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Summer Slackpole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Threats & Promises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Movie Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

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Issues on Epps Bridge COMMISSION REJECTS SENIOR SUBDIVISION, AND MORE LOCAL NEWS By Blake Aued and Dan Jackson news@flagpole.com After residents of nearby subdivisions bent their ears for nearly two hours, AthensClarke County commissioners rejected a rezoning last week for an 83-home 55-and-up development off Epps Bridge Parkway near Timothy Road. While attorney Jim Warnes touted the need for housing for seniors and refuted criticism, potential neighbors raised issues of density, traffic, environmental damage from grading and affordability. “Just because this development targets the older demographic doesn’t excuse the serious faults in this plan,” St. Ives homeowners association president Jane Sullivan said. “The things that concern me in this project haven’t changed,” Commissioner Mike Hamby said. “It’s the density and the mass grading. We can talk about the 55 and older. That’s a laudable goal for us to have. But this body, this government, doesn’t have any control over that.” Athens is growing, though, and the population regionally is aging, Commissioner Kelly Girtz said—if people move to outlying counties, they’ll still drive through the city. “I think this is a good project,” he said. “The more we can find these pockets and increase our density slightly, the less

we’re going to have to build these ginormous high-rises that definitely do impact neighborhoods, and the less we’re going to be inviting people who have more wealth to displace people in our existing neighborhoods,” Commissioner Melissa Link said. Commissioner Mariah Parker argued against the development’s $300,000-plus prices. “We do have a desperate need for senior housing, but we have to encourage senior housing that is accessible for people with varying income levels,” she said. Parker also noted that the majority of speakers were opposed to the development. “I think it’s important to look out for the people who already live in Athens and stand with them, rather than look ahead to how we can attract people here,” she said. The developer didn’t make any concessions in exchange for higher density, Commissioner Jerry NeSmith said—not even a traffic light. “We’re not getting anything in return for this, except the promise that wealthy people from other communities will move into our town,” he said. “That’s not good enough.” Link, Girtz and Bell supported the Epps Bridge development, which was denied by a 7-3 vote.

As expected, the commission unanimously approved historic districts on Milledge Circle and Castalia Avenue in Five Points. What was surprising was the margin: The districts passed unanimously, with even Bell in support. Bell had angered many constituents (and colleagues) when she allowed a tear-down to move forward on Milledge Circle last year, then refused to explain herself. She did speak on the topic last Tuesday, and it’s worth quoting in full: “This is a very incredible journey for me, and I want you to know, there is no one who likes the preservation any more than I do, but what I don’t like is the route that sometimes it takes, and this has been a journey for a lot of people. And what I want to address right now is the people who do not want to be a part of [but] are being forced to be a part of a historic district. The flexibility we will be giving—and this will come in just a minute, I hope—but I want them to know how much I care about them. What has happened is under the rules. What has happened is under the preservation demands. I respect that, but I want it to be done the right way to respect those other people that don’t want to go the angle that this forces them to.” The flexibility Bell referred to was a tweak to the districts protecting structures built before 1949, instead of 1964, as originally proposed. The third major zoning item drew far less discussion but could have a greater impact on the city as a whole: a 10,000seat amphitheater off Commerce Road just north of the Loop. After a motion to deny by Hamby—who had environmental

concerns—failed, the commission voted unanimously to approve a rezoning for the amphitheater. Commissioners also put off a decision on proposed changes to the Southern Mill development off Chase Street, wanting to learn more about the latest iteration of the project. [Blake Aued] SHOWING ’EM WHO’S BOSS: State law requires the ACC Commission to approve the Clarke County school board’s millage rate. Usually it’s a formality, but Hamby pulled it off the agenda to make two points. First, school taxes make up 60 percent of taxpayers’ bills, but when people complain about their property taxes, they generally complain to commissioners, which has always irked them. Second, Hamby wanted to advocate for more collaboration between ACC and the Clarke County School District. “This board and the school board should be looking for opportunities to work together,” Hamby said. He pointed to the vacant West Broad School, where the Athens Land Trust, which runs a community garden and farmers market on the property, is pitching a community center. CCSD plans currently call for turning the school into administrative offices, although Superintendent Demond Means recently proposed pre-K classrooms. If CCSD accepts the land trust proposal, the West Broad study group chaired by Hamby has offered $3 million in SPLOST youth development funds, and ACC could also make room for CCSD central offices in a government complex commissioners are discussing for the next SPLOST in 2020. [BA]

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BAR BOTTLES: The commission also unanimously passed incentives for bars to serve canned beer rather than bottled. County Solid Waste officials recently told commissioners that they want to minimize the amount of glass they have to pick up downtown. It’s heavy, cuts through bags, injures workers and doesn’t sell for much on the recycling market, they said. They proposed giving bar owners a break on their alcohol licenses—potentially saving them thousands of dollars—if they move away from bottles. Speaking of bars, the commission also passed a new policy that will give it a little more control over how many bars open downtown and where. A recent “health and safety” study found that packed bars close together present a hazard. The new policy will require commission approval as a “special use” under ACC zoning law for any new bar downtown with a capacity over 100, as determined by the fire marshal. The policy will not affect any existing bars, or even a new bar replacing one that’s closed; it only kicks in when a bar is proposed in a space that has not been used as a bar for at least 12 months. [BA]

UGA Union: No Paying to Park The United Campus Workers of Georgia has taken on employee parking costs as a new challenge for its 150 members, and more than 30 union members met late last month to discuss the issue. The union—formed in 2016 after the University of Georgia angered many employees by changing their payroll schedule—is asking the university to adopt a sliding-scale fee schedule for parking. Permits now range from $20–$40 per month, depending on the convenience of the lot’s location. The union argues that the costs are too high for many of its workers, and says that 71 percent of respondents to a recent union-sponsored survey complained that current parking fees are “burdensome.” The union also points to Clemson University and the University of North Carolina’s sliding scales. Clemson workers who earn less than $30,000 pay only $24 per year,

while those employees earning more than $200,000 pay $440 per year. To initiate the campaign, union spokesperson Joey Carter recently presented the sliding-scale concept at a UGA staff council meeting, where the idea was received positively, according to Carter. The presentation marked the first time the council—a formal body of more than 160 staff members with representatives from each school and division of the university—had officially heard from the union. Days after the late-June union meeting, the university’s Transportation and Parking Services office sent a note to UGA parking patrons announcing a new $10-per-month option—one-half the price of the current lowest parking fee—to park at a lot just outside the Loop off College Station Road. From there, employees will take a shuttle to their places of work. Athens Transit also offers shuttles to downtown and North Campus from the free ACC-owned park-and-ride lot at Oconee Street and the Loop; city buses are free for UGA faculty, staff and students. Carter wrote in an email about the university’s new pricing option, “When we organize, when we push, we see change. But UGA needs to do much more than this. UCWGA will continue organizing and pushing for an equitable parking sliding scale and for a living wage.” UGA spokesperson Greg Trevor commented in an email, “The university offers different rates based on the location of the parking facility. The institution is continuously exploring ways to enhance the working and learning environment on campus, including the addition of a new lower-cost park-and-ride option that is opening this fall at the corner of College Station and North Oconee Access Road.” UGA philosophy professor and former Democratic congressional candidate Richard Winfield, a member of the union, said parking costs hurt graduate students who he said “are teaching under conditions where they can’t support themselves,” and are among the lowest-paid university employees. Winfield agreed that the university should adopt the Clemson sliding-scale model. “The university should be a model employer,” he said. [Dan Jackson] f

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John Barrow Is Back Former Athens Congressman Seeks Secretary of State’s Office By Blake Aued news@flagpole.com

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ohn Barrow is perhaps the foremost authority on the current hyper-partisan state of American politics. The former Athens-Clarke County commissioner, who hails from a prominent political family, was elected to Congress in a swing district in 2004. As a member of the dwindling Blue Dog coalition of moderate Democrats, his voting record often angered local liberals but allowed him to survive in increasingly conservative territory. Republicans in the state legislature removed his hometown of Athens, then the Democratic stronghold of Savannah from his district, leaving him with Augusta and a wide swath of deep-red rural East Georgia. For a time, he was the only white Democratic congressman in the Deep South, until Republican Rick Allen finally beat him in 2014. Now, Barrow is running for Georgia secretary of state, the catch-all office that oversees elections, business licenses and dozens of professions, from nurses to hair stylists. He’ll face either former Alpharetta Mayor David Belle Isle or former Johns Creek representative Brad Raffensperger in November, depending on the results of the July 24 GOP runoff. The fast-talking, Harvard Law-educated Barrow is as folksy as ever, declaring before a recent Flagpole interview that he’s “busy as a fish at a fish fry.” His thoughts—condensed for length—on gerrymandering, political strategy, reforming Georgia’s elections and more are below. Flagpole: What made you want to jump back into politics, and why secretary of state in particular? John Barrow: First off, the qualities I think I excelled at in that highly polarized legislature I served in are exactly the qualities we need in a secretary of state—a certain amount of bipartisanship. Every now and then, the secretary of state has to participate in resolving disputes involving issues related to elections, and that requires, at minimum, somebody who’s willing to listen to and work with people on both sides of the aisle. I was the most bipartisan member of Congress running for re-election in 2014, and I don’t think anybody else on the ballot can say that. Also, the job requires a huge amount of commitment to constituent service. The job essentially is a constituent service agency for the business community. And constituent service is another area where I excelled. My frustration with the political process made me more determined to do what I could for the folks I represented, and I think I had the reputation of having the best constituent services operation of any member of Congress from Georgia. The office regulates 700,000 professions who have problems, from time to time, with the agency they got to deal with. I had 700,000 constituents in my district who had a lot more problems with the federal bureaucracy than the 700,000 professionals do with the state, so I’ve got a real reputation for working my you-know-what off for the people who are paying for the service they deserve.

FP: What did you learn from your 2014 race? Is there really still a thirst for bipartisanship in the electorate?

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JB: The desire has never been greater, but the ability to satisfy that desire has never been less. That is because of the effects of partisan gerrymandering. It is in some part because of the behavior of voters, by sorting themselves out into like-minded voting enclaves and becoming more polarized in their voting. They are responding to what they see, but if you talk with them—I had 400, give or take, town hall meetings. If you talk to them as much I did, you realize that folks aren’t happy with the choices they feel like they have to make, but they feel like they have to make them. That’s what’s driving partisanship today: It’s not so much love of your own party as fear and hatred of the other party. Voters don’t like that. They sense that’s not the way things used to be, and they know that’s not the way things ought to be. The only way they have to respond to a party that’s gone too far to one extreme is to vote for a representative of the other party. But because of the parties’ nominating process, the only alternative to somebody who’s taken the country into the right ditch is to vote for somebody who’s gonna turn around and take the country into the left ditch. Who can you get to get the country to go down the middle and stay out of a gulley? FP: That almost sounds anachronistic. It seems like the Democratic Party is moving to the left, and they’re doing what the Republican Party has done, which is turn their base out. What you’re talking about, can that still work in this environment? JB: In these district maps that are drawn to order, that preordain an outcome, the candidates of both parties tend to be either products of hyper-partisanship or prisoners of it. They’re either products of it—they’re caught up in it, and they don’t know any better—or they’re prisoners of it, like [former House Speaker] John Boehner was. He wanted to do some things with President Obama that he couldn’t do, and he got fired for daring to try. Most politicians who get into our representative branch of government have to run through these hot gates, these partisan primaries, which means, when you emerge on the other side of that process, you either drunk the Kool-Aid or you have to pretend you did, or they’ll replace you with somebody else who has drunk the Kool-Aid. One of the reasons I think there’s an opportunity to break this cycle in the race I’m running in is, it’s a statewide district. It’s the one district they can’t gerrymander. We go to war with the army we got, not the army they wanna give us. FP: How does this strategy fit in with Stacey Abrams at the top of the ticket? She’s going to be trying to turn out African Americans and first-time voters, whereas you’re trying to reach out to the middle. Do they complement each other? JB: Either complement or supplement. It can only help and cannot hurt the rest of the ticket. I don’t think we have to have an either/or approach. FP: The current secretary of state, Brian Kemp, has been criticized for refusing to accept some voter-registration applications and removing people from the voter rolls. How would you

