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Pandemic Anniversary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

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By Blake Aued, Chris Dowd and Jessica Luton news@flagpole.com Athens-Clarke County Police Chief Cleveland Spruill objected to recommendations for a civilian oversight board for ACCPD at a recent commission meeting, saying the board would be biased against police.

A task force appointed by Mayor Kelly Girtz is recommending a civilian board to investigate complaints about police misconduct and review police policies. The task force presented these suggestions to the ACC Commission’s Government Operations Committee last week. If approved by the committee, it would be sent to the full commission for a vote.

However, Spruill made it clear that he will do everything in his power to stop that from happening. “There’s no way in good conscience I can support any recommendation that comes out of the developmental task force,” he said.

Spruill’s objections center on the makeup of the proposed board. Mokah Jasmine Johnson, co-chair of the task force and co-founder of the Athens AntiDiscrimination Movement, and the rest of Girtz’s task force are recommending the selection of a diverse group of different races, ages, genders and work experience.

The task force also recommends including people from groups who “experience the most frequent contact with law enforcement.” Furthermore, they say extra consideration should be given to those who are a part of organizations focusing on civil rights and social justice.

One group that will be barred from membership on the oversight board, if the commission agrees with the task force’s suggestions, are current and former police officers. Those with current or pending criminal charges would also be denied membership on the board. Spruill lambasted the membership recommendations, warning that the board would end up with “a strong bias against the police department.” Although Spruill said he supports an oversight board, he said that “regular law-abiding citizens are not welcomed on the committee” and that its focus would be to “seize power and control away from the

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police department.” While the task force and the over-presence of police on the task was developing their suggestions, “anyforce,” she said. one who wanted to advocate for a fair and Likewise, Johnson said no one asked impartial board was disrespected and basiSpruill not to return to task force meetings. cally forced off of that task force,” he said.

However, there was one meeting in particuDuring one meeting, Spruill said, he was lar when Johnson wanted task force memasked not to return to the next meeting. “I bers to “reconnect” without the fighting felt no voice throughout,” he said. and disagreement that had become comJohnson denied Spruill’s accusations. monplace. She did ask for there to be one She said that the task force is recommendmeeting where she would try to reestablish ing the creation of a balanced and transpeace among task force members without parent board capable of addressing the the influence of Spruill, whose voice had mistrust some community members feel become “dominant,” she recalled. towards police.

Lastly, Johnson said that she was surThe goal of the oversight board, Johnson prised and upset by Spruill’s strong stance said, is not to seize power but to “keep against the oversight board, an opinion he officers accountable, did not previously comfor there to be transwith her. “I’m Spruill decided to try municate parency and to improve disgusted,” she said. to sabotage the work. “We spent over a year community relations with law enforceworking on that task ment.” She pushed back against Spruill’s force. We advocated for everyone to take a comments, asking, “How are we trying to seat and go through this process no matter take away power because we’re asking for how uncomfortable it was. We fought all accountability?” the way through for everyone to stay at that While trying to create balance between table. At the end, when we’re supposed to the oversight board and police, Johnson be building trust, he decided to try to sabomaintained that police officers should not tage the work.” be allowed on the board, an idea she called The Government Operations Committee “redundant.” will review the recommendations of the “You want us to be working with police, task force and develop its own recommento have a relationship with police, and on dations for the full commission, a process top of that to have them on the board,” she that could take months. It’s possible Spruill said. “Where do the people have space to will have moved by that time. Expressing make decisions freely without the influence a desire to be closer to family in Virginia, of police over them?” he recently applied to be police chief in She said that no one had been forced Frederick, MD, but did not get the job. off the task force for ideological reasons.

[Chris Dowd] “Mayor Girtz created one of the most diverse groups of people coming from different walks of life with different perspecLast week’s Athens-Clarke County tives,” she said. “When you have that many Commission meeting started with an diverse people sitting at the table, of course there is going to be disagreement and a lack unusual dispute over minutes and went downhill from there. of understanding at different times.”

Commissioner Allison Wright objected Johnson said several people left the task to the lack of public comment on a force at various points during the past year Lexington Road apartment complex during for different reasons, but that no one was a called meeting Mar. 8. Mayor Kelly Girtz forced to leave. In fact, some left for the explained that public comment had been opposite reason given by Spruill, “because taken on the development at two previous they were uncomfortable with Chief Spruill

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Commissioners Fight Over Firefly Trail

meetings and wasn’t required. He wound up having to break a 5–5 tie to approve the minutes, setting the tone for the nearly sixhour session.

