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City Dope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 NEWS: Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

This Modern World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

How Did Democrats Turn Georgia Blue?

Pub Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Hey, Bonita! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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Art Around Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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Immaterial Possession

Threats & Promises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Record Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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A Different Kind of Developer-Friendly Commission PLUS, COVID NUMBERS ARE DROPPING, SCHOOLS SET RETURN DATES AND MORE LOCAL NEWS

By Blake Aued, Chris Dowd and Jessica Luton news@flagpole.com Ordinarily, progressive Athens-Clarke County commissioners might be expected to oppose another massive student-oriented apartment complex in Athens, especially one in a sprawling, auto-centric side of town. But developers may have found the secret sauce to win approval: promises of affordable housing.

An apartment complex on 47 acres across Lexington Road from the county jail including more than 1,000 bedrooms—as large as The Mark, the ginormous set of buildings on Oconee Street down the hill from downtown—drew an hour of discussion at the commission’s Feb. 2 voting meeting. After some commissioners objected to its scale and others fought for it based on the inclusion of some affordable units, the commission tabled a vote on a rezoning allowing the development to move forward for a week.

Architect Bob Smith, representing a Dawsonville-based company called Lexington Associates LP, told commissioners that 15% of the units, or 66, will be set aside for tenants earning between 60–120% of the area median income of approximately $51,000. Another 54 units could be set aside as affordable with a $2 million investment from a recently created Lexington Road tax allocation district, an area where increased property taxes from growth are poured back into improvements within the district to spur economic development. “It fills an important void for those who don’t qualify for federally subsidized programs and can’t afford market-rate rents,” said Smith (who is not to be confused with the Watkinsville mayor of the same name).

Commissioner Mariah Parker pointed to those affordable units in championing the development. In addition to providing affordable units managed by the Athens

Land Trust, the development would bring nowhere in particular reachable by walking down rents in the long run by increasing other than a few big-box stores and strip the housing supply, would reduce pressure malls. on intown property owners to turn ownHamby was not impressed by the promer-occupied houses into rentals and would ise of affordable housing. “There’s no reason eventually transition from student to famwe have to approve such a huge building ily housing, Parker said. to get the affordable housing we need,” he “I understand the concerns, but we have said. “Affordable housing with this devela real need for increased housing,” said oper was an afterthought. It didn’t pass Commissioner Melissa Link, who as a citimuster with the planning commission, so zen parlayed her opposition to luxury stuthey threw this in. That’s fine, better late dent housing like the infamous Walmart/ than never, but this is a big development.”

Selig development that became The Mark The development’s sheer size also bothinto her current commission seat. “UGA ered Commissioner Carol Myers, as did the is increasing [its] enrollment. We’ve got a fact that the proposed three-and four-story pretty desperate housing situation. There’s buildings are surrounded by a neighbora lot of pressure on our intown neighborhood of modest single-family homes. “This hoods. Unless we want to let these developwill be a very, very large student housing ers start bulldozing development with intown housing, we’ve workforce This will be a very, very segregated got to look a little furhousing in the front,” large student housing ther out.” she said. And four When the Firefly stations, she development with segregated charging Trail and Eastside added, are far from workforce housing in the front. what will be needed stretch of the North Oconee Greenway a decade or so from are finished, residents will be able to bike now, with major automakers planning to downtown, Link said. The developer has transition completely away from internal also promised to build sidewalks fronting combustion engines. the property, a bus stop and a signalized Commissioner Tim Denson—who is intersection at the entrance, as well as often aligned with Link and Parker—argued four charging stations for electric vehicles, that the affordable housing component according to Smith. amounts to a density bonus, a policy comBut sidewalks are required anyway, missioners have long discussed as a way Commissioner Mike Hamby pointed out. to incentivize affordable housing. Another “If all it’s going to take is developers coming commissioner from the left wing, Jesse to us and saying, ‘Hey, we’ll put up a red Houle, indicated ambivalence. light,’ I think a lot of developers are going Commissioner Allison Wright—like to take us up on that opportunity,” he said.

Hamby, a moderate—raised concerns about And Lexington Road outside the Loop is the transparency of voting on such a major currently a five-lane corridor with just one development on Feb. 9, a work session hourly bus line running past that location, where votes aren’t usually taken. “Timing few crosswalks, gaps in sidewalks and on this vote is very important for this project moving forward,” Smith said earlier in the meeting. The contract to buy the property expires Feb. 15, according to Parker.

“I’m not concerned about a developer’s timeline,” Hamby said. “I don’t think any of us should be concerned about that. I think we ought to be concerned about the impact on the community.”

Another multifamily development with an affordable component—this one on Tracy Street near Boulevard and the Pilgrim’s Pride plant—passed unanimously.

It includes 88 one- and two-bedroom units and some commercial space for small retail stores. Brett Nave of local architectural firm BNA said that nine units would be set aside for “workforce housing,” and the 66 one-bedroom units would be affordable for people making about 90% of the area median income.

In other business, the commission: • tabled a proposal to rezone a parcel off Jefferson River Road for a subdivision while the developer prepares a binding site plan.

• approved a drive-through liquor store on Tallassee Road.

• delayed a vote on buying new Tasers for the Police Department.

• agreed to a SPLOST 2020 projects priority list that puts a new courthouse, the

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Classic Center arena, an affordable housing development on the site of Bethel Midtown Village, broadband internet, an Eastside library and East Athens youth programs at the front of the line. The voter-approved sales tax will run 11 years, which in retrospect troubled some commissioners, such as Denson, who said it should have been split into two shorter SPLOSTs. [Blake Aued]

Girtz Apologizes for Urban Renewal Mayor Kelly Girtz issued a proclamation of recognition and “deep and sincere… apology” last week for Athenians displaced during the “urban renewal” period of the 1960s.

Specifically, Girtz apologized for the creation of two urban renewal districts, one centered on Baxter Street and the other on College Avenue, which displaced hundreds of Black Athenians and resulted in the “loss of generational wealth” and community disruption.

Girtz said he was urged to issue this statement by Hattie Whitehead, a former resident of Linnentown who was displaced when her neighborhood was destroyed to make way for the UGA dorms on Baxter Street. Whitehead, together with Geneva Johnson and other former residents of Linnentown, have been pushing for recognition of the wrong done to them for years. This effort has culminated in the Linnentown Resolution, which will come before the commission for a vote on Feb. 16.

The current proclamation is a general apology for urban renewal across Athens to go along with the Linnentown Resolution, which focuses on one neighborhood specifically.

It also includes a promise that the current redevelopment of Bethel Midtown Village and the surrounding area, called the North Downtown Athens Project, will not permanently displace any current residents. Bethel, a housing project for low-income residents, was built as part of urban renewal, replacing a Black neighborhood called The Bottom. [Chris Dowd]

COVID Cases Down but Deaths Up As the one-year anniversary of the shelter-in-place order in Athens last March approaches, there are signs that help—in the form of rapid at-home testing and more vaccinations—will soon be a reality.

While health officials are continuing to promote public health measures—mask wearing, social distancing and hand washing—as the push to get more people vaccinated continues, the actual number of COVID-19 shots given to states has increased 20% since Jan. 20, and a new onedose vaccine from Johnson & Johnson that doesn’t require cold temperature storage has now been submitted to the Food and Drug Administration for emergency-use approval.

Locally, the positive case numbers continue to decrease, but they are still much higher than they’ve been for much of the pandemic. As of Feb. 5, there have been 11,306 confirmed positive cases so far in Clarke County alongside an additional 1,966 positive rapid antigen cases, for a total of 13,272. The seven-day moving average has been dropping in recent weeks to 49.

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CCSD Shoots for March to Reopen Schools

County in recent weeks. Ten people died of The Clarke County School District is tarCOVID-19 in Clarke County last week, for a geting March for most students to return to cumulative total of 94 deaths to date. There in-person classes, assuming COVID numare an additional four probable COVID-19 bers continue to fall. deaths listed by the Georgia Department of “I, as well as our cabinet, are very comPublic Health. mitted to returning students to school,” Hospitalizations for COVID-19 curSuperintendent Xernona Thomas said at the rently make up about 30% of all patients school board’s Feb. 4 meeting. in Region E hospitals, and there are 81 The district’s plan calls for special educaICU beds in use, listed as 98% of capacity. tion students to return to buildings for 2–4 Previously, the ICU bed space capacity was days a week starting Feb. 15. Pre-K through 70 beds, but Piedmont Athens Regional second grade students will go back Mar. 1, has converted some surgery recovery beds grades 3–5 on Mar. 15 and grades 6–8 on to allow for more ICU capacity. There have Mar. 22. The phased-in approach is due to now been 403 hospitalizations to date for lack of staff, according to Thomas. All three COVID-19 in Clarke County. groups will attend class four days a week, Data from UGA professor Erin Lipp’s lab with remote learning on Wednesdays to at the Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases showed that viruses in wastewater provide time for deep-cleaning buildings and contact tracing. declined for the second week in a row— High schools will be phased in starting another good sign.