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treat voter registration? Would you look as closely at the forms as he’s been doing? JB: Some of the things they’re doing I think are plainly illegal. The match program was challenged in court, and they agreed to stop doing it. [Editor’s note: Kemp had required that information on voter registration applications exactly match information in other databases, which disenfranchised more than 40,000 Georgians, such as married women whose maiden names were listed on some documents, or those with very minor discrepancies like a missing hyphen or accent mark.] Then the legislature came along and made that policy a statute. There are other things they’re doing to make it harder for folks to register and stay registered. The programs they’re engaging in now rely on, I think, an exaggerated interpretation of state law and plainly ignoring federal law. You’ve got to follow both. FP: Another issue in the secretary of state’s office has been leaked voter data. What would you do to protect voters’ personal information from being leaked or hacked? JB: I’d protect it, and I’d fire the people who didn’t. I’d insist that we took as good care of that as we took care of people’s confidential information when I was trying to get somebody their VA benefits. There’s no excuse for giving 6 million social security numbers to a vendor who didn’t ask for them. FP: You’ve talked about bringing back paper ballots… JB: We’ve got to decertify the DRE [direct-recording electronic] machines. There’s a process for doing that. I would initiate that process immediately upon taking office. I certainly don’t criticize those who chose an electronic medium for our balloting process back in 2002. The locks were a lot stronger than the picklocks in those days. You can’t say that about the locks now. They haven’t even bothered to upgrade them. They’re not even being serviced or supported by the companies that manufactured them. They know there are gaps in the system that they don’t bother to plug, because not enough of their customers use this system to make it worth their while to keep up. And yet, that’s the stuff we’re using for our elections! The most important business we engage in as a representative democracy! FP: So you want new electronic voting machines, but you want paper receipts, right? JB: Receipts convey the wrong impression—folks carrying away the evidence of their votes. We can’t reconvene these folks back together in case of a recount. The trick is not to let the voter know how he voted. The voter knows how he voted. The trick is to provide an accurate record that’s absolutely reliable and can be counted and recounted if necessary—and, at the same time, be kept secret. What we need is hand-marked paper ballots, optical scanners to provide a quick but unofficial tally of the vote at the end of Election Day, plus audits of these optical scanners to make sure we’re not relying on an unofficial count that’s misleading in any way. This is the technology that’s already authorized for absentee ballots and provisional ballots. FP: We’re not talking about Florida in 2000 with hanging chads… JB: No. Nobody’s doing that anymore. That’s the reason Georgia went down this road in 2002. We were the first state out of the box. That has served its day, and it’s time for them to be retired. If you talk to people who are most technologically savvy, they say nothing is better than paper and pen. This is a back-to-the-future moment. We can use technology to enhance the voting experience, but we should never trust our ballots anymore to a medium that cannot be read and understood by a human being. f

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Blast From the Past DISCOVERING PYLON THROUGH FLAGPOLE, 30 YEARS LATER By M. Ken Mann

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he big 3-0: Though this is a milestone I passed some time ago, many of the foundations of my music collection are now coming of the age “not to be trusted.” This has prompted me to relisten and revisit these recordings to see if they hold up. The year 1988 was an odd one, and one I remember well, but what is to be done when an editor requests that I make these pieces more Athens-focused? How can I provide that focus when it was four years after ’88 that I began living in the Classic City? That’s easy: Thanks to the internet, I read 30-yearold issues of Flagpole online. [Editor’s note: Visit gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu.] Today, we browse the July 13, 1988 issue and the article by then-editor Jared Bailey titled “Pylon: Surprise Attack”—a review of the July 2, 1988 Pylon performance at the 40 Watt Club, which, it’s important to note, broke a five-year hiatus for the band. The issue also includes announcements for performances by Widespread Panic, Hillbilly Frankenstein, Meat Puppets, BarB-Q Killers and Love Tractor; a story of a “suprise R.E.M. performance of new songs for their “first major label record”; and an editorial response to censorship overreach. The advertisement in this issue for the 40 Watt lists its address as 256 W. Clayton St, which is the current location of the Caledonia Lounge. In his glowing review of the show, in which he feels “embarrassed by such a string of incessant superlative heaping,” Bailey assesses the performance with a three-part test, the first part being danceability. “Pylon was the dance band in town where the whole scene was based on dancing, before crowds became complacent and forgot how to feel the music,” he writes. “The second part of the test was there also. The music was nearly note perfect to the

not to include recordings that would not have been available on the date of the 40 Watt show. For added context, I briefly scanned (so not to influence my listening) Pitchfork’s review of the reissue Gyrate Plus, which has Pylon as a “kind of militaristic disco. No, wait, I meant: android reggae. No, wait, I meant: post-punk without the melodrama.” “Feast on my Heart” and “Volume” certainly live up to this description. To me, anything rock, pop, country or soul released in the early ’80s still has disco dripping from it like rank grease. But what is different here is the staccato nature of

recordings. This was quite an assurance to the young fans who had never seen live Pylon on fire, proving the band as powerful as the legend. The third part of the test were the smiles—not those of the faces in the crowd, even though they were beaming all over the room from sweat-soaked dancing faces—but July 13,19 those of the band.” VOL ~ Now is as good a time as any to admit that I’ve never listened to Pylon. The year of that show mostly found Poison and Van IT'S Halen in my boombox, along with very healthy doses of Fox 97 and 96 Rock. I was not yet into “college,” “alternative” or “new CARTOONS wave” music, though I am sure I BAND INFO had watched “120 Minutes.” In PIX years to follow, I would make my CLUB way to Georgia State University’s ROSTERS Album 88 FM, on which I imagine RADIO Pylon got some play. I’m sure I PLAYLIST would have seen them in Athens, OTHER GA: Inside/Out, but in 2005, when NEAT Pylon headlined AthFest, I was at STUFF home drinking too much beer and

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playing with the new iPod I got for COVER Father’s Day. PYLON So, understanding that this may disqualify me and Flagpole IN THIS ISSUE: from having a working relation• R.E.M. ship, if I were asked if I knew • Descendents wanted it all anything other than what I’ve just • Letters from editor cataloged about Pylon, the answer • and PYLON would be “no.” (Incidentally, I do not call Creature Comforts’ popular offering “Trop,” nor do I visit the “Bot Gardens.” I only include these the drums and bass that would, if Saturday details for readers to gauge my relative hipNight Fever-era dancers hit the floor, induce ness before moving forward.) jerks rather than sways, shakes rather than To conduct the experiment, I listened to spins… wait, that is the recipe for the newmost of Pylon’s Gyrate and Chomp, as well wave dance, amiright? This is post-disco in as singles I could find online. I was careful the finest sense—leaving behind the flabby

beats and melodrama for a razor-sharp assault that punctures much deeper than disco ever cared to. “Functionality” has the stripped-down simplicity of late-’70s punk with foot-hopping movements that straddle post-punk and new wave. The guitar that buzzes like a drunken bee defies the idea that Pylon was picking up where Blondie left off, but there are plenty of examples to support this statement, as well. The first that comes to mind is “Beep.” I would say, “What if you had the Talking Heads, but a bit less snotty?” Then, as I am writing this, I hear the single, “Crazy”—yeah, here is where I tell you I did not know until this moment that this was not originally an R.E.M. song. As the last notes of “Cool” resonate through my head, I am reminded that there is not much I can say that has not been said hundreds of times before about Vanessa’s pop growl, the attacking snaps of Curtis’ drums and the bouncing interplay between Randall and Michael’s strings that would become the template for new wave for years to come. All I really have to offer is fresh ears to hear if this music that is more than 30 years old holds up. In my opinion, it surely does, and maybe more importantly, it gives me the much-needed context to Jared’s review from this week in 1988. “They looked strong and shining new and bold like gods showing us revelations of how things were and can be again in this jaded musical society,” he writes. “Strong, fawning praise—but all it took was seeing monoliths come alive. Vanessa seemed to be the Pygmalion it took to end the reign as statutes by just dancing her dervish-inspired trance that caught the band back up it its fury. She didn’t even notice she had cut her foot and was bleeding out of her soul and the band played on.” f Send your Summer Slackpole submissions to editor@flagpole.com.

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Scene Snapshot THIS YEAR’S MOEKE COMP SHOWCASES WOMEN IN LOCAL MUSIC By Andy Barton music@flagpole.com

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hen summertime in Athens rolls around, there’s much to be thankful for: more bearable traffic, shorter brunch lines and pools aplenty to drop in on. But for small businesses and musicians alike, time can slow to a crawl as the bulk of clientele and audiences head back to the ’burbs. No stranger to this seasonal downturn, recording engineer and studio operator Jesse Mangum— with a little ingenuity—developed a productive way to pass the summer and drum up business for the fall. “In the spring of 2014, I quit all of my other jobs to focus on running the studio full time, and things were actually going really well until summer hit,” says Mangum. “Athens, being a college town, slows down tremendously during the summer, and suddenly I found myself with a lot of free time.” So, to occupy whatever hours weren’t booked at his The Glow Recording Studio, Mangum crafted a recording project that would serve as both an exercise in efficiency—for him Jesse Mangum and whomever he would record—and as a seasonal compilation to document what was going on in the local music scene at the time. “The concept and parameters have remained pretty much static throughout the series,” Mangum explains. “Artists are given a four-hour block in which we record, mostly live, with a few things overdubbed afterwards; mix; and master their song at my studio. The single is then released later that week, warts and all, via the Moeke Records Bandcamp.” Featuring a cross-section of local talent over the past five years, from Monsoon to Scooterbabe and Harlot Party to Dream Culture, Mangum has fielded submissions for his Summer Singles sampler each summer without any real thematic criteria: Submit a demo recording of a song in any number of formats—crude voice memo, unmixed GarageBand track or live-band practice session—and if he likes it, welcome aboard. Without much intention, though, this year’s compilation has taken on new life. “Well, towards the submission deadline, I realized that seven of the 10 artists I had selected happened to be female-fronted,” Mangum Kissing Booth says of this year’s compilation. With the bulk of the singles already representing a swath of Athens and Atlanta’s premier women-centric acts, Mangum decided the collection’s full 10 songs should be comprised of female-led or female-identifying acts. “It just seemed appropriate to put a spotlight on the incredibly talented women that are, in my opinion, dominating the local music scene right now,” he says, touching on the national watershed moment represented by movements like #MeToo, as well.

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“The fact that Jesse has decided to take this approach speaks for itself,” says Avery Draut, lead singer and songwriter for Avery Leigh’s Night Palace, a featured act on this year’s comp. “Jesse is demonstrating a commitment to extending his privilege to dismantle it, and I am excited to see other Athens folks follow his lead,” she adds. With the first single by songwriter Erin Lovett’s Kissing Booth project already in the bag, this summer’s series has the potential to be Mangum’s Moeke magnum opus. ATHENS RISING

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In addition to Lovett’s tune, singles are in the works for Atlanta shoegazers Twin Studies, recent Moeke signees and Macon natives Atria and Athens punks Shehehe. It’ll be one to savor, as Mangum believes this may be his last edition of the series. “I would love to keep it up, but a number of factors suggest to me that it may no longer be feasible,” he says. For one, he’s now consistently busier during the summer months than he has been in years past. Couple that with the difficulty social media’s algorithms pose in regards to promoting the project, and it becomes an uphill battle. “Promoting the singles organically via Facebook, for example, just isn’t as far-reaching as it used to be,” he says. “The posts just aren’t being seen, and the concept of paying for sponsored posts just so my friends can see them doesn’t sit right with me.” Still, Mangum’s proud of the work he’s put in over the past five years, and he recently found a new perspective on the project after a conversation with an acquaintance. “It hadn’t occurred to me that these recordings, a decade or two from now, would serve as [a] unique documentation of the Athens music scene during this time period,” Mangum says. “Some of these tracks are the very first studio recordings of bands who have since become significant figures in Athens music lore, and it’s likely that many more will do the same in the coming years,” he adds. “I should probably prepare an archive.” f Check out this year’s Summer Singles compilation at moekerecords. bandcamp.com.

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PLUS, MORE MUSIC NEWS AND GOSSIP By Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com DON’T LET HIM DOWN: Longtime Athens rocker and pro concert photographer Chris McKay has been dealing with some very serious medical issues for quite a while now. He’s been in dire need of specialized treatment and has undergone all kinds of invasive testing. As anyone might imagine, the bills are piling up, and friends are pitching in to do as much as they can. To this end, a fundraiser is being held Sunday, July 15 at The Foundry. Doors open at 6 p.m., and music begins at 7:30. Featured artists are Bloodkin, Rev. Conner Tribble, Michael Guthrie and various special guests. Tickets are a mere $10, and extra donations will be accepted at the door. If you can, please consider donating online to the GoFundMe MANDA McKAY

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campaign that’s been set up for Chris. Although his work is known around the world and has been published by nearly all major outlets, he’s still one of ours, Athens. Let’s do what we can. See gofundme.com/ helping-chris-with-medical-bills for more information. TOWER OF SONG: Athens’ own Marty Winkler is hosting the Georgia Women of Song concert at The Foundry on Wednesday, July 18. Doors open at 6 p.m., and music starts at 7:30. Tickets are $6 in advance and $8 at the door. Winkler is a premier singer of jazz and pop standards who has been hiding out from music a little over the past year while taking on acting gigs. She’s celebrating her birthday this night, too. She’ll be joined on the bill by Claire Campbell and Kate Morrissey. Each artist will perform solo and also back up the others. To learn more about Winkler, see martywinkleractingmusic.com and reverbnation.com/martywinkler. For advance tickets, head to thefoundryathens. com.