Commissioners hotly debated the route for a section of the Firefly Trail near Winterville. Commissioner Patrick Davenport gave a detailed presentation on why the trail should be moved off an abandoned railbed to run alongside Moores Grove Road because some of his constituents don’t want it in their backyard. “I can’t believe people who stood in those backyards think it’s OK to disrupt the environment and wildlife pond, take out all those trees,” Wright said. “You’re talking about disrupted, 24/7, 365 days a year, those residents.” She and commissioners Ovita Thornton and Mike Hamby also supported that proposal, although Hamby later voted to keep the trail on the railbed.

Commissioner Carol Myers put forward a proposal that addressed some of residents’ concerns and kept the route as originally proposed, which won the support of seven commissioners. They expressed concerns about the legality of changing the route that voters had approved as part of SPLOST, and about people walking and biking along high-speed Moores Grove Road.

“At 50 miles an hour, you are extremely likely to die if you are struck by a vehicle,” Houle said, adding that the trail would be a tourist attraction throughout the eventual 40-mile route to Union Point.

Girtz proposed to spend $969,480 in unspent federal CARES Act funds from last year to extend the Athens Eats Together program through the end of May. Run by the Athens Community Council on Aging, the program has provided more than 250,000 meals to 8,000 local residents.

Commissioner Tim Denson put together a proposal with Hamby to “fund this for a couple of months but… open this up to other organizations that are also doing fantastic work and also deserve to be funded.”

Denson’s proposal provided $510,000 for Athens Eats Together and outlined a process for other organizations to apply for the rest, with a vote scheduled for Apr. 5.

Hamby, however, then put forward a list of specific organizations that he wanted to fund, which he acknowledged “would make people uncomfortable” but contended would help those mostly smaller groups build capacity. Distributing the funds on the fly “could put us in legal jeopardy,” though, said Commissioner Russell Edwards, who is a lawyer. Houle agreed with Hamby that the funding could

be distributed more equitably but said capacity, with 62 beds in use. Deaths, a lagHamby’s list “was written up on a napkin” ging indicator, also continued to slow, but and includes a group that served dinner at the virus still killed four Clarke County resione of his campaign events. Commissioner dents last week. Clarke County has now had Mariah Parker called the list “slapdash.”

116 confirmed deaths and four additional Commissioners spent the weekend tryprobable deaths. ing to hash out an extension of the Athens Wastewater data from Erin Lipp’s lab Eats Together program, which was about at the Center for the Ecology of Infectious to run out of money, and they apparently Diseases at UGA showed that the viral had some sharp disagreements about how load has remained stable for the last three to move forward. “It’s been tense these last weeks, and results suggest “persistent viral few days, and it’s been very stressful for shedding in the community, but at levels some of the commissioners,” Thornton said. well below their peak in January,” the lab “There’s been some breach in relationships website states. on this commission.”

At UGA, there was a continued decrease Thornton initially backed Hamby, but in positive cases, with 51 positive cases both later voted in favor of Denson’s reported for the week of Feb. 22-28. There motion. It passed 8–2, were 1,929 surveillance with Davenport and administered for It’s been tense these tests Wright opposed. the week. last few days, and The commission As of Mar. 4, 35,561 punted on another convaccine shots had been it’s been very stressful for administered in Clarke tentious issue, a student some of the commissioners. County, with 4,687 vachousing development on Mitchell Street, by cines given last week. voting to send it back to the planning comThe Northeast Health District administered mission for further review. It also passed 11,020 vaccines last week. Those numbers a master plan for the redevelopment of should continue to increase this week, as Bethel Midtown Village and public housing teachers and staff from Clarke and Oconee off College Avenue into a mixed-income counties will be given the chance to get neighborhood. [Blake Aued] vaccinated this week. Piedmont Athens Regional opened a mass vaccination site at its Oconee County campus that serves Oconee County School District employees Last week’s COVID-19 data continue to as well as eligible vaccine recipients who’ve show decreased levels of the virus in the been hospital patients within the past 12 Athens community in recent weeks. Local months. The Northeast Health District is vaccination numbers have also continued vaccinating Clarke County School District to increase as more supply has become employees on Mar. 10 and 31. available, and those numbers will increase For those who qualify for phase further this week as Clarke County teachers 1A+ now and haven’t been able to get and staff receive their first dose. an appointment, public health expert The seven-day running average was up Amber Schmidtke suggested looking into again slightly from a low of 19 on Feb. 26 private pharmacies for appointments. to 24 as of Mar. 6. Clarke County has had Kroger, Ingles, Publix, CVS, Walgreens a total of 14,232 positive tests, including and Walmart all have open appointments, antigen tests, an increase of 208 cases Schmidtke noted. In addition, people can last week. Hospitalizations continued to pre-register regardless of eligibility at decline, with just 11 new COVID-19 hosmyvaccinegeorgia.com. Schmidtke also pitalizations. Patients hospitalized with suggested that those who aren’t eligible COVID-19 decreased by 20, with 71 people help someone who is eligible to schedule an hospitalized, or just 12% of all patients in appointment or offer them a ride. [Jessica Region E. Intensive care units were at 88% Luton] f

