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2020 Vision LOOKING AHEAD TO THE NEW YEAR’S HEADLINES

By Blake Aued news@flagpole.com With school out and the local government on hiatus, not much happened during that dead two-week period around the holidays, so let’s take a look ahead at some of the stories that will make headlines in 2020.

It’s an election year, of course, and Georgia voters will go to the polls Mar. 24 to weigh in on which Democrat to put up against Donald Trump in November. By that time, a field that once numbered over 20 will have been winnowed down to a handful of viable candidates.

March is also the time when candidates will qualify to run in local races. So far, three people—couples therapist Andrea

Farnham, lawyer Kamau Hull and retired Athens Tech dean Carol Myers—have said they’re running for the District 8 seat on the Athens-Clarke County Commission that Andy Herod is giving up after threeplus terms. Meanwhile, John Knox, who represents District 8 on the school board, has announced he’s not running for re-election. All of the even-numbered seats on the commission and school board will be up for grabs. Those races are nonpartisan and will be decided alongside the Republican and Democratic primaries on May 19.

The only local partisan races that have contested primaries so far are for sheriff,

Odds and Ends Georgia’s new voting machines are available for testing in Athens through early February. Voters can try out the machines at the Board of Elections Monday through Friday from 8 a.m.–5 p.m.; at the ACC Library (2025 Baxter St.) on Jan. 9 from 8:45 a.m. to noon; at Iris Place (755 Epps Bridge Parkway) on Jan. 14 from noon to 2 p.m.; at the Athens Community Career Academy (440 Dearing Extension) on Jan. 17 from 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.; at Ebenezer Baptist Church West (205 N. Chase St.) on Jan. 19 starting at noon until churchgoers leave; at the Miriam Moore Community Center (410 McKinley Drive) on Jan. 21 from 8 a.m. to noon; and at St. Mary’s Hospital (1230 Baxter St.) on Feb. 5 from 10 a.m. to noon.

The ACC Housing and Community Development Department’s interim director, Haley Banjerlee, has been named to the position permanently by ACC Manager Blaine Williams. Banjerlee, a UGA graduate who has worked at HCD since 2016, was named interim director when Williams promoted Deborah Lonon to assistant manager. In addition, Williams announced that Economic Development Director Michelle Nguyen has resigned. He named manufacturing and industrial specialist Ryan Thornton as interim director.

Creature Comforts wrapped up its 2019 Get Artistic campaign by donating $18,300 to six local artists and organizations: the Athens Area Arts Council, Athens Symphony Orchestra, Canopy Studios, Abigail West, Broderick Flanigan and tiny ATH Gallery.

Nuçi’s Space and the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation (OCAF) received $21,000 and $4,000 grants, respectively, from the Georgia Department of Economic Development’s Georgia Council for the Arts, according to local state Reps. Houston Gaines and Marcus Wiedower.

Activist and former school board candidate Imani Scott-Blackwell is launching a consulting firm called Going Rogue devoted to increasing organizational capacity and preventing employee burnout at small businesses and nonprofits, with a launch event scheduled for 6 p.m. Jan. 9 at Firehall No. 2.

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where incumbent Ira Edwards is facing ACCPD Sgt. John Q. Williams on the Democratic side, and district attorney, where two Democrats, former state Rep. Deborah Gonzalez and chief assistant district attorney Brian Patterson, are vying to succeed retiring DA Ken Mauldin.

Statewide, at least four candidates—trucking executive Sarah Riggs Amico, former congressional candidate John Ossoff, Clarkston Mayor Ted Terry and former Columbus mayor Teresa Tomlinson—are running against Sen. David Perdue.

November will bring contests for both of Georgia’s U.S. Senate seats, Congress, the state legislature and perhaps other partisan races. Democrat Mokah Jasmine Johnson is challenging state Rep. Houston Gaines (R-Athens)—see more on flagpole.com.

That seat, along with the House District 119 seat Democrat Jonathan Wallace won in 2017 but lost to Republican Marcus Wiedower the following year, will be crucial to Democrats’ chances of flipping the chamber. Athens’ two Republican state senators and congressmen are probably safe.

Besides elections, the commission has some unfinished business from 2019. In November, the commission put off Mayor Kelly Girtz’s rushed proposal to use tax allocation districts to spur redevelopment

in East Athens and the Newton Bridge Road industrial corridor until the spring. June will bring a vote to create a historic district on the west end of downtown to protect local music landmarks and the Hot Corner’s rich heritage as the center of AfricanAmerican business. And work will start on the SPLOST-funded Classic Center arena and the massive North Athens affordable housing project, which will replace Bethel Midtown Village and nearby public housing off College Avenue. Both have the potential to transform the downtown area.

Meanwhile, in Atlanta, the legislature gavels in Monday for its annual session.

Again, it’s an election year, which means lots of posturing and not much actually getting done. Lawmakers will want to get out of town as quickly as possible to raise money for re-election. With revenue declining and lawmakers pondering another income tax reduction, the big question is what they’ll cut. Will budgets for K-12 and higher education take a hit?

And the search is on for a new District 2 school board representative to replace Frances Berry, as well as for a new school superintendent to replace the departed Demond Means. Hopefully, the community can put the past year’s unpleasantness behind us. f

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Christians Should Be Wary of Trump IS THE TIDE TURNING AGAINST OUR ELMER GANTRY-ESQUE PRESIDENT?

For the adult in all of us.

By Ed Tant news@flagpole.com As 2019 drew to a close and the new year of 2020 dawned, Donald Trump was stained with being only the third president in American history to be impeached by the House of Representatives. Andrew Johnson was impeached in the 19th Century, Bill Clinton in the 20th, and now Trump has been impeached in the 21st. In 1974, in the wake of the Watergate scandal, President Richard Nixon resigned rather than face impeachment in the House and conviction and removal from office by the Senate. The Nixon who ran for the presidency as a law and order candidate faced possible jail time, but his resignation and later his pardon by successor Gerald Ford preserved his post-presidency perks and pension.

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Trump’s conviction and removal from office by the Senate. While Trump has an excellent record of appointing conservative judges and advancing a pro-life agenda, his criminal conduct endangers the Constitution.”

For millions of the white evangelicals in Trump’s national base, the president is a me-me-me messiah who is rubber stamping the atavistic agenda of the religious right.

As the annual holiday honoring the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. comes again later this month, evangelical ministers and churchgoers might do well to consider the words that the civil rights leader and Baptist minister wrote in his famous “Letter From Birmingham Jail” in 1963,

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Trump’s impeachment caused ripples among white evangelical Christians who make up much of the president’s political base. An editorial published in Christianity Today in December called for Trump’s removal from office. The magazine said that Trump “attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president’s political opponents.” It called such conduct unconstitutional and immoral and lamented that “the reason many are not shocked about this is that this president has dumbed down the idea of morality in his administration.”

The day after the Christianity Today editorial was published, the Commander in Tweet himself said on Twitter, “The fact is, no President has ever done what I have done for Evangelicals, or religion itself!” Another evangelical publication, The Christian Post, issued an angry rebuttal to Christianity Today’s editorial, supporting the president and whimpering that what it called Christianity Today’s “disdainful, dismissive, elitist posture” could do “long-term damage to American Christianity.”

After The Christian Post embraced Trump, a longtime editor resigned in protest, and Georgetown University professor Paul D. Miller wrote a dissent headlined “Convict Trump: The Constitution is more important than abortion.” Miller told Christian Post readers that “Christians should advocate for President Donald J.

when he was incarcerated during protests against racial segregation in that city. “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people,” he wrote in his message that was aimed at white ministers and congregations who, in the face of injustice, “remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of the stained-glass windows.” King told his readers that he, too, saw the church as “the body of Christ,” but he cautioned them that “we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and fear of being nonconformists.”

Trump is courting evangelicals again this year with the formation of an “Evangelicals for Trump” coalition. For many of them, Trump has an Elmer Gantry-esque appeal.

Biblical and religious precepts advocating Christian stewardship of our planet and admonishing against people losing their souls to gain the world get short shrift in the political agenda of the religious right. The white evangelical vote will be in Trump’s pocket during this year’s race—a race that Trump will probably win unless voters with “2020 vision” for our country and planet flock to the polls. As the presidential campaign heats up, all Americans should remember the words of warning that King wrote in 1963: “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” f

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THE DISINFORMATION NATION

How Trolls, Conspiracy Theorists, Hoaxers and Trump Twist the Truth on the Internet

By Daniel Walters

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may be getting harder and harder to figure out the truth, but at least this much is clear: It’s a good time to be a liar.

We’ve spent three years arguing if fake news swung the 2016 election—debating whether the hordes of Russian bots, hoax Facebook pages and inflammatory, dishonest tweets tipped the democratic balance to elect Donald Trump as president. Yet in those same years, we’ve learned that the stakes in the fight against truth, in a muddy world of social media platforms, go beyond politics.

In Brazil, public health workers were attacked after far-right activists lied on YouTube that they were spreading the Zika virus. In Myanmar, government soldiers used fake Facebook accounts to drive an ethnic cleansing, full of incendiary claims and false stories about Muslim minorities raping Buddhist women. Gunmen radicalized by false white-supremacist conspiracies on internet forums like 4chan and 8chan shot up a synagogue in California, a Walmart in Texas and mosques in New Zealand.

Elections have consequences. So do algorithms. So, now, heading into the 2020 election, experts are warning that trolls, hoaxers and dishonest politicians are arming themselves with a whole new arsenal of weapons of mass deception. New technology is making it easier to fake audio and video, while advances in artificial intelligence are making it all the more difficult to weed out computer-automated “bot” accounts.

And there’s a deeper risk, beyond figuring out the inaccuracy of any one article.

The deluge of misinformation—full of Trump tweets, deep fakes, InfoWars videos, Russian bots, 4chan trolls, that Washington Post correction, those out-of-context memes and your great aunt’s latest questionable Facebook post—has become so overwhelming that some of us may simply give up trying to make sense of it all. A lie doesn’t need to be believed. It just needs to create enough doubt that the truth becomes polluted. With enough pollution, it’s impossible to see what’s right in front of you.

“When you’re flooded with so much bullshit,” New York Times media columnist Charlie Warzel says, separating fact from fiction becomes so difficult that “the task of trying to do it becomes, you know, tiresome, so you just stop.”

It’s the sort of thing your college philosophy professor might call an “epistemic crisis.” We don’t know what to believe. Truth is hazy. Reality itself becomes irrelevant. It’s a phenomenon that has already happened in places like Russia and the Philippines— and experts say that in the past few years, the United States has suddenly found itself

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on the same path.

“And that, to me, is one of the scariest things to think about,” Warzel says. “It feels like we’ve come incredibly far since 2015.”

WEB OF CONSPIRACY History has a pattern. An advancement in communications technology hands liars the means to lie louder and spread those lies further. Look at the 1830s, when the invention of the steam printing press produced the rise of the “penny press.” Newspapers became cheaper, more independent, more widespread and more competitive, and eager publishers found the power of the 19th Century version of clickbait. The New York-based Sun put out a series of entirely fictional stories that purported that “manbats” and other exotic creatures were scurrying around on the moon.

Soviet-born British TV producer Peter Pomerantsev, author of This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, argues that when tech rips open the floodgates of communication, the bad guys always find a way to exploit it.

Dictators quickly harnessed the power of radio. Joseph McCarthy, as a U.S. senator in the 1950s, used television to spread his anti-Communist conspiracy theories.

Yet for decades, the internet was heralded as a new frontier that allowed “citizen journalists” to take on the stodgy media elite. In 1998, the Drudge Report, a rightwing news aggregating website, broke the Monica Lewinsky scandal when Newsweek got cold feet. In 2004, when Dan Rather and “60 Minutes” put out a 1973 memo purporting to show that President George W. Bush had received special treatment while in the Texas Air National Guard, Drudge elevated the conservative bloggers who persuasively argued the memo was a fake written in Microsoft Word.

An “Army of Davids”—as some bloggers dubbed themselves—swarmed to debunk flawed media accounts, trying to counter bias wherever they saw it. The gatekeepers were being overthrown, the drawbridge had been flung open, and the villagers could storm the castle.

But the villagers had their own standards for newsworthiness. Drudge also sent his readers to darker corners, where sketchy websites claimed Barack Obama wasn’t an American citizen and Bill Clinton had a secret love child. Drudge even provided fuel for “Pizzagate,” the conspiracy that drove a man in 2016 to fire an AR-15 inside a pizzeria because the internet told him they were harboring child sex slaves.

Conspiracy theorists used to spread their gospel through books, newsletters, public access television shows, and by standing on street corners and handing out fliers.

But the web gave every community a niche,

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no matter how fringe, and allowed them to spread their message in only a few keystrokes. On the internet, the corkboard is infinite, and the spool of yarn used to connect pictures of shadowy figures never runs out.

The internet, Warzel says, handed fringe figures like Alex Jones of InfoWars a powerful new megaphone. “He was one of the early pioneers of internet radio and video,” Warzel says. “It was a way to get around the notion that it was hard to sell advertising around some of his kooky ideas.”

An audience of millions repeatedly tuned into Jones’ red-faced rants about 9/11 being an inside job, Obama chemtrails turning frogs gay and the Sandy Hook shootings being faked. Drudge repeatedly linked to him.

Social media sites only accelerated the spread of misinformation. It’s easier than ever for a single comment, particularly an untrue one, to go viral. In ancient times, the opinions of quacks were largely quarantined to a newspaper’s letters to the editor. Now, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman and racist Twitter randos with names like “@WhiteGenocideTM” are all simmering in the same stew together. Both, after all, get retweeted by the president.

