed, I’ve come across School System. However, when I asked one of our school exactly one report, in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, board members whether he’d heard any discussion or even that even asked the question whether school districts are mention of the organization in board meetings, he said doing enough to ensure students’ safety. No doubt there’s he hadn’t. And a current candidate for a school board seat understandable reluctance to ask that question after three reported that she’d never heard of the center. teachers at the school in Parkland did the unimaginable, Ultimately, of course, school districts can do only what as teachers have done before—taking fatal bullets for their the community will pay for. When school budgets are so students. tight that teachers have to buy supplies for their students Local communities and school districts are under an out of their own pockets, it’s hard to be optimistic about especially heavy burden because of the unique vulnerability funding for hardened school buildings that give occupants of school children in their care. Adults are free to act on a better chance of surviving their days in them. When an their own risk assessment when they’re thinking about a Atlanta television station invited viewers to text an opinion trip to the mall or the movies. But because we have mandaabout whether they’d be willing to pay higher taxes to buy tory school attendance up to a certain age in this country, bulletproof classrooms, the vote was running two-to-one except for the relative handful of homeschoolers, kids have against when I tuned in. no choice about whether to go to school. Students aren’t But Georgia’s special purpose local sales tax law affords just their charges, but are also their legal captives. a relatively painless way to protect our kids. It’s a broadI’m getting above my pay grade here, but I understand based levy that doesn’t raise anybody’s property taxes. And that some security measures, such as automatic lockif we’re willing to use it to buy basketball courts and footdown systems, are commonplace in schools now. 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enough “stole them hogs,” before adding quickly, “but I stole for you!” During his first term as governor, he distinguished himself by granting three times more pardons than the state prison board recommended, raising reasonable suspicions that he was running a “pardons racket.” When the legislature refused to approve cutting the price of automobile tags to $3 across the board, he achieved it by executive order, further endearing himself to the country folks, even as his action drained away desperately needed revenues for their local schools. Despite his promise never to do so, after textile interests contributed some $20,000 to his re-election campaign in 1934, he declared martial law and used the National Guard to break an ongoing strike, incarcerating the dissident workers in a hastily The Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge spans the Savannah River. arranged concentration camp near Atlanta. He would soon summon Because gubernatorial terms had been the troops again, this time to physically extended to four years, “Ol’ Gene” had to remove the state treasurer and comptroller wait it out until 1946 to claim the office of general from their offices for denying him governor for a fourth time, but claim it he access to funds not officially appropriated did, in a campaign that left no doubt about by the legislature, capping this dramatic the depth and ruthlessness of his racism. show of force by ordering the vaults cut The Supreme Court had recently struck open with blow torches and the monies down the Democratic primary as a whitesremoved. only affair, meaning that in 1946, Georgia Talmadge would be back for another blacks would have their first chance since gubernatorial run in 1940, and once in Reconstruction to vote in significant numoffice, he would constitute what amounted bers in a race that actually mattered. to a one-man wrecking crew where higher There had been little mystery about the JOSH HALLETT/FLICKR

Though the Ol’ Bloviator has some qualms about wholesale destruction of flags, statues and other monuments to the Confederacy, he has been hollering for years that they have no place on state or local government property, as they imply a continuing affinity to the cause of white supremacy. It should follow readily enough then that no public highway or bridge should bear the name of Eugene Talmadge, one of 20th Century America’s foremost political fomenters of racial hatred and persecution. Even in these sad times, it seems difficult to believe that the powers that be in Georgia would resist an effort to rechristen the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge in Savannah in honor of Juliette Gordon Low, a Savannah native who founded the Girl Scouts. In his three terms (1926–1932) as Georgia’s commissioner of agriculture, Talmadge was charged with violating a state law requiring him to deposit fees collected on fertilizer in the state treasury (rather than in banks owned by his friends, as he was wont to do). He was also criticized by a state Senate investigative committee for paying himself and family members more than $40,000 in salaries and expenses, and using state funds to underwrite his annual trips to the Kentucky Derby. His tour de force, however, was a purported scheme to raise hog prices in Georgia by using state money without authorization to buy 82 rail-car loads of hogs, which were to be purchased at prices just under the going rate in Chicago, and having them shipped there for resale. The hogs lost considerable weight in transit, and other complications resulted in the loss of more than $12,000 in state funds. Talmadge readily confessed to his loyal following in the countryside that he had sure

education in the state was concerned. Vowing to purge Georgia’s colleges of sympathizers with “racial equality,” he inflicted mayhem on the University of Georgia, particularly in his attacks on College of Education Dean Walter Cocking. When Talmadge’s rampage was done, a number of faculty and administrators had been ousted, as had several members of the Board of Regents who were deemed less than totally comfortable with Talmadge’s dictatorial tactics. Not surprisingly, an official finding of “gross political interference” in the affairs of the state’s white public universities led to their immediate loss of accreditation and, later, to Talmadge’s failure to win re-election in 1942.

racial attitudes of a man who freely admitted to horse-whipping a black man until he yelled “Sweet Jesus!” Racial tensions were ratcheted up with every Talmadge warning of a “nigra takeover” in the 1946 campaign, leading him to sanctimoniously counsel “wise Negroes” to “stay away from white folks’ ballot boxes” on Election Day. In the end, though relative racial moderate James V. Carmichael claimed a majority of the popular vote, Talmadge amassed enough county unit votes to win his fourth term as governor, albeit one he would never serve. The most tragic immediate consequence of the racially charged campaign came roughly a week after the primary, when two black couples were gunned down in broad daylight by a mob of whites at Moore’s Ford in Walton County. Several other reports of violence against blacks surfaced over the next few weeks—Talmadge’s victory having signaled that, as one journalist put it, it was now open season on blacks, “and every pinheaded Georgia cracker and bigoted Ku Kluxer figured he had a license.” Meanwhile, Talmadge’s health disintegrated rapidly, and he died without being sworn in as governor a few days before Christmas in 1946. His unwitting bequest to the state was the fierce and altogether ludicrous struggle to claim his office that led to the notorious “three governors” controversy, which revealed Georgia politics at its most venal, benighted and self-destructive worst, and thus offered a fitting conclusion to a sad and sorry chapter in the state’s history. Beyond striking a decidedly foreboding tone for the gateway to one of the nation’s most inviting cities, any bridge that continues to celebrate so toxic a historical legacy as that of Eugene Talmadge is, in itself, an obstacle to overcoming that legacy. f

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he Flaming Lips have a reputation. Their shows are visually dazzling, about as close as one can get to a brain-frying acid-trip adventure without actually dropping a tab. The music itself can be experimental, so, fairly or not, the long-running rock band is often branded as psychedelic. And there’s some truth in that. Like most musicians, frontman Wayne Coyne is subconsciously influenced by the music of his youth, and he says there was no escaping the psych-rock sounds of the 1960s and ’70s. “I had older brothers and an older sister with all these fucking crazy friends,” he recalls. “Not very many of them were musicians, but they were playing music nonstop, taking drugs, riding motorcycles—just doing the craziest, craziest shit. Whatever music they were listening to when I was 10 years old was exploding my mind, and there’s some of that in me… If you looked inside the building of my brain, you would see an explosion down in the lower basement, and it’s splattered with the blood of The Beatles and Jesus Christ and Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd.” That said, Coyne believes The Flaming Lips are equally indebted to the DIY ethic and energy of punk rock. “We could have never existed as a normal group playing psychedelic music,” he says. “It’s our version of punk rock. It just happens to sound slightly like The Grateful Dead.” Among casual fans, The Flaming Lips are probably best known for “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1,” a song about a Japanese girl training her body and mind to kung-fu fight an army of colorful robo-warriors. As fun and catchy as that tune is, though, it paints a limited picture of a band that has been touring steadily since 1983 and most recently released its 14th studio album, Oczy Mlody. (Coyne and bassist Michael Lee Ivins are the only remaining

founding members, though longtime multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd is also still with the group.) At this point, the Lips have a vast catalog of music. Speaking to Flagpole from his home in Oklahoma City, Coyne explains that they generally draw crowds of a few thousand, which is about what you’d expect for an established band with a cult following. But due to their reputation as an absolutely bananas live band, they’re often given prominent festival slots—and playing those huge shows is a whole different beast. “If you’re playing for 60,000 people, a lot of them aren’t going to know who you are,” Coyne says. “Maybe a quarter of the people know what you’re doing, but the other 75 per-

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cent are just there to party. Unless you’re Bruce Springsteen or Coldplay, you’re not playing to an entire stadium that’s there just to see you. But we’ve found that if you get a small group of people very excited, you get a bigger group fairly excited.” The Flaming Lips have always embraced their role as entertainers. In the live setting, Coyne and company incorporate any number of absurd props, costumes and video displays, from dancing Teletubbies to unicorns to just plain naked people. Coyne has made a habit of making grand entrances via a descending UFO, and at virtually every show, he gets in a plastic “space bubble” and rolls offstage like a hamster in a ball, relying on hands in the crowd to keep him afloat. The space bubble, especially, has become a fixture of the

Lips’ show. After so many years of touring and playing festivals, Coyne says he’s gotten inside it 1,000 times. In fact, he recalls only one time he didn’t: Before a show somewhere in South America, a concert promoter was afraid the crowd would attempt to burst his bubble, literally. And that he might get stabbed. The bubble is a great tool for heightening moments, but it remains a nerve-wracking experience for Coyne. “It’s like when Steven Spielberg makes you feel like you’re on the beach in Saving Private Ryan,” he says. “There’s no sound, and you’re claustrophobic, and it’s hot, and you can hear your heart beating. But when you’re in a Steven Spielberg movie, it’s insanely dangerous and you’re about to die… I’m just trying to make sure I don’t crush somebody’s face.” It’s not a baseless fear, Coyne says. Almost inevitably, there’s a pocket of concert-goers who are somehow unaware of the giant plastic ball that’s about to roll over them. “I actually get concerned about those people who don’t know what’s coming,” he says. “It could be a great show in every other respect, but they’ll still go home and say, ‘Some weird old guy landed on my head.’” But it usually works out OK. Looking back on decades of crazy antics, Coyne says the bad stuff—like crushing a fan’s face—tends to stick out, because it’s the exception. “For the most part, it’s all been wonderful,” he says. “It’s one giant, giant ocean of wonderful memories.” f

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Country Hits and Chicken Sh*t DALE WATSON IS AS OFF THE CUFF AS ALWAYS By Bobby Moore music@flagpole.com

country traditionalist before country traditionalists became cool again, Dale Watson upholds the music he’s known and loved for decades. Since his teenage years, the 55-year-old singer and guitarist has continually played music halls and holes-in-the-wall around his Texas home base and beyond. With plenty of young “Ameripolitan” artists taking up the cause, Watson now finds himself as a vocal leader and elder statesman in a global underground roots music scene. “I’m a natural extension of the music I grew up doing,” he says. “Everybody is doing the music they’re connected to, and there is an intention to stay close to the roots.” One has to see Watson live to fully appreciate his dedication to old-school, unscripted honky-tonk excitement. He only made a set list once in recent memory, and that was just to suit the rules of “Austin City Limits.” “It’s just more fun for me to do a show off the cuff,” he says. “Traveling all over and just doing everything from punk clubs to bigger concert halls—going by a set list is just never a fun way for me to do it. It needs to be organic with the crowds.” Playing without a set list allows both the setting and the audience to dictate what gets played from Watson’s massive catalog of albums and equally deep well of classic cover songs. “We got a lot of theater shows, and it’s more of a listening audience at that point,” he says. “When we’re playing a rowdy place, people want to hear more rowdy music.” Regional tastes also dictate song selection. While Midwesterners and New Yorkers love tales about life on the road, Watson finds that Southerners prefer Merle Haggard’s “Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down” and other drinking songs. Sometimes, Watson takes his celebration of the hillbilly experience a step further, allowing the audience to play a round of Chicken Shit Bingo for cash. Derived from an old Southern tradition of playing a highstakes game of chance with farm animals, Watson’s version uses a live chicken to fairly pick—or peck—the winning number. “It actually has been going on for 18 years now,” Watson says of his version of the game. “It’s kind of hard to explain, but people don’t realize you use a real chicken. I did a Chicken Shit tour where I carried the pen around. Of course, the venue had to provide the chicken. For $2, you get a random number out of a bag. If it’s the same number the chicken picks on the bottom of the cage, you’ve won money.