FOUR-DAY WEEKEND: What’s the summer event tailor-made to match perfectly with this sweatbox of a season? That’s right, SlopFest! The annual marathon of the Athens underground is happening Thursday through Sunday, July 19–22. The first three dates are at Little Kings Shuffle Club, and the Sunday show is at Hi-Lo Lounge. Full four-day wristbands are a mere $12, or each show is $5 at the door. Proceeds are going to the Athens Girls Rock Camp. Featured acts are Tabloid, Bad Idols, Shoplifter, CWOHL, Jeremy Melton, Small Beige Girl, Father Werewolf, The Grawks, Useless Against, Fart Jar, Apparition, Multiple Miggs, Handsome Highway, Blue Bodies, Bursters, Hot Fudge, Shade, Collision Drive, Waltz, Ghost and Goat, Motherfucker, AJ Griffin, Hayride and Luxury Vehicle. Hosts include Lord Bitter and Lozo, DJ Mahogany, DJ Hermosa and DJ Kaptain, and Cabbage Looper. For all other info, see facebook.com/ Slopfestathens. HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT: Time was, in the days of yore, that blistering heavy metal was served in rare helpings here in Athens. Sure, you’ve got more loud bands here now than you’d even bother going to see, but it wasn’t always that way. Those who remember will be happy to note that Landspeeder is making another trip to the stage in a super-rare performance Friday, July 13 at the Caledonia Lounge. The band is composed of members Chukky Duxx (aka Chad Williams), Dan Speeder (Daniel Beynart), Dixie Killfeather (Andy “Vern” Vernor), Dusty Blades (Dave Gerow) and Tim “Loptar” Beynart. They’re billing it as a “beach party,” so dress accordingly. Also on the bill this night are Ancient Whales, whose steady and addictive guitar pop is something I can never seem to get enough of. POLITE SOCIETY: The new EP from Mean Queen came out early last month, and it’s such a cool damn slice of straight-up rock and roll. It’s titled Take a Cool Pill, which makes me LOL, but I also get it. Probably the most immediately grabby song on the whole thing is the opener, “Don’t Go Vapin’ Waterfalls,” but other listeners might be drawn into the heavy ’90s groove of “Laces Off” and/or “Imitation Wilderness.” Listen in at meanqueen.bandcamp.com, and be a pal at facebook.com/meanqueenband. f

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THE FIRST PURGE (R) Separated by merely a week in terms of release dates, The First Purge and Sicario: Day of the Soldado could By Drew Wheeler movies@flagpole.com not be more opposite in terms of ideology. Where Taylor Sheridan seemed to ANT-MAN AND THE WASP (PG-13) In 2015, powers of their dual heroes with much write Sicario using presidential tweets, Ant-Man pleasantly shut down Phase Two more confidence. The action choreography James DeMonaco goes full George A. of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Paul of each size-shifting battle is both crisp Romero with his politically charged Purge Rudd’s take on the not-always yet mostly and creative. The shrinking of vehicles even prequel. Yet, where Romero had Tom diminutive superhero was fun, did not freshens up the grand old car chase through Savini cover his social subtext in zombie take itself too seriously and was needed the hills of San Francisco into something makeup, DeMonaco and director Gerard to bridge the darker Avengers McMurray—a newcomer to sequel, Age of Ultron, with an the franchise—do little to hide Ant-Man and the Wasp even more dire Captain America the threads tying this tale of sequel, Civil War (does anyone government-sanctioned murelse wish they had just titled it der based solely on socioecoMarvel Civil War?). Now, here nomic status and skin color to comes Ant-Man and the Wasp to the current administration. brighten up the aftermath left At least Thanos had the by Avengers: Infinity War, the decency to depopulate the single most devastating point universe at random; the New in the decade-old MCU. Founding Fathers of America Anyone who saw Infinity simply want to get rid of poor War knows Rudd’s Ant-Man, people so mandatory governScott Lang, was absent due to ment spending will decrease. his house arrest following his That the movie elevates the role in Civil War’s battle at the island’s resident villain, drug Berlin airport. Ant-Man and the kingpin Dmitri (Y’lan Noel Wasp opens in the final days of of HBO’s “Insecure”), simIt’s not compatible with Apple. Scott’s two-year incarceration. ply strengthens its ties to Per the terms of his forced Blaxploitation over horror. staycation, the former criminal turned costhat seems more new than it is. Even the Its political polemics are the only new tumed hero has not had any contact with cinematic G-Man, so often a grim-faced ideas expressed by this fourth Purge. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), his daughter, curmudgeon, gets a funny facelift from Everything else—the violence, the masks, Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), or their Randall Park (“Veep” and/or “Fresh Off the plot progression—is kind of samey, supercool tech. However, Hank and Hope the Boat,” depending on your viewing habwhich may bode ill for USA’s upcoming telehave been dabbling in the quantum realm its). Not every baddie is out to destroy the vised “Purge.” f trying to save their respective wife and mother, Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer). Due to his sojourn to the quantum realm in the climax of the first movie, Scott seems to have a connection to Janet that might lead to her eventual rescue. Or so Hank and Hope hope, until a sleazy black-market tech dealer (Walton Goggins) and a mysterious masked phase-shifter get in the way. Fortunately, Scott is still in business with his former partner in crime, Luis (Michael Peña), who comes through in a pinch, constantly nailing punchline after punchline. Still, Ant-Man’s real superpower is the charm of Rudd, who pulls off dazzling physical comedy, as well a terrific bit of classic body-swapping. His portrayal of the enormous love the estranged Janet possesses for her family is as convincing as Pfeiffer’s, but way funnier. As the MCU has expanded to explore its more humorous corners in the two volumes of Guardians of the Galaxy and Thor: Ragnarok—a sincere contender for 2017’s funniest film—Ant-Man, which initially cast itself as the funny Marvel movie, has etched out a singular spot for itself thanks to its small stakes and big heart. The familial bonds of the Ant-Man heroes—be it Hank and Hope or Scott and his daughter, Cassie (Abby Ryder Fortson)—grant these two movies the biggest heart in the MCU. Scott is not saving the world; he is saving himself so he can be a good dad for Cassie. Stakes may get bigger; they do not get more personal.­ Yet do not think ­Ant-Man and the Wasp forgets it is a superhero movie. In their second outing, director Peyton Reed and his new quintet of screenwriters—which again includes star Rudd—utilize the shrinking

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On View on Campus SOUTHERN WOMEN, BOTANICALS AND MORE AT THE GEORGIA MUSEUM By Jessica Smith arts@flagpole.com Offering a cool and reflective space to retreat from the July heat, the Georgia Museum of Art has three new collections temporarily on view. All exhibitions will be celebrated during 90 Carlton: Summer, the museum’s quarterly reception featuring gallery activities, door prizes and refreshments, on Friday, July 20 from 5:30– 8:30 p.m.

Sophonisba Hergesheimer, Augusta Savage, Alma Thomas and Elizabeth O’Neill Verner. Presenting movie adaptations of classic novels, the Southern Women Artists Film Series will include 7 p.m.

CENTRAL TO THEIR LIVES: Women artists have been severely underrepresented in major permanent collections across the U.S. and Europe throughout history, to such an extent that any accusations of women appearing as the muses on canvases more frequently than the names on wall placards seems beyond plausible. On tour from Spartanburg, SC, “Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection” takes a step towards correcting the canon by examining the hardships and achievements of artists from one of the most overlooked regions of the country. On view through Sept. 23, the exhibition selects 42 women artists who were active between the late 1890s and early 1960s, a pivotal time characterized by redefining women’s social, cultural and political roles. Thankfully, the exhibition takes the time to include biographical information on each artist, sharing how many were influenced by complex challenges not limited to prescribed gender roles, access to education, racism and poverty. Virginia painter Nell Blaine, who once wrote, “Art is central to my life. Not being able to make or see art would be a major deprivation”—a heartfelt line that inspired the exhibition’s title—succeeded in creating art despite visual impairment, polio and paralysis. Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington, whose bronze “Yawning Tiger” sculpture is on view, went on to establish the nation’s first public sculpture park at Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina, despite little formal instruction in an art form that had often been assumed as too physically “Art Studio” by Theresa Pollak in “Central to Their Lives” demanding for a woman to master. Gracing the cover of Flagpole this week, Lois Mailou Jones’ oil painting from screenings of Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1935, “Africa,” demonstrates the former Howard University on July 12, Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood on July 19 and faculty member’s efforts at exploring her own heritage Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird on July 26. Additional while contradicting contemporary racial stereotypes. events for “Central to Their Lives” include a Family Day on “Central to Their Lives” includes paintings, drawings July 14, an Artful Conversation on Teresa Pollak’s painting and sculptures by artists including Kate Freeman Clark, “Art Studio” on July 18, a Toddler Tuesday on July 24 and a Minnie Evans, Anne Goldthwaite, Clementine Hunter, Ella Tour at Two on Sept. 5.

BLOOM WHERE YOU’RE PLANTED: With an emphasis on portraiture, still life and landscape, “Bloom Where You’re Planted: The Collection of Deen Day Sanders” beautifully portrays a slice of American life. Most prominently, the heavy presence of botanicals and outdoor scenes demonstrates Sanders’ devout love of the natural world. In addition to serving as president of the Garden Club of Georgia and National Garden Clubs, Inc. and vice president of the World Association of Floral Artists, she has been on the boards of the Atlanta Botanical Garden and U.S. Botanic Garden. She has also supported the State Botanical Garden of Georgia since its establishment over 50 years ago and helped develop plans for the Cecil B. Day Chapel, a peaceful venue in the woods named for her late husband, as well as an accessibility path in the Shade and Native Flora Gardens in memory of her late son, Burke Day. Somehow, Sanders managed to find time around her philanthropic pursuits to build one of the most notable art collections in the state. On view through July 29, the exhibition includes paintings, furniture and porcelain pieces that exemplify major trends in American art from the 19th to early 20th centuries. A perplexing number of portraits—such as those by Charles Curran, Seymour J. Guy, George Lambdin and Thomas Sully—depict women and children reading, reflecting a societal shift as reading literature for leisure or educational purposes became more common in privileged spheres. While many of the still-life paintings are timeless odes to flowers in full bloom, some incorporate unexpected subjects, like ripe raspberries from August Luax and birds’ nests from Severin Roesen. Multiple landscape artists, like Albert Bierstadt, Herman Ottomar Herzog and Thomas Moran, attempt to capture the vast horizons and uncharted wilderness of the American West. A LEGACY OF GIVING: Recognized on campus as the namesake behind UGA’s Terry College of Business, alumnus Herman Terry and wife Mary Virginia Terry made a generous donation in 1990 that held the record of being the largest private gift in UGA’s history. Over the past several decades, their contributions have endowed numerous faculty chairs, research programs, scholarships and other endeavors not limited to academia. On view through Aug. 5, “A Legacy of Giving: C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry” displays a collection of 14 paintings and works on paper by American and French artists that were gifted to the museum in 2017. The donation reflects two of Mary Virginia’s greatest philanthropic interests—education and the arts—and she hopes the pieces will make a positive impact on students’ lives. The gift includes watercolors by Winslow Homer, John Stuart Ingle, John Singer Sargent and Andrew Wyeth; pastels by Childe Hassam and Laura Coombs Hills; and oils by Armand Guillaumin, Ernest Lawson and Albert Lebourg, among others. f

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LECTURES & LIT | WED, JUL 11

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EVENT | SUN, JUL 15

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar · 5:30 p.m. · FREE! The poetry series kicks off with Athens writers Soham Patel and Jenny SadreOrafal. Patel, an assistant editor at Fence and The Georgia Review, has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin. Sadre-Orafai is an English professor at Kennesaw State and executive director of the Georgia Writers Association. Hosted by UGA professor Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, the series continues on July 18 with Sabrina Orah Mark and Lemuel “Life” LaRoche; July 25 with Sharon Nuruddin and Georgia poet laureate Dave Bottoms; and July 26 with Cahnmann-Taylor, Josina Guess, Charlee Cain and student poets. [Jessica Smith]

