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Street Scribe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

State Officials Force Athens to Abandon Paper Ballots

The Foilies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

NEWS: Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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By Blake Aued news@flagpole.com home if you are sick, cover coughs and sneezes—and for-real time information, please visit cdc.org and dph.georgia.gov.”

Sure enough, by Saturday night, reports were circulating online about Athens’ first two positive coronavirus tests.

Commissioner Russell Edwards raised the alarm, saying that a public health official had told him the news. The next day, the WHITLEY CARPENTER

The week started with many in Athens scoffing at the seriousness of the coronavirus and COVID-19, the disease it spreads. As late as Thursday afternoon, the University of Georgia was insisting it would not close. Hours later, it reversed course and announced classes are suspended until at least Mar. 29. The Clarke County School District followed suit, and soon it seemed every public event this spring was canceled as well. (Flagpole staffers are working hard to keep The Calendar updated, and we have a running list online at flagpole.com.)

Friday, the Athens-Clarke County government announced measures to slow the spread of the virus. Most court proceedings except bond hearings are canceled through mid-April, and Leisure Services programs are canceled through Mar. 29. Mayor Kelly Girtz said he was pondering a ban on large gatherings, which may be in effect by the time you read this.

Saturday, Girtz and members of Athens’ legislative delegation met with hospital officials and released a rare, if not unprecedented, joint statement: “As testing becomes more widespread and available, we anticipate positive cases in our community.

We want to assure the public that your Athens community healthcare providers, including Piedmont Athens Regional and St. Mary’s, are in constant communication and coordination with each other as well as the state and federal government, the Mayor and the local state legislative delegation. The Athens community is prepared, and we are actively taking steps for continued response—including working to increase testing access locally.

“If you are experiencing symptoms, please call your health care provider before coming to a facility to determine the appropriate next steps. Use common sense— hand washing, avoiding close contact, stay

could be exposed to the virus. Originally scheduled for Mar. 24, it will now be held on May 19, the same date as nonpartisan local elections and partisan primaries for other offices besides president. Early voting has been suspended.

What lies ahead is anyone’s guess. Other countries are shutting down restaurants, bars and cafés, confining people to their homes except to go grocery shopping or to the hospital. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that. But as late as last Saturday night, life in Athens went on as usual, except that some of us were better stocked with toilet paper than others. We know now that won’t and can’t continue. Some restaurants are already closing, and others are adding takeout and delivery options. See the Grub Notes blog on flagpole.com for more.

The Athens-Clarke County Board of Elections quickly reinstalled new voting machines and added curtains for privacy after a State Elections Board ruling prohibiting it from using paper ballots. Just days later, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger suspended early voting and postponed the presidential primary.

Department of Public Health confirmed the report.

In between, Gov. Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency, which should help expedite testing. And Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger pushed back the presidential primary out of concern that voters and poll workers—who average 70 years of age—

Resources are available for those who couldn’t afford a Kroger run last weekend.

CCSD is preparing free meals for students from 8–10 a.m. at Oglethorpe Avenue Elementary School and Hilsman Middle School and delivering them to certain neighborhoods; see the district website at clarke.k12.ga.us for more information.

Our Daily Bread is distributing brown-bag lunches at noon every day at First Baptist Church on Pulaski Street downtown. UGA’s Campus Kitchen is continuing to deliver meals, and the Athens Community Council on Aging is expanding its Meals on Wheels capacity. The Food Bank of Northeast Georgia is open for business. Charter Spectrum is temporarily offering free internet access for students taking online classes. For other needs, call the United Way’s 211 helpline by dialing 211. And for more information on coronavirus, flip to p.

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No More Paper Ballots Earlier this month, the ACC Board of Elections ordered staff to switch from the new Ballot Marking Device (BMD) voting machines to paper ballots. This was a controversial 3-2 vote, with Chair Jesse Evans, Willa Fambrough and new member Rocky Raffle voting in favor, and Charles Knapper and Patricia Till voting against.

While some people strongly prefer paper ballots because of election security, the reasoning given by board members was instead about voters’ constitutional right to ballot privacy. Paper ballots make this easier to do; inexpensive manila folders suffice to shield voter’s choices from view, which were used in Athens over the past week.

Nevertheless, the decision was controversial. The ACC GOP even circulated a petition to have Evans removed from his position. The board was advised against this action by County Attorney Judd Drake and

by Director of Elections Charlotte Sosebee.

In Drake’s opinion, it would be very difficult to prove that it was “impossible or impracticable” for Athens to use BMDs as required by state law. Elections in Georgia are done in a uniform manner—counties aren’t free to choose their voting method in this state.

Even so, board members said that it was impossible for them to ensure ballot secrecy for every voter in the county, which is required in the Georgia Constitution.

They felt this way due to many other laws and constraints that elections in Georgia must abide by. For example, each polling location must have one voting station per 250 voters. This is more difficult to achieve

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this year, because the new BMD machines and associated printers take up more space than did previous machines. Their screens are also larger and brighter, meaning voters’ selections might be seen across an entire room. Configuring polling locations therefore had become extremely difficult, with conflicting laws and regulations blocking all the obvious potential set-ups.

Thrown on top of everything was the board’s poor relationship and communication with Sosebee. The board claimed they had not received the sketches that Sosebee’s team had developed regarding potential polling place configurations. They began to lose trust in her ability to guide Athens smoothly through an election, even one as relatively simple as a presidential primary.

The State Elections Board, chaired

by Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, pounced quickly after this vote, calling for a hearing on the matter to take place in Athens. The hearing lasted over seven hours, with many witnesses.

The ACC Board of Election’s defense went blow-by-blow through seemingly every polling location in Athens to detail the difficulties elections workers had in complying with all aspects of current state elections law. Local elections officials had been instructed by the secretary of state’s office to “turn the screens to face the wall” to ensure ballot privacy, but the defense showed how insufficient such advice actually was.

The prosecution’s case was much simpler: Counties are required by law to use the BMDs. They are required to clear whatever hurdles stand in the way, unless it is “impossible or impracticable” to do so. For example, if a power outage or other emergency prevented the machines from being used, paper ballots would be available as a backup.

When BOE Chair Jesse Evans took the stand, he described a potential violation of voter secrecy in Athens. He testified that he himself was able to see the screen of a voting machine from an area that was at times occupied by members of the public.

Then the prosecution asked, “Would a set of blinds or other screen work to block your view of the machines and secure

voter privacy?” Evans admitted that such an accommodation would have worked.

He was unable to describe any violation of voter privacy that was impracticable to fix.

Difficult, perhaps, but truly impracticable?

Not according to the State Elections Board.

The State Elections Board voted unanimously to issue a cease and desist order to Athens-Clarke County and publicly censured Athens for using paper ballots during the week we did. In addition, they decided to levy a $2,500 fine to recoup some of their legal expenses by a vote of 3-1, as well as an additional fine of $5,000 per day that ACC is not in compliance with their order from this time on. (The Board of Elections may have gotten off light—the fine could have been $5,000 for each of the 1,000 paper ballots cast, or $5 million.) Sosebee had the BMDs back in operation the next day, saving Athens taxpayers from additional fines.

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Tomlinson in Town One of those who attended the State Elections Board hearing was U.S. Senate candidate and former Columbus mayor Teresa Tomlinson, who dropped by Flagpole afterward. “People are gravely concerned about the security of our voting machines,” Tomlinson said, thanks to Russian interference in 2016, and absentees being rejected and people being turned away from the polls in 2018.

Tomlinson pointed out an inconsistency in the state’s position: In 2018, then-Secretary of State Brian Kemp argued as he ran for governor that the state had no control over how elections were conducted—that was the responsibility of county boards of election. Two years later, his successor’s team argued that ACC has no discretion over how it conducts its elections, and all counties must follow the state’s rules.

Which is it?

As a former mayor, Tomlinson said she would’ve given the county attorney’s advice “great, great credence,” but ultimately it was the process, not the result, that mattered.

“When you go through the process, that’s what’s going to relieve people’s frustrations,” she said. [BA] f

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Back From the Dead BIDEN IS BEATING BERNIE, BUT CAN HE BEAT TRUMP?

By Ed Tant news@flagpole.com “Democrats in disarray” is a political cliin 1943, when many young Georgians were ché today, but its roots stretch back to the serving in World War II. “Old enough to Depression era, when humorist Will Rogers fight, old enough to vote” was the slogan of quipped, “I’m not a member of any orgathis state’s young voters during the war. nized political party. I’m a Democrat.”

It took the civil rights movement to This year’s crowded slate of contenders bring voting rights to American black peofor the Democratic Party’s presidential ple in Georgia and across the South, but nomination was commany of the foot solpared to a “circular diers in that movement Americans have firing squad,” but it has were young activists now been winnowed fought historic battles like John Lewis, who down to essentially a was beaten, bloodied overseas and at home for two-man race between and jailed in Alabama the right to vote. Today’s former Vice President during the struggle for Joe Biden and Sen. young people can and should voting rights for all citBernie Sanders to izens. Americans have exercise that precious right. fought historic battles see who will be the Democratic nominee overseas and at home at the party’s convention in Milwaukee for the right to vote. Today’s young people this summer. (In fact, it may be a one-man can and should exercise that precious right. race by the time this column is published, if Biden’s surprising political resurrecSanders drops out.) tion contrasts with the struggling Sanders Biden’s campaign went from Dead Man campaign, but in the anything-can-happen Walking to Flight of the Phoenix overnight, political landscape of America today, nothwith a stunning win in South Carolina, foling is predictable. Still, Biden is now the lowed by a string of other victories in Super odds-on favorite to capture the Democratic Tuesday states. On Mar. 10, Biden’s politinomination to run against Trump, whose

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cal Lazarus act continued with more wins in at least three states, including delegate-rich Michigan. At the time of this writing, Biden is leading Sanders in the Florida polls by 30 points and looks likely to pick up most of its 219 delegates on Mar. 17. Coming up in Georgia on May 19, voters will make their choice for which Democrat will face President Donald Trump in the Nov. 3 general election.

If young people would vote, they could be an influential demographic in this year’s election. Sadly and shamefully, young people are the least dependable group of Americans eligible to vote in this nation’s elections. Such a record of supine slackery at the voting booth is inexcusable in an America where 18-year-old citizens have been allowed to vote since 1971. Here in Georgia, today’s young people should recall that this state was the first in the union to make 18 the voting age. The progressive and pioneering measure was passed back

convention coronation for a second term will take place in Charlotte this summer.

Both Donald Trump and his friend Vladimir Putin see Sanders, probably correctly, as the weakest Democrat to challenge the Trump machine in 2020. This year’s race for the White House is going to be a surly and sordid affair, and Biden will have a tough uphill struggle. Trump is a tough, unscrupulous and well-financed fighter who probably will win a second term. American voters will have their say this fall in the election that will decide not only the presidency but the make-up of Congress, the Supreme Court, and the protection and preservation of the land, air and water of this nation and this planet.

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Coronavirus in Athens HOW IT’S AFFECTING US, AND HOW TO PREVENT IT

By Jessica Luton news@flagpole.com

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For weeks, the coronavirus didn’t impact is working closely with the ACC to ensure day-to-day life in Athens, aside from local an appropriate response. grocery stores and pharmacies being sold Before UGA’s spring break, UGA out of hand sanitizer in recent weeks and President Jere Morehead sent out an email the constant barrage of media updates on to students, faculty and staff urging everythe situation. But that changed Mar. 12, one to be mindful of the need to monitor when the University of Georgia announced conditions as they prepared for spring it was suspending classes until Mar. 29 break. The email also announced that UGA Initially, the University System of is suspending spring 2020 study abroad Georgia told public colleges and universities programs in the countries that are most that the odds of contracting coronavirus are severely affected by the outbreak, namely, low, and that campuses should stay open.

Italy, South Korea and China. “Consistent Then the USG changed course, suspending instruction for two weeks and telling students not to come back from spring break or to leave campus

by Mar. 13. The suspension will “allow time for USG institutions to test their business continuity plans and online instruction modules and for state officials to continue to assess the current situation regarding coronavirus (COVID-19) in Georgia,” according to Teresa MacCartney of the Board of Regents.

The Clarke County School District quickly followed suit, announcing that it would extend spring break through Mar. 20 and re-evaluate the situation Mar. 19. During that time, schools and buses will be cleaned and disinfected, according to interim superintendent Xernona UGA professor Ted Ross works on a vaccine for H1N1 influenza.

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Event cancellations also started pouring in late last week. Flagpole with warnings from the State Department is keeping The Calendar updated online and CDC, the University has suspended and has a running list of canceled events at programs for the Spring 2020 term in Italy, flagpole.com.

South Korea, and China,” the letter said.

Athens-Clarke County has kept its “The returning students have been asked scaled-back spring break transit service to self-quarantine for 14 days.” President in place and postponed many courthouse Trump also announced a ban on travel to proceedings. The county has an emergency Europe for the next 30 days on Mar. 11. plan in place for situations such as this, says Mayor Kelly Girtz. “Obviously, we are following this closely, and so far are coordinating with the Georgia Department of The truth is, no one really knows at this Public Health, based on the guidance that point, says Ted Ross, a Georgia Research they provided late last week,” Girtz says.

Alliance eminent scholar of infectious “We do have an emergency management plan in place, which operates in conjunction diseases and director of the Center for Vaccines and Immunology at the UGA with UGA.” College of Veterinary Medicine. He has An ACC government webpage at accgov. been working on a universal flu vaccine that com/coronavirus provides links to various will go to clinical trials next year, and he’s resources and updated local information. had initial conversations about starting The University Health Center, Centers research on a vaccine covering all coronafor Disease Control and Prevention and viruses. He says we don’t yet know enough Georgia Department of Public Health also about the virus to predict how this will play have coronavirus webpages with updates out in the future. and recommendations. Additionally, the “The difference between something like ACC press release noted that the Northeast coronavirus and flu is that flu is constantly Health District of the Georgia Department changing and mutating,” Ross says. “We of Public Health is the lead agency in the 10-county area’s response to COVID-19 and don’t really have much evidence that this

virus or this family of viruses are mutating at a rate that would cause it to be like a seasonal outbreak every year.”

It could be that COVID-19 fades away, and we’ll all develop immunity if everyone is exposed in the next two to three years.

Alternatively, it may be more like a seasonal virus that comes and goes every winter.

“We just don’t have enough information to know whether this is a one-time event, or whether it would become a routine event each year,” Ross says.