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology study published last year took a look at over a decade of Twitter posts and found that tweets about false news went viral six times faster than tweets about true news. After all, lies are often more sensational, tapping into human emotions of shock, fear and disgust.

It wasn’t just that humans were more likely to share these kinds of stories. It was that Facebook, Twitter and YouTube developed algorithms to elevate certain types of content into your social media feed. It usually didn’t matter if they were true—social media sites didn’t want to become the truth police. It mattered that the stories drew people in.

“The way they keep people clicking and sharing and commenting is prioritizing things that get your heart pumping,” says Andrew Marantz, author of Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation. “It’s like stocking a huge grocery store, but all of the visible aisles are Oreos and rat poison.”

Hell, YouTube actually started rewarding conspiracy theories above popular content.

YouTube used to have what it internally called the “Gangnam Style” problem, where its autoplaying recommendation engine would eventually send every viewer to the 2012 South Korean pop hit. In response, YouTube changed its algorithm in 2015, turning down the recommendation dial for merely popular videos and cranking up the preference for videos that led people down rabbit holes. Conspiracy theory videos flourished.

Simultaneously, the internet had handed brand-new weapons to pranksters, vandals and assholes—“trolls” who could use misinformation and harassment to make life hellish for chosen targets. Image boards like 4chan combined anonymity and a near-total absence of moderation to become a frothing hive of racists, trolls and trolls pretending to be racists. The boards delighted in pulling hoaxes—creating fake Jewish Twitter accounts to sow discord in the Jewish community, publishing coupons claiming black people were getting free coffee at Starbucks and attempting to trick journalists into identifying mass shooters as the wrong person. One particularly pernicious trolling tactic was to call 911 from a spoofed number and report a horrific crime, in hopes an armed SWAT team would descend on that location.

Sometimes, the hoaxes became reality. A 4chan scheme to trick mainstream media outlets into reporting that the “OK” hand gesture was a white supremacist sign resulted in white supremacists actually adopting the signal.

Marantz says he spent three years embedded in this world. “There are people who just want to watch the world burn,” he says. “And that’s a phrase I returned to again and again.”

The motivations vary. In Macedonia, Warzel says, there are clickfarms filled with teenagers pumping out hoax news stories for fake publications and buying Facebook likes, all as a way to make money. “It’s essentially just like a lemonade stand for them,” he says.

But there are also foreign governments trying to influence global trends, politicians trying to game power and true believers who spread falsehoods because they think it’s the truth. “To some degree, it doesn’t matter, as long as there’s power to be gained and money to be made,” Warzel says.

And you don’t get much more powerful than the leader of the free world.

ART OF THE LIE Politicians are known to lie. It’s what they do. Presidents lie, whether about WMDs or keeping your health care or not having sexual relations with that woman. But there used to be limits.

“There were unwritten rules or norms about spin,” says Jeb Bush’s former campaign spokesman, Tim Miller. “You exaggerated for your candidate. You used hyperbole. You tried to muddy the waters.”

But there were unspoken, unwritten lines, implicit walls that mainstream candidates didn’t try to breach.

Then came Trump. “Trump has been the Kool-Aid Man who bashed through the wall,” Miller says. And the GOP drank the Kool-Aid.

Misinformation comes in a hundred what could a more sophisticated hoax look make it out at all,” Miller says. “People are nicating with a Russian bank or WikiLeaks’ ways from a hundred different sources. And hearing the alternate story at the same time Julian Assange meeting repeatedly with like? yet Trump is somehow all of them.

In 2017, a Reddit user named “deepthey are hearing the story.” former Trump campaign manager Paul Trump is America’s top troll. Other prifakes,” using Google’s open-source artificial So, on the right, Trump’s Ukrainian Manafort—turned out to be irrelevant or mary contenders nitpicked Sen. Ted Cruz’s intelligence software, developed a technique scandal quickly became a story about entirely bogus. policy record. Trump called him “Lyin’ Ted,” to take footage of one face and overlay it the motivations of the anonymous Each big mistake plays into Trump’s insulted his wife’s appearance and sugonto video footage of someone else. As is whistleblower, the dishonesty of House hands. And since most national media gested Cruz’s dad helped assassinate JFK. Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam outlets rely on anonymous sources, it’s rela- typical with new technologies, the internet Trump is America’s chief conspiracy immediately harnessed it for both pornogSchiff and the purported corruption of tively easy for Trump aides to intentionally theorist, building his political brand on the raphy and Nicolas Cage memes. The faces Biden and his son. The Robert Mueller-led trick reporters into making a mistake. “In lie that Barack Obama wasn’t born in the of pop stars were imposed on the bodies of special counsel’s investigation into whether some cases, they’re actually trying to put United States. porn stars, while the face of the Face/Off Trump’s team colluded with Russia to inter- out disinformation this way,” Miller says.

Everyone expected Trump to claim the actor was swapped onto footage of Gollum fere in the 2016 election turned into a story “The media reports it, [and] the White election was rigged if he lost, but Trump and Yoda. about the malfeasance of the “deep state” House dunks on them for being incorrect.” one-upped the cynics. He claimed the At the same time, another piece of a and Trump-hating FBI agents concocting In this environment, where liars are election was rigged when he won, falsely deceptive puzzle is clicking into place. a scheme to undo the American’s actual everywhere and the truth is almost too charging that millions of illegal votes had Audio editing products like Adobe Max give election. strange to be believed, journalists are conbeen cast. editors the option to go beyond cutting For those seeking clarity, the firehose stantly second-guessing themselves. “It Trump is America’s preeminent liar. At and splicing sentences to editing individual of factually shaky information on Twitter leads to exhaustion. It leads to burning the Toronto Star, fact-checker Daniel Dale from all sides didn’t help matters. It wasn’t out,” Warzel says. “And then those mistakes sound fragments to make it appear like a tallied over 5,200 false statements from speaker said things they never said. Mix just from Trump fans. Self-proclaimed are a breeding ground for more potential the president since his inauguration, dealand match the sounds, and with a large members of the anti-Trump #Resistance misinformation.” ing with everything from tariff policy to enough audio library of a politician, you rack up hundreds of thousands of followers In 2016, BuzzFeed reported that in the payoffs to a porn star. “I was flabbergasted could make them say anything. Combine it hawking anti-Trump conspiracies and assur- last three months before the election, 20 by the frequency and the triviality of many with video? It doesn’t take a “Black Mirror” ances that Trump’s downfall was always fake news stories from hoax sites—Clinton of them,” Dale told the Los Angeles Times. scriptwriter to predict how the technologies imminent. It’s made social media stars of sold weapons to ISIS! The Pope endorsed “Trump was simply making things up can undermine confidence in the truth. about everything, for no apparent reaJust imagine that a week before son, about the smallest things.” the 2020 election, a video is leaked. It Democrats’ impeachment inquiry appears to be Trump engaged in crimiinto whether Trump inappropriately nal and/or sexually explicit acts. Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate his denies it. Maybe the video is a deepfake political rival, Joe Biden, shows once hoax. Or maybe it’s real, and Trump is again how powerful Trump’s misinjust using the existence of deepfakes formation machine is. A September to deny it. Now, imagine experts are Monmouth University poll found that divided on which is which. When you only 40% of Republicans believe that can’t believe your lying eyes or your Trump mentioned an investigation into lying ears, you’re left to trust your lying Biden during his call with the Ukrainian gut. president, ignoring both the rough Now, at least, government offitranscript of the call and Trump’s own cials and technology companies are words. Indeed, in March, a Quinnipiac aware of the chaos that these hoaxes University poll found that two-thirds of could cause. The House Intelligence Republicans believe Trump is honest.

Committee has already held hearings Some of that’s simple partisan on the issue. psychology. Whether you voted for “The tech companies aren’t ready,” Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been banned from several social media sites, but that doesn’t stop millions Trump because of immigration, judges, Schiff said on a Vox podcast in June. from tuning into his rants. abortion or tax rates, your mind “The government isn’t ready. We don’t needs to continually justify your vote. have the technologies yet to be able to You wouldn’t vote for a liar. You voted detect more sophisticated fakes. And the guys like Ed and Brian Krassenstein—who Trump!—received more engagement for Trump, so Trump must not be a liar. public is not ready.” put out a children’s book featuring a muson Facebook than the top 20 stories on Besides, have you seen those wild claims the cled, shirtless Mueller—and former British In August, the Pentagon started talking actual news sites. But Trump hijacked the Democrats are making? “At this stage it’s to partners for its new Semantic Forensics member of Parliament Louise Mensch. phrase—“FAKE NEWS!”—and twisted it less about defending Trump,” writes columprogram, intending to develop technologies “My sources say the death penalty, into his own catchphrase, a way to disparnist Peter Wehner in The New York Times, “to help to identify, understand and deter for espionage, being considered for age any story he didn’t like. It was a joke, quoting a conservative psychologist friend. adversary disinformation campaigns.” [former Trump campaign manager] @ but the sort of joke that everyone repeats “They are defending their own defense of The private sector is pushing for similar StevenKBannon,” Mensch tweeted in 2017, until it burrows into the national psyche.

Trump.” It’s the same principle that drove measures. Recently, Facebook, Microsoft just a few months after she’d written an If all news is fake news, anything can be feminists to attempt to justify President and a slew of research institutions op-ed about Russian hacking for The New true. Everything is a lie, and nothing is. In Bill Clinton’s sexual escapades. announced they were joining forces for the York Times. “I am pro-life and take no pleathe fight over truth, the fog of war is thick.

Trump has a legion of staffers and sup“Deepfake Detection Challenge,” a contest sure in reporting this.”

It’s the perfect environment for an enemy porters willing to lie for him. He ordered his to better understand the little clues that In the meantime, the media outlets to attack. “As the credibility of the mainpress secretary to lie about his inauguration charged with sorting out the messy truth give even sophisticated deepfakes away. stream media continues to deteriorate, it’s crowd size. He pressed the National Oceanic were being hammered from all sides.

Deepfakes rarely blink in the right way. only going to embolden bad faith actors,” and Atmospheric Administration to defend The heads might have a strange tic. The eye Republicans charged that journalists were Miller says. his inaccurate statements about Hurricane color might be off. clearly biased against Trump (Just look at Dorian hitting Alabama.

Facebook chipped in $10 million to the all the negative stories they wrote about “I have no obligation to be honest to effort. But those trying to create hoaxes are him!), while Democrats slammed journalthe media,” former Trump aide Corey innovating, too, trying to think of ways to ists for “false balance” for failing to call In the video footage back in May, Speaker Lewandowski told Congress in September, outthink the detection system. “Networks Trump’s falsehoods outright lies. Millions of the House Nancy Pelosi sounded drunk. speaking under oath. “Because they’re just of bots are behaving more and more like of eyes watched every Trump story, ready Her words seemed artificially slow, like a as dishonest as anybody else.” you and me,” Warzel says. to send a barrage of tweets attacking every drawling slur. “What is wrong with Nancy Today, Trump has a loyal media apparaUltimately, he says, it may come down to misstep.

Pelosi?” Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani tus willing to run interference for his falsetwo different artificial intelligence systems “You could get away with a lot more in tweeted. “Her speech pattern is bizarre.” hoods. The moment a negative story about trying to outthink each other. “You basically the old days,” Miller says. “If you had an In reality, the video itself had been docTrump goes up, Fox News, The Federalist have two sets of computers playing war error on A17 on the L.A. Times, people tored, slowed down to make Pelosi sound and a horde of Trump Twitter acolytes fire games with each other,” Warzel says. weren’t going to see it.” like she was slurring. Giuliani later deleted back with a mix of spin, falsehoods and The fight isn’t just about technology. It’s The vast majority of media reporting the tweet but refused to apologize. “How irrelevancies. about corporate policies. In the last two on the Russia scandal was proven to be could I have figured out that it was inaccuThe speed of that response, Miller says, years, tech companies have tried to change accurate by the Mueller report. But some rate?” he told The New York Times. makes it impossible for the truth to get a their policies, ditching their laissez-faire bombshells—like reports about former If an altered video that simple could get foothold. libertarian approach to try their hand at Trump attorney Michael Cohen visiting k continued on next page shared millions of times, experts worried, “It prevents the ability for the facts to Prague, a Trump computer server commu-

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benevolent censorship.

White supremacists and conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones got banned from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. YouTube shifted viewers away from straight-up conspiracy theory videos in its recommendation stream—although liberals may be unhappy to learn they often landed at Fox News instead. Twitter banned the Krassenstein brothers in June, citing rules that prohibit “operating multiple fake accounts and purchasing account interactions.”

Right now, both major political parties are calling for regulation, including raising the prospect of forcing Facebook to shrink in size. But Republicans and Democrats want different things. While liberals complain about lax regulation allowing “Nazis” to run wild on the site, conservatives fret about overregulation, worried that conservatives could be censored for their political opinions.

But the lack of censorship is dangerous, too, argue some experts. Whitney Phillips, author of the forthcoming book You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Network Pollution, points to YouTube and Facebook’s recent announcement that since political statements are newsworthy, the sites would rarely take down posts from politicians, even if the posts broke the rules. “At every turn, at every conceivable opportunity, despite how loud the chorus might get, these technology companies made a choice to protect their bottom line over protecting the democratic process,” Phillips says.

Facebook’s motto for its developers was “move fast and break things.” Phillips thinks they were successful. “Yeah, they’ve broken democracy,” Phillips says. “There’s no more simple way to describe it.”

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Phillips doesn’t necessarily agree that more information is the answer. Journalists like to say that sunlight is the best disinfectant. But Phillips argues that sometimes the sunlight simply heats up the petri dish and spreads the disease—especially when people are liable to believe a hoax is true because a journalist says it isn’t.