Flicker Theatre & Bar · 10 p.m. · $5 There are plenty of contemporary musicians doing inventive and essential work in the realm of solo guitar composition, but Portland, OR songwriter Marisa Anderson is one of the best. For proof, scope out Cloud Corner, her newly released full-length (and first for celebrated indie label Thrill Jockey). The LP builds tastefully onto its Americanprimitive bedrock by nodding to everything from ethereal drone to Delta blues, experimenting with mood, pacing and texture along the way. Anderson is joined at Flicker by Athens avant-garde mainstay John Fernandes, as well as scene principal Michael Potter. [Gabe Vodicka]

Big Dog’s on the River · 3 p.m. · $15 The fourth annual Rhythm on the River Fest, a fundraiser for Chess and Community, will happen Sunday at Big Dog’s on Atlanta Highway. The $15 ticket price includes all entertainment, food and games. The lineup is presented by AthFactor Entertainment and will feature African Soul, Devas Tigerettes (a majorette competition team), Floyd Weaver, WiseXpressions Dance Studio and family-friendly hip-hop performances by Ishues, DK, Squalle, Kid Arsenic, Billy D. Brell, Dictator, Cassie Chantel, Daw Jones, DUI the Hip-Hop Educator and Street Legacy Muzik. Montu Miller is your host. [Gordon Lamb]

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Tuesday 10 CLASSES: Athens Swing Night (Athens Fit Club, 1059 Baxter St. Suite A) Intermediate (7:30 p.m.) and beginner (8:15 p.m.) lessons, then open dancing. No partner or previous experience required. 7:30–11 p.m. $4 (students), $6. athensswingnight.com COMEDY: Decaf Comedy Open Mic (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) Hear comics from Athens and Atlanta. Newcomers welcome. Email to perform. Second Tuesday of the month. 8:30 p.m. FREE! efj32330@gmail. com, www.hendershotscoffee.com EVENTS: 2nd Tuesday Tasting (Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market) This month’s theme is “Summer of Loire.” Reservations required. 6 p.m. $20. 706-354-7901, www. heirloomathens.com

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GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) Hosted by James Majure. 6 p.m. FREE! www. therookandpawn.com GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) General trivia hosted by Jacob and Wes. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 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: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, 2301 College Station Rd.) Trivia every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern GAMES: FIFA 18 Tournament (Wonderbar) Prizes for the weekly tournament. 9:30 p.m. FREE! facebook.com/wonderbarathens KIDSTUFF: Teen Summer Fest (Oglethorpe County Library) Play a fast-paced game to discover

new tracks in “Music Mixing with DropMix.” 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oglethorpe KIDSTUFF: Bug Books (Normal Books) Browse kid books about bugs and insects. Enjoy buggy snacks while supplies last. 10 a.m.–6 p.m. facebook.com/normalbooksathens KIDSTUFF: YA Stop Motion Animation (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Teens can make their own stop animation films with Natalie Wright. Ages 11 and up. 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison KIDSTUFF: Retro Crafts (Bogart Library) Teens can make disco ball and cassette tape wallets. Grades 6–12. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Old MacDonald Had a Truck (ACC Library) An afternoon of music, crafts and activities about

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trucks, cars and things that go vroom. Ages 2–8 and their caregivers. 2:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Meet the Author (Normal Books) Meet local children’s author Karen Giles Clark in celebration of her book Big Changes for Little Bugs. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Drumming for Success (Oglethorpe County Library) Dr. Arvin Scott leads a lesson on the basics of drumming during a drum circle. For ages 4–11 and their caregivers. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ oglethorpe MEETINGS: Disabled American Veterans (DAV) (AMVETS, 1001 Winterville Rd.) The DAV assist veterans and their families with benefits, counseling, case forms and more. 6–8 p.m. FREE! dav.org

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Georgia Theatre · 8 p.m. · $20–28 Jenny Lewis got her start as a child actress before gaining fame in the world of indie-pop. The singer-songwriter has performed with a lot of projects over the years—including The Postal Service—but she’s best known for fronting Rilo Kiley. That band suffered through a painful breakup, but Lewis transitioned into a successful solo career. Her sound has shifted over the course of four albums and now rests somewhere between alt-country, pop and soul. Lewis takes her time—she hasn’t released a solo album since 2014’s The Voyager—but social-media sleuthing indicates that her next record is imminent. [Nathan Kerce]

Wednesday 11 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Led by docents. 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: DMC Class: Illustrator (ACC Library) Learn how to create graphics with vectors using Adobe Illustrator. This is ideal for logos or artwork you want to print in multiple sizes. Registration required. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650, www.athenslibrary.org/athens CLASSES: Washer Music Note Necklaces (ACC Library) Make cool necklaces from washers, hemp cord and scrapbook paper. 3 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens EVENTS: Rabbit Box (The Foundry) Storytelling for adults. This month’s theme is “Skin Deep.” Hosted by David Hale. 7 p.m. $7. rabbitboxstories@gmail.com

EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Creature Comforts Brewery) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked goods, prepared foods, crafts and live music by Kate Morrissey on July 11 and String Theory on July 18. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, 2440 W. Broad St.) Compete for prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Nerd Trivia (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Every Wednesday. Prizes and house cash. 8 p.m. FREE! www.grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Dirty South Trivia offers house cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) Gather a team and compete. 8 p.m. www. saucehouse.com

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GAMES: Bingo (Highwire Lounge) Win prizes. 8–10 p.m. FREE! highwirelounge.com KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Oglethorpe Co. Library) The summer story time series continues with books, songs, puppets and crafts celebrating “Jazz & Blues.” 10:30 a.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/oglethorpe 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: Wednesday Reads Book Club (Bogart Library) Read a fantasy book and make keepsake treasure boxes. 4th and 5th graders. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Bean and Bear (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Meet Bean and Bear, the silliest friends ever, for stories, puppets and wacky hijinks. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597 KIDSTUFF: Preschooler Storytime (Oconee County Library) Stories, songs and crafts for preschool-aged children and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Library Renfest (Oconee County Library) Renaissance Festival fun for young lords and ladies. Features music, crafts, storytelling, henna, glitter tattoos, live characters and more. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Improv Night (Oconee County Library) Give it a shot. Grades 6–12. 6 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Preschool Storytime (ACC Library) Attendees will share books, songs, puppets and rhymes. Ages 1.5–5. Tuesdays and Wednesdays. 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: ABC’s of Drumming (Bogart Library) Dance, sing and drum while learning about percussion and basic rhythm. Ages 4–11. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Stories, songs and simple crafts. Ages 0–5. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison LECTURES & LIT: Word of Mouth Poetry (The Globe) Open mic poetry readings. This month’s featured reader is Rob White. 8–11 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ athenswordofmouth LECTURES & LIT: Seat in the Shade (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) The summer poetry series kicks off with readings by Soham Patel and Jenny Sadre-Orafai. See Calendar Pick on p. 12. 5:30–7 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee.com MEETINGS: Mayor’s Task Force (Snipes Water Resource Center) For inclusion and equity. 5:30–7 p.m. FREE! accgov.com

Thursday 12 ART: Libraries Rock: Craft Pop-Up (ACC Library) Paint a rock. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ athens CLASSES: Line Dancing (Boutier Winery, 4506 Hudson River Church Rd. Danielsville) Mr. Ron Putham teaches line dancing. Price includes one drink. 7 p.m. $10. boutierwinery.com COMEDY: Comedy Night (Creature Comforts Brewery) Local comedians perform. 5 p.m. www.creaturecomfortsbeer.com EVENTS: KnitLits (Bogart Library) Knitters of all levels are welcome.

6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/bogart EVENTS: Athens U-Lead Fundraiser (Cali ’N’ Tito’s Eastside) UGA Salsa Club hosts a Cuban-style salsa class followed by social dancing. 6:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation. ugasalsaclub@gmail.com FILM: Movie Madness (Oconee County Library) Watch Space Balls. Grades 6–12. 3 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/oconee FILM: Southern Women Artists Film Series (Georgia Museum of Art) Watch a film adapation of Carson McCullers’ famous novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. See Art Notes on p. 11. 7 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org GAMES: Music Trivia (Saucehouse Barbeque) Meet at the bar for a round of trivia. 8 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/saucehousebbq GAMES: Poker Night (5 Points Cigar Shop, 1720 Epps Bridge Pkwy.) Play with Interstate Poker every Thursday. 6:30 p.m. www.5pointscigars.com KIDSTUFF: Teen Studio (Georgia Museum of Art) Teens ages 13–18 will learn about and draw inspiration from the permanent collection. Pizza included. 6:30–8:30 p.m. FREE! callan@uga.edu KIDSTUFF: Read and Rock (Oglethorpe Co. Library) Honor “Jazz & Blues” musicians like Ray Charles. Ages 7–11. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ oglethorpe KIDSTUFF: Magic Tree House Mania (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Discuss the beloved series by Mary Pope Osborne. Ages 6 and up. 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/madison KIDSTUFF: Drumming for Success with Dr. Arvin Scott (ACC Library) Learn the basics during a drum circle. For ages 4–11 and their caregivers. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Crafternoon (Oconee County Library) Make and take a craft. Materials provided. Grades 6–12. 2:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Lego Club (Bogart Library) Build Lego creations. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Avid Bookshop, Five Points) Author Anne Cooper presents her book, Second Life: An Atheist’s Journey to Spirituality. 6 p.m. FREE! www. avidbookshop.com MEETINGS: Public Meeting (Fire Station #7) Review reconfigurations to add on-street bicycle facilities on Barnett Shoals Road. 5–8 p.m. FREE! www.accgov.com MEETINGS: Athens Area Newcomers Club (Central Presbyterian Church) Christopher Lutz will speak about the history of the Athens Farmers Market. 9:30 a.m. FREE! 706-850-7463, athensareanewcomersclub.org OUTDOORS: Nature Ramblers (State Botanical Garden of Georgia, Meet at Shade Garden Arbor) Learn more about flora and fauna of the garden while enjoying fresh air and inspirational readings. Ramblers are encouraged to bring their own nature writings or favorite poems and essays to share with the group. 9 a.m. FREE! www.naturerambling. blogspot.com

Friday 13 CLASSES: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workshop (Healing Lodge at Piedmont Athens Regional, next to the Loran Smith Center) Learn about mindfulness meditation in a free preview. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.mindfuliving.org

CLASSES: Learning About Electricity (Oconee County Library) Learn about electricity and try on safety gear with Katie Weaver. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens CLASSES: Intro to Excel (Oconee County Library) Learn the basics of Excel 2010. 2 p.m. FREE! 706769-3950 EVENTS: Paraskevidekatriaphobia Vol. III Beer Release (Akademia Brewing Co.) The release of the 13% imperial stout will be celebrated with live music and limited edition merch. 11 a.m.–11:59 p.m. www. akademiabc.com GAMES: Family Disco Bowling (Showtime Bowling Center) Bring your disco hair. 6-8 p.m. 706-5481028 GAMES: Disco Bowling (Showtime Bowling Center) Every Friday and Saturday night. 11 p.m.–12:30 a.m. www.showtimebowl.com

goods, prepared foods, crafts and live music by Seth Martin and The Musicsmiths. 8 a.m. FREE! www. athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: Flyball Tournament (The Classic Center) Teams of dogs from across the Southeast will compete in the Double Dog Dare with a summer camp theme. July 14, 8 a.m.–4 p.m. July 15, 8 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! www. doubledogdareflyball.com EVENTS: Really Really Free Market (Reese & Pope Park) Just like a yard sale, but everything is free. Bring what you can, take what you need. Free lunch prepared by Food Not Bombs. Second Saturday of every month. 12–2 p.m. FREE! reallyreallyfreemarketathens@gmail. com EVENTS: West Broad Farmers Market (West Broad Market Garden) Shop for fresh and affordable produce and prepared foods. The market also includes kids

Nobody Cares Who You Are: The Panic Years– Part I, The Life and Time of Aceman, A Widespread Panic Roadie. Andrea Acquaviva will accompany Larry on shakers, bells, wood blocks and other percussion instruments. 4 p.m. FREE! 706354-1195 LECTURES & LIT: Storytime and Book Signing with Lil’ Ice Cream Dude (Barnes & Noble) Beau Shell, local entrepreneur and philanthropist known as Lil’ Ice Cream Dude, will read and sign copies of his new book, The Coolest Birthday Ever! 11 a.m. FREE! www. bn.com