In the meantime, he adds, it’s important to be prepared, be aware of the situation as it evolves, but keep your cool. “Think of this like a hurricane is coming. Like in Florida,” he says. “So, you’ve got to prepare or maybe evacuate, but it’s possible the hurricane goes offshore and doesn’t hit land. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather not be the one on my oceanfront property when a Category 5 hits.

What Happens Next?

“Be diligent. Don’t be fearful. But be aware,” Ross says. “People are usually most upset when things are unknown. In coming in contact with people, make sure you wash your hands a lot. Don’t cough on people.

That’s a good rule in general for flu or colds.

But don’t let fear take over.”

What Is Coronavirus?

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that can cause fever and respiratory problems, among other symptoms. Common in people and many different species of animals—such as camels, cattle, cats and bats—coronaviruses were first discovered in the 1960s and were originally thought to be mild, mostly just resulting in a cold.

About a third of all common colds are a result of a coronavirus. Since then, we’ve learned that these viruses are zoonotic, meaning they sometimes spread between animals and humans, which has resulted in the most well-known and severe coronaviruses, such as SARS. The coronavirus that is making headlines today is similar, genetically, to MERS and SARS. The virus is known as SARS-CoV-2,

and the disease it causes is COVID-19. The disease presents much like the flu, with fever and a cough being the most likely symptoms. In severe cases, symptoms have also included shortness of breath, sore throat and headache.

It was first detected in China in December but has now spread worldwide, causing the World Health Organization to declare coronavirus a pandemic as of Mar. 11. As of press time, Georgia has had 122 confirmed cases of coronavirus, although some are awaiting confirmation by the CDC. (Several are being quarantined at Hard Labor Creek State Park about 30 miles south of Athens.) Tests have not been readily available to health professionals in the U.S. While other countries are reporting higher numbers of cases, that is most likely the result of vigilant testing. Thus, numbers of confirmed cases are likely to go up in the coming weeks. In Georgia, the first two cases were only confirmed in early March.

“I do think people need to be realistic,” Ross says.

“It seems very apparent that it is already in the United States. It is transmitting from person to person in multiple cities.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Atlanta already has multiple people that have been infected. Same with Athens. It’s just [that] they’re not showing any signs of real severe disease.”

The virus is affecting the aging population and those with chronic diseases most severely. However, many people may be carrying and transmitting the virus without having any symptoms at all.

“I think the biggest issue is the lack of knowledge and the fear of the unknown,” he says. “People really don’t know how deadly this is. It may be much less than the flu. It may be equal to the flu. We just don’t know how many people have been exposed versus those that have gotten infected. We only see the severe cases, but it doesn’t tell us about the nonsymptomatic cases.

“If numbers increase greatly in the near future, emergency preparedness plans limiting large public gatherings and other such measures will have to be put into place,” Ross says.

People can protect themselves from COVID-19 the same way they would a cold or flu, according to public health officials: Cover your coughs with your elbow, wash your hands, don’t touch your face, clean your cell phone and other frequently touched items, avoid shaking hands and stay home if you’re sick. But most importantly, get a flu shot, says José F. Cordero, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at UGA’s College of Public Health.

“Symptoms of influenza are the same, and we can only distinguish the difference with testing,” Cordero says. “Getting the [flu] vaccine is actually what can reduce the risk. If you don’t get the vaccine, you’re going to add to the number of people who show up in the doctor’s office concerned about the coronavirus.” f

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THE FOILIES 2020 Recognizing the Year’s Worst in Government Transparency

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In space, no one can hear you scream about thwarted public records requests, but down on Earth, you can take the government to court and make them listen. That’s what Heath Haussamen, editor and publisher of NMPolitics. net, did after the New Mexico Spaceport Authority in 2017 refused to hand over basic public records related to the private companies that lease real estate at Spaceport America, the much-publicized commercial launchpad just outside Truth or Consequences, NM. Wielding a New Mexico Attorney General’s Office opinion that determined the Spaceport Authority had violated the state’s open records law, Haussamen filed a

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It’s not often that prying documents out of the CIA comes with a little bit of help from the commander in chief. But Leopold (yeah, he turns up a lot in The Foilies) came across just that kind of luck when Trump tweeted an acknowledgement that he had ended “massive, dangerous, and wasteful payments to Syrian rebels fighting Assad.”

Leopold requested information on the payments from the CIA. Despite the president’s confirmation that these payments existed, the CIA still refused to confirm or deny that the records existed, a move known in the legal world as a “Glomar response.” Leopold went to court and a judge found that because Trump had acknowledged the payments publicly, the CIA had to stop playing secrecy games and hand over the documents.

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The Catalog Is Out of the Bag Award: Special Services Group In response to a California Public Records Act request for information about surveillance technology, the Irvine Police Department in California provided researchers at MuckRock and Open the Government with a catalog called the “Black Book” from a secretive company called Special Services Group. The catalog advertised a range of spy devices that would make Q drool, including cameras that can be concealed in gravestones, vacuum cleaners and baby car seats.

But, as Vice’s Motherboard prepared to publish a story on the documents, Special Services Group stepped out of the shadows to issue sweeping legal threats, arguing that by publishing the documents researchers were violating everything from federal copyright law to arms control regulations. Vice, MuckRock and Open the Government rightfully resisted the censorship threat, since that’s not how it works. Special Services should have taken its beef to the city’s law firm, which reviewed and then released the documents.

For three years, Cosmo Wenman battled with the German-governmentfunded Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection (aka, the Egyption Museum of Berlin) over a freedom of information campaign to release the 3D scan of a bust of Queen Nefertiti. The museum denied the request for the high-quality scan of the over 3,000-year-old statue, arguing that it would threaten its commercial interests— namely, by creating competition in the sale of images or reproductions.

“The organization was treating its scan of Nefertiti like a state secret,” Wenman wrote in Reason.

After a prolonged battle and temporary access to a very slow computer containing the scan, Wenman was finally given a USB drive with the full 3D image. No word on whether museum visits have declined precipitously.

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officer burned the records to 19 separate discs and sent them to Katz-Lacabe in the mail.

The Queen of all FOIA Denials: Egyptian Museum of Berlin

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he Ringer,” the first track on Eminem’s 2018 album, Kamikaze, includes a line that piqued Buzzfeed reporter Jason Leopold’s curiosity: The rapper claimed that the Secret Service visited him due to some controversial lyrics about Ivanka Trump. To find out if this was true, Leopold filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the federal law that allows anyone to demand access to government records.

After a year of delays, the Secret Service provided Leopold 40 pages about the interview with the real Slim Shady, including a note that he was “exhibiting inappropriate behavior.”

This isn’t the first time government transparency has intersected with hip-hop. Type “Freedom of Information” into Genius.com (the site formerly known as Rap Genius) and you’ll turn up tracks by Sage Francis and Scroobius Pip using FOIA as lyrical inspiration. The hip-hop duo Emanon sampled Joanna Newsom for “Shine Your Light,” in which they declare that, due to redactions of FOIA documents, we’re “never gonna see the true history of this nation.”

Even George Clinton, whom many rappers cite as an inspiration, chanted about “getting funky” with freedom of information on the track “Maximumisness.”

There’s nothing quite like an envelope of freshly photocopied documents to make a journalist or open-government advocate break into song. But there’s also nothing that brings the melody to a record-scratching halt like the government withholding information without due cause.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is an international nonprofit based in San Francisco that fights to uphold civil liberties in the digital age—for example, by filing hundreds of public records requests each year with a variety of government agencies. In collaboration with the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, we also compile “The Foilies,” a list of anti-awards that name-and-shame government officials and corporations that stymie the public’s right to know.

ES Now in its sixth year, The Foilies are part of the annual Sunshine Week festivities, when news and advocacy organizations celebrate and bring attention to state and federal open-records laws that allow us to hold the powerful to account.

And the winners are….

The Space Opera Award: New Mexico Spaceport Authority

lawsuit. After entering the wormhole of the justice system, Haussamen finally received the records in 2019, along with a $60,000 settlement for his trouble—but not before the New Mexico Legislature stepped in and passed a new law granting the Spaceport even more secrecy over its operations.

The Uncontrolled Burn Award: Federal Aviation Administration Someone at the Federal Aviation Administration has an unhealthy relationship with their CD burner. Last year, Mike Katz-Lacabe of the Center for Human Rights and Privacy filed a FOIA request with the FAA to get records about helicopters and airplanes operated by 19 different police agencies in California. The FAA turned up 120 MB of files. They could have put them on a single CD-ROM, which can hold about 700 MB of information. Instead, the FOIA

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The About Face on Face Recognition Award: Immigration and Customs Enforcement How hard is it to unmask records on face recognition?

The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) discovered the many faces of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when it filed a request for information on the agency’s acquisition and use of face recognition technology.

ICE initially said it had only three redacted records— while failing to search one of its largest directorates, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). After POGO successfully appealed, ICE responded that a query of ERO had been conducted and was being reviewed. Two months later, ICE said the request had been closed. After POGO reached out to the agency, ICE then contradicted itself, stating that the appeal was assigned and ERO would be queried. A follow-up request seeking updated information was met with silence. Accordingly, POGO has decided to

face off with ICE in a different venue—the courtroom— after filing a lawsuit for the records.

The Busiest Government Office Award: U.S. Department of Justice In response to yet another FOIA request from Leopold, this time for documents relating to the Mueller investigation, the Justice Department claimed it has as many as 19 billion responsive documents. This would mean the investigation had generated or collected more than 28 million documents each day, weekends included.

Although Mueller’s investigation lasted 22 months, the DOJ told Leopold it would take 2,300 years for it to review and produce the requested records for public disclosure.

Leopold tweeted that he is exploring cryogenics as a way to review the records in the 4320s.

The Unnecessary Fee Award: Horry County

Reed is no longer in office, but his legacy lives on in Atlanta, where his former press secretary, Jenna Garland, was convicted this year for violating Georgia’s Open Records Act. The New York Times reported that she sought to frustrate journalists’ requests for records by directing city spokespeople to be “as unhelpful as possible,” “drag this out as long as possible” and “provide information in the most confusing format available.”

This is the first time that a public official has been charged or convicted under Georgia’s open records laws— and if recent history is a guide, it may not be the last.

The Smokescreen Award: Texas Elementary Schools Across the country, parents, educators and lawmakers are fuming about nicotine “vaping” among underage students. Considering that this is branded as a public health crisis, one would assume schools would be forthcoming with data about vaping incidents on campuses to help

Horry County, SC, is the home of Myrtle Beach and its many dedicated beach-goers—and home to this year’s most unnecessary FOIA fee. The Myrtle Beach Sun News sent out requests to a number of local towns and public entities inquiring about payments made on behalf of public agencies to settle lawsuits in the last five years. Many of the towns in Horry County emailed the responsive documents back for free; some charged less than $50, but the county itself asked for $75,500.

When asked why the records cost so much, the county was unable to provide an exact accounting. Although its $75,500 demand is not the most outrageous total to grace the Foilies, Horry County’s response is award-worthy in light of how disproportionate it was compared to other agencies.

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The Surveillance for You, Privacy for Us Award: Ring Inc. EFF has written a lot about Amazon Ring surveillance doorbells, mostly aided by a torrent of great investigative reporting done by journalists using public records requests.

The doorbells may be capturing the movements and conversations of neighbors and pedestrians in neighborhoods all across the United States, but Ring employees really value their privacy.

One researcher, Shreyas Gandlur, turned up an email from Ring to the Joliet City Police Department, asking them to redact the names and email addresses of any Ring employees that may show up in emails released through FOIA. “Ring employees have strong personal privacy interests,” wrote one Ring employee (whose name was redacted).

The Repeat Winner Award: Atlanta Mayor’s Office Back in 2018, then-Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed earned a Foilie when he responded to a corruption probe by releasing 1.476 million documents, which he displayed in a six-foot wall of boxes at a press conference, even though it turned out that many of the documents were entirely blank or fully redacted.

The Choose-Your-Own Exemption Award: Immigration and Customs Enforcement What’s an agency to do when it can’t identify a FOIA exemption to justify withholding records? In ICE’s case, it created its own.

As is common practice in immigration court, where there is no discovery process, attorney Jennifer Smith sought the immigration file of a client by filing a FOIA request with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). USCIS told Smith that it had identified 18 records, but instead of producing those records, it mysteriously instructed Smith to request them from ICE. Two years later, ICE finally responded that it was withholding the records to “deny fugitive alien FOIA requesters access to the FOIA process when the records could assist the alien in continuing to evade immigration enforcement efforts.” While admittedly creative, there is no “fugitive disentitlement” exemption under FOIA. Moreover, this fake exemption countered exactly what immigration attorneys are trying to do: ensure that their clients won’t be considered fugitives.

The ACLU of Colorado sued on Smith’s behalf, and won the case in 2019.

The Anything Can Be Confidential Award: U.S. Supreme Court

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Among the many blacked-out sections of the Mueller Report, a few redactions stood out. The National Security Archive reported that the Justice Department redacted sections of public news stories that the Mueller Report quotes or cites. For example, the report cites a CNN headline as: “[Redacted] Says He Won’t Agree to Plea Deal”—but the CNN story is freely available online, and a quick Google search shows that the redacted words are “Roger Stone Associate.”

conduct. Unfortunately, the CPD refused to turn over the footage.

In July, the CPD was forced to turn over documents after 14 months of stalling over a FOIA request for files on officers. After a legal opinion from the Illinois Attorney General, the CPD turned over a spreadsheet with more than 33,000 names dating back to the 1940s.

Does the Chicago Police Department use search warrants? Of course it does, but you wouldn’t know from its FOIA responses. Also in July, the CPD told Lucy Parsons Labs that it did not have any responsive documents for a request for all executed search warrants. After several months of fighting, the department finally released records concerning 11,000 search warrants issued over a five-year period.

inform policymakers. That’s not what Sarah Rafique, a reporter with ABC 13 Investigates in Houston, found when she filed records requests with more than 1,000 schools across Texas. About 10% of agencies missed the 10-day deadline to respond. One school demanded an (illegal) flat fee of $150 for all requests, while another agency demanded to know the reason for the request before they’d hand over the documents. “It was weird, too, that some districts said they didn’t have any data/information but when I explained I was reaching out to 1,000 districts (and they wouldn’t be singled out, per se) all of a sudden they had numbers to share,” Rafique said in a Twitter thread outlining the most troubling responses to her requests.

