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First Forum for Mayoral Candidates PLUS, MUNICIPAL BROADBAND, DOWNTOWN TRASH AND MORE LOCAL NEWS By Blake Aued and Dan Jackson news@flagpole.com The three candidates for Athens-Clarke funding and training for officers to prevent County mayor broadly agreed on a numit. But while Girtz and Knight enthusiastiber of issues during the race’s first forum cally endorsed a local civil rights committee last week, but staked out differing posiwith wide-ranging powers to investigate tions on law enforcement and economic claims of discrimination, Sims—an African development. American who grew up in the 1960s—was The forum, sponsored by the Athens skeptical that such a committee would be Anti-Discrimination Movement, was held effective. “We’ve gotten so caught up in the Mar. 12, just three days after the official color of your skin and all these things,” he qualifying period ended, and focused said. mainly on poverty. At least three other Economic development was another forums have already been scheduled, and focus at the forum. One question asked candidates said there could be as many as how ACC can stem the tide of businesses eight before the May 22 election. moving to Oconee County. It’s cyclical, said Many in the crowd booed former comSims. “There’s a piper they’re going to pay, missioner Harry Sims when he defended and it’s starting to show up now,” he said. Sheriff Ira Edwards for detaining undocuCommercial development on Epps Bridge mented immigrants at the county jail past is straining Oconee’s infrastructure, which their release dates so Immigration and Customs Enforcement can deport them. “If he follows his oath of office, I have no problem with what he does,” Sims said. Business owner Richie Knight, meanwhile, said he would never urge the sheriff to break the law, but he would urge Edwards not to break up families. “I’m a strong proponent of law enforcement that works and is constitutional,” Commissioner Kelly Girtz said, but ICE’s holds are neither, as courts have ruled they violate the Fifth Amendment. Kelly Girtz Harry Sims “Having a parent taken away from you at 9 years old is not something you recover from,” he said. “It scars you for will eventually lead to higher taxes. “As life, and we should not be doing it.” a result, you may see them moving back But Sims later defended undocumented across the river,” he said. immigrants as part of the Athens commuGrowth along 316 has been inevitable nity. “We need to keep them here,” he said. since the highway was built, but the loss of “Some people have been here for 30 years, businesses on Atlanta Highway has been and they’re getting kicked out.” more than offset by growth downtown and Sims urged caution on passing a “parallel on Highway 29, Girtz said, noting that sales ordinance” reducing the penalty for martax collections are up $800,000 in ACC over ijuana possession to a small fine, as cities last year. ACC should be revitalizing its like Atlanta and Clarkston have done. The gateway corridors to encourage new busiordinance could only be enforced by ACC nesses, he said. Girtz also touted his work police, while other agencies like the sheriff’s streamlining the permitting process. office and Georgia State Patrol would conWhile Girtz and Sims dismissed the idea tinue to enforce the state law, “so we need that ACC is anti-business, Knight attacked to be really careful about that,” he said. the county for forcing business owners to Most people who are arrested for smokjump through too many hoops. “At the end ing pot are doing it in public; people in their of the day, we have a government that’s homes are rarely arrested, Sims said. “You known to be unfriendly to business,” he put yourself, sometimes, in harm’s way,” he said. But Sims said people who do business said. in various cities and states have told him Both Knight and Girtz supported the otherwise. parallel ordinance. “It’s unacceptable to UGA was another topic where the cankeep filling our prisons,” Knight said. didates split. Sims called the university “a Seeking to alleviate concerns about pot great partner.” As an example, he said the as a gateway drug, Girtz cited a study in school of social work waived its usual fee Washington that found that decriminalizafor work it did for a youth development tion did not lead to an increase in teenage task force Sims chairs. “We are seeing some drug use. But arrests can set young people changes,” he said. “We have a president on the wrong path, he said. “I can tell you, [Jere Morehead] who really wants to move after having seen students spend several forward and be a part of this community nights in jail for petty offenses, we need to more than people realize.” take a different route,” said Girtz, a former Likewise, Girtz cited the university’s teacher who’s currently an administrator at help with programs at the ACC library and an alternative charter school. local schools. Discrimination in policing is wrong, the But Knight called UGA “the elephant in candidates agreed, and they all supported the room” and said it often seems like it
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runs the city, when it should be the other way around. He called for UGA, which is tax-exempt, to make payments in lieu of taxes to fund affordable housing programs. “I think we need to go more toward incentivizing [developers] rather than penalizing, and stripping ordinances that don’t promote smart growth,” Knight said. Girtz said he’d like to set aside $15 million over five years in the next SPLOST to pay for amenities like landscaping and stormwater mitigation to make housing more affordable. Other tools could include density bonuses (allowing developers to build more units than allowed if those units are affordable) and inclusionary zoning (requiring a certain number of units to be rented or sold at below-market rates).
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All three candidates also said they favor freezing property taxes for seniors under a certain, unspecified income level—a policy Mayor Nancy Denson proposed in 2011, although without an income cap, that the commission unanimously rejected—as a way to help seniors on fixed incomes in gentrifying neighborhoods stay in their homes. Ultimately, the answer to the affordable housing problem is jobs, Sims said. “[A lack of] jobs is the biggest problem we have,” he said. Tech jobs are nice, but ACC is overlooking jobs for ordinary citizens, he said. As far as wages, “unfortunately, in local government, our hands are a little tied,” Knight said. (State law prohibits local governments from raising the minimum wage.) But ACC should be developing a more skilled workforce, he said. Networking—connecting underprivileged youth to mentors in the business world—is important, Girtz said. He also proposed using tax allocation districts, where tax revenue from development is poured back into infrastructure, and community improvement districts, where landowners vote to tax themselves, as tools to draw development. And the employers who benefit from those tools should be required to pay a living wage, he said. As mayor, he said he wouldn’t go after $9–$12 an hour jobs, but rather $50,000–$80,000 a year jobs. Sims agreed with Girtz on those points. “When you have children who wake up in the morning and don’t see their parents because they are working two or three jobs,
Municipal Broadband for Athens? With broadband internet service spotty or unavailable in many parts of Athens—especially the rural areas, but some lower-income neighborhoods in town, too—Athens-Clarke commissioners are considering starting a government-run utility to offer broadband throughout the county. The commission hired the Corus Group—which has worked on broadband systems for Thomasville, Valdosta, Kennesaw and other cities—last year to do a study of municipal broadband. That study, presented to commissioners at a work session last week, recommended laying a loop of fiber around the county, with government buildings serving as hubs to distribute internet access throughout neighborhoods, whether by wire or wireless technology. The system could operate at speeds of up to 10 gigabytes per second—many times faster than what Charter and other local internet service providers currently offer. The basic infrastructure would cost about $2.1 million–$3.2 million, but there are several ways ACC could recoup the costs: Government offices and schools would no longer have to pay for internet access, for example, and ACC could use wi-fi to sell custom ads on buses (such as a video for a business that played when the bus passed that business). ACC could lease the infrastructure to private companies (thus mitigating consumer price increases when ISPs move to better technology) or become an ISP itself. In addition, high-speed broadband and widely available wi-fi would be a selling point to bring businesses into the community, consultants said. Employees would be able to start a project at home and continue working on the bus on the way to the office without ever losing their connection. Discussions are still in the very early stages, and municipal broadband seems a long way off. Commissioners said they want to find partners to help share the cost (possibly UGA and the school district). Commissioner Jared Bailey questioned the height of the cell towers required (150–200 feet). And Sharyn Dickerson, Andy Herod and Jerry NeSmith—commissioners who represent areas on the outskirts of the county—said they would prefer to work outside-in rather than inside-out, to bring service first to people who don’t have it. [BA]
Vexed Again by Downtown Trash Every time ACC officials start talking about downtown trash pickup, they act like they’re trying to send a man to Mars. There’s no good way to do it. Downtown Athens has few alleys (according to former mayor Gwen O’Looney, they were taken over and built on by adjacent landowners, and the city did nothing to stop it) and health regulations don’t allow restaurants to keep rollcarts inside. So the only option is to put the bags out on the sidewalk, where they leak and smell until Solid Waste picks them up. Solid Waste Director Suki Janssen
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presented several options to commissioners faculty members dead. last week (while commissioners ate dinner After much debate among students during an epic work session; “Don’t worry, about actually walking out of the school, it’s not scratch-and-sniff,” Janssen assured Oconee High’s student council worked them). with the administration to develop a plan One is to build trash receptacles 11 feet to honor each of the Florida victims, and underground. People would deposit their selected 17 students to describe each victim trash or recyclables through a kiosk into the in a 20-second speech. As hundreds of stuunderground container. Specialized garbage dents locked arms along the entire length trucks would then pick up the receptacle of the school’s hallways, the students read with a robotic arm and deposit the waste short biographies of the victims over the into the back of the truck. There are several school’s PA system. drawbacks: The only city in the U.S. that At North Oconee High School, the planuses this system is Kissimmee, FL, although ning for the walkout took place as students it is more common abroad. It would likely began texting each other to discuss ways require expensive blasting of the granite to express their grief about the Parkland bedrock underneath downtown. And it victims, with the group swelling to 200. would cost about $3 million. Organizers obtained the principal’s perAnother is to place trash compactors on mission to meet at the common area in the ACC-owned parking lots like the one near center of the school, where the students City Hall. But there aren’t enough sites observed 17 minutes of silence. Some stuwithin walking distance, so Solid Waste dents carried signs that had been approved would have to use a “trash trolley” (a golf by the school’s principal. cart, basically) to go around and fetch bags Alex Benoit, one of the student planners of trash from businesses and bring them to of the Oconee High observance, reported the compactor. that “most” of the A third option is school’s students “eco-stations”—forparticipated in the merly derided as walkout, and that only “trash corrals” the last “a few” of the school’s time this topic was almost 1,100 students discussed in 2014. did not participate. Smaller eco-stations When asked why he on the sidewalk could thought Parkland hold rollcarts, or bigprompted such wideger ones in parking spread sentiment, spaces could hold Benoit said, “This Dumpsters. They’d be shooting was different spruced up with amemostly because the nities like art, green students speaking out roofs, solar panels, at Parkland made a charging stations lot of students here and bike racks. The think [we] can make a drawback is the loss change too.” Students at North Oconee High gathered in the of sidewalk space or Embyr Williams, school’s atrium, where they silently acknowl30 parking spots— a student at North edged the 17 lives lost in the Parkland, FL which, according to Oconee High, said shooting last month. Athens Downtown that the 200 students Development observing the silent Authority co-director David Lynn, would vigil “stood completely silent, with no cost ACC more than $150,000 in revenue phones or other distractions. We tried to annually. avoid making this an opportunity for stuSolid Waste also wants to encourage dents to get out of class, or to advocate for downtown bars to stop selling beer in botgun control.” She went on to say that the tles. They’re heavy, they break and cut trash observance “felt very peaceful, very respectcollectors, and they’re not very valuable as ful, and it was really good to do something a recyclable. “Glass is just annoying for us,” to honor the victims, and to understand Waste Reduction Administrator Joe Dunlop that there is a problem going on. There said. “There’s no getting around it.” was a real sense of community with my He proposed giving bar owners a disclassmates.” count on their alcohol licenses if they Students at Clarke County schools were stop selling mass-produced domestic beer on spring break last week. in bottles. What does Dunlop consider a The Mar. 14 events will be followed on mass-produced beer? “Bud Light, Coors Mar. 24 by March for Our Lives, a series of Light, Miller Light,” he said. “PBR? Maybe. protests against gun violence and lax gun Yuengling? Maybe.” laws in Washington, DC and many other Commissioners liked the idea and will cities. Locally, two events are planned, vote on it in June. They’ll also vote on a one at 11 a.m. at Oconee Veterans Park, new method for collecting downtown trash where state Reps. Deborah Gonzalez and in June; that’s driven in part by the Clayton Jonathan Wallace will appear. Then, at 1 Street utility work that will get underway p.m., demonstrators against gun violence this summer. [BA] will meet at the UGA Arch. On Apr. 20, the 19th anniversary of the Columbine shootings, students at hundreds of schools across the country will stage Joining many thousands of students walkouts to protest inaction on the issue of across the country, 1,000 students at gun violence. According to an event locator Oconee and North Oconee high schools on the Indivisible web site, students at 10 walked out of their classes Wednesday, Athens and nearby schools will walk out Mar. 14 at 10 a.m., observing the oneof class for what the organization calls “a month anniversary of the shootings at nationwide protest of our leaders’ failure Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to pass laws that protect us from gun vioin Parkland, FL that left 17 students and lence.” [Dan Jackson] f
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black colleges and universities as “pioneers” when it came to “school choice,” ignoring the founding of those schools as a daring, necessary response to white supremacy. “There are constant individual and class-action lawsuits in Arizona around charter schools that discriminate against students on the basis of income, disability, academic ability, religion and more,” Penich-Thacker says. “None of this is new or sudden—it’s all been at least a decade in the making, all while millions and millions of tax dollars have been funneled out of the general fund for public education and into private school tuition organizations and voucher programs.”
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much of a sign of where the fight over education and labor is going as West Virginia’s bold, scrappy, game-changing efforts. Further mobilized by West Virginia as well as Oklahoma (where a walkout on Apr. 2 seems nearly guaranteed), SOS Arizona announced a Day of Action for Mar. 28 and anticipates thousands at the capitol in Phoenix to “give lawmakers a visual, physical sign that their constituents demand solutions to a statewide issue that is at crisis level,” Penich-Thacker says. SOS Arizona has been battling deeply insincere, pro-voucher Republican Gov. Doug Ducey for a while. Teachers in Arizona have some of the lowest pay in the country, the state’s near the bottom nationally in per-pupil spending, Striking teachers in West Virginia. and charter schools are considered public schools, though they’re allowed to be far West Virginia, Oklahoma and Arizona less regulated. organizing at the same time as student DeVos’ approach to schools is a familiar rallies against gun violence is a moment Republican move: Defund something public in which public schools reenter the orgaso that it doesn’t work anymore, declare it nizing vanguard. Post-Parkland walkouts broken and shut it down. What is different and a strike in West Virginia represent about DeVos, at least amid the know-nothanother victory for those advocating being ing Trump regime, is a smiling, magical ungovernable. thinking sort of neoliberal nonsense. In an “You look back in history, it was unlawinfamous “60 Minutes” interview last week, ful what Martin Luther King did, but they she discussed “investing in students” rather knew the consequences and knew the than “institutions,” which sounds good rewards, and the rewards outweigh the conbut means little—equal parts meme-ready sequences,” Dale Lee, president of the West inspiration and Orwellian doublespeak. Virginia Education Association, said during Recall that DeVos referred to historically West Virginia’s strike. “So we know that it is ERIC BOURGEOIS
West Virginia’s monumental wildcat strike has given a big signal boost to Save Our Schools Arizona, the next high-profile organizing effort against the destruction of public schools. As with all good organizing efforts, the team behind SOS Arizona seems a little ragtag. There’s an English professor, a fifth grade teacher, a retired Petsmart CEO, another retiree from Microsoft and a consultant for youth summer camps. And then there’s Dawn Penich-Thacker, another English professor who, before she taught, was an Army officer and serves as the group’s spokesperson. “Four of us have kids at home ranging from 5 years old to 17 years old, and the two retired folks have adult children long gone from the house,” Penich-Thacker says. “Some of our children attend public schools, and some attend charter schools.” The people who make up SOS Arizona are multitudinous, regular, mired in public education and management. They’re different than the deregulation-friendly ghouls running Arizona and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who has accelerated the death of public education so that a few have more “school choice.” “We see chronic neglect or in some cases outright assault on public education in the state,” Penich-Thacker says. “Neglect in that over $1 billion that was cut from public education a decade ago during the recession has never been restored, and indeed our governor and legislature have expanded the number of tax cuts that make restoring the education budget all but impossible without robbing Peter to pay Paul.” [Editor’s note: Georgia is in a similar boat.] That SOS Arizona counters “choice” rhetoric and voucher schemes via a fairly slick website, an organized “team” and on-point, unforgiving talking points is as
unlawful, but we also know that we have a right to have our voices heard.” Union activist Lois Weiner observes that public educator mobilization also counters simplistic “red state” narratives maintained by places such as The New York Times who, post-Trump, have bent over backward to talk to anybody whose politics are fascist-adjacent or just plain suck (see: the Ohio dork who has shut off the news because he doesn’t like Trump), while mostly ignoring the biggest labor story in years happening in those states they admit they woefully under-covered. “The Times just carried an article that portrayed [West Virginia] as a deep red state. And I think that that is a really dangerous, misleading oversimplification about the politics,” Weiner said last month. “And the walkout shows that— the walkout and the fact that West Virginia voted for Sanders in the primaries.” Oklahoma is also a state Trump won that went for Sanders in the Democratic primary. In Arizona that’s not true— Trump won, Clinton took the Democratic primary—but that shows how organizing and labor concerns related to education are potentially a uniting force for fed-up leftists and cautious liberals alike. Two more “right to work” states floating strikes should be a far more heartening victory than right-of-center Democratic clod Conor Lamb’s special election win in Pennsylvania. “West Virginia shows Arizona what may become necessary and what it may need to look like,” Penich-Thacker says. “Again, no one in Arizona is eager to strike, but I can tell you that teachers from West Virginia have reached out to us via social media to offer guidance, and we’re appreciatively taking good notes.” f Additional reporting by Jaisal Noor.