“At some places we could do it, and at others we couldn’t,” he continues. “It’s not gambling, because the house isn’t taking a piece of the pie. The only reason we couldn’t do it at some places is because if they serve food, it’s different. Can’t bring livestock in there. It’s been going on in Texas and all over the South for a long time.” Known for such original compositions as “Country My Ass”—a bemoaning of modern music based on Waylon Jennings and Haggard’s hilarious interpretation of the CMA Awards’ acronym—Watson takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to keeping the

past alive without mocking his musical predecessors. This humor is a breath of fresh air, considering many of the better artists under the Americana banner normally take a more straightforward approach to storytelling. Watson gets more help spreading the good word nowadays from the country, Western swing and rockabilly acts celebrated by his annual Ameripolitan Awards, hosted Feb. 13 in Memphis. But don’t expect him to let Nikki Lane, Whitey Morgan and the 78’s or other peers evangelize the masses without him anytime soon. Watson stays on the road constantly— though Saturday will be his first-ever stop in Athens—and hopes to have a new album, recorded recently at Sam Phillips Recording Studio, out later this year. f

WHO: Dale Watson, Carly Burruss WHERE: The Foundry WHEN: Saturday, Mar. 3, 8 p.m. HOW MUCH: $16 (adv.), $20 (door)

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NINE SHADES OF GRAY: Marching Banana Records just released the debut full-length from Athens/Atlanta artist Delorean Gray (aka Jacob Chisenhall), Star Tropics. Its nine tracks work so well together in a near-perfect distillation of hazy imaginations of what the ’80s sounded like, vaporwave aesthetics and contemporaneous bliss. It’s full of appropriate synths and a slight amount of self-effacement, but mostly it’s an homage to what used to be called “adult contemporary” pop. The thing is, though, this only works because the influences are so clearly 20th Century. Anything more recent would render this as weak, pandering easy listening. To crib a phrase from a place I’ve forgotten, the tools of the past become the art forms of the future. Utilitarianism becomes expressionism. Listen for yourself at graydelorean. bandcamp.com and marchingbanana. bandcamp.com. PANCAKES WITH DAD: Lucky Numbers, the new collaborative album between producers murk daddy flex (aka Terence Chiyezhan) and Isaak Pancake (aka Garrett Burke) is out now. I’m not much of a gusher, but dammit, this thing is good. While I’m most familiar with Delorean Gray murk daddy flex’s work and can’t really speak to the division of labor here, I can say this collaboration is a wonderful stretching of his skills, which were already significant. There’s a lot of additional instrumentation, although I suspect a lot of this was via digital manipulation. It’s a million times more aggressive than his previous work, especially on tracks like “Rehearsal Dinner” and “Rock Heaven.” Coming in lean with a mere 13 tracks is evidence of thoughtful editing and conviction of presentation, too. It’s the best mix I’ve heard lately that freely incorporates early industrial-music sensibilities with modern presentation and ideology. Dig it equally at murk daddyflex.bandcamp.com and isaakpancake.bandcamp.com. DESERT SONGS: New West and Normaltown Records will celebrate the release of the new album by Dega Friday, Mar. 2 at the DT Productions office (1368 Prince Ave. in the heart of Normaltown). It happens at 8 p.m. and costs $8. The two-piece band—Kalen Nash (Ponderosa) and his wife, Aslyn, who has two solo albums on Lemonade Records— create expansively gorgeous songs driven by propulsive

CONGRATULATIONS: Hats are off to Athens engineer Jay Rodgers for his recent acquisition of ownership of decadeslong Watkinsville company Full Moon Studio. He’s worked at the studio for 17 years, and is the longtime studio manager and lead engineer. Visit them online via thefullmoon studio.com. WELL, I’M BEAT: A massive release by Apostle is out now courtesy of Star Rats Records. It’s named Shallow Graves and contains one track, which is also named “Shallow Graves.” It’s massive because its running length (nearly 18 minutes!) is positively apocalyptic, and its sound is no less so. It’s a wild, full-on journey through varying styles (’90s-ish screamo, trad hardcore, a smattering of metal) that seems to have some sort of narrative, but I can’t discern what it’s about. It’s also exhausting. By its end, I couldn’t exactly tell what was going on, but it was clear something was. I dunno, it’s hard to say. Give it a whirl at starratsrecs. bandcamp.com. STAY QUIET AWHILE: The UGA University Union will host a silent disco Thursday, Mar. 1 from 8–11 p.m. at the Tate Center Grand Hall. The concept, born out of necessity for late-night parties at large music festivals, has spread to standalone events and has been utilized most recently locally at select hip-hop shows. Attendees will be issued a headset upon entrance and enjoy the music of three separate DJs through the course of the night. It’s free for UGA students with their UGACard and five bucks for the general public. BASS-O-MATIC: There’s a new track available from UGA student Luke Bass. It’s named “Mood” and is buoyed along by a nice, pretty piano melody and decorated by different studio elements and modern hip-hop and R&B flourishes. Bass writes and records his own material, which isn’t exactly a rarity, but seems to definitely explain at least part of the comfortable bedroom-studio feel of this. Give it a click at soundcloud.com/luke_bass. f

record review Dead Neighbors: Less (Marching Banana) Athens post-punk trio Dead Neighbors have kept their sophomore LP on the shelf for nearly a year. While the band was busy touring and trying to find a label, its most poignant and compelling work to date has been floating just beneath the surface, waiting to emerge. Vocalist and guitarist Sebastian Marquez describes performing in Dead Neighbors as “primal scream therapy,” and in that spirit, Less seems like a necessary emotional step. The majority of the songwriting was done in the wake of Marquez’s stepfather’s death, and the album is dedicated to his memory. Its lyrics are heavy with the frustration and fear that come with the loss of a loved one; Marquez seems to be seeking catharsis by putting his feelings on public display. Sonically, Dead Neighbors remain anchored by a slack-rock sound that occasionally veers into the realms of emo and punk. Marquez is hardly a masterful vocalist, but his delivery feels honest and raw and is backed up by his and his bandmates’ instrumental acumen. Highlights like “Same Thing” and “No Escape” start small and (relatively) quiet before ratcheting up the tension and eventually exploding into a cacophony of sloppy and effective noise. The album’s final two tracks—the eight-minute ambient interlude “(d)” and haunting “Indifference”—bring the 30-minute therapy session to a stunning close. [Nathan Kerce]

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Onstage This Week THE WIZARD OF OZ AND FOUR OTHER PLAYS TO SEE By Dina Canup arts@flagpole.com The Wizard of Oz It’s a cheerful adaptation of the film, performed by the kids of Brightstone Theatre. A farm girl (Holly Roberson) dreams of faraway adventure and finds it when she lands in a magical world called Oz. In the process, she meets new friends and finds that there’s no place like home. The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg, Herbert Stothart and John Kane, is presented by Brightstone Productions at Brightstone Theatre at 560 Jerry Smith Dr. Mar. 2–3 at 7:30 p.m. with a 3:30 p.m. matinee on Mar. 4. Tickets are $14–$16 and available at 706205-2599. Visit brightstoneathens.com for more information. Love, Loss, and What I Wore It’s a reader’s-theater series of stories women tell about “matters of the heart and matters of the closet,” according to Charles Isherwood of The New York Times. Sometimes sad, sometimes sentimental and often witty, you don’t have to be a woman who knows the pain of a bad prom dress, a messy purse and the misery of a dressing room mirror to relish the stories. But having the experience of thinking you just don’t have anything good to wear certainly helps.

Love, Loss and What I Wore, by Nora and Delia Ephron based on the book by Ilene Beckerman, is presented by Arts!Oglethorpe at the Historic Crawford School Mar. 2–3 at 7:30 p.m. with a 3 p.m. matinee on Mar. 4. Tickets are $13–$18 and available at artsoglethorpe.org or 706-202-1211. The Foreigner Set in rural Georgia, The Foreigner has been described as “‘Beverly Hillbillies’ with a social conscience.” Local yokels know British visitor Froggy LeSueur (Tom Manley) from his periodic trips to the nearby army base, and are happy to welcome his friend Charlie (Stephen Parker), who is painfully shy. Froggy tells them that Charlie is an exotic foreigner who doesn’t speak English—but he’s not, and he does. Misunderstanding and silliness ensue when Charlie has to pretend he doesn’t understand all these zany Southerners or their hijinks. The Foreigner, by Larry Shue, is presented by Winder-Barrow Community Theatre at the Colleen O. Williams Theater Mar. 2–3 and 9–10 at 7:30 p.m. with 3 p.m. matinees Mar. 4 and 11. Tickets are $10–$13 and available at winderbarrowtheatre.org or 770-867-3106.

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Visiting Mr. Green A curmudgeonly old widower, Mr. Green (Jeff Evans), is nearly run over by a busy young executive, Ross Gardiner (Drew Doss), who is then forced by a judge to visit his victim once a week for six months. Neither seems to enjoy the visits at first, but Gardiner begins to provide the help and company that Green clearly needs. Can he turn the grumpy old man into a friend? Performed by two of Town & Gown’s finest actors and under the expert direction of Rick Rose, it’s worth making time to find out. Visiting Mr. Green, by Jeff Baron, is presented by Town & Gown Players at the Athens Community Theatre Mar. 2–3 at 8

p.m. and Mar. 4 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $5 and available at townandgownplayers.org or 706-206-8696. Almost, Maine A series of short plays about love, the loss of it and hope, including scenes titled “Her Heart,” “Sad and Glad,” “This Hurts,” “Getting it Back,” “They Fell,” “Where it Went,” “Story of Hope” and “Seeing the Thing.” It’s an often surreal and occasionally magical play that includes surprises and laughs. Almost, Maine, by John Cariani, is presented by Athens Creative Theatre (Second Stage) Mar. 1–4. For more information, visit athensclarkecounty.com/642/AthensCreative-Theatre or call 706-613-3771. f

the calendar! calendar picks EVENT | SAT, MAR 3

Thurmond Lecture

Triathalon

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Surround

Morton Theatre · 1 p.m. · FREE! ATHICA · 7–11 p.m. · Donations Athens’ first black police As part of the gallery’s new chief, Joseph “Jack” Lumpkin, Beast It series, “Surround” is an and first black female judge, immersive exhibition featuring Patricia Barron, will be honcontributions from over 20 local ored at the 2018 Michael artists, including James David L. Thurmond Lecture Series Barsness, William Dantzler, and Black History Celebration Jeremy Kiran Fernandes, Jeremy Saturday at the Morton Theatre. Raj, Logan Shirah and Alex Admission is free. Delivering Suarez. Curated by composer the lecture is University of Monique Osorio and AC Carter’s Virginia Professor Derrick P. Scorpion Beach, the opening Alridge, whose primary areas will include music from Cult of scholarship are Africanof Riggonia, Lambda Celsius, American educational and Richard Gumby, Moth Sweat and intellectual history. A native more. Collaborations include an Athenian, Thurmond is currently improv set between Killick Hinds chief executive officer of DeKalb and Stephanie Pharr, a play by County. The event is sponsored Scott Crossman, clowning by by the Athens Area Black History Cooper Holmes and “Concerto Committee and the UGA history for Beverly” with musicians department. A reception follows Osorio and Sahada Buckley and at First AME Church fellowship costume designer Ajmal Millar. hall, 521 N. Hull St. [Pete “Surround” will remain on view McCommons] through Mar. 11. [Jessica Smith]

Tuesday 27 CLASSES: Windows 10 Basics (ACC Library) Registration required. 10 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens CLASSES: Dumplings at the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn how to make Chinese dumplings while engaging in literary and cultural discussion inspired by Yu Hua’s To Live. Registration required. 6–8 p.m. $25. kmcgover@ gmail.com, coe.uga.edu

EVENTS: Swing Dance Night (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: Tuesday Tour at 2 (UGA Special Collections Library) Take a guided tour of the exhibit galleries of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Richard B. Russell

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Triathalon

Caledonia Lounge · 9 p.m. · $10–12 For years, Triathalon has built its sound off of surf-inflected dream pop, the band’s former home base of Savannah washing its jams in waves of reverb. Recently, the core trio of Adam Intrator, Chad Scott Chilton and Hunter Jayne relocated, and their sound has acclimated to the hustle and bustle of their new stomping grounds, New York City. The influence of ’90s R&B has grown more present, too, with Triathalon’s recent full-length, Online, showcasing a less guitar-driven sound in favor of programmed beats, synths and Intrator’s front-andcenter falsetto. Let the latest iteration of the band croon you and swoon you at Caledonia alongside fellow New Yorkers Innerwave and Athens’ New Madrid. [Andy Barton]