The Hardest Department to FOIA Award: Chicago Police Department In 2019, the Chicago Police Department was in the news multiple times for its inability to respond to even the most straightforward public records requests.

After members of CPD raided the wrong home and traumatized a family, the family sought to get the body camera footage of the raid. The family believed that, in addition to showing the mistaken raid, it would also show police mis-

With the rise of outsourcing, no-bid contracts and elected officials seeking to reduce government spending, private businesses and government have never been more intertwined. Whether it be facial recognition technology or algorithms used to determine whether people receive public-assistance benefits, private companies and the technology they build are embedded in the government’s daily work.

Yet in June, the U.S. Supreme Court made it much harder for the public to access records that involve private companies. In the case Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader, the court interpreted a FOIA exemption broadly to allow the government to withhold records that a company considers confidential. Prior to the Supreme Court’s decision, private information could not be withheld from a FOIA requester unless the government or the business could show that making the information public would harm the business. But under the court’s June decision, the government can withhold any information a business deems private.

Confidential business information under FOIA is thus in the eye of the beholder, a result that will frustrate the public’s ability to understand how the government uses private companies’ products and technologies. f The Foilies were compiled by Electronic Frontier Foundation Senior Investigative Researcher Dave Maass, Staff Attorneys Aaron Mackey and Saira Hussain, Frank Stanton Fellow Naomi Gilens and Policy Analyst Matthew Guariglia. Illustrations by EFF Designer Caitlyn Crites. For more on our work, visit eff.org.

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Slowing Down Time SAM BURCHFIELD RECONNECTS WITH NATURE THROUGH GRAVEYARD FLOWER

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ow based in Atlanta, Sam Burchfield grew up in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in South Carolina and spent his college years in Athens. He was headed up the East Coast to Boston when Flagpole caught up with him this month.

Burchfield’s relationship with travel stretches across his first full-length record, Graveyard Flower. It’s only one song longer than his previous release, the EP Unarmored, but Graveyard Flower distinguishes itself with a cohesive folk sound and recurring lyrics that tie it together. Permeating the album is a restlessness for movement and a desire to reconnect with the natural world. “Sometimes you’re so caught up in a routine that you forget to just look up and see what’s around you,” Burchfield says.

A yearning to break free from the constructed world around us appears at the very start of the record on “Waking Up.” The song pulls from Burchfield’s trip to the Arches National Park in Utah with his wife, fellow musician and collaborator Pip the Pansy, who adds levity to the song with her flute’s trill. Seeing all the stars in the desert was the titular “waking up” moment for Burchfield and encouraged him to be more present in life.

Nature’s omnipresence is essential to Graveyard Flower, but as it moves forward, listeners step out onto shaky ground; they’re forced to recognize how nature’s mutability reflects their own impermanence.

“As I started to dig into it, the theme started to open up into this idea of: We’re tied to nature because we come from nature, and we return to nature,” Burchfield says.

Yet it’s easy to lose sight of that connection to the Earth, not just because of technology, but a constant urgency to

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be somewhere else. Burchfield’s career, in particular, lends itself to long-distance trips, but for him travel’s purpose isn’t to have the greatest mileage or fastest arrival time.

Even moving within a small area can inform your perspec-

tive through what you choose to absorb and ignore. For Burchfield, traveling by car or going hiking changes the way he views the spaces he passes through and his perception of time.

“I think when you do that, time in a way slows down,” Burchfield says. “And I think that’s connected to this idea of nature and mortality. We’re so tied to this quick clock… and I think when you drive somewhere, it’s like time stretches out.”

A similar experience accompanies a play-through of Graveyard Flower. Only listening to the singles leaps you over swaths of thoughts, and you end up missing pieces—

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in this case, the lyrical repetitions that loop the record back into itself. One of the most central reoccurrences is the phrase “graveyard flower” which first appears in “Hold My Hand” and crops up again in the final track, as well as in the album’s name and art.

On the album cover, the theme of mortality that drifts through the record is condensed into the single image of a skeleton as an emblem of death. Two artists played a role in the figure’s creation. Atlanta tattoo artist Dustin Cramer designed the artwork for early singles off the album, as well as a skeleton that ultimately ended up as art for an early A-side CD release and on Burchfield’s arm as a tattoo. Artist Michael Kai expanded on that preliminary design to create the final block print-like image of the skeleton imbued with movement and a flower for a heart.

Looking at the exquisitely matched artwork may suggest otherwise, but when it comes to his own creative process, Burchfield isn’t waiting for perfection. From his time as a student in the UGA Music Business Program, the words of David Barbe, the program’s director and a pillar in the Athens music scene, still stick in Burchfield’s head. “He lit a fire under us,” he says of Barbe.

“And one of the things he said…[was] “never give yourself a fallback plan, or you will fall back on it.”

That advice pushed Burchfield away from the mindset of needing perfection from the outset, and into one of rising to the occasion. For Graveyard Flower, Burchfield leaned into that by recording the album at home, instead of at a studio, for the first time.

“There’s something freeing about that, and I think you let go of that sense of perfection,” Burchfield says. “You’re just moving forward.” f

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hat began as a slow rumor amid smug and dismissive guffaws over what would become a worldwide Coronavirus pandemic became real on Friday, Mar. 6.

That was the day when Austin, TX destination festival and conference South by Southwest canceled all official events for the first time in 34 years after having its hand forced by order of Mayor Steve Adler.

fell apart. “Many of the artists we work with reach out to us asking for help in finding an official showcase to perform on, which is why we put in the time to try to make one happen. While we’re not able to make that happen for all of them, it’s still a goal we try to help them realize,” says Patel. “The cancellation has led several people I know to either cancel or shuffle their tours.” Patel is

The word was announced after several also quick to mention that SXSW has been, days of heavy exodus by household names and is, important to companies like his, and Apple, Google, Warner Music Group and has been instrumental in connecting with more. Earlier the same week, an earnest artists, booking agents and others. petition had circulated asking SXSW to Just like every other news story this cancel in the interest of the public good. month, this is still developing news.

Although SXSW was never publicly combatWord from Austin is that people are still ive while negotiating with city officials, and going out but crowds thus far—even suggested multiple alternatives to outright local audiences—seem lighter than usual. cancelling, they did publicly stay committed Photographer and longtime Flagpole correto the show going on. spondent Mike White In a particularly is there now, having We really couldn’t justify attended a separate ironic turn of events, Twitter—which owed 40-plus hours in the car conference last week. much of its early He caught a show by and all the costs anymore. adoption to a successformer Athens band ful and buzzy launch Bambara the other during 2006’s SXSW gathering—was among night. “There weren’t many people around,” the organizations that pulled out early.

White says. “[The band] mentioned Until the official word came down, that about 40% of their pre-sales in San Flagpole was set to attend, being a decadesFrancisco didn’t [even] show up.” A couple long media partner of the event. The annual of nights later, he attended a comedy show Athens in Austin party was booked solid. and said headliner Daniel Van Kirk donated Athens companies Tiger Bomb Promo and 25% of his merchandise sales to the club Arrowhawk Records each had official showstaff to help make up for lost SXSW income. cases that took months of coordination to An economic impact study commissecure. Athens’ Avery Leigh Draut of Avery sioned by SXSW last year reported that the Leigh’s Night Palace, with a brand new sinconference was responsible for $356 million gle under her belt and a record in the can, dollars worth of economic activity and was set to take the band out west even after had a total attendance of 288,000. These all her SXSW shows were canceled. “We numbers are both staggering and sobering, were going totally unofficial, and with the as much of this money poured into the help of some generous friends and other pockets of bartenders, drivers, temporary bands we had pulled together five shows. workers, sound crews and multiple ancilWhen several of them were called off, we lary services. SXSW has a standing policy flip-flopped about whether it made sense to of not issuing refunds for any reason, but still try to go,” she told me. “But we… had will allow ticket holders to attend one of planned to drive straight there and back. At the next two years at no cost. The festival that point we really couldn’t justify 40-plus itself is bleeding millions of dollars in lost hours in the car and all the costs anymore.” expenses as its insurance doesn’t cover Shil Patel of Tiger Bomb Promo started cancelations for this type of reason. Before planning the company’s showcase back in Mar. 6, the organization—which is a full August 2019. They had only just announced time, year-long concern—had close to 200 it on Mar. 2, mere days before everything full-time employees. Now it has 50 fewer. f

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THIS WOMAN’S WORK: Avery Leigh’s Night

Palace just released a new single named “Into The Wake, Mystified” and it’s smooth and dreamy and perhaps the kind of thing the world needs exactly right now. That said, the soft, dream pop mood it evokes feels more purposeful and driven than relaxed and resigned. The fully fleshed out melody is carried along by a crack team of Athens players that is kinda too long to mention here.

Dig it over at averyleighs nightpalace.bandcamp.com, and read up at averyleigh draut.com.

make up the promotional, manufacturing and distribution infrastructure of the independent music scene—sorely out of pocket for expenses already laid out. I’d like to encourage y’all to make a little extra effort this month to support our Athens bands, labels and others who saw their events cancelled. Please see the feature story on this page for more fallout news.

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SOME SONNY DAY: The Hibbs Family Band was set to release its second single from its upcoming album Saturday, Mar. 21 at Hendershot’s. The album is named Tears In Missouri and comes out May 1. The first single, “Living 50 Songs,” is already out. If you’re unfamiliar with this crew, they’re a legit family band made up of members of the Hibbs family, of which Georgia Dish Boys members Rob and Garrett Hibbs are two. Generally speaking they play a nice, professional blend of country, bluegrass and folk with an emphasis on melody and musicianship. Most of all, it’s just damn nice. The show, which has been canceled, would have been with Atlanta’s Grit and Grace Avery Leigh’s Night Palace as well as A.C. Darnell who was set to release his CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE, DEP’T: After yet debut EP that night. Check for a reschedanother spectacular instance of Ad·Verse uled event at hibbsfamilyband.bandcamp.

Fest, all I can say is hats off to founder, com and facebook.com/hibbsfamilyband. director and coordinator AC Carter. You WOP-BOP-DOODLY-WOP-BOP: Newnan, GA resknow how rare it is to go to even one show ident Brent Walburn launched his new and be thrilled by every band on the bill?

Podcast In Loving Recollection a few months Well, try a whole two-day, two-venue festiago and, in Athens-related news, the latest val. This never happens, but there wasn’t a episode features Greg Harmelink, Dan single artist or performer I witnessed from Geller, Ryan Lewis and Sean Rawls whom I didn’t learn something, receive a speaking about their band Kincaid. More fully entertaining time, or otherwise had specifically, they talk about the band’s my interest piqued. So applause all around sophomore album Super Hawaii (1999) and for Carter-n-crew, with a loud shout out to the nascent days of Kindercore Records. current “Artist in ATHICA” Eli Saragoussi Walburn told me he’s got an upcoming for the outstanding art installations at episode about The Glands featuring Joe ATHICA and Caledonia. Keep up for next Rowe and Doug Stanley, too. So, give ‘em year at adversefest.space. a listen over at inlovingrecollection.com or AND SPEAKING OF WHICH…: The aforementioned any major streaming services. installation at ATHICA, titled “Precious SOUTH BYE: News spread like wildfire a couple Moments,” was going to have an event all of weeks back when, after several rounds of its own for the general public Sunday, of bet-hedging back and forth with city Mar. 22. Artist Eli Saragoussi told Flagpole officials, Austin’s South By Southwest that Max Boyd had created a site-specific cancelled all of its official events. While this soundscape for the event, and that violinist was perhaps the most reasoned response Annie Leeth would have played, too. Due to the Coronavirus, this move has unforto public health concerns, its best to cruise tunately, but undoubtedly, left many thouInstagram at @flimmyflammy, @ath_ica and sands of musicians—as well as those who @adversefest instead. f

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No new wide releases until Apr. 10 sounds as it thinks itself to be. The Blumhousepretty crazy, huh? That means no return to produced satire written by Nick Cuse and A Quiet Place Part II any time soon. Plenty Damon Lindelof grows out of the manhunt of recently released movies are hanging proposed in “The Most Dangerous Game.” around; Ciné will have the excellent Emma.

Here, the twist is that liberal elites are (more below), Portrait of a Lady on Fire hunting some conservative deplorables, and (also exceptional) and Once Were Brothers: the result comes off like restrained Eli Roth Robbie Robertson and the Band through Thursday (at least). The 12th Annual Athens Jewish Film Festival for Mar. 21-25 is canceled, including the opening night gala and film, Fiddler: Miracle of Miracles. Ciné canceled the rest of the screenings, which included The Keeper, A Bag of Marbles, Mr. & Mrs. Adelman, The Second Time Around, The Tobacconist, Echo, Holy Lands and A Fortunate Man. So far as I know, Shit, what would Katniss do?! at Flicker, Pachinko Pop Cinema presents Age of Assassins on Mar. 19. The Morton has can- filled with familiar faces like Hilary Swank, Emma Roberts, Ike Barinholtz, Betty celed the Banff Mountain Film Festival Gilpin, Ethan Suplee and Glenn “Dennis on Mar. 18 and the Ripple Effect Blue Reynolds” Howerton. Gilpin, best known Carpet Premiere on Mar. 22. Beechwood (to me) for Nurse Jackie, proves ready for should show Harry Potter and the Goblet higher profile work; she is highly believof Fire one last time on Mar. 18, and 25th able as a tough-as-nails heroine, even if anniversary screenings of Braveheart are scheduled for Mar. 22 and 23 at the AMC Dine-In Athens 12. So, are Emma, The Hunt or Bloodshot worth breaking quarantine?

(Briefly, the answers are probably, maybe and definitely not.)

EMMA (PG) Emma, the most popular Jane

Austen novel—no one ever guesses when asked to name a novel by Jane Austen— concerns a privileged young lady named Emma Woodhouse (Anya Taylor-Joy), who has convinced herself that she is a preternaturally gifted matchmaker. Naturally, this misconception couples with unnecessarily obfuscated communication to create narrative complications that would leave a sitcom writers’ room green with envy. Taylor-Joy’s sweet energy cannot eradicate the bitter traces of a mean girl that fuels Austen’s matchmaker. It is Emma’s very privilege that allows her to be a matchmaker and also believe she is good at it. The film, written

by Eleanor Catton and directed by Autumn de Wilde, a music video veteran making her feature debut, has the modern sensibilities of Greta Gerwig’s Little Women but seems more interested in critiquing the privileged Emma than that film did the March sisters.