“The truth can contribute to pollution as much as falsehood can,” Phillips says.

“It is easy to feel like you are pushing back against a story when you are saying, ‘This story’s terrible.’ But the algorithm doesn’t care about your righteous indignation. The algorithm cares that you’re engaging with content.” She urges journalists and everyday people to shift the lens, focusing less on the liars and more on how lies and ideologies have impacted communities.

Warzel, meanwhile, also urges social media users to slow down. Be wary about clicking that retweet button. If a story seems too perfect, doubt it. If a crazy news story doesn’t come from an established media outlet, wait until at least one outlet covers it—ideally two.

Marantz, the expert on online trolls, says the long-term solution to the disinformation crisis is a deep and philosophical one that he’d explain at length with phrases like “reaffirming our commitment to epistemic depth.” For now, the simpler way to react to disinformation is to rely a little bit more on the old gatekeepers. “If you read The New York Times or the BBC or the alt-weekly in your town or The New Yorker, you’re going to be better informed than if you read Facebook,” Marantz says. Not because they’re perfect—there’s a billion reasons to complain about mainstream journalists, he says—but because, for all their flaws, right now they’re the best we’ve got. “It’s the best short-term solution,” he says, “as opposed to just living a world where no one knows anything.” f

• Wait before reposting. You won’t need to apologize for forwarding untrue information if you never share it to begin with.

• Don’t share something just because it comes from a friend. Double check the source to make sure the reporting is from a respectable publication, and that they’re not just summarizing the reaction on social media. Better yet, wait until a second publication independently confirms the reports.

• Read the actual story first. Follow links to make sure the links actually back up the news stories. Biased news sources are infamous for making sensational claims in their headlines that the underlying material doesn’t support.

• Be cautious about sharing bogus stories just to point how stupid or wrong they are. That’s an easy way to inadvertently spread a falsehood.

• Mute #Resistance Twitter stars like Seth Abramson and Eric Garland and ignore far-right websites like Gateway Pundit, Breitbart and (increasingly) The Federalist.

Just because they tell you what you want to hear doesn’t mean they’re giving you a straight story.

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Tomorrow’s News, Today 2020 IN MUSIC NEWS AND GOSSIP

By Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com Depending on whom you ask, this is either the final year of the last decade or the first year of a new decade. I swear we go through this same stupid controversy every 10 years, but whatever. At the very least, we can undoubtedly say we inhabit a world where quick news of questionable origin is the law of the land. And if it’s in list form, even better! To this end, here’s your annual rundown of 2020 Athens music scene highlights.

hatched a plan for an anti-April compilation album. Everything was recorded in about a day, and the record slipped out completely unnoticed via Bandcamp before the second week of the month. But why?

Well, as the liner notes, uh, noted, “The old saying goes, ‘April showers bring May flowers.’ But what do Mayflowers bring? Oppression!”

JANUARY: While enjoying a relaxing Christ-

MAY: Like clockwork,

mas with his family, local beat-maker and rapper WesdaRuler vowed to himself once again that he would keep it real in the new year. Noticing that even the best-behaved children can still get outta hand sometimes, though, he also vowed to do it for the kids.

Thus, his first album of children’s hip hop, titled Baby Boom Bap aka Wesley’s Rules, landed online by month’s end.

a surprising number of music scene members, enthusiasts and hangers-on graduated from the University of Georgia, proving, yet again, that while Huntsville, AL, may have more PhDs per capita, Athens has the most over-educated assortment of doormen, bartenders, craft makers and beard owners. Just joshin’, y’all. We were all super proud of you!

the same turn, less exclusivity—multiple Athens-area bands bonded together for the first ever “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” Valentine’s Day ball. If you were there, then you know who played. If you don’t know, then I guess it looks like someone got left-swiped, partner.

MARCH: Taking their cue from some list of

AUGUST: Too Hot to Fish. Period.

SEPTEMBER: Untold numbers of supremely

under-attended “Back to School” bashes were held. The only one of note was the sold-out rooftop show by DJ triplets Booty Boyz. Because, as we all know, nothing

while watching the reborn Crest Cavity Creeps lead the gathered throng through a terrifying and exhilarating journey.

Participants and onlookers were thrilled

by Count Chocula’s sundae fountain and beside themselves with joy as they imbibed small-batch Monster Mash whiskey. And, just like every other Halloween-related thing, all of this was worth at least onethird less by sunset and basically free by midnight.

NOVEMBER: Ah, Thanksgiving month. Also known as “Hell, I’ve got three finals in two days, can you cover my shift, why not, come on?!” and “That weird month where everything feels like it’s slowing down, but somehow every band you know is playing at least three times.”

Kidding aside, we were all very thankful for your band.

I promise. Pinky swear.

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side hustles they read on an influencer Instagram account, nearly every musician headed to SXSW listed their residence on Airbnb. While they spent most of the week dreaming of dancing $50 bills in their head, they were rudely awakened by the fact that literally no one heads to Athens for spring break.

JUNE: AthFest came and went, but 2020 was its transitional year. Seeking to raise more funds via tiered ticketing and premium alcohol sales, the most expensive admission consisted of an entire personal bottle of Grey Goose vodka and a half gallon of Tropicalia served in a private, single-occupancy closet inside The Rook & Pawn.

APRIL: Early this month, during their weekly

JULY: Seeking to honor some aspect of the

potluck dinner, the Athens punk scene

United States without being all Toby Keith

really connects with the new generation than three middle-aged guys who are, in real life, a scientist, an antiques dealer and a chef/BitCoin investor. Someone call Pedro Almodovar! I swear, the stories just write themselves sometimes.

OCTOBER: The Wild Rumpus, founded by King of Halloween Timi Conley, finally sold out and cashed in. Relinquishing his Grand Marshal baton, Conley counted fat stacks

final act of protest against gentrification, insane rent increases, corporate buyouts and a complete lack of convenience, the music scene, along with key downtown merchants, restaurateurs and club owners, packed the flag and moved out.

Seeking plentiful parking, reasonable rent and utilities, diversity and dependable operating hours, the New Downtown at Georgia Square Mall became a reality. The name came courtesy of longtime scene member Kathleen Falke, and honestly, it’s a concept so brilliant and completely obvious, it’s shocking it hadn’t occurred yet. Sure, before it all went down, you laughed. But you and I both knew that “Stranger Things” had happened. See ya in 2021! f

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Five Reasons to Feel Good About the Dawgs GEORGIA STARTS 2020 ON A HIGH NOTE

By Cy Brown news@flagpole.com Pickens had shown flashes of brilliance all season, and we’ve all seen his lofty potential. But this was his coming out party on the national stage. The man might be the best receiver to step foot on campus since A.J. Yeah, he’s that good.

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This defense ain’t going nowhere. Without exaggeration, the 2019 Georgia defense may be the best in school history—and without the star power of someone like Roquan Smith or Deandre Baker. This was a team defense.

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Point being, as long as Kirby is in charge, talent won’t be a problem.

A bunch of DGDs are heading to the NFL. It sucks to lose so many talented players, but it’s great to see Georgia boys make good. The juniors and seniors who left have been part of one of the most successful and exciting spells in school history and revitalized the program. Shout out to Rodrigo Blankenship, Andrew Thomas, D’Andre Swift, Isaiah Wilson, Brian Herrien and every other junior and senior leaving the program. DGDs.

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The new year is a time for renewal and resolution. It’s a fresh start for everyone, a turning point, an opportunity to be better than we were the year before. That includes Georgia football.

The Dawgs began 2020 on the right foot, defeating Baylor 26-14 in the Sugar Bowl. It’s the first time since the 2016 season—Kirby Smart’s first at the helm of the program—that Georgia has ended the season with a win, and I had forgotten what a mental boost a season-ending win could provide.

Despite all the problems with the team this season— many of which were still present in the Sugar Bowl—I’m feeling pretty positive about the team heading into the offseason. Had you told me I’d feel this way in the aftermath of that bloodbath against LSU in the SEC Championship Game, I wouldn’t have believed you. But, I have to say, seeing Kirby’s goofy ass smiling during the trophy ceremony and the players celebrating their accomplishments postgame has refreshed my spirit and given me hope.

So I’m resolving to stay positive about Georgia football this year. Anyone who reads this column regularly knows that I wasn’t very positive throughout the last season, and, I must say, it wasn’t great! If I’m being negative about a 12-2 season, it probably means I’m an asshole, and I don’t wanna be an asshole. I wanna be excited about Georgia football!

Here are some reasons to be excited:

and prepare for their NFL careers, the defense that beat Baylor was essentially the defense that we’ll have next year, plus some uber-talented freshmen. Say what you will about Kirby’s ability to run an offense, but the man can build one helluva defense.

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Jake Fromm will do… something. I’m writing this on Jan. 5 and still don’t know whether he’s staying or jumping to the NFL. Since y’all are in the future, you may well know. If he’s back, he’ll have the opportunity to become one of the GOAT Georgia players and redeem what was objectively an awful second half of the season. And he’ll get to keep throwing to Pickens. If he goes, we’ll likely replace him with a transfer, be that Houston’s D’Eriq King or Stanford’s K.J. Costello. As for Fromm’s legacy, he’s perhaps the most successful QB in school history outside of Buck Belue. Fromm’s list of accomplishments includes three consecutive SEC East titles, an SEC Championship, a Rose Bowl and a Sugar Bowl. That’s a DGD if I’ve ever seen one. f

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Creature Comforts Funds the Arts BREWERY AWARDS GRANTS TO SIX LOCAL RECIPIENTS

By Alden DiCamillo arts@flagpole.com

trapeze performance, movement education and other forms of performance art. Get Artistic will help them provide scholarships for community members and students that can not afford to participate in classes. “DIY artist space� is a new descriptor for grant recipients that have created collective spaces that are beneficial to the Athens arts community. Bates and Stevens wanted to relieve the burden of self producing creative collaboration. Camille Hayes, a long-standing Athens graphic designer and artist, saw the need for more venue spaces where artists could show and sell work. Earlier this year, she transformed her graphic design studio into a gallery, naming it the tiny ATH gallery. Tiny ATH has since exhibited

Creature Comforts Brewery has just ing quarterly artist grants for $500 and wrapped up the second year of its Get periodic micro grants of $100 to artists in Artistic grant program. Get Artistic is part need of materials and supplies. of a developing, progressive business model The Athens Symphony Orchestra is a that aligns Creature Comforts’ interests nonprofit, community formed group that with artist practices and creative economies includes a diverse range of ages and people in Athens. Led by curator Madeline Bates who gather to learn and play free concerts and Matt Stevens, the brewery’s vice president of strategic impact, the program grew organically from Bates’ exhibition curation in the brewery’s tasting room, expanding to the formal level of grant funding last year and this year.

Stevens says Get Artistic acknowledges that Athens is a contemporary center for art. The city is often nostalgically linked to the 1980s and ’90s, a time when the art markets of the Southeast boomed. However, Stevens and Bates, along with the rest of the Get Artistic team, want to bolster the contemporary and vibrant nature of Athens’ art economy by supporting a number of different arts practices.

The 2019 grant recipients fell into one of three categories: nonprofit organizations, DIY artist spaces and individual artist practices. Six grants totaling $18,300 were awarded, with funding This year’s grant recipients include the Athens Area Arts Council, Athens Symphony Orchestra, Canopy Studios, Abigail West, primarily generated through the Broderick Flanigan and tiny ATH gallery. brewery’s Get Artistic pale ale and merchandise.

The Athens Area Arts Council, a nonfor the Athens area. Get Artistic will help monthly artists, featuring a plethora of profit entity, received funds to bolster its the symphony award scholarships to coldifferent media. Through Hayes’ vigorous creation of an Athens artist registry, a long lege students who fulfill specialty positions promotion of each artist, tiny ATH has been term and time consuming process that the within the orchestra, freeing up other mon- able to bolster community artists from council is outsourcing to a professional web etary resources that the symphony uses to Athens. Get Artistic eases the cost of lightdesigner and later to an intern from the cover overhead costs. ing, extra hours, repair, install and numerUniversity of Georgia. Get Artistic funds Canopy Studio has, for the last two ous other small details that come with DIY will also allow the council to continue offerdecades, provided community space for endeavors.

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The individual artist grants were given to Abigail West and Broderick Flanigan, acknowledging that individual artists often have to work two or three jobs to support unpaid projects that directly benefit communities. Flanigan is a community activist and artist whose work seeks to craft the history of Athens in a way that highlights self-expression and sheds light on histories that aren’t always visible. He’s a director of youth art spaces that create mural projects.

Get Artistic will help Flanigan’s summer 2020 mural project provide stipends to young teenage participants.

West, a recent graduate of the Lamar Dodd School of Art and a community activist whose work centers on sustainability and reconciling humans’ relationship with the Earth, has been renovating and creating furniture with old street signs and other reclaimed materials. This work developed through community collaborations where both West and those she worked with were able to hone skills in reclamation, restoration and material reuse. The Get Artistic grant will go towards her use of tools, material and space.

Within the grant, there’s a labor stipend so West doesn’t have to work second and third jobs to fund a project that benefits both the community and the Earth.