Sunday 15 EVENTS: Rhythm on the River (Big Dog’s on the River) The family-friendly festival includes singing, dancing, hip hop, volleyball, badminton, cornhole, and games of chess. Food is included in the admission and kayaking is available for an additional charge. Proceeds benefit Chess and Community. See Calendar Pick on p. 12. 3–9 p.m. $15. www.bigdogsontheriver.com EVENTS: Flyball Tournament (The Classic Center) See Saturday listing for full description. July 14, 8 a.m.–4 p.m. July 15, 8 a.m.–2 p.m. FREE! www.doubledogdareflyball. com EVENTS: Normaltown Flea (Indie South, 1377 Prince Ave.) Browse vintage, handmade goods and records. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. www. theindiesouth.com KIDSTUFF: Hogwarts Sunday School (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) Dress up in your wizard robes for an afternoon of divination. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www. uuathensga.org KIDSTUFF: Read to Rover (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Beginning readers read aloud to a certified therapy dog. 3–4 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597

Monday 16 Artwork by Torkwase Dyson is currently on view at Howard’s through Saturday, Aug. 11. KIDSTUFF: The Princess and the Warrior Storytime (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Hear the Mexican legend of “The Princess and the Warrior,” learn about volcanos and make a craft. Ages 5–11. 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison KIDSTUFF: KidsKnit Help (Bogart Library) Kids who are practicing their knitting can get extra help from Ms. Deborah. 10 a.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Anime Club (ACC Library) Join other 6th–12th graders to watch, read and talk about anime and manga. 3 p.m. FREE! 706-6133650

Saturday 14 CLASSES: Make it at Your Library: Mug Cakes (Oglethorpe County Library) Bring your own microwave safe mug if possible. Other materials provided. 11:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ oglethorpe CLASSES: Help! I Can’t Find a Grave! (ACC Library) An overview of the websites Find A Grave and BillionGraves. 2 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Bishop Park) Local and sustainable produce, meats, eggs, dairy, baked

activities, cooking demonstrations, educational booths and entertainment. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. FREE! www. athenslandtrust.org GAMES: Disco Bowling (Showtime Bowling Center) See Friday listing for full description. 11 p.m.–12:30 a.m. www.showtimebowl.com KIDSTUFF: Meet the Author (Avid Bookshop) Meet Holly Terei in celebration of her book Jacob the Flapping Dinosaur Goes to School. 10 a.m. FREE! avidbookshop.com KIDSTUFF: Critter Tales (Sandy Creek Nature Center) Families are invited to listen to a story about nature. Staff will then bring it to life by visiting a critter or going outdoors for an activity. 2:30–3 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3615 KIDSTUFF: DIY Rock Magnets (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Make a unique fridge magnet. Supplies provided. Ages 8 and up. 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/madison KIDSTUFF: Family Day: The South in Paint (Georgia Museum of Art) Paint your own canvas after viewing the exhibition “Central to their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection.” 10 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Barnes & Noble) Larry Acquaviva will talk about and sign his memoir

FILM: Brown Bag Movie (Oconee County Library) Bring your lunch and watch Zootopia on the big screen. 12 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.com/oconee 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 GAMES: Dirty South General Knowledge Trivia (Beef ’O’ Brady’s) Win house cash and prizes! Every Monday night. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-1916 KIDSTUFF: Saltwater Bookmarks (ACC Library) Transform saltwater crystals, watercolor paint and paper into stunning bookmarks. 3 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Preschool Picnic (Bogart Library) Pack a lunch for stories and fun on the playground. 11:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Monday Funday (Bogart Library) Songs, finger plays, wiggles and giggles for ages three and under. Caregivers will receive pointers for building literacy and language skills. 10:15 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Open Chess Play for Kids and Teens (ACC Library) Teen chess players of all skill levels can play matches and learn from

members of the local Chess and Community Players, who will be 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: Infant Storytime (ACC Library) Parents can share plays, songs and simple books with their babies. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-6133650, www.athenslibrary.org LECTURES & LIT: Third Monday Book Club (Oconee County Library) Discuss Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. 7 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/oconee MEETINGS: The Oglethorpe County Bee Club (Oglethorpe County Farm Bureau, 925 Athens Rd., Crawford) Cory Momany will discuss honey harvest and processing. 7 p.m. FREE! ocbeeclub.com SPORTS: Table Tennis Matches and Training (East Athens Community Center) Beginner to advanced skill levels welcome. Mondays, 6–8:30 p.m. & Saturdays, 1–4 p.m. First visit free. www. ttathensga.com

Tuesday 17 CLASSES: Computer Class (Bogart Library) “Intro to Excel.” 10 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart CLASSES: Athens Swing Night (Athens Fit Club, 1059 Baxter St. Suite A) Intermediate (7:30 p.m.) and beginner (8:15 p.m.) lessons, then open dancing. No partner or previous experience required. 7:30–11 p.m. $4 (students), $6. athensswingnight.com GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) See Tuesday listing for full description. 8 p.m. FREE! www. locosgrill.com GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) See Tuesday listing for full description. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) See Tuesday listing for full description. 6 p.m. FREE! www.therookandpawn.com GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) See Tuesday listing for full description. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern KIDSTUFF: Minute to Win It Games (Oglethorpe County Library) Part of Teen Summer Fest. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ oglethorpe KIDSTUFF: Meet the Author (Normal Books) Author Stanley Longman will read from Corah’s Magical Excursions in the Night for a special storytime. Light snacks provided. 10:30 a.m FREE! normalbooks@gmail.com KIDSTUFF: YA Virtual Reality (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Try out the HTC Vive Virtual Reality headset. Ages 10 and up. 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/madison KIDSTUFF: Kids Martial Arts (Bogart Library) AKF Martial Arts hosts classes in safety for ages 3 and up. 1 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Jolly Holiday with Mary Poppins (ACC Library) Have a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious time. For ages 2–9 and their caregivers. 2:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: ’50s Drive-In Theater (Oglethorpe County Library) Come dressed in your best 50s’ garb for a blast from the past. Listen to some classic jams, create a cardboard box automobile and park them at a drive-in for a showing of vitnage cartoons. Ages 10 & under. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ oglethorpe k continued on next page

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THE CALENDAR! 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

Wednesday 18 ART: Artful Conversation (Georgia Museum of Art) Sage Kincaid leads an in-depth conversation on Theresa Pollak’s “Art Studio.” 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: InDesign for Beginners (ACC Library) Learn the basics to make brochures, flyers, or menus for a business. Registration required. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ athens COMEDY: Educated Mess (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) See stand-up comedians from Athens and Atlanta. 9 p.m. FREE! hendershotscoffee.com EVENTS: Athens Farmers Market (Creature Comforts Brewery) See Wednesday listing for full description. 4–7 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net EVENTS: FFS Pets (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Meet lizards, frogs, snakes and more. 2 p.m. FREE! 706-795-5597, www.athenslibrary.org/madison GAMES: Nerd Trivia (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Every Wednesday. Prizes and house cash. 8 p.m. FREE! www.grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) See Wednesday listing for full description. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) See Wednesday listing for full description. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) Gather a team and compete. 8 p.m. www. saucehouse.com GAMES: Bingo (Highwire Lounge) Win prizes. 8–10 p.m. FREE! highwirelounge.com KIDSTUFF: Story Time: Music (Oglethorpe County Library) Get your groove on with fun music. Includes books, songs, puppets and a craft. Ages 2–6 and their caregivers. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/oglethorpe KIDSTUFF: Preschool Storytime (ACC Library) See Wednesday listing for full description. Tuesdays and Wednesdays. 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ athens KIDSTUFF: Preschooler Storytime (Oconee County Library) Stories, songs and crafts for preschool-aged children and their caregivers. 10 & 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Stories, songs and simple crafts. Ages 0–5. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison KIDSTUFF: Learning Power (Bogart Library) Georgia Power presents power-themed STEM activities. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Dance Your Socks Off (Oconee County Library) Wear your silliest outfit and dance like crazy. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Podcasting 101 for Teens (ACC Library) Record your own podcast. Registration required. 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens KIDSTUFF: Lock In: Horror Mystery (Oconee County Library)

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Play a spooky game of Horror Mystery. Grades 6–12. 7–11 p.m. FREE! 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 LECTURES & LIT: Talking About Books: Adult Book Discussion Group (ACC Library) This month’s title is Beartown by Frederik Backman. Newcomers welcome. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org LECTURES & LIT: Seat in the Shade (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) The summer poetry reading series presents Sabrina Orah Mark and Life the Griot. 5:30–7 p.m. FREE! coe. uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (ACC Council on Aging) Avid and the Athens Community Council on Aging present author Jonathan Putnam in celebration of his book Final Resting Place: A Lincoln and Speed Mystery. 12 p.m. FREE! www. avidbookshop.com

Live Wire 8 p.m. $5. www.livewireathens.com POLAR WAVES Athens-based “alternative classic rock” group. TUNNEL VISION Surf, reggae and ska-influenced band from Southern California. DANIEL HARDIN Singer-songwriter with acoustic and electric blues and rock influences. Locos Grill & Pub 6 p.m. FREE! 706-549-7700 (Timothy Road location) SALLY AND THE SIX GRAND Oldtime rock band. The Office Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn. Every Wednesday! Porterhouse Grill 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT The longest standing weekly music gig in Athens! Enjoy

Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 LEAVING COUNTRIES Louis Phillip Pelot plays solo sets of country-rock and acoustic Southern soul. Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com THE PINK STONES Local dreamrock group led by songwriter Hunter Pinkston. PALE BLUE DOT Alt-rock four-piece from Charlottesville, VA. JIANNA JUSTICE Athens-based indie-pop project with a warm, compelling sound. Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. $5. flickertheatreandbar.com MARISA ANDERSON Talented solo guitarist from Portland, OR. See Calendar Pick on p. 12. JOHN KIRAN FERNANDES Local fixture performs a set of solo ambient looped clarinet. MICHAEL POTTER Local guitarist creates a blend of ambient folk and psychedelic songs and soundscapes.

Go Bar 11 p.m. FREE! 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by karaoke fanatic Dr. Fred and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more. Every Thursday! Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com MILLS LANE Neal Fountain leads his band through musical explorations. Featuring Chris Enghauser on bass, Jamie DeRevere on drums and Brian Lopes on saxophone. Highwire Lounge 11 p.m. $1 (headphone). www.highwirelounge.com SILENT DISCO Dance the night away with wireless headphones and three channels of music. The first hour is free! The Office Lounge 8 p.m. 706-546-0840 CHRIS AND THE HAMPTONES Athens-based rock group led by guitarist and songwriter Chris Hampton.

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.

Fully Loaded Pizza Co. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-705-6150 LEAVING COUNTRIES Louis Phillip Pelot plays solo sets of country-rock and acoustic Southern soul.

Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 5 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com DJ OSMOSE Local DJ spins an allvinyl set of Caribbean dance music.

Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 6 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com REV. CONNER TRIBBLE Local artist playing old-fashioned rock and roll with a sprinkle of good-humored irreverence. On the Rooftop. 9 p.m. $5. www.georgiatheatre.com CROWE & WARDADDY Spinning a set of goth tunes that are dark but upbeat, “for your stomping pleasure.”

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 CLIP ART PRESENTS A series featuring local emcees performing and hosting a variety of acts, from hip hop to experimental to punk.

Wednesday 11 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!

Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 7 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com COOL KNIGHTZ Local five-piece band playing AM Gold hits. On the Rooftop. 9:30 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com WHITE RABBIT COLLECTIVE Local ensemble with influences ranging

Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. $8. flickertheatreandbar.com GUN OUTFIT Olympia, WA-based trio whose driving, guitar-based music rivals the best of the SST crowd. DEEP STATE Local band playing driving, punky, melodic guitar-rock. ARBOR LABOR UNION Atlanta/ Athens-based band that works with repetitious riffs and post-punk rhythms. IMMATERIAL POSSESSION Darkly tinged local underground-pop project.

The Foundry 8 p.m. $20 (adv.), $25 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com CAMP TWITCH & SHOUT BENEFIT This concert, featuring Randall Bramblett Band and Rick Fowler and Friends, will benefit Camp Twitch and Shout, for those affected by Tourette syndrome.