This latest version of Austen’s novel is quite playful and amiably spirited even if Emma’s suitors, the Darcy-an George Knightley (Johnny Flynn, who resembles Charlie Hunnam to a point of distraction) and probably caddish Frank Churchill (Callum Turner), might not be up to the task of winning her, or Harriet Smith (Mia Goth), for that matter.

THE HUNT (R) The Hunt is smarter than you would think it to be but never as smart

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her accent is squeaky. The Hunt amusingly, violently makes some political points, while offering little insight into our divided country. Our great politi-cultural divide could use some skewering; let’s hope The Hunt is more of a good start rather than the last word.

BLOODSHOT (PG-13) In 1989, former Marvel

editor-in-chief Jim Shooter co-founded Valiant Comics; in 1992, the company introduced Bloodshot, a former soldier (originally he was a mob hitman) given a healing factor thanks to a billion nanites injected into this blood. A more generically 90s, heroic origin could exist, but Bloodshot’s beginnings are up there. Enter Vin Diesel as former Marine Ray Garrison, who is the cineThe Hunt matic Bloodshot. Now you can add generic-looking to Bloodshot’s list. At least the comic character had distinctively white skin (think God of War’s Kratos) and a red circle on his chest. Movie Bloodshot just looks like Vin Diesel, who, for what it’s worth, does not phone in his vengeance-fueled portrayal.

In this era of great comic book movies, Bloodshot comes off more like a weak, cinematic adaptation of a videogame. This snoozefest does as much to bust the comic book movie boom as Valiant, Image, and more helped burst the 90s comic book bubble. (The big boys deserve their share of the blame, too.) It certainly is a far worse start for the Valiant Cinematic Universe (really?!) than Batman v. Superman was for the DCEU. f

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art notes

ATHICA Spotlights Immersive, Diverse Talent APPLY NOW TO THE GALLERY’S ARTIST IN RESIDENCY PROGRAM

By Alden DiCamillo arts@flagpole.com

COURTESY OF ATHICA

The Athens Institute for Contemporary Art has just finof artists and ideas come through the gallery with a wide ished the second year of its artist in residency program, variety of media and disciplines. Fancher sees the residency cleverly titled Artists-in-ATHICA, and has opened up regisprogram as an immersive way of carrying out ATHICA’s tration for a third year. mission to be a space of community engagement in support Artists-in-ATHICA began with a collaboration between of contemporary art.

Lauren Fancher and Gunner Tarsa, who had just graduated Kaitline Shae’s 2019 Artist-in-ATHICA show “Pom with a BFA in painting from UGA’s Lamar Dodd School Pom” was four weeks long and focused on material, waste, of Art. Tarsa wanted to create an immersive drawing persculpture and weaving. Before the residency, Shae had formance within ATHICA that involved an auditory humanities discipline. Kyle Lewis, then an undergraduate at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, joined the collaboration to organize performances in which Tarsa created drawings in response to Lewis’ musical compositions. This collaboration filled a space in between exhibitions and addressed a need that Lauren had been brainstorming to fill: how ATHICA can stay active as a gallery in a multitude of different types of engagement.

ATHICA’s last resident, from Dec. 15–Jan. 6 of this year, was Claire Molla, a movement and performance artist who has a background in dance and theater. Claire’s performance embraced gender, personal history, the audience’s gaze, sound immersion and healing rituals related to personal loss.

Molla’s residency consisted of several performances in which she lay on a couch, facing away from the audience, but melting red wax on her chest. Her partner had rigged a wench system that slowly lowered a mirror in front of the artist, which, throughout a three hour time span, revealed a completed image of her Artist-in-ATHICA Gunnar Tarsa (in pink) with collaborator Kyle Lewis. body to the audience. Molla had a heartbeat microphone attached to her chest so that the audience “harvested” a large amount of UGA game day pom poms, could share in her internal vitality for three hours. At the brilliantly red in their hue. Shae began her time at ATHICA end of the performance, the lights slowly dimmed. At the by piling the pom poms in the middle of the gallery, creatvery end, her heartbeat microphone stopped and was silent. ing a plastic form that oscillated between mountainous and Residents like Molla have found numerous ways to creaturely. She then wove the material of the pom poms engage both ATHICA’s physical architecture and the surinto a communal tapestry, including other materials such rounding Athens community. In conversation with Fancher as thread, cloth and mixed media. about her thoughts on the program two years in, she stated Tomie Seo, a Japanese artist, was ATHICA’s second that ATHICA has been fortunate to have had a diversity artist in residence, occupying the gallery from Oct.9–22

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in 2018. Seo’s work focuses on the intersection of identity and conflict through the lens of a personalized philosophy that bases itself on attentiveness to political issues (such as race and gender), collective dreams and technology. Within her time at ATHICA, she created a community drawing.

Community members were invited to gather at the gallery to draw their dreams and bring nostalgic items or photographs to loan the gallery in order to “showcase the identity and identity of people in Athens through their dreams.”

Outgoing Artist-in-ATHICA Eli Saragoussi is a local artist and lead member of the local band Baby Tony and the Teenies. She used her time at the gallery to create fantastical stage sets that decorated both ATHICA and Caledonia Lounge during the second annual Ad·Verse festival held earlier this month. The sets featured the whimsical plants and creatures of Eli’s imagination, as saturated in color as it is in a playful, visual performance. Overall, Eli’s work aims to “bring a little wonder and magic into everyday life… An immersive meld of saccharine and disturbed in the form of whimsical plants, creatures, clouds and rainbows.” Eli hoped to continue world building in their sets with ATHICA and Caledonia as a way to heighten and broaden the experience of the performers and the audience. ATHICA was planning to host “Precious Moment,” an immersive installation with music by Annie Leeth, this weekend, but now encourages everyone to explore her work at @flimmyflammy instead.

ATHICA’s mission is to be engaged in the Athens community as a source of education, performance and experimentation in multiple forms. Most recently, ATHICA has continued with its usual exhibition schedules, adding an experimental music series featuring several Athens and UGA musicians, led

by Kathryn Koopman, a graduating masters student from the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. There have been events collaborating with Ciné like the Monster Drawing Rally last December. Also in the works is the inaugural publication of Local Honey, a zine publication initiated by current ATHICA intern Madison Greer.

ATHICA is now accepting applications for its Artists-in-ATHICA residency program. Also open is a call for applicants for the gallery’s internship program, in which recipients can choose a few months to several months with ATHICA through exhibition building, photography, writing and social media, and education. Links to corporate sponsorship and individual donations as well as information on future events can be found through athica.org. f Alden DiCamillo is a current intern at ATHICA.

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Megan Sparks

Max Boyd and Eli Saragoussi

EVENT | SUN, MAR 22

Lyndon House Arts Center · 6 p.m. · FREE! Current Artist in Residence Megan Sparks will reflect on her artistic process and experience developing a new body of oil paintings over the past month in the LHAC painting studio. A 2019 BFA graduate of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Sparks can now be found as a gallery assistant at Tif Sigfrids. Straddling the line between tragedy and humor, her loosely rendered worlds are peppered with childlike butterflies, loud colors and genderless, long-limbed characters whose expressive frowns are both disarming and immediately endearing. Leaning on the repetition and endurance of symbols, she draws parallels between historical references and personal experiences to contemplate ideas pertaining to temptation, spirituality and sexuality. [Jessica Smith]

Precious Moment

ATHICA · 7 p.m. · FREE! Anyone who missed Eli Saragoussi’s candy-colored stage sets during this year’s Ad·Verse Fest ought to catch her fleeting “Precious Moment,” an immersive environment—featuring a performance by ethereal violinist Annie Leeth—that represents the culmination of the artist’s residency at ATHICA. Like “Supple Moments, Dark Corners,” a whimsical world currently installed in the GlassCube at Indigo through April, “Precious Moment” features a site-specific soundscape created

by Max Boyd, Saragoussi’s partner in doowop garage pop band Baby Tony and the Teenies. Saragoussi says, “I consider this installation a “pocket world’—a glimpse into my mind—and hope that it gives the audience a moment of freedom from their reality.” [JS]

MUSIC | SAT, MAR 21

Life of Agony, Doyle

MUSIC | TUE, MAR 24

40 Watt Club · 7 p.m. · $21.50 Brooklyn-based alt-metal outfit Life of Agony headlines a night of brooding power riffage and fury. The group, featuring vocalist Mina Caputo, guitarist Joey Z, bass player Alan Robert and human tornado drummer Veronica Bellino, is supporting its latest blast of emotionally-charged metal, The Sound of Scars.

Opening the show, famous monsterman Doyle of the Misfits also brings his Annihilator guitar to the stage for a round of skull bashing and demonic shredding.

Alongside vocalist Alex Story, Doyle raises the spirit of Earth A.D.-era Misfits to demonic new heights with songs from 2013’s Abominator, 2017’s Doyle II: As We Die, and maybe some new material from that third record he’s been hinting at for a minute. [Chad Radford]

J. Roddy Walston

Georgia Theatre · 7:30 p.m. · $15–18 After 17 years of hard-hitting, harder-touring rock and roll action, edgy Americana four-piece J. Roddy Walston and the Business called it quits back in December. The band’s swan song, 2017’s Destroyers of the Soft Life, is a soulful and measured LP that, in retrospect, carries a sense of peaceful finality. Pianist, guitarist and songwriter Walston didn’t bother taking any time away from the stage, as he has continued to tour regularly with his Richmond, VA, indie supergroup Palm Palm. That band supports him on his “A Single Dose of Strangeness” tour, which hits Athens Tuesday evening. Also on the bill, former Whigs frontman Parker Gispert returns home to share a solo set of material.

[Gabe Vodicka]

D E L E C CAN

Tuesday 17 ART: Tour at Two (Georgia Museum of Art) (This event has been canceled.) Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, curator of American art, will give a talk focusing on two newly reinstalled

galleries in the permanent collection.

2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum. org COMEDY: Dublin Down Comedy Show (Little Kings Shuffle Club) (This event has been canceled.)

Enjoy the comic stylings of headliner Tim Chirikalov and openers Hayley

Ellman and Lanny Farmer. Hosted

by Alia Ghosheh. 9 p.m. $10. www. facebook.com/gawdamthatsfunny COMEDY: Flying Squid Comedy Open Mic (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) (This event has been canceled.)

Show up and go up open mic with both new and seasoned standup

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comics. Show up early to get on the list. Five minutes per comic. Hosted the third Tuesday of every month. 8 p.m. FREE! www.hendershotscoffee. com COMEDY: On the Spot Improv Show (Miller Learning Center) (This event has been canceled.) (Room 268) See UGA’s improv troupe perform. 7:30 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/improvUGA EVENTS: Tuesday Tour at Two (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) (This event

has been canceled.) Take a guided tour of the exhibit galleries of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies. Meet in the rotunda on the second floor. 2 p.m. FREE! www.libs. uga.edu/scl EVENTS: St. Patrick’s Day Celebration (The Foundry) (This event has been canceled.) Featuring Irish music and performances

from The Gentry and the Carpenter Academy of Irish Dancing. 7:30 p.m. www.thefoundryathens.com EVENTS: St. Patrick’s Day Party (Southern Brewing Company) Celebrate with brewery tours, green beer and Irish Red Ale, and a live streamnig of the Dropkick Murphys.

Live music and dancing have been canceled for this event. 12 p.m. www.sobrewco.com GAMES: Trivia (The Office Sports Bar and Grill) Play to win. Every Tuesday.

8 p.m. FREE! 706-521-5898

GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) (This event has been canceled.) (2301 College Station Road) Every Tuesday. 8:30 p.m.

FREE! www.facebook.com/blindpigtavern GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) (This event has been canceled.) Hosted by James Majure. 6 p.m. FREE! www. therookandpawn.com GAMES: Trivia (Starland Pizzeria and Pub) Test your trivia knowledge. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-8773 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: Music Trivia (The Foundry) (This event has been canceled.)

Hosted by Classic City Trivia. 6:30 p.m. FREE! thefoundryathens.com GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) (This event has been canceled.) General trivia hosted by Jacob and Wes. 8:30 p.m. FREE! 706-850-8561 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Tuesday: Tiffany Patterns and Light (Georgia Museum of Art) (This event has been canceled.) Little ones are invited to a special tour and storytime exploring mosaics by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Afterwards, they can create colorful mosaics of their own to take home. For children ages 18 months to 3 years. 10 a.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org KIDSTUFF: St. Pat-Rex Day (Madison County Library, Danielsville) (This event has been canceled.) Enjoy Irish crafts, snacks and photos with the library’s very own T-Rex. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/madison KIDSTUFF: Toddler Time (Madison County Library, Danielsville) (This event has been canceled.) Songs, rhymes, books and educational play.

11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/madison KIDSTUFF: Teen Cooking Class (Bogart Library) (This event has been canceled.) Learn how to make healthy and fresh dips, smoothies and other yummy treats. Grades 6–12. 6 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Lego Club (Oconee County Library) (This event has been canceled.) Create Lego art and enjoy Lego-based activities. Legos provided. Ages 3–11. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee MEETINGS: Athens Citizens Climate Lobby (Ciné) (This event has been canceled.) Help enact a national policy to mitigate climate change. Newcomers welcome. 6 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ athensccl MEETINGS: Athens Rock and Gem Club (Holy Cross Lutheran Church) Kim Cochran gives a talk on The Southeast Federation of Mineralogical Societies. 7:30 p.m.

FREE! THEATER: The Penelopiad (UGA Fine Arts Building) (This event has been postponed.) (Cellar Theatre) UGA Theatre presents Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, a contemporary take on Homer’s “The Odyssey,” focusing on the faithful Penelope and her struggle to maintain the kingdom of Ithaca, raise her son and thwart innumerable suitors in her husband’s absence.

See Calendar Pick on p. 14. Mar. 17–21, 8 p.m. & Mar. 21–22, 2:30 p.m. $7–12. www.ugatheatre.com/ penelopiad

Wednesday 18 EVENTS: Pop-Up with The Plate Sale (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) (This event has been canceled.)

Come out and try something new at this special pop-up dinner. 6–9 p.m. www.hendershotsathens.com FILM: Banff Mountain Film Festival (Morton Theatre) (This event has been canceled.) A collection of action, environmental and adventure films exploring the mountain world. 7–10 p.m. $15. katherine@halfmoonoutfitters.com GAMES: Trivia (Southern Brewing Company) Every Wednesday. 7 p.m.