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Money Talks SEVERAL CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR ARE MILLIONAIRES By Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com Do you have to be wealthy to run for governor? You might think so after paging through the financial disclosure statements candidates were required to file with the state ethics commission last week. On the Republican side, three of the five major candidates profess to be millionaires: Their total financial assets exceed their total liabilities by at least $1 million. State Sen. Michael Williams (R-Cumming) has been doing poorly in the polls but quite well on the balance sheet. Williams sold a chain of barber shops in 2013 and walked away with a lot of money. He now has a net worth of $9.1 million, the highest of any of the Republicans running. Secretary of State Brian Kemp isn’t far behind with a net worth of $5.2 million. Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle is the leading money-raiser among Republican candidates, but he’s only in the middle of the pack when it comes to personal wealth. Cagle’s reported net worth is $1.58 million. Clay Tippins, a former Navy SEAL who’s now a business consultant, disclosed a net worth of $745,000, while former Army officer Hunter Hill is at $448,000. There are two fringe Republican candidates for governor who most likely will finish with only a handful of votes on election day. But both of them appear to be in decent financial shape on the personal level. Eddie Hayes, an Athens restaurant owner, reported a net worth of $1.26 million. Marc Alan Urbach, a former teacher who lists his current occupation as “author,” claims to have a net worth of $953,000. Over on the Democratic side, Stacey Evans of Smyrna is a trial attorney who was awarded a sizeable legal fee when she successfully represented a client in a whistleblower lawsuit. She has put $1.2 million of her own money into her campaign, but
still reported a net worth of $5.2 million. Evans still owes $45,449 on student loans she took out while attending the University of Georgia and has an outstanding bank loan of $24,800, but it looks like she will have the fiscal resources to pay them off. The one exception to all of these solvent candidates for governor is Stacey Abrams, who was the House minority leader before stepping down last year to run for governor. Abrams’ personal finances, to put it politely, are a mess. She reported a net worth of only $108,885. She owes the IRS $54,052 in back taxes, although she said there is a plan in place to pay them back. Abrams still owes $96,512 on student loans she took out to pay the costs of attending Spelman College, the University of Texas and Yale Law School. She has had some problems with credit card debt, as well, and still owes about $75,000 in that category. None of this criminal or unethical, of course. Abrams’ opponent in the Democratic primary, as we have already noted, also has some hefty student loan balances to pay off. Abrams has talked often about the financial sacrifices she has made to care for her parents. She also is not the first person ever to fall behind on their credit card payments. Just ask millions of cash-strapped Americans. There has been no indication that Evans will make an issue of personal finances in the Democratic primary race, but if Abrams should get the nomination, then all bets are off. In that instance, you can look for the Republican nominee to run TV commercials claiming that Abrams’ financial difficulties are proof she’s a “free-spending liberal” who wants to squander the taxes paid by “hard-working Georgians.” When you’re a non-millionaire running for statewide office, that’s going to happen to you. f
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Donald Trump is as mesmerizing as a If a right to health care imposes a cor50-vehicle pileup. But now and again responding performance duty, who exactly Democrats manage to disenthrall themhas that right? Some would say “everybody.” selves, remember that they’re the party of But is that true? government and say something on policy. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is worth upwards of A favorite on those occasions is health care, $100 billion. If he needs a heart transplant, with most of the focus centering on the in about 30 minutes last year he earned proposed universal-coverage, single-payer enough to cover the cost. I don’t know system left over from Bernie Sanders’ presi- about you, but I certainly don’t think I have dential campaign. a duty to kick in for his replacement heart, The rallying cry among proponents of a because he can self-insure for any conceivuniversal, single-payer health-care system able health care he might need and still is, “Health care is a right, not a privilege!” have eye-popping wealth left to indulge his They seem to think that there’s a short every whim. inferential path from the principle to the My intuitions about Bezos-type cases policy. But there isn’t. tell me that we don’t have an unqualified The moral principle that proponents of right to health care. We have only a right to universal health care appeal to is that it’s health care that we need and can’t afford. In a right, not a privilege. It’s an indication other words, we have a means-tested right of how freighted the principle is that Atul to health care. Gawande, a highly regarded commentator That qualified right to health care has on health care, devoted a New Yorker article been embedded in government policy since last fall to the question Medicaid was estabof whether the principle lished in 1965. We’re at Only people who need one another’s throats is true. It’s also a measure of how hard it is health care and can’t about where to fix the to say anything useful qualifying income level, about this that Gawande afford it have a right to it. what services should punted, settling for just be covered, how much reporting some ordinary health-care conproviders should be paid and a host of other sumers’ befuddled, incoherent musings on vexing issues, but there’s a broad consensus the subject. favoring a means-tested right to health It’s a reasonable guess that vindicating care. the principle is so urgent to many people If political morality gets us no further because they think that, if true, it would than this qualified right to health care, how settle all the outstanding health-care poldo we get to a single-payer system of uniicy issues at a stroke. Sanders Democrats versal coverage? Not just by saying “Health famously seem to think that there’s a short care is a right, not a privilege!” over and inferential path from the principle to the over. To see why, consider Bezos again. policy. But there isn’t. So instead of doing I don’t think I have a performance what Gawande couldn’t or wouldn’t, I’m duty to help Bezos get a heart transplant just going to stipulate, as the lawyers say, or even a bottle of aspirin. But if I have a that health care is a right, and try to figure means-tested right to a heart transplant, out where that leaves us at the policy level. he has a duty to help me get one if I need It’s obvious why advocates of Medicare it and can’t afford it. And as we found out for everyone, as they call it, think that the with the Affordable Care Act, people deeply health-care-is-a-right principle gives them resent being taxed to fund a public benefit leverage in policy debates. Rights are very that they don’t themselves qualify for or strong moral claims. If I have a right to want. That program was so toxic politically something, then you have corresponding because people who didn’t qualify for its duties toward me. That’s why we’re all eager premium subsidies were furious about to claim rights to one thing and another. If being taxed to fund subsidies for people they weren’t moral chits that we could call who did. in against other people, nobody would care So on a reasonable understanding of the about them. principle that if health care is a right, not A lot of conservatives seize on the everybody has that right. Only people who Declaration of Independence rights to need health care and can’t afford it have a “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” right to it. Those are the only people toward as paradigm cases because the duties corwhom society has a corresponding perforresponding to those rights are duties of mance duty. forbearance, of mere non-interference. I That puts us squarely atop one of the can respect your rights to life, liberty and most active fault lines in American politithe pursuit of happiness just by leaving you cal life, where there’s unremitting conflict alone. about who really “needs” health care and A right to health care, though, isn’t like who really “can’t afford” it. So even if health that. If I have a right to health care, then care is a right, that seems to leave us about you have toward me a performance duty— where we are now on the policy front. not just to stay out of my hair, but to actuIf there’s a case for Medicare for everyally do something that delivers health care. body, then it’s based less on political It’s because a right to health care entails morality than on the tactical benefit of burdensome performance duties that conmeans-testing nobody, to spare us the prosservatives don’t want to hear about any pect of endless debilitating warfare over such right. 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SRO. We work internally to screen out who might make a good SRO, and we work with the school district to select them,” he said. “They also go through certification to be an SRO. That involves training in specific situations they might encounter.” Means said the district has also contracted with Safe Havens International, a nonprofit organization, to assess the district and do a security audit. But the question of next steps for this subset of the local police force is still up in the air. The district’s police chief, former GBI agent and ACCPD assistant chief Fred Stephens, retired in January and has not been replaced. Before leaving, Means said Stephens suggested expanding the school resource officer force. But Means is holding back for now, weighing other options before increasing the police presence in schools.
themselves. While the drills help her visualize steps to protect herself, she still feels unsettled. “What if he gets in a classroom?” she said, citing a news report about training for students that involves everyone grabbing an object and throwing it at an intruder if they get into a classroom. “What if he just comes in there? In high school, everyone is really on their own.”
igh schoolers’ opinions on their complex worlds can vary just as much as the students themselves. For some, the violence that took 17 lives in Parkland, FL is all too real. “It’s scary because you don’t know when your life might be in danger,” said Amber Lawson, 16, a student at Clarke Central High School. “I feel safer at home than at school, because at home I know where to hide.” But not all students share these sentiments. Kevin Gresham, 16, who was hanging out with friends after Marcus Barrow, 17, tries to keep things in perspective. The school on a recent afternoon, said he doesn’t let the stories Clarke Central student said he thinks about violence in of school shootings affect him. “It feels normal,” he said. school, but he also doesn’t want it to affect his work. “I’m “You just stay to yourself.” just thinking about, are we safe and stuff like that,” he said. But no matter how much fear or comfort students find “I feel safe at times. I’ve just learned to always be alert.” within the halls of their schools, Clarke County School This general mindset is one District Superintendent Demond that Means is trying to convey Means is making one thing clear: through resources that don’t He would much rather build trust involve police officers. Improving between students and staff and school climate lessens the chances hire more school counselors than of a student falling through the even consider arming teachers. cracks and turning to violence, he Means believes there are said. He pointed to an incident enough guns in the community, last month where Coile Middle and far too many that children School administrators received can already access. “Any sugword that a student had brought gestion that teachers should be a gun to school. Within 30 minarmed is the most ridiculous utes, Freeman and Means said, thing I’ve ever heard,” he said detectives were interviewing studuring a recent forum on school dents and determining the source safety at the Athens-Clarke of the threat. While it turned County Library hosted by the out the gun report was a rumor, Athens Anti-Discrimination Means saids the incident underMovement. “It shows a lack of scores the importance of having sophistication in trying to figure staff whom kids can trust. out what we really need to do School climate also plays into with [gun] policies.” this trust. While in the past Instead, Means says he is prevention programs targeted looking at ways to holistically From left, Athens-Clarke County Police Chief Scott Freeman, Clarke County School Superintendent Demond Means, Shannon Lawhon of individual instances of bullying, improve school climate, bring in Georgia Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and state Rep. Spencer Frye (D-Athens) discuss recent school shootings, security recent years have seen programs counselors and social workers procedures and gun laws at an Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement forum. expand to include training among and decrease class sizes. Often, students, teachers and staff that district personnel can identify help increase overall school climate. This includes engag“I want to be sure we do it in a thoughtful way, if we a troubled student before he or she even reaches middle ing families, encouraging students to see their school as expand our force, because while we’re discussing the issue school—but with slim resources, there’s only so much they their community, and providing students with ways to feel of school shootings, I don’t want to perpetuate the schoolcan do. “What’s sad is that we know who they are, but we empowered and that their voice matters. don’t have the resources to wrap our arms around them and to-prison pipeline, too,” he said. “It’s really tricky, and I Georgia’s annual School Climate Ratings help put on want to do it in a thoughtful way… It’s looking at it from support them and their families from an early age,” he said. paper what students and teachers are feeling inside a a restorative justice perspective and an equity lens. I don’t school. In Clarke County, star ratings for Clarke Central know if it’s about ‘how many,’ but how do we want to police and Cedar Shoals high schools have remained steady or our students if you’re a school district resource officer?” improved over the past four years, going back to when data And while ACC police train for active shooter drills in Following the school shooting in Parkland—one of at least was first collected in 2014. At Clarke Central, for example, places across the county—including schools, hospitals, 14 in the U.S. so far this year, according to CNN—parthe school’s rating has increased from two stars in 2014 to theaters and even downtown—they will never do active ents across the country turned to their own schools and three stars in 2017. Cedar Shoals has received four stars in shooter training while students are in school, said Means. asked the inevitable question, “Could this happen here?” three of the past four years. “That’s not mentally and socially appropriate,” he said. Unfortunately, the answer is yes. But reacting to the vioBut the bottom line is that you can’t always prevent chil“We do conduct what we call hard lockdowns and soft locklence versus preventing it are two very different schools of dren—especially teenagers—from making bad decisions. downs. We have not been as vigilant in conducting those thought. In Clarke County, Means said he is working to cre- drills. I’ve asked our principals to be more vigilant going Part of the lessons you learn in school are life lessons, good ate a culture of prevention, rather than one that reacts to and bad. forward, and there will be drills in the spring just to be sure the violence by scaling up other tactics—namely, a greater “I wish we could get to a place where we can guarantee kids and staff understand what the process is.” police presence. there are no weapons entering a school, but that’s a hard Many students and teachers have already experienced Right now, an Athens-Clarke County police officer is statement to make,” Means said. “We will make our very these drills. “Soft” lockdowns involve locking a classroom assigned to each middle and high school in the district—six door but carrying on with lessons, while “hard” lockdowns best attempt to be sure any contraband doesn’t enter our officers total. ACC Police Chief Scott Freeman said these schools, but unfortunately young people can make poor involve locking the door, turning off the lights and remainofficers, called school resource officers, are hired from decisions, and they bring those things into our schools. This ing out of view from the door. Some students described within the officer pool when there is an opening at a local is why we want to create an environment where, if young an “intermediate” lockdown that was a combination of the school and, because of this, have the same training as any people learn about something, they can tell an adult. two—lights off but continuing to work—although that’s other officer. Once they are named to the position, they “I’d rather be preventative, which means addressing the not typical protocol. receive additional training. “When a police officer has been social and emotional needs so these things don’t happen in Lawson said she thinks there should be more training on the job for a number of years, they can apply to be an the first place.” f for students like herself on steps they can take to defend
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Is Richie Rich? MAYORAL CANDIDATE KNIGHT’S BUSINESS RECORD CALLED INTO QUESTION By Blake Aued news@flagpole.com
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ichie Knight is running for mayor as a young, energetic entrepreneur who can bring a fresh voice and business experience to City Hall. But his track record in business may not be all it’s cracked up to be. Knight, 28, founded HW Creative Marketing eight years ago with Nicole Batten, whom he met through the 4-H program. In recent years, he has become heavily involved in the community, serving on the boards of directors of the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce and the Athens Downtown Development Authority and on an Athens-Clarke County economic mobility task force, and working with charities like United Way and Extra Special People, a camp for children with Down syndrome and other disabilities. “I’m the one sitting up here amongst my opponents that signs paychecks every month, that’s kept the lights on, and knows what it takes to grow a workforce and be successful as a community,” Knight said at a recent candidate forum. But according to former employees, if he runs the city the way he runs his business, Athens is in trouble. “This is a guy who’s running on the idea of, ‘I’m a business owner, and I’m really successful,’” said one former HW employee. “If that’s his basis for running, people need to know he’s irresponsible and mismanaging his business.” At least five former HW employees— including Loran Posey, who also served as Knight’s campaign manager—have filed claims in Clarke County Magistrate Court in recent months alleging that the company either wrote them bad checks or did not pay them for their work. The nonprofit tech incubator Four Athens also filed a claim against HW for back rent last year, although Executive Director Jordan Burke said that situation has since been resolved.
In a Facebook post shortly after the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement’s candidate forum Mar. 12, Posey wrote that Knight had failed to pay employees, bounced checks and paid some “substantially less than what they were owed.” In addition, several other former HW employees have told Flagpole that there has been a mass exodus from the company, primarily due to payroll problems. They say checks sometimes came late, if at all, or bounced; they were promised raises that never materialized; and taxes were often withheld incorrectly. Sources also said they have not received their last paychecks after quitting months ago, or were only partially paid months after leaving. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division is investigating HW, DOL spokesman Michael D’Aquino confirmed, but he said he could not release any further information. “The business is writing these checks knowing there’s no money in the account,” another former employee said. “It’s the facade of a well-run business, and I don’t want to be a part of that, because it’s not.” Knight said the claims have all been resolved or are in the process of being resolved. “Anything that hasn’t been resolved is being handled by an attorney,” he said, so he could not comment further. The company’s office in the old Wild Wing space upstairs from the Blind Pig was nearly empty during a recent late-morning interview. HW is shifting away from fulltime employees to part-time employees and contractors who work from home, Knight said. “It’s the pains of running a small business in this town,” he said. “Getting the right talent has been our biggest struggle.” In his widely shared Facebook post, Posey also alleged that Knight said that AADM co-founder Mokah Jasmine Johnson is not qualified to head the group
Richie Knight (center) and supporters march in the Athens MLK Day parade.
because she’s “not even African American.” (Johnson, who is originally from Jamaica, declined to comment, and Knight denied making that remark.) In addition, several ex-employees told Flagpole that Knight is more conservative than he is making himself out to be, and that said he voted for Donald Trump for president, which Knight also denied. He has consistently declined to reveal his national political leanings, though. “I’m a gay, Hispanic business owner,” he said in a December interview. “I’ve never wanted to be put in a box my whole life. Why would I start now?” He has staked out liberal positions on a variety of issues—favoring decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana and the creation of a civil rights committee to investigate discrimination complaints, and opposing Sheriff Ira Edwards’ policy of cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain and deport undocumented immigrants being held at the county jail. He also wants to press the University of Georgia to contribute to an affordable housing trust fund as a way to make up for its tax-exempt status and low pay for many staff members.