Mar. 15 and will have a reduced schedule At UGA, there were 181 positive cases of 9 a.m.–1 p.m., combined with live and for the week of Jan. 25-31, according to recorded virtual instruction. “We have been self-reported data through the DawgCheck hit very, very hard in our transportation app. That’s down from 201 total positive department as it relates to COVID, and the cases the previous week. Surveillance testonly way we could bring all three groups ing, as the data shows for the most recent back is by having a reduced schedule for two weeks, continues to confirm around our high school students,” Chief Academic 60 cases a week, an indication that there is Officer Brannon Gaskins said. widespread viral spread at UGA. Results of An all-virtual option will remain availtesting at the University Health Center for able, and parents are being asked to choose the week included a total of 237 COVID-19 tests, with 37 positive and 200 negative, for their preference by Feb. 11.

The goal is eventually to resume a nora positivity rate of 15.6%. mal five-day schedule. That can happen On the vaccine front, while more vacone of two ways, Director of Nursing Amy cines are making their way to states slowly, Roark said: Either the vaccine is still teachers and staff only available for We have been very cautious are vaccinated or those over 65, first responders and and conservative in terms Clarke County’s COVID numbers health-care workers. of our return in an effort to meet CDC guidePresident Biden recently invoked the protect all of our stakeholders— lines for reopening schools.

Defense Production not just our teachers, but our At the time of Act, meaning that the meeting, Clarke more shots will students, our families, other County had 741 reach vaccination staff—but at some point we are cases per 100,000 sites across the people over the past country in the going to have to look at what’s 14 days, a positive coming weeks and best for children. test rate of 10% and months. There have 99% of ICU beds in been 1,073,482 use. Roark called those numbers “critically vaccines administered in Georgia and more high” but said they’ve been trending downthan 10,000 vaccines administered in the ward since mid-January. For a full return, Northeast Health District, as of Jan. 29.

Last week, one Northeast Health District Roark said she’d like to see the case numbers in the 200s and a positivity rate of less hospital temporarily lost its vaccination than 5%. privileges after DPH learned that one “Hopefully, with vaccination efforts, provider in Elberton had administered we will continue to see downward trends,” the vaccine to people who aren’t currently Roark said. CCSD is prepared to start vaceligible to be vaccinated. “DPH was notified cinating teachers and staff once Georgia January 26, 2021 that The Medical Center enters Phase 1B, she said, but the date for of Elberton vaccinated individuals in the Elbert County School District who were out- that transition is unknown. The district is also partnering with UGA on testing, she side of the current Phase 1A+ eligible popusaid. In addition, CCSD has ordered 5,000 lation,” a press release from DPH stated. face shields to further protect employees, The Medical Center of Elberton will not Gaskins said. be able to administer any vaccinations for While many teachers have been vocal the next six months. In response to this about their safety concerns, Thomas said temporary suspension of this facility, DPH she is hearing from an equal number of did allocate an additional 2,100 doses to parents who think the district has been priElbert County to five remaining providers oritizing adults over children by remaining there, a follow-up press release stated. online-only. “We have been very cautious The district has partnered with Athens and conservative in terms of our return in Technical College to “provide supplemenan effort to protect all of our stakeholders— tal nursing support for vaccine adminisnot just our teachers, but our students, our tration,” to make sure that the residents families, other staff—but at some point we there will still be able to maintain the same are going to have to look at what’s best for or greater access to COVID-19 vaccines. children,” Thomas said. [BA] f [Jessica Luton]

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Ain’t No Use to Complain RECOUNTING THE HUMAN COST OF URBAN RENEWAL

By Pete McCommons pete@flagpole.com This Nov. 28, 2007 Pub Notes is reprinted for its relevance to Mayor Girtz’s apology for urban renewal mentioned in this week’s City Dope. Some of the information here is out of date—One Athens did not solve local poverty—but the human cost of urban renewal, like that of many other past policies, continues. Lives were destroyed along with the neighborhoods that nurtured them, and we are still seeing the effects of displacement.

area now. The in-town urban renewal area had no takers and sat cleared and vacant for decades until some new stuff was eventually built along Dougherty Street, and later the Classic Center on Thomas.

The area around and below where the Classic Center is now was called “Lickskillet.” It was an intown African-American neighborhood. Gus grew up there. His father and his uncles owned homes there.

Lickskillet was a stable neighborhood of homeowners. Their houses didn’t meet In this season of loss before the renewal of middle-class standards. urban renewal Christmas, I need to mention another fallen bulldozed them, and the families got little comrade. Augustus Caesar Harden, Jr., died recompense. Moreover, there wasn’t much suddenly on Sunday, Oct. 7 at the age of 59. housing stock available for relocating AfriGus had polio as a child and other complica- can-American families. Some were removed tions that left him pretty well crippled up, to other substandard housing in East Athbut he was as tough ens; a few made it into as he was smart, so he public housing, which The University of Georgia looked good compared just kept on going. He was an avid newspato the alternatives. immediately took over per reader and always Gus’s father evenBaxter Hill. wanted to talk about tually got into the what was going on in projects, and Gus the world. He also stayed in touch with a lived with him and took care of him as lot of people and knew what was happening he aged. When Gus’s father finally died, here, too.

Gus was back out on the street. He went A lot of us first got to know Gus back through a hard period, was in and out of jail in the Observer days when we’d go down and finally secured a federally subsidized to Greater Georgia Printers in Crawford to rental where he lived the rest of his life. He “insert,” i.e. put the sections of the paper was one of many who were displaced by the together. We did that every Wednesday bulldozers downtown and on Baxter Hill. night for years, and soon after we started, Urban renewal in Athens, with the best of Gus showed up at the office, saying he had intentions, had a catastrophic effect on our worked at the Daily News back when it was African-American community. Like the rest the feisty little upstart paper in town. of his family and his neighbors and those We did a lot of riding back and forth on Baxter Hill, Gus became a displaced to Crawford in the old red Ford van, and person just as surely as if his home had coming back late on that dark road under been bombed in a war. Urban renewal was the starry canopy Gus told me a lot about a forerunner of the War On Poverty, but it himself and about the Athens he grew up exacerbated poverty. in. He came to embody for me a kind of livIn Lickskillet and on Baxter Hill we ing social history of another side of Athens demolished stable neighborhoods of Afrifrom the one I knew. can-American homeowners, dispersing Back during the early 1960s came a burst those residents to public housing if they of federal-government funding for what was were lucky and to whatever was available called “urban renewal.” The guiding princiin poorer areas if they weren’t. That was ple of urban renewal all a long time ago. was to bulldoze slums Is it relevant today?

In Athens we tore down Yes. Through the One and blighted areas and sell them to developers “substandard” housing Athens initiative we’re who would build new, trying to deal with downtown and on Baxter Hill. endemic poverty here, modern housing, commercial buildings and much of it in the Afripublic places. This improvement went on all can-American community, some of it traceover the country. In Athens we tore down able directly back to that period of upheaval “substandard” housing downtown and on and forced displacement. And that diaspora Baxter Hill. (You can see some of those Bax- continues today through the “gentrificater Hill houses in 1947 silent film footage tion” of black neighborhoods by the incuron a continuous loop in the Russell Library sion of upscale, student-oriented housing. at UGA—unpainted wooden houses with Gus Harden, crippled and racked with porches in front and outhouses in back. pain, refused to be defeated by his health Hamlin Simmons, who worked as a relocaor by the circumstances forced upon him. tion officer for urban renewal, said some of “Ain’t no use to complain,” he would say— those houses were so solid the bulldozers and he didn’t. Gus Harden made the best bounced off them. The film loop may even of what he had, but he deserved better, and be a promo for urban renewal, since it starts so do a lot of people mired in poverty here. out with nice, new, Five-Points-type houses It is fitting that the city and the university and segues toward the less grand.) have joined together in fighting poverty and The University of Georgia immediately inadequate housing. We have contributed took over Baxter Hill and began constructto the problem; we should contribute to the ing the high-rise dorms that dominate that solution. f

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Wrigley’s Retirement Is Great News On Tuesday, Jan. 12, Steven Wrigley, chancellor of the University System of Georgia, announced his upcoming retirement. This is great news for campus workers throughout the university system.

Chancellor Wrigley presided over a period of disastrous policies for the health and well-being of campus communities, first and foremost being a reckless and irresponsible COVID-19 pandemic response.