FREE! www.sobrewco.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) (This event has been canceled.) Every Wednesday. 6 p.m.

FREE! www.facebook.com/willysmexicanaathens GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) (This event has been canceled.) Gather a team and compete. 8 p.m. www.saucehouse.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) Dirty South Trivia offers house cash prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-0892 GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) (This event has been canceled.)

(2440 W. Broad St.) Compete for prizes. 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia.wordpress.com GAMES: Nerd Trivia (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) (This event has been canceled.) Every Wednesday. Prizes and house cash. 8 p.m. FREE! www. grindhouseburgers.com KIDSTUFF: Wonderful Wednesday: Book Club (Bogart Library) (This event has been canceled.) This month’s choice is Pax

by Sara Pennypacker. Ages 4 and up. 11:30 a.m. & 4 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Storytime (Oconee County Library) (This event has been canceled.) Stories, songs, movement, crafts and fun for preschool-aged children. 10 a.m. & 11 a.m. FREE! 706-769-3950, www. athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Step into Music (ACC Library) (This event has been canceled.) An afterschool music class with Mr. Evan. For children ages 5–7 and their caregiver. 4 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Preschool Storytime (ACC Library) (This event has been canceled.) Attendees will share books, songs, puppets and rhymes. Ages 1.5–5. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Mother Goose on the Loose (Bogart Library) (This event has been canceled.) This special storytime is designed to promote parental bonding and early learning for babies ages 0–24 months.

Registration required. 10–11 a.m.

FREE! 770-725-9443 www.athenslibrary.org/bogart KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library, Danielsville) (This event has been canceled.) Stories, songs and simple crafts. Ages 0–5. 10:30 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison KIDSTUFF: Indoor Camping (Oconee County Library) (This event has been canceled.) Attendees will enjoy an indoor camping adventure featuring campfire songs and s’mores. Grades 6-12. 6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/oconee KIDSTUFF: Elementary Read Aloud (Madison County Library, Danielsville) (This event has been canceled.) Ms. Carley will read aloud from a book while participants complete a related activity. Ages 6 & up. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/madison KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) (This event has been canceled.) Children of all ages are invited for bedtime stories every

Wednesday. 7 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Art Cart (After Class) (Georgia Museum of Art) (This event has been canceled.) 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 LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Old Fire Hall #2) (This event has been postponed.) Award-winning author Laurie Halse Anderson will discuss her New York Timesbestselling memoir, SHOUT. 7 p.m. $20. www.avidbookshop.com THEATER: The Penelopiad (UGA Fine Arts Building) (This event has been canceled.) Mar. 17–21, 8 p.m. & Mar. 21–22, 2:30 p.m. $7–12. www.ugatheatre.com/penelopiad THEATER: Escape to Margaritaville (The Classic Center) (This event has been canceled.) Escape to Margaritaville is a musical comedy featuring both original song and beloved Jimmy Buffett classics, including “Fins,” “Volcano,” “Cheeseburger in Paradise” and many more. 7:30 p.m. $35–75. www.classiccenter.com

Thursday 19 ART: Third Thursday Art Series (Athens, GA) Eight galleries stay open late the third Thursday of every month. Participating galleries include the Georgia Museum of Art, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Creature Comforts Brewing Co., ATHICA, Lyndon House Arts Center, Ciné, the GlassCube & Gallery @ Hotel Indigo and The Classic Center.

Several of these venues are currently closed. Call ahead. 6-9 p.m. FREE! www.3thurs.org ART: Megan Sparks: Open Studio (Lyndon House Arts Center) (This event has been canceled.) Winter Artist in Residence Megan Sparks will share reflections on her monthlong residency along with new and upcoming works. 6 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/lyndonhousearts CLASSES: Yoga in the Galleries (Georgia Museum of Art) (This event has been canceled.) Five Points Yoga instructors lead a class surrounded by works of art. 6 p.m.

FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org CLASSES: Grow Your Business (Athens Land Trust) (This event has been canceled.) Learn about starting a business or how to grow an existing one. This class pertains specifically to potential farm businesses.

RSVP to attend. 5:30 p.m. FREE! rita@athenslandtrust.org CLASSES: Teen Studio: Comic Strips and Monsters (Georgia Museum of Art) (This event has been canceled.) Ages 13–18 are invited to explore comic strips by local artist Patrick Dean and then create comic strips of their own. Led by local artist and educator Kristen Bach. Pizza will be provided. 5:30 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: Percentage Night (Southern Brewing Company) A portion of sales will benefit the Athens Nurses Clinic. 5–9 p.m. www. sobrewco.com EVENTS: Make It An Evening (Georgia Museum of Art) (This event has been canceled.) Enjoy Jittery Joe’s coffee, Cecilia Villaveces’ cakes and gallery tours prior to the performance in Hodgson Hall

by George Hinchliffe’s Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. 5:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! $5 (coffee & dessert) www.pac.uga.edu 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: Daffodil Sip & Stroll (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) (This event has been canceled.)

Attendees are invited to stroll through the Shade Garden Trail, enjoy live music and stop at designated locations to taste selected wines and hors d’oeuvres from local eateries. All proceeds support Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful programs. 5:30 p.m. $30–50. www. accgov.com/daffodilsipandstroll EVENTS: Aloka Repurposed Textiles Pop-up (Steel + Plank) Pick your favorite quilt or pillow made from repurposed saris before they head to the High Point market.

Salvaged then softened, the vintage quilts (between 60–90 years old) are over-dyed in a custom color range and then accented with original block print designs. This event is by appointment only. Call or email to schedule a time. Mar. 19–20, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Mar. 21, 11 a.m.–3 p.m.

706-850-7980, hello@steelandplank.com, www.steelandplank.com FILM: Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot (Georgia Museum of Art) (This event has been canceled.) Based on a true story, this poignant and funny drama about the healing power of art is adapted from cartoonist John Callahan’s autobiography. 7 p.m. FREE! www. georgiamuseum.org FILM: Age of Assassins (Flicker Theatre & Bar) (This event has been canceled.) Pachinko Pop Cinema presents a film about a disheveled college professor targeted by an assassin’s guild who proves harder to knock off than they had anticipated. 7 p.m. FREE! www.facebook. com/pachinkopop GAMES: Music Trivia (Saucehouse Barbeque) (This event has been canceled.) Meet at the bar for a round of trivia. 8 p.m. FREE! www.facebook. com/saucehousebbq KIDSTUFF: Peeping Beauty (ACC Library) (This event has been canceled.) Enjoy eggs and hen-themed stories and crafts and prepare for the Chicken Dance. For children ages 4–8 and their caregiver. 3:30 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org KIDSTUFF: Teen Study Group (Madison County Library) (This event has been canceled.) Teens can enjoy quiet study time and snacks in a multipurpose room. Ages 13 & up.

6–8 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/madison LECTURES & LIT: Inclusive Book Club (Madison County Library, Danielsville) (This event has been canceled.) This facilitated book club serves adults of all abilities and will be reading out loud and discussing book of the month Dog Stories by James Herriot. 1 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/madison LECTURES & LIT: Avid Poetry Series (Avid Bookshop) (This event has been postponed.) Hear poetry curated by Jennifer K. Dick and Gale Marie Thompson. 6:30-7:30 p.m.

FREE! www.avidbookshop.com PERFORMANCE: Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) (This event has been canceled.)

Founded in 1985 by musician and composer George Hinchliffe, the Ukulele Orchestra combines virtuoso musicianship and vocals with British humor to create a one-of-a-kind show that has entertained millions around the world. 7:30 p.m. $10–30. www.pac.uga.edu THEATER: The Penelopiad (UGA Fine Arts Building) (This event has been postponed.) Mar. 17–21, 8 p.m. & Mar. 21–22, 2:30 p.m. $7–12. www.ugatheatre.com/ penelopiad

Friday 20 ART: Opening Reception (tiny ATH gallery, 174 Cleveland Ave.) (This event will be rescheduled in September.) Celebrate the opening of “Ecumenopolis” by Jacob Wenzka.

The word “Ecumenopolis” is a Greek word meaning “world city,” or a city that encompasses an entire planet.

6–9 p.m. FREE! www.tinyathgallery. com CLASSES: Spanish Classes (ACC Library) (This event has been canceled.) Participate in group classes of five for fun and easy ways to learn Spanish. 4–5 p.m. $20. 706372-4349 CLASSES: What Not to Click (Madison County Library, Danielsville) (This event has been canceled.) A tutorial designed to teach attendees about advertisements, scams and viruses to avoid when browsing the web. 1 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison EVENTS: Aloka Repurposed Textiles Pop-up (Steel + Plank) See Thursday listing for full description. Mar. 19–20, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

Mar. 21, 11 a.m.–3 p.m. 706-8507980, hello@steelandplank.com, www.steelandplank.com EVENTS: Morning Mindfulness (Georgia Museum of Art) (This event has been canceled.) Participate in a guided meditation session in the galleries. Meet in the lobby. 9:30 a.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum.org EVENTS: MTB Race and Yard Sale (This event has been rescheduled for Oct. 10.) (Hawkes Creek Farm, 802 Hargrove Lake Rd.) Enjoy mountain bike racing, music, food and drinks. The yard sale will feature old bikes, Twilight memorabilia, cars and a selection of silent auction items. Mar 20, 6 p.m. Mar 21, 9 a.m. & Mar. 22, 9:30 a.m. $5 (park), $5 (yard sale). www.swagger.us EVENTS: Orange World: An Exploration of Orange Wines (This event has been canceled.)

(J’s Bottleshop) Discuss orange wine-making, talk with winemakers about their approach and taste through a half-dozen orange wines.

6:30 p.m. $45. 706-353-8881, wine. jsbottleshop@gmail.com FILM: Movies on Tap (Southern Brewing Company) Join the brewery for a movie every Friday night. 9 p.m. FREE! www.facebook.com/ thesouthernbrewingcompany LECTURES & LIT: Collective Behavior Symposium (Georgia Center for Continuing Education) (Masters Hall) Presented by The University of Georgia Institute of Bioinformatics, this year’s symposium entitled “Understanding Collective Behavior through Transdisciplinary Efforts” explores coordinated behaviors found across all domains of biology from animals and plants to bacteria and viruses.

9 a.m.–4 p.m. $10–25. www.iob. uga.edu LECTURES & LIT: Do Tell!

Storytelling Festival (Madison Morgan Cultural Center) (This event has been postponed.) This year’s storytellers include Barbara McBride-Smith, Antonio Rocha, Dolores Hydock, Carol Cain and Andy Offut Irwin. Mar. 20, 7 p.m.

Mar. 21, 10 a.m., 2:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. $5–15. www.mmcc-arts.org LECTURES & LIT: Women’s Studies Friday Speaker Series (Miller Learning Center) (This event has been canceled.) (Room 150) PhD candidate Jaleesa Reed (Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors) presents “Selling Effortless Beauty at Glossier.” 12:20-1:10 p.m.

FREE! tlhat@uga.edu

PERFORMANCE: A Night of Sweet Dreams (40 Watt Club) (This event has been canceled.) Presented by Dancefx. 8 p.m. www.40watt.com THEATER: Frozen Jr. (Athens Little Playhouse) (This event has been rescheduled for Apr. 17–18 & 24–25, 7 p.m. Apr. 19 & 26, 3 p.m.)

Children perform a musical based on the popular Disney movie. Mar. 20–21, 28–29, 7:30 p.m. Mar. 22, 29, 3 p.m. www.athenslittleplayhouse.net THEATER: Hank Williams: Lost Highway (Elbert Theatre, Elberton) (This event has been canceled.)

Encore Productions opens their 2020 season with Hank Williams: Lost Highway, a show following the life of singer-songwriter Hank Williams. The show will feature a live band performing Williams’ popular hits such as “Hey Good Lookin’,” “I’m So Lonely I Could Cry” and “Move It on Over.” Mar. 20-21, 7 p.m. Mar. 22, 2 p.m. $9–16. 706-283-1049, tking@cityofelberton.net THEATER: The Penelopiad (UGA Fine Arts Building) (This event has been canceled.) Mar. 17–21, 8 p.m. & Mar. 21–22, 2:30 p.m. $7–12. www.ugatheatre.com/penelopiad

Saturday 21 COMEDY: Human Zoo (Veronica’s Sweet Spot) (This event has been canceled.) Join host Zack Hayes for an evening with local and Atlantabased comedians. 7 p.m. $5 (entry), $5 (BYOB). www.facebook.com/ sweetspotathens EVENTS: Holi: Indian Festival of Color (ACC Library) (This event has been canceled.) Holi is a traditional Hindu festival celebrating the colors of spring and commemorating the triumph of good over evil. Attendees can enjoy an array of Indian food, dance, music and the throwing of traditional vibrant colored powders outdoors. Wearing white clothing is advised. 11 a.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens EVENTS: Queer Prom (Little Kings Shuffle Club) (This event has been canceled.) This year’s theme is “When the Stars Align,” hosted by Ravion Starr. Come dressed as your astrological sign, dance with the Booty Boyz and receive door prize raffles. 9:30 p.m. $5. www.athenspride.org EVENTS: Out of the Darkness Campus Walk (This event is happening virtually.) UGA will host this event to unite its student body and the city of Athens in the fight against suicide, the 10th-leading cause of death across the U.S. population and the second-most among college-aged students. 11 a.m. ugapcc@gmail.com EVENTS: Mystic Ways Fest (Indie South, 470 Hawthorne Ave.) This special event will feature educational workshops, services from practitioners and items from vendors who create goods oriented towards wellness and ritual. Activities include tarot readings, aura photographs, astrological chart analyses and more. Mar. 21–22. www.theindiesouth.com EVENTS: MTB Race and Yard Sale (This event has been rescheduled for Oct. 10.). Mar 20, 6 p.m.

Mar 21, 9 a.m. & Mar. 22, 9:30 a.m. $5 (park), $5 (yard sale). www. swagger.us EVENTS: In Their Shoes 10K Run & Walk (UGA Intramural Fields) (This event has been postponed.)