On economic development, though, he sounds more conservative, saying that ACC is unfriendly to business, and that business owners have to jump through too many hoops and are restricted by too many regulations. Raised in Newton County by a Cuban immigrant mother and a father who owns a property-appraisal business, Knight said he learned about hard work at an early age. He said Athens is facing “a workforce development crisis.” He has heard from employers like Carrier, a refrigeration and air-conditioning company with a plant in Athens, that they can’t find reliable people to fill jobs, and so Athens needs programs that teach soft skills. At the same time, the local government doesn’t do enough to build up young professionals, either. He has proposed transferring economic development from ACC to the chamber of commerce, as many cities do. “We have no economic development strategy at all,” he said. Above all, Knight said he would be a mayor with no allegiances, who can break through stalemates and get things done. “We continue to claim to be this progressive city, but what are we doing to be progressive?” f
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Reality Check Kevin Barnes on What Shaped of Montreal’s Searing New Album By Gabe Vodicka music@flagpole.com
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his month, shapeshifting Athens pop act of Montreal celebrates the release of its latest album, White Is Relic/ Irrealis Mood, a six-track, 42-minute affair that’s dense and demanding while also serving as the group’s most creatively satisfying set in years—lo-fi cultural anxiety writ large with Arthur Russell-at-Paisley Park vibes. Founder and frontman Kevin Barnes says the record, which blends the personal and the political until there is hardly any distinction, arose after he “reached a healthy point of self-forgiveness for my failed marriage and became deeply educated in the lies of America the great.” Listening to White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood—primarily a Barnes solo joint—it’s clear there is a deep well of inspiration behind the album, from its bass-heavy production to its blistering lyricism. Looking ahead to of Montreal’s release show at the 40 Watt, Flagpole invited Barnes to send over some thoughts on a few of the influences that shaped the new LP, and he happily obliged.
DJ Screw “I realize that I’m way late to the party on this one,” says Barnes, who recently dove headfirst into the sprawling catalog of the late Texas DJ, known for pioneering the “chopped and screwed” method of hip-hop production. “In a way, I feel like DJ Screw is the godfather of genres like vaporwave and dubstep. His method of slowing everything down breathes new life into a track and unlocks all sorts of new frequencies and sound waves that were aurally unintelligible at the track’s original speed. I learned through listening to his work that almost everything sounds cooler when slowed way down. Even the most basic mainstream pop
song becomes deeply transportive and mysterious when time-stretched below its original BPM.” In fact, Barnes eagerly employed this trick on the new of Montreal record. “I used this approach on a bunch of songs,” he reveals. “I recorded them a lot faster than I intended them to be, and then I slowed the recordings down until they started to sound magical and exciting, and then I would overdub on top of that to complete the composition. It was a very interesting way to shake myself out of my ordinary arrangement routine, and it pushed me into new sonic territories.”
Pedro Almodóvar “I went through a deep happiness phase watching all of [his] amazing films,” Barnes says of the Spanish director, whose acclaimed and often controversial movies include Volver and The Skin I Live In. “I found the playfulness, complexity and taboo-breaking aspects of his films so inspiring and intellectually/emotionally/spiritually salubrious. From his early punk/shock films all the way to the present day, his films never disappoint or bore. His career arc plays out almost like a zen koan, if people wrote dirty koans instead of limericks.”
Black American Authors Barnes primarily envisioned White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood as a missive against “toxic” American whiteness. “I absorbed the works of James Baldwin, Angela Davis, Elaine Brown, Ava DuVernay [and] Ta-Nehisi Coates, as well as Malcolm X’s autobiography, to gain insight into an aspect of the American experience that was unknown to me,” he says. “I was subconsciously aware that systemic racism formed a
large part of the foundation and inception of this country, but I wasn’t cognizant of just how deeply it continues to define and affect us in such destructive and deeply negative ways.” In the process of creating the record, Barnes says he became hyper-aware of his own role in this system. “Often, when the topic of systemic racism comes up, white people get extremely uncomfortable and try to change the subject, because they don’t want to take any responsibility for their role as beneficiaries of oppression and injustice,” he says. “I’ve come to understand that my perceptions and world view have been seen solely through the filter of [the] white, male experience. Becoming self-aware and acknowledging the privilege I am given as a white male in this country has helped me step outside of myself and appreciate how unfairly the scales of justice and economics are tilted in my favor.” Of Montreal’s remarkable new album makes no bones about its creator’s newly radical POV. “I feel that conducting a nationwide spiritual cleanse, involving financial reparations and reality checks, is needed right now and is essential for the creation of a more equal and healthy society,” says Barnes. “Until the evils of our past are confronted and exorcised, there will continue to be psychological imbalance and sickness in our communities, on both the micro and macro levels.” f
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the co-founders to up the ante for this year’s awards show. In light of the upcoming local election, the theme for the ceremony is “activism,” and attendees have been encouraged to wear traditional royal African garb. “It’s important that the hip-hop community in itself is awakened to what’s going on locally,” says Mokah Johnson. “We want to make more emphasis on politics and activism and being involved to make a difference in your community.” Every facet of this year’s show is intended to emphasize the theme. Because of her activist background, Johnson will co-host the event alongside rapper Larry Gresham Jr., aka LG, to help bring awareness to the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement and other local causes. Additionally, all the performers have been asked to include a song with a social message, and many presenters are candidates for local office. “We’re not endorsing anyone. We want them there,” Johnson says. The request that event-goers dress in traditional African attire was a choice made to highlight the need for everyone, but especially the youth of the community, to understand and embrace their roots. “There’s a problem, because we’re no longer holding on to our history, and we’re no longer respecting the people that came before us,” Johnson says. “The youth don’t
“Those elements have always been involved,” says Miller. “We might have called it something different, but there are certain elements in the community that are always there and always will be… [It’s] getting the youth to understand where it came from—[to] understand their history.” As always, the awards aim to celebrate the culture surrounding the music scene. This year will add another layer to it by encouraging activism and pushing people to understand their roots. The idea is to get people, both artists and non, motivated to understand local politics and help those running for office understand who they represent. Mostly, it’s a chance to educate, uplift and put the spotlight on those who aren’t normally celebrated. “It’s not individuals; it’s sort of more of a movement,” Miller says. “…You might not hear it in people’s music, but [people in the hip-hop community] will still be there with their boots on the ground when it’s time for us to move towards a cause.” f
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By Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com VIBIN’: Singer-songwriter Cortez Garza releases his new album, The Low Vibe, this week. This tight collection of a mere eight songs is refreshing in both its brevity and strength of composition. This is the first time I can recall responding overwhelmingly positively to Garza’s music. It’s not that I ever disliked it, per se, but it never really landed with me until now. The pacing on this record is outstanding and never drags or gets tiring, even though all the songs are slow or mid-tempo. For my money, top tracks include opener “Riding in the Rain,” “Keep the Pace” and “No One Knows You Better.” Feel free to stream this from your favorite service beginning Friday, Mar. 23. For more information, see cortezgarzamusic.com.
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THIS IS WHERE WE WALKED, THIS IS WHERE WE SWAM: The Oconee River Land Trust will host its Oconee River Belles benefit concert at The Foundry Thursday, Mar. 22 at 7 p.m. Featured acts this night are Grammy Awardwinning banjoist Alison Brown with guest players Sierra Hull and Justin Moses; Cicada Rhythm; and Grammynominated duo Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley. Doors open at 6 p.m., advance tickets are $30 ($35 at the door), and you can find all additional information at oconeeriverlandtrust. org/2018-concert. BULLS, BEARS, BANANA CRÈME PIE: The Georgia Conflict Center is presenting a benefit show for VoiceBox Investments at Hendershot’s Coffee Bar on Sunday, Mar. 25 at 3 p.m. VoiceBox is billed as an “ethically driven investment group,” but I have no idea what its actual platform is, how investor funds are allocated, Cortez Garza etc. So, ask their representatives when you show up to see the Georgia Children’s Chorus, Caroline Aiken, Kate Morrissey and Klezmer Local 42. A dessert buffet will be provided from local bakeries, merchants and restaurants. The suggested donation is $10, and you can find out more about the Georgia Conflict Center over at gaconflict.org. LAUGH FACTORY: Underground venue and art space Joker Joker Gallery (145 Vine St.) is having an open-house event Saturday, Mar. 24 at 7 p.m. It’s billed as an art/toy showing, plus sound performances. One of your hosts this night, Mux Blank, has made enormous leaps in his creativity over the past couple of years and spent much time focusing on his line of one-of-a-kind toys, and he’s gathered some cool people to show their stuff. Artists include
Keith Shubert (Asheville, NC), Dain Marx/Buzzard Guts, Kari Bjork, Lisa Rose, Bradley Staples, Van Beville, Edwin Salas, Feond, Ashley Morgan Herring and Craig Gum. Live performers include 185668232 (New York), Isa Leal (Baltimore), Wrists (New Jersey/UK), Chalkfucker (Athens), Edwin Salas (Mexico City), Toybox Theatre and Symmatree (Texas). Please bring some money to donate, as you can see how far some have traveled to participate in this. For more information, see facebook.com/jokerjokergallery. ALL WORK IS NOBLE: Although this is technically a music-only column, I’m making an exception this week to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Athens Montessori School, which is hosting a benefit and anniversary-celebration show on Saturday, Mar. 24 featuring two comedians very close to the school, Collin Moulton and Stuart Huff. Each has ample material you can find online. Advance tickets are $15 (available at the Athens Montessori office) or $20 at the door. For more information, see athensmontessori.com. HERE, YOU HOLD THIS: Jack’s Johnson is putting out a new EP this week named Dang!. It’s a mere three tracks long and kinda sounds like indie circus music with a dose of Ween, especially on the final track, “Big Hips.” Each track has a semi-psychedelic vibe, which is fine as a directive for future releases but doesn’t do much here. Overall, there’s not enough oomph for the EP to make a point or enough branches for listeners to grab onto. I don’t really want to say it sounds tossed-off, but it kind of does. One thing to note is that this is the last release scheduled for Jack’s Johnson, as the project will undergo a name change soon. The EP will be celebrated at a release show at the Caledonia Lounge Friday, Mar. 23 with Juan de Fuca and Dagmar Vork. Enjoy this at soundcloud.com/jacks-johnson.
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STILL AT IT: Georgia roots-rock legend Randall Bramblett, whose ties to Athens are numerous and deep, celebrates his 70th birthday with a special performance at The Foundry on Friday, Mar. 23. The show, dubbed “Just Getting Started,” features Bramblett, whose latest release is last year’s agile Juke Joint at the Edge of the World, playing with his band of all-stars, as well as appearances from various special guests. Doors are at 6 p.m., admission is $20, and the show starts at 8. From all at Flagpole, here’s wishing Bramblett a very happy 70th. [Gabe Vodicka] f
record review Seline Haze: Saga of Love EP (Independent Release) Athens emcee Seline Haze found music only recently, having formerly honed her creative chops as a poet and blogger. As such, her work has an unflinchingly honest quality, and Saga of Love—the first of a two-part series planned for 2018, with counterpart Feel set to drop this summer—balances the intensity of spoken word with the joy of artistic discovery. One of a handful of current names seemingly popping up on every hiphop bill around town, Haze’s work ethic and lyrical dexterity are evident on the eight-track EP. Over lo-fi backpacker beats crafted by Jon B., Haze spits crafty bars about everything from identity to eternity, tackling weighty topics with otherworldly cool. Among scene heads, Haze is considered to be one of Athens’ most exciting young upstarts, and Saga of Love oozes raw talent. The record is brief, its sequencing wanting and its production unvarnished, but it’s enough to whet any local rap fan’s appetite for more. [Gabe Vodicka]
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Who’s Who at Fluke THESE LOCAL COMICS CELEBS WILL SHOW THEIR STUFF AT THIS YEAR’S FEST By Hillary Brown food@flagpole.com
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easy to stereotype comic-book conventions from the outside as a venue for a bunch of nerds to nitpick superhero narratives or try out their homemade Iron Man costumes, but A: Quit nerd-shaming! And B: Fluke, our local yearly convention, has more to offer than that. Unlike most cons, it focuses on small, independent creators, many of whom man their own booths. A lot of them are local, too, so here’s a list of Athens-based indie-comics celebrities to seek out: ELEANOR DAVIS: It’s hard for people in Athens to realize what a big damn deal Davis is because she’s a modest person, but she’s been in multiple volumes of Best American Comics, won a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators and received the Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award from the Eisners (kind of the comics Oscars) in 2009. She’ll have her newest book, Why Art? (Fantagraphics), available at her table, plus older work, including mini-comics and You & a Bike & a Road (my favorite comic of 2017). JOEY WEISER: Best known for creating Mermin, a five-volume, all-ages, Eisner-nominated series about a fish-boy from an underwater kingdom that is super popular with the K-8 set, Weiser, who illustrated this week’s Flagpole cover, has also written for SpongeBob Comics (surprisingly good and entertaining, even for grown-ups) and done coloring for Jedi Academy and Lunch Lady. You might not know his name, but your kids probably do. His stuff is tidy and interesting at the same time, a rare feat. DREW WEING: One reason to go to Fluke, apart from getting to buy books from the people who made them (they’ll usually sign them with a quick drawing, too), is for the cool swag you can’t get anywhere else. Weing, who is married to Davis, is the author of The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo, a gripping all-ages yarn about a young monster mediator that is creepy, charming and gorgeously drawn. Last year, he had awesome Margo-logo enamel pins for sale. You can also pick up his Set to Sea, about where a romantic attitude will get you in life, for slightly older audiences than Margo. PATRICK DEAN: Here’s the section of folks who either currently draw a strip for Flagpole or previously did. Dean’s
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comic ran weekly for 10 years, but if you’re newer to town, you might know his work from the signs he paints for Trader Joe’s, where he gets to display his strong Jack Davis influence. Dean has been serializing his story “Eddie’s Week” online (eddiesweek.tumblr.com) since early this year, which is a real delight if you miss reading his work on a weekly basis. MISSY KULIK: “Tofu Baby” has been running weekly in Flagpole since at least 2009, and although it has its detractors—they just can’t handle the twee—it has achieved a sort of éminence grise status through its longevity and consistency. (Who knew jokes about not being able to pronounce the letter R were such fewtile gwound?) Kulik draws a lot more besides the cute lil’ bean curd, and you can pick up buttons and other accessories at her booth. LEE GATLIN: Gatlin’s “Gang Agley” strip has been running in Flagpole for a while, too, and it’s been interesting to watch it evolve. He’s turned from simpler, cartoonier lines to panels that are more reliant on what look like washes (ink or watercolor) and color. He’s gotten some national indie-comics attention for it, too, including from notable comics journalist Zainab Akhtar, who appreciates his mopey, goofy superheros and vampires. DAVID MACK: For years, my go-to gift for dummies who move away from Athens (some willingly, some less so) has been one of Mack’s small compilations of his “A Round Town” Flagpole comics, which capture the feel of the town like little else. They were getting harder to find, and I cleaned Avid out of the ones they had left at one point, but now you can get a complete run (at least, up to a point) in a fat little book called Athens, GA, with the Chase Street water tower on the front. Go get you one at flagpole.bigcartel.com. Mack also sometimes draws portraits for a dollar. ROBERT NEWSOME: The co-organizer of Fluke for these many years (with Dean), Newsome won’t just be manning the door or the merch station or pointing you toward the cake (there’s always cake, both vegan and not). He also usually has copies of his wrestling zine, The Atomic Elbow, now into its 25th issue. Over the years, it’s featured comics
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A page from “Eddie’s Week” by Patrick Dean
from folks like Box Brown—who later wrote a whole book on Andre the Giant and now has a new one about Andy Kaufman—Evan Dorkin, Jarrett Williams and others. KLON WALDRIP: Former Video Library and Vision Video employee Waldrip really knows his stuff about movies, and he’s put out zines (both comics and non-comics) about cult films, but he’s also been drawing his “Power Profiles” series for years. On Instagram at @powerprofiles or available in print form (including probably at Fluke), they’re one-page bios of people like Jean Seberg, Bushwick Bill, Dolores Huerta, Katherine Dunham and more, each hand-lettered and illustrated with a big picture of the subject. The great thing about Fluke is that, even if you think you’re only going to fanboy out about one comics creator, you’re almost guaranteed to discover a new one while you’re there. There are professionals and amateurs, kids and grown-ups, publishers and self-publishers, people who write and people who draw, plus buttons, stickers, toys, comics-themed jewelry and plenty more. You can find a full list of vendors at flukeisawesome.blogspot.com with links to their websites, unless said websites do not exist, in which case the link goes to a YouTube video of monster trucks. f