Library for Political Research and Studies. Meet in the rotunda on the second floor. 2 p.m. FREE! jclevela@ uga.edu EVENTS: La Table (Athens Country Club) The Interfaith Hospitality Network of Athens hosts a benefit luncheon. 11 a.m.–2 p.m. $50. 706202-4862, wandabellculpepper@ gmail.com FILM: UGA’s French Film Festival (UGA Tate Student Center) Mia Hansen-Love stars in Things to Come (L’avenir). 8 p.m. FREE! (w/ student ID), $3. drama.uga.edu

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The BoDeans

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Masud Olufani

The Foundry · 7:30 p.m. · $20–25 Lamar Dodd, S150 · 12:20 p.m. · FREE! The BoDeans fit quite a Atlanta-based multidiscifew desirable molds cast for plinary artist Masud Olufani is guitar-driven bands back in featured in “Tripwire,” a group the 1980s and ’90s. The littleexhibition on display through heartland-rock-band-that-could Mar. 22 that addresses themes explored U2-style arena rock in of dislocation, home, surveilthe aftermath of its head-turning lance and technology through 1986 debut, Love & Hope & Sex the works of immigrant artists & Dreams. BoDeans singer Kurt and artists from the American Neumann and his supporting South. His multimedia piece cast then adapted to rock’s post- “To Trap a Trickster” shows a grunge landscape, charting sevblack hare representing Legba, eral singles after “Closer to Free” the Yoruba trickster god, in became the iconic theme song proximity with a Christian dome of TV’s “Party of Five” in 1994. structure as a statement on the Since reuniting in the early Catholic church’s complicity in aughts, the band has continued the trans-Atlantic slave trade. cranking out new material. Its Olufani, who has an MFA in most recent full-length album, sculpture from the Savannah Thirteen, came out last year and College of Art and Design, seeks honors the group’s Americana to confront themes of racial jusroots without turning away fans tice, spiritual transcendence and nostalgic for the older hits. other sociological issues through [Bobby Moore] his body of work. [JS]

GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Nic every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706354-7289 GAMES: Trivia at Johnny’s (Johnny’s New York Style Pizza) Play for cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706354-1515 GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, 2301 College Station Rd.) Every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) General trivia hosted by Jacob and Wes. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561

GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) Hosted by James Majure. 6 p.m. FREE! www. therookandpawn.com GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) Westside and Eastside locations of Locos Grill and Pub feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com KIDSTUFF: Teen Candle-making (Bogart Library) All materials and snacks provided. Grades 6–12. Registration required. 6 p.m. FREE! 770-725-9443, www.athenslibrary. org/bogart

KIDSTUFF: Dance it Out! (ACC Library) Teens can take a break and dance it out. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens LECTURES & LIT: The Rest of the Story Book Club (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) Discuss works connected to the ongoing and upcoming exhibitions and programs at the library. Followed by gallery tours. February’s selection is Prohibition in Atlanta by Ron Smith and Mary Boyle. 5:30 p.m. FREE! jhebbard@uga.edu k continued on next page

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THE CALENDAR! LECTURES & LIT: Travel Talk (Graduate Athens) Learn about Celebrity Cruise Lines with Global Escapes. 12 p.m. FREE! www. globalescapes.com/events MEETINGS: Volunteer Fair (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Receive information on how to volunteer at the garden over coffee. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.botgarden. uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Guy Did Ail (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) Visual/performance artist Gunnar Tarsa and composer/ musician/performance artist Kyle Lewis collaborate as Guy Did Ail. Visitors can visit the open studio to see Tarsa’s wall drawing in-progress Mondays–Fridays, 1–6 p.m. through Feb. 27. As Guy Did Ail, Lewis performs as Tarsa creates art. 8–10 p.m. www.athica.org 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! (first 3 visits). www. ttathensga.com

Wednesday 28 ART: AAAC Lunch & Learn: Artist & Copyright Law (Lyndon House Arts Center) Bring your lunch to this lecture with Meredith Ragains, executive director for Georgia Lawyers for the Arts. 12–1 p.m. FREE! (members), $15 (non-members). athensareaartscouncil@gmail.com, www.athensarts.org ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Led by docents. 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Flower Arranging Unit 3 (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn about “Design for the Dining Table.” 9 a.m. $45–50. botgarden.uga.edu CLASSES: After Effects for Beginners (ACC Library) Learn how to add special effects with Adobe After Effects. Registration is required. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens COMEDY: Tip Jar Comedy (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) Local comic stand-up hosted by Travis Williams. Last Wednesday of every month. 8 p.m. FREE! thewilliamsproject@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: Life the Griot (ACC Library) Life the Griot is a social worker, chess enthusiast, poet and activitist. His performance will be preceded by a screening of the 2014 documentary about him. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.aadmovement.org EVENTS: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (Go Bar) Watch the house cast. 10:30 p.m. $3. www.facebook. com/athensshowgirls FILM: Flashback Cinema (Beechwood 11 Cinemas) Watch True Grit (1969). Feb. 28, 4 & 7 p.m. gtcmovies.com GAMES: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, Washington St.) Play to win. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.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

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Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. willys.com GAMES: Bingo Bango (Highwire Lounge) Drop in and win prizes! 8–10 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) Gather a team and compete. 8 p.m. www. saucehouse.com GAMES: Dirty Bingo (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Hosted by Garrett Lennox every Wednesday. Prizes and house cash. 8 p.m. FREE! www. grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Dirty South Trivia offers house cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 KIDSTUFF: Shadow Day (580 Tallassee Rd.) Double Helix STEAM School is now enrolling for the 2018–2019 school year. New applicants can come in on a “shadow day” to experience the school for themselves. 8:30 a.m. www.doublehelixschool.com KIDSTUFF: Slam Poetry (Oconee County Library) Share your favorite poem in a jazz café style atmosphere. Grades 6–12. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Preschooler Storytime (Oconee County Library) Stories, songs and crafts for preschool-aged children and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee 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: Financial Health for Teens (ACC Library) Learn basic economic and financial concepts. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Children of all ages are invited for bedtime stories every Wednesday. 7 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Preschool Storytime (ACC Library) Attendees will share books, songs, puppets and rhymes. Ages 1.5–5. 9:30 a.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Preschool Pals (Bogart Library) Preschool aged children will learn social and language skills through songs stories and crafts. Ages almost 3–almost 5. 10:15 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart PERFORMANCE: Angel of Music: A Salute to Andrew Lloyd Webber (UGA Performing Arts Center) Broadway veterans Franc D’Ambrosio and Glory Crampton perform selections from Andrew Lloyd Webber hits such as The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and more. Feb. 28 & Mar. 1, 8 p.m. $6 (w/ UGA ID), $44. pac.uga.edu SPORTS: Men’s Basketball (Stegeman Coliseum) UGA faces off against Texas A&M. 8:30 p.m. www. georgiadogs.com

Thursday 1 ART: Glassblowing Date Night (Ground Up Glassworks, Watkinsville) Take a 50-minute private glassblowing class for two and make glass art with the help of an instructor. Choices of items include a round paperweight, heart shaped paperweight, glass flowers, shot glasses or highball glasses. RSVP for time. $99. groundupglass@ gmail.com, www.groundupglass. com

CLASSES: Social Security Presentation (ACC Library) Local attorney Patrick B. Cates will provide information about the disability appeal process. 4 p.m. FREE! 706583-8834 EVENTS: KnitLits (Bogart Library) Knitters of all levels are welcome. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/bogart EVENTS: Thursday Night Spaghetti Dinner (St. Philothea Greek Orthodox Church) Enjoy homemade spaghetti and live entertainment by “Johnny Cash” and “Patsy Cline.” 6 p.m. $4–8. www.stphilothea.org/events/festival-and-dinners EVENTS: Make It An Evening (Georgia Museum of Art) Enjoy Jittery Joe’s coffee, Cecilia Villaveces’ cakes and gallery tours prior to the performance in Hodgson Hall by Broadway veterans Franc D’Ambrosio and Glory Crampton. 6–8 p.m. FREE! $5 (coffee & dessert). www.pac.uga.edu GAMES: Recreation Night (Terrapin Beer Co.) Play wiffle ball in the backyard or a board game indoors. 4–8 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com GAMES: Music Trivia (Saucehouse Barbeque) Meet at the bar for a round of trivia. 8 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/saucehousebbq KIDSTUFF: Dr. Seuss Birthday Party (Madison County Library) Celebrate the 114th birthday of Dr. Seuss with his best books, snacks and activities. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/madison LECTURES & LIT: Women’s History Month Keynote Lecture (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, Room 271) Andrea J. Ritchie from the Barnard Center for Research on Women delivers this year’s lecture “Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color.” 6:30 p.m. FREE! iws.uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Book Discussion: To Live (ACC Library) Discuss this year’s Big Read selection To Live by Yu Hua. 6:30 p.m. FREE! athenslibrary.org/athens MEETINGS: Oconee Rivers Audubon Society (Sandy Creek Nature Center) UGA PhD student Christine Fortuin speaks on “The Wild Bees of Georgia.” 7 p.m. FREE! www.oconeeriversaudubon.org THEATER: Almost, Maine (Memorial Park, Quinn Hall) A series of short plays about love, the loss of it and hope. Scene titles include “Her Heart, “Sad and Glad,” “This Hurts” and “Getting it Back.” See Theater Notes on p. 14. Mar. 1–3, 7:30 p.m. Mar. 4, 3 p.m. athensclarkecounty. com/642/athens-creative-theatre

Friday 2 ART: Folk to Fine Arts Festival & Expo (Commerce Civic Center) An indoor arts show features works by both fine artists and folk artists. A Meet the Artists Reception will be held on Friday, and workshops will be held throughout the weekend. Mar. 2, 5–9 p.m. $15. Mar. 3, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. $10. folk-finearts.com ART: “Family Album: Photos by Andrew Shearer” (Trio Contemporary Art Gallery) A one night exhibit of photographic nudes created by Andrew Shearer and his friends as a tribute to his late father. 7–9 p.m. FREE! www.trioathens.com CLASSES: Computer Class (Bogart Library) Learn about how to use Facebook Pages. 1 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/bogart EVENTS: Athens Rock, Gem, Mineral, Jewelry, Fossil and Related Crafts Show (The Classic Center) Southeastern Mineral