The chancellor and the Board of Regents have astounded campus workers by pushing for more and more in-person instruction as the pandemic worsened, seemingly for the benefit of private companies to whom crucial campus services have been contracted throughout a decade of austerity for public higher education. Campus workers and students had to strenuously fight the chancellor for a simple mask mandate in accordance with basic CDC guidance.

The chancellor is chosen by the Board of Regents, who are, in turn, appointed by the governor. As the central authority in Atlanta has relentlessly commandeered more and more functions formerly performed by individual campuses, the people who live, work and learn throughout the USG have seen their voices utterly discounted.

We call on the Board of Regents to democratize the process of selecting the next Chancellor and heed input from all sections of our campus communities, including faculty, students and staff. We call on the Board of Regents to consider candidates with backgrounds in classroom instruction and public health who have the experience necessary to lead the workforce of our educational institutions through a deadly public health crisis in a way that prioritizes our health and well-being over business and political interests.

Let us conclude in a spirit of optimism: with Chancellor Wrigley’s retirement, a new

era of cooperation and openness between administrators and campus stakeholders has become possible. We hope that the regents will display the wisdom to choose it.

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The Dupes of Hazard For more than four years we have suffered extremely dangerous systematic attacks on the most essential value of our democratic Republic: the truth.

Immigrants are “rapists and murders.”

Violent racists and anti-Semites are “good people.” COVID is no worse than seasonal flu and will just “disappear.” And now, Donald Trump, having lost the election by more than 7 million votes, in a desperate attempt to overturn the results of our democratic election, has made up the biggest whopper of all: that he lost the election because of “massive voter fraud.”

It is not surprising that Donald Trump is yelling to the high heavens that he could not possibly have lost the election, nor that he has concocted a laughable tale that he was the victim of mysterious massive voter fraud, of which neither he nor anyone else has any evidence. What is astonishing, however, is the assortment of Republican members of Congress, including Jody Hice, who have chosen to pretend that Donald Trump’s wild tale is true.

Of course, there is no evidence whatsoever of “massive voter fraud.” Donald Trump brought more than 60 lawsuits in courts throughout the United States. Eighty judges, including all the members of the Supreme Court, issued judgments, often in scathing terms, that Trump and the other plaintiffs failed utterly to present any evidence of significant voter fraud. Even Bill Barr, the then-U.S. attorney general who dedicated his term of office to defending the interests of Trump, stated he saw no evidence of any such thing.

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It is long past time to put an end to this farcical attack on our national election results and on our democracy. We must hold to account the willing pawns who would destroy our democracy in a mindless effort to support Donald Trump, truly the “Dupes of Hazard.”

Bruce Menke Athens

Let’s Rethink SPLOST The current SPLOST will collect $314 million over 11 years. We approved it in November 2019. A few months later, everything changed. It is reasonable to reconsider whether some of its large projects still meet our needs.

Two of the largest items on the SPLOST were the most controversial. The Facilities Space Modernization Project to renovate the courthouse and build a new judicial center will cost $78 million, and the Classic Center Arena Project will cost $34 million.

Together they make up over one-third of the SPLOST budget.

SPLOST guidelines allow for the discontinuation of projects that have become “impractical, unserviceable, unrealistic, or otherwise not in the best interest of the county or municipality.” The commission can adopt an ordinance of infeasibility and put it before the voters.

We have a new district attorney and an agenda of criminal justice reform, and many court functions have been successfully moved online due to COVID. Is spending $78 million on a judicial center still a good idea? And the Classic Center Arena now looks like an expensive luxury, whose uncertain promise of trickle-down prosperity is less appealing than the direct benefits that other projects provide.

Removing these two items would shorten the SPLOST by several years. We could invest earlier in projects that meet our changing needs. And we would ensure funding for other projects in the current SPLOST—such as the one that will bring broadband internet to homes, now an urgent necessity—if revenues do not match projections.

We should also change the process by which SPLOST projects are chosen.

It should be a product of truly participatory budgeting, earmarked for grassroots projects. There are many of these in the current SPLOST, but the Facilities Space Modernization Project and the Classic Center Arena Project are not among them.

Susan Mattern Athens

Make Voting Easier, Not Harder With the Special Committee on Election Integrity of 10 Republicans, four Democrats and Rep. Barry Fleming as its chair, we will soon learn the meaning of the Georgia two-step.

After losing the presidency and two U.S. Senate seats, Georgia Republicans are asking themselves, should they sell their ideas or make voting more difficult? Looks like the latter, by pushing measures that would limit absentee balloting and complicate the voting process. Stop the steal!

These shenanigans are particularly disappointing given the pro-voter changes the General Assembly enacted following the 2018 midterm elections. The 2020 election showed the wisdom of empowering voters by simplifying the process. Easier access to absentee ballots meant more Georgians voted and shorter lines at the polls on Election Day. Contrary to what the GOP propaganda machine will have you believe, incidents of fraud were few and definitely not enough to change the outcomes of the election.

Yet the sore-loser narrative of the 2020 election must be maintained, and Georgia’s GOP legislators will leverage it to try and protect their majority by attempting to outlaw no-excuse absentee balloting, a law Republicans themselves implemented in 2005. They’ll restrict or eliminate absentee ballot drop boxes, made necessary in part by the fleecing of the U.S. Postal Service, and will insist on new identification rules for those allowed to submit absentee ballots.

Georgians must send a clear message to their legislators about voting rights: We’re not interested in dancing the Georgia twostep. Make voting easier, not harder.

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By James C. Cobb news@flagpole.com The initial “hot take” on Democrat Joe Biden’s victory on Nov. 3 emphasized the critical importance of traditionally Republican suburban white voters who crossed over to support Biden out of revulsion with President Donald Trump while remaining loyal to GOP candidates farther down the ticket. Subsequent examination suggests that this narrative hardly squared with actual voting patterns in the critical battleground state of Georgia, however.

where Republican voting was down roughly 10% in both races, the slippage for the Democrats ranged from roughly 5% for Ossoff to 3% for Warnock.

Altogether, Blacks accounted for roughly 32% of the electorate in the runoffs, as compared to 29% in the general election. The already suspect narrative that ticket splitting by better-educated suburban whites was the key to Biden’s success on Nov. 3 was even shakier after the runoffs, as both Democratic candidates ran slightly behind him with this demographic on Jan. 5. At the same time, both ran ahead of him among Black voters in Georgia’s most heavily Black counties, who actually showed up in greater numbers than in the general election.

What we can discern thus far about voter behavior in the Georgia Senate runoff elections makes it clear that the main constant in both the presidential and senatorial races was the overwhelming turnout and corresponding Democratic loyalty at the ballot box among minority voters. The Democrats would have stood little chance of winning any of these contests without this show of fidelity, to be sure. Yet simply concluding that they owe their victories here—and elsewhere, perhaps—solely to energized minority voters, rather than any real change in white voting patterns, does not do full justice to the complexity or potential significance of what enabled the Democratic Party to win these elections.

Since the civil-rights initiatives of the mid-1960s led Southern whites to flee the Democratic ranks in droves, the principal difficulty for Democrats in the region has been the success of their Republican adversaries in painting them as a party made up overwhelmingly of, by and for minorities. Accordingly, they have long Joe Biden made gains among both white and Black Georgians while the struggled in vain to win back an elusive, perhaps even Atlanta suburbs became more diverse. mythical, contingent of working-class whites who are more attuned to economic than racial concerns. Finally, It is true that, along with Fulton, the state’s three urged on in 2020 by Stacey Abrams and other minority most populous suburban counties— Dekalb, Cobb and leaders, Georgia Democrats redirected their energies and Gwinnett—accounted for over half of Biden’s vote gains resources to an all-out, unvarnished effort to register and over Hillary Clinton four years ago, but it is also true that turn out their historically loyal nonwhite base.