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What’s New at the Lyndon House JURIED EXHIBITION, PLUS KRISTEN HYINK’S ‘MODERN TRAUMA’ By Jessica Smith arts@flagpole.com Reflecting a wide variety of influences and styles, the Lyndon House Arts Center’s 43rd Juried Exhibition includes paintings, photographs, sculptures, textiles, etchings, mixed media and everything in between. Focused on identifying challenging, playful and boundary-pushing artwork, guest juror Wassan Al-Khudhairi, chief curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, selected 126 pieces from a record-breaking pool of 373 artists. The exhibit is thoughtfully arranged, with many complementary works hanging in proximity to enhance color, mood or subject. Helen Kuykendall’s “Flying Home” portrait of Snoopy soaring through the air appears as if he might jump canvases and land in Cheryl Washburn’s peaceful oil painting of a landscape. James Preston’s simple yet boldly colored sunset echoes
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the color blocks of the neighboring handpainted silk by René Shoemaker. Emily Tatum’s expressive clay figure feels at home next to Will Ingram’s awesome four-eyed character daydreaming whom it should ask to prom. Funneling money back into the artist community, submission fees and donations from guilds are used towards 11 merit awards in a variety of fields. The Arts Center Choice Award, given to an emerging artist each year, comes with an opportunity to hold a solo exhibition in the Lounge Gallery. Last year’s recipient, Kristen Hyink, is a self-taught illustrator, sculptor and musician who relocated to Athens in 2015 from her hometown of Austin, TX. Her black-and-white illustration series, “Modern Trauma,” is an audio-visual immersion story reflecting on the resiliency of nature, the process of self-discovery and the beauty of feminine strength. Often using a magnifying lens and a .15mm tipped pen, her lush environments are dense with detail, typically hosting between 15–30 layers of ink and often taking multiple months to complete. The series began following an illustration created in the wake of the Women’s March in Atlanta that depicted a woman riding an elk through a swamp with a white flag in tow. Subsequent scenes created a narrative backtracking her journey from becoming lost in the
wilderness, overcoming her fears and transforming into a powerful warrior. “I became very focused on the character of the woman riding the elk, and everything that she represented to me,” says Hyink. “She has antlers, something that I find highly symbolic. I see antlers as a crown, showing distinction and grace. I also see them as antennae, receiving and transmitting information, branching out of the head growing towards higher awareness. They represent the passage of time, with their seasonal regeneration a metaphor for personal cycles—starting soft and vulnerable, then scraped and bloodied into a beautiful weapon for survival, more formidable each year.” Hoping to fully immerse visitors within her narrative, Hyink’s illustrations are accompanied by recordings that fuse sight and sound and intensify the emotional atmosphere of each environment. A self-proclaimed bedroom musician, she enjoys experimenting with various instruments—flute, guitar, dulcimer, ukulele, synthesizers, vocals—and while she was heavily involved in Austin’s music scene as a supporter, she considers this project to be her first serious attempt at pursuing her own music. The soundtrack In the Company of Beasts, which is available at moderntrauma. bandcamp.com, consists of audio collages created through Ableton with the guidance of music partner Chris Hrasky. Sounds of nature captured through a field recorder are beautifully integrated with the instrumentation, striking a delicate balance resembling the relationship between mankind and wilderness. “I have always been captivated by cryptozoology, legends and monsters. I related to what I assumed were these misunderstood mythical beings, hiding away from civilization, watching it from the shadows,” says Hyink. “I’m an escapist, and fantasy has always been there to help me deal with the chaos of life. I often abscond into the wilderness, where I am reminded of what it is to be alive, truly. Nature is a sacred force that rules us all, and it is my greatest goal to live in harmony with it. I spend a lot of time outside, and a lot of time with animals. There are worlds within worlds within worlds everywhere you look in nature, and that to me is pure magic.” An opening reception for the Juried Exhibition will be held Thursday, Mar. 22 from 6–8 p.m., and artist talks will be held every Thursday in April at 6 p.m. It will remain on view through May 5, the same day as a ceremony to celebrate new sculptures by Harold Rittenberry. Hyink’s illustrations can be visited through June 2. f
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Tasty Tacos to Go PLUS, A NEW ICE CREAM SPOT ON BAXTER By Hillary Brown food@flagpole.com
DAIRY DESSERTS: After years of fro-yo, ice cream seems to be coming back. Good! It tastes better, for the most part. Four Fat Cows (723 Baxter St., 706-850-8510), the second location of an ice cream shop that
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SLOW DOWN: My reflexes are, generally like habaneros and will knock you for a speaking, not great, but they tend to kick loop—are great. into high gear if I see the word “taqueria” on The tortas are beautifully light and a sign, especially if it’s in an unusual locapacked with flavor. If you’re looking for tion. Taqueria Juaritos (3875 Jefferson sopes, Tacos los Plebes, on Danielsville Road, 706-202-6906) is worth hitting your Road, does them better, but these are still brakes for. Housed at a small counter inside the Petro Express gas station near the fire station on Jefferson Road, it doesn’t have a lot in the way of amenities, but it does have excellent food. Most business is take-out, although there is a dining room, should you not want to let your food get soggy. The weekday menu consists of tacos, sopes, gorditas, burros (burritos) and hot wings, available with fillings including asada, chicken, al pastor, barbacoa, carnitas, desebrada (shredded beef), tongue, tripe, chorizo and buche (stomach), all made speedily to order in a small kitchen. The al pastor seems to have pineapple in it—the right way to prepare it—and is probably the best of the meats, but all of them are good. You can dress your own tacos from a bar of various toppings on the counter, which includes standards like cilantro, raw Taqueria Juaritos onions, lime and thinly sliced radishes, but also some truly notable hot pickled onions, which one-two good and worth eating. Weekends, per trapunch your sinuses. The doubled-up corn dition, bring some extra offerings, including tortillas, which don’t appear to be made in menudo (unfortunately still not my cup of house, taste as though they’re made from a tea, but I’ll keep trying it), pozole (which more finely ground masa than most, which wasn’t ready yet when I went, but seems means they don’t interfere much with the worth a trip back) and a stellar shrimp soup fillings. All three sauces—a milder green, that isn’t spicy (some are), but instead relies a hotter green and a sneaky red that tastes on a lovely, complex tomato broth packed
with vegetables. Pale-green tubers that taste faintly of zucchini could be chayote and are especially good infused with the broth. The place is worth a trip out of your way, and you can call ahead if you’re in a hurry. Taqueria Juaritos takes credit cards and is open Sunday to Thursday from 10 a.m.–8 p.m. and Friday and Saturday 10 a.m.–9 p.m.
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has its original in Alpharetta, is doing its part for the fattier frozen treat. There’s a lot packed into the space, with around two dozen ice cream flavors, coffee (Batdorf & Bronson), tea, baked goods, homemade granola, chips, soft drinks, pints to go and gifty items (T-shirts, koozies, inflatable rubber balls, toys, water bottles, soft-sided
mini-coolers, stuffed animals, etc.). The ice cream comes from Greenwood, out of Atlanta, although Four Fat Cows does some custom flavors. If you want something interesting, stay away from the Superman ice cream, which is the same basic vanilla jazzed up with a bunch of food coloring that it is anywhere else—for example, at Scoops in Madison, which also offers Greenwood ice cream. Instead, opt for the apple tart or the root beer float, both of which taste like good versions of their inspiration. Other more unusual flavors include red velvet cake, green tea, Almond Joy, chocolate peppermint bark and rice pudding. The pistachio doesn’t hold up against the one that La Michoacana… Es Natural (in front of the Ingles in Hull and inside the Eastside Cali N Tito’s) makes, and indeed, that store still does a better job, for my money, at extracting the real essence of even a seemingly simple flavor, like strawberry, and creating ice cream that embodies it. That established, the high-butterfat ice cream that Four Fat Cows offers is still ice cream, and a lot of it is quite good. A float that combines mango sorbet with a spicy ginger ale is a good and grown-up-tasting concoction. The “cowzones,” open-face tarts with a sweet dough and savory toppings, are nothing impressive, but the sweeter baked goods are better. The store offers both free wi-fi and a wide array of gluten-free options, including cones and cookies. It also makes puffle cones of the type mobile vendor Nedza’s Waffles offers, should your interest in Instagram equal your interest in ice cream. Its staff members are happy to offer you as many samples as you like, reacting with endless patience to sticky-fingered children. Four Fat Cows is open until 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, although holiday break hours may vary. f
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Great Guy, No Spark ADVICE FOR ATHENS’ LOOSE AND LOVELORN By Bonita Applebum advice@flagpole.com Heyyyyyy, Bonita, relationship, and wouldn’t even be entertainI need some help! I’m 36, and would really ing the idea of continuing this relationship, like to meet a guy I could have a family with. except that he has other qualities I want and There are a lot of things that are important like in great quantities, and those qualities to me in a potential partner, but the long and have proved so hard to find. short of it is that I’d like to date a guy whom I I actually Googled “What do I do if I’m not genuinely like and am excited to be with, and attracted to my boyfriend”—and only got as who is also excited to be far as “What do I do if with me. There are some I’m not” when Google There is probably a more particulars, but auto-filled the rest person dying to sidle up for me, so I guess I’m that’s the meat of it. About a year ago, I the only one with to your boo while you occupy not met a guy who seemed to this problem—but the that space in his life. have some promise, and results weren’t super we’ve been dating since. helpful. So, if you can He has a lot to offer—he’s smart, educated, just tell me what to do, it’d be much apprecisuccessful, seems to think seriously about relaated. A numbered list of steps would be espetionships and wants a family. His interest in cially helpful. me also seems really sincere and hasn’t faded Thanks! over time. We talk easily, and I haven’t met a lot of guys with all of these qualities, so I’m I know that feeling, and I’m glad to provide really reluctant to give them up. an answer in the format you requested. I But: I’m not attracted to him. Which feels hope this helps! like a horrible, disloyal, superficial thing to say, and I feel guilty even typing it into this 1. Break up with him. anonymous submission box. It’s not that he’s not attractive. In fact, when I arrived for our Why? Because you’re settling, and that’s all third date (almost a year you’re doing. You and this man have no ago) and before I future together. You want walked inside, I to be in a relationsaw him through ship, so the window. you’re
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I didn’t immediately recognize him, and I thought, “Oh, wow, that guy’s cute.” I felt guilty for having those thoughts when I was going to meet someone else, but then I happily realized that actually WAS my guy. All that to say, it’s not that he’s not attractive. It’s that, for some reason, I don’t want to kiss him, or have sex with him. Without going into detail, I can say this has not been a problem for me in other relationships, and it’s not the case that my interest in sex is gone. I just don’t want a physical relationship with this guy. In fact, when we do kiss, it makes my stomach kind of hurt, because I’m doing something that I don’t want to be doing. I can’t really imagine giving up on the idea of a happy full sexual and physical
choosing not being alone over being with someone you actually like. How are you supposed to meet the person you might actually marry and procreate with when you’re bored in a placeholder relationship? Not to mention there is probably a person dying to sidle up to your boo while you occupy that space in his life. I know you don’t mean any harm, but you are doing harm to both of you. I would never encourage or advise a person to deny their true selves or fake any aspect of their lives for propriety’s sake. Break up with him so you can both move on and get happy. f Need advice? Email advice@flagpole.com, use the anonymous form at flagpole.com/getadvice, or find Bonita on Twitter: @flagpolebonita.
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Silver Screen Jews THE ATHENS JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL RETURNS FOR ITS 10TH YEAR By Rebecca McCarthy news@flagpole.com
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he Athens Jewish Film Festival is back, and bigger and better than ever. Events span five days, beginning with a Sunday gala at the Georgia Museum of Art and ending with a closing party at the Rialto Club, Hotel Indigo’s venue. In between are movies and shorts from the Ukraine, Australia, the United States, Germany, Israel, Canada,
France and Russia. This marks the 10th year of the festival, which began after organizers realized the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival didn’t want to expand its reach to venues in Athens. So movie buffs Abe and Carmen Tesser and several other Athens residents decided to stage a film festival of their own.
Body and Soul Illuminates a Complex Relationship From Peace Corps volunteer to African-American literature professor to filmmaker, the career of Robert Philipson has evolved. But a constant thread has been the search for cultural similarities and differences between minority groups. Selfdescribed as a Jewish queer, Philipson finds himself in “an interesting position visà-vis identity politics.” In his film Body and Soul: An American Bridge, which will close this year’s AJFF, Philipson uses the beloved jazz standard as a means to explore the sometimes fraught and complicated relationship between African Americans and Jews. The song, one of the most recorded in jazz, was written by Jewish composer Johnny Green in 1929. Performed by torch singer Libby Holman and many others, including Louis Armstrong, in 1935 “Body and Soul” helped smash the color barrier in popular music when it was recorded by the Benny Goodman Trio with black pianist Teddy Wilson at the keys. The documentary has been featured at numerous Jewish and African-American film festivals. The filmmaker says, ”Different audiences focus on different things. Black audiences tend to focus on black things, Jews focus on Jewish things.” Scenes of interactions between, for example, Jewish managers and black performers show relationships that can be unequal and exploitative and, naturally, “black audiences’ radar tends to go up.” Philipson, who describes his career as “a hobby that got out of control,” initially took a course in videography in order to film his father walking around the Chicago neighborhood where he grew up. But he was smitten with scriptwriting and other elements covered in the class. He completed his first professional video, Ma Rainey’s Lesbian Licks, in 2005. It played in 20 different film festivals. “Music is one thing I’m interested in. I’ve learned to look at cultural production in a social context. A work of art is a work of art, but it also says something about the society out of which it comes,” Philipson says. “I have a particular fondness for the Great American Songbook. It’s music I grew up with.” Philipson will spend some of his time in Athens researching entertainer Bob Cole for his next feature-length film. Says the filmmaker, “One of the benefits of my research in music is that I’ve been led to discover really interesting cultural corners in America.” [Barbette Houser]
“It was the right thing at the right time,” says Abe Tesser, noting that local art-house theater Ciné had just opened. “We wanted it to be a community event, not just something for Jews.” Longtime board member Ron Zell, this year’s festival president, says the board works hard to keep the films affordable to the general public and to showcase films from across the globe that focus on Jewish life, history and traditions. Last year was the only one in which the festival didn’t turn a profit, but, says Zell, “we’ve lasted longer than the well-known Robert Osborne Classic Film Festival,” which ended in 2010. The Athens Jewish Film Festival has partnered with both the Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia and the Georgia Center for the Humanities to feature other events throughout the year. This year’s celebration began with a free showing of The Band’s Visit at Ciné in January. The theater was crowded with more than 100 people, says Tesser, “and it wasn’t just Jews, it was a lot of other people from the community.” At some of the events are Jews who may not belong to the local synagogue, Congregation Children of Israel, but want to connect with their heritage, according to Tesser. The festival has become an established feature in Athens, something the community looks forward to and often helps with. The ushers at this year’s screenings are members of Holy Cross Lutheran Church. The Tessers remember the first year, when the event was still in the process of
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applying for nonprofit status, and board members scrambled to get the word out. Now, a social media presence keeps people up to date. “Opportunities like the Jewish Film Festival [are] just one reason I love Athens,” says Realtor Jane Mayer. She says she loves the variety of films and looks forward to the festival every year. In terms of the festival’s future, Zell says, “It’s difficult to maintain the status quo, as the board is made up of only 13 members, plus two associates, doing the bulk of the work. We need new blood to advance the festival forward.” Getting donations is becoming more difficult, Zell says. None of the board’s volunteers are professional salespeople. The festival will kick off with a gala at the Georgia Museum of Art on Mar. 24 that includes a dinner, adult beverages and a showing of The Women’s Balcony. Zell says the board decided not to schedule screenings late at night. Films to be screened at Ciné include Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George’s Creators at 2 p.m., Tevye’s Daughters at 4 p.m. and Monsieur Mayonnaise at 6:45 p.m. on Sunday, Mar. 25; Paradise at 5 p.m. and Rabbi Wolff at 7:45 p.m. on Mar. 26; and Between Worlds at 5 p.m. and 90 Minute War at 7:15 p.m. on Mar. 27. The last day features a series of short films and the presentation of an award for the best short at 5 p.m., followed by a showing of the award-winning documentary Body and Soul: An American Bridge at 6:15 p.m. (see sidebar) and a closing party at Hotel Indigo at 7:30 p.m. To purchase tickets, visit athensjff.org. f
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Grab Bag A VG REBOOT, A FOREIGN STUNNER AND A TEEN LOVE STORY By Drew Wheeler movies@flagpole.com
Vogel, can discover any treasure in this blockbuster tomb. Fun is a key trait Tomb Raider sorely lacks. Still, it may find itself achieving gamemovie-of-the-year status, but is being a serviceable video-game adaptation much of an achievement? As far as cinematic adventuring goes, Lara Croft gets no closer to touching the brim of Indiana Jones’ fedora than did Allan Quatermain. What evidence do we have to continue adapting video games into movies? Nothing but the hundreds of millions in box office that sustains them.