Specimens present a crafts exhibitor show. Mar. 2–3, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Mar. 4, 11 a.m.–5 a.m. $5. www. classiccenter.com EVENTS: Friends First Friday (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Sheldon Jones will present “Container Gardening: Be Bold and Beautiful.” 9 a.m. $12. 706-5426138, www.botgarden.uga.edu EVENTS: Hatch Hackathon (Chase Park Warehouses, The Hatch) Work individually or in teams to make something in under four hours. Most projects are tech, art or craft focused. Bring your own supplies. 5–9 p.m. FREE! www.hatchathens.com EVENTS: 25th Annual Hellebore Days (Piccadilly Farm, Bishop) See a spectacular display of thousands of hellebores (Lenten Roses) in full bloom. Piccadilly Farm offers 20 types of hellebores including mixed colors, doubles and special colors. Mar. 2–3, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! 706765-4444, www.piccadillyfarm.com EVENTS: Red Carpet Gala (Ciné Barcafé) Guests are encouraged to wear red carpet attire for a three-course meal to celebrate the Oscars. Live music by Eunice Kang. Proceeds benefit Ciné. 6 p.m. $80. athenscine.com GAMES: Friday Night Initiative (Tyche’s Games) Learn new roleplaying games. 6 p.m. www.tychesgames.com KIDSTUFF: Dr. Seuss Birthday Party (Oconee County Library) Celebrate with Seuss stories, crafts and birthday cake. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Avid Bookshop) Meet Jon Jefferson in celebration of his latest book Wave of Terror. 6–7:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com LECTURES & LIT: Red Clay Conference (UGA Dean Rusk Hall, Larry Walker Room) Explore the intersection of health and environmental law, urban agriculture, urban design, water quality and litigation. The keynote address “Environmental Perspectives on Disaster Law” will be delivered by Robert R.M. Verchick. 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. FREE! (w/ UGA ID), $10–65. www.law.uga. edu/environmental-law-association PERFORMANCE: Drag Show (The Pub) With local troupe The Kourtesans. First Friday of every month. 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/ kourtesans THEATER: Love, Loss, and What I Wore (Arts!Oglethorpe) The reader’s theater series of stories women tell about “matters of the heart and matters of the closet.” See Theater Notes on p. 14. Mar. 2–3, 7:30 p.m. Mar. 4, 3 p.m. $13–18. artsoglethorpe.org THEATER: The Foreigner (WinderBarrow Community Theatre) A British visitor Froggy LeSueur and his shy friend confuse and delight zany Southerners in rural Georgia. See Theater Notes on p. 14. Mar. 2–3 & 9–10, 7:30 p.m. Mar. 4 & 11, 3 p.m. $10–13. winderbarrowtheatre.org THEATER: The Wizard of Oz (Brightstone Theatre) Brightstone Productions presents a cheerful adaptation of the classic 1939 film performed by kids. See Theater Notes on p. 14. Mar. 2–3, 7:30 p.m. Mar. 4, 3:30 p.m. $14–16. brightstoneathens.com THEATER: Almost, Maine (Memorial Park) See Thursday listing for full description Mar. 1–3, 7:30 p.m. Mar. 4, 3 p.m. athensclarkecounty.com/642/athens-creative-theatre THEATER: Visiting Mr. Green (Athens Community Theater) A curmudgeonly old widower, Mr Green, is nearly run over by a busy young

man who is then forced to visit his victim weekly for six months. See Theater Notes on p. 14. Mar. 2–3, 8 p.m. Mar 4, 2 p.m. $5. townandgownplayers.org THEATER: Cinderella (SeneyStovall Chapel) Rose of Athens Theatre presents Cinderella, adapted by playwright Forest Cloud and with original music from local composer and musician Daniela M. Monroe. Mar. 2–3, 7 p.m. www.roseofathens. org

Saturday 3 ART: Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (Georgia Museum of Art and Lamar Dodd School of Art) Sarah Kate Gillespie and Nell Andrew will give a gallery talk on modernity and spaces of femininity in the art world, then go to the art school and work on improving the coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia. 12:30–4 p.m. FREE! www.artandfeminism.org

and a food truck. 1–9 p.m. www. terrapinbeer.com EVENTS: St. Joe’s Jog & Fun Run (Sandy Creek Park) The 19th annual 5K jog and fun run benefit St. Joseph Catholic School. 10 a.m. $20. www.active.com EVENTS: 25th Annual Hellebore Days (Piccadilly Farm) See Friday listing for full description Mar. 2–3, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! 706-765-4444, www.piccadillyfarm.com EVENTS: Junior Ladies Garden Club Flower Show (Georgia Museum of Art) Designers compete to create floral arrangements inspired by works of art in the museum’s permanent collection. All day. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Athens Area Black History Bowl (Morton Theatre) The Athens Area Black History Committee presents the sixth annual program featuring a lecture, performances and recognitions of local history-makers. Speakers include University of Virginia professor Derrick P. Alridge and local author

one or two objects found in nature for points or other nature objects in the center’s collection. 11 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 LECTURES & LIT: Special Story Time (Avid Bookshop, Five Points) Illustrator Ward Jenkins shares his new book, Salam Alaikum: A Message of Peace. 10 a.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com LECTURES & LIT: Michael L. Thurmond Lecture (Morton Theatre) Speaker Derrick P. Alridge is a professor at the University of Virginia the author of The Educational Thought of W.E.B. DuBois: An Intellectual History. Athens first black police chief Joseph “Jack” H./ Lumpkin and the first black female judge Patricia Barron will be honored. Presented by the Athens Area Black History Committee. See Calendar Pick on p. 15. 1 p.m. FREE! 706-247-6777, aabhbowl@gmail.com OUTDOORS: Naturalist’s Walk (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join the SCNC staff for a walk around the

THEATER: Love, Loss, and What I Wore (Arts!Oglethorpe) See Friday listing for full description Mar. 2–3, 7:30 p.m. Mar. 4, 3 p.m. $13–18. artsoglethorpe.org THEATER: Visiting Mr. Green (Athens Community Theater) See Friday listing for full description Mar. 2–3, 8 p.m. Mar 4, 2 p.m. $5. townandgownplayers.org

Sunday 4 ART: Artist Reception (Oconee County Library) Meet Christina Dukes. 2:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee 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 CLASSES: Flamenco Workshop (Cali ’N’ Tito’s Eastside) Beginners welcome. No partner necessary. 1–3 p.m. $25. https://flamenco18. eventbrite.com

aloud to a dog creates a relaxed, non-judgmental environment that helps kids develop their reading skills and builds confidence. Register for a 15-minutes session. Grades K-5. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-7693950 LECTURES & LIT: Voices of Memoir (ACC Library) OLLI @ UGA Memoir Writers present an afternoon of readings. A reception will follow. 3 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens PERFORMANCE: Russian Folk Instrument Orchestra (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) The program will feature popular and folk selections performed on traditional instruments such as the bayan and domra. 3 p.m. $25. pac.uga.edu THEATER: The Wizard of Oz (Brightstone Theatre) See Friday listing for full description Mar. 2–3, 7:30 p.m. Mar. 4, 3:30 p.m. $14–16. brightstoneathens.com THEATER: The Foreigner (WinderBarrow Community Theatre) See Friday listing for full description Mar. 2–3 & 9–10, 7:30 p.m. Mar. 4 & 11, 3 p.m. $10–13. winderbarrowtheatre.org THEATER: Almost, Maine (Memorial Park) See Thursday listing for full description Mar. 1–3, 7:30 p.m. Mar. 4, 3 p.m. athensclarkecounty.com/642/athens-creative-theatre THEATER: Love, Loss, and What I Wore (Arts!Oglethorpe) See Friday listing for full description Mar. 2–3, 7:30 p.m. Mar. 4, 3 p.m. $13–18. artsoglethorpe.org THEATER: Visiting Mr. Green (Athens Community Theater) See Friday listing for full description Mar. 2–3, 8 p.m. Mar 4, 2 p.m. $5. townandgownplayers.org

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UGA’s French Film Festival will host a screening of Things to Come (L-avenir) on Tuesday, Feb. 27 at 8 p.m. at the Tate Student Center. ART: Folk to Fine Arts Festival & Expo (Commerce Civic Center) See Friday listing for full description Mar. 2, 5–9 p.m. $15. Mar. 3, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. $10. www.folk-finearts. com CLASSES: Druminyasa (Fuel Hot Yoga) Brad Ellsworth leads a vinyasa flow class to live drums. 5 p.m. $25–30. www.druminyasa.net CLASSES: FCT Balance and Core (AKF Athens Martial Arts) This clinic focuses on strengthening the core and legs as well as increasing range of motion. 1 p.m. $15. www. akfathens.com EVENTS: Meet the Winemaker (Ciné Barcafé) Meet fifth-generation winemaker Kurt Bietler and try samples from his label Boheme Wines. 12–2 p.m. $30. www.athenscine. com EVENTS: Kickoff Party (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Meet Melissa Link, ACC District 3 Commissioner, at her re-election kickoff party. 5:30–7 p.m. melissalinkathens.com EVENTS: Pet Care Clinic (Pet Supplies Plus) Bring your pets to a low-cost vaccination and pet care clinic. 1–4 p.m. www.petsuppliesplus.com EVENTS: Release Party (Terrapin Beer Co.) Celebrate the release of Chopsecutioner with yard games

and historian Michael L. Thurmond. 1 p.m. FREE! (tickets required). aabhbowl@gmail.com EVENTS: Athens Black Market (Little Kings Shuffle Club) The market supports local minority business vendors. Offerings range from local food, artisan home goods and natural beauty products. 6–8 p.m. www. aadmovement.com EVENTS: Athens Rock, Gem, Mineral, Jewelry, Fossil and Related Crafts Show (The Classic Center) See Friday listing for full description Mar. 2–3, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Mar. 4, 11 a.m.–5 a.m. $5. www.classiccenter.com GAMES: Shadowrun RPG (Tyche’s Games) Visit Seattle in 2071, when magic and megacorps clash. 12 p.m. FREE! www.tychesgames.com KIDSTUFF: Bling Your Prom (ACC Library) Shop for a dress, suit, shoes or jewelry for prom. One outfit per student, while supplies last. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Saturday Morning Club (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) Listen to the Georgia Children’s Chorus. For ages 4–12 and their families. 10 a.m. FREE! www.pac. uga.edu KIDSTUFF: Nature’s Trading Post (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Trade

property. Bring a camera or binoculars. All ages. 10–11 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 PERFORMANCE: Opening Reception (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) “Surround” is an immersive exhibition featuring over 20 Athens artists including Margaret Anderson, Cult of Riggonia, Williiam Danztler, Kira Hynes, Moth Sweat, Logan Shirah and more. See Calendar Pick on p. 15. 7–11 p.m. Donations accepted. www.athica.org THEATER: Cinderella (SeneyStovall Chapel) See Friday listing for full description Mar. 2–3, 7 p.m. www.roseofathens.org THEATER: The Wizard of Oz (Brightstone Theatre) See Friday listing for full description Mar. 2–3, 7:30 p.m. Mar. 4, 3:30 p.m. $14–16. brightstoneathens.com THEATER: Almost, Maine (Memorial Park) See Thursday listing for full description Mar. 1–3, 7:30 p.m. Mar. 4, 3 p.m. athensclarkecounty.com/642/athens-creative-theatre THEATER: The Foreigner (WinderBarrow Community Theatre) See Friday listing for full description Mar. 2–3 & 9–10, 7:30 p.m. Mar. 4 & 11, 3 p.m. $10–13. winderbarrowtheatre.org

EVENTS: 2nd Annual Winds of Change: A Symposium for Women in Recovery (The Foundry) Join Acceptance Recovery Center for music, conversation about adiction, light hors d’oeuvres and stories from women. 6 p.m. $12–15. www.thefoundryathens.com EVENTS: Spring Into the Arts (Nuçi’s Space) The performing arts medicine showcase seeks to address issues artists face. Local artists will perform and network. Keynote speakers are Bronkar Lee and Peter Alvanos. Refreshments provided by Mama’s Boy and Ike & Jane. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. FREE! www.nuci.org EVENTS: Junior Ladies Garden Club Flower Show (Georgia Museum of Art) See Saturday listing for full description All day. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Athens Rock, Gem, Mineral, Jewelry, Fossil and Related Crafts Show (The Classic Center) See Friday listing for full description Mar. 2–3, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Mar. 4, 11 a.m.–5 a.m. $5. www.classiccenter.com GAMES: Netrunner Open Play (Tyche’s Games) All are welcome to join in. 12:30–4:30 p.m. FREE! www. tychesgames.com KIDSTUFF: Tail Waggin’ Tutors (Oconee County Library) Reading

ART: UGA Jewelry & Metals Sale (Lamar Dodd School of Art, Atrium) New work from jewelry and metalsmithing students. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. www.art.uga.edu FILM: Women’s History Month Film Screening (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, Room 271) Watch The Passionate Pursuites of Angela Bowen. 6:30 p.m. FREE! iws.uga.edu GAMES: Dirty South Trivia: Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Team trivia contests with house cash prizes every Monday night. 8 p.m. FREE! www.grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: 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. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com KIDSTUFF: Teen Library Council (Oconee County Library) Have a say in future YA events. Grades 6–12. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ oconee KIDSTUFF: Monday Funday (Bogart Library) Songs, finger plays, wiggles and giggles for ages three and under. Caregivers will recieve pointers for building literacy and language skills. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: NerdHerd (Oconee County Library) Geek out with other nerds. Grades 6–12. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee PERFORMANCE: Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy (UGA Performing Arts Center) The award-winning Celtic fiddlers and husband-and-wife duo will be joined k continued on next page

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THE CALENDAR! by a band and family members for a program called “Visions of Cape Breton and Beyond.” 8 p.m. $6 (w/ UGA ID), $39–46. pac.uga.edu