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Martin Gervias, an economics professor in the UGA Terry College of Business, said he believes the program has been only somewhat successful in Athens due to the confusion surrounding the program and the speed with which it was created. “Those who knew how to proceed or knew where to ask were successful, whereas those who didn’t didn’t get access to these loans at all probably suffered as a result,” he said.

Gervais also said he believes that a lot of the confusion came down to the information not being well advertised and disseminated in the best possible way. To combat

PPP,” Bradley said. “And so we really made an effort to try to get the word out to everybody that we possibly could.”

The first round was available to employers with fewer than 500 employees, and a lot of fairly large local companies received sizable PPP loans. According to a ProPublica database of coronavirus bailouts, student

By Laura Nwogo news@flagpole.com housing developer Landmark Properties and Athens Orthopedic Clinic received the he COVID-19 pandemic is reaching the go to utilities, and what I really needed was largest loan amounts in Athens—about $5 one-year mark in the United States, money for things like the cost of goods.” million each. President Joe Biden has limand for small business owners that could The application for the second draw ited the second round to smaller businesses. mean taking out a Paycheck Protection of PPP loans for small businesses and PPP loan applications require relationProgram loan for the first or second time. nonprofits with fewer than 20 employees ships with a bank or lender, which proved to PPP loans were provided by the U.S. began Feb. 24 and will run through Mar. 9. be a problem for some Athens businesses.

Small Business Administration to help Maumus said she has more hope in the secBradley said the Athens Area Chamber of small businesses keep their workforce Commerce helped businesses that employed and to support ongodidn’t have a relationship with a ing operations. Small businesses, local bank or were dealing with an self-employed workers, sole propriinternet-based bank. They put those etors, certain nonprofit organizations businesses through a short vetting and tribal businesses qualify for the process and ended up making 60 or loan with a chance of loan forgive70 connections with local businesses ness if certain requirements are met. and banks which translated into $4 Leslie Hale, the executive director million to $5 million, Bradley said. of nonprofit organization Books for “Unfortunately, I think that in Keeps, said the PPP loans have proother areas where they didn’t have vided guaranteed stability. “We don’t access to resources that were helphave a regular retail operation that ing, whether it was a community was shut down or a restaurant operbank or a [Athens Area] Community ation that was shut down. However, Foundation, answering questions we had fundraisers disrupted; we about it,” Hale said. “I think that saw giving become erratic in a lot of smaller businesses and nonprofits, ways,” Hale said. “Securing PPP loans unfortunately, were left out.” in round one, and now round two, Bradley called helping Athens allowed us to actually ensure that our businesses navigate the PPP applicaprogram could continue.” tion process heartbreaking because With the PPP loans, Books for there were a lot of businesses that Keeps was able to bring on two partdidn’t meet the criteria to receive the time workers in their book fulfillloan. But while the process was disment warehouse to deliver 68,000 heartening, it was also “energizing.”

Books for Keeps, a nonprofit that provides free books to children, is one of the local employers that benefited from PPP. books to students in Athens and the “At no time in the history of this surrounding communities, Hale said. country, and probably this world— For Mimi Maumus, the chef and owner ond round of loans making a difference due that, David Bradley, CEO of the Athens and I don’t mean that lightly—there has of Home.made, the experience with the first to the inclusion of renovations.