Cobb, by the margin of but a single point, is the only one of The success of this minority mobilization initiative by the trio where minorities are not in the majority. Beyond Abrams and her cohort was clearly the most significant that, Republicans also failed to hold the line in local races contribution to the party’s improved fortunes in this state, in those counties, which saw both Cobb and Gwinnett elect but the ultimate promise of their accomplishment might their first Black sheriffs. The same patterns in voting and still have gone unrealized had they not managed to pull turnout seemed to hold in the state’s Senate runoff races. it off without simultaneously losing ground with white On the other hand, while the emerging counter-narravoters. In both 2008 and 2012, Barack Obama picked up tive holding that, like President Biden, Raphael Warnock 20–23% of the white vote in Georgia, almost the same and Jon Ossoff owe their wins to Black voters is truer to share as John Kerry in 2014 and slightly more than Hillary the facts, it undervalues the significance of the share of the Clinton in 2016. In her 2018 gubernatorial bid to become white vote claimed by the Democrats in both the presidenGeorgia’s first black (and female) governor, Abrams nudged tial and senatorial races. the Democratic share of the white vote up to 25%. This Republican strategists who opted to go-all in with year, Biden, Ossoff and Warnock all upped that share to Trumpism in the Georgia senatorial runoffs did not anticiroughly 30%. These are hardly astronomical figures, but pate the contradictory appeals that would soon be emanatneither were the victory margins of any of the Democratic ing from various quarters in the GOP camp, leaving voters candidates. to choose between “turn out big to preserve president With demographic trends likely to remain favorable to Trump’s legacy” and “this election will be rigged just like her prospects, Abrams seems well-positioned to secure the other one, so don’t bother.” Suffice it to say, neither the the Georgia governorship in 2022. The long- or even farcical attempt by Trump and his kamikaze henchmen to medium-term damage to Republican fortunes in state and discredit the Nov. 3 results nor his brazen try at coercing national politics incurred in these last tragic days of the Georgia election officials into helping him steal the state did Trump presidency is impossible to gauge at this juncture. much to cement his legacy as something to be preserved.

Still, it’s fair to speculate that Abrams will still need to at Meanwhile, calls to boycott the balloting in the Senate runleast hold on, in large part, to her party’s admittedly modoffs, because the fix was already in, resonated with enough est, slow-to-come-by gains with white voters to succeed two Trump diehards, particularly in counties where they were years from now where she fell just short two years ago. If most concentrated, to put Republican candidates Kelly she actually managed to build on those gains, the import Loeffler and David Perdue at a definite disadvantage. of what we have witnessed over the last two months will be At the same time, minority voters defied the traditional even greater than we can appreciate just now. f wisdom by turning out in proportions unheard of for runJim Cobb is Emeritus Spalding Distinguished Professor of History at off elections. In fact, at 90% of the general election total, the University of Georgia. An earlier version of this offering appeared the overall turnout in the runoff races was actually much higher than historical precedent would have suggested. But, at likethedew.com

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If a prisoner is going to testify at the proceeding, it is impossible for them to raise their right hand when being sworn in. At best, an index finger can shoot up from a manacled hand. If the defendant is presented with any paperwork—guilty pleas, bond conditions, probation sentencing forms—he or she will have to strain to get their hands above the tabletop for a signature. If these defendants in pretrial bondage need to wipe away mucus or tears, they are out of luck.

As humiliating as all this has to be for those brought bound hand-to-foot from our jailhouse to our courthouse, it can get even worse. Prisoners in the courtroom must signal to a deputy sheriff if they need to use the bathroom.

I invite you to come to the Athens-Clarke County Courthouse on either a Wednesday or a Friday morning.

If you are there on a Wednesday, come to the third floor at 8:15 a.m. Sit just outside Superior Courtroom No. 2 on one of the benches or chairs that face the elevator marked “for security use only.” Keep your eyes on the elevator.

If you are in the courthouse on Fridays, go up to the fifth floor around 10:30 a.m. Head back to the State Court lobby and sit on one of the benches just outside this courtroom, facing the same security elevator. And, again, keep your eyes on the elevator door.

At some point, whether you are sitting on the third or fifth floor at the specified time, you will witness the elevator door open and, inside, find anywhere from one or two, maybe as many as five or six, bound and chained, orange or gray jumpsuit-clad prisoners.

They will be standing in the elevator’s compartment, lined up back-to-back and facing you, accompanied by a sheriff’s deputy. The deputy will lead them off the elevator, the prisoners’ chains rattling as they shuffle into the courtroom, feet shackled, hands cuffed and bound by a belly chain. The prisoners have been brought up from the courthouse basement, where the holding cells are located.

Once in the courtroom, the prisoners are assigned seats on the benches farthest away from the courtroom’s entrance and the courtroom personnel and observers. The prisoners’ presence cannot go unnoticed. When they sit down on the wooden pews, there are loud clanging sounds of metal meeting wood. The backs of their uniforms are stenciled “JAIL” or “CLARKE COUNTY JAIL.” The handcuffs separate each hand by only a matter of inches, and those cuffs are affixed to the belly chain so prisoners’ hands are forced close to the waist. The ankle chains limit the wearer to baby steps when walking. The total effect is that prisoners are unable to sit or stand up straight, and, while in A defendant in shackles at the ACC Courthouse. the courtroom, their bodies are forced into a perpetual slump, sometimes unable even to lift their Sometimes a deputy will ask out loud, “Number one or heads up to eye level with those around them. number two?” Number two requires, mercifully, that the When their cases are called, these defendants—almost handcuffs and chains be removed once the prisoner reaches all of whom are pretrial and have not yet been adjudicated the toilet stall. on the charges they’ve been jailed on—will hobble from the For me and for everyone else who volunteers with the courtroom bench to a table where their attorney is sitting, Athens Area Courtwatch Project, it is always shocking facing the judge. Often, as they are waddling to the table, to see people—the vast majority of whom are Black—in a sheriff’s deputy has to walk behind them to tug on their shackles. It smacks of something from the Middle Passage clothing, pulling their shirts down or their pants up to or Jim Crow era. It’s humiliating and demeaning. And it cover their exposed buttocks. With some prisoners, particcertainly sends the message to defendants, as well as to ularly those who are elderly or physically challenged, the courtroom personnel and observers, that all the rights the deputy will have to help them steady their steps by holding courts say people have—particularly that they are innocent their elbows or grabbing hold of the chains wrapped around until proven guilty—are essentially meaningless. their backsides. Still, there are prisoners who stumble, Those of us who regularly observe ACC courts believe whose legs buckle, who trip over a chair leg, who practically that anyone who is jailed and is brought into our courtfall out of the chair when trying to sit next to their lawyer. rooms ought to be treated, at a minimum, with dignity and “Your honor,” announced one defendant as he sat in the respect. Instead, as the great-aunt of a Black defendant told chair at the defense table, “my pants are falling off. Can me one day in the courtroom, “It looks like slavery days. It somebody pull them up for me, please?” ain’t human, and it ain’t right.” f

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Booze Delivery Is Legal Now WHAT CAN BROWN BAGS DO FOR YOU?

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thens-Clarke County residents can now enjoy their favorite boozy beverages at home without making a trip to the liquor store.

Partnering with package stores in the area, locally owned Cosmic Delivery is bringing alcohol to its customers’ doorsteps. The delivery service’s new alcoholic offering has sprung up since last August when Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law House Bill 879, which lets businesses deliver beer, wine and liquor. The law took effect in December, after the Department of Revenue developed regulations related to it.

As people continue wearing masks and social distancing, the new law could help them avoid exposure to COVID-19 while also letting businesses explore a new way of serving their customers. And this new model will likely last beyond the pandemic, says Sachin Patel, owner of Northside Bottle Shop and Westside Bottle Shop.

“Because of alcohol being much more sensitive than food delivery and the issues we had with wrong orders and underage [customers] or to make sure we’re abiding by all the rules, it was the best fit for us.”

Customers can either browse the offerings from the website of their package store of choice or browse Cosmic. When placing an order, customers need to enter their age and the type of ID they’ll present to their delivery driver. Once the driver arrives, they’ll check the customer’s ID and ask for a signature. Per the law, drivers cannot give alcohol to anyone clearly intoxicated.

As with other services, customers can expect a delivery fee with its price depending on the distance of the package store from which they order. According to the law, customers can receive alcohol only from businesses in their own city. This means no one at a location outside ACC can order alcohol through Cosmic.

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WUGA IS A BROADCAST SERVICE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. “It’s allowing another avenue for the existing customer base to shop it from their living room,” says Patel, whose package stores deliver through Cosmic. “People like to get their groceries delivered at home, and this is just another thing that they’ll be able to get at their house.”

As the Georgia General Assembly made progress on the alcohol law in late July last year, Cosmic started exploring how to add alcohol delivery to their catalogue of services, says owner and co-founder Trent Walls. This research resulted in Cosmic’s updating its technology and providing training to its delivery drivers before launching the service in December, he says.

Participating businesses must follow quite a few regulations to deliver alcohol. Their delivery drivers must complete training, be at least 21 years of age and hold a valid Georgia’s driver’s license. They also cannot have received any DUIs in the last seven years. Because of these legal requirements and the costs associated with launching a delivery service, Walls foresees most Athens package stores using either Cosmic or another third party to deliver their products.

“Cosmic gave us a good avenue for a system they already had in place,” Patel says.

The law gives customers a new way to buy from package stores, but they can’t get a drink delivered from their favorite brewery. Breweries are currently excluded from the alcohol bill, an unfortunate circumstance given their abundance in Athens, Walls says.