TOMB RAIDER (PG-13) When, exactly, did West), who went missing while exploring an we all agree that video games would make uncharted island for a mythical Japanese good movies? As a medium, games have queen of death. stolen almost their entire visual language The movie peaks midway through, from cinema. A movie version of a popular thanks to Vikander’s charmingly brash A FANTASTIC WOMAN (R) This year’s Academy game like “Tomb Raider” removes its essen- take on the rich-girl-playing-working-class Award winner for best foreign-language tial interactivity. (Then again, it is not like trope. Problematically, a bike race through film is virtually a horror film. What Marina reverse engineering interactivity into a (Daniela Vega) experiences upon the game adaptation of a blockbuster guardeath of her lover, Orlando (Francisco Tomb Raider antees success.) Gamers do not want to Reyes), dramatizes with terrifying realskip the gameplay just to sit through ity how daily life, as well as significant the cutscenes, no matter what Hideo milestones, become unexpected strugKojima thinks. But the cutscenes in gles for transgender men and women. the two most recent Lara Croft games After taking Orlando to the hospiare more engaging than this reboot tal during a fatal medical emergency, attempt, starring Academy Award winMarina is subject to police interroganer Alicia Vikander as the gun-toting, tion and a trifecta of mental, emotional spandex-wearing adventurer. and physical abuse at the words and Loosely based on the highly suchands of those recognized as Orlando’s cessful 2013 franchise reboot, Tomb survivors by the law. Marina cannot Raider begins with an untrained Lara even get the law to recognize her name. getting her butt handed to her in a The undue suspicion and mistrust genI’m coming for you Katniss. gym. The game began similarly, with erated solely by society’s overall lack an unskilled Lara having to learn how of understanding about her and others to fight and survive. However, movie Lara London and a foot chase after Chinese like her provides an eye-opening look at levels up without breaking a sweat in so bag-snatchers are way more memorable modern gender identity. much as a single training montage. One than any of Lara’s island exploits. By the Vega, a Chilean actress and singer in only act, she is a bike messenger; the next, she time Daddy Croft shows up alive (unsurher second featured role, is a stunning revis a globe-hopping adventurer fighting prisingly), the movie slows down to a bore. elation, and she now joins Laverne Cox as off trained mercenaries while searching Not even the always-clever Walton Goggins, another representative of trans women in a for her dear, declared-dead dad (Dominic faintly mugging as lead villain Mathias world where the hostility faced by Marina is not only allowed but justifiable. Films like A Fantastic Woman—and its inevitable, inferior Hollywood remake, probably starring Richard Gere as Orlando, capable of reaching an exponentially larger audience—are crucial to changing the world into one that welcomes everyone, no matter who they love or how they self-identify. LOVE, SIMON (PG-13) Simon Spier (Nick Robinson; the Kings of Summer kid has grown into a nice romantic lead), the protagonist of this laugh-out-loud, crowd-pleasing teenage love story, is just like your typical, lovelorn high-school senior. Except Simon has a secret: He is gay. Through some typical plot wizardry, Simon’s secret becomes known to a toady student named Martin (Logan Miller), who has a crush on Simon’s friend and the resident new girl, Abby (Alexandra Shipp). In exchange for keeping Simon’s secret, he must help Martin woo Abby, forcing Simon to treat his friends very poorly. Not only will Simon be outed if his secret is revealed; he will also scare off a potential love interest, known only by his online moniker, Blue. The plot machinations of Love, Simon will not surprise anyone who grew up on John Hughes movies or the movies spawned by the generation of filmmakers who grew up on John Hughes movies, like director Greg Berlanti. In Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker’s script, TV whiz Berlanti (see almost every DC character currently on The CW, as well as The WB’s most underrated series, “Everwood”), has found feature material to match his small-screen strengths. One almost wishes Simon were a series with still more eps upon which to binge. f
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FILM | THU, MAR 22
MUSIC | SUN, MAR 25
EVENT | MON, MAR 26
Morton Theatre · 7 p.m. · $12–15 A program of Canada’s Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Banff Mountain Film Festival is one of the largest film festivals in the world. Its visit to Athens, presented by Half Moon Outfitters, is one of approximately 550 stops spread among 40 countries that are planned for the current tour. Hoping to inspire viewers to get outdoors and engage with the natural world, the lineup of films ranges in subject from action sports to cultural exploration and environmental stewardship. Adrenalinepacked footage of climbing, skiing and kayaking is often played back-to-back with films focused on raising awareness for pressing issues or drawing attention to exotic landscapes. [Jessica Smith]
Hendershot’s Coffee Bar · 7 p.m. · FREE! One of the most consistently rewarding series in town, Hendershot’s experimental night returns from its winter hiatus with a full evening of bold, blissed-out sounds. Sunday’s concert is a showcase of sorts for curator Michael Potter’s Null Zone Records, and serves as the release show for new albums from synth-based Athens projects Wet Garden and Severe Blush. Established area noise head Grant Evans, who has a tape out on Null Zone in April, will also perform, as will Atlanta’s Carey, aka Faun and a Pan Flute’s Dan Bailey, who released a two-movement ambient cassette, The Great Southeastern Dissatisfaction, on the label earlier this month. [Gabe Vodicka]
Go Bar · 7 p.m. · FREE! “Funeral Stories,” a new, Athens-based comedy podcast that aims to change the way people contemplate and talk about death, hosts an official launch party Monday at Go Bar featuring a live recording of an episode. Audience members are encouraged to participate for chances to win gifts from 14 sponsors—including a threenight stay on Amelia Island, FL— and the live recording will be followed by a dance party led by DJ Twin Powers. Co-hosts Laura Brooker and Casey Maleno have created a platform for people to share their personal stories of death, loss and grief—and to hopefully find humor and solace along the way. New episodes are posted every Wednesday on iTunes. [JS]
Banff Mountain Film Fest Experimental Night
Tuesday 20 CLASSES: Computer Class (Bogart Library) “Intro to Excel.” 10 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! athenslibrary.org/bogart EVENTS: Small Business Breakfast Club (Athens First Bank & Trust) The Athens Area Chamber of Commerce hosts a discussion with the Athens mayoral candidates. 8 a.m. $10. www.cityspin.com/ athens EVENTS: Public Reading: Composing the Past (Lyndon House Arts Center) Works cre-
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ated during the winter session, “Composing the Past, Writing in the Ware-Lyndon House,” will be read. Poetry and short fiction was inspired by rooms of the historic house. 7:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3623 EVENTS: Athens Rock and Gem Club (Holy Cross Lutheran Church) Kim Cochran presents an educational program on kyanite. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.athensrockandgemclub. org EVENTS: Tuesday Tour at 2 (UGA Special Collections Library) Take a guided tour of the exhibit galleries of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives
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and Peabody Awards Collection, the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies. Meet in the rotunda on the second floor. 2 p.m. FREE! jclevela@ uga.edu FILM: Bad Movie Night: Uninvited (Ciné Barcafé) A top secret experiment goes awry, unleashing a mutated killer cat onto a yacht full of horny co-eds on their way to the Cayman Islands. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com GAMES: Playtest Night (The Rook and Pawn) Try out new games
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MUSIC | MON, MAR 26
MUSIC | TUE, MAR 27
40 Watt Club · 8 p.m. · $10 For Nashville’s reputation as a bastion of professionalism and studio polish, a crop of snotty garage-punk groups continue to subvert Music City ideals, one tossed-off tape at a time. Among the most exciting of those currently operating is Thelma and the Sleaze, a give-no-fucks trio led by songwriter Lauren “LG” Gilbert and featuring a rotating backing cast. For an example of the band’s modus operandi, in 2016 the group embarked on a 29-day tour of its hometown, playing 31 shows during February, popping up in clubs and at slightly less legal locales, including a McDonald’s and a laundromat. Last year, Burger released the Sleaze’s first proper full-length, Somebody’s Doin’ Something. [GV]
Caledonia Lounge · 8 p.m. · $14–16 The predominantly Atlantabased four-piece Algiers dwells in sonic and thematic landscapes that are especially of the moment, blending elements of discordant post-punk with fiery traces of soul and gospel music. What results is a complex and heady mix of politically conscious resistance music, with lead singer Franklin James Fisher’s impassioned pipes rising up over the din of programmed drums, vocal samples and biting guitar, offering a voice of strength to the oppressed and downtrodden. The Matador-signed crew headlines this Tuesday show at the Caledonia Lounge alongside fellow ATLiens Omni and Alabama freewheelers Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires. [Andy Barton]
Thelma and the Sleaze
from developers. 7:30 p.m. 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 GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) General trivia hosted by Jacob and Wes. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Nic every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706354-7289 GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) Hosted by
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James Majure. 6 p.m. FREE! www. therookandpawn.com GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, 2301 College Station Rd.) Every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern GAMES: Fact or Fake News Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) UGA Professor Mark Farmer presents SPEAR’s alternative trivia night, showing how scientific fact can be spun to create doubt. Winners will receive a prize. 6–8 p.m. www.facebook.com/ugaspear GAMES: Dirty Bingo (Mellow Mushroom) Win prizes. 8 p.m.
FREE! www.mellowmushroom.com KIDSTUFF: Crafts and Community Club (Bogart Library) Ages 8–10 can make a difference in the community through crafts. This month the club will make toys for shelter animals. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Teen Relationships 101 (ACC Library) Join Project Safe’s Youth Educator Advocate, Mary Haddon, in a discussion about healthy, unhealthy and abusive relationships. For teens in grades 6–12. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens
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Wednesday 21 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Docents lead a tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum. org COMEDY: Educated Mess (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) See standups from Athens and Atlanta. 8 p.m. FREE! hendershotscoffee.com 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: Try Out Virtual Reality (ACC Library) Step into another world through the HTC Vive Virtual Reality headset. 7 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens EVENTS: Local Candidate Round-Up (Miller Learning Center) The Young Democrats at UGA will host a local round-up of candidates with Kelly Girtz, Patrick Davenport, Mariah Parker, Melissa Link, Tim Denson, Jared Bailey, Bill Overend, Russell Edwards, Tommy Valentine, Ovita Thornton, Imani Scott-Blackwell, LaKeisha Gantt, and Tawana Mattox in attendance. 6:30 p.m. FREE!
EVENTS: Meet the Maker Dinner (Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market) A four-course meal and wine tasting with Fafael et Fils from Napa Valley. 7 p.m. $45. 706-354-7901 EVENTS: Pint Night (Amici) Amici’s monthly pint night will feature Akademia’s IQ IPA. 5–10 p.m. www. akademiabc.com EVENTS: A Night at the Morton (Morton Theatre) The Athens Music Project presents “A Night at the Morton: Soul Celebration.” 7 p.m. FREE! (tickets required). www.mortontheatre.com GAMES: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, Washington St.) Play to win. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Dirty South Trivia offers house cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, 2440 W. Broad St.) Compete for prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Gather a team. Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. willys.com GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) Gather a team and compete. 8 p.m. www. saucehouse.com GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Southern Brewing Company) CornholeATH is Athens’ first social cornhole league. 6:45 p.m. FREE! cornholeath.com GAMES: Dirty Bingo (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Hosted by Garrett Lennox every Wednesday. Prizes and house cash. 8 p.m. FREE! www. grindhouseburgers.com KIDSTUFF: Teen Library Council (ACC Library) Teens can come together to discuss plans for the ACC Library’s teen department’s collections and programs. Ages 11-18. 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Preschooler Storytime (Oconee County Library) Stories, songs and crafts for preschool-aged children and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Preschool 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: Library Adventures (Bogart Library) A storytelling program with hands-on activities. Ages 3.5–8. 11:30 a.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) Children of all ages are invited for bedtime stories every Wednesday. 7 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: The Breakfast Club (Oconee County Library) Watch the ’80s classic while eating breakfast foods. Grades 6–12. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Chess Club (Oconee County Library) Ages 7 & up are invited to play. All experience levels welcome. 5 p.m. FREE! 706-7693950 KIDSTUFF: Girls Who Code (ACC Library) Learn more about coding. 4:15 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens LECTURES & LIT: Namita Wiggers (Georgia Museum of Art) Namita Wiggers is an American crafts curator, educator and writer based in Portland, Oregon. Her lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Crafting History.” 12 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org THEATER: BFE (Seney-Stovall Chapel) See Tuesday listing for full description Mar. 20–24, 8 p.m. Mar. 25, 2:30 p.m. $7–12. ugatheatre. com
Thursday 22 ART: Opening Reception (Lyndon House Arts Center) The 43rd Juried Exhibition features works selected by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Chief Curator at the Contemporary Art Musuem in St. Louis. In the Lounge Gallery, Kristen Hyink shares hyperdetailed black-and-white illustrations accompanied by original recordings. See Art Notes on p. 15. 6–8 p.m. FREE! lyndonhouseartsfoundation.com CLASSES: Yoga Class at the Library (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Learn yoga basics with Amy Abrahamsen. Bring your own mat. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/madison COMEDY: Bullseye Comedy (The Pub) Open comedy sets from Athens and Atlanta comedians. Every second and fourth Thursday of the month. 8 p.m. FREE! tscottuga@ gmail.com
round of trivia. 8 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/saucehousebbq KIDSTUFF: Builder’s Club (Bogart Library) The club encourages engineering and creativity by building with unique and recycled materials. This month’s theme is “Build a Rainbow.” 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Lego Club (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Create Lego art and enjoy Lego-based games. Blocks provided. For ages 8 & up. 4:30 p.m. FREE! 706-7955597 LECTURES & LIT: Panel Discussion (Georgia Museum of Art) Namita Wiggers, Mia Hall, Sarah Schleuning and Marilyn Zapf will discuss “Crafting History: Beyond the Object.” 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org MEETINGS: ACC Democrats (ACC Library) Hear Democratic candidates. 6–8 p.m. FREE! clarkedemocrats.com
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LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Multiple Locations) Meet Benjamin Zawacki in celebration of Thailand: Shifting Ground Between the U.S. and a Rising China. 11:45 a.m. at the Larry Walker Room of UGA Dean Rusk Hall & 6 p.m. at Prince Ave. Avid Bookshop. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com LECTURES & LIT: Adult Book Club (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Discuss Bogmeadow’s Wish by local author Terry Kay. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison LECTURES & LIT: Brian Clements (Ciné Barcafé) Clements, co-editor of Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence, will offer a poetry reading and discussion. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenscine.com LECTURES & LIT: Donald L. Hollowell Lecture (UGA Chapel) Latina activist and photographer Maria Varela presents “Time to Get Ready.” 7 p.m. FREE! lcornel@ uga.edu PERFORMANCE: Aspen String Trio (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) Violinist David Perry, violist Victoria Chiang and cellist Michael Mermagen share a 20-year friendship and long-time association as artist-faculty with the Aspen Music Festival. The program will include Mozart’s Divertimento in E-flat Major and Dvorak’s String Sextet in A Major. 8 p.m. $39. www.pac.uga.edu PERFORMANCE: ROVA Saxophone Quartet (Trio Contemporary Art Gallery) The quartet draws inspiration from the visual arts, contemporary poetry and contemporary dance. The performance is part of their 40th Anniversary Concert Tour. 8 p.m. $10–15 suggested donation. www. trioathens.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 THEATER: BFE (Seney-Stovall Chapel) Julia Cho’s darkly comic tale details an Asian-American teen’s struggle with identity and a rash of local murders. Mar. 20–24, 8 p.m. Mar. 25, 2:30 p.m. $7–12. ugatheatre.com
is encouraged. This week’s theme is Rumba. 7 p.m. $3–5. www.ugaballroom.com EVENTS: Caribbean Night (Morton Theatre) UGA’s Caribbean Student Association presents an evening incorporating dance, music and theatrical performance. 7 p.m. $8–12. www.mortontheatre.com EVENTS: Morning Mindfulness (Georgia Museum of Art) Participate in a guided meditation session in the galleries. Meet in the lobby. 9:30– 10:30 a.m. FREE! sagekincaid@uga. edu, www.georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Release Party (Creature Comforts Brewery) The release is for Cosmik Debris, a double IPA. Food will be available onsite with live music by Dream Culture and Rude Dude and The Creek Freaks. Visual art by Eye Gate. 3–10 p.m. www. creaturecomfortsbeer.com FILM: It’s Bigger Than Hip-Hop Film Series (Ciné Barcafé) Considered the first hip-hop film, this month’s selection is Wild Style, a 1983 classic full of breakdancing, freestyle MCing and rare footage of Grandmaster Flash. Music by Chief Rocka, Dictator and Ishues. 10 p.m. www.athenscine.com GAMES: Planeswalkers for Diversity Meeting and Magic (Tyche’s Games) Play Magic in a welcoming atmosphere. 6 p.m. www. tychesgames.com KIDSTUFF: NBA2K Video Game Tournament (East Athens Community Center) Ages 12–17 can compete on seven HDTVs. 6 p.m. $5–7. www.accgov.com/leisure LECTURES & LIT: Do Tell!: Storytelling Festival (Madison Morgan Cultural Center) This year’s storytellers are Kevin Kling, Tim Lowry, Lyn Ford and Carmen Agra-Deedy. Mar. 23, 7 p.m. Mar. 24, 10 a.m.–8 p.m. $10–35. www. mmcc-arts.org LECTURES & LIT: Avid Poetry Series (Avid Bookshop, Prince Ave.) Hear poetry from Aruni Kashyap and Soham Patel. 6 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com THEATER: BFE (Seney-Stovall Chapel) See Tuesday listing for full description Mar. 20–24, 8 p.m. Mar. 25, 2:30 p.m. $7–12. ugatheatre.com
Saturday 24 As part of the community-wide NEA Big Read celebration, author Grace Lin will offer a talk, “The Path of a Multicultural Author,” at the AthensClarke County Library on Saturday, Mar. 24 at 2 p.m. EVENTS: Percentage Night (Southern Brewing Company) Part of the proceeds will benefit theBooks for Keeps. 5–9 p.m. www.sobrewco. com EVENTS: TEDxUGA (The Classic Center) UGA alumnus, faculty and students present ideas worth sharing. This year’s theme is “Connect.” 7–10 p.m. $15–20. tedxuga.com EVENTS: KnitLits (Bogart Library) Knitters of all levels are welcome. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/bogart EVENTS: TNT: A Latte Art Competition (1000 Faces Coffee Tasting Room) Sara Frinak emcees with judges from Vortex Doughnuts, Creature Comforts and Know Where coffee. Proceeds benefit the Get Comfortable campaign. 6:30 p.m. (sign up) 7 p.m. contest. $5 (to enter). FILM: The Banff Mountain Film Festival (Morton Theatre) A collection of action, environmental and adventure films for all ages to enjoy. See Calendar Pick on p. 20. 7–10 p.m. $12–15. halfmoonoutfitters. com GAMES: Music Trivia (Saucehouse Barbeque) Meet at the bar for a