Tuesday 6 ART: UGA Jewelry & Metals Sale (Lamar Dodd School of Art) See Monday listing for full description 10 a.m.–5 p.m. www.art.uga.edu COMEDY: Open TOAD Comedy Open Mic (Flicker Theatre & Bar) This regular comedy open mic features established comedians and newcomers alike. 9 p.m. $5. www. flickertheatreandbar.com EVENTS: Air Sex World Championships (The World Famous) This nationally touring comedy show combines storytelling and improv for a talent competition. Think air guitar, but with imaginary bodies instead. 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) See Tuesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) See Tuesday listing for full description 6 p.m. FREE! www.therookandpawn.com GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) See Tuesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Nic. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706-354-7289 KIDSTUFF: Kids Knit (Bogart Library) Learn to knit. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart LECTURES & LIT: Adult Book Club (Bogart Library) Pick up a copy of An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor at the front desk and meet book lovers at the new book club. 1 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ bogart LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Avid Bookshop, Prince Ave.) Author Abby Hanlon shares Dory Fantasmagory: Head in the Clouds. 6 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com MEETINGS: Libertarian Party of Athens (Transmetropolitan) Discuss current events at this monthly meeting. 7 p.m. FREE! lpathensga@ gmail.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! (first 3 visits). www. ttathensga.com

Wednesday 7 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) For this special Women’s History Month tour, the three co-curators of “Crafting History: Textiles, Metals and Ceramics at the University of Georgia” will give a tour featuring works by women artists. 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org ART: Artist Talk (Lamar Dodd School of Art, Auditorium S150) Hear from Masud Olufani. See Calendar Pick on p. 15. 12:20 p.m. FREE! www. art.uga.edu ART: Opening Reception (Circle Gallery) “A Voice Offstage: James Rose” is an experiential exhibition inspired by the work of the modernist master. 4:30–6 p.m. FREE! www. ced.uga.edu/exhibit-schedule EVENTS: Rabbit Box (The Foundry) Storytelling for adults. This month’s theme is “A Life Well Read.” 7 p.m. $7. rabbitboxstories@gmail.com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) See Wednesday listing for full

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description 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, Washington St.) Play to win. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Dirty Bingo (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Hosted by Garrett Lennox every Wednesday. Prizes and house cash. 8 p.m. FREE! www. grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: Bingo Bango (Highwire Lounge) Drop in and win prizes! 8–10 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Gather a team. Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. willys.com GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) Gather a team and compete. 8 p.m. www. saucehouse.com KIDSTUFF: Preschooler Storytime (Oconee County Library) Stories, songs and crafts for preschool-aged children and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Library Adventures (Bogart Library) See Wednesday listing for full description 11:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Chess Club (Oconee County Library) Ages 7 & up are invited to play. All experience levels welcome. 5 p.m. FREE! 706-7693950 KIDSTUFF: Anime Club (Oconee County Library) Watch some anime and manga, listen to J-Pop music, eat Japanese snacks and share fan art. Ages 11–18. 6–8 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950 LECTURES & LIT: Word of Mouth Poetry (The Globe) Open mic poetry readings. This month’s featured reader is Joe Millford. 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ athenswordofmouth OUTDOORS: Guided Nature Ramble (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Join naturalists from the community on the trails at Sandy Creek. 9–11 a.m. FREE! scncinc@ gmail.com

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 WOLFISH New solo project from local experimental artist Kiran Fernandes. THE VIKING PROGRESS Local group that plays rockers and ballads about love, death and isolation. PAPER MATADOR New Madrid’s Phil McGill performs a solo set. TOM VISIONS Post-mystical, electronic, psychedelic music. LEA LEA Dreamy local indie-folk artist. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $5. www.hendershotscoffee.com DOUBLE SUPPLE New experimental project featuring John Fernandes,

Wednesday 28 Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC A weekly open-mic jam hosted by Louis Phillip Pelot. All musicians welcome! Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com ALL THE OTHER REINDEER Progressive rock band from Athens. NEW PARLIAMENT Athens-based jam band influenced by Neil Young, Widespread Panic and more. KING ISRAEL Athens-based alternative blues-rock band.

fresh musicianship and powerful harmonies. COLONY HOUSE Indie-rock quartet from Franklin, TN. TALL HEIGHTS Boston-based electrofolk pair. 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. This week features special guest RoyceAnne Waldorff. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 BROTHER OLIVER Psychedelic folkrock group from South Carolina.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar Old Skool Presents. 8 p.m. FREE! www. hendershotscoffee.com DEATON, SPIVEY, GOODHUE & FULLER Four local musicians team up for a night of funky, jazzy sounds. Highwire Lounge 11 p.m. $1 (headphone). www.highwirelounge.com SILENT DISCO Dance with wireless headphones and two channels of music. One of them is a request line! Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 THE VOODOO FIX Los Angelesbased band with a gritty and soulful take on blues-rock. The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 CHRIS HAMPTON AND THE DANCING MAGNOLIAS Local group led by guitarist and songwriter Chris Hampton. Every Thursday! UGA Tate Student Center 8 p.m. FREE (UGA students), $5. www. ugaunion.com SILENT DISCO Dance the night away while wearing wireless headphones. The World Famous 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens DEEP STATE Local band playing driving, punky, melodic guitar-rock. GIVING UP Hooky, upbeat power-pop group from Iowa with touches of surf and Afropop. THE HERNIES Local riff-heavy rock band displaying influences from classic to indie rock.

Tuesday 27 Creature Comforts Brewery 5 p.m. FREE! creaturecomfortsbeer.com LOUIS ROMANOS TRIO Local jazz combo led by percussionist Louis Romanos.

The Foundry Terrapin Tuesday. 7 p.m. $5. www. thefoundryathens.com DRIFTWOOD A group of experienced Athens musicians playing classic country, rock, folk, blues and bluegrass. Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. SOLD OUT. georgiatheatre.com PORTUGAL. THE MAN Popular rock band from Portland, OR with an ever-evolving, always creative style. MATTIEL Atlanta-based garage-rock group led by Mattiel Brown.

Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. SOLD OUT. www.georgiatheatre. com JUDAH AND THE LION Nashvillebased Americana band featuring fresh musicianship and powerful harmonies. COLONY HOUSE Indie-rock quartet from Franklin, TN. TALL HEIGHTS Boston-based electrofolk pair. Go Bar 10 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!

LIVE MUSIC

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $3. flickertheatreandbar.com BAHINZ AND THE BAND New local rock band. ROOM 9 Athens-based cover band playing hits by everyone from Daft Punk to Jimi Hendrix. BLUEFISH Athens-based alt-rock group.

The Foundry 8 p.m. $5 (adv.), $7 (door). www.thefoundryathens.com WAKER Group mashing soul, funk and rock and roll into a danceable sound. HEDONISTAS Funky, jazzy rock-fusion band from Atlanta.

Tigers Jaw plays the 40 Watt Club on Friday, Mar. 2. Kiran Fernandes and Courtney McCracken. MICHAEL POTTER Local guitarist creates a blend of ambient folk and psychedelic songs and soundscapes. JACOB SUNDERLIN Local musician who incorporates elements of noise, folk, ambient and drone. SAHADA BUCKLEY Local violinist performs a solo set. ARIEL ACKERLY Athens-based experimental performer. PETER WEBB Atlanta musician playing meditative, jazz-influenced experimental folk. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 MARIE DANIELLE Indie-folk singer-songwriter originally from Harrisburg, PA.

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Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com HIP HOP & POETRY Featuring performances by Virgil Wolfe, Calamity, Son Zoo, Paul Cunningham, Space Brother and Squalle & L.G. The Foundry 7 p.m. $5. www.thefoundryathens.com THE BEST OF UNKNOWN ATHENS A monthly singer-songwriter showcase hosted by Liam Parke. This show features Daniel Collins, Justin Granados, Scott Lovefield, Aspen Countryman, Casey King and Joshua Walker. Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. SOLD OUT. georgiatheatre.com JUDAH AND THE LION Nashvillebased Americana band featuring

The Office Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn. Every Wednesday! Porterhouse Grill 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT Enjoy an evening of original music, improv and standards.

Thursday 1 Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 JOHN SWILLEY Local songwriter who blends gritty Southern rock, sultry R&B and Delta blues. LEAVING COUNTRIES Louis Phillip Pelot plays solo sets of country-rock and acoustic Southern soul.

Friday 2 Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com MOTHER THE CAR Founded by a brother duo, this garage-rock act incorporates blues and other influences. SALINE Local four-piece “shoegrease” band with hints of post-punk and fuzz-rock. COMMANDER KEEN Garage-rock band from Cookeville, TN. DAN CLIFFORD Local artist playing lo-fi power-pop. DT Productions 8 p.m. $8. www.dtproductions.com DEGA Local indie-pop duo featuring former Ponderosa frontman Kalen Nash and his wife, pop singer Aslyn. Album release show!

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com NICHOLAS MALLIS Mallis’ music is influenced by artists like David Bowie, The Ventures and Neil Diamond. BLUE BLOOD Melodic psych-pop project fronted by Hunter Morris. LEA LEA Dreamy local indie-folk artist.

TORO Atlanta-based heavy rock group fronted by guitarist Zack Hembree. CAVE OF SWIMMERS Innovative, Latin-tinged heavy rock band from Miami. MARSES Local “party-doom” fourpiece band. 40 Watt Club 10:30 p.m. $2. www.40watt.com IMMUZIKATION & TWIN POWERS Two of the Booty Boyz spin the newest dance party jams and classic favorites.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $16 (adv.), $19 (door). www.40watt.com TIGERS JAW Pennsyvania-based indie-rock band. YOWLER Solo venture of All Dogs frontwoman Maryn Jones. LOOMING Eclectic indie-pop group from Springfield, IL.

The Foundry 8 p.m. $16 (adv.), $20 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com DALE WATSON Iconic “Ameripolitan” guitarist and singer known for his authentic approach to songwriting. See story on p. 12. CARLY BURRUSS Country singer-songwriter based in Atlanta.

The Foundry 8 p.m. $25 (adv.), $30 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com JORMA KAUKONEN The legendary guitarist and former Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna member performs an intimate acoustic set.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 MIDNIGHT BOI Alias of local musician Eli Rickli, playing “pseudo-Satanic hip hop.” RICKY DIGITS Local emcee who cites MF Doom, cLOUDDEAD, Wu-Tang Clan and Eminem as influences. DJ MAHOGANY Popular local DJ spins freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta faves.

The Office Lounge 9 p.m. 706-546-0840 RAGLAND Alt-rock group from Oklahoma influenced by groups like Paramore and Evanescence. Terrapin Beer Co. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com KURT LEE WHEELER Georgia singer blending folk, alt-country and rock.

Sunday 4 Terrapin Beer Co. 3 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com JIM COOK High-energy solo blues performer with strong vocals, slide guitar and “swamp stomp.”

Monday 5 Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $10 (21+), $12 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com TRIATHALON Surfy, R&B-inspired indie-pop group from NYC via Savannah. See Calendar Pick on p. 15.

Georgia Theatre 7:30 p.m. SOLD OUT. www.georgiatheatre.com THE FLAMING LIPS Iconic indie band from Oklahoma City known for its bombastic, psychedelic pop. See story on p. 11. CHAPPO Psych-tinged dance-pop band from Brooklyn. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 BREE COULEUR Local singer-songwriter playing stripped-down folk music. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OPEN MIC Showcase your talent at this popular open mic night most Monday evenings. Hosted by Larry Forte. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 BLUES NIGHT WITH BIG C Nobody in Athens sings the blues quite like Big C. Expect lots of soulful riffs, covers and originals. The Pub 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-353-2831 KARAOKE Sing to your heart’s content every Monday.

The Foundry 7:30 p.m. $20 (adv.), $25 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com BODEANS Long-running Wisconsin band specializing in rootsy alt-rock. See Calendar Pick on p. 15.

RFA Four-piece garage band based out of Philadelphia. CHICK WALLACE Atlanta-based alternative pop band. THE DOUBLE NEGATIVES New Jersey five-piece rock and roll band.