Get Artistic has aligned itself with Envision Athens, a project that seeks to fulfill community needs with diverse and intersectional infrastructure. Where Envision Athens takes the space of intersection and mediator between business and arts spaces, Get Artistic is seeking to directly align itself with the interest and needs of art and artist communities. This reflects the vision of the brewery’s Get Comfortable campaign, an extension of Get Curious akin to Get Artistic: “Because the need is great and the social landscape dynamic, we believe everyone should have a place to support the city they love. DIY philanthropy is admirable—crucial, even— but aligning the impact strategies of local organizations is better.� f

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2019 Food Roundup THE YEAR IN ATHENS RESTAURANT NEWS

By Hillary Brown food@flagpole.com

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If there’s an obvious story on the Athens Peruvian food in a family atmosphere, and food scene in 2019, it’s the number of appeared to be finding an audience. Farm places that closed: Ike & Jane; Eden’s Cafe; Cart transitioned from a food truck to an the downtown Taco Stand; Pouch, which is incredibly well executed brick and mortar, still in the retail business; El Zarco; Bella expanding its options, having fun with Noche; Bajan Delight; The Sultan; Caborita; specials on a regular basis and not wavering Manila Express; Koa Surf Bar; both in its commitment to good local produce locations of Keba; the Eastside and Five as the basis of its menu. Punta Cana Latin Points Your Pies; the very last Mirko Pasta; Taqueria Mundos; Magnolia Cafe in Crawford; Pinky’s Indian Cuisine in Commerce (but worth the drive); Franklin House Cafe; probably Craft Public House (still unconfirmed); Big Family Cafe; the brick-and-mortar location of the Phickles store; and Uncommon Gourmet. They all closed in 2019.

It wasn’t just local places either. Burgerim, both locations of Gigi’s Cupcakes, Bone Island Grill, Fatz, On the Border, Crazy Dough’s, Golden Chick and the downtown Einstein Bros.

Bagels also all shuttered. Food costs went up around the world.

People wanted, rightly, to get paid more. Rents in Athens continued to grow faster than salaries. None of that is good for restaurants, which have tight margins at the best of times.

On the other hand, if I told Punta Cana Latin Grill you that Athens added Persian, Korean, Peruvian, Dominican, Viet-Cajun and birria restaurants in 2019, Grill moved into the space that was previplus a kombucha place, a cheese shop and ously Siri Thai in the Bottleworks on Prince, some upscale eateries, you might conclude becoming Athens’ first Dominican restauwe were doing OK after all. It’s hard to tell, rant. If you need something to fill your belly but there absolutely were bright spots. and warm your heart, mofongo—plantains Mifflin House took over from Big Family mashed with broth and a ton of garlic—will Cafe, in the Homewood Hills shopping cendo it. International Grill and Bar opened ter, serving fresh, flavorful, well-presented toward the end of the year on Mitchell

Bridge Road, offering the super accessible cuisine that is Persian food, with an amazing room for kids to play in while their families eat in peace, and plans to expand the menu to add things like tahdig, a wonderful crisped rice dish.

D92 Korean BBQ opened on Baxter Street, part of a small chain out of Atlanta doing legit Korean, with great banchan that changes regularly, fun popsicles for dessert that are hard to obtain anywhere else—even in Duluth—shiny music videos for boy bands and lunch specials that are a good deal. Kajun Seafood and Wings didn’t offer a lot of frills, but its spicy garlic butter-steamed plates of shrimp, crab, crawfish and more hit the spot. Figment Kombucha opened up on Baxter, filling up growlers

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Chuck’s Fish took over the old Greyhound building downtown, executing a great renovation of the historic space. And if the Lil’ Ice Cream Dude finally opening up his Cool World store on the Eastside isn’t a feelgood story, I don’t know what is. See? 2019 wasn’t all hot garbage.

Also opening last year were Latino’s Taqueria y Mariscos, taking over what had been La Estrella, on Hawthorne, for a long time; Giana’s Mexican Grill and Lickin’ Chicken on Oconee Street; Square One Fish Co. making a return to Athens, this time in Normaltown, in the renovated former P&M Army Store; Uncle Ernie’s Pub ’n’ Grub on Washington Street downtown, marking the return of the Battinelli clan to the restaurant biz; an Athens location of Jefferson’s Carriage House buffet on Atlanta Highway; Doughby’s Pizza and More in Watkinsville; El Barrio, from SP2 restaurant group, in a renovation of an old house in Five Points, doing tacos and tequila and mostly outdoor dining; Pelican’s Snoballs on Baxter; Matt Downes’ Homewood Social bowling alley in Homewood Hills; Birrieria & Taqueria Jalisco in Nicholson, serving tasty goat and mutton stew; Picnic Basket Meal Market, Butcher & Vine and Martino’s in Watkinsville, the latter in the former location of Bella Noche; locations of Newk’s, Bruster’s and I Heart Mac and Cheese— the first two on Epps Bridge, the latter in The Mark—and a La Cabana de Don Juan on Highway 78, in the same shopping center as Fox’s Pizza Den. Dolce Vita Trattoria Italiana became Osteria Athena, with a tweaked menu and perhaps lower prices, and Buvez, in Boulevard, added a full bar at the beginning of the year.

This year should bring, at the very least, an El Azteca downtown; the opening of the Cafe on Lumpkin in Five Points, with a proper English tea and nice baked goods; a Farm Burger on Prince, in the old St. Joe’s development; whatever kind of restaurant Go Bar’s proprietors decide to turn it into; Hook and Reel Cajun Seafood and Bar, where On the Border was; a Jinya Ramen Bar downtown; Richard Miley’s Noodle Bar in Watkinsville; a location of weed-themed sandwich franchise Cheba Hut; Athentic Brewing in Boulevard; and, fingers crossed, the third Cali N Tito’s, off Jefferson Road. f

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Lyndon House Arts Center · 6:30 p.m. · FREE! In conjunction with the upcoming launch of the Athens Music Walk of Fame, which will recognize some of the city’s most influential creative forces, the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission has organized an evening of presentations on African-American contributions to local music history. Speakers include Art Rosenbaum, musician, artist and folk historian; Clarke County School District pre-K coordinator Gregory Hull; and Mary Helen Hoque, a musicology PhD candidate at UGA. Topics will include folk musician Joe Rakestraw, sacred choral music and George Davis, Athens’ first civic band leader. Refreshments and conversation will follow. [Gabe Vodicka]

Tuesday 7 ART: Gallery Talk (Georgia Museum of Art) New York Times correspondent and former Flagpole editor Richard Fausset gives a gallery talk about the work of comics artist Patrick Dean in the exhibition “The Monsters Are Due on Broad Street.”

2 p.m. FREE! georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Western Style Square Dance Lessons (Athens First UMC) Learn how to Square Dance.

The first three lessons are free, and couples and singles are welcome.

6:45–8:45 p.m. $5. 706-340-0480, michel344@charter.net EVENTS: Swing Night at the Garden (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Choose between an hour-long East Coast Swing or Lindy Hop lesson then dance under the

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40 Watt Club · 7 p.m. · $10 Athens-based emo singer-songwriter Elijah Johnston will play a record release show at the 40 Watt on Thursday to promote his newest album, Strangers. The album is set to drop Jan. 9, but fans can preorder it on Bandcamp and get three tracks ahead of its release, including the hook-filled “Find Your Bliss.” Thursday’s show will feature support from special guests and Athens locals Annie Leeth and Lane Marie. Leeth is an experimental violinist and singer-songwriter who, like Johnston, is celebrating a new release.

Her seven-track album Mortal was made available Dec. 6. Marie is a synthpop artist who creates music she describes as “boundaryless.” [Rosemary Scott]

palms. 7 p.m. $4–6. www.botgarden. uga.edu GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) General trivia hosted by Jacob and Wes. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, 2301 College Station Road) Every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern GAMES: Tuesday Night Trivia (The Foundry) Tonight’s theme is “The Office.” 6:30 p.m. FREE! www. thefoundryathens.com GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) Hosted by James Majure. 6 p.m. FREE! www. therookandpawn.com GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) Westside and Eastside locations of Locos Grill and Pub feature trivia night every Tuesday. 8 p.m.

FREE! www.locosgrill.com

GAMES: Trivia (The Office Sports Bar and Grill) Play to win. Every Tuesday.

8 p.m. FREE! 706-521-5898 GAMES: Trivia (Starland Pizzeria and Pub) Test your trivia knowledge. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-8773 KIDSTUFF: Turn Up Tuesday Dance Challenge (ACC Library) Show off your best dance moves at the library’s monthly dance party. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ athens KIDSTUFF: Anime Club (Bogart Library) Meet other fans of anime and manga to discover books, art, shows, snacks and Japanese culture.

Grades 6–12. 6 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Train Week (ACC Library) Hear stories about trainings and see Dr. Maurice Snook’s amazing model railroad trains in action.

Jan. 7–8, 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

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Donderos’ Kitchen · 5–7 p.m. · FREE! Through textiles by David M. Hayes and watercolors by Judith K. DeJoy, the exhibition “Connections” focuses on familiarity as a theme. Hayes’ rugs are made primarily with old T-shirts carefully cut into same-sized strips that are hooked into a mat to build designs focused on color and pattern. Each small piece can take dozens of hours to complete, a slow yet rewarding process that the artist finds to be both challenging and peaceful.

DeJoy’s figurative and animal watercolor paintings engage emotion by attempting to capture gesture and movement through loose, visible brushstrokes and mark-making. The exhibition will remain on view through January. [Jessica Smith] Jan. 11, 11 a.m. Jan. 12, 2 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Toddler Time (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Songs, rhymes, books and educational play.

11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/madison KIDSTUFF: Full STEAM Ahead (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Ages 5–10 can explore topics in science, technology, engineering, art and math. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/madison KIDSTUFF: Teen D&D Club (ACC Library) A Dungeons and Dragons adventure in the library. Beginners welcome. Grades 6–12. 4–6:30 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org LECTURES & LIT: Bogart Bookies Book Club (Bogart Library) Discuss Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. 1–2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart

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Georgia Museum of Art · 2 p.m. · FREE! “Master, Pupil, Follower: 16th- to 18th-Century Italian Works on Paper” includes roughly 30 drawings and prints to represent distinct styles and Italian regional schools from a pivotal time in art history. Artists include Giulio Romano, Claudio Ridolfi, Palma il Giovane, Guercino, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Salvatore Rosa and more. The afternoon tour will be led by Nelda Damiano, the museum’s Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, who co-curated the exhibition alongside Robert Randolf Coleman, professor emeritus of Renaissance and Baroque art history at the University of Notre Dame, and Benedetta Spadaccini of Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milano. [JS]

MEETINGS: Candidate Jail Debate (ACC Library) A panel of former inmates will share their experiences inside jail or prison and discuss opinions about political candidates fielding questions from inmates, extending economic and political power to inmates, and the misperceptions about the prison population. 6–7:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens

Wednesday 8 EVENTS: Rabbit Box (The Foundry) Rabbit Box is storytelling by adults for adult ears. This month’s theme is “Hindsight 20/20.” 7 p.m. $7. www. rabbitbox.org GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) Gather a team. 8 p.m. www.saucehouse.com

GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) House cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Nerd Trivia (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Every Wednesday.

Prizes and house cash. 8 p.m. FREE! www.grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern, 2440 W. Broad St.) Compete for prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) Every Wednesday. 6 p.m.

FREE! www.facebook.com/willysmexicanaathens KIDSTUFF: Mother Goose on the Loose (Bogart Library) This special story time is designed to promote parental bonding and early learning in babies ages 0–24 months.

Registration required. 10–11 a.m.

FREE! 770-725-9443 www.athenslibrary.org/bogart

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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: Step into Music (ACC Library) An afterschool music class with Mr. Evan. For children ages 5–7 and their caregiver. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Teen Social Justice Club (ACC Library) Build self-confidence and develop speaking, communication, written and leadership skills presented by the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement.

Ages 10–17 are invited to attend.

4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens KIDSTUFF: Train Week (ACC Library) See Tuesday listing for full description. Jan. 7–8, 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. Jan. 11, 11 a.m. Jan. 12, 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens KIDSTUFF: Wonderful Wednesday: What’s the Story?

(Bogart Library) A program to engage school-aged children in storytelling. Ages 4 & up. 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. & 4–5 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart LECTURES & LIT: Anime Club (Oconee County Library) Meet with other fans of anime and manga to discover books, shows, movies, snacks, art and Japanese culture.

Grades 6-12. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/oconee LECTURES & LIT: Tapping into Community: Craft, Culture and Innovation (Studio 225, 225 W. Broad St.) A panel discussion with representatives of Creature Comforts and Allagash meet with Grace Bagwell Adams of the Athens Wellbeing Project for a discussion on breweries and culture. Presented by the Global Georgia Initiative public event series of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Followed by a reception at Creature Comforts at 6 p.m. 4 p.m. FREE! davemarr@ uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Word of Mouth Open Poetry (The Globe) Open mic poetry readings. This month’s featured reader is Mark Flanigan.

8–11 p.m. FREE! www.facebook. com/athenswordofmouth

Thursday 9 ART: Artist Reception (Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market) See abstract acrylic and mixed media paintings by farmer and artist Kevin Frazier.

5:30–6:30 p.m. FREE! www.heirloomathens.com CLASSES: Athens Happy Squares Dance Club (Covenant Presbyterian Church) Experienced square dancers, couples and singles are invited to this square dance club every second and fourth Thursday. 7 p.m. FREE! 706-340-0480 CLASSES: Teen Studio: Twists, Knots, Loops and Casting (Georgia Museum of Art) Ages 13–18 are invited to explore abstract sculptural forms in two exhibitions by contemporary artists Kevin Cole and Rachel Whiteread and then create sculptures of their own. Led by local artist and educator Kristen Bach. Pizza will be provided. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum. org EVENTS: African American Music Heritage in Athens: An Evening of Presentations (Lyndon House Arts Center) In celebration of the upcoming launch of the Athens Music Walk of Fame, the community is invited to listen and learn about the history and the rich contributions of black musicians in the Athens

area. Art Rosenbaum, Gregory Hull and Mary Helen Hoque will speak, followed by questions and refreshments. See Calendar Pick on p. 14.