Chamber of Commerce, worked with the never been so much fiscal assistance proround of PPP loans was not as successful.

“For us, that money will go towards Georgia Business Alliance and the Office of vided to try to keep people employed,” “You know, I understand that the governthings like pursuing an outdoor seating Economic Development to spread informaBradley said. “Some of the thank-yous that ment was trying to do something quickly area… We’re trying to survive on curbside, tion about PPP. we received in just trying to help connect and a one-size-fits-all, but it certainly did and that’s not really our food style, and it’s “We did get out a couple letters, postpeople together just made you cry. We were not fit my industry, because the majority a huge change for us,” Maumus said. “This cards and emails to every business in just a connector. We weren’t the reason of it was required to get a payroll, and I had is the first time in the pandemic that I have Athens that sort of describes both SBA people cried. The reason people cried is that furloughed 85% of my staff,” Maumus said. felt any sort of traction as a restaurant economic injury disaster loans and the they were able to get connected to folks “And then the other huge percentage was to owner, like, ‘Oh now there’s something I grants that were available as well as the that would provide PPP.” f

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Happy Coronaversary FLAGPOLE REFLECTS ON THE YEAR-LONG PANDEMIC

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veryone has that moment when things got real. Maybe you had a spring break vacation cut short. Maybe it was when players were pulled off the floor at the SEC basketball tournament. For me, it was the afternoon of Mar. 12.

Universities were shutting down around the country, but UGA had assured us that it would stay open, even after the World Health Organization officially declared a pandemic on Mar. 11. Then came the announcement the following afternoon: Classes would be suspended for two weeks effective Mar. 16.

After that, the floodgates opened. The Clarke County School District quickly followed suit. Many local businesses shut down, not only hitting Flagpole’s advertisers hard, but taking away half of our distribution points as well. We’re hoping to add back some of the things you may miss— restaurant and movie reviews, local comics, additional music coverage—this fall as things return to some semblance of normal.

A week later, the AthensClarke County Commission declared an emergency and issued a shelter-in-place order.

What was supposed to be a twoweek shutdown to “flatten the curve” and keep hospitals from being overwhelmed stretched on for weeks and months. K-12 and college classes eventually resumed, but online, until the Board of Regents’ decision to bring students back to campus in August resulted in a frightening spike. Restaurants reopened, but for takeout only. Grocery runs turned into harrowing experiences as the conscientious among us dodged the maskless hordes while we tried in vain to find toilet paper. (See grocery store employee Tim Root’s cartoons on these pages.) Shaming college students going out downtown became townies’ favorite hobby on social media. Time was a flat circle.

Everyone started baking bread.

Weddings were postponed, and funerals were missed, or else they turned into superspreader events. My parents are in their 70s and live 600 miles away, so we haven’t seen them since Christmas of 2019. Other than a three-week span in November when the virus receded enough for schools to reopen, my 6-year-old daughter only hung out with the two other kids in our “pod” for an entire year. I now spend hours every week watching local officials bicker via Zoom instead of in person, which is somehow even more excruciating. My hair is longer than it’s been since high school. At least some things stayed the same: During an ill-advised abbreviated season, the Bulldogs blew it, and so did the Braves.

What follows is other Flagpole staffers’ perspectives on the pandemic: intern Laura Nwogu, music critic Gordon Lamb, arts and music editor Jessica Smith, restaurant critic Hillary Brown and health-care reporter Jessica Luton.

Blessedly, the end is in sight. Vaccines are going into arms— more slowly than I would like, but it’s happening. God willing, I’ll see y’all at Normal Bar in a few months! [Blake Aued]

Elegy for a Senior Year The world had stopped, and it felt like all of our memories were scattered about like the aftermath of a tornado.

I always think about that “two-week” spring break.

That limbo where the world was in disarray due to COVID19, but we couldn’t yet see all the chaos, confusion and

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mourning on the horizon. That limbo where I and my fellow students thought we would get to come back to campus but soon realized that our realities were changing—email after disappointing email, heartbreaking news after heartbreaking news. And in that change, students were left with missed opportunities and memories we could only look back on and cherish.