“There were a number of people who weren’t super happy about that part of the law, so I could potentially see them doing an amendment later on or passing another law that would add breweries into the delivery group of people who can deliver alcohol,” Walls says. “But it would probably be a decent amount of time before something like that would make its way through.”

Going forward, Walls is focused on improving Cosmic’s online ordering experience and potentially allowing customers to order alcohol with their meals in one delivery. The delivery service has seen a rise in its overall customer base since offering alcohol delivery, he says.

Package stores currently delivering alcohol through Cosmic include ABC Package, Cheers Package Store, Cork and Bottle, Five Points Bottle Shop, Northside Bottle Shop, On The Way Package Store, Perry’s Liquor, Spirits on Washington and Westside Bottle Shop. f

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Dear Clearly Insane Person, I kid, I kid.

I have no idea if you’re insane, but that’s a very easy joke for me to make right now. I get comments like this a fair bit but tend to ignore them, but I think I’ll take this opportunity to talk to you like a friend.

I do know people who share your perspective, but I can’t call them friends because, personally, I find this perspective is usually attached to a worldview that clashes hard with my own. It’s easier for me to joke and call them crazy than to sit quietly and parse out the reasons they have chosen to believe in Trumpism more strongly than they desire to maintain the integrity of the American voting system.

There is a cognitive dissonance at work that I find puzzling when I look at the plainas-day evidence that no voter fraud actually took place on a level that would have swung the 2020 election. It was a close race, but the winner is clear. Trump and his allies filed 86 challenges to the election, and not a single one of them succeeded. There are not two sides to this story, and this isn’t a matter of debate. The fact is that Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, and there is no amount of fist-shaking or Capitol-storming that can change that. Eighty-six failed lawsuits demonstrate that clearly. Accepting and respecting the election results would be supportive of the majority rule, actually, because that’s what the numbers show. The healthiest way to cope with that information is to accept it.

I am not going to discuss this matter with you as if it’s a matter of perspective,

I also believed were at least part Annunaki reptilian alien?

This conspiracy was attractive to me because I patently dislike and distrust the concept of monarchy and inherited authority. I tried to tell myself that Diana was a regular girl from England who was challenging that system and was murdered as a result, but she was actually Prince Charles’ distant cousin and grew up on a royal estate. I made her into something she was not because it fit with my worldview and the things that I personally wanted to see play out on the world stage.

In my heart, I know that I actually never truly believed something so indisputably bonkers, but I just hated the ruling class so much that I decided it was true.

Trump lost, and Biden is currently in the White House. Georgia flipped blue, and now the Senate has a Democratic majority. It’s simply what happened, and it’s the world we all have to live in now. This is not a debate, and I hope that you see the benefit of accepting the things you cannot change.

If you’re upset over Trump’s second impeachment, then I don’t know what to say to you. It would be grossly irresponsible and damaging to America’s international reputation if we did not examine the role Trump’s rhetoric played in inciting the violence on Jan. 6th. All legal channels are being properly followed, and laws aren’t inappropriate or unjust simply because you don’t like them. f Email advice@flagpole.com or use our anonymous online form at flagpole.com/get-advice.

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sychedelic in the most cerebral sense, Immaterial Possession’s self-titled debut album is a darkly entrancing art-pop stunner that eerily shapeshifts through dreamlike meanderings.

Guided by a DIY punk ethos, members Cooper Holmes (bass, vocals), Madeline Polites (guitar, vocals), John Spiegel (percussion) and Kiran Fernandes (keyboards, woodwinds) lead a hallucinatory journey that is equally visual and auditory. In the absence of touring to support the album, which was released on Cloud Recordings, the band pivoted its focus into creating a series of accompanying short films.

With a heavy emphasis on optical illusions, narrative ambiguity and handcrafted elements, these brief films harness an ability to manipulate perceptions of space, dimension and reality—with the permission and participation of the viewer’s imagination. Sharing aesthetic qualities with Dadaist, Surrealist and avant-garde filmmakers like Fernand Léger, Luis Buñuel and Maya Deren, the band’s short films reach backward through time to engage a pre-digital type of human magic.

The black-and-white music video for the album’s opening track, “Midnight Wander,” could have been teleported from this era of early experimental cinema. Shot on Super 8 film, the opening scene depicts Polites plucking the strings of a wide-eyed David McCracken, who is costumed to resemble a guitar and calls to mind Man Ray’s “Le Violon d’Ingres.” Contrasting darkened eyebrows and lips against white face paint, traditional for silent film actors, Holmes sings out from behind a screen as limbs progressively appear, a detail reminiscent of a scene from Jean Cocteau’s Blood of a Poet.

Art history comparisons aside, where “Midnight Wander” becomes inimitable is through its world-building of hand-painted

entendre of finding animation in a still-life (stationary object) or still life (stagnant person).

For “See Through Stares,” one of the album’s tenderest and most melancholic melodies, Super 8 ektachrome immortalizes Polites as she twirls through empty rooms accented by sunny windows, giant mirrors and crystal chandeliers. With an idyllic courtyard full of ivy and pink roses, it’s a house that feels romantic and hallowed, steeped in memory despite its dormancy.

The setting is 368 Ponce, a historic mansion in Midtown Atlanta that Holmes

sets and paper mache characters, including the wicked yet playful devil who appears on Flagpole’s cover this week. Here, we observe the mark of Peepa Show, a separate but overlapping avant-garde performance troupe that consists of Holmes, Polites and Fernandes.

Elements of abstract theater, puppetry, costumery and animation invite a suspension of disbelief that leads to a deepened sense of wonder.

“One thing often on my mind is when I find myself viewing a high-definition TV, I wonder why they wanted to make it so crystal clear that I can see into their pores,” says Polites. “The magic illusion of the screen is lost, and the details become distracting from the substance. We need that subtle fuzz and glow to quiet our reality-deciphering brains. This is the abstract field where the magic happens. The fuzz and glow is the art aura! It’s nice when you can just relax into A still from Immaterial Possession’s short film, “Phases.” the imagination of it.”

Bathed in warm yellow light that helped launch and operate for a decade or splinters into glimmering, honeycombed so as a communal home for artists, activists rainbows as if filmed from within a crystal and travelers that doubled as a DIY venue prism, the music video for “Tropical Still for endeavors not limited to art, theater, Life” is an altogether different landscape music, yoga, film and skill-sharing. 368 from that of “Midnight Wander.” Though Ponce continued in this incarnation for sevthe musicians’ silhouettes are grounded eral more years before folding in the wake among the lush palms and old tombstones of gentrification. of Savannah, that plane is transcended as “Madeline and I, both having spent the viewer is dipped into the world of a many formative years there, viewed shootshamanic figure wearing a golden mask. ing the film as a kind of eulogy for the space Directed by Jason Thibodeaux of Portlandto capture the building’s 100-year-old majbased production team The Hand And The esty,” says Holmes.

Shadow, the video visually suggests the Years before relocating to Athens or possibility of some sort of divine intervenreconnecting to start a band, Holmes and tion as Polites lyrically explores the double Polites had both resided at 368 Ponce

and had worked together on housemate S. Bedford’s “Oh Fearsome Head,” a trilogy of complex plays that involved long monologues, a live band, costume changes and elaborate scenery. This experience, combined with visits by the incredible Puerto Rican performance collective Poncili Creación, opened a gateway into a new realm of creative possibility for both artists.

After briefly participating in an improv theater troupe, but desiring something more Dadaist in nature, Holmes discovered Cal Clements’ clown school through Rubber Soul Yoga Revolution. The clowning techniques developed through this transformative program were then incorporated as Peepa Show began taking root.

Released Feb. 10, Immaterial Possession’s newest film, “Phases,” stitches together a fitting instrumental soundtrack out of the album’s three improvisational interludes—“Phase One,” “Phase Two” and “Circle of Bells”—that sound endearingly wonky when standing between such gorgeous tracks, yet transmit an important level of playfulness and vulnerability that pure, unpolished jamming should imbue. Initially created as part of Lisa Yaconelli’s Small Box Series—Holmes and Polites first appear in Bauhaus Balletlike costumes on a 4-foot-by-4foot stage—the production was lengthened to include a chapter that showcases S. Bedford’s three-dimensional sculpture.

Currently, Immaterial Possession is already working on recording new music and filming an additional three videos.

Tangentially, Peepa Show looks forward to producing an outdoor performance in late spring or early summer as part of an Arts in Community Resilience Award from the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission. No matter the medium, Immaterial Possession and Peepa Show both remind us to value the creative process, not just the product— to explore the shadowy corners of our psyche, and to invite the archetypal Fool out to play. f

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within Athens or a surrounding county to develop an art exhibition to be on display in the galleries for 6–8 weeks. Selected applicants receive a $1000 stipend and additional funds to assist in other costs.