6:30–8 p.m. FREE! www.accgov. com/lyndonhouse EVENTS: Fix Your Own Bike (BikeAthens) Get help fixing your bike from experts so you’re safe to ride. 6–8:30 p.m. $10 (suggested). www.bikeathens.org EVENTS: KnitLits (Bogart Library) Knitters of all levels are invited to have fun, share ideas and knit.

Beginning knitters are encouraged to attend. Ages 16 & up. 6–8 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart GAMES: Music Trivia (Saucehouse Barbeque) Meet at the bar for a round of trivia. 8 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/saucehousebbq GAMES: Trivia Night (Terrapin Beer Co.) Hosted by Shelton Sellers from Classic City Trivia every Thursday.

5:30–7:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer. com KIDSTUFF: Bingo for Teens (ACC Library) Join Athens Alliance Coalition for a fun competition with prizes, snacks and more. 4 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Book Club (ACC Library) Read The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo. Stop by the Children’s Desk to register and check out a copy of the book. Activities and snacks provided. 4 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Lego Club (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Create Lego art and enjoy Lego-based games. Blocks provided. For ages 8 and up. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/madison KIDSTUFF: Teen Thursdays (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Teens can drop in each week for a different activity.

This month’s activities include book themed snacks, a superhero movie and button making. No registration necessary. Ages 13–18. 5–7 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison LECTURES & LIT: Estate Planning (Oconee County Library) Learn about estate planning. 11 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950, www.athenslibrary. org/oconee LECTURES & LIT: Inclusive Book Club (Madison County Library, Danielsville) This facilitated book club serves adults of all abilities and will be reading out loud and discussing book of the month Cat Stories by James Herriot. 1 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison SPORTS: UGA Hockey (The Classic Center) The UGA Ice Dawgs face off against Alabama. 7 p.m. $10. www. ugahockey.com

Friday 10 ART: Artist Open Reception (Donderos’ Kitchen) In the “Connections” exhibit, local artist David M. Hayes displays his rug textiles as art forms derived from their rich utilitarian context, and Judith K. DeJoy offers both figurative and animal watercolor paintings that strive to engage emotion and tell a story.

See Calendar Pick on p. 14. 5–7 p.m. FREE! www.donderoskitchen. com ART: Clay Night at OCAF (OCAF, Watkinsville) Instructors will guide participants through the basics of wheel throwing and options for decorating the pieces they make. Ticket price includes glazing and firing.

Pre-registration required. Ages 14 and up. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. 6 p.m. $35. 706-769-4565, www.ocaf.com

ART: Paperlight (Lamar Dodd School of Art, Glass Gallery, 3rd floor) A joint exhibition features handmade paper and masking tape pieces by Ciel Rodriguez and Paula Reynaldi.

6 p.m. FREE! www.cielrodriguez. com, www.paulareynaldi.com COMEDY: The Bilboquet Theory (Moonlight Theater) Swiss comedian Leo Mohr guides audiences through an hour satire of self-discovery featuring meditation, beautiful music, learning and counting together. Jan. 10–11, 8 p.m. & Jan. 12, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. $8–14. www.moonlighttheatercompany.com EVENTS: Full Moon Hike (Southeast Clarke Park) Take a walk under the stars. 6 p.m. 706-613-3991 EVENTS: Morning Mindfulness (Georgia Museum of Art) Participate in a guided meditation session in the galleries. Meet in the lobby.

9:30–10:30 a.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org KIDSTUFF: Hip-Hop Yoga (ACC Library) Five Points yoga instructor SJ leads a fun and relaxing yoga class with a hip-hop flair. For grades 6–12. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Spanish Storytime (Oconee County Library) Listen and practice Spanish songs and stories. Participants do not need to speak Spanish. 4 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: STEAM Saturday (Bogart Library) Join Ms. Donna for snow science, crafts and experiments. 11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart SPORTS: UGA Hockey (The Classic Center) The UGA Ice Dawgs play against Alabama. 7:30 p.m. $10. www.ugahockey.com

Saturday 11 ART: Arts Professional Development Summit (Lyndon House Arts Center) Spend the day at the Arts Center increasing your career skills through a series of short, one-hour courses ranging from mastering social media, grant writing, art handling, resume development, and other career necessities in the creative field. Registration required. 9 a.m.–4 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/lyndonhousearts ART: Atanur Dogan (OCAF, Watkinsville) Turkish-Canadian watercolor artist Atanur Dogan will offer a watercolor painting demo.

Dogan is the founder and president of the International Watercolor Society. 1–3 p.m. www.ocaf.com COMEDY: The Bilboquet Theory (Moonlight Theater) See Friday listing for full description. Jan. 10–11, 8 p.m. & Jan. 12, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. $8–14. www.moonlighttheatercompany.com EVENTS: Fuel Hot Yoga Open House Weekend (Fuel Hot Yoga) Enjoy yoga and pilates classes along with specials and giveaways all weekend long. Sign up online or on the fuel Hot Yoga App to RSVP. Jan. 11–12. FREE! www.fuelhotyoga.com EVENTS: Getting Started with Genealogy (ACC Library) This class introduces resources available when researching family history.

Heritage Room staff will introduce the basics of genealogical research, available resources, and how to start a family tree project. All attendees will receive an information packet with resources. 2 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org EVENTS: Really Really Free Market (Reese & Pope Park, 375 Reese St.) Just like a yard sale, but everything is free. Bring what you can, take what you need. Second Saturday of every month. 12–2

p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ rrfmathens EVENTS: Winter Market 2020 (The Tasting Room at Jittery Joe’s Roasting Company) Shop local and surrounding food and market vendors weekly on Saturdays through Mar. 14. All ages welcome. 6–8 p.m.

FREE! www.culinarykitchenathens. com GAMES: Satur-D&D (Oconee County Library) Join in on a game of Dungeons & Dragons. Grades 6–12.

3–5 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Family Day: Comic Strip Monsters (Georgia Museum of Art) Explore the art of local cartoonist Patrick Dean in an exhibition that includes cover art, a weekly comic strip for Flagpole and examples of his student work from UGA. After viewing Dean’s work, participants are invited to create their own comic strip to take home. 10 a.m.

FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org KIDSTUFF: Train Week (ACC Library) See Tuesday listing for full description. Jan. 7–8, 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. Jan. 11, 11 a.m. Jan. 12, 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens LECTURES & LIT: Book Discussion: Dr. King’s Where Do We Go From Here? (ACC Library) Discuss Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s final book Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? with Georgia activist and U.S. Senate candidate Tamara Johnson Shealey and ACC Commissioner Tim Denson. In this work, Dr. King expands upon his themes of racial and social justice and calls for economic justice and wealth equality. 2:30–4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens PERFORMANCE: Athens Showgirl Cabaret (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) Drag performances by local artists.

9 p.m. www.athensshowgirlcabaret. com SPORTS: UGA Hockey (The Classic Center) The UGA Ice Dawgs face off Florida. 7:30 p.m. $10. www. ugahockey.com

Sunday 12 CLASSES: Portals: At the Intersection of Landscape and Self Workshop (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Join Beth Thompson, author of the book and card deck Portals: At the Intersection of Landscape and Self, for a journaling and mindfulness class dedicated to helping participants explore their goals for the new year and how they intersect with the environment.

Portals cards, journal prompts and collages will be provided, but participants are encouraged to bring any craft supplies of their own. Attendees will receive their own card deck and autographed book. Registration required. 1–6 p.m. $81 (Friends of the Garden), $90. www.botgarden. uga.edu CLASSES: Calligraphy Class (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Mike Moak teaches lettering. Supplies are provided.

Registration is required. 3 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison CLASSES: Yoga & Coffee (1000 Faces Coffee) Shakti Power Yoga teams up with 1000 Faces Coffee for a yoga session in the café with coffee to follow. 9–10 a.m. $10. www. shaktiyogaathens.com COMEDY: The Bilboquet Theory (Moonlight Theater) See Friday listing for full description. Jan. 10–11, 8 p.m. & Jan. 12, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. $8–14. www.moonlighttheatercompany.com

EVENTS: Fuel Hot Yoga Open House Weekend (Fuel Hot Yoga) See Saturday listing for full description. Jan. 11–12. FREE! www. fuelhotyoga.com FILM: Avalon (ACC Library) The Athens Jewish Film Festival presents a 30th anniversary celebration for this Barry Levinson film that portrays one immigrant family’s journey from diaspora to assimilation. Enjoy snacks and a brief speech before the screening. 2:30 p.m. FREE! www. athensjff.org GAMES: Chess Club (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Ages 8 and up are invited to play. All experience levels welcome. 3 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/madison GAMES: Rockin’ Roll Bingo (Starland Pizzeria and Pub) Play to win. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-613-8773 KIDSTUFF: Lego Club (Oconee County Library) Create Lego art and enjoy Lego-based activities. Legos provided. Ages 0–11. Jan. 12, 3 p.m. & Jan. 14, 4 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Train Week (ACC Library) See Tuesday listing for full description. Jan. 7–8, 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. Jan. 11, 11 a.m. Jan. 12, 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/athens

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: Preschool Pals (Bogart Library) Preschool-aged children will learn social and language skills through songs stories and crafts.

Ages almost 3–almost 5. 11:30 a.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart MEETINGS: Federation of Neighborhoods Forum (Ciné) Learn about the new ACC inclusion office. Mayor Kelly Girtz and ACC Inclusion Officer Krystle Cobran will share the plans and goals for this new division of the Manager’s Office.

7:30 p.m. FREE! www.accneighborhoods.org OUTDOORS: Jefferson River Road Walk Audit (3870 Old Jefferson Rd.) Join Athens-Clarke County Transportation and Public Works for an evaluation of Jefferson River Road. Provide perspective and help identify ways to improve the roadway for all transportation modes. Participants will be provided a reflective vest and are asked to wear comfortable shoes. RSVP required. 4–5 p.m. FREE! 706-6133460, hillary.essig@accgov.com

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CLASSES: Western Partner Dance Lessons (VFW) Linda and David lead Western partner dance lessons.

Singles welcome. 6–8 p.m. $5. bgeddis@mindspring.com COMEDY: Gorgeous George’s Improv League (The Globe) Local improvisors invent scenes on the spot and compete for the coveted screaming chicken. Every Monday upstairs. 9 p.m. FREE! www.krakinjokes.com EVENTS: But First, Coffee (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Enjoy coffee and camaraderie in the Jere Ayers room. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/madison FILM: Showdown at the Equator (Flicker Theatre & Bar) Fists-for-hire Sonny Chiba betrays the Yakuza to protect a deceased billionaire’s daughter in ultra-violent The Street Fighter. 7 p.m. FREE! www.facebook. com/showdownattheequator GAMES: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Highwire Lounge) Test your general knowledge for prizes. 8–10 p.m.

FREE! www.highwirelounge.com GAMES: Rock and Roll Trivia (Little Kings Shuffle Club) Get a team together and show off your extensive music knowledge. Hosted by Jonathan Thompson. 9 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/lkshuffleclub KIDSTUFF: Homeschool Hangout (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Homeschool families are invited to join staff for an introduction to library resources geared toward homeschooling. There will also be a library scavenger hunt activity for children and teens. 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison 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 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 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

ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) Join Nelda Damiano, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art and co-curator of the “Master, Pupil, Follower” exhibition, for a special tour. See Calendar Pick on p. 14. 2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Computer Class: Google Photos (ACC Library) Registration required. 10–11:30 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650, www.athenslibrary.org/athens COMEDY: Decaf Comedy Open Mic (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) Hear comics from Athens and Atlanta.

Newcomers welcome. Email to perform. 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 “Beaujolais.”

Reservations required. 6 p.m. $20. 706-354-7901, www.heirloomathens.com GAMES: Trivia (Starland Pizzeria and Pub) Test your trivia knowledge. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-8773 GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) See Tuesday listing for full description.

8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) See Tuesday listing for full description. 8 p.m. FREE! www. locosgrill.com GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) See Tuesday listing for full description. 6 p.m. FREE! www.therookandpawn.com GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) See Tuesday listing for full description. 8:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern GAMES: Trivia (The Office Sports Bar and Grill) Play to win. Every Tuesday.

8 p.m. FREE! 706-521-5898 KIDSTUFF: Teen D&D Club (ACC Library) A Dungeons and Dragons adventure in the library. Beginners welcome. Grades 6–12. 4–6:30 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org KIDSTUFF: Toddler Time (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Songs, rhymes, books and educational play.

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For families with children ages 18 months to three years. 10 a.m. FREE! madison.hogan@uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: AfricanAmerican Authors Book Club (ACC Library) This month’s title is An American Marriage by Tayari Jones. Newcomers welcome. 5 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (ACC Library) New York Times bestselling-author and illustrator Nathan Hale shares the latest installment of his Hazardous Tales graphic novel series, Major Impossible! 6:30 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens MEETINGS: Athens Fibercraft Guild (Lyndon House Arts Center) This month’s meeting is a field trip to the UGA Special Collections Library where Professor Emeritus, Glen Kaufman, will present “Textiles of India.” Those interested in carpooling are asked to meet in the lower parking lot at the Lyndon House Arts Center by 12:30 p.m. Call for further details. 12:30–2:30 p.m. FREE! 678772-5138, www.athensfiber.org PERFORMANCE: Faculty Artist Series (UGA Ramsey Concert Hall) The UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music kicks off the new season with associate professor of trombone Josh Bynum and a program that detours from his recent solo SEC recital tour to a program of chamber music. 7:30 p.m. $3 (w/ UGA ID), $12. pac.uga.edu

Wednesday 15 COMEDY: Educated Mess (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) See standups from Athens and Atlanta. 9 p.m.