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Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com LITTLEBOYBIGHEADONBIKE Indiepop project of Rhode Island songwriter William Orchard, featuring intricate guitar and fantastical lyrics. SMIDGEON No info available. LYDIA SERA Local visual artist and musician.

Creature Comforts Brewery 7 p.m. FREE! creaturecomfortsbeer.com THE HALEM ALBRIGHT BAND Jammy, eclectic local rock band led by songwriter and guitarist Halem Albright. LITZ Performing a “Draft Punk” set of Daft Punk hits.

40 Watt Club 9:30 p.m. $3. www.40watt.com ’80S DANCE PARTY Dance to your favorite tunes from the 1980s.

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Creature Comforts Brewery Athens Farmers Market. 5 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net KATE MORRISSEY Morrissey’s songwriting is literate and sincere, and her shows come with an offbeat sense of humor.

performance with a “beach party” theme. ANCIENT WHALES Fuzz-rock band led by songwriter and vocalist Enoch Bledsoe.

La Cerca plays Flicker Theatre & Bar on Monday, July 16. an evening of original music, improv and standards. The World Famous 10 p.m. $4. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens DON BABYLON “Drunk, sad rock and roll” singer-songwriter from Philadelphia. RAY PHILIPS Up-and-coming local folk singer-songwriter.

Thursday 12 Akademia Brewing Co. 7 p.m. FREE! www.akademiabc.com HUNTER GRAYSON Local artist playing classic country music. Blue Sky 10 p.m. FREE! 706-850-3153 WARM GLOW BLUE SKY SHOW JJC plays disco, funk, soul & cetera. Every Thursday!

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The Foundry 8 p.m. $5 (adv.), $8 (door). www.thefoundryathens.com 6 STRING DRAG Influential alt-country band from Athens and North Carolina. ADAM KLEIN & THE WILD FIRES Local songwriter playing a rustic blend of country, folk and Americana. Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 8 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com QUINN DEVEAUX Versatile singer-songwriter who pulls inspiration from early blues and soul artists. REDSTONE RAMBLERS Local blues-folk group led by songwriter Mark Wilmot. On the Rooftop. 11 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com DJ OSBORNE Local DJ David Osborne is an experienced mixer, musician and entertainer.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com SEZESSIONVILLE ROAD North Carolina Americana duo.

Friday 13 Akademia Brewing Co. 8 p.m. FREE! www.akademiabc.com GYPSY & ME Duo of Mike Moore and Kyzandrha Zarate playing original acoustic folk and country. Boar’s Head Lounge 10 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 THE AQUARRYANS Eclectic band playing rock, bluegrass, reggae, Americana, country and more. Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com LANDSPEEDER Athens-based heavyrock band reunites for a special

Go Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-5609 L’OR Laura St. Martin uses electronics and interpretive dance to explore the human condition and the collective unconscious. SARAH SWILLUM Local artist playing hallucinatory beat-pop featuring existential chants and dance. GODDESS COMPLEX Athens-based ambient and avant-garde project rooted in queer culture. DJ MAHOGANY Popular local DJ spins freaky funk, sultry soul, righteous R&B and a whole lotta faves. Highwire Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! www.highwirelounge.com LIVE MUSIC Rotating local jazz groups play every Friday and Saturday night. Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 THE INSTRUCTORS Atlanta band blending reggae, jazz and funk. The Office Lounge 6 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 TYLER SLOAN Local acoustic folk singer with a wistful, sunny sound. 8:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 THE BACUPS Fun-loving local cover band.

Southern Brewing Company 6 p.m. FREE! www.sobrewco.com DJ OSMOSE International touring DJ and Athens resident lays down an all-vinyl set of funk, soul, boogie and more. Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com SCOTT LANIAK Member of local garage-punk band Free Associates performs a set of foot-stomping blues.

Saturday 14 Bishop Park Athens Farmers Market. 8 a.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net SETH MARTIN Local folk singer-songwriter known for fronting the band Georgia Dish Boys. THE MUSICSMITHS Natalie Smith and husband Brian Smith put together eerily beautiful flute and guitar compositions.

11 p.m. $1 (headphone). www.highwirelounge.com SILENT DISCO Dance the night away with wireless headphones and three channels of music. The first hour is free! The Office Lounge 8:30 p.m. 706-546-0840 GEORGIA DISH BOYS Local rock group fronted by singer-songwriter Seth Martin. PHILLIP BRANTLEY Palace Doctor frontman plays a solo set of hookladen indie rock. Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com THE LUCKY JONES Rockin’ rhythm and blues from this local band.

dents play works by Dvorak, Ligeti, Bach and more. No. 3 Railroad Street 3 p.m. www.3railroad.org TY MANNING Former Bearfoot Hookers guitarist performs a solo set of roots music. LAURA CONNELY Local folk singer-songwriter. Terrapin Beer Co. 3 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com SOMEBODY’S CHILD Acoustic folk duo from North Carolina. Vega Studio 5:30 p.m. $15. www.carolineaiken.com NEW SOUTH SHOWCASE Host Caroline Aiken presents an

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 JAZZ FUNK JAM Mason Davis hosts this monthly jam session. The World Famous 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens GYPSY AT HEART Local collective that mixes Middle Eastern and Indian ragas with classical, jazz and folk.

Tuesday 17 Cali ’N’ Tito’s Eastside 11 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE! calintitos.com LEAVING COUNTRIES Louis Phillip Pelot plays folk with Latin influences every Tuesday.

The Foundry 7:30 p.m. $6 (adv.), $8 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com GEORGIA WOMEN OF SONG Songwriters Marty Winkler, Claire Campbell and Kate Morrissey play individual sets and join together for a performance with keyboardist Mark Plemmons and percussionist Tony Oscar. Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 7 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com NIGHT FEVER Ansley Stewart and Jason Fuller play ’70s hits. On the Rooftop. 10 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com SUNNY SOUTH BLUES BAND Athens-based band combining a

Caledonia Lounge 9:30 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18-20). www. caledonialounge.com CINEMECHANICA Long-running local four-piece math-rock band with metal and punk edges. SOLAR HALOS Psychedelic rock trio from North Carolina. MONSOON Beloved local pop-punk band that dabbles in rockabilly and new wave. Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com SONO LUMINI Local electronic-funk jam trio with a big sound and tasty melodies. WHITEHALL Funky indie-rock group from Charleston, SC. 40 Watt Club 8 p.m. FREE! www.40watt.com TOM VISIONS’ SURPRISE SHOW Local experimental artist Tom Visions hosts a variety show to celebrate his “three years of confusion managing the 40 Watt Club,” featuring surprise guest bands, a psychedelic orchestra and a freestyle cypher. Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 7 p.m. FREE! www. georgiatheatre.com HUNGER ANTHEM Fuzzed-out, guitar-driven local indie-rock band. MOUTH READER Messy, snotty, snarling psychedelic punk band from Tennessee. THE CRAZIES Members of Mother the Car unleash explosive bluesrock as a two-piece. 8 p.m. $12. www.georgiatheatre.com KINCHAFOONEE COWBOYS Longrunning country band from South Georgia. On the Rooftop. 10:30 p.m. $3. www. georgiatheatre.com BOOTY BOYZ DJs Immuzikation, Twin Powers and Z-Dog spin a “Migos vs. Kanye” set. Go Bar 9 p.m. FREE! 706-546-5609 KARAOKE Hosted by Dr. Fred and featuring a large assortment of pop, rock, indie and more.

The Mammoths play The Foundry on Tuesday, July 17. 9:30 p.m. $8. www.terrapinbeer.com SCRAPSTOCK Featuring performances by Caulfield, The YOD, BYV, Ryan Bars, Lex & The Rabbits, Tillman and Skinny C.

Sunday 15 Big Dog’s on the River 3 p.m. $15. www.chessandcommunity. org RHYTHM ON THE RIVER An all-day, family-friendly festival featuring music from African Soul, Floyd Weaver, Ishues, DK, Squalle, Kid Arsenic, Billy D. Brell, Dictator, Cassie Chantel and more. Proceeds benefit local nonprofit Chess and Community. Cali ’N’ Tito’s Eastside 6 p.m. FREE! 706-355-7087 THE LUCKY JONES Local band playing old-school rockin’ rhythm and blues.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com THAYER SARRANO Local songwriter playing hazy, shoegaze-inspired Southern rock.

The Foundry 7:30 p.m. $10. www.thefoundryathens. com WE ARE THE SEA A benefit show for local musician Chris McKay, featuring performances by Bloodkin with Kevin Sweeney, Rev. Conner Tribble & Friends, Michael Guthrie and more.

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

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 6 p.m. FREE! hendershotscoffee.com CLASSICAL REVOLUTION UGA School of Music graduates and stu-

evening of performances to benefit local musician Chris McKay, featuring Five Eight, Pinky Doodle Poodle and Victor Charlie.

Monday 16 Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com LA CERCA Long-running indie-rock band from Arizona. SMALL SCIENCE Experimental folk project led by local musician Maria Kindt. Georgia Theatre On the Rooftop. 6:30 p.m. www.georgiatheatre.com THE DONKEYS Sunny, poppy indierock band from San Diego. 8 p.m. $25. www.georgiatheatre.com JENNY LEWIS Popular singer-songwriter known for fronting the indiepop group Rilo Kiley. See Calendar Pick on p. 12. THE CACTUS BLOSSOMS Brotherbrother duo from Minneapolis paying tribute to classic country sounds. On the Rooftop. 10:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiatheatre.com NIKKI & THE PHANTOM CALLERS Indie-country group from Atlanta. Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com OPEN MIC Showcase your talent at this open mic night most Mondays. Hosted by Larry Forte.

The Foundry Terrapin Tuesday. 7 p.m. $5. www. thefoundryathens.com THE MAMMOTHS Austin, TX-based high-energy rock outfit drawing on old-school techniques. The World Famous 9 p.m. $5. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens POST MOVES Solo project of Portland, OR songwriter Sam Wenc. ETHAN MULLENAX Local folk singer-songwriter with an eclectic, evocative sound. LUCAS MCAULIFFE Athens-based guitarist and songwriter.

Wednesday 18 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! Creature Comforts Brewery Athens Farmers Market. 5 p.m. FREE! www.athensfarmersmarket.net STRING THEORY High-energy acoustic fusion and funk-oriented progressive rock with elements of bluegrass and Americana.

blues and soul spirit with riffy rock and roll. GRÜT Atlanta-based band that dabbles in electronica, funk and more. Locos Grill & Pub 6 p.m. FREE! 706-549-7700 (Timothy Road location) THE VIBRATONES Veterans of the Athens scene playing various blues styles. Dancing is encouraged! Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. 706-546-4742 MELD Soul singer-songwriter from Nashville, TN. The Office Lounge 8 p.m. FREE! 706-546-0840 KARAOKE With your host Lynn. Every Wednesday! Porterhouse Grill 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT Enjoy an evening of original music, improv and standards.