THEATER: BFE (Seney-Stovall Chapel) See Tuesday listing for full description Mar. 20–24, 8 p.m. Mar. 25, 2:30 p.m. $7–12. ugatheatre. com
Friday 23 ART: Shouky Shaheen Lecture (Georgia Museum of Art) Dr. Ju-hyung Rhi, professor of art history and archaeology at Seoul National University, will provide an overview of Gandharan Buddhist sculpture. 6 p.m. FREE! www.art. uga.edu EVENTS: Music Night Concert & Auction (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) Bid on items in the auction and hear live music. Proceeds benefit the Athens Council of the Blind and Multiple Choices Center for Independent Living. 5–10 p.m. Donations encouraged. www.multiplechoices.us EVENTS: Friday Night Dance Party (UGA New Dance Theatre) The Ballroom Performance Group offers a free beginner lesson at 7 p.m., followed by social dancing 8–10:30 p.m. Dressy casual attire
ART: WUGA’s Artists in Residence (Contact for address) View the home of painter and mixed media artist Lisa Freeman. 3–5 p.m. $10–20. 706-542-9842, bradberry@uga.edu CLASSES: Shape-up Saturday (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Move and shake with library assistant Mia Townsend. 11:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/madison CLASSES: Yoga for Books for Keeps (Athens Five Points Yoga Studio) Five Points Yoga offers a gentle flow class. Proceeds benefit Books for Keeps. 10:30 a.m. $17. www.athensfivepointsyoga.com COMEDY: Not so Pale Ale Comedy (Southern Brewing Company) Features stand-up comedians from Athens and Atlanta. 6:30–8:30 p.m. FREE! www. sobrewco.com COMEDY: Collin Moulton and Stewart Huff (Ciné Barcafé) Athens Montessori alumnus Collin Moulton has been featured on Showtime, Nickelodeon and “Last Call with Carson Daly.” Stewart Huff has performed at comedy clubs and festivals across the country for over 15 years. Proceeds benefit the Athens Montessori School. 7 p.m. $15–20. leellen@athensmontessori EVENTS: OAES Rocks! (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) Live
music and a silent auction to raise funds for the Oglethorpe Avenue Elementary School. 7 p.m. $5. www. hendershotscoffee.com EVENTS: Open House (Joker Joker Gallery, 145 Vine St.) Mux Blank hosts an evening of art and toy showings, plus sound performances. Contributors include Buzzard Guts, Craig Gum, Wrists, Toybox Theatre and more. See Threats & Promises on p. 13. 7 p.m. www.facebook.com/ jokerjokergallery EVENTS: Athens Black History Bowl (The H. T. Edwards Complex, Elizabeth G. King Center) Eight teams of students compete in a bowl competition covering history, civil rights, science and entertainment. See Pub Notes on p. 31. 12 p.m. FREE! aaabhbowl@gmail.com EVENTS: March for Our Lives Rally (Oconee Veterans Park) The rally is in support of high school students across Georgia and the nation who want solutions to school violence. House Representatives Jonathan Wallace and Deborah Gonzalez will offer remarks. 11 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! ocgadems.org EVENTS: Fluke Mini-Comics Festival (40 Watt Club) Minicomics, zines and independent publications by comic artists, underground publishers and enthusiasts. See Story on p. 14. 11 a.m.–6 p.m. $2. www.flukeathens.com EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods, crafts and live music by Sean Arington and The Then & Now Band. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Spring Fling (Beech Hollow Wildflower Farm, 1575 Elberton Rd., Lexington) Celebrate the farm’s new Art Barn with arts and crafts for kids and adults, face painting, garden art activities, pollintor photography and more. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. www.beechhollowfarms.com EVENTS: UGA Law School Equal Justice Foundation Auction (The Foundry) EJF is a student-run organization devoted to the promotion of public interest law and raises stipends for summer law clerks who have chosen to work in unpaid, public interest positions. The evening includes a silent and live auction. 6:30 p.m. www.thefoundryathens. com EVENTS: Caribbean Night (Morton Theatre) See Friday listing for full description 7 p.m. $8–12. www. mortontheatre.com EVENTS: March for Meals 5K (Creature Comforts Brewery) Proceeds benefit the ACCA Meals on Wheels program. 8 a.m. $25–30. www.accaging.org/m4m5k EVENTS: The School Lunch Challenge (Whitehead Elementary School 555 Qualwood Dr.) Four teams from Last Resort, Taziki’s, Mediterranean Café, Dondero’s Kitchen and the Food Bank of NEGA will compete to create a school lunch plate for a K–12 audience. Attendees are encouraged to bring donation items to benefit the Food 2 Kids program. 12–1:30 p.m. FREE! jhebbard@uga.edu EVENTS: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (Go Bar) Watch the house cast plus Ravion thorpe from Macon. 9 p.m. $3. www.facebook.com/athensshowgirls FILM: Flicker Film Society (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Predator pizza party. Pizza while supplies last. 6 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com FILM: Athens Jewish Film Festival Opening Night (Georgia Museum of Art) A gala dinner and cocktails followed by a showing of The Women’s Balcony. Visit website k continued on next page
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Sunday 25 CLASSES: How to Freelance as a Business (ACC Library) Dan Baker leads a workshop on career opportunities in business commentary as either a journalist or industry analist. 3 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens EVENTS: Invest in Peace (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) Live music by Georgia Childrens Chorus, Caroline Aiken, Kate Morrissey and Klezmer Local 42. A dessert buffet includes treats from Viva, The National, Sweetie Pie by Savie, The REd Rooster Custom Cakes and more. Proceeds benefit the Georgia Conflict Center. 3–6 p.m. $10
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suggested donation. www.hendershotscoffee.com EVENTS: Off the Vine Produce Spring Fling (Off the Vine Produce, Winterville) The Spring Fling will feature arts and crafts, home decor, stain glass windows, wood burning pictures and more. 1–4 p.m. offthevineproduce@yahoo.com EVENTS: Pawsome Easter Egg Hunt for Pups (MadisonOglethorpe Animal Shelter, 1888 Colbert-Danielsville Rd.) Bring your furry friend for several Easter eggs which include pet-friendly treats and prizes. Other festivities include a doggie costume contest, photos and goodie bags. Proceeds benefit MOAS shelter. 1–3 p.m. $5. www. moaspets.com EVENTS: Upcountry Oyster Roast (The Portico, Hwy. 186, Good Hope, GA) Join the Athens Land Trust on the Appalache River for oysters from
of Curious George’s Creators (2 p.m.), Tevye’s Daughters (4 p.m.) and Monsieur Mayonnaise (6:45 p.m.). See Story on p. 18. 2 p.m. $45 (festival pass). www.athensjff. org PERFORMANCE: Athens Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert (The Classic Center) The Athens Symphony Orchestra and Chorus will perform works by Holst, Barber, Bordin, Verdi and Wagner. 3 p.m. FREE! (tickets required). www. classiccenter.com THEATER: BFE (Seney-Stovall Chapel) See Tuesday listing for full description Mar. 20–24, 8 p.m. Mar. 25, 2:30 p.m. $7–12. ugatheatre. com
Monday 26 COMEDY: Funeral Stories Podcast Launch Party (Go Bar) Casey and Laura celebrate the release of the Funeral Stories Podcast with a live
trivia. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com GAMES: General Knowledge Trivia (Beef ’O’ Brady’s) Win house cash and prizes! Every Monday night. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-8501916 GAMES: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Highwire Lounge) Test your general knowledge for prizes. 8–10 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia: Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Team trivia contests with house cash prizes every Monday night. 8 p.m. FREE! www.grindhouseburgers.com KIDSTUFF: 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: Infant Storytime (ACC Library) Designed to nurture lan-
to the top performer, and $1,000 will be given to the largest team to attend. Register teams online. 7 p.m. FREE! www.thefoundryathens.com EVENTS: Psychick Faire (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Athens Area Pagans host a psychic faire with music, runes, reiki, card readers, vendors and more. 6–11 p.m. $5 per service. athenspaganpride.org EVENTS: Tuesday Tour at 2 (UGA Special Collections Library) See Tuesday listing for full description 2 p.m. FREE! jclevela@uga.edu FILM: Athens Jewish Film Festival (Ciné Barcafé) View screenings of Between Worlds (5 p.m.) and The 90 Minute War (7:15 p.m.). See Story on p. 18. 5 p.m. $45 (festival pass). athensjff.org GAMES: Trivia at the Rail (The Rail Athens) Trivia hosted by Nic every Tuesday. 10:30 p.m. FREE! 706354-7289 GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) See Tuesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561
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for full festival schedule. See Story on p. 18. 6 p.m. (gala), 8 p.m. (film). $45 (full festival pass). www. athensjff.org GAMES: Day of Board Game Demonstrations (Tyche’s Games) Learn to play new games. 12 p.m. FREE! www.tychesgames.com KIDSTUFF: Bunny Brunch (The Classic Center) Festivities include a brunch buffet, photos with the Easter Bunny, an Easter egg hunt and crafts. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. $20–25. classiccenter.com/bunnybrunch KIDSTUFF: Easter Egg Hunt (East Athens Community Center) A traditional egg hunt with crafts and a bounce house. For Kindergarten–5th grade. 11 a.m. FREE! www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure KIDSTUFF: Spring House Party (Young Harris Memorial UMC, 973 Prince Ave.) Festivities includes storytime with the Easter Bunny, live music, games and activities. 3–5 p.m. FREE! yhmumc.com KIDSTUFF: Family Craft (Bogart Library) Make faux stained glass using crayons and wax paper. 2:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ bogart KIDSTUFF: Field Trip (Lay Park) Ages 10–14 can take a field trip to see the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds at the Wings over Atlanta open house and air show at Dobbins Air Reserve Bass. Bring money for lunch. Departs and returns to Lay Park. 9 a.m.–4 p.m. $15–17.50. www.accgov.com/leisure KIDSTUFF: Bears’ Birthday Party (Memorial Park) Celebrate the birthdays of DJ, Athena and Yonah by watching them unwrap their presents and dive into an enrichment cake. 12–3 p.m. FREE! www.athensclarkecounty.com/bearhollow LECTURES & LIT: Do Tell!: Storytelling Festival (Madison Morgan Cultural Center) See Friday listing for full description Mar. 23, 7 p.m. Mar. 24, 10 a.m.–8 p.m. $10–35. www.mmcc-arts.org LECTURES & LIT: The Big Read: Grace Lin (ACC Library) Bestselling author and Newbery winner Grace Lin is the keynote speaker for this year’s Big Read event. 2–3:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ athens MEETINGS: Public Input Session (Bishop Park) Offer input regarding Dudley Park Master Plan Revision. 8 a.m. FREE! accgov.com OUTDOORS: Family Wetland Day (127 Memorial Dr. Jefferson) Drop-in to explore the BioSTEAM Center, Jefferson City Schools’ outdoor classroom. 12–4 p.m. FREE! www.oconeeriverlandtrust.org THEATER: BFE (Seney-Stovall Chapel) See Tuesday listing for full description Mar. 20–24, 8 p.m. Mar. 25, 2:30 p.m. $7–12. ugatheatre. com
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The Bones of J.R. Jones plays the Caledonia Lounge on Thursday, Mar. 22. the coast, plus local food and beer. 4 p.m. $45. 706-613-0122, www. athenslandtrust.org EVENTS: Collective Harvest Meet the Farmers (Collective Harvest, 940 W. Broad St. Suite B) Check out the new downtown headquarters and distribution center with refreshments, kids activities and prizes. 1–3 p.m. FREE! www.collectiveharvestathens.com EVENTS: Brunch and Yoga (Southern Brewing Company) Holy Crepe will be on site along with The Rolling Mat Mobile Yoga Studio. RSVP. 2–5 p.m. $15. allyson@ sobrewco.com EVENTS: Athens Hip Hop Awards (The Foundry, The Mahler Hall) The annual awards show celebrating local hip hop culture returns for a sixth year. See Story on p. 12. 7 p.m. $15 (adv.), $20 (door). www. ugalive.com FILM: 2008-2018 Carving Up Oconee Revisited: A Public Perspective (Oconee County Library) A film and panel discussion on how a formerly agricultural county struggles to retain its rural nature and natural beauty on the face of mounting developmental pressures. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-769-5362 FILM: Athens Jewish Film Festival (Ciné Barcafé) Watch Monkey Business: The Adventures
recording, prizes and live music by DJ Twin Powers. See Calendar Pick on p. 20. 7 p.m.–12 a.m. FREE! www.funeralstories.com EVENTS: Paws on the Patio (South Kitchen and Bar) Bring your furry friend for happy hour on the patio and meet adoptable dogs from Athens Pets. 5–8 p.m. www.athenspets.net FILM: Ghastly Horror Society (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Watch Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965) and War of the Gargantuas (1966). 9 p.m. FREE! www.flickertheatreandbar.com FILM: Women’s History Month Film Screening (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, Room 271) Watch Miss Representation. 6:30 p.m. FREE! iws. uga.edu FILM: Athens Jewish Film Festival (Ciné Barcafé) View screenings of Paradise (5 p.m.) and Rabbi Wolff (7:45 p.m.). See Story on p. 18. 5 p.m. $45 (festival pass). www.athensjff.org FILM: YA Movie Night (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Teens can enjoy a movie with snacks after hours. Ages 12 and up. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison GAMES: Movie Trivia (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Klon hosts movie
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guage skills through literature-based materials and activities. Parents assist their children in movements and actions while playing. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: Open Chess Play for Kids and Teens (ACC Library) Teen chess players of all skill levels can play matches and learn from members of the local Chess and Community Players, who will be on hand to assist players and help build skill levels. For ages 7–18. Registration required. 4–5:30 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650 KIDSTUFF: 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 MEETINGS: Dirty Dulcimers (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Learn to play and read music with other dulcimer players. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/madison
Tuesday 27 EVENTS: Lip Sync Battle (The Foundry) The Standard at Athens and River Mill present a lip syncing battle. A $500 prize will be awarded
GAMES: Senior Bingo (East Athens Community Center) Bingo for ages 55 & up. Fourth Tuesday of every month. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. $4. 706613-3593 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) See Tuesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! www. locosgrill.com GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) See Tuesday listing for full description 6 p.m. FREE! www.therookandpawn.com GAMES: Dirty Bingo (Mellow Mushroom) Win prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! www.mellowmushroom.com GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) See Tuesday listing for full description 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern KIDSTUFF: Toddler Tuesday (Georgia Museum of Art) Families and children 18 months–3 years can take a tour tailored for young children, listen to stories and participate in a hands-on activity. 10 a.m. FREE! callan@uga.edu, www.georgiamuseum.org KIDSTUFF: Teen Anime Night (Bogart Library) Teens in grades 6–12 can watch anime, draw fan art and play anime Jeopardy. Grades 6–12. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Lego Club (Oconee County Library) Create Lego art and
enjoy Lego-based activities. Legos provided. Ages 3–11. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee LECTURES & LIT: The Rest of the Story Book Club (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, Room 258) Discuss works connected to the ongoing and upcoming exhibitions and programs at the library. Followed by gallery tours. March’s selection is Miracle in Atlanta: The Atlanta Braves Story. 5:30 p.m. FREE! jhebbard@uga.edu MEETINGS: Toastmasters of Hope (Ebenezer Baptist Church) Learn how to become a better public speaker and leader. 6 p.m. ptac81@ 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 28 CLASSES: Gardening Class (ACC Library) “Lawn Care.” Registration required. 6 p.m. FREE! atedrow@ uga.edu EVENTS: Young Democrats of UGA (Miller Learning Center, Room 214) The Young Democrats host a gun violence panel with Moms Demand Action. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ugayoungdemocrats EVENTS: Athens Jewish Film Festival Closing Party (Hotel Indigo, Rialto Room) Celebrate the 10th annual festival with music and dancing. See Story on p. 18. 7:30 p.m. Festival Pass or $10. www. ajff.org FILM: Athens Jewish Film Festival (Ciné Barcafé) View screenings of shorts (5 p.m.) and the documentary Body and Soul: An American Bridge (6:15 p.m.). See Story on p. 18. 5 p.m. $45 (festival pass). www.athensjff.org GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Gather a team. Every Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www. willys.com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, Washington St.) Play to win. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) Gather a team and compete. 8 p.m. www. saucehouse.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) See Wednesday listing for full description 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Dirty Bingo (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Hosted by Garrett Lennox every Wednesday. Prizes and house cash. 8 p.m. FREE! www. grindhouseburgers.com KIDSTUFF: Preschool Pals (Bogart Library) Preschool-aged children will learn social and language skills through songs stories and crafts. Ages almost 3–almost 5. 10:15 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Preschooler Storytime (Oconee County Library) Stories, songs and crafts for preschool-aged children and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee KIDSTUFF: 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: Dungeons and Dragons (Oconee County Library) Explore a world of fantasy and
magic. Grades 6–12. 6–9 p.m. www. athenslibrary.org/oconee 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: Library Adventures (Bogart Library) See Wednesday listing for full description 11:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Barnes & Noble) Meet bestselling children’s author and former Athenian Mez Blume in celebration of her book Katie Watson and the Painter’s Plot. 6 p.m. FREE! www. bn.com LECTURES & LIT: Defamation in the Age of Fire and Fury (Miller Learning Center, Room 248) Dr. William Lee presents a lecture on the legal aspects of defamation and libel in the context of Fire and Fury. 5:30 p.m. FREE! ithomas@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Faculty Reading (Ciné Barcafé) The UGA Creative Writing Program presents a faculty reading with LeAnne Howe, Aruni Kashyap, Hamilton Holmes, Reginald McKnight and Magdalena Zurawski. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenscine.com MEETINGS: Let’s Chat: LGBT Community Discussion (ACC Library) Common Ground invites the LGBT community to share stories on religion and spirituality. 6:30–8 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ commongroundlgbtathga
LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 20 Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com ASPEN ANONDA Athens-based indie-pop singer-songwriter. HIGHBEAMS Feel-good folk-rock band from Woodstock. WENDLO Atlanta-based folk-pop duo of Jacob and Chelsea Hamilton. Cali ’N’ Tito’s Eastside 11 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! www.calintitos. com LEAVING COUNTRIES Louis Phillip Pelot plays folk with Latin influences every Tuesday in March. Creature Comforts Brewery 5 p.m. FREE! www.creaturecomfortsbeer.com LOUIS ROMANOS TRIO Local jazz combo led by percussionist Louis Romanos. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com SELINE HAZE Athens-based hip-hop artist who makes “music to inspire, to empathize and to motivate.” JAVAE Psychedelic, introspective local rapper. JAY AMERICANA Pop-trap artist from Atlanta. The Foundry Terrapin Tuesday. 7 p.m. $5. www. thefoundryathens.com BORDERHOP TRIO High lonesome pickin’ and singing from Athens’ own bluegrass outfit. Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 7 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com HUNTER CALLAHAN Young, Nashville-based pop singer-songwriter. 8 p.m. $10. www.georgiatheatre.com LIGHT BRIGADE Local rock and roll five-piece.