FREE! www.hendershotscoffee.com GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) Gather a team and compete. 8 p.m. www. saucehouse.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) See Wednesday listing for full description. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Nerd Trivia (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) Every Wednesday.

Prizes and house cash. 8 p.m. FREE! www.grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: The Office Wood Sign & Trivia Night (ARTini’s Art Lounge) Participants can test their knowledge on the show “The Office” and make their own 12” x 12” wood sign.

Register by Jan. 15 at 12 p.m. 7–10 p.m. $35. www.artinisartlounge.com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) See Wednesday listing for full description. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) See Wednesday listing for full description. 6 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/willysmexicanaathens KIDSTUFF: Art Cart (After Class) (Georgia Museum of Art) Enjoy “choose your own adventure”-style gallery activities, art projects and games that explore a different gallery each month. 3–4:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org KIDSTUFF: Mother Goose on the Loose (Bogart Library) See Wednesday listing for full description. 10–11 a.m. FREE! 770-7259443 www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Pizza and Paperbacks Teen Book Club (ACC Library) Read with friends, eat pizza and chat about popular Young Adult books.

This month’s selection is Fake ID

by Lamar Giles. 4 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Stories, songs

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and simple crafts. Ages 0–5. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison KIDSTUFF: PRISM (Oconee County Library) PRISM is a safe space for all teens who share a common vision of equality. Grades 6–12. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ oconee KIDSTUFF: Wonderful Wednesday: The Art of It All (Bogart Library) Kids can engage in art activities based on an artist’s biography. 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. & 4–5 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/bogart LECTURES & LIT: Talking About Books: Adult Book Discussion Group (ACC Library) This month’s title is The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. Newcomers welcome.

10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org PERFORMANCE: Dasol Kim (Hugh Hodgson School of Music) Awardwinning pianist Dasol Kim performs a program of works by Beethoven, Scriabin and Chopin. 7:30 p.m. $10 (w/UGA ID), $30. 706-542-4400, pac.uga.edu

LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 7 Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/ NowhereBarAthens MIDNIGHT REVEL Southern rock and soul group from Hattiesburg, MS.

Wednesday 8 Boar’s Head Lounge 11 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC A weekly open-mic jam hosted by Louis Phillip Pelot.

All musicians welcome. Backline provided.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. $7. www.flickertheatreandbar. com EMOTIONAL INDULGENCE Experimental duo described as creating “a swell of pink noise.”

HOLLY WAXWING “Happy glitch” artist from Birmingham, AL. WET GARDEN Synthesizer explorations with erotic incantations.

SPARKLE/TRAUMA Local duo utilizing keyboards, drum machines, bass and more.

The Globe 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 THE HOT HOTTY-HOTS Mary Sigalas, Dan Horowitz, Steve Key and surprise guests play swingin’ tunes from the ’10s, ’20s and ’30s.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 7 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com DJ REINDEER GAMES Athens DJ spins a vinyl-only set with a special guest co-DJ. Porterhouse Grill 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT The longest standing weekly music gig in Athens! Enjoy an evening of original music, improv and standards.

The World Famous 10 p.m. $3. www.facebook.com/theworldfamousathens FOURTH MANSIONS Original acoustic pharma-pop starring Joe

Rowe, Peter Alvanos and Bryan Poole.

FABULOUS BIRD Catchy, lo-fi indie rock with the character of old guitars and drums that’ve been collecting dust in a garage for years.

JIM WILLINGHAM Local songwriter known for fronting the bands Old Smokey and Harry Carey.

Thursday 9 Caledonia Lounge 8 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18–20). www. caledonialounge.com DEAF CONDORS Guitar-drums rock duo from Atlanta.

THE WARSAW CLINIC Atlantabased rock band.

GRAYSON HAUSER Local guitarist blending blues, funk, rock, jazz and more.

40 Watt Club 7 p.m. $10. www.40watt.com ELIJAH JOHNSTON Local indie-folk singer-songwriter. Album release show! See Calendar Pick on p. 14.

LANE MARIE Local indie-pop singer-songwriter.

ANNIE LEETH Local experimental violinist and multi-instrumentalist composer.

The Foundry 8 p.m. $5 (adv.), $7 (door). www.thefoundryathens.com HIBBS FAMILY BAND Folk/bluegrass quartet of family members led

by Rob and Garrett Hibbs.

THE PINK STONES Rootsy local country-rock group led by songwriter Hunter Pinkston.

Georgia Theatre 7 p.m. $15. www.georgiatheatre.com ZOSO One of the longest-tenured Led Zeppelin tribute bands returns to Athens.

The Globe 5 p.m. www.facebook.com/globe. athens THE FUSILIERS New area project featuring well-known musicians playing original and traditional Celtic greengrass music.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 8 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com PLAY ON SIX Local jazz musicians play a grooving set of tunes.

Nowhere Bar 8 p.m. www.facebook.com/ NowhereBarAthens BACK CITY WOODS Macon-based bluegrass and Southern rock band.

VFW 6 p.m. $5–10. 706-543-5940 GROWN FOLKS DANCE PARTY WXAG’s DJ Segar plays jazz and R&B.

Friday 10 Caledonia Lounge 9 p.m. $7 (21+), $9 (18–20). www. caledonialounge.com DOUBLE FERRARI Local band playing virtuosic, riff-laden, instrumental rock and roll.

NIHILIST CHEERLEADER Local pop-punk band with a jaggedly melodic sound.

WALTZ Athens-based rock group with a heavy, noisy sound.

GOOLS “Scary, sweaty” punk band from New Orleans.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. $5. flickertheatreandbar.com JET PHASE Local grunge-influenced indie-rock band.

JUNE’S LANDING New Jersey-based alternative rock band.

UNTIL THREE Athens-based indierock duo.

The Foundry 8 p.m. $15 (adv.), $20 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com DEPARTURE Journey tribute band that replicates the power and emotion of the rock supergroup.

Georgia Theatre 8 p.m. $20 (adv.), $25 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com REHAB Long-running Atlanta band that continues to blend alternative Southern rock with hip-hop.

Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee.com VCSOTY KICKOFF SHOW Kick off the nomination period for the Vic Chesnutt Songwriter of the Year award with live music from past finalists.

No. 3 Railroad Street 6 p.m. www.3railroad.org JOHN MCDONALD Playing blues, cowboy songs and more. Album release show!

Nowhere Bar 9 p.m. $5. www.facebook.com/ NowhereBarAthens THE BROKEN STRING BAND Athens band blending Western folk with indie rock.

MISNOMER Local improvisational fusion group with a funky, jazzy sound.

Peach Pit Cafe 5 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ PeachPitCafe KARAOKE Hosted by RC Cowboy.

Veronica’s Sweet Spot 7 p.m. $3 (adv.), $5 (door). www.facebook.com/sweetspotathens SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND Featuring Angelo Fiaretti, Hunter Duncan, Alec Stanley, Annie Leeth and Zach Friedhof.

Shot (of My Baby’s Love),” today the Medallions are made up of relatives of the original lineup and bill themselves as “the party band of the South.”

Georgia Theatre 7:30 p.m. $20. www.georgiatheatre. com CHARLIE STARR Eclectic Southern singer-songwriter and leader of Atlanta band Blackberry Smoke.

He’s joined by local musician Benji Shanks.

JUSTIN BROGDON Local Southern rock singer-songwriter.

Highwire Lounge 11 p.m. $2 (headphone). www.highwirelounge.com SILENT DISCO Dance the night away to two different channels of music in your headphones.

Nowhere Bar 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/ NowhereBarAthens THE ROYAL VELVET Three-piece local rock band led by songwriter Justin Brogdon.

TRYCOH Brawny, instrumental local rock band.

Terrapin Beer Co. 5 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com ROY SAUNDERS Acoustic folk singer-songwriter from Atlanta.

Sunday 12 Hendershot’s Coffee Bar 7 p.m. www.hendershotscoffee.com CAROLINE AIKEN This guitarist and singer’s bluesy voice and masterful technique guarantee a hypnotic performance.

No. 3 Railroad Street 4 p.m. $20. www.3railroad.org JACK WILLIAMS Longtime touring folk singer-songwriter with influences ranging from rock to R&B and jazz.

Terrapin Beer Co. 3 p.m. FREE! www.terrapinbeer.com JIM COOK Local solo performer playing acoustic blues, classic rock and Americana.

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Flicker Theatre & Bar 9 p.m. www.flickertheatreandbar.com SHATTER CONES Minneapolis rock group with punk and grunge influences.

ALIEN BOOK CLUB Lo-fi garage-pop band from St. Paul, MN. BLISS MAGNETS Jammy indie-pop band from Atlanta.

Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com NALANI PROCTOR Folk-influenced singer-songwriter from Iowa.

OZELLO Atlanta-based queercore folkpunk band.

FERNFOX Local group blending indie, folk and electronic influences.

40 Watt Club 8 p.m. $6. www.40watt.com NUCLEAR TOURISM Local college-rock band playing surf-punk originals.

MOTHER FORE Athens band exploring elements of progressive and psychedelic rock.

ZALE Classically trained singer-songwriter leads her alt-rock band.

MURDER THE MOOD Athens-based alternative rock group.

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 8:30 p.m. $20 (adv.), $25 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com THE SWINGIN’ MEDALLIONS Best known for their 1966 hit “Double

Tuesday 14 Flicker Theatre & Bar 10 p.m. $5. www.flickertheatreandbar. com SARCHASM Indie pop-punk trio from Berkeley, CA. ¿BANANA? New local indie-folk three-piece.

JOSEY Prolific local artist who plays keyboard-based pop.

Georgia Theatre 7:30 p.m. $10 (adv.), $12 (door). www. georgiatheatre.com UNDERGROUND SPRINGHOUSE Athens-based “hype-chill rock-funk ensemble.”

Wednesday 15 Boar’s Head Lounge 11 p.m. FREE! 706-369-3040 OPEN MIC A weekly open-mic jam hosted by Louis Phillip Pelot.

All musicians welcome. Backline provided.

The Foundry 7:30 p.m. $5 (adv.), $7 (door). www. thefoundryathens.com THE ORIGINAL SCREWTOPS Athens blues band performing freshtake originals, plus classics by the old masters.

The Globe 8 p.m. FREE! 706-353-4721 THE HOT HOTTY-HOTS Mary Sigalas, Dan Horowitz, Steve Key and surprise guests play swingin’ tunes from the ’10s, ’20s and ’30s.

Nowhere Bar 8 p.m. www.facebook.com/ NowhereBarAthens HIGHER EDUCATION Rock-reggae fusion outfit from Washington, DC. ROCKSTEAD Reggae-rock group from Cincinnati, OH. Porterhouse Grill 6:30 p.m. FREE! 706-369-0990 JAZZ NIGHT Enjoy an evening of original music, improv and standards.

Down the Line 1/16 SHAMELESS JAMES / THE RELICS / OPEN (Caledonia Lounge) 1/16 EAT / SHRIEKUS / IMMATERIAL POSSESSION (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 1/16 HARDY / SEAN STEMALY (40 Watt Club) 1/16 YACHT ROCK REVUE (Georgia Theatre) 1/16 JAZZ JAM (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 1/16 WILLIAM MATHENY (Nowhere Bar) 1/17 DAN TEDESCO / SHANNON JAE (Flicker Theatre & Bar) 1/17 LOVE TRACTOR / OH-OK (40 Watt Club) 1/17 BICHOS VIVOS / WONDERLAND RANGERS (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 1/18 BATTLE OF THE BANDS / Ad Blanco / Cheese Dream / Perlin Noise / Swowce / EMFEB / Fishbug (40 Watt Club) 1/18 FIVE YEARS OF LIVE WIRE / The Grateful Brothers / Harvey Funk & Walker / Heart of Pine / Moon Chief / Valerie Raye (Live Wire Athens) 1/18 HEART OF PINE / THE PINX (Nowhere Bar) 1/18 JIM COOK (Southern Brewing Company) 1/19 CLASSICAL REVOLUTION (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) 1/22 DAVID LOWERY / KEVN KINNEY (40 Watt Club) 1/23 CRACKER DUO (40 Watt Club) 1/26 JAMES MCMURTRY (The Foundry) f

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Beechwood’s Flashback Cinema is done with holiday movies and kicks off the new year with 1970’s Elvis: That’s the Way It Is on Jan. 8 and Blade Runner: The Final Cut on Jan. 12.

Now, let’s catch up on a few of 2019’s final releases and 2020’s first new movie.

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (PG-13) The A new year at the cinema officially kicks Skywalker soap opera ends as it began: with a monthlong celebration titled Johnoff with the first horror burnoff of winan extremely entertaining blockbuster. The uary. Fortunately, you have only missed ter—but more on The Grudge later. Now, finale of the sequel trilogy adds as little to the first screening, Multiple Maniacs. each weekend mixes award contenders that the larger Star Wars universe as The Force The second selection, the 1972 “crass-ic” have yet to open in Athens and movies Awakens and excises or ignores most everyPink Flamingos, can be seen on Jan. 8. bound to be forgotten by the end of the thing Rian Johnson added in The Last Jedi.