Proposal reviews begin Feb. 15. lhartsfoundation@gmail.com CALL FOR POET LAUREATE (Athens, GA) The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission presents a new program to promote poets, poetry and literary arts. The selected poet laureate will make guest appearances throughout the community.

Deadline Mar. 2. www.athens culturalaffairs.org CREATIVES CONNECTION (Athens Art & Frame) Creatives Connection is a new curated print-on-demand service for artists and photographers. Clients can view and purchase the collection online then pick up prints from the shop. Apply to be an artist. athensartsandframe. com SOUTHWORKS CALL FOR ART (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) The 26th annual SouthWorks National Juried Art Exhibition will be juried by Jennifer A. Smith, gallery and marketing director at The Arts Center in Greenwood, SC. Online submissions due Mar. 12. $30–40. www.ocaf.com/call-for-art

art around town ATHICA INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (ATHICA) (675 Pulaski St., Suite 1200) The 2021 Members’ Showcase shares work by 25 new and renewing gallery members including Margaret Agner, Claire Clements, Bob Clements, John English, Helen Kuykendall, Rich Panico, Mary Porter and more. Through Feb. 28.

CIRCLE GALLERY AT THE UGA COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENT AND DESIGN (285 S. Jackson St.) Atlanta artist Rachel Evans Grant presents “Natural Engagement: Where Earth Meets Sky.” Through Apr. 15.

GALLERY AT HOTEL INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Athens Facades” presents Mike Landers’ photographs of buildings downtown and in Five Points at dark between 2000–2002.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection” represents three generations of artists dating from the 1940s. Through Sept. 26. • “Modernism Foretold: The Nadler Collection of Late Antique Art from Egypt.” Through Sept. 26.

• “Power and Piety in 17th-Century Spanish Art.” Through Nov. 28. • “Emma Amos: Color Odyssey” is a retrospective exhibition that includes over 60 works ranging from painting, printmaking and textile-based mixed-media works. Through Apr. 25.

LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) “Down & Dirty” features sculptures and videos by New York-based artists Jeanne Silverthorne and Bonnie Rychlak. Through Feb. 26. • In “Taking Care,” Jane Ritchie and Isys Hennigar consider the complex ways in which humans engage the living world. Through Feb. 26. • “the Unstitute of…” is an alternate one-person “MFAPHD” research program, faux institution and autonomous “school” hosted by Lisa Novak. Through Feb. 26. • In “Meet Me at the Double Crown” Ronika McClain presents a series of videos that use confessional storytelling to discuss the importance of coming together as a community. Through Feb. 26.

LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (211 Hoyt St.) “Window Works” is a new outdoor project that utilizes the windows at the building’s entrance. The first installation presents a triptych and diptych by Noraa James that were inspired by love, the Black body, primary colors and afrofuturism. Through March. • In the Lounge Gallery, Victoria Dugger’s solo exhibition “Mind the Body” explores the dynamic relationship between ourselves, our body and the world around us. Virtual artist talk Mar. 18 at 6 p.m. Through Apr. 3. • On view in the lobby case, Luka Carter’s “Flywheel” combines small sketches, studies and found objects into a realized mood board.

Virtual Artist Talk Mar. 18 at 6 p.m. Through Apr. 10. • Collections from our Community presents “Julie Rutledge’s Grandparents’ Avon Bottles.”

Through Apr. 10. • “Athens Together” is an exhibition of documentary

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Classes ART CLASSES (Lyndon House Arts Center) “Oil Painting with Michael Ross” is offered in-person Tuesdays, Mar. 2–Apr. 6, 5:30–7:30 p.m. $111–159. “Intro to Wheel-Thrown Pottery with Amanda Jane Crouse” is offered in-person Thursdays, Mar. 4–Apr. 8, 5:30–7:30 p.m. $96–144. 706613-3623 DEDICATED MINDFULNESS PRACTITIONERS (Online) Weekly Zoom meditations are offered every Saturday at 8 a.m. Email for details. jaseyjones@gmail.com MINDFULNESS PRACTICE EVENINGS (Online) Discuss and practice how to change your relationship with difficult thoughts and emotions. Email for the Zoom link.

Second Friday of the month, 6–7 p.m. FREE! mfhealy@bellsouth.net SPANISH CLASSES (Athens, GA) For adults, couples and children.

Learn from experts with years of professional experience. Contact for details. 706-372-4349, marinabilbao75@gmail.com, www.marina-spain-2020.squarespace.com THE WELL LIFE VISION (Zoom) Explore what motivates you to be well, and learn how personal

values, favorite pastimes and future hopes can be used to leverage your inner strength to create a more well life. Email to register. Feb. 13, 11 a.m. limawil619@gmail.com YOGA CLASSES (Revolution Therapy and Yoga) “Outdoor Yoga with Meg Brownstone,” every Sunday at 10 a.m. $5–10 suggested donation.

“Trauma Conscious Yoga with Crystal,” every Thursday at 6 p.m. $10 suggested donation. “Yoga for Well-being with Nicole Bechill,” every Saturday on Zoom at 10:30 a.m. Pre-registration required. rubbersoulcollective@gmail.com, www.revolutiontherapyandyoga.com ZOOM YOGA (Online) Rev. Elizabeth Alder offers “Off the Floor Yoga” (chair and standing) on Mondays at 1:30 p.m. and “Easy on the Mat” yoga classes on Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. Ongoing classes are $5/class or $18/month. 706-612-8077, ommmever@yahoo.com

Events ART EVENTS (Georgia Museum of Art) “Curator and Collector Chat: The Maniichuk-Brady Collection,” Feb. 11 at 1 p.m. “Student Week: Permanent Love,” Feb. 11–14 from 1–5 p.m. “Family Day To-Go: Color Odyssey,” Feb. 13. “Artful Conversation: Kawase Hasui,” Feb. 17, 1 p.m. “Emerging Scholars Symposium: Visualizing Identity: Exploring Dimensions of the Self through Art,” Feb. 18–20. “Yoga

photography of protests and rallies featuring the work of Penny Noah with Nathaniel Burkins, Lucy Calhoun and Sean Dunn. Virtual artist talk Feb. 18 at 6 p.m. On view Feb. 13–Apr. 10.

MASON-SCHARFENSTEIN MUSEUM OF ART (567 Georgia St., Demorest) Naomi Falk’s “What kind of times are these…” combines cyanotype and sculpture to contemplate relationships to place. Through Feb. 11.

OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (34 School St., Watkinsville) “Small Works Inspired By Poetry” is a small-scale, abstract and figurative exhibition inspired by the five poems contributed by Clela Reed, Carl Britton, Dana Wildsmith, Pat Adams and Rebecca Baggett. Through Feb. 26. • A Pottery Pop-up Sale features a rotating selection of handmade ceramics by regional artists. New potters go on view every two weeks. Michel Klapthor, Chris Kelly, Juana Gnecco, B. Gregg, Tripti Yoganathan, Lori Breedlove and Robin Tetterton are featured through Feb. 13.

STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GEORGIA (2450 S. Milledge Ave.) The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators presents an exhibition of works by students, graduates, teachers and professional illustrators. Through Feb. 21.

SURGERY CENTER OF ATHENS (2142 W. Broad St.) Paintings by Dortha Jacobson. Through Apr. 16.

TIF SIGFRIDS (83 E. North Ave., Comer) Jasmine Little’s solo exhibition “Sphinx Riddle” includes paintings and ceramics. Through Feb. 27. • Curated by Jasmine Little and Tif Sigfrids, “Via Café” is a group exhibition organized around a group of artists who studied art together at UCLA or were part of the Chinatown art scene in the early 2000’s. Through Feb. 27.

TINY ATH GALLERY (174 Cleveland Ave.) Melody Croft presents a series of oil and watercolor paintings called “Black Lives Matter.” Opening reception Feb. 12 from 6–9 p.m. 3Thurs Feb. 18 from 6–9 p.m. Through February by appointment.

UGA MAIN LIBRARY (320 S. Jackson St.) “Georgia Trailblazers: Honoring the 60th Anniversary of Desegregation at UGA” chronicles the historic events of 1961 when Hamilton Holmes and Charlene Hunter became the first African American students admitted to the university.

UGA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIES (300 S. Hull St.) “Election 1980: The Elephant in the Room” explores the historic change election.