Down the Line 7/19 REGGIE STARRETT (Akademia Brewing Co.) 7/19 BLANKO / FRATMOUTH / SEPHINE / CLIP ART (Caledonia Lounge)

7/19 HAPPY CHEESE / TOM VISIONS / WATERPLANET (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 7/19 KERCHIEF / CARLA LE FEVER AND THE RAYS / STONI TAYLOR (Georgia Theatre) 7/19 SLOPFEST / DJ Cabbage Looper / CWOHL / Shoplifter / Bad Idols / Tabloid (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 7/19 SONO LUMINI (Nowhere Bar) 7/19 PARTIALS / RENEE DION (Terrapin Beer Co.) 7/20 EASTER ISLAND / THE PAUSES / FIVE EIGHT (Caledonia Lounge) 7/20 GEORGIA DISH BOYS / GARRETT HATCH / RODNEY SANDERS (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 7/20 SENSATIONAL SOUNDS OF MOTOWN (The Foundry) 7/20 SHAMAN’S HARVEST / BLACKTOP MOJO (Georgia Theatre) 7/20 GIMME HENDRIX (Georgia Theatre) 7/20 SLOPFEST / Lord Bitter/ Lozo / Jeremy Melton / Small Beige Girl / Father Werewolf / Grawks / Useless Against / Fart Jar / Apparition / Multiple Migs (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 7/20 SIGH IN JULY / Zach Deputy / Consider The Source / Universal Sigh / The Orange Constant / Partials Opposite Box / Misnomer / The Yeti Trio / Third Nature / Tesheva / Bird Dog Jubilee / Harvey Funkwalker / Dan Nettles & Lonely Orchestra / Robbie Dude / Nifty Earth / Pure Colors / Bootz & Katz / Sono / Dream Culture / The Vinyl Suns / Pickled Holler / Broken String Band / White Rabbit Collective / Layne Denton / A Merry Prankster / James Bale / The Wright Ave (Live Wire) 7/20 IVAN PULLEY BAND (Nowhere Bar) 7/20 DAVID HYDE (Terrapin Beer Co.) 7/21 GARY GROSSMAN / TRUE BORN SONS (Bishop Park) 7/21 J WANG (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 7/21 MONSOON / LAKIN CRAWFORD / WINDED (40 Watt Club) 7/21 THE GRAINS OF SAND (The Foundry) 7/21 DEPARTURE (Georgia Theatre) 7/21 SLOPFEST / DJ Mahogany / Handsome Highway / Blue Bodies / Bursters / Hot Fudge / Collision Drive / Waltz / Ghost and / Goat / Shade / Motherfucker (Little Kings Shuffle Club) 7/21 SIGH IN JULY / Zach Deputy / Consider The Source / Universal Sigh / The Orange Constant / Partials Opposite Box / Misnomer / The Yeti Trio / Third Nature / Tesheva / Bird Dog Jubilee / Harvey Funkwalker / Dan Nettles & Lonely Orchestra / Robbie Dude / Nifty Earth / Pure Colors / Bootz & Katz / Sono / Dream Culture / The Vinyl Suns / Pickled Holler / Broken String Band / White Rabbit Collective / Layne Denton / A Merry Prankster / James Bale / The Wright Ave (Live Wire) 7/21 SWEET SWEET / RUST / CALICO VISION / HOPE FOR AGOLDENSUMMER (Terrapin Beer Co.) 7/22 SLOPFEST / DJ Hermosa and DJ Kaptain / AJ Griffin / Hayride / Luxury Vehicle (Hi-Lo Lounge)

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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 Sept. 15 & Dec. 15. info@athensarts.org, www.athensarts.org ARTIST CLASSES (Pixel & Ink Studio) “Movie Night: A Thousand Clowns.” July 12. “Broke A$$ Framing: Do it Cheap but Keep it Classy.” July 21. “Sell Your Work: Branding & Marketing for Artists.” July 21. “Sketchy Social.” July 26. “Leaping into Lightroom: Learn the Basics.” July 29. “Hang Your Art at Home.” Aug. 4. “Critique Night: Get Back to Your Art School Days.” Aug. 9. “Photoshop Basics: Learn the Essential Tools.” Aug. 11. “Sell Your Words: The Business of Freelance Writing.” Aug. 18. “Craftluck: Potluck with Crafts.” Aug. 23. “Styled Shoot: Editorial Fashion.” Aug. 26. pixelandinkstudio@gmail. com BUS SHELTERS (Athens, GA) The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission is seeking design proposals for artistic bus shelters. Application deadline July 27, 11:59 p.m. www. accgov.com/FormCenter/AthensCultural-Affairs-Commission-36 GEORGIA RIVER NETWORK’S TRASH TO ART CONTEST (Athens, GA) Participants of all ages are encouraged to submit artwork

they create from trash found at river clean-ups. The River Trash Cleanup to Art Contest will be Sept. 8 during the Weekend for Rivers Conference and River Celebration Award Dinner Party. gwyneth@garivers.org 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. hatchathens.com/membership MUSIC CONTEST: THE SOUNDS OF ATHENS (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) Submit up to two audio files at or under 2 minutes and 30 seconds in MP3 format (must also be available in an uncompressed format such as WAV) for “The Sounds of Athens” record. This is a constituent project of the upcoming ATHICA exhibition “The Golden Record.” $10 entry fee. Deadline July 26. www.athica.org 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. $65/month or $175/three months. 706-613-3623, www.athensclarkecounty.com/leisure SUMMER CAMPS (KA Artist Shop) “Sculpt Week.” “Material Medium Mission.” July 16–20. “Fiber Week.” “Animal Camp.” July 23–27. “Fabric

Week.” “Story and Illustration Camp.” July 30–Aug. 3. Check website for descriptions. www. kaartistshop.com

Auditions ELBERTON THEATRE FOUNDATION AUDITIONS (Elberton Arts Center) Audition for Love, Loss and What I Wore (shows Sept. 22–23) or A Little Something for the Ducks (shows Sept. 29–30). Looking to cast eight women and one man over the age of 30. Be prepared to read from the script. Auditions July 16–17, 5:30–7:30 p.m. 706-283-1049

Classes AQUATIC AEROBICS (Memorial Park) Low impact exercise. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 6–7 p.m. Saturdays, 10–11 a.m. Through Aug. 4. $5. 706-613-3580 CLASSES (Winterville Center for Community and Culture) “Community Coffeehouse,” Mondays–Thursdays from 9 a.m.–3 p.m. “Poets of Winterville,” first Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. “Silver Sneakers Stretch,” Mondays at 10 a.m. “Oil Painting,” Mondays at 1:30 p.m. “American Legion Post 20 Coffee Hour,” Tuedays at 9 a.m. “Threadwork Crafting Club,” Tuesdays at 9 a.m. “Tai Chi,”

art around town AMICI (233 E. Clayton St.) Dyanne Horgan makes mixed media prints that combine digital and analog practices. Through July. 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 AREA UROLOGY (2142 W. Broad St.) See colorful paintings by Dr. Hildegard Timberlake. ATHENS ART AND FRAME (1021 Parkway Blvd.) Heidi Hensley’s paintings depict colorful and eclectic scenes of Athens and UGA. ATHENS-CLARKE COUNTY LIBRARY (2025 Baxter St.) The Quiet Gallery presents “The Cartoon Show” featuring local illustrators Alex Burns, Patrick Dean, Abby Kacen, Missy Kulik, David Mack, Scott Stripling, Devlin Thompson, Klon Wadrip and Joey Weiser. July 15–Sept. 15. 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. CINÉ BARCAFE (234 W. Hancock Ave.) “Rinne Allen: Garden” features cyanotypes. 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 (300 N. Thomas St.) Gallery I features “Stitch,” an exhibition of contemporary quilts, includes the industrial-scales of Elizabeth Barton, the obsessive geometric precision of Barbette Houser, the vibrant sewn gardens of Cleo Ward, the magic and mischief of Danielle Lasker and the meditative devotion of Anne Marie Vencill. Classic Gallery II features a solo exhibition of detailed portraits by Jaquelynn Faass.

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Wednesdays at 10 a.m. “Silver Sneakers Yoga,” Wednesdays at 11 a.m. “Bellydance,” Wednesdays at 7 p.m. “Poets of Winterville,” first Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. “Mahjong,” Thursdays at 1 p.m. “Line Dancing,” Thursdays at 4 p.m. “Ballroom Dancing,” Thursdays at 6 p.m. 706742-0823, wintervillecenter@gmail. com, www.wintervillecenter.com CUBAN-STYLE SALSA (UGA Tate Student Center) (Room 473) The UGA Salsa Club hosts dancing every Sunday, 4–6 p.m. Email for details. ugasalsaclub@gmail.com, www. facebook.com/groups/ugasalsaclub DIGITAL MEDIA CENTER CLASSES (ACC Library) Thursdays at 6 p.m. and Saturdays at 11 a.m. Registration required. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens FARMVIEW CLASSES (Farmview Market) “Water-Bath Canning: Pepper Jelly.” July 24, 6–8 p.m. $40 (at Morgan Co. Extension Office’s Consumer Kitchen in Madison). “Cinnamon Rolls & Cinnamon Raisin Bread.” July 24, 5:15 p.m. $33. “On the Grill: Sausage-Making for Tailgating Season.” Aug. 4, 3 p.m. $40. “East Bread-Baking at Home: No-Knead Bread.” Aug. 28, 5:15–6:30 p.m. “Columbus Day Sausage-Making: Flavors From Around the World.” Oct. 3, 3 p.m. $40. farmviewmarket.com ONE-ON-ONE COMPUTER SKILLS (ACC Library) Personalized instruction available for various computer topics. Thursdays, 9 a.m. www. athenslibrary.org/athens SALSA CLASSES (Dancefx) Learn how to salsa dance. No partner required. Salsa and Bachata every Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. (beginners), 7:15 (intermediate/advanced). $10. www. dancefx.org

CREATURE COMFORTS BREWERY (271 W. Hancock Ave.) “Vessel” shares new paintings and prints by David Hale. Through July 29. DONDEROS’ KITCHEN (590 N. Milledge Ave.) Susan Pelham’s collages are influenced by Magic Realism, Surrealism and fables. Through August. FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Artwork by Audey Lee. Through Aug. 4. GALLERY@HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Spotlight 2018” shares prints by Ali Norman and paintings by Joseph Peragine and Helen Kuykendall. Through Sept. 15. GLASSCUBE@INDIGO (500 College Ave.) Jaime Bull’s site-specific installation “Pillow Fight” is a spirited remembrance of jumping on beds and swinging feather filled cushions in a playful bout. A light-show begins at 7 p.m. each night. GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “Bloom Where You’re Planted: The Collection of Deen Day Sanders.” Through July 29. • “A Legacy of Giving: C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry” shares French and American art. Through Aug. 5. • “Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection.” Through Sept. 23. HEIRLOOM CAFE & FRESH MARKET (815 N. Chase St.) Mosaic work by Jane Wright. Through Aug. 27. HIP VINTAGE & HANDMADE (215 Commerce Blvd.) Paintings by Mallory Malloy. Through July. HOWARD’S (119 N. Jackson St.) The new gallery space opens with a show of works by Milano Chow and Torkwase Dyson. Through Aug. 11. JITTERY JOE’S ALPS (1480 Baxter St.) “Acrylic on Acrylic” features innovative contemporary work by Ella Salt. JUST PHO…AND MORE (1063 Baxter St.) Drawings and painting by Patrick Linker. KRIMSON KAFE (40 Greensboro Hwy., Watkinsville) Mosaic artwork by Jane Wright. Through July. 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.) “Athens Metal Arts Guild: The Many Facets of Metalsmithing.” Through Aug. 4. • “Our Point of View: Athens Area Plein Air Artists.” Through Aug. 4. • “Full House” is a biennial invitational exhibit showcasing works by members of the 18 guilds and art groups that meet at LHAC. Through Aug. 4. • “Works by Vernon

SEWING CLASSES (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Learn how to sew on the library’s sewing machines. Tuesdays, 2:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison T’AI CHI (Healing Arts Centre) (Sangha Yoga Studio) “T’ai Chi, Yang Style, Long Form.” Thursdays, 7:15–8:30 p.m. 706-613-1143, healingartscentre.net VISION + VOCATION BUSINESS PLANNING COURSE (Old Fire Hall #2) Artists, healers and change-makers will be guided through the process of creating viable business plans. Led by Jodi Rhoden using Birds Eye Business Planning Curriculum. Aug. 25–26, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. $325–375. www. jodirhoden.com 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. July 11, 18 & 25, 7:30–9:30 p.m. $30. instructor@akfathens.com, www.akfathens.com YOGA CLASSES & WORKSHOPS (Athens Five Points Yoga Studio) Six-month Yoga Teacher Training Program begins in September with weekend modules. Upcoming workshops include Hip Hop Yoga (July 7), Trance Dance (July 13), Intro to Yin Workshop (July 21), Restorative Yoga Workshop (Aug. 25), Yin Yoga Teacher Training and Workshop (September). www.athensfivepoints yoga.com

Help Out LITTER INDEX SURVEY (Athens, GA) The Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful Litter Index is a simple survey for citizens to provide input on the litter they see in their community. Information will be used to plan programs for reducing litter. Surveys will be accepted online until July 16. www.athensclarkecounty.com/index. aspx?nid=4026

Kidstuff DOUBLE HELIX STEAM SCHOOL SUMMER CAMPS (580 Tallassee Rd.) “It is Alive! Using Coding to Create (grades 2–9).” July 16–20, $275. “Sculpture Camp (grades 5–9).” July 23–27, $300. “Adventure Camp (grades 3–8).” July 30–Aug. 3, $300. doublehelixsummercamp. wordpress.com REPORT CARD REWARDS PROGRAM (Bishop Park) Any student K–12 in Athens may bring his or her final report card with to the ACC Leisure Services Aquatics Office for a free summer pool pass (all A’s or all E’s) or 10 free swims (all A’s and B’s or E’s and M’s). www. athensclarkecounty.com/aquatics SPLASH PAD (Multiple Locations) The Trail Creek Splash Pad will be open on weekends Aug. 5–Sept. 4, plus regular seasonal hours now through Aug. 5. The Rocksprings Splash Pad is now open. $1/person. Pool passes $20–40. www.athens clarkecounty.com/splashpad 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. www.tree housekidandcraft.com SUMMER FOOD SERVICE Free lunches will be served to children at 27 day camps, educational programs and recreation centers around Athens. Check website for participating locations and schedule. Through July 13. www.athenshousing.org