Showdown at the Equator brings Sonny month. Buzz on 1917, the World War I The new trio of Jedi Rey (Daisy Ridley), forChiba back to Flicker in 1974’s The Street drama constructed as one shot by director mer Stormtrooper Finn (John Boyega) and Fighter on Jan. 13.

Sam Mendes, is stronger than X-Wing pilot Poe Dameron (Oscar any award wannabe yet to reach Isaac) are finally united for one Little Women Athens. The Alabama-set death last push against the First Order, row drama Just Mercy tasks led by Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) Michael B. Jordan and Jamie and an old enemy, Emperor Foxx with overcoming some Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), who questionable accents—just listen attempts to unite the continually to Brie Larson and Rafe Spall in fracturing Star Wars fanbase. the trailers—to find more than The late Carrie Fisher’s scenes middling success in these parts. are awkward but inspiring, and Rose Byrne and Tiffany Haddish the movie needs more Luke play BFFs fighting Salma Hayek Skywalker, of whom writer-difor their beauty company in the rector J.J. Abrams does not seem comedy Like a Boss. Meanwhile, to be the biggest fan, given the Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, amount of screentime he gives T.J. Miller and John Gallagher Jr. Mark Hamill in the two episodes You know what they say, “Little women, big baskets.” all made the same questionable he helmed. Nonetheless, The Rise career move when they signed of Skywalker succeeds as a crowd onto Underwater, an aquatic monster pleaser that competently ties a narrative, The Athens Jewish Film Festival presmovie spliced from the genes of Sphere, The thematic and emotional bow around a ents its first free special event of 2020 Thing and Event Horizon.

40-year-old pop culture force about which with a 30th anniversary screening of Barry Movie options around town are cranking Levinson’s Avalon at the ACC Library on many of us feel way too strongly. back up. Ciné still has Little Women and Jan. 12. On Jan. 13, the Oglethorpe Library the last Star Wars (more on both below). offers seniors one last chance at the holiday THE GRUDGE (R) The Grudge, from writer-director Nicolas Pesce, is more sequel Flicker is celebrating John Waters with classic It’s a Wonderful Life with their than reboot—think of it as expanding the Grudge-verse (Ju-On-iverse sounds better, right?). Set in 2004 and 2006 after an unwitting nurse brings Kayako’s curse home with her from Japan, The Grudge is relentless, bleak and ultimately hopeless.

The ghosts are not nearly as frightening as how easily this fatal, supernatural diseases spreads. All real estate agent Peter (John Cho), the Mathesons (Lin Shaye and Frankie Faison) or two police detectives (William Sadler and Andrea Riseborough) did was walk inside 44 Reyburn Drive, and the curse is upon them. The curse’s persistence evokes It Follows more than the predecessors helmed by Takashi Shimizu, but Pesce’s movie is too unforgiving and exhausting to be entertaining.

LITTLE WOMEN (PG) Greta Gerwig takes Louisa May Alcott’s timeless classic about the March sisters and updates it for today without doing a single revolutionary thing to its setting, plot, characters, soundtrack, etc.

The tale, told by Jo March (Saoirse Ronan), is the same many know by heart. Gerwig the writer amended little, if any, of Alcott’s narrative about growing up as a woman in the mid-1800s. The filmmaker and her cast (Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Timothee Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper and more) convey the timelessness of these themes and sensibilities. Little Women intelligently couches modern gender discussions in an elegantly appointed and shot 19th Century setting. Post-Lady Bird, Gerwig’s writing was widely accepted as her chief strength, but Little Women proves her to be a premier off-screen hyphenate. f

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

Art AAAC GRANTS (Athens, GA) The Athens Area Arts Council is seeking applicants for its quarterly $500 grants. All local artists, arts organizations or arts-based projects are welcome to apply. The next deadline is Mar. 15. info@athensarts.org, www.athensarts.org CALL FOR INTERNS (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) ATHICA is seeking interns interested in development, social media, music, poetry, photography and gallery operation. Minimum five hours a week. College credit is available in coordination with department of study. Rolling deadline. athica. org/updates/internships CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) ATHICA presents a new literary zine called Local Honey.

Writers can submit up to three word or pdf documents of written work including poems, essays and short fiction. Artists can submit up to three 300 dpi or higher resolution jpeg/pngs. Deadline Jan. 15. The zine will be printed in March. local honeyathens@gmail.com, www. athica.org EMPTY BOWL LUNCHEON (Athens, GA) The Food Bank of Northeast Georgia is seeking artists to decorate and paint bowls for the annual Empty Bowl Luncheon event on Mar. 18 at the Classic Center. Bowls of soup

are sold as a fundraiser. Painting sessions will be held Jan. 14 from 10 a.m.–3 p.m. and Jan. 18 from 9 a.m.–12 p.m. RSVP. tmassey@ foodbanknega.org 45TH ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION (Lyndon House Arts Center) The annual show will be juried by Larry Ossei-Mensah of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Drop off entry forms and up to three works on Jan. 23–24. 706613-3623, www.athensclarkecounty. com/lyndonhouse 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 SOUTHWORKS CALL FOR ARTISTS (OCAF, Watkinsville) Seeking submissions for the 23rd annual Southworks National Juried Art Exhibition. Visit website for application and to submit images.

Cash prizes will be awarded to top pieces. Deadline Mar. 13. $30–40. www.ocaf.com THE CHAIR SHOW: A JURIED ARTS EXHIBITION (Madison Morgan Cultural Center) Artists can submit original works of art in all media celebrating and exploring the ubiquitous chair. Painting, drawing,

art around town AMICI (233 E. Clayton St.) Artwork by Matthew Ward. Through January.

ANTIQUES & JEWELS ART GALLERY (290 N. Milledge Ave.) New paintings by Mary Porter, Greg Benson, Chatham Murray, Candle Brumby, Lana Mitchell and more.

ART ON THE SIDE GALLERY AND GIFTS (17 N. Main St., Watkinsville) A gallery featuring works by various artists in media including ceramics, paintings and fused glass.

ATHENS ACADEMY (1281 Spartan Lane) On view in the Harrison Center Children’s Instructional Gallery, a retrospective show shares original art, prints and paintings by Jacob Wenzka from three books co-created with Bart King.

ATHENS-CLARKE COUNTY LIBRARY (2025 Baxter St.) “Sharing Our Visions” presents paintings, drawings, collages, photographs, fiber pieces, sculptures and other works by staff members of regional libraries. Through Jan. 26.

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 (234 W. Hancock Ave.) Paintings by Chasity Williams.

CIRCLE GALLERY (UGA College of Environment and Design, 285 S. Jackson St.) “Snapshots: 50 Years at the College of Environment and Design” celebrates the school’s 50th anniversary with a timeline, wall of curiosities in the tradition of wonder rooms, and a rotating exhibit.

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.) “Good Vibrations” features photographs of cruise life by Brittainy Lauback, drawings of beaches by Warren Slater that are influenced by Aboriginal mark-making, and vivid abstractions

by Hannah Betzel. • “Building Facades” is a solo exhibition by Mike Landers that features sophisticated, symmetrical and minimally composed photographs from downtown Athens in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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Deadline Jan. 24. Drop off Jan. 31.

Opening reception Feb. 7. Free for MMCC members, $35 otherwise. www.mmcc-arts.org/thechairshow

Auditions FROZEN (Athens Little Playhouse) Audition for Disney’s Frozen Jr., a 60-minute version of the Broadway production designed for younger performers and audiences. Auditions Jan. 6–7, 6 p.m. Performances Mar. 20–22 & 27–29. athenslittleplay house@gmail.com

Classes ART CLASSES (KA Artist Shop) “Silk Painting with René Shoemaker,” Feb. 8–9, 1–4 p.m. $120. “Modern Dip-Pen Calligraphy with Kristen Ashley,” Feb. 16, 2–4 p.m. or Mar. 17, 6:30–8:30 p.m. $35. “Brush Lettering with Kristen Ashley,” Feb. 23, 2–4 p.m. or Mar. 31, 6:30–8:30 p.m. $40. “Calligraphy Club: Monthly Skillshare” is held every first Thursday, 5:30–7 p.m.

“Observational Drawing with Kendal Jacques,” Apr. 4 & Apr. 11, 1–5 p.m. $200. “Painting From Life with Kendal Jacques,” Apr. 25 & May 2, 1–5 p.m. $200. FREE! hello@ kaartist.com, www.kaartist.com

Abstract paintings by farmer Kevin Frazier are on view at Heirloom Café and Fresh Market through Monday, Mar. 2. An opening reception will be held Thursday, Jan. 9 from 5:30–6:30 p.m.

CITIZEN POLICE ACADEMY (ACCPD Headquarters) Learn about forensics, criminal investigation and traffic enforcement from ACCPD professionals. Thursdays, Feb. 13– Apr. 30, 6–9 p.m. 762-400-7119, geoffrey.gilland@accgov.com

DONDEROS’ KITCHEN (590 Milledge Ave.) “Connections” shares rug textiles

by David M. Hayes as well as figurative and animal watercolor paintings

by Judith K. DeJoy. Opening reception Jan. 10. Currently on view through January.

FLICKER THEATRE & BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Artwork by Steve Dyson.

Through January.

GALLERY AT INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “FUN” features works by Neil Hancock, Marla Star, Jolene O’Brien, Kim Truesdale, Katherine Miele, Hannah Betzel and Brittainy Lauback.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) In the sculpture garden, Rachel Whiteread presents five cast-stone sculptures that reinterpret her earlier resin castings of the space beneath chairs. Through Mar. 7. • “Master, Pupil, Follower: 16th- to 18th-Century Italian Works on Paper” includes approximately 30 drawings and prints. Through Mar. 8. • “Material Georgia 17331900: Two Decades of Scholarship” celebrates the 20-year anniversary of the museum’s Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts. Works include furniture, silver, pottery, textiles, basketry and portraits. Through Mar. 15. • “The Monsters Are Due on Broad Street: Patrick Dean” offers a retrospective on the local artist’s work, including his illustrations for Flagpole.

Through Mar. 29. • “Drama and Devotion in Baroque Rome” celebrates Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s influence. Through May 31.

GLASSCUBE@INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Supple Moments, Dark Corners” is a site-specific installation by Eli Saragoussi that is accompanied by a soundscape by Max Boyd called “Jungle Drone.” Through April.

HEIRLOOM CAFE & FRESH MARKET (815 N. Chase St.) Kevin Frazier, a farmer by day and artist by night, creates otherworldly abstract acrylic and mixed media paintings. Opening reception Jan. 9. Through Mar. 2.

HIP VINTAGE AND HANDMADE (215 Commerce Blvd.) Jack Moore presents wall hangings and unique fabric assemblages using antique Japanese fabrics.

Through January.

JITTERY JOE’S FIVE POINTS (1230 S. Milledge Ave.) René Shoemaker presents “Sharing the Magical Landscapes,” a collection of 16 fine art prints of silk screened and hand-dyed silks. Through January.

JITTERY JOE’S WATKINSVILLE (27 Greensboro Hwy., Watkinsville) Susan Pelham’s collages are influenced by Magic Realism, Surrealism and storytelling. Through January.

JUST PHO…AND MORE (1063 Baxter St.) “No Way! Nineties” features colorful digital paintings by Xavier Watson.

LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) On view in the Glass Gallery on the third floor, “Paperlight” features handmade paper and masking

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CLASSES (Winterville Center for Community and Culture) “Gentle Nia,” Mondays at 1 p.m.

“Oil Painting,” Mondays at 1:30 p.m. “Drawing,” Mondays at 6 p.m. “Community Coffeehouse,” Tuesdays from 9 a.m.–3 p.m.

“Coffee with a Veteran,” Tuedays at 9 a.m. “Threadwork Crafting Club,” Tuesdays at 9 a.m. “SilverSneakers Stretch,” Wednesdays at 10 a.m.

“SilverSneakers Yoga,” Wednedsays at 11 a.m. “Acrylic Painting,” Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m. “Aikido,”

tape pieces by Ciel Rodriguez and Paula Reynaldi. Closing reception Jan. 10.

Currently on view through Jan. 11.

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

LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) The biennial Clarke County School District Student Art Exhibition, “WILD,” presents artwork inspired by the new children’s garden at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia. Through Jan. 18. • Leah McKellop’s “Interior Worlds” combines printmaking and silk dying techniques to explore personal history through objects and their place within domestic spaces. Through Mar. 1.

MADISON-MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) The Atlanta Photography Group’s juried exhibition, “People, Places, Things,” presents photographs by 35 different artists. Through Jan. 18.

MAMA’S BOY AT THE FALLS (8851 Macon Hwy.) Collages and paintings from Lorraine Thompson’s series, “The Nest, The Angel, and The Muse.”

NORMAL BOOKS (1238A Prince Ave.) A variety of art on display, including paintings by Mary Eaton, GCH Pet Portraits, metal art by Julia Vereen, ceramics by Shannon Dominy, sculpture by Doug Makemson and handwoven rugs

by Bonnie Montgomery.

THE PINE & THE ROOT (1235 S. Milledge Ave.) Artwork by Emmi Walker.

PINEWOODS PUBLIC LIBRARY (1265 Hwy. 29 N. #12) See paintings by Stanley Bermudez as well as a community mural.

RICHARD B. RUSSELL BUILDING SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIES (300 S. Hull St.) “Beautiful and Brutal: Georgia Bulldogs Football, 2017” is a display of photographs, uniforms and other artifacts from the UGA Athletic Association Archives and on loan from the UGA Athletic Department.

THE ROOK & PAWN (294 W. Washington St.) Dan Smith’s “Spontaneous Monsterification” technique utilizes spontaneously painted cartoonish and monsterish faces to enhance spaces through a jigsaw arrangement of shapes and faces. Through January.