Through Feb. 26. • “Pylon: Tourists in Rock ’n Roll” celebrates the local band through photos, outfits, memorabilia and more. Through May 31. • “Making Space: Fighting for Inclusion, Building Community at UGA” will launch a virtual version of the exhibit in March. View in person through July 2.

WILLSON CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES AND ARTS (Online) As part of UGA’s Spotlight on the Arts, the Willson Center presents “Shelter Projects,” a virtual exhibition of over 30 projects created by graduate students or community practitioners who reflect pandemic experiences through the arts. willson.uga.edu.

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“Third Thursday,” Feb. 18 from 6–9 p.m. “Morning Mindfulness (via Zoom),” Feb. 19 at 9:30 a.m.

“Toddler Tuesday To-Go: Color Adventures,” Feb. 23. “Coffee with the Curators: Nelda Damiano and Julia Kilgore,” Feb. 23 at 1 p.m. www.georgiamuseum.org ATHICA VIRTUAL EVENTS (Athens Institute for Contemporary Art) Music night with Annie Leeth, A Good Pleasure and Klypi on Feb. 18 at 7 p.m. Invited speaker Drék Davis speaks on “Miles to Go: Artists Contemplating Revolution & Social Justice” on Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. A closing event for the annual “Members’ Showcase” will feature an artists’ roundtable on Feb. 28 at 4 p.m. Events are free but registration is required. www.athica.org BEEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS (Online) Topics include keeping bees, starting and maintaining a hive, equipment and supplies, costs, commitments and benefits.

Register online. Feb. 17, 6–7:30 p.m. www.accgov.com/anrclasses BIG HEARTS (Online) Extra Special People hosts its annual pageant and talent show with guest celebrities including Tom Holland, David Pollack and Josh Murray. Feb. 13, 5 p.m. www.espbighearts.com BOGART LIBRARY EVENTS (Online) KnitLits Virtual Knitting Group for ages 16 & up is held Feb. 11, 18 at 6 p.m. Pick up supplies for “Grab & Go Kit for Adults: Pointillism Notecards” Feb. 11–12 and watch an instructional video Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. www.athenslibrary.org BOOK DISCUSSION: RAP ON TRIAL (Online) Join the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library for a virtual discussion of the book Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics and Guilt in America with co-author Andrea L. Dennis. Watch on the Special Collections Libraries Facebook page. Feb. 10, 7 p.m. patrice.green25@uga.edu BREWERY EVENTS (Southern Brewing Company) Monday Night Trivia at 6 p.m. Live music by Funky Bluester every Tuesday at 7 p.m. Sunday Trivia with Solo Entertainment Sundays at 5 p.m.

Comedy Night Feb. 11 at 8 p.m.

Records & Brews pre-Valentine’s Day Lovers Rock Reggae Edition with DJ Osmose, Feb 12 from 6–9 p.m. Love.Craft Athens percentage night Feb. 18 from 5–10 p.m. Live music by Chyann Rose Feb. 20 at 5 p.m. Hops for Hounds Feb. 25 at 5 p.m. Live music by Chris Recalled Feb. 27 at 5 p.m. www.sobrewco. com COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE (Online) The UGA J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development hosts its sixth annual conference with a theme of “Leading in Unprecedented Times.” Register online. Feb. 18. fanning.uga.edu DAVID FUNG (Hodgson Concert Hall) Pianist David Fung presents a solo recital entitled “Tributes” featuring pieces by Bach, Choplin and more.

The performance will also be livestreamed and available for six days online. Feb. 12, 7:30 p.m. $10–20. pac.uga.edu DINNER AND A SHOW (Hendershot’s Coffee) Live music and dinner with The Plate Sale every Friday and Saturday. The lineup includes Cicada Rhythm on Feb. 12–13, Kyshona on Feb. 19–20, HEART Music Athens Jazz Ensemble Feb. 26–27 and Jonathan Byrd on Mar. 12–13. Visit website to reserve your seat. www.hendershotsathens.com FROM 1770 TO 2020 (Online) Athens Chautauqua Society presents Sonny Kelly, who will speak

on “From 1770 to 2020: Race, Revolt and Resistance” and share an excerpt from his one-man show “The Talk,” born of a painful conversation he had with his son upon hearing about protests following Freddie Gray’s death in Baltimore, MD in 2015. Feb. 12, 2 p.m. historycomesalive.org/event/ race-revolt-and-resistance GLOBAL GEORGIA INITIATIVE EVENTS (Online) “More Than Words…” by Kevin Day includes a concert performance on Feb. 18 at 7 p.m. “Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence and The American South After the Civil War” with author Carole Emberton on Feb. 23 at 3 p.m. “An Education in Georgia: Looking Toward the Future” on Feb. 25 at 4 p.m. “Now is the Time: Shouting Fire in a Crowded Theater” with Montu Miller, Ed Pavlic and artists on Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. “Defiance Project Awards” conversation with Thomas Brazzle and artists Mar. 2 at 4 p.m. willson. uga.edu GREEN THUMB LECTURE SERIES (Online) Learn about raised beds and garden fences. Register for Zoom link. Feb. 10, 6–7:30 p.m. www.accgov.com/gardening HIROYA TSUKAMOTO (Online) The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens presents the one-ofa-kind composer, guitarist and singer-songwriter from Kyoto, Japan, who will perform a program called “Another Great Day to be Alive.” Feb. 21, 4:30 p.m. www. uuathensga.org/stay-connected HISTORIC ATHENS MARDI GRAS (Online) Celebrate Mardi Gras with an online masquerade and virtual 5K. Feb. 16, 6 p.m. $30–40. www. historicathens.com INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ROUNDTABLE (Zoom) UGA Innovation Gateway hosts a virtual roundtable about Entertainment, Arts and Sports Intellectual Property. Feb. 11, 12 p.m. research.uga.edu/gateway LIVE JAZZ (Porterhouse Grill) Enjoy dinner and some smooth jazz.

Wednesdays, 6–9 p.m. www.porter houseathens.com MOVIES BY MOONLIGHT: DRIVE-IN MOVIE (Sandy Creek Park) Watch Black Panther on the big screen from the safety of your car. Feb. 12, 6 p.m. Free, but advanced tickets are required. www. accgov.com/leisure NATIVE PLANT SYMPOSIUM (Zoom) Georgia State Botanical Garden hosts its annual symposium on growing and protecting native plants. Register online. Feb. 10, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. $35. botgarden.uga. edu/event/native-plant-symposium PANEL DISCUSSION: LILLIAN SMITH: ANTI-RACIST ALLY (Online) Watch a screening of Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence, a documentary about an author and social critic whose writings challenged white southerners to end segregation. Documentary is available Feb. 15–22 at lilliansmithdoc. com/private-screening-ally. Panel discussion with Patricia Bell-Scott and Matthew Teutsch is held Feb. 21, 2 p.m. Email for Zoom link. patrice.green25@uga.edu PILGRIM (Online) Pilgrim celebrates the release of Neverland (Feb. 12) with a live performance streamed from the 40 Watt Club on Feb. 19 , 9 p.m. Platform TBA. S’MORES AND STARS (Sandy Creek Park) View the moon, planets and stars using a telescope, listen to stories about constellations and enjoy some fresh s’mores. Bring a chair or blanket. Feb. 13, 7 p.m. accgov.com/1558/Valentines-DayEvents

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Currently on view at the Dodd Galleries through Feb. 26, Ronika McClain’s series of videos, “Meet Me At The Double Crown,” uses confessional storytelling and karaoke to explore ideas of womanhood, identity and the complex mapping of queer communities.

SOUTHERN STAR STUDIO OPEN GALLERY (Southern Star Studio) SSS is a working collective ceramics studio established by Maria Dondero in 2016. The gallery contains members’ work. No more than two people or a single group inside at a time. Saturdays, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. southernstarstudioathens@ gmail.com SPRING ACTIVITIES (Athens, GA) A variety of activities in the arts, environmental science, recreation, sports and holiday events are planned for all. Now enrolling. www.accgov.com/leisure SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRY ROUNDTABLE (Online) Learn about the TRUE (Total Resource Use and Efficiency) certification program, a whole systems approach aimed at changing how materials flow through society, resulting in no waste. Feb. 18, 8 a.m. www. accgov.com THE VITRUVIAN THEORY (Online) UGA’s Thalian Blackfriars present a hybrid film/theater event filmed entirely on Zoom using a contactless set. The Vitruvian Theory is a family-based drama that follows the Vickers family through a series of Thanksgiving dinners. The granddaughter, Lucy, guides the audience back and forth through time to gain insight into the sudden and untimely death of her Aunt Diane.