JESTER Athens-based rock quartet. On the Rooftop. 10 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com ANNIE HART One-third of Au Revoir Simone performs a solo set. SPIDER Brooklyn-based folk band. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 FREESTYLE CYPHER NIGHT A night of rhymes and beats, featuring local and touring MCs and hosted by Linqua Franqa. The World Famous 7 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens ADVANCE BASE Chicago-based electropop project led by Owen Ashworth, formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. GREG JAMIE Dusky solo project from the O’Death singer and guitarist. CLAIRE CRONIN Singer and poet Cronin plays folk music that’s both delicate and intense.
Wednesday 21 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. Backline provided! The Foundry 8 p.m. $10 (adv.), $13 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com MIPSO Fun folk and Americana act from Chapel Hill, NC. MERMAID MOTOR LOUNGE Acoustic alternative-rock band led by Packway Handle Band member Josh Erwin. Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 8 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com THE PONY LEAGUE “Piano-punk” and Americana outfit out of Atlanta. DEAR BLANCA Folky punk band from Columbia, SC. The Globe 8 p.m. www.jazzathensga.org THE HOT HOTTY-HOTS Popular local swing and hot jazz ensemble playing music of the 1910s, ’20s and ’30s. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 OH, ROSE Psych-tinged indie rock band from Olympia, WA. BREATHERS Synth-pop group from Atlanta. LOVESONGS Athens-based experimental band with jazz, electronic and metal influences. LAVENDER HOLYFIELD Athensbased experimental pop project. The Office Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn. Every Wednesday! Porterhouse Grill 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT The longest standing weekly music gig in Athens! Enjoy an evening of original music, improv and standards. The World Famous 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens SOCIAL CIRCLE Athens-based softpsych-pop project. ROB MAGILL Solo composer and multi-instrumentalist utilizing saxophone, guitar and more. BURSTERS Athens-based lo-fi punk outfit. BUBBLE BOYS Melodic yet discordant garage-punk band from Orlando, FL.
Thursday 22 Akademia Brewing Co. 7 p.m. FREE! www.akademiabc.com STEVEN SCHULER Soulful acoustic singer-songwriter playing originals and favorites. Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 JESSICA THOMPSON & MICHAEL HITCHCOCK Singer and guitarist team up to play aoustic and Southern rock styles. LEAVING COUNTRIES Louis Phillip Pelot plays solo sets of country-rock and acoustic Southern soul.
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Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com THE BONES OF J.R. JONES Brooklyn-based folk and blues singer-songwriter. MYFEVER Alt-rock group from Atlanta. ST. LADRO Singer-songwriter who incorporates guitar and electronics in his solo work.
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Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. FREE! flickertheatreandbar.com ASHLEY NA Local singer-songwriter playing “garden-fresh folk songs.” HANDSOME HIGHWAY Local honky-tonk and Americana group led by Southern swooner Barrett Smith. TYLER KEY & STRANGERS Local indie-folk project. 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $16. www.40watt.com OF MONTREAL Long-running local psych-pop group known for its outlandish stage presence. See story on p. 11. MEGA BOG Experimental, saxophone-centric lo-fi recording project from Seattle. LINQUA FRANQA Athens emcee Mariah Parker spits politically charged lyrics inspired by the ’90s underground and the study of linguistics.
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The Foundry 7 p.m. $30 (adv.), $35 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com OCONEE RIVER BELLES The Oconee River Land Trust’s second annual benefit concert and variety show features Alison Brown Band, Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley, Sierra Hull and Justin Moses and Cicada Rhythm. Georgia Theatre 7:30 p.m. $25. georgiatheatre.com LECRAE Best-selling Christian hiphop artist from Atlanta. On the Rooftop. 10 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com THE COLOUR NEGATIVE Pop-rock band from Atlanta. 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! Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com PERIOD SIX Playing a unique blend of jazz standards with collective communication and soulful improvisation. Highwire Lounge 11 p.m. $1 (headphone). www.highwirelounge.com SILENT DISCO Dance the night away with wireless headphones and two channels of music. One of them is a request line! k continued on next page
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Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George’s Creators 4 pm Tevye’s Daughters 6:45 pm Monsieur Mayonnaise 2 pm
MONDAY 3/26 @ Ciné
Paradise 7:45 pm Rabbi Wolff 5 pm
TUESDAY 3/27 @ Ciné 5 pm 7:15 pm
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THE CALENDAR! 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! Terrapin Beer Co. 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $8 (18-20). www. terrapinbeer.com WHITEHALL Funky indie-rock group from Charleston, SC. GRECO Atlanta band of four brothers that plays rock music to make you dance. SONO LUMINI Local electronic-funk jam trio with a big sound and tasty melodies.
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On the Rooftop. 11 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com THE VINYL SUNS Athens-based blues-rock five-piece. Go Bar 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic Dr. Fred and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 7 p.m. FREE! hendershotscoffee.com BENEFIT SHOW A live show and auction to benefit Multiple Choices CIL and the Athens Council of the Blind, featuring music from Carly King, Athens Singing Circle,
Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com THE HAPPY FITS New Jersey-based indie-rock band. WANDERWILD Intricate, intimate local indie-rock project led by songwriter Matt Martin. DOT.S Atlanta-based electropop band. NEW TREE Atlanta-based psychedelic pop group. Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com SLOW POKE RODRIGUEZ No info available. Georgia Theatre 7:30 p.m. SOLD OUT. www.georgiatheatre.com BLACKBERRY SMOKE Southern rock quintet that mixes elements of gospel, bluegrass, soul and country.
DJ Nate From Wuxtry on the decks. Hosted by Linqua Franqa. No. 3 Railroad Street 7 p.m. $10. www.3railroad.org JAKE N’EM Band led by father-son duo Joe and Jake Bennett plays country-tinged rock and roll. The Office Lounge 9 p.m. 706-546-0840 MURDER THE MOOD Local alternative rock band. Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com DAVE PARSONS Americana artist. The World Famous 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens LADY LEGS Jangly indie-rock group from Auburn, AL.
Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 KIP JONES Local songwriter playing all your favorite covers and some of his own tunes. Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com JUAN DE FUCA Driving indie-rock band fronted by local songwriter Jack Cherry. JACK’S JOHNSON Local band featuring members of Wieuca and Big Morgan. Album release show! DAGMAR VORK Athens-based DIY musician, songwriter and visual artist. Ciné Barcafé It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop Film Series. 10 p.m. www.athenscine.com DICTATOR Travis West is a known quantity in the Athens hip-hop scene for his direct style and hard-hitting beats. ISHUES This legendary local underground hip hop artist has returned after a long hiatus. CHIEF ROCKA Local DJ expertly spins a set of old-school hip hop and more. Creature Comforts Brewery Cosmik Debris Can Release. 3 p.m. FREE! creaturecomfortsbeer.com DREAM CULTURE Eclectic local psychedelic rock group. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com TW!NS Four-piece, all-twin band playing riffy indie rock. PARKER HODGES Lyric-driven folk singer-songwriter fron Nashville, TN. 40 Watt Club 7 p.m. $10. www.40watt.com JOHN KING Georgia singer-songwriter blending Southern rock and country. PAIGE MCCAULEY Nashville-based country singer-songwriter. The Foundry 8 p.m. $20 (adv.), $25 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com RANDALL BRAMBLETT BAND This established Georgia singer-songwriter’s Southern-tinged music pulls from a variety of influences. This is a special 70th birthday bash! Georgia Theatre 7:30 p.m. SOLD OUT. www.georgiatheatre.com BLACKBERRY SMOKE Southern rock quintet that mixes elements of gospel, bluegrass, soul and outlaw country. TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN Nashville, TN-based rock band.
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Gawdlee plays the Higher Level Records showcase at Little Kings Shuffle Club on Saturday, Mar. 24. The Vinyl Strangers, The Splitz Band and The Dixieland 5. Highwire Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com LIVE MUSIC Rotating local jazz and bluegrass bands play every Friday and Saturday night.
TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN Nashville, TN-based rock band. On the Rooftop. 11 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com THE MAMMOTHS Austin, TX-based high-energy rock outfit drawing on old-school techniques.
The Office Lounge 6 p.m. 706-546-0840 REV. CONNER MACK TRIBBLE Tribble is a Georgia rock and roll fixture. Every Friday! 8:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 FAT ARM DADDY Athens-based rhythm and blues trio.
Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 HANNIE AND THE SLOBS Garagerock project featuring members of The Rodney Kings and Muuy Biien. DJ MAHOGANY Popular local DJ spins freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta faves.
Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com HALEM ALBRIGHT A blend of unique songwriting and electrifying guitar work.
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 with wireless headphones and two channels of music. One of them is a request line!
Saturday 24 Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net SEAN ARINGTON Local Americana singer-songwriter. (8 a.m.) THE NOW AND THEN BAND Playing a mix of bluegrass, country and Americana covers and originals. (10 a.m.)
Little Kings Shuffle Club 9 p.m. $5. facebook.com/lkshuffleclub HIGHER LEVEL RECORDS SHOWCASE Featuring performances by Dope Knife, DK, Son Zoo, Gawdlee, RocBoiTron, Helluva Swagg and more. Plus,
WIEUCA Local band playing cheeky, guitar-driven indie rock.
Sunday 25 Cali ’N’ Tito’s Eastside 6 p.m. FREE! 706-355-7087 THE LUCKY JONES Local band playing old-school rockin’ rhythm and blues. The Foundry 7 p.m. $15 (adv.), $20 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com ATHENS HIP HOP AWARDS The annual awards show returns with performances from Ishues, Seth Hendershot, Kxng Blanco and others. See story on p. 12. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 3 p.m. $10. www.hendershotscoffee. com INVEST IN PEACE A show to benefit the Georgia Conflict Center, featuring performances by Georgia Children’s Chorus, Caroline Aiken, Kate Morrissey and Klezmer Local 42. 7 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com CAREY Solo experimental sounds from Faun and a Pan Flute’s Dan Bailey. See Calendar Pick on p. 20.
GRANT EVANS Evans uses tape loops and electronics to create expansive, rumbling soundscapes. SEVERE BLUSH Experimental electronic sounds from Athens’ Logan Shirah. Album release show! WET GARDEN Synthesizer explorations with erotic incantations. Album release show! Terrapin Beer Co. 2 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com DRY REEF Rock-reggae band with hints of surf and electronic music. Vega Studio New South Showcase. 5:30 p.m. $15. 706-207-7581 MICHELLE MALONE BANNED Americana singer-songwriter who puts an honest and emotional spin on her music. MICHAEL WEGNER Local guitarist and member of Abbey Road Live performs solo.
Monday 26 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $10. www.40watt.com THELMA AND THE SLEAZE Sludgy, Nashville-based power trio. See Calendar Pick on p. 20. CRAIG BROWN BAND Detroit-based rootsy garage-rock band. MOTHER THE CAR Founded by a brother duo, this garage-rock act incorporates blues and other influences. Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 7 p.m. www.georgiatheatre.com REDSTONE RAMBLERS Local blues-folk group led by songwriter Mark Wilmot. NORMA RAE This local four-piece plays soulful, distinctively Southern Americana. HEART OF PINE Roots-rocking local group. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! hendershotscoffee.com OPEN MIC Showcase your talent at this open mic night most Mondays. Hosted by Larry Forte. The Pub 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-353-2831 KARAOKE Sing to your heart’s content every Monday.
Tuesday 27 Caledonia Lounge 8 p.m. $12-$14. caledonialounge.com ALGIERS Politically engaged, soultinged indie-rock group from Atlanta. See Calendar Pick on p. 20. OMNI Agit-pop band from Atlanta featuring former members of Deerhunter and Carnivores. LEE BAINS III & THE GLORY FIRES Gritty, boisterous, socially charged rock and roll group from Alabama. Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 8 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com THE POWERS Local folk-rock band of brothers. ALL THE OTHER REINDEER Progressive rock band from Athens. Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 LADY VALORE Experimental solo hip-hop artist from Savannah.
CRUST Prog- and psych-inspired experimental rock group from New Jersey. SPACE BROTHER Electronic- and hip-hop-influenced sounds from local musician Donald Whitehead. GODDESS COMPLEX Athens-based ambient and avant-garde project rooted in queer culture. ECHO CONSTANT Local sample-based electronic project.
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. Backline provided! Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com DANIEL HARDIN Singer-songwriter with acoustic and electric blues and rock influences. RUHAA! Local rock band with alternative and blues influences. CLASSIC MISFITS Local alternative rock band with classic rock influences. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com KING ISRAEL Athens-based alternative blues-rock band. The Foundry 7 p.m. $5. www.thefoundryathens.com THE BEST OF UNKNOWN ATHENS A monthly singer-songwriter showcase hosted by Liam Parke. Georgia Theatre 7:30 p.m. $20 (adv.), $25 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com BLACK TIGER SEX MACHINE Canadian trio that specializes in aggressive and dark electronic music. On the Rooftop. 10 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com ROSHAMBEAUX Rock group influenced by the likes of The Drifters and Arethea Franklin. 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. The Office Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn. Every Wednesday! Porterhouse Grill 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT The longest standing weekly music gig in Athens! Enjoy an evening of original music, improv and standards.
Down the Line 3/29 ROAD TO ROO (40 Watt Club) 3/29 RUNAWAY GIN (The Foundry) 3/30 THE SESSION / Afro Pluto / DK / Javae / Keenon Rush / Wiley (Caledonia Lounge) 3/30 THE FLAMETHROWERS / FORBIDDEN WAVES / CARLA LEFEVER / MATCHSTICK JOHNNY (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 3/30 TYLER CHILDERS / THE WOOKS (40 Watt Club) 3/30 GIFT ECONOMY (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 3/30 COFRESI (Live Wire)
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Art AAAC GRANTS (Athens, GA) The Athens Area Arts Council is seeking applicants for its quarterly $500 grants. All local artists, arts organizations or arts-based projects are welcome to apply. Deadline June 15, Sept. 15 & Dec. 15. info@athens arts.org, www.athensarts.org ARTWERK (Trio Contemporary Art Gallery) Artwerk is a new event series merging art and fashion. Seeking wearable art pieces that utilize non-traditional materials for a fashion show on May 12 during the gallery’s exhibition, “Media Circus.” Deadline Apr. 8 at 11:59 p.m. artwerk athens@gmail.com CALL FOR ART (Lyndon House Arts Center) Members of groups that meet at the Lyndon House can submit artwork to “Full House,” a biennial invitational exhibit. Online registration opens May 5. Drop off May 17, 1–8 p.m. Opening reception June 7, 6–8 p.m. 706-613-3623, www.accgov.com/lyndonhouse CALL FOR ARTISTS (Lexington, GA) Open studios and artists will be set up at various venues for the Lexington Art Crawl and Concert, Apr. 21, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. lindaparish 1012@gmail.com 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 EXHIBITION PROPOSALS (Lyndon House Arts Center) The center reviews proposals for future art exhibitions twice annually. Exhibitions can be by local, regional, national or international artists, exchange exhibitions from other states and countries, invitational or juried exhibitions, themed exhibitions or exhibitions of historical works owned by local collectors. Due date Apr. 20 by 11:59 p.m. www.accgov. com/lyndonhouse 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. Up to 32 hours per week. Life drawing classes are currently offered on Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. as a mem-
art around town AMICI (233 E. Clayton St.) Gunnar Tarsa creates stream of consciousness drawings where ideas collide and coalesce through the ordering of line and shape. Through April. 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 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. 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. 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.) “The Broadside Exhibition Project: verse 1” pairs local poets and artists together to create original broadsides which serve as illustrated poems. Through 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. Through March.