Georgia Theatre 7:30 p.m. $15. www.georgiatheatre. com HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER M.C. Taylor plays laid-back folk-rock with hints of Wilco and the Grateful Dead.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar. com UNTIL THREE Athens-based indierock duo. CANDY AMBULANCE Fuzzed-out indie-rock trio from upstate New York. DAGMAR VORK Athens-based DIY musician, songwriter and visual artist.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 PEARL & THE OYSTERS Electropop group from Gainesville, FL with DIY production and sunny melodies. RICHARD GUMBY “Top 40 bedroom demos” played by various lineups and led by songwriter Scott Crossman. MANS TRASH Skewed psych-pop sounds from Mercer West. LAMBDA CELSIUS Local experimental electronic performer. BEVERLY Local experimental duo featuring violinist Sahada Buckley and vocalist Monique Osorio. The World Famous 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens DREAM CULTURE Eclectic local psychedelic rock group.

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

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 BOOTZ & KATZ Live electronica project from Macon.

Southern Brewing Company 5 p.m. FREE! www.sobrewco.com TRE POWELL Local singer-songwriter playing bluesy acoustic tunes with soulful vocals.

Hiss Golden Messenger plays the Georgia Theatre on Tuesday, Mar. 6. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. $7. www.hendershotscoffee.com WHITE RABBIT COLLECTIVE Athens-based ensemble with influences ranging from Tuvan folk songs to psychedelic rock anthems to jazz-funk grooves. This is an album release show!

Saturday 3

Highwire Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com LIVE MUSIC Rotating local jazz and bluegrass bands play every Friday and Saturday night. 11 p.m. $1 (headphone). www.highwirelounge.com SILENT DISCO Dance the night away with wireless headphones and two channels of music. One of them is a request line!

Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com GUILLOTINE Hard-hitting local death-metal band.

No. 3 Railroad Street 6 p.m. www.3railroad.org REDSTONE RAMBLERS Local blues-folk group led by songwriter Mark Wilmot.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com ASPEN COUNTRYMAN Local singer-songwriter that mixes pop structure with jazzy melody.

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. This week features special guest RoyceAnne Waldorff.

The Office Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn. Every Wednesday!

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com KLEZMER LOCAL 42 Local seven-piece klezmer band specializing in Jewish and gypsy music.

The Office Lounge 6 p.m. 706-546-0840 REV. CONNER MACK TRIBBLE Tribble is a Georgia rock and roll fixture. Every Friday! 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-549-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn, the Queen of Karaoke!

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $15 (adv.), $18 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com LITTLE TYBEE Atlanta-based band drawing from jazz, Tropicalia and Motown to color its indie-folk pop ballads. THE REIGN OF KINDO New Yorkbased rock band.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 THE FREEWAY REVIVAL Rootsy, psychedelic rock group from Asheville, NC.

ELISE TYLER

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $25 (adv.), $30 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com LOTUS Jammy, electronic-focused band known for its forays into rock, funk, hip hop and more, as well as its hypnotic light show. MARVEL YEARS Electro-soul EDM producer and guitarist.

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 DEAD NEIGHBORS This local band plays punky, emotive garage-rock. Album release show! YUKONS Latinx indie-rock band from Atlanta. WIEUCA Local band playing cheeky, guitar-driven indie rock. THE RETINAS Post-punk band from Philadelphia.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 THE GRATEFUL BROTHERS Paying tribute to both The Grateful Dead and The Allman Brothers Band.

NEW MADRID Rocking, riveting Athens-based indie band with a psychedelic edge. INNER WAVE California-based indierock group. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com HUMAN HOST Experimental electronic project from New York. JOE CAT Local troubadour whose influences range from Steve Earle and Townes Van Zant to Johnny Cash. GARRETT HATCH Local songwriter and member of blues-rock band Mother the Car plays a solo set. CHIP MCKENZIE Longtime local singer-songwriter performs a solo set. The Foundry 8 p.m. FREE! www.thefoundryathens. com ROAD TO ROO Athens bands battle for a chance to perform at Bonnaroo 2018.

The World Famous 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens SHRED FLINTSTONE Scrappy pop-punk group on tour from New Jersey. LO DODONA New local experimental punk band. SWAMP Melodic and wiry local indierock band. HEARTCENTER Riffy indie-rock group from Atlanta.

BRNDA Jangly indie band from Washington, DC. POPPIES Blissed-out indie-pop band from New York City. FUTURE APE TAPES Experimental tunes with beats, guitars and synths.

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Tuesday 6

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!

40 Watt Club 9 p.m. FREE! www.40watt.com ROAD TO ROO One lucky Athens band will win a chance to perform at Bonnaroo 2018.

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

3/8 SYLVIA ROSE NOVAK (Akademia Brewing Co.) 3/8 THE NUDE PARTY / CAROLINE ROSE / ANCIENT WHALES (Caledonia Lounge) 3/8 TOMMY STINSON & CHIP ROBERTS (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 3/8 HEIDI HENSLEY / ADAM PAYNE (The Foundry) 3/8 BONOBO / ATLAS (Georgia Theatre) 3/8 ROMANOS, FONTAINE, ELLINGTON (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 3/8 HIGH UP / WHISPERTOWN / EMILEIGH IRELAND / BED DETH / KYKY RENEE KNIGHT (The World Famous) 3/9 DOUBLE FERRARI / BAMBARA / LIGHT BEAMS / MEAN QUEEN (Caledonia Lounge) 3/9 TWEN / NIHILIST CHEER LEADER / THE HOLIFIELDS (Creature Comforts Brewery) 3/9 COUNTRY MUSIC IN THE ROUND / Rachel Farley / Mike Dekle / Chelsea Bain (The Foundry) 3/9 STICKS AND BONES (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 3/10 OUTERSEA / CALICO VISION / SMALL BEIGE GIRL (Caledonia Lounge) 3/10 BIG GIPP / DAZ DILLINGER (40 Watt Club)

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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 Mar. 15, June 15, Sept. 15 & Dec. 15. info@ athensarts.org, www.athensarts.org ACAC SEEKS NEW MEMBERS (Athens, GA) The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission is seeking qualified candidates to fill volunteer positions. The ACAC meets on the second Monday of each month at 6 p.m. Must be an ACC resident and registered voter and have demonstrated interest in the arts. Deadline Mar. 2, 11:59 p.m. Interviews on Mar. 13–17. Terms begin in April. www.athensculturalaffairs.org ART CLASSES (Lyndon House Arts Center) Now registering for spring classes. “Painting with Will Eskridge. Earth and Air: Plein Air Landscape Painting.” Beginning or intermediate jewelry/metals with Jessie Jordan. “Printmaking with Amanda Burk.” Ceramics for beginners. “Enamel Jewlery with Leslie Litt.” “In the Studio with Charles Warnock.” “Mindful Explorations in Clay with Jasey Jones.” Visit website for class descriptions and dates. 706-613-3623, www.athensclarke county.com/leisure ARTS IN COMMUNITY GRANTS (Athens, GA) The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission awards three

grants of $1,500 each to promote creative placemaking in the community. Grants will be awarded based on the level of community enrichment through the arts, contribution to the local identity and quality or artistic merit. Artists, local organizations and groups can apply. Deadline Mar. 9, 11:59 p.m. Fill out online proposal. info@athensculturalaffairs. org, www.athensculturalaffairs.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 ENTRIES: EGGQUISITE HUNT (Trio Contemporary Art Gallery) Seeking artist-made eggs to hide in a hunt. Eggs must be wooden or plastic, 2”-4” tall and decorated in any media. Eggs due Mar. 24. Event on Mar. 31. RSVP trioathens@gmail.com HUMAN RIGHTS FESTIVAL LOGO CONTEST (Athens, GA) The Athens Human Rights Festival is seeking logo submissions for use on T-shirts, the newspaper and the stage backdrop. Logos must say 40th Annual Human Rights Festival, May 5–6 and Athens, GA. Deadline

art around town AMICI (233 E. Clayton St.) Kenneth Storey’s light painting photography removes background distractions and focuses on images from the natural world. 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) “Looking Up! Artistic Explorations of Our Skies” includes paintings, drawings and sculptures by Ana Anest and Scott Pope. Through Apr. 20. ATHENS ART AND FRAME (1021 Parkway Blvd.) Heidi Hensley’s paintings depict colorful and eclectic scenes of Athens and UGA. ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (ATHICA) (160 Tracy St.) The gallery’s new Artists-in-Residence series presents visual artist Gunnar Tarsa and composer Kyle Lewis, who collaborate on performances as Guy Did Ail. Drawing-in-progress open studios, Mondays–Fridays through Feb. 27. Performances Feb. 27. • “Surround” is an immersive installation with contributions by over 20 artists. Opening event Mar. 3. Through Mar. 11. ATHENS LATINO CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND SERVICES (445 Huntington Rd., #120) See 20 paintings by Stanley Bermudez. BENDZUNAS GLASS (89 W. South Ave., Comer) The family-run studio has been creating fine art glass for almost 40 years. CIRCLE GALLERY (UGA College of Environment and Design, 285 S. Jackson St.) “A Voice Offstage: James Rose” is an experiential exhibition inspired by the work of the mid-century modernist landscape designer. Opening reception Mar. 7. Through Apr. 21. 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.

Mar. 5. Email for details. jeff@rubysuegraphics.com MAKERSPACE MEMBERSHIP (The Hatch) Makers can have access to a full woodshop, metal shop, electronics lab, clean prototyping space, as well as fine art tools, sewing, 3D printing, laser cutting and other tools. $50/month for 24/7 access. Members also get discounted classes and attendance to monthy events. www.hatchathens.com/ membership 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. Work independently up to 32 hours per week. Life drawing classes are currently offered on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. as a membership perk. $65/ month or $175/three months. 706613-3623, www.athensclarkecounty. com/leisure WINTERVILLE MARIGOLD FESTIVAL ART CONTEST (Winterville, GA) The festival is seeking artist submissions for artwork that will be featured at the festival. A select group of entries will be chosen to display their work April–June at the Winterville Center for Community & Culture. The top submission will be used for posters, T-shirts and more. Deadline Mar. 11, 5 p.m. Festival May 12. www. wintervilleartscouncil.org

Auditions

ACT AUDITIONS (Memorial Park) (Quinn Hall) Athens Creative Theatre hosts Memie’s Little Hoax Senior Adult Readers Theatre auditions Mar. 7, 6–9 p.m. Show dates May 4–6. Smell of the Kill auditions Mar. 5–6, 6–9 p.m. Performances Apr. 26–28. www.accgov.com/act GARGOYLE AUDITIONS (Athens Little Playhouse) Kids can perform in The Gargoyle Family Goes to Easter Island. Auditions Mar. 6–7, 6–7:30 p.m. Performances run May 4–6 & May 11–13. www.athenslittle playhouse.net SINGULARITY (Athens, GA) Seeking non-union actors of all ages for a short film discussing race and individuality in the digital age. Shoot dates will be late February and early March. singularitymoviecasting@ gmail.com

Classes ACROYOGA JAM (Center City Ballet, 750 N. Chase St.) Work in trios and rotate through the roles of base, flier and spotter. Sundays, 8 p.m. $5. www.centercityballet.com AFRO-CUBAN DANCE SERIES (Center City Ballet and Movement Arts) Aramis Pazos-Barrera, a graduate of the National School of the Arts in Cuba, hosts dance workshops on Saturdays in February, 3:30–5:30 p.m. $25/each or $80/all four in advance. www.facebook.com/ groups/ugasalsaclub ATHENS TECH CLASSES (Athens Technical College) “Powerful Presentations: Microsoft PowerPoint Level II.” Mar. 2. $109. “Basic