This time last March, I was training to be an ambassador for the University of Georgia’s Road Dawgs, a cool program where a group of students use their spring break to speak to Georgia high school students about their college experiences. Looking back at our excitement, our eagerness to talk to students about electric Saturday nights in Athens, stuffing ourselves at the dining halls, walking out of the Tate Student Center with free food and new T-shirts and the number of opportunities for students to get involved, is bittersweet. Our personal experiences have changed, and that campus we boasted about? Pretty much a ghost town.

I mourn what could’ve been of my senior year, but I also mourn the what-ifs for the first-years. The question is, is it better to have experienced peak college life and lost that than never to have experienced college life at all?

I miss “snellebrating.” I miss Memorial Hall coffee hours and big cultural student productions. I miss late-night study sessions at the MLC and having minor breakdowns about whether I was going to pass a test or not. I miss running to catch the UGA bus or struggling to get on a packed Orbit. I miss going to that late-night party and having fun with friends and strangers, then going to grab some Raising Canes afterward. I miss lighting up Sanford Stadium for the fourth quarter of a home game. I miss interacting with my Grady professors face-to-face and soaking up their knowledge. I miss meeting alumni who’d reminisce about their time at UGA. I miss “Tate Time” and seeing my fellow Black students finding comfort within each other and walking through Tate Plaza to see a random camel or horse. I even miss the Tate preachers because this crazy campus wouldn’t be campus without them. And this crazy campus isn’t a campus without its students.

But my comfort is that once a Bulldog, always a Bulldog.

And the heart of the campus will beat again—if not for me, then for its future students. [Laura Nwogu]

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The speed at which the pandemic took over turned terms many of us never used with any regularity into total clichés.

As God is my witness, please slap me if I ever publically utter the words “unprecedented times” again. That said, these unprecedented times have been both devastating and curiously fertile. The shuttering of The Caledonia Lounge was, “bar none,” the most brutal and furthest-felt crush the music scene experienced in 2020. For over two decades, the club was an essential incubator of nascent local talent.

This event, as well as the previously unthinkable 12 months of empty stages around town, meant that baby bands had nowhere to take their first steps. It’s kind of navel-gazing and ultimately unproductive to think about, but how many bands simply didn’t form and won’t ever exist now? How many potential promoters, engineers, tour and band managers, label owners, etc. will now never be those things because the opportunity to begin one’s journey into this music life was simply not there? You get my point.

The above notwithstanding, the Athens scene was incredibly productive this year. The sheer heft of local records, demos, major releases, videos, streaming events and more was positively overwhelming. By my rough estimation, nary a week went by when there wasn’t some opportunity to engage—however distant—with new local music.

I wrote 50 columns covering it, like every other year, and still didn’t get around to everything worthy of mention. The cancelation of AthFest was wise but still stung. The North Georgia Folk Festival did a wonderful job with its streaming programming, as did Historic Athens with its second annual Porchfest. Eli Saragoussi had a great run with her curated Cry Baby Lounge streams, as did the Flicker Theatre & Bar with its Deadstream series of online shows. These shoutouts aren’t comprehensive at all. We’ve not even talked about how studios, record shops and instrument dealers are doing. Nor have we talked about how our scene is overwhelmingly created by service-industry workers who have struggled mightily through all this.

There’s no telling what our scene will look like once we, as the cliché says, get “back to normal,” but we remain eternally grateful to everyone who has continued to give it a face. [Gordon Lamb]

Support for the Arts Surges Though local galleries, along with all other “non-essential” businesses, temporarily closed at the onset of the pandemic, many quickly reformatted their exhibitions into online presentations that could be conveniently and safely experienced while sheltering in place. It’s nearly impossible to capture a physical work’s true dimension and detail through pixels, but several curators did impressively augment exhibitions with supplementary writings that provided rich context without any danger of cluttering gallery walls. As art venues generally see manageable foot traffic in between events, most were able to reopen successfully with timed entry and safety precautions in place.

Understanding the inherent financial vulnerability of artists, the creative community quickly pivoted its energy into finding relief opportunities and identifying advocacy strategies. Representatives from various cultural institutions began meeting weekly as the Athens Arts Alliance and released a COVID-19 Economic Impact on Artists Survey Report. The AAA also organized the Athens Banner Project, which paid five artists working in the service industry $350 each to design uplifting banners that were hung in downtown storefronts. UGA’s Willson Center for Humanities and Arts provided $500 grants called Shelter Projects to 34 graduate students and community practitioners to create shareable reflections on their pandemic experience

through the arts and humanities. The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission successfully funneled funding from the Athens-Clarke County Resiliency Package into $2,000 Arts in Community Resilience Awards that were distributed to 50 artists and organizations to complete creative projects throughout the year.