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bership perk. $65/month or $175/ three months. 706-613-3623, www. athensclarkecounty.com/leisure POP-UP GALLERY AND ARTIST MARKET (Stan Mullins Art Studio) The Georgia Museum of Art Student Assocation is seeking local artists to show and sell their work at an event on Apr. 21. Deadline Apr. 1. No entry fee. gmoastudent@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 ATHENS TECH CLASSES (Athens Technical College) “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 (Winterville Center for Community and Culture)
“Community Coffeehouse,” Mondays–Thursdays from 9 a.m.–3 p.m. “Silver Sneakers Stretch,” Mondays at 10 a.m. “Chinese Calligraphy,” Mondays, Mar. 5–19, 6 p.m. “American Legion Post 20 Coffee Hour,” Tuedays at 9 a.m. “Threadwork Gatherers Crafting Club,” Tuesdays at 9–11 a.m. “Pilates,” Tuesdays 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. “Oil Painting,” Wednesdays at 1 & 5 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.winterville center.com CLASSES (OCAF, Watkinsville) “If You Can Hold a Pen, Pencil or Crayon, You Can Cartoon.” Saturdays, Mar. 24–Apr. 14, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. $100–110. www.ocaf.com COMPUTER CLASSES (ACC Library) “Internet 101: Search Engines.” Mar. 27, 10 a.m. “Office on the Weekend: Intro to PowerPoint 2016.” Mar. 31, 3 p.m. Registration required. athenslibrary.org/athens 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) “InDesign for Beginners.” Mar. 28, 7 p.m. www.athenslibrary.org/athens ENERGY HEALING & ANIMAL TELEPATHY (Ancient Suns Intuition Arts, Cobbham Neighborhood) “Energy Healing for
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.) “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. • “Images of Awakening: Buddhist Sculpture from Afghanistan and Pakistan.” Mar. 24–June 17. 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 Mallory Moye. Through March. HENDERSHOT’S COFFEE (237 Prince Ave.) Mixed media portraits of musicians by Tyrus J. Manning. Closing reception Mar. 31. HIP VINTAGE & HANDMADE (215 Commerce Blvd.) Self-taught Athens painter Mark Nix creates works on everything from canvas and wood to vinyl LPs and cars. Through March. 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. 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. Through Mar. 23. • “Michael,” an exhibition by Dodd Fellow in Photography Forest Kelley, imagines the life of the artist’s uncle, an artist and gay man who was found dead at the base of a rock ledge. 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. Through Mar. 23. LOWERY GALLERY (2400 Booger Hill Rd., Danielsville) The gallery celebrates “24 Years of Art” with Giclee prints, originals, photographs and sculptures by over 24 artists including Claire Clements, Ben Rouse, Peter Loose, Kip Ramey and more. LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) The 43rd Juried Exhibition was juried by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, chief curator at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis. The show includes 126 pieces selected from 373 art-
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“Images of Awakening: Buddhist Sculpture from Afganistan and Pakistan” opens at the Georgia Museum of Art on Saturday, Mar. 24. Pictured above is a head from a temple near Rawalpini, ca. 300 BCE. Animals.” Mondays, Mar. 26–Apr. 23, 5–7:30 p.m. “Animal Telepathy I.” Saturdays, Mar. 24–Apr. 28, 3–5:30 p.m. “Meditation & Intuitive Development.” Wednesdays, Mar. 28–Apr. 25, 5–7:30 p.m. or Saturdays, Mar. 24–Apr. 28, 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m. “Energy Healing for Women’s Bodies.” Thursdays, Mar. 29–Apr. 26, 5–7:30 p.m. $200/series. 706-206-0747, ancientsunsacademy@gmail.com, www.ancient-intuition.com
FARMVIEW CLASSES (Farmview Market) “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.” Apr. 11, 5–7 p.m. $30. farmviewmarket.com MARTIAL ARTS CLASSES (Live Oak Martial Arts, Bogart) Traditional and modern-style Taekwondo, Jodo, self-defense, grappling and weapons classes for all ages. www.liveoak martialarts.com
ists. Opening reception Mar. 22. Through May 5. • Community Collections presents unique pins traded by members of the Enamelist Society and collected by jeweler Leslie Litt. Through May 19. • On view in the Lounge Gallery, Kristen Hyink’s otherworldly illustrations are inspired by nature, dreams and the power of self-discovering. Through June 2. 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.” SOUTHERN BREWING COMPANY (231 Collins Industrial Blvd.) Artwork by Allen Sutton. Through March. THE SURGERY CENTER (2142 W. Broad St.) See colorful paintings by Dr. Hildegard Timberlake. Through March. TRIO CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY (766 W. Broad St.) “Trifecta” features works from MFA graduate students attending UGA, Georgia State University and Georgia Southern University. 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.) Susan Pelham’s “Stories in Bits and Pieces” features collages influenced by Magic Realism and Surrealism. Through April. WHITE TIGER (217 Hiawassee Ave.) Teenage friends Rose Shelton and Havivah Z. Saltz create watercolors and ink drawings of women, mermaids and pop culture icons, as well as a series inspired by astrological signs. Reception Apr. 19. Currently on view through Apr. 29. WILLSON CENTER FOR HUMANITIES AND ARTS (1260 S. Lumpkin St.) Photographer Frances Berry draws attention to the tensions and intersections between manmade curves and lines, nature and the built environment, and renewal and decay in “Athens Seen.” Through March. THE WORLD FAMOUS (351 N. Hull St.) Permanent artists include RA Miller, Chris Hubbard, Travis Craig, Michelle Fontaine, Dan Smith, Greg Stone and more.
ONE-ON-ONE DIGITAL MEDIA CENTER TUTORIALS (ACC Library) Get individual instruction for graphics, audio or video editing projects or learn to convert albums and cassettes to DVDs and CDs. Thursdays, 6 p.m. and Saturdays, 11 a.m. 706-613-3650 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 RESTART (Lotta Mae’s Supply Co.) The program combines nutrition education, a detox and group support. Tuesdays, 5:30–7 p.m. starting Mar. 27. $155. www.vital rootsathens.com SALSA DANCE CLASSES (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Cuban-style salsa dance classes (Casino-Rueda) with SALSAthens. No partner necessary. Beginners welcome. Every Wednesday, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $10 (incl. one drink). www.facebook. com/salsaathens SCANNING ONE-ON-ONE (ACC Library) Sign up for a 60-minute one-on-one appointment to scan photos, letters, recipes, etc. Thursdays, 6 p.m. 706-613-3650 TABLET COMPUTING CLASS (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Learn how to use your tablet. Tuesdays, 2:30 p.m. www. athenslibrary.org/madison TAI CHI EASY (Accessible Yoga Studio, 195 Miles St.) With Tom Wittenberg. Wednesdays, 3 p.m. $15. taichieasyathens.com UGARDEN CLASSES (UGArden) “Herbal Soap Workshop.” Mar. 27, 5:30–7:30 p.m. $25–35. “Cultivating Medicinal Herbs Workshop.” Apr. 28, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. $70–85. njfuller@ uga.edu squareup.com/store/ ugarden UNLEASH YOUR JOY RETREAT (Sangha Yoga Studio) Group coaching, meditation, mindfulness, JoyDance and more. Understand the forces that try to constrict you, and shift your energy towards a new reality. Mar. 24, 2:30–9 p.m. $195. joydance.information@gmail.com, www.myjoydance.com/retreats WILD INTELLIGENCE (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Learn how to identify animal tracks in “Tracking 101.” Mar. 24, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. $40. www.wildintelligence.org WOMEN’S SELF-DEFENSE COURSE (AKF Athens Martial Arts, 175 A Old Epps Bridge Rd.) Learn and practice skills in awareness, physical self-defense, personal safety, prevention and assertiveness. Wednesdays through Apr. 25, 7:30–9 p.m. $30. richardwise@ akfathens.com, www.akfathens.com YOGA (Rubber Soul Yoga) Ongoing classes in Kundalini, Hatha, gentle yoga, laughing yoga, acroyoga, karate and one-on-one yoga as well as guided meditation. Check website for schedule. Donation based. calclements@gmail.com, www. rubbersoulyoga.com YOGA CLASSES (M3Yoga) “Low Back Release: A Myofascial Workshop.” Mar. 31, 2:30–5:30 p.m. $30. “Prenatal Modifications: An Introductory Workshop for Yoga Teachers.” Apr. 7, 5–7 p.m. $35. “Prenatal Yoga: Modifying and Empowering Your Practice.” Apr. 7, 2:30–5:30 p.m. $30. nursenick@ m3yoga.com, m3yoga.com/events YOGA CLASSES & WORKSHOPS (Athens Five Points Yoga Studio) “Special Benefit Class with Books for Keeps.” Mar. 24, 10:30–11:30 a.m. $17 donation. “Anatomy and Yoga: The Shoulder, Neck and Arm.”
Mar. 24, 1–5 p.m. “Meditation and the Human Condition: Journey to a Fulfilling Life.” Apr. 7, 12:30–4:30 p.m. 200-Hour Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher Training. $2250. Ongoing classes in Iyengar, Vinyasa, Hatha, Power Yoga, hot yoga, meditation and more. www.athensfive pointsyoga.com
Help Out CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS (Nuçi’s Space) The Athens Human Rights Festival is looking for volunteers to help with fundraising, publicity, organizing speakers and performers, the tabloid, social media, stage building and more. The 40th annual will be held downtown on May 5–6. Meetings are held every Monday at 6:30 p.m. 706-202-9169, www. athenshumanrightsfest.org
Kidstuff ACC SUMMER CAMPS (Multiple Locations) Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services offers camps in science, dance, sports, art and more. Visit website for dates and details. 706-613-3800, www.accgov.com/ leisure ALLEGRO (Center City Ballet and Athens YMCA) Classes incorporate singing, dancing, movement and instrument play. www.centercity ballet.com AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (Athens Little Playhouse) Theater day camp for kids ages 5 & up. The week concludes with a performance for families. Choice of nine weeks, May 21–July 27. www.athenslittle playhouse.net ART CLASSES (KA Artist Shop) “Art Club for Teens.” Fridays, 6:30–8 p.m. $15. “Art Club Junior for Ages 9–13.” Fridays, 4:30–6 p.m. $15. Both classes are taught by Hope Hilton. www.kaartist.com BAKING AND COOKING CAMPS (Olive Basket) “Summer Baking Camp.” June 4–29. Kids Camp 9 a.m.–12 p.m., Teen Camp, 2–5:30 p.m. “Summer Cooking Camp.” July 9–Aug. 10. Kids Camp, 9 a.m. –12 p.m. Teen Camp, 2–5:30 p.m. $200. charleshay428@gmail.com 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 GROUNDED KIDS YOGA (M3Yoga) Children can learn about the tools of yoga to cultivate self-awareness. Saturdays, 10 a.m. Ages 7–12. $10. m3yoga.com 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 PRE-SCHOOL PROGRAMS (Lay Park) “April Showers.” Friday, Apr. 9. “May Showers.” Friday, May 11. 10 a.m. $4–6. Visit website to register. www.accgov.com/leisure 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 SUMMER SPORTS CAMP (United Team Sports Center) Basketball, baseball, football and other team sports. www.utscenter.com
Support Groups ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS (Athens, GA) If you want to drink, that’s your business. If you want to stop, we can help. www.athensaa.org EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) A 12-step program open to anyone with a desire to become well emotionally. Meets Sundays, 4–5 p.m. 706-202-7463, www.emotions anonymous.org MENTAL HEALTH PEER SUPPORT GROUP (Nuçi’s Space) Meets the second Wednesday of every month. Open to anyone focused on improving their life and learning how to live with their condition. www.nuci.org NAMI SUPPORT GROUPS (First Presbyterian Church of Athens) For family members, friends and caregivers of individuals with mental illnesses. “NAMI Family Support Group.” Every fourth Tuesday, 6–7:30 p.m. www.namihall.org PROJECT SAFE (Athens, GA) “The New Beginnings Support Group.” Mondays, 6:30–8 p.m., with a dinner on the last Monday of the month. Childcare provided. “Athena: Goddess of Courage, Wisdom and Justice Group.” Thursdays, 6–7:30 p.m. “Walk-In Clinic.” Mondays, 1–4 p.m. and Thursdays, 3–6 p.m. 24-hour crisis hotline: 706-5433331. www.project-safe.org SEX ADDICTS ANONYMOUS (Athens, GA) A 12-step recovery group for those affected by sexual addiction. Mondays, 7 p.m. saarecovery.org/meetings
On The Street AARP FOUNDATION TAX-AIDE (ACC Library) AARP Foundation Tax-Aide volunteers offer tax assistance Tuesdays, 12–4 p.m. Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.–1 p.m. aarp.org/taxaide FIX A LEAK WEEK TOILET TABLET GIVEAWAY (124 E. Hancock Ave.) Pick up a toilet dye tablet from the ACC Water Conservation Office. Through Mar. 30, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. 706-613-3729 KACCB TIRED OF TRASH TIRE AMNESTY WEEK (ACC Landfill) There will be no disposal fees for tires Mar. 26–31. Limit of six tires. 706-613-3508 MOAS VACCINE CLINIC (1888 Colbert-Danielsville Rd., Danielsville) The Madison Oglethorpe Animal Shelter offers discounted rabies vaccinations as well as other vaccines, tests, microchips and nail trims. Third Sundays, 11 a.m.–3 p.m. www.moaspets.com NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2018 PRESERVATION AWARDS (Athens, GA) Nominate a project that helps celebrate Athens’ unique heritage. Categories include rehabilitation, adaptive use, new construction and more. Deadline Apr. 15. Ceremony on June 4. 706353-1801, www.achfonline.org/ preservation-awards STORMWATER STEWARD AWARD NOMINATIONS (Athens, GA) Nominate a person, business or organization that completed an innovative project last year relating to stormwater management. Winners will be recognized at the GreenFest Environmental Awards Ceremony in April. www.athensclarkecounty.com THE PET CARE CLINIC (Pet Supplies Plus) The Athens Area Humane Society offers a low-cost clinic the first Saturday of each month, 1–4 p.m. Services include vaccines, deworming, microchipping, nail trimming, flea treatments and more. 706-769-9155 f
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A Candidate With Strong Athens Ties PLUS, THE ATHENS BLACK HISTORY BOWL COMPETES SATURDAY By Pete McCommons editor@flagpole.com
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became a senior assistant district attorney in Fulton County, where he successfully At 12 p.m. this Saturday, Mar. 24, the prosecuted Atlanta gangs. Meanwhile, he 2018 Athens Black History Bowl will take came back to Athens from time to time and place at the Elizabeth G. King Center, 440 organized concerts at the 40 Watt Club to Dearing Ext. Eight teams will compete for raise money for fighting poverty. the first-place prize of $1,000, second place Now, Charlie is running to be Georgia’s $600 and third place $400. The competition attorney general, and it’s appropriate is open to youth in grades 5–12; it calls for that his fundraiser over here next week, knowledge of African-American history and Thursday, Mar. 29, is on the Georgia culture and promotes academic rigor and Theatre rooftop. teamwork. The contest covers black history Charlie is the real deal. He’ll be in his knowledge in various categories, including element at the Georgia Theatre, just like economics, civil rights, education, science he will be when he’s fighting crime and and entertainment. corruption as Georgia attorney general. It is refreshing to know a candidate whose campaign grows organically out of his training and background. Charlie learned his work ethic growing up on his family’s Harris County cattle farm, and ever since, he has prepared himself by gaining the skills to do what needs doing. All those skills come together to give him the tools it takes to be an effective state attorney general. Since the attorney general is an elective office, a strong understanding of Georgia politics is a requisite Charlie Bailey is exceptionally well qualified to be attorney general. for the job. Charlie not only learned the The bowl is sponsored by the Athens nuts and bolts of Georgia politics working Area Black History Committee and a large in campaigns, he also has the personality to group of other local sponsors, and it is a go with it, based on a genuine enjoyment challenging and enjoyable way to motivate of interacting with people. Too often, ambistudents to delve into black history. It’s also tion drives people into politics who don’t a good way to remind us all of the contrireally enjoy people. The best politicians are butions that black Athenians have made to those who’re not just going through the the life of this community. These contribumotions but love to interact with people. tions have been made in spite of prejudice That’s Charlie: He knows the political landand economic limitations—including the scape; he has excelled at the law, and people destruction of whole African-American are like music to him—he loves listening to neighborhoods in the name of “progress,” them and figuring out their rhythms, what which is still an active threat today. he can contribute to make their lives better. Let’s turn out this Saturday and improve Charlie says he’s running for attorney our knowledge of Athens’ black history. We general to protect Georgians against crime, may be surprised at what we learn. corruption and consumer fraud. That’s not just political sloganeering. He has trained himself with the skills to be an effective watchdog on behalf of our citizens. Of Charlie Bailey has roots in Athens. His course, it takes a lot of money to run a father played in the early rock band Phil statewide campaign, and as a public serand the Blanks, and his mother was advervant, Charlie is not one of your rich-guy tising manager for The Athens Observer, candidates. He has to hustle to raise the back in the day. When Charlie was a student money to pay for his campaign. That’s the at UGA, he loved Athens music almost as point of the Georgia Theatre gathering next much as he loved politics, which had him week, so drop by and drop a check in the working in political campaigns while he hat. That’s next Thursday, Mar. 29, from was still an undergraduate. By the time he 5–7 p.m. on the Georgia Theatre rooftop. hit UGA Law, Charlie made himself into a If you don’t already know Charlie, you will national champion moot court competitor, enjoy getting to know him. Charlie has what and he was working in the gubernatorial it takes to represent Georgians as attorney campaign of Gov. Roy Barnes. He went on general and even in other offices, as time to work in Barnes’ law firm and eventually goes by. f
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