CLASSIC CENTER GALLERIES (300 N. Thomas St.) “Kaleidoscope” includes artwork by Stanley Bermudez, Tammy Cantarella, Beth Thompson, Starr Campbell, Katherine Burke, Wilma and Erin McIntosh. Through May. CREATURE COMFORTS BREWING CO. (271 W. Hancock Ave.) “Clouds and Clay: Above Georgia” features aerial photography printed on aluminum by Dr. Chris Greer. Through Mar. 4. • “The Broadside Exhibition Project: verse 1” pairs local poets and artists together to create original broadsides which serve as illustrated poems. Reception Mar. 8. On view Mar. 4–Apr. 1. FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) “Cacophony of Color: Group Art Show” features works by Marisa Delgado, Eddy Lezama, Laura Maria Ramirez Giraldo and Logan Shirah. Opening reception Mar. 9. Through March. GALLERY@HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “House Beautiful” explores domestic landscapes through works by Holly Coulis, Sarah Hobbs, Paige Adair, April Childers, Jess Machacek and Justin Barker. Through Apr. 28. GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “Clinton Hill” offers a survey of the 20th-century abstractionist’s career, from printmaker to painter, from pulp-paper pioneer to lyrical wall constructions maker. Through Mar. 18. • “Opera in Print: Fin-de-siècle Posters from the Blum Collection.” Through Apr. 22. • “Crafting History: Textiles, Metals and Ceramics at the University of Georgia.” Through Apr. 29. GLASSCUBE@INDIGO (500 College Ave.) Lucha Rodriguez’s site-specific installation, “Amorphous Dislocations of Ultramarine,” incorporates handout paper, translucent color film and LED lights for a floating display that changes color. Through April. HEIRLOOM CAFE & FRESH MARKET (815 N. Chase St.) Paintings by Neil Hancock and Megan Sparks. Through Mar. 5. JUST PHO…AND MORE (1063 Baxter St.) Drawings and painting by Patrick Linker. K.A. ARTIST SHOP (127 N. Jackson St.) “Love, in All its Many Forms” is a group exhibition of intimate works pertaining to the theme of love. Through March. LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) Curated by Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay, “Tripwire” addresses anxieties pertaining to dislocation, home and surveillance through immigrant artists and artists from the American South. Through Mar. 22. • “Cryptic for the Simple Minded” is a compilation of works by MFA candidates Whitney Cleveland and Katlin Shae. Opening reception Mar. 1. Through Mar. 23. • “Michael,” an exhibition by Dodd Fellow in Photography Forest Kelley, imagines the life of the artist’s

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Welding for the Artist or Hobbyist.” Mar. 5–8. $249. “Business Accounting Fundamentals.” Mar. 6–7. $279. “Hand Tool How-To.” Mar. 14–15. $49. “The Accounting Cycle.” Mar. 19–20. $279. “Trout Fishing for Beginners.” Mar. 21. $49. “Advanced Microsoft Word.” Mar. 26. $109. “Extreme PowerPoint: Level III.” Mar. 30. $109. “Georgia Driver’s Education: Teen Driving Course.” Apr. 2–5 & Apr. 9–12. $350. “Excel Amplified: Level III Microsoft Excel.” Apr. 6. $109. In “OSHA 10,” participants will learn about policies, procedures, standards and general industry safety and health principles. Two-day course. Begins Apr. 3. $159. “Beginning Forklift Operator Certification.” Two-day course. Begins Apr. 25. $199. training@ athenstech.edu, athenstech.edu CLASSES (OCAF, Watkinsville) “Going Deeper Into Screenwriting.” Thursdays, Mar. 1–Apr. 5, 6:30–8:30 p.m. $130–140. “Beginning Portrait Sculpture with Jean Westmacott.” Thursdays, Mar. 8–Apr. 12, 5:30–8:30 p.m. $190. “Telling Your Story with Collage.” Mar. 17–18, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. $100–110. ocaf.com CLASSES (Winterville Center for Community and Culture) “Community Coffeehouse,” Mondays–Thursdays from 9 a.m.–3 p.m. “American Legion Post 20 Coffee Hour,” Tuesdays at 9 a.m. “Threadwork Gatherers Crafting Club,” Tuesdays at 9 a.m. “Pilates,” Tuedays at 5:30 p.m. “Gentle Yoga,” Tuesdays at 6 p.m. “Tai Chi,” Wednesdays at 10 a.m. “Learn Chess,” 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 Jong,” Thursdays at 1 p.m. “Line Dancing,” Thursdays at 4 p.m. “Ballroom Dancing,” Thursdays at 6 p.m. www.wintervillecenter.com COMPUTER CLASSES (Oconee County Library) “Intermediate Excel 2010.” Feb. 22, 2 p.m. “Windows Basics.” Mar. 3, 3 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee

CUBAN-STYLE SALSA (UGA Tate Student Center) (Room 473) The UGA Salsa Club hosts dancing every Sunday. Email for details. ugasalsa club@gmail.com, www.facebook. com/groups/ugasalsaclub DIGITAL MEDIA CENTER CLASSES (ACC Library) Get tips on graphics, audio and video editing projects. Thursdays, 6 p.m. and Saturdays, 11 a.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens FARMVIEW CLASSES (Farmview Market) “A Taste of the Tea Room: Scone-Making with Linda Rivers.” Mar. 6, 3–5 p.m. $30. “Easy BreadBaking at Home: No-Knead Bread with Lori Smith.” Mar. 13, 5–7 p.m. $35. “Raised Bed Building and Growing: A Build-It, Grow-It Yourself Workshop with Brad Kelly.” Mar. 24, 10–11:30 a.m. $149–199. “Instant Pot Cooking with Kjesti Easton.” Apr. 11, 5–7 p.m. $30. www.farmview market.com LIFEGUARD TRAINING (Athens YWCO) Become a certified lifeguard through a three-day training course. Registration required. Mar. 2–4. $225. 706-354-7880, www.ywco.org ONE-ON-ONE COMPUTER SKILLS (ACC Library) Personalized instruction available for various computer topics. Thursdays, 9 a.m. 706-6133650, ext. 354, www.athenslibrary. org/athens ONE-ON-ONE GENEALOGY ASSISTANCE (ACC Library) Library staff offer assistance to genealogists and researchers. Wednesdays, 5–5:45 p.m. Registration required. 706-6133650, www.athenslibrary.org/athens OPEN TREE CLIMB (David Henry Hardigree Wildlife Sanctuary, 1110 Old Greensboro Rd.) Access the tree-top canopy with WildRice Adventures using rope, harness and a helmet. Ages 8 & up. Call or email to register. $30. 404-667-5120, wildriceadventures@hotmail.com, www.wildriceadventures.com SALSA DANCE CLASSES (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Cuban-style salsa dance classes (Casino-Rueda) with SALSAthens. No partner nec-

uncle, an artist and gay man who was found dead at the base of a rock ledge. Opening reception Mar. 1. Through Mar. 23. • “The 2018 Science and Medical Illustration Exhibition” features work by undergraduate students in Science Illustration at UGA and from graduate students in Medical Illustration at Augusta University. Reception Mar. 7. Mar. 1–23. LAST RESORT GRILL (174 W. Clayton St.) Mosaic artwork by Jane Wright. Through Feb. 28. 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.) “Resonating Destinations” features mixed media works by Jim Wilson. Through Mar. 3. • Collections from our Community presents “Angels Everywhere: Connee Flynn.” Through March. MADISON ARTISTS GUILD (123 S. Main St.) Folk art by Peter Loose. Through Feb. 28. MADISON MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) “Contemporary Ceramics in Georgia.” Through Apr. 9. MAMA’S BOY (197 Oak St.) Susan Pelham’s collages are influenced by Magic Realism and Surrealism. OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (OCAF) (34 School St., Watkinsville) The “Youth Art Month Exhibition” highlights works by over 250 students from Oconee County’s public and private schools in grades k–12. Through Mar. 22. PINEWOODS PUBLIC LIBRARY (1265 Hwy. 29 N. #12) See paintings by Stanley Bermudez as well as a community mural currently in the process of restoration. RICHARD B. RUSSELL JR. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIES (300 S. Hull St.) “Wrestling Temptation: The Quest to Control Alcohol in Georgia.” THE SURGERY CENTER (2142 W. Broad St.) See colorful paintings by Dr. Hildegard Timberlake. Through March. 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.) Artwork by Georgeinna Brackett. THE WORLD FAMOUS (351 N. Hull St.) Permanent artists include RA Miller, Chris Hubbard, Travis Craig, Michelle Fontaine, Dan Smith, Greg Stone and more.

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9–13.” Fridays, 4:30–6 p.m. $15. Both classes are taught by Hope Hilton. www.kaartist.com BATON (Bishop Park) The Classic City Majorettes offer instruction in dance-twirling, strutting, marching technique and more. For ages 5 & up. Tuesdays, Feb. 27–May 8, 5:15–6 p.m. (ages 5–14), 6–7 p.m. (ages 7–14) or 7–8 p.m. (ages 9–14). $65–98. 706-613-3589, www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure EXPLORING THE EARTH SUMMER CAMP (Little Rose Nature Adventures, Watkinsville) This camp is a nature-based, visual and performing arts, STEAM program for kids ages 5–12. Runs June and July, 8:30 a.m.–2 p.m. $200/ week. www.exploringtheearth.org FINANCES FOR TEENS (ACC Library) Teens will learn basic economic and financial concepts. Wednesdays through Mar. 7, 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ athens HOMESCHOOL GROUP (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Instruction and activities connect youth to their natural surroundings. Second Mondays, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. $25/class. botgarden.uga.edu SPRING ART CAMP (Lyndon House Arts Center) “Wear It: Wearable Art.” Mar. 13–15. Session One for ages 8–11, Session Two for ages 12–15. Presented by AthFest Educates with Community. 706-613-3623, ext. 225 SUMMER CAMPS (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Camps include themed programming on modern art, superhero and fantasy, dollhouse design, natural dyeing and textiles, fairies and nature art, Latin American art, women in art, and more. Check website for full descriptions and dates. www.treehousekidandcraft.com YOGASPROUTS (Athens Five Points Yoga Studio) Yoga for children ages 1.5–18. Group lessons, private lessons, family lessons, themed birthday parties and more. 706-3721757, yogasprouts@gmail.com YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAM REGISTRATION (Multiple Locations) Now registering. Youth soccer co-ed program for ages 6–12. Mar. 20–Apr. 28. Flag football co-ed program for ages 5–12,

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ANNIHILATION (R) Alex Garland showed great promise in his directing debut, Ex Machina, THE OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2018: nights ever since. Max’s jet-setting venture and his follow-up feature, based on the ANIMATION It’s Oscar time again! Outside of capitalist brother whom everyone adores, deceptively dense science fiction novel by catching up on all the Best Picture nomiBrooks (Kyle Chandler), decides to stay Jeff VanderMeer—the first in his Southern nees, the best new Oscar tradition is checkin town for a while and host one of the Reach Trilogy—will not disappoint anyone ing out the short films, both live action get-togethers. However, the night of innowilling to delve into a visually splendid and animated, that have been nominated cent murder-mystery goes quickly wrong film disinclined to provide much in the by the Academy. This year’s animated way of narrative closure. I actually selection has everything from Kobe prefer Garland’s screen version of to Roald Dahl, along with the annual Annihilation to VanderMeer’s source Pixar inclusion. The nominees are… material. (I never ventured into the Dear Basketball: Kobe Bryant wrote sequel, Authority.) and narrated this pencil-sketched On page and screen, Annihilation love letter to his lifelong sport, details the descent of a group of which is scored by John Williams. scientists into an uncharted region Unfortunately, the lifelong Laker known as Area X. The film’s female ended his career a more divisive figure quintet—Lena (Natalie Portman), than seemed possible when he burst Dr. Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh), on the scene, fresh from high school. Sheppard (Tuva Novotny), Thorensen Glen Keane’s entry is brief and pleas(Gina Rodriguez) and Radek (Tessa Annihilation ant but lacks the broad emotional Thompson)—pass a shimmering Why did you get the good Star Wars movie? appeal that typifies an award winner. border to discover a wonderland of Negative Space: Max Porter and genetic mutations, some beautiful, Ru Kuwahata’s likely winner uses stop-mowhen masked gunmen storm in, beating some nightmarish. tion to tell the poignant story of a boy up and kidnapping Brooks. Eventually, Beautiful and nightmarish describes who bonded with his father over luggage. the three couples—Max and Annie, Kevin Annihilation pretty well. Like recent entries Emotionally fulfilling and atypically aniand Michelle (Lamorne Morris and Kylie in the Alien franchise, scary sci-fi melds mated, Negative Space packs more of a Bunbury) and Ryan and Sarah (Billy with its more philosophical cousin to propunch than most two-hour dramas. Magnussen and scene-stealing Sharon duce a frightening challenge that will most Lou: Pixar’s entry is sweet and even Horgan from “Catastrophe”)—learn the likely turn off mass audiences while pleasbetter upon second viewing. The items in bullets and blood are real. ing critics and filmgoers hungry for a film an elementary school’s lost-and-found box Daley and Goldstein have crafted a comic more interested in questions than answers; teach a young bully a lesson. Slight but thriller reminiscent of the 1980s but still world building over world demolition. f entertaining, Lou is the most accessible of the nominees and exactly what one expects from Pixar. It’s also the directorial debut of 18-year Pixar vet Dave Mullins. Revolting Rhymes: Part One: The lengthiest nominee has definite feature potential. Featuring a familiar British voice cast, including Dominic West (McNulty on “The Wire”), Rob Brydon, Tamsin Greig (see Showtime’s “Episodes” and fall in love with her) and David Walliams of “Little Britain” as familiar fairy-tale veterans in Dahl’s dark recasting of Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White. If Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer added some Goldilocks padding to connect the two 30-minute parts, Revolting Rhymes would probably be vying for Best Animated Feature. Garden Party: Several amphibians enjoy the leftovers at a mansion riddled with bullet holes in this French short from the team of Florian Babikian, Vincent Bayoux, Victor Caire, Théophile Dufresne, Gabriel Grapperon and Lucas Navarro. The only short that might be considered unsuitable for young children due to an unsurprisingly macabre reveal, Garden Party sports the most striking animation and would be my pick for the award. GAME NIGHT (R) The duo behind the disappointing Vacation remake, John Francis Daley (remember Sam Weir from “Freaks and Geeks”?) and Jonathan Goldstein, have provided the year’s first cinematic surprise. Game Night is as unexpectedly fresh as comedies come nowadays. Competitive couple Max and Annie (Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams) met cute at weekly trivia and apparently have been participating in weekly game

current. Armed with his A-game, Bateman is unbeatable, and McAdams is an appropriate soulmate. Still, Jesse Plemons practically laps the pack as the way-too-creepy cop neighbor who just wants to be included in the fun. Game Night is way better than actually playing board games with friends.