As the Black Lives Matter movement rose to the international spotlight, the art world at large turned inward to reexamine its own complicity with white supremacy.

Locally, we saw a concerted effort by arts organizations to strengthen their commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity and access in the arts. The Athens Area Arts Council, through funding from Creature Comforts’ Get Artistic campaign, launched a Black Emerging Artists Mentorship program offering $1,000 grants, while the Morton Theatre Corporation distributed $500 grants to 10 Black artists, performers and filmmakers under a new program called the Defiance Project Awards. The Lyndon House Arts Center allotted $1,000 stipends for guest artists/curators identifying as Black, Indigenous or persons of color.

The series kicks off this May as La Ruchala A. Murphy, Executive Director of the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, curates “NotAStereotype,” an exhibition of work by Black artists living in the South.

Over the past year, many people have turned to the arts as a way of processing, coping and reflecting on a wide range of experiences. Through several grant programs, combined with the scene’s near-constant output of projects, lasting reflections and documentation exist across music, film, performance, dance, theater, literary and visual arts. [Jessica Smith]

if you have been vaccinated, chances are good that your server and the other people who work in the restaurant have not, and the science still seems a little unclear about how much risk you pose to others.

Much safer for you and everyone who works in the restaurants is takeout, and you have an amazing variety of options, complete with booze, many of which are completely contact-free and available completely online. You don’t have to see or talk to another person, much less change out of your pajamas, to take advantage of that option, although you should still tip lavishly. There are also local drivethroughs at

Stay Safe and Support Local Restaurants Restaurants have been coping with the pandemic that began, for us, in mid-March of 2020, in a variety of ways.

Although the best solution would have been for massive government support to pay those workers and many others to stay home, that didn’t happen. Some restaurants are doing very little to keep their customers and employees safe, which is certainly an option—especially with our governor much more invested in pushing folks back to work than in public health—but not the most ethical one.

Others are still closed, but it’s been a year, and there are fewer and fewer of them. Most places fall somewhere in between, and it’s a wide range. Restaurants with patios and other outdoor seating areas have found themselves in a good position to capitalize on folks’ desire to eat out.

Many have added or expanded those areas, with the ACC government helping out by allowing sidewalk cafes in what were previously lanes of traffic. If you are going to eat in a restaurant (and I’m going to continue to say “please don’t do that”), outside and distanced is your best option. Even

places like Tamez, Tlaloc, BBQ Shack and others if you, in fact, very much want to talk to a person.

If you don’t leave your house, you can order delivery from a much-expanded array of restaurants, and if you want to help restaurants and not just yourself, you should endeavor to use our local delivery services (Bulldawg Food and Cosmic), not the national chains, which exploit desperate restaurants to skim those places’ already extremely slim profit margins. You can also continue to pay attention to the creative solutions restaurants are coming up with to keep themselves solvent (GoFundMes, cool T-shirts, meal kits) and throw money at them. They’re having a hard time, but a lot of them are just managing to hold it together, so be nice, be flexible and be generous. [Hillary Brown]

Like Vonnegut Said, You’ve Got to Be Kind To say that it’s been a long, difficult year for everyone is an understatement. This time last year, I never could have imagined that we’d still be dealing with this a year later and that the United States would let this pandemic get to such a state.

As a health and science journalist reporting on COVID19 each week for Flagpole, I spent much of my time pouring over data, interviewing doctors and other health-care professionals and consulting with other journalists and public health experts. Initially, Athens did a very good job containing the pandemic, and I was and still remain proud of our effort to fight the pandemic by following public health measures. In this way, my reporting experience reminded me of what I love most about Athens—the value of community here. I saw so many instances of businesses, neighbors, friends and strangers alike all helping one another and supporting each other and the community.

In a personal instance, one evening early on into the pandemic last year, I remember sitting out on my back deck and hearing the sounds of children singing along to the songs of Mary Poppins.

The neighbors had set up a TV outside so that their children could watch movies safely. I just remember smiling. It was a day when, after hours of examining data and learning about the pandemic, I really needed to hear it.