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THE CALENDAR! $45. athensfoundation@piedmont. org EVENTS: Hawthorne Animal Hospital Open House (This event has been postponed.) (Hawthorne Animal Hospital, 530 Hawthorne Ave.) Tour the hospital, watch a teddy bear surgery and enjoy treats for both humans and pets. Adoptable dogs of Athens Canine Rescue will be in attendance. Attendees are asked to leave their current pets at home. 11 a.m. FREE! www.hawthornepet.com EVENTS: BreastFest Athens (The Foundry) (This event has been canceled.) A day of beer, catered food, a silent auction and live music to help increase awareness of breast cancer. 2 p.m. facebook.com/breastfestathens EVENTS: Athens Jewish Film Festival (Ciné) (This event has been canceled.) The festival celebrates its 12th anniversary with feature films, shorts and documentaries. $55 (festival pass). www. athensjff.org EVENTS: Aloka Repurposed Textiles Pop-up (Steel + Plank) See Thursday listing for full description. Mar. 19–20, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

Mar. 21, 11 a.m.–3 p.m. 706-8507980, hello@steelandplank.com, www.steelandplank.com EVENTS: Precious Moment (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) (This event has been canceled.) Eli Saragoussi’s residency at ATHICA culminates in a performance by Annie Leeth, immersed within an environment created by Saragoussi for Ad-Verse Fest. 7 p.m. www.athica FILM: UUFA Chalice Film Series (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens) (This event has been canceled.) Healthcare Around the World is a documentary film and discussion about approaches to healthcare across five different countries. 4 p.m. FREE! www.uuathensga.org KIDSTUFF: Saturday Morning Club (UGA New Dance Theatre) (This event has been canceled.) Ever wonder how music helps superheros sound strong? Come listen to the UGA Wind Symphony perform the music from popular superhero movies and learn about the super powers of music. Attendees will have the opportunity to make their own superhero mask before the concert and participate in an instrument petting zoo after the performance (weather permitting.) Ages 4–12 and their families are invited to attend.

10 a.m. FREE! www.pac.uga.edu KIDSTUFF: Bears Birthday Party (Memorial Park) (This event has been postponed.) (Bear Hollow Zoo) The community is invited to join this celebration and watch the zoo’s bears unwrap their presents and enjoy their cake. A birthday card will be available to be signed by well-wishers, as well as crafts and special birthday treats. 10 a.m.

FREE! 706-613-3090, www.accgov. com/bearhollow LECTURES & LIT: Do Tell!

Storytelling Festival (Madison Morgan Cultural Center) (This event has been postponed.) Mar. 20, 7 p.m. Mar. 21, 10 a.m., 2:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. $5–15. www.mmcc-arts.org LECTURES & LIT: Athens Haiku (ACC Library) (This event has been canceled.) Attendees can enjoy haiku books and journals, discussions on related forms, sharing of work and gentle suggestions on how to sharpen their poems. Every third Saturday. Ages 14 and up. 11 a.m.– 12:30 p.m. FREE! 706-248-2372 OUTDOORS: Hike into History (This event has been canceled.) (Ben

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Burton Park, 615 Mitchell Bridge Rd.) Learn about the history of the park and the role of the Middle Oconee River in Athens. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. 706-613-3620, www.accgov. com/leisure PERFORMANCE: When The Kourtesans come MARCHing In (Caledonia Lounge) Drag performances featuring Karmella Machhiato, Cola Fizz, Lisa Couchlocker, Semaj Onyx-Coxring and Mr. Elle Aye. Special guests TJ Maxx, Stoney Dark Day and Hera Kane. 9 p.m. $3. www.caledonialounge.com THEATER: The Penelopiad (UGA Fine Arts Building) (This event has been canceled.) Mar. 17–21, 8 p.m. & Mar. 21–22, 2:30 p.m. $7–12. www.ugatheatre.com/penelopiad THEATER: Frozen Jr. (Athens Little Playhouse) See Friday listing for full description. Mar. 20–21, 28–29, 7:30 p.m. Mar. 22, 29, 3 p.m. www. athenslittleplayhouse.net

7:30 p.m. Mar. 22, 29, 3 p.m. www. athenslittleplayhouse.net THEATER: The Penelopiad (UGA Fine Arts Building) (This event has been postponed.) Mar. 17–21, 8 p.m. & Mar. 21–22, 2:30 p.m. $7–12. www.ugatheatre.com/ penelopiad

Monday 23 EVENTS: Athens Jewish Film Festival (Ciné) (This event has been canceled.) $55 (festival pass). www.athensjff.org EVENTS: But First, Coffee (Madison County Library, Danielsville) (This event has been canceled.) Enjoy coffee and cama-

babies. 10:30 a.m. FREE! 706-6133650, www.athenslibrary.org KIDSTUFF: Open Chess Play for Kids and Teens (ACC Library) (This event has been canceled.)

Teen chess players of all skill levels can play matches and learn from members of the local Chess and Community Players, who will be on hand to assist players and help build skill levels. For ages 7–18.

Registration required. 4–5:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-613-3650 MEETINGS: Coffee and Conversation (Madison County Library, Danielsville) (This event has been canceled.) Enjoy coffee and chat with neighbors in the Jere Ayers room. 10 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/madison

Sunday 22 CLASSES: Calligraphy Class (Madison County Library, Danielsville) (This event has been canceled.) Mike Moak teaches lettering. Supplies are provided.

Registration is required. 3 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison EVENTS: Athens Jewish Film Festival (Ciné) (This event has been canceled.) $55 (festival pass). www.athensjff.org EVENTS: Meet and Greet: Carol Myers (Fire Station #7) (This event is being rescheduled.) Eastside District 8 Commission candidate Carol Myers hosts a public meet and greet to discuss her platform and take questions from attendees. 4 p.m. FREE! www.votemyers.com EVENTS: MTB Race and Yard Sale See Friday listing for full description. Mar 20, 6 p.m. Mar 21, 9 a.m. & Mar. 22, 9:30 a.m. $5 (park), $5 (yard sale). www. swagger.us EVENTS: Mystic Ways Fest See Saturday listing for full description.

Mar. 21–22. www.theindiesouth.com FILM: Ripple Effect Blue Carpet Premiere (Morton Theatre) (This event has been postponed.)

Winning films from K–12th graders in the ACC community will be presented. The event will be held on World Water Day, which is also the overarching theme for all film submissions. 3–8 p.m. FREE! www. mortontheatre.com GAMES: Rockin’ Roll Bingo (Starland Pizzeria and Pub) Play to win. 9 p.m. FREE! 706-613-8773 GAMES: Trivia (Southern Brewing Company) General trivia hosted by Solo Entertainment. House prizes and discounted tabs. 5–7 p.m.

FREE! www.sobrewco.com PERFORMANCE: Athens Flute Choir Spring Concert (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) (This event has been canceled.) This year’s program celebrates the choir’s 10 year anniversary. The program will include many favorites and a special guest or two. 2-3 p.m. FREE! www. athensflutechoir.org PERFORMANCE: Classic City Band (Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall) (This event has been canceled.)

The concert will feature a program of all-female composers including local artist Bethany Lambert. 5–6 p.m. FREE! www.classiccityband.org THEATER: Frozen Jr. (Athens Little Playhouse) (This event has been postponed.) Mar. 20–21, 28–29,

GAMES: Happy Hour Trivia (The Rook and Pawn) (This event has been canceled.) 6 p.m. FREE! www. therookandpawn.com GAMES: Locos Trivia (Locos Grill & Pub) (This event has been canceled.)

8 p.m. FREE! www.locosgrill.com GAMES: Music Trivia (The Foundry) (This event has been canceled.)

Hosted by Classic City Trivia. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.thefoundryathens. com GAMES: Trivia (Hi-Lo Lounge) (This event has been canceled.) 8:30 p.m.

FREE! 706-850-8561 GAMES: Trivia (Starland Pizzeria and Pub) Test your trivia knowledge. 8 p.m. FREE! 706-613-8773 GAMES: Trivia (The Office Sports Bar and Grill) Play to become victorious.

Every Tuesday. 8 p.m. FREE! 706521-5898 KIDSTUFF: Toddler Time (Madison County Library, Danielsville) (This event has been canceled.) Songs, rhymes, books and educational play.

11 a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary. org/madison MEETINGS: United Way of Northeast Georgia’s Annual Meeting (Holiday Inn) (This event has been canceled.) Celebrate the past year of United Way of Northeast Georgia with fellow community leaders, volunteers, nonprofits and partners. 5 p.m. $30. ageist@unitedwaynega.org

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“Honey Darling” by Heather Steele is currently on view by appointment in the annual “Love Show” at K.A. Artist Shop through April. raderie in the Jere Ayers room. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/madison FILM: Standing on my Sisters’ Shoulders (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) (This event has been canceled.) This award-winning documentary is about women who bravely faced adversity and became grassroots leaders during the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. 6:30 p.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org GAMES: Geeks Who Drink Trivia (Highwire Lounge) (This event has been canceled.) Test your general knowledge for prizes. 8–10 p.m.

FREE! www.highwirelounge.com GAMES: Pasión de las Pasiones (The Rook and Pawn) (This event has been canceled.) Participate in a five-session campaign based on the popular telenovela. Play through stories with dramatic reveals, explosive confrontations, evil twins and more. 7:30 p.m. www.therookandpawn.com KIDSTUFF: Homeschool Hangout (Madison County Library, Danielsville) (This event has been canceled.) Homeschool families are invited to join staff for an introduction to library resources geared toward homeschooling. 2 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/madison KIDSTUFF: Infant Storytime (ACC Library) (This event has been canceled.) Parents can share plays, songs and simple books with their

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MEETINGS: Dulcimer Group (Madison County Library, Danielsville) (This event has been canceled.) Learn to play and read music with the “dirty dulcimers” after hours. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/madison

Tuesday 24 ART: Artful Conversation (Georgia Museum of Art) (This event has been canceled.) Emily Hogrefe-Ribeiro leads a conversation on selected works from the exhibition “Portrait of Marina Wister” by Diego Rivera.

2 p.m. FREE! www.georgiamuseum. org COMEDY: Decaf Comedy Open Mic (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) (This event has been canceled.) Hear comics from Athens and Atlanta.

Newcomers welcome. Email to perform. 8:30 p.m. $3–5. www.hendershotscoffee.com EVENTS: Athens Jewish Film Festival (Ciné) (This event has been canceled.) $55 (festival pass). www.athensjff.org EVENTS: Tuesday Tour at Two (Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries) (This event has been canceled.) 2 p.m. FREE! www.libs.uga.edu/scl GAMES: Full Contact Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) (This event has been canceled.) 8:30 p.m. FREE! www. facebook.com/blindpigtavern

EVENTS: Heckle Hell: Heaven on Heels (That Bar Athens) Come test your roasting skills against the best: DC Disaster, Ms. Gingerbred and Lori Divine. Hosted by Jho. Sign up for a five-minute open mic spot.

8 p.m. (sign-up), 9 p.m. $3. www. thatbarathens.com EVENTS: Athens Jewish Film Festival (Ciné) (This event has been canceled.) $55 (festival pass). www.athensjff.org EVENTS: Pop-Up with The Plate Sale (Hendershot’s Coffee Bar) (This event has been canceled.) 6–9 p.m. www.hendershotsathens.com GAMES: Cornhole Tournament (Saucehouse Barbeque) (This event has been canceled.) 8 p.m. www. saucehouse.com GAMES: Dirty South Trivia (Mellow Mushroom) (This event has been canceled.) 8 p.m. FREE! 706-6130892 GAMES: Nerd Trivia (Grindhouse Killer Burgers) (This event has been canceled.) 8 p.m. FREE! www.grindhouseburgers.com GAMES: Trivia (Blind Pig Tavern) (This event has been canceled.) 8 p.m. FREE! www.fullcontacttrivia. wordpress.com GAMES: Trivia (Willy’s Mexicana Grill) (This event has been canceled.) 6 p.m. FREE! www.facebook. com/willysmexicanaathens GAMES: Trivia (Southern Brewing Company) Every Wednesday. 7 p.m.

FREE! www.sobrewco.com KIDSTUFF: Bedtime Stories (ACC Library) (This event has been canceled.) Children of all ages are invited for bedtime stories every Wednesday. 7 p.m. FREE! www. athenslibrary.org/athens KIDSTUFF: Elementary Read Aloud (Madison County Library, Danielsville) (This event has been canceled.) Ms. Carley will read aloud from a book while participants complete a related activity. Ages 6 & up. 4:30 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/madison KIDSTUFF: Preschool & Toddler Storytime (Madison County Library, Danielsville) (This event has been canceled.) Stories, songs and simple crafts. Ages 0–5. 10:30

a.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/ madison KIDSTUFF: Preschool Storytime (ACC Library) (This event has been canceled.) Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens LECTURES & LIT: Genie Smith Bernstein: Skating on the Septic Tank (ACC Library) (This event has been canceled.) The Friends of Athens-Clarke County Library and local author Genie Smith Bernstein will celebrate her latest book, Skating on the Septic Tank: Telling Stories, a collection of short non-fiction stories exploring the highs and lows of life. 7 p.m. FREE! www.athenslibrary.org/athens LECTURES & LIT: Meet the Author (Avid Bookshop) (This event has been postponed.) Avid presents André Gallant for his book, A High Low Tide: The Revival of a Southern Oyster. Purchase a copy of the book and get it signed by the author. 6:30 p.m. FREE! www.avidbookshop.com

LIVE MUSIC Tuesday 17 Caledonia Lounge THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. www.caledonialounge.com Sacred Bull, The Stone Eye, Ape Vermin, Mother Fore The Foundry THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. www.thefoundryathens.com The Gentry Georgia Theatre THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. www.georgiatheatre.com AFTM, Sleepwalkers, Bigg Chungus Southern Brewing Company LIVE PERFORMANCES HAVE BEEN CANCELED FOR THIS EVENT. www. sobrewco.com The Knockouts, Green Flag Band, DJ Osmose, Carpenter Academy of Irish Dancing Tweed Recording THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. www.thelewisroom.eventbrite.com Sarah Shook & The Disarmers, Drew Beskin

Wednesday 18 Georgia Theatre THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. georgiatheatre.com EOTO Hendershot’s Coffee Bar THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. www.hendershotsathens.com Alash Ensemble Nowhere Bar THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. www.facebook.com/NowhereBar Athens Sono Lumini

Thursday 19 Caledonia Lounge THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. www.caledonialounge.com Jameson Tank, Cosmonot, Claustrophillic Flicker Theatre & Bar THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. www.flickertheatreandbar.com Karaoke with Dr. Fred

40 Watt Club THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. www.40watt.com Hotel Fiction, Heffner, Nuclear Tourism The Foundry THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. www.thefoundryathens.com Jeb Bush Orchestra, Hum Ripple Georgia Theatre THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. www.georgiatheatre.com Lawrence, Stephen Day, Próxima Parada Hendershot’s Coffee Bar THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. www.hendershotsathens.com Sam Burchfield & The Scoundrels, Brother and the Hayes Nowhere Bar THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. facebook.com/nowherebarathens Pinky Doodle Poodle That Bar Athens 10 p.m. FREE! www.thatbarathens.com KARAOKE Pick your favorite tune to sing to all your friends. Featuring DJ Bossie Bos. VFW THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. 706-543-5940 Grown Folks Dance Party

Friday 20 Caledonia Lounge THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. www.caledonialounge.com Beast Mode, Actus Reus, Violence System, Murder Van Georgia Theatre THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. www.georgiatheatre.com Ryan Hurd, Adam Doleac Hendershot’s Coffee Bar THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. www.hendershotscoffee.com The Hobohemians Little Kings Shuffle Club THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. 706-369-3144 Nihilist Cheerleader, O Key, Dagmar Vork, Immaterial Posession Nowhere Bar THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. 10 p.m. www.facebook.com/ nowherebarathens The Broken String Band, Mermaid Motor Lounge Tweed Recording THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. www.tweedrecording.com Sadler Vaden, Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster, Hunter Morris & Blue Blood VFW THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. www.vfwathens.com Chris Hampton Band

40 Watt Club THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. www.40watt.com Life of Agony, Doyle of the Misfits The Foundry THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. www.thefoundryathens.com Monday’s Alibi, Brand New Relic Hendershot’s Coffee Bar THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. www.hendershotscoffee.com A.C. Darnell, Hibbs Family Band, Grit and Grace Highwire Lounge THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. www.highwirelounge.com Silent Disco That Bar Athens 9 p.m. thatbarathens@gmail.com HIP-HOP DON’T STOP This event is an opportunity to support local artists as they showcase their music.