Support Groups ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS SUPPORT GROUP (723 Baxter St.) Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA) is a 12-step program for people who grew up in alcoholic or dysfunctional homes. Mondays, 7–8 p.m. www.meetings. adultchildren.org

Thornsberry.” Through Aug. 4. • Photography of scenes from Northeast India by Sean Dunn. Through Sept. 7. MADISON MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) In “The Bower Bird,” sculptor Thomas Prochnow mimics the Australian bird’s unusual mating ritual of constructing a bower adorned with feathers, shells and other found objects. Through July. OCONEE COUNTY LIBRARY (1080 Experiment Station Rd., Watkinsville) Art by Cameron Berglund. Through July. THE PINE & THE ROOT (1235 S. Milledge Ave.) Artwork by Jamie Calkin, Arezou Taeed and Miranda Rupkey. Through August. 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.” Through Sept. 21. • Photographer Lee Karen Stow’s exhibit “Poppies: Women, War, Peace” combines portraits of women whose lives have been affected by war with a botanical series of the red “Flanders Fields” poppy. Through Dec. 14. • “War of Words: Propaganda of World War I” includes propaganda posters. Through Dec. 14. STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GEORGIA (2450 S. Milledge Ave.) Artwork by Linda Fraser. Through July. THE SURGERY CENTER (2142 W. Broad St.) Jack Burk shares watercolor, acrylic and mixed media works. Through July. TIF SIGFRIDS (119 N. Jackson St.) “Art Rosenbaum and Friends” features works by Art Rosenbaum, Margo Rosenbaum, James Herbert, Bill Paul, Ridley Howard, Howard Finster, Dilmus Hall, Charlie Rakestraw, Bonnie Loggins, Sam Stabler and Richard Olsen. Through Aug. 11. TRIO CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY (766 W. Broad St.) A tribute to fierce and fabulous feline friends, “CatFest” includes works by over 30 artists. Through July 21. • Trio’s first annual “Young Artist Exhibition” shows works by students in grade 12 and under. Through July 21. VERONICA’S SWEET SPOT (149 Oneta St., #6C6) See work by local and regional artists, craftsmen, potters and sculptors. WHITE TIGER GOURMET (217 Hiawassee Ave.) Paintings by Charles Clinkenbeard. Currently on view through July 22. THE WORLD FAMOUS (351 N. Hull St.) Permanent artists include RA Miller, Chris Hubbard, Travis Craig, Michelle Fontaine, Dan Smith, Greg Stone and more.

“Janet Snakehole” by Jessie Lamay is currently on view in “CatFest” at Trio Contemporary Art Gallery through Saturday, July 21. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS (Athens, GA) If you want to drink, that’s your business. If you want to stop, we can help. 706-389-4164, www.athensaa.org CHRONIC ILLNESS SUPPORT GROUP (ACC Library) Meet others who are dealing with chronic illness such as ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Lyme. Third Wednesdays, 12–1:30 p.m. athenschronicillness @gmail.com 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. www.emotionsanonymous.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 (Multiple Locations) For family members, friends and caregivers of individuals with mental illnesses. “NAMI Family Support Group.” Every fourth Tuesday, 6–7:30 p.m. in room 302 at the First Presbyterian Church of Athens. Every second Monday, 6:30–8 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church of Watkinsville. 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

On The Street ADULT TRIPS (Rocksprings Community Center) “Morgan County African American Museum and Shopping in Historic Madison.” Aug. 10, 9 a.m.–6 p.m. $20–30. “Weekend Trip to Cherokee, North Carolina.” Aug. 25, 9 a.m.–Aug. 27, 6 p.m. $240–360. www.accgov. com/leisure ASPECT FOUNDATION (Athens, GA) Seeking families to host international high school exchange students who want to attend an Athens-area high school for the upcoming year. 770757-4556, aspectfoundation.org HAPPY, ALIVE AND BUILT TO SURVIVE (UGA Ramsey Concert

Hall) The East Georgia Cancer Coalition offers a group fitness class for cancer survivors who are at least six months removed from treatment, along with their friends and family members. Tuesdays and Thursdays through July 27, 5:30 p.m FREE! info@eastgeorgiacancer.org INCLUSIVE BOOK CLUB (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Adults of all abilities can read out loud and discuss books. Thursdays July 12–26, 1 p.m. 706-795-5597, www. athenslibrary.org/madison MEDITATION IN ATHENS (Multiple Locations) Meditations are offered in various forms across town. Athens Zen Group offers a newcomers orientation every Sunday (except first Sunday of the month) at 11 a.m. athenszen.org. Breathing Heart Sangha offers mindfulness meditation in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. Sundays, 6:30–8 p.m. beckylockman@gmail.com. Dedicated Mindfulness Practitioners meets at the Griffin Dubose Healing Lodge every first and third Saturday of the month, 8:30–9:30 a.m. jaseyjones@gmail.com. Mindful Living Center offers intro classes every second Friday, 5:30–6:30 p.m. at the Griffin Debose Healing Lodge. Satchidananda Mission offers yoga meditation every Sunday, 6:30–7:30 p.m. and Kirtan every third Sunday, 4–6 p.m. revmanjula@bellsouth.net STORMWATER CALENDAR (Athens, GA) The ACC Stormwater staff is seeking photos of stormwater management facilities, nature scenes, plants and animals from all around Athens to create a wall calendar. Submit photos by email with the name of the photographer and a description of where, when and why it was taken. Deadline Aug. 31. stormwater@accgov.com THE CLASSIC CITY FRINGE FESTIVAL (Athens, GA) The Classic City Fringe Festival is seeking performers in theater, dance, performance art, puppetry, improv, comedy and more. Deadline Aug. 31. Festival Oct. 18–21. classiccityfringefest@ gmail.com, www.classiccityfringe festival.com WHERE’S WALDO IN THE ATH? (Avid Bookshop) (Prince Ave.) Through the month of July, look for Waldo at local businesses in this city-wide scavenger hunt. The first 125 Waldo seekers who get their passport signed at 10 or more sites can collect prizes. www.avidbook shop.com f

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Dramatic Dining PLUS, WINGS AND BURGERS APLENTY By Hillary Brown food@flagpole.com IF YOU LIKE…: Despite its location in a shopping center, The Falls (8851 Macon Hwy., 706-850-2217) is a pretty dramatic space once you step in the door. Built to take advantage of the river view, it features tall windows in the more-than-double-height dining room through which you can see the eponymous water feature. Mostly, it shoots for upscale, from the decor to the price point, although the big TVs in the bar section, which isn’t really separated from the rest of the room, undercut that impression a little. Ditto for the $20 piña colada ice cream made tableside with liquid nitrogen, due to the fact that the show—and it is most definitely a show—is accompanied by Rupert Holmes’ “Escape (The Piña Colada Song).” Even if you’re amused the first time you hear it, you’ll be less so the second. And the third. The menu is mostly split between surf and turf, with a handful of handmade pastas. There’s a bit of upsell that comes standard, a fostering of the “treat yo’self” mentality that may end in disappointment if you get the housemade candied maple bacon, which is limp and way too sugary. On the other hand, the meatballs, which come with a sherry-cream veal sauce, ain’t bad. The roasted pork belly, which comes over Anson Mills rice grits with a blackstrap molasses sauce and a cucumber-mint salad, is rich but not too sweetly sauced, as it easily could have been. The fried green tomato BLT, an app that is a deconstructed version of the sandwich, stacks sliced fried tomatoes and Sweetgrass Dairy pimento cheese and ends up too heavy, with the flavors mushed together. Pasta is often a letdown at fancier restaurants, and the rabbit tortellini with micro-greens and an au jus cream sauce does have some things going for it, but the meat ends up too stringy, and the pasta itself isn’t quite good enough to overcome it. The Georgia scallops à la Catalana work pretty well, however. They’re of a decent size and not overcooked, and the sauteed spinach with pine nuts and raisins that they sit atop is one of the best things in the restaurant; the latter is also available as a stand-alone side. Are they worth $30? Maybe not so much. If you go for the prime rib—and this is definitely a prime-rib crowd, with silky golf shirts aplenty—you may again find yourself a little underwhelmed for the $35 price tag, which doesn’t include sides. The meat is nice and well cooked, but the seasoning is too heavily applied. Simple roasted asparagus, one of the steakhouse-type sides, feels more satisfying than the hunk

of meat in some ways. Among the desserts, you would be smarter to skip the tableside ice cream and opt for the s’mores tart instead. Almost equally a gimmick—it comes under a glass dome filled with smoke that dissipates when the waiter unveils the dessert—it’s one that works. Not only do you get a whiff of the campfire, but the flavor of the smoke works its way into the chocolate tart and the marshmallow gelato. The cocktails, while they feel a little light on the booze, are well crafted and well balanced, if not the most forward-thinking in town. Maybe they’re a good lens for viewing the restaurant, which is a bit of an over-promiser but does deliver in some areas. The Falls is open for dinner Tuesday through Sunday, with the bar opening at 2 p.m. FAST FOOD: WNB Factory (280 Williams St., 706-308-8088), a rapidly expanding franchise out of Atlanta, now occupies the former location of The Blind Pig. The W stands for “wings” and the B for “burgers,” and that’s a large amount of what the restaurant offers, although it also has fried rice (meh), fried fish (too thinly battered), The Falls shrimp, chicken tenders, salads and pre-mixed milkshakes (if the machine is working). The menu promises “Organic, Fresh Vegetables From Our Farm to Your Hand,” but the fact that the tartar sauce comes in a little prepackaged plastic cup makes that bold claim a little hard to believe. The burgers are actually not bad, provided you eat them very quickly. The bun is a pillowy thing with only a bit of butter-toasted crisp on the outside to protect it from the frequently wet array of toppings, which means it entropically turns to goo in a hurry. The Southern Burger (slaw, pickles, jalapeños, barbecue sauce, American cheese) works pretty well. The Korean BBQ Burger (supposedly smoked

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FRIDAY, JULY 13

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FRIDAY, JULY 13

own hugs, since he’s acting in the upcoming Town & Gown production The Servant of Two Masters, opening at 8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 10.) Granted, actors have tough jobs and need all the hugs they can get. They’ve got to memorize all those lines and make them believable in front of the audience, but none of it would work if they didn’t show up on cue and find their chair in its place and well lit. In our case that meant Isaac Callahan, who designed the lighting and ran the board to make sure it worked. Isaac is another one of those theater people who can do anything well and cheerfully. Like Nathan Altman. Nathan, literally, does it all. He has star power. He has graced the cover of Flagpole three different times as the lead in T&G shows. He sings, he dances, he is serious, he is funny. He does it all, and he works just as hard behind the scenes. Most lately, he was assistant director on The Language Archive, helping to shepherd the development of the play, and he also designed the minimalist set that had to shift from scene to scene right before your eyes. Mike Burke was the other assistant director, who helped the actors with their roles and was one of the actors himself, sort of like the playing manager some baseball teams used to have. With such assistance, it’s no wonder director Julia Roessing delivered what became a sold-out smash hit.

the cover selection and takes each story and photo and puts them into the pages with the best possible visual impact. Music Editor Gabe Vodicka doubles as managing editor, to oversee editing and copy flow and figuring out what goes where in the paper. City Editor Blake Aued is prominent in our pages but also has his own editorial duties behind the scenes. Our office manager, Stephanie Rivers, not only does all the administrative chores that keep a business running, she also works on the calendar and manages our classified ads. And Jessica Smith, our arts editor, moonlights as our distribution director, being sure that she has enough drivers every week to get Flagpole out to the 300 locations where it can be picked up in Athens-Clarke County and Oconee and Oglethorpe counties. And speaking of drivers, local musician and tilelayer extraordinaire Charles Greenleaf has for two decades picked up the papers from the printer every Tuesday and distributed them downtown. The paper you hold in your hand is the tip of an iceberg—the final product of a week’s worth of work by people who not only know their jobs and are good at them, but who also have a fierce pride in Flagpole and what our paper means to our community. With a play and a newspaper, as with a band, there’s a lot more than meets the eye. The show must go on, and all those who work behind the scenes assure that it will. f

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The Language Archive actors and crew pose for a post-play photo. As usual, the stage managers are in the background.

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