While the work—especially in those first few weeks as I adjusted to the weight of the pandemic alongside everyone else—has been especially challenging, it has also been rewarding in some surprising ways. I love Athens, and doing this work for the community has been a labour of love. In that same regard, the community—friends and strangers alike—have taken the time to reach out about my reporting. In all my years as a reporter, I’ve never experienced quite so much feedback. The year certainly reinvigorated my belief in the value of local journalism, and I hope the local community continues to remember just how important having good community journalism is during the good times, and not just in a pandemic.

As we pass this one-year mark, I am more inspired than at any other point in the pandemic, except for maybe this time last year, when I was still optimistic that we would be able to flatten the curve and continue on with normal life.

Now, as we gain more access to vaccines and numbers are down, I would ask you all not to be naive. Continue to practice public health measures. Get the vaccine when it’s your turn. Help your neighbors, friends or strangers get the vaccine. Most importantly, continue to be kind to one another.

This particular anniversary stirs up memories of trauma that we all experienced collectively last year, and we’ll be healing from it for some time. [Jessica Luton] f

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Art #NOTASTEREOTYPE EXHIBITION CALL FOR ARTISTS (Lyndon House Arts Center) La Ruchala A. Murphy is guest curating “#NotA Stereotype,” an exhibition designed to give voice and space to Southern Black artists. Online digital submissions are accepted through Mar. 15. Exhibition runs May 1–July 24. www.accgov.com/lyndonhouse ATHENS CREATIVE DIRECTORY (Athens, GA) The ACD is a new platform to connect creatives with patrons. Visual artists, musicians, actors, writers and other creatives are encouraged to create a free listing. Users can search for artists offering commissions for holiday gifts. athenscreatives@gmail.com, athenscreatives.directory BLACK EMERGING ARTISTS MENTORSHIP (Athens, GA) The

Athens Area Arts Council’s new program offers a $1000 award and six-month mentorship with a professional. Fill out online application. Deadline Mar. 12. www. athensarts.org CALL FOR ARTISTS (Creature Comforts Brewing Co.) Local artists and curators can submit proposals for the CCVC Gallery throughout 2021. getartistic@ccbeerco.com, www.getcurious.com/get-artistic/ call-for-artists OPEN STUDIOS (Lyndon House Arts Center) Studio members have access to spaces for painting, printmaking, photography, ceramics, jewelry, fiber and woodworking.

Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. $65/month. nicholas. daglis@accgov.com SOUTHWORKS CALL FOR ART (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) The 26th annual SouthWorks National Juried Art Exhibition seeks

art around town ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (ATHICA) (675 Pulaski St., Suite 1200) Artist-in-ATHICA Sara Hess presents a solo installation.

Through Apr. 7.

ATHICA@CINÉ GALLERY (234 W. Hancock Ave.) Jacob Wenzka’s solo show “Ecumenopolis” features paintings and drawings inspired by the idea of a “world city” where giant cities have fused together to cover an entire planet. Through April.

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.

CREATURE COMFORTS BREWING CO. (271 W. Hancock Ave.) “Tender Wild” includes 12 new paintings on wood panel by Marisa Leilani Mustard. Through Mar. 28.

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.) “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. • “Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism.” Through June 13. • “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.

GLASSCUBE 2 INDIGO (500 College Ave.) Funded by an Arts in Community award from the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission, Jaime Bull’s “Diorama” reimagines natural history museum displays through large-scale assemblages of 1980s wicker furniture graffitied in psychedelic colors. Closing event Apr. 15 at 6 p.m.

LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) John Douglas Powers, the inaugural recipient of the Margie E. West Prize, presents a site-specific kinetic sculpture and video installation called “The Rivers Oceanus.” • “Social Dissonance” is a group showing of first-year students in the MFA program that examines life in the current movement. • The Athens Black Lives Matter Initiatives’ group show “Resistance and Resilience” features a variety of student work. • The annual scientific illustration show highlights work by UGA and Augusta University students. All shows run through Apr. 1.

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 bodies 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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submissions. Artists may submit up to three works in any medium.