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Sunday 22 Cali ’N’ Tito’s Eastside 6 p.m. FREE! 706-355-7087 THE LUCKY JONES Local band playing rockin’ rhythm and blues.

The Foundry THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. www.thefoundryathens.com Dylan Smucker, Alec Stanley, The Great Northern

Monday 23 Nowhere Bar THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. facebook.com/NowhereBarAthens Minglewood Monday Veronica’s Sweet Spot THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. facebook.com/sweetspotathens Open Mic Night

Tuesday 24 The Foundry THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. www.thefoundryathens.com Buffalo Wabs & The Price Hill Hustle, Bitsy Georgia Theatre THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. www.georgiatheatre.com J. Roddy Walston, Parker Gispert

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Buvez THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. www.facebook.com/buvezathens Honeychild, Show Pony

Porterhouse Grill THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. 706-369-0990 Jazz Night

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Art AAAC GRANTS (Athens, GA) The Athens Area Arts Council is seeking applicants for its quarterly $500 grants. All local artists, arts organizations or arts-based projects are welcome to apply. The next deadline is June 15. info@athensarts.org, www.athensarts.org ARTIST-IN-ATHICA RESIDENCIES (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA) Residencies take place throughoutthe year, provide administrative support, exhibition and performance facilities, and a small stipend. Artists may work in any or multiple disciplies and traditions, including but not limited to visual, curatorial, musical, performing, written, experimental, cinematic, digital and theatrical arts. Residents can work independently or collaborate with others. Visit website for quarterly deadlines. www.athica.org/ call-for-entries 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 GEORGIA SQUARE ART WALK (Georgia Square Mall) Seeking submissions from artists of any genres, mediums and styles for an experiential art walk exhibition. Painting and drawing, sculpture, photography, multimedia, digital, installation artists and curators welcome. Email gasqartwalk@gmail.com INDIE SOUTH 15TH ANNUAL SPRINGTACULAR (Lyndon House Arts Center) Indie South is now accepting artist vendors for the annual Springtacular Handmade Market on May 9–10 at the Lyndon House Arts Center. Apply online. www.theindiesouth.com OPEN STUDIO MEMBERSHIP (Lyndon House Arts Center) Local artists can access studio facilities through an open studio monthly membership program. Studios include ceramics, jewelry, painting,

art around town AMICI (233 E. Clayton St.) Jennifer Wallens Terry shares unique works influenced by her background in environmental sciences, worldwide travel and work as a spiritual psychic medium and animal communicator. Through March.

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. • In the Myers Gallery, view an exhibition of oil paintings by Roman Zalac. Through April.

ATHENS-CLARKE COUNTY LIBRARY (2025 Baxter St.) “Unimpaired: Georgia Artists with DisAbilities” features award-winning works by Georgia artists living with disabilities. Through Mar. 28.

ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (ATHICA) (675 Pulaski St.) Presented in conjunction with Ad·Verse Fest, Artist-in-ATHICA hosts multimedia artist and musician Eli Saragoussi. Through Mar. 22.

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.) “Robot Soup” presents artwork by Jacob Wenzka from a book co-created with Bart King. Party Apr. 18. Currently on view.

CIRCLE GALLERY (UGA College of Environment and Design, 285 S. Jackson St.) “The Art of Conservation: Paintings by Philip Juras” explores ecologically intact environments like grass prairie, the Colombian Andes, Little St. Simons Island and the Southeast. Through April.

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. Through mid-April. • “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. Through mid-April.

COMMUNITY (260 N. Jackson St.) Colorful abstract paintings by Suzanna

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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

Auditions 'TIL BETH DO US PART (Elberton Arts Center, 17 W. Church St., Elberton) Encore Productions presents auditions for the second show of its 2020 season. Looking for a mid-sized group of adults.

Be prepared to read excerpts from the script. Auditions are currently postponed. Rehearsals run mid-April through May. Performances June 5–7 and 12–14 at the Elbert Theatre.

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Classes ACTING FOR CAMERA AND STAGE WITH JAYSON WARNER SMITH (Moonlight Theater) This ongoing acting class teaches the fundamentals to act via the Strasberg

method and others. Join at any time. Saturdays, 1–4 p.m. $400/12 classes. classinquiryJWS@gmail. com, www.jaysonsmith.com/teacher AMERICAN RED CROSS INSTRUCTOR TRAINING (Athens CPR, 182 Ben Burton Circle, Bogart) This course trains instructor candidates to teach basic-level American Red Cross First Aid, CPR and AED courses, and includes online content, a precourse skills session and classroom segments. Check website for upcoming classes. www.athens cpr.com ART CLASSES (KA Artist Shop) “Brush Lettering with Kristen Ashley,” 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. FREE! hello@kaartist.com, www.kaartist.com CLASSES (Winterville Center for Community and Culture) “Aikido,” Mondays and Wednesdays at 12 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. “Oil Painting,” Mondays at 1:30 p.m. “Chess Club,” Mondays at 6 p.m. “Coffee with a Veteran,” Tuedays at 9 a.m. “Threadwork Crafting Club,” Tuesdays at 9 a.m. “SilverSneakers Stretch,” Wednesdays at 10

Toole. Through March.

CREATURE COMFORTS BREWING CO. (271 W. Hancock Ave.) “Migration”

by Jackie Kirsche features two large, multi-panel mixed media works of art that explore the rhythms of life as manifested through bird migration patterns.

Through Mar. 29.

FLICKER THEATRE AND BAR (263 W. Washington St.) Paintings by Marisa Mustard. Through March.

GALLERY AT INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Tiny Universe #3” is an exhibit of small works by over 70 artists from Athens and Atlanta. Through May 30.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “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. • “Reflecting on Rembrandt: 500 Years of Etching” celebrates the 350th anniversary of the artist’s death. Through Apr. 19. • “Kevin Cole: Soul Ties” includes multimedia works exploring the right of African Americans to vote, the improvisational nature of jazz and more. Through Apr. 19. • “Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection” features over 60 objects spanning over 30 years of the famous stained glass artist’s career. Through May 10. • “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.) Jess Dunlap creates whimsical wood-burned designs on birth plywood. Through Apr. 27.

HIP GALLERY AT HIP VINTAGE AND HANDMADE (215 Commerce Blvd.)

The Modern Quilting Guild of Athens presents recent work.

JITTERY JOE’S ALPS (1480 Baxter St.) Lisa Fortner creates acrylic abstract paintings. Through March.

JUST PHO…AND MORE (1063 Baxter St.) Susan Pelham’s collages are influenced by Magic Realism, Surrealism and fairytales. Through March.

K.A. ARTIST SHOP (127 N. Jackson St.) “Love Show 2020” celebrates love in all its many forms through works by dozens of artists. Through March.

LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) In “Golden Hour,” graduate candidates Mary Gordon, Alex McClay and Ciel Rodriguez create an ephemeral environment reminiscent of the golden hour. • “Kelsey Wishil: The Elements of Myth” emphasizes the material nature of phenomena. • “Amiko Li: The Purpose of Disease” draws on strategies of reenactment, exchange and mistranslation in examining phenomena related to the treatment of the mind and body. • “The 2020 University of Georgia and Augusta University Student Science and Medical Illustration Juried Exhibition” includes work by students in scientific illustration at UGA and graduate students in medical illustration at AU. 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.) In the Glass Case, a colorful installation inspired by dioramas is full of whimsical creatures by Elinor Saragoussi. Through April. • The “45th Juried Exhibition” presents

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a.m. “SilverSneakers Balance,” Wednesdays at 11 a.m. “Belly Dance Flow,” Wednesdays at 7 p.m. “Continuing Belly Dance,” Wednesdays at 8 p.m. “Mah Jongg,” Thursdays at 1 p.m. “First Thursday Potluck,” first Thursday of the month at 12 p.m. “Chess Tournament,” second Friday of the month at 6 p.m. wintervillecenter.com COMPUTER CLASSES (Madison County Library, Danielsville) Classes include instruction for using the Internet, email, e-readers and more.

Call to register. Tuesdays, 2:30–3:30 p.m. or 6:30–7:30 p.m. FREE! 706795-5597 FIT AND STRONG! (Memorial Park) This program combines flexibility, strength training and aerobic walking. For ages 55 & up. Mondays and Wednesdays through Apr. 8, 1–2 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3580, www. accgov.com/leisure INTRODUCTORY BEEKEEPING COURSE (1151 Clairemont Place, Watkinsville) The Oglethorpe County Bee Club and Eastern Piedmont Beekeepers Association present an introductory beekeeping program.

Attend as many classes as you like.

Saturdays through July, 1–4 p.m.

FREE! RSVP: danielreidlong@gmail. com or flyingpigshoney@gmail.com NEW SKATER BOOTCAMP (Fun Galaxy) Find out more about joining the Classic City Rollergirls.

Mondays, 6–9 p.m. and Saturdays, 9:30–11:30 a.m. Contact to confirm dates. $2 (mouthgard), $3 (skate rental), $20 refundable deposit for full set of gear. www.classiccityrollergirls.com TRADITIONAL SAMURAI SWORD AND STAFF (Live Oak Martial Arts,

Bogart) Sign up for classes in Jodo, the traditional Japanese art of the staff and sword. Visit website for full class schedule. $95/month. www. liveoakmartialarts.com WINE CLASSES (Normal School of Wine at J's Bottle Shop) “Wine 201: Introduction to Wines of France, Italy and Spain.” Email for rescheduled dates. wine.jsbottle shop@gmail.com YOGA CLASSES AT 5 POINTS (5 Points Yoga) Using Props Beyond the Basics on Apr. 15.

Classes include Slow Flow, Iyengar, Restorative, Yin, Power, Hot Yoga and beginners classes. www.athens fivepointsyoga.com

Help Out CASA SUMMER 2020 TRAINING (YMCA) Athens Oconee Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) offers training May 29–July 10. Fridays, 10 a.m.–1:30 p.m. and 5:30–9 p.m. arden@athensoconee casa.org, www.athensoconeecasa. org

Kidstuff ACC SUMMER CAMPS (Multiple Locations) Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services offers camps in science, dance, sports, art and more.

Visit website for dates and details.

706-613-3800, www.accgov.com/ leisure EXPLORING THE EARTH SUMMER CAMP (Little Rose Nature Adventures, Watkinsville) This camp is a nature-based, visual

199 works by 144 local artists. Through May 2. • Collections from our Community presents “Michael Lachowski’s Trail Trash,” a display of bags of litter picked up by the artist during hiking and backpacking trips dating back to 1995. Artist talk Apr. 23. Currently on view through May. 2. • On view in the Lounge Gallery, Lee Coffey presents a solo show of oil paintings celebrating the mundane, drawing inspiration from flea markets, thrift stores, internet holes, advertisements, art history and everyday objects. Artist Talk May 21.

Currently on view through May. MADISON-MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) “The Chair Show: A Juried Arts Exhibition” includes works of art in all media that celebrate and explore the ubiquitous chair. Through June.

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.

OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (34 School St., Watkinsville) See pieces by children in celebration of Youth Art Month. Through March.

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.) “The Strategies for Suffrage: Mobilizing a Nation for Women’s Rights” explores the nearly century-long story through newspapers, magazines, books and pamphlets. Through July 2. • “Paving the Road to Progress: Georgia Interstate Highways” traverses the rocky path of the interstate system’s development. Through Aug. 21.

THE ROOK & PAWN (294 W. Washington St.) Local artists Sara Machen Fogle and Darya Kalantari present “Nine Lives,” a collection of collaborative works offering modern interpretations of religious and mythical icons as cats.

Through March.

STEEL + PLANK (675 Pulaski St., Suite 200) See watercolors by Erin McIntosh, Ink + Indigo and Kathy Kitz, plus photographs by Benjamin Galland, and ceramics by Nancy Green and Studio CRL. Brittny Teree Smith of arkhive. presents “NW YRK,” a collection of photographs of the big city.

STEFFEN THOMAS MUSEUM OF ART (4200 Bethany Rd., Buckhead) “Black Heritage and the Brotherhood of Man” showcases contemporary African American artists living in Georgia. Through Mar. 28.

TIF SIGFRIDS (119 N. Jackson St.) Artwork by Jasmine Little. Opening Mar. 21.