STEEL + PLANK (675 Pulaski St., Suite 200) Kathy Kitz creates abstract watercolors.

VERONICA’S SWEET SPOT (149 Oneta St., #6C6) See work by local and regional artists, craftsmen, potters and sculptors.

VIVA ARGENTINE (247 Prince Ave.) Brad Morgan, the drummer of the DriveBy Truckers, creates abstract paintings.

THE WORLD FAMOUS (351 N. Hull St.) Permanent artists include RA Miller, Chris Hubbard, Travis Craig, Dan Smith, Greg Stone and more.

Wednesdays at 2 p.m. “Zumba,” Wednesdays at 6 p.m. “Belly Dance,” Wednesdays at 7 p.m. “Mah Jongg,” Thursdays at 1 p.m. www.winterville center.com NIA TECHNIQUE & MORE (Elevate Athens, 1059B Baxter St.) Nia Technique combines dance, martial arts and mindfulness to tone your body while transforming your mind.

Jan. 8, 6–8 p.m. $20. Yamuna Foot Fitness and Body Rolling is for foot strength, flexibility and pain relief.

Jan. 25, 12–2 p.m. $50. Yamuna Body Rolling Immersion covers basics to decrease stress, muscle tension and pain. Jan. 26, 11 a.m.–4 p.m. $125. www.elevateathens.com TAI CHI (Healing Arts Centre) Tai Chi yang style, the 108. Thursdays, 7:15–8:30 p.m. panlexcie@hotmail. com, www.healingartscentre.net

Help Out ATHENS LITTER RESCUE CHALLENGE (Athens City Hall) Brain Aid Fest hosts an Athens Litter Challenge. Volunteers will break into teams and help pick up litter.

Every first Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m.–12 p.m. Meet at City Hall. www.brainaidfest.org CASA SPRING 2020 TRAINING (YMCA) Athens Oconee Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) will host an orientation Jan. 7 at 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.

CASA training begins Jan. 23 and ends Feb. 27. Meetings are held Thursdays, 10 a.m.–1:30 p.m. and 5:30–9 p.m. arden@athensoconee casa.org, athensoconeecasa.org COAT AND BLANKET DRIVE (Bogart Library) The library is collecting new and gently used blankets and coats of all sizes to donate to local charities. Through January. www.athenslibrary.org/bogart

Kidstuff ART CLASSES (KA Artist Shop) “Art Club Junior” is for ages 8–12 and held on Fridays at 4:30 p.m. “Art Club for Teens is for ages 12–18 and held Fridays at 6:30 p.m. Subjects include printmaking with linoleum (Jan. 24), relief casting with plaster (Jan. 31), drawing upside down (Feb. 7), negative space study (Feb. 21) and stop motion animation (Feb. 28). Check website for details and to register. $15. www.kaartist.com EXPLORING THE EARTH SUMMER CAMP (Little Rose Nature Adventures, Watkinsville) This camp is a nature-based, visual and performing arts, STEAM program for kids ages 5–12. Runs June and July, 8:30 a.m.–2 p.m. $200/ week. www.exploringtheearth.org

Support Groups ALS SUPPORT GROUP (Oconee Veterans Park, Watkinsville) Provides awareness and education to individuals living with ALS. Meets fourth Wednesday of every month, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. 706-207-5800 AL-ANON 12 STEP (Multiple Locations) Recovery for people affected by someone else’s drinking.

Meetings are held daily at various times and locations. ga-al-anon.org ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS (Athens, GA) If you think you have a problem with alcohol, call the AA hotline or visit the website for a schedule of meetings in Barrow, Clarke, Jackson and Oconee Counties. www.athensaa.org CHRONIC ILLNESS SUPPORT GROUP (Contact for Location) Meet others who are dealing with

chronic illness such as ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Lyme.

Third Wednesdays, 12:30 p.m. athenschronicillness@gmail.com EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) EA is a 12-step program.

Meets Sundays, 4–5 p.m. 706-2027463, www.emotionsanonymous.org FIGHT 4 CHANGE (Email for Location) Help advocate for a mental health system that serves everyone.

Meets the fourth Monday of each month. letsfight4change@gmail.com NAMI (Multiple Locations) “NAMI Connections” is a support group for adults living in recovery with mental illness. “NAMI Family Support” is for family members, friends and caregivers of individuals with mental illnesses. Both groups meet every fourth Tuesday, 6:30–8 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church of Athens. (No meeting Dec. 24). 770-225-0804.

NAMI Family Support Groups are also available the second Monday at 6:30 p.m. at Oconee Presbyterian Church in Watkinsville; and every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at Ridgeview Institute in Monroe (No meetings Dec. 25 or Jan. 1). www. namihall.org NICOTINE ANONYMOUS MEETINGS (ACC Library) A 12-step recovery program of mutual support for those who want to live free of nicotine in any form. Join at any time. Tuesdays, 7 p.m. nicotineanonymous.org RECOVERY DHARMA (Recovery Dharma, 8801 Macon Hwy., Suite 1) This peer-led support group offers a Buddhist-inspired path to recovery from any addiction. Thursdays, 7–8 p.m. FREE! Find “Refuge Recovery Athens GA” on Facebook RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME SUPPORT GROUP (Athens, GA) Forming a support group for people who have Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS sufferers). 706-612-6934 SEX ADDICTS ANONYMOUS (Athens, GA) A message of hope to anyone who suffers from a compulsive sexual behavior. athensdown townsaa.com

On The Street ACCA LEADERSHIP PROGRAM (Athens Community Council on Aging) A 10-session leadership program for adults 55 and older.

Weekly sessions will cover topics ranging from health and human services, local government, education and more. February through March, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. 706-549-4850, www.accaging.org/senior-leadership-academy-2020 KACCB TIRED OF TRASH TIRE AMNESTY WEEK (Multiple Locations) There will be no disposal fees for tires brought to ACC Landfill or CHaRM Feb. 24–29. Limit of six tires.

RIPPLE EFFECT FILM PROJECT (Athens, GA) Filmmakers are invited to create original short films about water conservation and water stewardship. Finalists’ films will be screened at the Morton Theatre on Mar. 22. Deadline Feb. 2. www.film freeway.com/rippleeffectfilmproject TABLE TENNIS (East Athens Community Center) Table tennis games are held three times a week. tabletennisathensga@gmail.com TOPSY-TURVY PIE CONTEST (The Classic Center) In celebration of the upcoming performance of Waitress, a contest will be held for bakers to submit their most whimsical pie recipe. The winner will receive two tickets to the Jan. 20 show.

Submissions accepted through Jan. 14. www.classiccenter.com/359/ waitress-pie-contest f

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PART-TIME Big City Bread Cafe is now accepting applications for a counter staff/food runner position. Restaurant experience preferred. Must be available to work early mornings & weekends.

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By Bonita Applebum advice@flagpole.com Hey Bonita, I read Flagpole every week, including your column. It’s often interesting, but it seems like you only give advice to people who are of a certain age—like, under 30. Maybe they’re the only ones who send letters to you. But I wonder if older readers are sending questions but not getting replies.

I’m an older reader—over 60—and would like to see some questions from “us,” especially since it can be difficult to meet people in our age range in this college town. I’m female and would like to meet a man around my age who’s single, interesting, intelligent, liberal-minded and takes care of himself physically, mentally and emotionally. It would also be nice if he isn’t a sports freak and would rather go out to hear some live music, dance, attend art receptions/exhibits, maybe take a class or attend a lecture— hell,

even just go out to eat and/or a movie!

So many people my age are already coupled and have their circle of friends—they’re not looking for new friends, necessarily. It can be hard to break into their already full lifestyles. I have many acquaintances, but not many people whom I could just call up to ask if they’d like to hang out.

I realize that you’re probably around the age of most of the people who send questions, and it might be hard to advise someone who’s had life experiences that you haven’t had yet, but it would be refreshing to see some acknowledgment of the older people who live in and love Athens. How about it? Advice for those older citizens who’d like to meet someone special, or even just platonic friends of either gender?

Senior but Not Dead Hi Senior, First off, thanks for reading! I’m pretty open about the fact that I’m in my late 30s, but you’re right—most of my readers and writers are under 30, if I were to guess. But hey—they’re the ones sending the questions! For me, this column is like having a conversation with the city of Athens, and I wanna talk to all of you. Holla back,

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Dating gets more difficult the more we age, for sure. It’s like a meat market when you’re in your 20s, but once people start pairing up and making families, it’s almost as if spaces for single people over 30 literally start disappearing. When I think of where to cruise for a date in Athens, my first thought is either one of two locations: work or a bar. These are both horrible places to meet a partner, and I try to never recommend them anymore, no matter how logical and booty-full those two places can be. If you’re a retiree, then work cruising is out of the equation, and I don’t get the sense that you’re a barfly.

If I were you, I’d start by rounding up some buddies and going to the events that you eventually want to turn into dates. Make yourself a fixture

at Third Thursdays, see some live music, and start socializing with and speaking to your peers outside of your current circle. I guess I’m recommending making friends with people your age who live an active life, too, and meeting people at events that you already enjoy will assure a shared interest as a jumping-off point. They will most likely know other singles who are trying to date, or you just might meet a fellow all on your own.

I think you would benefit from fewer acquaintances and more friends—the type who wanna hang out and spend time with you and do fun things together. A social life will come naturally from that, and then you’ll be in a better position to get a date.

I’m on your side.

Thanks for seeking me out every week, and thank you all for constantly making me feel special. I wanna do a great job for you this year and every year, and below, you’ll find all my contact info. Let’s chat. Happy New Year, Athens! f Need advice? Email advice@flagpole.com, use the anonymous form at flagpole.com/getadvice, or find Bonita on Twitter: @flagpolebonita.

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Scary Monsters (HOLD THE SUPER CREEPS)

By Richard Fausset editorial@flagpole.com Sometime in 1996 or 1997, an envelope full of little marvels arrived in the mail at my basement apartment in Washington, DC. Pete McCommons, the publisher of Flagpole magazine, had just asked me to be his editor down in Athens, and he had sent along some drawings that an ambitious and then-unknown art student, Patrick Lee Dean, had sent along to him. Maybe this guy can help us, Pete said in a note.

The sketches inside were just that— sketches—but they were also fully formed and delicious visions from the artist Athens would soon come to know so well, full of warbly normcore shmoes and shmoe-ettes moving shoulder to shoulder through the world alongside fantastical google-eyed

curdled free-to-be-you-and-me bromides of the ’60s. But by the late 1990s there was evidence that this reaction was itself curdling, or at least hitting some artistic dead-ends. You could feel it in Athens by the time I got there in 1997: The post-punk ironic stance—the flirtation with nihilism, the dark humor—was going out with the commodification of grunge. Something new, something more earnest, something unafraid to expand and limn the psychic palette with colors other than blacks and grays, was coming in.

This shift sparked fiery debates in the tiny confines of Athens’ alternative music world at the time, and, interestingly, it has more recently come to be recognized as an important breach that defines the pre- and post-Generation X worldviews. It was by no means a perfect break. In music, the seeds of the new earnestness were in the alternative-era work of Jonathan Richman and Daniel Johnston (and, of course, the idiosyncratic visions of greats like Panter and Burns would never curdle).

Patrick’s world was some other thing. As he spun his sweetly surrealist stories— sometimes in a single comic, sometimes stretched out over months in fever-dream soap operas with curlicued plot twists and recurring and disappearing characters—the operative stance toward the world was not fatigue or cynicism, but curiosity and wonder. Consciously or not, it was not dissimilar to the Elephant 6 and Kindercore musical movements that were Patrick Dean’s Popfest 2011 Flagpole cover artwork blossoming in Athens at the time. Illustration-wise, there is B-movie monsters who strutted and some Maurice Sendak in Patrick’s work, and preened and basked in their airs of silliness, some Jack Davis, and, yes, Daniel Johnston. danger, absurdity and promise of certain The easygoing magic realism, with its mondeath. sters lurking in quotidian corners, finds a I called Patrick immediately and offered spiritual cousin in the anime masterpieces him a prime weekly spot on the opening of Japan’s Studio Ghibli. But Patrick is also page of the tabloid I was about to run. a master of observation, and the everyday He accepted, and here we are: Few other world he draws is often a recognizable visual artists would become as bound up in Athens, or something very close to it.

Athens’ myth and reality and conception In recent months, we have learned that of itself. Patrick Dean’s scary monsters are this unique and visionary artist, so genwith us everywhere in Athens. erous of soul and keen of eye and sure of Finding a great cartoonist had been a top hand, has been diagnosed with amyotrophic concern of mine as I imagined re-tooling lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Flagpole in the late 1990s. I knew the city To no one’s surprise, Patrick has been busy was full of great illustrators, and in my head confronting this very real monster with his I had imagined recruiting an underground familiar and measured mix of terror and comic in the style of a Gary Panter or humor and wonder.

Charles Burns, part of the punk-era coterie These days, it’s the kind of wisdom about championed (and published) by Françoise the end of things that people seek out with Mouly and Art Spiegelman in their daring the aid of ayahuasca and rented shamans.

New York comix magazine Raw. In Patrick, the wisdom was always there. f But as Patrick was given free rein to set Richard Fausset is a New York Times correspondent the weekly tone for our little alternative based in Atlanta. His remarks are reprinted courteweekly, I realized he was coming from sy of The Georgia Museum of Art and appear in the another place entirely. Panter and Burns, brochure accompanying the exhibition of Patrick like the punk and post-punk music of Dean’s work. The show will be up through Mar. 29. their time, seemed to be reacting to the

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