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(putting in five-to-six-hour workdays) and let my negative emotions leak out into most aspects of my life. I’ve tried the middle-of-the-road approach, telling myself that moderation is the way to go, but without achievements to spur me on, I always end up falling off into laziness. Part of me believes that perfectionism is unequivocally bad, but part of me wonders if it really is my happy place. Can I be a perfectionist and still be a good person? And if so, how do I get back into overachiever mode? Sincerely, The Over-Under Achiever You can’t achieve perfection, because perfection is subjective, and it changes for every culture and every person. You might think that you achieved perfection in grad school, but were you a Fulbright or Rhodes scholar? Was your thesis published in a peer-reviewed journal? You might have felt perfect in that moment, but did you know that Malala Yousafzai almost died from a gunshot wound to the face when she was 15

years old, but went on to write an internationally bestselling book and win the Nobel Peace Prize by the time she was 17? She’s currently attending Oxford University, the most prestigious and respected institution of higher education in the world. Where did you go to grad school? Sorry, but I’m trying to make a point here. You might feel perfect one day, but then a jerk like me comes along and brings up Malala. So why bother? Why not just strive for a a good life based on your own standards? Striving for perfection only serves to keep you from being happy with what you’ve already got. Perfectionists aren’t inherently bad people, but who wants a friend who’s always trying to outshine or slyly compete with them? Adults pit children against each other in athletics and academics to score accolades for their school districts, and they don’t think about how they’re actually building an anxious adult who won’t be able to enjoy life because they’re too busy comparing them-

selves to others. Think of all the things you haven’t done and the people you haven’t connected with because they didn’t serve your goal of perfection. That is no life to live, and now that you’re an adult, no one is judging you in that way. Most other adults just want to be respected by their brethren; they don’t care about your GPA or if you can throw a tight spiral. Do the things you love because you love them, not because they help you attain a mythical social status that actually doesn’t exist in this town. While you and your perfect friends are brunching, someone else is definitely making fun of everything about you. Perfection is a fool’s errand equivalent to pushing a boulder up a hill. Life is not an episode of “Black Mirror,” and you will not be relegated to driving trash trucks because you gained weight or aren’t in a leadership position at work. Perfectionists live for the approval of others, not themselves, and the saddest part is that it’s not even necessary for living a great life. Stop it! f

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Companion Care: Emphatic caretaking assistance in Athens. Nonmedical support services for your loved one, and extra support f o r c a re t a k e r s . G re a t rates. companioncare. cargocollective.com.

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Aphrodite (48698) may not be a lap dog but she enjoys human company and has great manners. She’s a happy, curious girl.

Tao

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is a friendly guy with lots of smiles an tail wags. He’s always ready to play and loves to stretch his legs in the interaction pen.

Garth (48576) is a sweet, calm boy who has quickly learned how to walk on a leash. He’ll soak up all the attention you can give him.

These pets and many others are available for adoption at:

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MISC. SERVICES P r o f e s s i o n a l E d i t i n g . Affordable rates. 20+ years exp. Academic or popular. No undergraduate papers. www.ExpertEyeEditing. com

JOBS FULL-TIME Dental Assistant, FT, Mon–Fri. $15/hr during training $30/hr once trained. Computer literate & avail. to work for a min. 3 consecutive yrs due to training costs. Employer contributes 100% to retirement plan; excellent HS/college grades req. dentalathens@gmail.com Electrical Design Engineers. Resp for the design of our transformers, incl liquid filled distribution transformers. Power Partners Inc., Athens, GA, c/o human.resources@ powerpartners-usa.com; Job Ref 1B. E a s t s i d e Ta c o S t a n d Now hiring, food service experience preferred, interest in training to be shift manager preferred, fill out application in store or drop off resume Phil Hughes is now hiring a Client Advisor. Customer Service experience req. All Subaru sales training will be provided. Contact Lindsay Lucas: 706549-5340, lindsay@ philhughesautogroup.com

S c h e d u l i n g C o o r d i n a t o r. Purpose: Serve dental, medical and other service dependent clients by answering calls, scheduling appointments and assisting callers w/ their needs. Duties: Scheduling appointments and taking messages through inbound calls. Handling outbound calls, assisting callers w/ appointments and any other communication needed to fulfill the needs of the client's office. Entering detailed notes while listening to caller and following script requirements. Contributing to team effort by accomplishing re l a t e d re s u l t s a s needed. Minimum Requirements: Good phone voice and personality; Ability to adjust, adapt and think “on your feet,” Positive attitude, Good typing skills, Above average verbal skills, Good communication skills, Ability to follow t h ro u g h w / d u t i e s, Good people skills, Excellent customer service, Ability to work well w/ others. 1 year experience scheduling in an office, 2 years office experience. Verifiable job references. Must be prompt and prepared to work each shift. Must be selfmotivated to perform duties. Confident personality. Must have reliable transportation. Spanish Speaking not required but preferred. We are an equal opportunity employer. Resume must include work histor y, dates of employment and telephone numbers to verify employment references. resumes@ conciergecontact center.com South Kitchen + Bar is looking to bring in several high volume brunch and weekend dinner cooks. Positive attitude and teamwork skills are a must. Pay is based on experience and ability to handle volume. Please drop a resume by South or send it to: chef@ southkitchenbar.com. Flagpole ♥ to help you.

Seeking non-profit Coordinator. Not a desk job, this is hands-on work similar to community organizing for someone w/ a strong sense of social justice, not afraid to ask people to do hard things, persuasive, wellconnected, and curious. Some travel and evening work. Visit www.citizen advocacyathens. or g to apply by 3/10. Competitive salary. Viva Argentine Cuisine is now hiring experienced line cooks and dishwashers. Bring resume in person from 3pm to 5pm at 247 Prince Ave. or email viva argentinecuisine@gmail. com.

OPPORTUNITIES Do you gamble? UGA is conducting a study on gambling behavior. Participation includes one in-person assessment and completing several short surveys several times a day for seven days. Earn between $50–65 in cash depending on number of surveys completed. Must have a smartphone. Call 706-583-0819 for more info.

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Now Hiring Immediately! 5 Points Cigar Shop and Lounge is looking for highly motivated individuals to fill several positions. Experience in retail, stockroom, cigars and/or tobacco preferred but not required. Must be 21 yrs old, avail. to work nights/weekends. Do Not Apply in Store. www. fivepointsbottleshop.com/ index.php/about/jobapplication

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NOTICES Single, fun female looking for a companion. Bagheera loves long walks, snuggling and sleeping in. Meet her and other adoptable friends! www.athenscaninerescue. com

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Difficulty: Medium

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46 Highway headache 48 Type of fund 50 Tapioca source 54 Grilling need 57 Fight souvenir 58 Reddish brown 59 Eastern attire 61 Campus digs 62 Sponsorship 63 Like some grins 64 Brink 65 Kilt feature 66 2011 film "The Iron ____" 67 Monopoly card DOWN 1 Tepee-shaped 2 Dig deeply 3 Prepare to surf, perhaps 4 Figureheads 5 Skype necessity 6 Winter coat 7 Backyard structure 8 Type of book 9 Dismay 10 Smooth, in music 11 Daffodil's kin 12 Stalactite site 13 Kind of pad

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Franklin for President THE NEW DEALER SPELLS OUT HOW TO REALLY MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN By Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com After a lifetime in the newspaper business, Millard Grimes has written a novel that reads like a compendium of every editorial he ever wrote and lays out a blueprint for how to get America back on the right track. “I thought a novel would be more interesting to people,” Grimes says, “than just a book of essays.” A professor of English might call The New Dealer a book of essays disguised as a novel, but however you look at it, Millard’s book distills his own New Deal views and his encyclopedic grasp of modern American political history.

Millard Grimes

Before you rush off to Avid Bookshop to buy your copy of The New Dealer, let me point out that Millard has not yet found a publisher, because he hasn’t yet been able to engage the attention of an agent. At this point, you can call this review a Flagpole exclusive. It’s possible that eventually he’ll publish on Amazon, but right now, Millard is holding out for a traditional publisher, convinced that his book has a message for all Americans. The protagonist of The New Dealer is Thomas Alexander Franklin, a successful owner of newspapers who fervently believes that Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal saved this nation and laid the foundation for the prosperity that kicked in right after World War II and persisted until the Republicans finally gained the strength to begin dismantling the New Deal underpinnings. In other words, Franklin is a lot like Millard Grimes. He even sounds like Millard, who not only believes in the efficacy of the New Deal programs, he lived through them. Millard saw firsthand the effects of Roosevelt’s policies on Depression-era west Georgia, where he grew up and came of age. The New Dealer is set during the American presidential election of 1992. Thomas Alexander Franklin believes that a candidate is needed who will unabashedly remind voters that we need to get back

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to first principles, i.e. the Rooseveltian solutions that truly made America great. Consequently, Franklin sells all his newspapers and begins an independent campaign for president. He naturally believes in the efficacy of newspaper advertising, in spite of the dominance of TV, and he goes to New Hampshire and begins his campaign by driving around the state and placing ads in local papers, getting to know the publishers, with the help of his loyal and experienced driver and others who are attracted to his campaign—along with some of the old Jimmy Carter hands. Now, here’s an interesting twist: The other candidates in the New Hampshire campaign are the real candidates who ran then: Clinton, Tsongas, Harkin, Brown, Kerrey. And Franklin is right in there with them, as a long-longshot candidate. Utilizing his knowledge of that campaign and his understanding of politics, author Grimes creates a plausible plot and a vehicle for bringing in his lifetime of political editorializing. In truth, the novel reads like a Platonic dialogue. Franklin’s driver will, for instance, ask him a question about the economic depression of the ’30s, and the answer will be a pages-long monologue about, say, the Civilian Conservation Corps or the Works Progress Administration and what those programs did to put people to work and to shore up our crumbling infrastructure, not to mention honing skills that helped prepare our nation for World War II. Or the deficit? “The deficit is a paper tiger, mainly used for political purposes. The U.S. has had financial challenges ever since The Revolutionary War, when there was a lot less money around. The most dramatic example was the Louisiana Purchase. Thomas Jefferson was president, and certainly no friend of stronger central government, but he recognized that only a powerful central government with access to money from all the states could be capable of making such a deal…” and so on, at great length. Reading The New Dealer is like riding around listening to Millard talk. He’s a liberal who made a fortune in the newspaper business during the glory days when that was still possible. He was also a newspaper owner who cared about the content in his papers and frequently wrote editorials espousing the principles of his hero, FDR. Now, at the age of 88, Millard has set it all down in this novel of ideas that really does offer an antidote to many of the ills that beset our nation and a clear alternative to the Reagan quip that the government is the problem. Read The New Dealer (and here’s hoping you get the chance—come on agents!) and you will encounter an overwhelming marshaling of history and political philosophy that will show you where we have gone off the rails and what we need to do to get our country headed in the right direction again. f

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