TINY ATH GALLERY (174 Cleveland Ave.) Jacob Wenzka’s solo show “Ecumenopolis” takes its name from the Greek word meaning “world city,” or a city that encompasses an entire planet. Opening reception Mar. 20. Through Mar. 29.

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.

WHITE TIGER GOURMET (217 Hiawassee Ave.) See photographs by Charlie Mustard alongside pieces from his personal art collection. Through March.

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

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). Call Carol, 706612-6934 SEX ADDICTS ANONYMOUS (Email for Location) Athens Downtown SAA offers a message of hope to anyone who suffers from a compulsive sexual behavior. Write an email through athensdowntownsaa.com for help beginning your recovery process

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On The Street Ciné presents an exhibition of artwork by Jacob Wenzka that was created to illustrate Robot Soup, his fourth collaborative book with Bart King. A launch party and closing reception will be held Saturday, Apr. 18 from 12–2 p.m. 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 GYMNASTICS, YOGA, TUMBLING & MORE (Gymnasia) Classes include gymnastics, flow yoga, dance, tumbling, toddler time and open gym. The gym also hosts birthday parties. gymnasiaathens@gmail. com, www.gymnasiaathens.com STORIES, IMAGINATION AND MOVEMENT (Nimbl) After reading a story picked out by Avid Bookshop, participate in movement exercises based on the story.

Classes run through May. www. nimblathens.com SUMMER CAMPS (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Camps begin in May. Themes range from slime and science, Dungeons and Dragons, apothecaries, terrariums, creative beasts, food trucks, dinosaurs and more. Visit website for descriptions, dates and registration. www.tree housekidandcraft.com

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. 888-425-2666, www.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. 706-389-4164, www. athensaa.org

BY YOUR LEAVE BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT GROUP (reBlossom Mama Baby Shop) Learn everything you need to know when you're expecting. Wednesdays from 4–8 p.m. and Saturdays from 10:30

a.m.–12:30 p.m. Home visists are also available. byyourleaveinc@ gmail.com FEMPOWERMENT THERAPY GROUP (Oasis Counseling Center) This women's empowerment group meets weekly to cover a variety of topics designed to help women live more balanced, boundaried and fulfilling lives. $18/week or $120/all. katy@oasiscounselingcenter.com HERO'SUPPORT GROUP (Nuçi's Space) Help, Empower, Overcome, Recover. This is a peer group for anyone living with depression and/ or anxiety. Wednesdays, 6–8 p.m. through Mar. 25. lesley@nuci.org MALE SURVIVOR SUPPORT GROUP (The Cottage) This group is a safe space for male survivors of sexual violence and childhood sexual abuse to connect with and receive support from other survivors.

The group meets on Thursdays for eight weeks beginning Apr. 30. 706546-1133, ext. 226 MEN'S GROUP IN ATHENS (Athens) Men are invited to a supportive peer group aimed to examine behaviors, feelings and beliefs.

This is a safe space for men to take inventory of their life and “do their work.” The group is not affiliated with a religious practice and aims to be inclusive and affirming of all backgrounds. athensmenscircle. com/contact 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. 770225-0804. 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. namihallga@gmail.com, www. namihall.org NICOTINE ANONYMOUS MEETINGS (ACC Library) A 12-step recovery program of mutual

MEDITATION IN ATHENS (Multiple Locations) Meditations are offered in various forms across town.

Athens Zen Group offers a newcomers orientation on the second and fourth Sundays of each month at 11 a.m. athenszen.org. Mindful Breath Sangha offers mindfulness meditation in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. Sundays, 6:30–8 p.m. beckylockman@gmail.com.

Dedicated Mindfulness Practitioners meets at the Griffin-Dubose Healing Lodge every Saturday, 8:30 a.m. jaseyjones@gmail.com. Mindful Living Center offers intro mindfulness classes every second Friday of the month, 5:30–7 p.m. at the Healing Lodge, Piedmont Athens Regional. www.mindfuliving.org.

Satchidananda Mission offers yoga meditation every Sunday, 6:30–7:30 p.m. and Kirtan every third Sunday, 4–6 p.m. revmanjula@bellsouth. net. Let It Be Yoga hosts the Athens Singing Circle every second Monday, 7–9 p.m. 5 Points Yoga hosts meditations Thursdays at 8–9 a.m. Nuci's Space hosts meditations for focus every Friday, 11 a.m. www. nuci.org Healing Arts Centre hosts Insight Meditation every Monday, 7 p.m. 706-340-7288. www.athens fivepointsyoga.com MUSICIAN HEALTH CLINIC (Nuçi's Space) Uninsured and low income musicians can get appointments with doctors through Nuci's Space.

In-person or telephone appointments are available Mar. 23, 1:40–3:30 p.m. Call to book an appointment.

706-227-1515, lesley@nuci.org, www.nuci.org NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE (ACC Library) Athenians can visit Montgomery, AL, for the Equal Justice Initiative's National Memorial for Peace and Justice and Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Incarceration. This event has been postponed. www.athenslibrary.org/ athens SUMMER STAFF (Athens, GA) ACC Leisure Services in now hiring approximately 100 positions ranging from camp counselors, lifeguards and pool staff. www.accgov.com/ jobs TABLE TENNIS (East Athens Community Center) Table tennis games are held three times a week.

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Finding a Sex-Positive Doctor ADVICE FOR ATHENS’ LOOSE AND LOVELORN

By Bonita Applebum advice@flagpole.com Hey Bonita! you email me directly at the address below, I am fairly new to Athens and moved here I can privately share this document with for work not knowing anyone in town. So far you. The primary care physicians listed are I am happy with the move, making friends, Suzanne Lester and Melissa Martin. The checking out the city and whatnot. My cowork- former has an office in Normaltown and ers are great and have given me many helpful the latter is located on Tallassee Road right recommendations; however, there’s one area near the Loop. I strongly encourage you to where I can’t really do that. So, I wanted to call ahead of time and ask about insurance ask you instead. I am polyand rates so that there are amorous and want to find a surprises at your first Sex positivity is no sex-positive primary care phyappointment. sician. Obviously, I need to be essential when Now, I’m sure there are straightforward with my phypeople reading along who it comes to quality sician, but I could do without can’t begin to imagine why getting the hairy eyeball when health care. sex positivity would be a I explain that I am not monogdeciding factor for choosing amous, even though I always practice safe sex a primary care physician. No one should with my partners. Of course, I need to check if walk into a doctor’s office and feel judged, a particular provider accepts my insurance, is especially when you’re paying ridiculous accepting new patients, etc. but do you have amounts just to get your foot in the door. any recommendations or can you point me in Also, sex-negative attitudes have and will the direction of where to get them? Thanks, in influence the type of care that a physician advance! provides. This is the primary motivation Lots of love, behind consumers seeking out physiPolly cians who are sex-positive, and states like Washington and California have online Heya Polly, directories maintained by private organiFirst off, welcome to Athens. I hope that zations to make finding sex-positive health you’re finding us to be as open-minded, care easier for those who require it. I know accepting and crunchy as we like to think too many lesbians who have had birth conwe are. We don’t always live up to our trol prescriptions forced onto them or gay self-image, which is why I think you were men whose doctors assume that they cruise very smart not to ask your coworkers about truck stops or that they must be HIV posisex-positive doctors. I like to assume the tive. It’s insulting and demeaning. best of people, but this is still the South, I remember going to my general pracand this is still a right-to-work state where titioner when I was 16 years old, and my you can be fired for doctor insisted that I was pregnant. Spoiler any reason. alert: I definitely wasn’t, and I never I’ve only have been. I was a queer ever been teenager who had only fired ever kissed my girlfriend at that point, but he spoke over me at every turn.

I didn’t want to come out to him, and I didn’t understand why he wouldn’t believe a Black teenage girl when she told him she’d never had sex (because we’re supposed to be slutty twice hottentots). He eventually in my pretended to believe me, but entire life, my paperwork showed that but they both he’d performed a pregnancy test happened in Athens, on me anyway. I don’t know if we ever and both firings were because of issues that got to the actual cause of why I was there. had absolutely nothing to do with my job.

His shitty attitude lost him a customer, People can be awful! basically, and today I only see physicians I’m sure you’ve already found them, but who are young women, if I can manage it. I there is a contingent of non-monogamous needed help, not judgment. Sex positivity people here in Athens who meet up for is essential when it comes to quality health socializing and general community-buildcare. f ing, and there is a Google doc that lists Need advice? Email advice@flagpole.com, use the doctors, therapists, and other medical professionals in the area whom the community anonymous form at flagpole.com/getadvice, or find Bonita on Twitter: @flagpolebonita. deems sex-positive and poly-friendly. If

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Gone Viral ATHENS HAS BEEN THROUGH OTHER CRISES, BUT NOT THIS

By Pete McCommons pete@flagpole.com We have all written a lot recently about the fragility of the local businesses and entertainment venues that make Athens special, and of course we always take for granted the presence of the university and the schools—and the churches and grocery stores, for that matter.

Last week began here with the dawning recognition that this thing is deadly serious, and it ended with reports of Athens’ first two confirmed cases. And last week was a preview of Athens without the university and the schools, which will be our status quo for at least two more weeks. That

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the effects of enslavement.

World War II also sent many Athenians away into danger and greatly limited activities at home through rationing of gasoline, tires, foodstuffs and other vital items.

More recently and less dangerously, our whole downtown business structure was decimated by the removal of its anchor stores to Georgia Square Mall when it opened 40 years ago. Nobody died, but downtown did. Over time, the energy of our artists, musicians and entrepreneurs, aided by local government, transformed downtown and Athens.

GREETINGS ATHENIANS

Beginning Monday, 3/16, all events at Georgia Theatre will be suspended through 3/31. Please visit our website for additional information regarding rescheduling, cancellations, & refunds.

The health & safety of our patrons, artists, and staff are of the highest priority to us, and as such we will follow the recommendations of local health authorities as to when to re-open.

In the meantime, here’s some shows in Athens and beyond to look forward to!

5/4

BRANDY CLARK (TERMINAL WEST)

5/4

THE RESIDENTS (VARIETY PLAYHOUSE)

5/5

PEACH PIT (TERMINAL WEST)

5/5

JACOB COLLIER (VARIETY PLAYHOUSE)

5/6

ADRON/CICADA RHYTHM/KENOSHA KID (TERMINAL WEST)

5/6

RIVAL SONS (GEORGIA THEATRE)

5/7

STRFKR (VARIETY PLAYHOUSE)

5/7

BRASS AGAINST (TERMINAL WEST)

5/7

FUNK YOU (GEORGIA THEATRE)

This time, along with disease and death, the long-range result could be the snuffing out of local businesses and local identity and the triumph of the chains. But it also could accelerate the nascent trend toward distance learning, whereby students take classes and exams online and do not need to be on campus, and therefore do not need to live in luxury high-rise dorms in downtown Athens and will not be shopping and eating and drinking downtown, and the chains will move on.

This is all just long-range speculation, trying to see beyond the scary immediate present. A tsunami is heading for us, and we’re belatedly trying to figure out what to do without knowing what is going to hit us.

We’ve got to hang together on this one and figure out how to help each other, especially our most vulnerable. No time now for the long view. “Sufficient unto the day are the troubles thereof.”

5/7

LAUREN DAIGLE (STATE FARM ARENA)

5/8

MARLON WAYANS (CENTER STAGE)

5/8

ANDY SHAUF (TERMINAL WEST)

CORRECTION: The very informative article about the builder of Watson Mill Bridge in the Mar. 11 issue of Flagpole was written by Dena Chandler, and not by Gena Chandler, as I so stupidly named her in typing her byline. I have known and admired Dena forever, and I am mortified that I mis-typed her name and never noticed it in spite of several editings. The typo has been corrected online, and I have apologized profusely to Dena, and I do so again here. f

Navy Pre-Flight students drill on the UGA campus, just prior to World War II.

puts tremendous pressure on all businesses, but especially on our local businesses, that don’t have whatever safety net accrues from the corporate support of a chain.

Here’s hoping that we can continue to buy what we need from our local businesses. We don’t know who can remain open or what government prohibitions may follow, but as we go about our daily lives as much as possible, let’s keep our local businesses and venues in mind and throw them our business. This health crisis and the closure of the university are devastating for local business, including Flagpole, which depends on their advertising.

The Bible has seen a thing or two about plagues, and in Proverbs we are cautioned: “Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.”

Amen to that! Plus, there’s that part about the seven fat years and the seven lean years.

Two weeks ago, we had no idea what was coming at us full speed. Now, we know it is going to be bad, but we don’t know how bad or for how long. We know it is going to change our town, but we don’t know how much or what is going to happen to us.

Athens has been through upheavals before. The Civil War shut down the university and greatly curtailed activity in town, while death awaited young men on far-away battlefields. At the end, enslaved Athenians were emancipated, and Athens was changed utterly, though it is not even yet freed from

5/8

THE PRETTY RECKLESS (VARIETY PLAYHOUSE)

5/10

JOJO (VARIETY PLAYHOUSE)

5/10

THE SECRET SISTERS (TERMINAL WEST)

5/12

POOLSIDE (TERMINAL WEST)

5/13

JHENE AIKO (FOX THEATRE)

5/13

STILL WOOZY (VARIETY PLAYHOUSE)

5/14

LIL SMOKIES (TERMINAL WEST)

5/15

THE WOOD BROTHERS (VARIETY PLAYHOUSE)

5/15

YUNGBLUD (GEORGIA THEATRE)

5/16

RUMOURS (GEORGIA THEATRE)

5/17

KYLE KINANE (VARIETY PLAYHOUSE)

5/17

YOLA (TERMINAL WEST)

5/21

UNLADYLIKE (TERMINAL WEST)

5/22

AMERICAN AQUARIUM (TERMINAL WEST)

5/28

CHARLEY CROCKETT (TERMINAL WEST)

5/29

INTERSTELLAR ECHOES (VARIETY PLAYHOUSE)

5/30

WILLIAM BLACK (TERMINAL WEST)

6/4

PSYMBIONIC (TERMINAL WEST)

6/5

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB (VARIETY PLAYHOUSE)

6/6

THE HOLD STEADY (TERMINAL WEST)

6/6

THE MAVERICKS (VARIETY PLAYHOUSE)

6/9

TAME IMPALA (STATE FARM ARENA)

6/10

AJ MITCHELL (TERMINAL WEST)

6/11

YAEJI (VARIETY PLAYHOUSE)

6/11

THE WAILIN JENNYS (GEORGIA THEATRE)

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