Feb. 8–10, 8 p.m. Pay what you can. www.ugatheatre.com/vitruvian WINTER MARKET (Hendershot’s Coffee) The Culinary Kitchen of Athens hosts a weekly market with vendors. Saturdays through Mar. 13, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. www. theckofathens.squarespace.com/ wintermarketvendors

Kidstuff ACC LIBRARY EVENTS (AthensClarke County Library) Virtual storytimes are offered via Facebook weekdays at 10:30 a.m. www.face book.com/athenschildrens ART CLASSES (Lyndon House Arts Center) “Art Time with William Stephanos” for ages 4–6 is offered in-person Fridays, Mar. 5–Apr. 9 from 4–5:30 p.m. $68–99.50.

“Youth Virtual Class: Bookmaking with Toni Carlucci” for ages 7–11 is held Thursdays, Mar. 18–Apr. 22. $36–54. 706-613-3623 ART CLASSES (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) “Drawing Basics” for ages 7 & up covers sighting and measuring, linear perspective, contours and more. Feb. 19–Mar. 19, 4–5 p.m. $75–100. “Creative Drawing with Watercolor” is for ages 18 & up. Thursdays, Mar. 25– Apr. 8 or Thursdays, Apr. 15–29, 6–8 p.m. $75–100. www.ocaf.com

BOGART LIBRARY EVENTS (Online) Virtual Storytimes are offered weekdays at 10:30 a.m. Virtual Booktalks featuring chapter books on Feb. 12 at 2 p.m. Ms. Donna shares some of her favorite African-American musical stars in “Famous Friends” on Feb. 17 at 3 p.m. “Grab & Go Craft Kit for Teens: DIY Soap Gemstones” pick up Feb. 18–19 with video available Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. Hear a reading of Bring Me Some Apples and I’ll Make You a Pie on Feb. 23 at 3 p.m. www.athenslibrary.org CALL FOR ENTRIES: K-12 GREEN LIFE ART CONTEST (ACC Recycling Division) K–12 students in Athens-Clarke County are invited to participate in the annual Green Life Awards Art, Photography and Poetry Contest.

The theme is based on a fresh start to a new year. Submissions can be paintings, drawings, sculpture, short videos (30 seconds to one minute), photography or poems about how you will live a green life in 2021. Entries are due to the ACC Recycling Division by Mar. 1 at 5 p.m. Winners will be recognized at a virtual awards ceremony on Apr. 15. www.accgov.com/greenlife FAMILY MOVIE SERIES (The Classic Center Theatre) Watch Big on Feb. 26. $15. www.classic center.com/tickets TUTORING (Online) The Athens Regional Library System is now offering free, live online tutoring via tutor.com for students K-12, plus college students and adult learners.

Daily, 2–9 p.m. www.athenslibrary. org VALENTINE EVENTS (Multiple Locations) ACC Leisure Services Department presents a variety of events. Cupid’s Craft Party at Memorial Park on Feb. 10 at 10 a.m., Valentine Cards and Cookies at East Athens Community Center on Feb. 11 at 3 p.m., Love Bug Jamboree at Rocksprings Park on Feb. 11 at 10:30 a.m. I Heart You at Lay Park on Feb. 13 at 10 a.m. and Woo at the Zoo at Bear Hollow Zoo on Feb. 13. accgov.com/1558/ Valentines-Day-Events

Support Groups AL-ANON 12 STEP (Multiple Locations) Recovery for people affected by someone else’s drinking. Visit the website for a calendar of electronic meetings held throughout the week. 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 MALE SURVIVOR SUPPORT GROUP (Online) This is an eightweek support group for male survivors of sexual assault and childhood sexual abuse to connect and receive support from other survivors in a safe space. Contact Mary Dulong at The Cottage. Begins Feb. 25, 5:30 p.m. FREE! cottage groupsprogram@gmail.com, www. northgeorgiacottage.org RECOVERY DHARMA (Recovery Dharma) This peer-led support group offers a Buddhist-inspired path to recovery from any addiction.

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By Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com REST IN PEACE: Surprise and sadness spread throughout

Athens and the independent music world when it was reported that longtime Athens drummer Julian Aaron Wegelin died Feb. 2. He was 50 years old. While best known for his work with Elf Power, with whom he toured extensively, his roots in Athens music go back to at least 1991, when he was a member of Glue, which gained some solid local traction during a time when the Athens music scene was starting to shift away from its 1980s identity and into a new era. To this end, he was a member of several groups throughout the years and a guest with many others. For a time, he created handcrafted cassette and album boxes that were sold locally. Referred to by friends as both Julian and Aaron, he was a student of religion, art history and food. He left Athens for Los Angeles several years ago, where he became a master chef in Asian cuisine.

Most recently, he’d moved back to Athens and was in the midst of a collaborative resurrection of a shelf-kept Elf Power song from many years ago. He was a frequent and enthusiastic contributor to popular AthensAaron Wegelin based Facebook group the Athens Quarantine Cantine, where he shared photos of his cooking, ingredient ideas and thoughtful commentary. He was loved by many and will be missed.

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KEEP GOING: Another Athens personality, major talent and friend—Elite “The Showstoppa” Ellison—is also in need right now. Ellison’s heart trouble has been a stumbling block for him for a long while, but now he is also suffering from renal failure. Athens organization Artist2Artist has taken up his cause as one of theirs and, to this end, launched a fundraising campaign seeking to lower his financial burdens. Please seeartist2artist.net for more info on Artist2Artist, and consider donating what you can at gofundme.com/f/getting-elitethe-showstoppa-back-on-stage.

CAN YOU NAME ‘EM TODAY?:

Longtime Athens musician Michael Wegner (Fuzzy Sprouts, Cosmic Charlie, Abbey Road Live!, et al) has decided that 2021 is to be a year where he’s all up in your face. Well, ears and eyes, at least. He’s planning on releasing 52 songs this year—one per week—and is on track so far to do just that. Available now are his tracks “Legacy” and “Darkness in Disguise” (both released under his band’s name, Whisper Kiss) as well as “Microscopes and Antidotes” and “Biscuits and Gravy,” which are each under his own name.

For more information, including videos and the stories behind each song, please see michaelwegner.com/52songs.

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PITCH IN: A fundraiser has been set up for Athens violinist

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David Blackmon, who has incurred a significant amount of medical bills. The campaign’s description mentions specifically that “David has had health issues for a while that [have] recently manifested into surgery to amputate the lower section of both his legs.” Blackmon is a true, lifelong Athens musician who got his start when he joined the Clarke County Youth Orchestra at age 9. His resume is too long to list here, but he was a frequent player with Widespread Panic several years ago, was a founder of Blueground Undergrass and has likely played on more studio sessions than I’ll ever hear. Please consider doing what you can. For more information, please see gofundme. com/f/help-david-blackmon-recover-from-surgery.

brand new sampler/compilation from Marching Banana Records. Head honcho Drew Kirby named it Popular Music That Will Live Forever, and this is one instance where I wish it would. I don’t generally go headfirst into compilations anymore, as so often they’re exhausting piles of mishmash all thrown together for no coherent reason. This 20-track whopper, though, has tons of tasty treats from the likes of Futo, Delorean Gray, Four Eyes, Jianna Justice, Uma’s Thermos, CIVILS, O Key, Jack Blauvelt, George, Slime Ring (Sebastian Marquez of Dead Neighbors) and more. Maybe it arrived at just the right moment, or maybe it’s just wonderfully arranged and sequenced and sold me.

Either way, it’s a bag o’ gems. Proceeds benefit the Atlanta Solidarity Fund. Dig it at marchingbanana.bandcamp.com. f

record review Bill Jr. Jr.: Homebody (Bush League) After moving to Montreal, singer-songwriter Russell Gendron sought to chronicle the feelings of home, memory and attachment associated with his previous city, Vancouver. Though clearly inspired by people and places of Canada, Homebody, his third album under the moniker Bill Jr. Jr., represents a cross-border connection to Athens. After meeting Gendron during a residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and a period of collaborating remotely, local guitarist Dan Nettles (Kenosha Kid) invited Gendron and Toronto bassist Daniel McNamara to travel down and record at Chase Park Transduction with Drew Vanderberg. To provide lush support around Gendron’s traditional folk style, Nettles then assembled a backing band of familiar faces: drummer Seth Hendershot (Kishi Bashi), keyboardist Jojo Glidewell (of Montreal), string players Serena Scibelli and Luca Lombardi, and backing vocalists Claire Campbell (Hope for Agoldensummer) and Ansley Stewart. Anchored by a lyrical focus, songs such as “Renaissance Man,” “City Limits” and “The Waves” collectively relate the experience of outgrowing places and growing into new ones, pushing through the humdrum only to burn out pursuing larger ambitions. Homebody closes with the thematically appropriate track “Run Home,” a breezy, bittersweet surrender.

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