Prizes awarded. Online submissions due Mar. 12. Exhibition runs Apr. 17–May 29. $30–40. www.ocaf. com/call-for-art

Classes ART CLASSES (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) “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 DEDICATED MINDFULNESS PRACTITIONERS (Online) Weekly Zoom meditations are offered every Saturday at 8 a.m. Email for details. jaseyjones@gmail.com DIVINATION BY THROWING BONES WORKSHOP (Margo Metaphysical) Learn the ancient form of divination of bone casting

in this two-hour workshop. Comes with a mini bone kit. Apr. 25, 1 p.m. $25. www.atalantamoonfire.com GROW YOUR BUSINESS WORKSHOP (Online or West Broad Community Garden) Athens Land Trust hosts a course designed to help budding entrepreneurs develop their businesses. The program features speakers, lectures, in-class work and individual coaching. Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m., Mar. 24–Apr. 28 (Online) or Saturdays at 2:30 p.m., Mar. 27–May 1 (In Person). FREE! ellie@athenslandtrust.org, www. athenslandtrust.org 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.

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photography of protests and rallies featuring the work of Penny Noah with Nathaniel Burkins, Lucy Calhoun and Sean Dunn. Through Apr. 10. • The 46th annual Juried Exhibition features 161 works by 116 local artists selected by juror Hallie Ringle of the Birmingham Museum of Art. Preview days available Mar. 11–13. On view Mar. 16–June 26.

MADISON-MORGAN CULTURAL CENTER (434 S. Main St., Madison) “The 125th Anniversary Exhibition: Celebrating the Home of the MadisonMorgan Cultural Center” explores the Romanesque Revival building that was built as a graded schoolhouse in 1895 and became a regional cultural center in 1976. Through June.

MASON-SCHARFENSTEIN MUSEUM OF ART (567 Georgia Street, Demorest) “Marie T. Cochran: Notes on an Affrilachian daughter in the era of COVID-19.” Through Mar. 25.

OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (34 School St., Watkinsville) A Pottery Pop-up Sale features a rotating selection of handmade ceramics by regional artists. New potters go on view every two weeks. A. Stocker, Knox Steinbrecher, Marsha Murray, Monte Broaded, Eleanor Broaded, Nancy Mehrpad, Marcia Scroggs and Carolyn Simmons are on view through Mar. 13. • The annual Youth Art Month Exhibit features pieces by students attending public and private schools in Oconee County. Through Mar. 26.

STEFFEN THOMAS MUSEUM OF ART (4200 Bethany Rd., Buckhead) “Celebrating Creative Genius: The Art, Life and Legacy of Eatonton, Georgia native David Driskell” features original artworks and prints, plus photographs and artifacts from the artist’s early life. Student artwork inspired by the exhibition is also on view. Through Apr. 22.

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

TIF SIGFRIDS (83 E. North Ave., Comer) The gallery presents “Nora Riggs: Fortress of Solitaire.” Mar. 13–Apr. 17.

TINY ATH GALLERY (174 Cleveland Ave.) See Dan Paint presents “TwentyOne Moby Dicks Spontaneously Monsterified on Pieces of the Wreck of the Pequod.” Opening reception Mar. 12, 6–9 p.m. Instagram Live Artist Talk on Mar. 15, 6:30 p.m. 3Thurs Mar. 18, 6–9 p.m. On view through March by appointment.

UGA SCHOOL OF LAW (225 Herty Dr.) Williams Elliot Stiles Jr., an accomplished artist, Atlanta attorney and UGA School of Law alumnus, recently unveiled a new commission, “1961,” to commemorate the 60th anniversary of desegregation at UGA. 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.) “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” chronicles the journey of students advocating for racial and social justice on campus. Through July 2. • “The Hargrett Hours: Exploring Medieval Manuscripts” presents original items from the collections, dating back centuries, as well as findings from students’ in-depth studies. Through Aug. 26.

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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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 1 YEAR FRANNIVERSARY (Franny’s Farmacy) Celebrate the shop’s anniversary with free CBD samples, a weirdness parade, live music, a food truck and a raffle. Mar. 19–21.

706-224-9505 ACC LADIES HOMESTEAD GATHERING ANNUAL PLANT SALE (3065 Smokey Rd.) Medicinals, herbs and vegetable starts. Order online Mar. 20–24.

Pick-up and in-person sale Mar. 27. Find the event on Facebook ART EVENTS (Georgia Museum of Art) Jerushia Graham leads “Artmaking Workshop: Emma Amos-Inspired Monoprints” on Mar. 13 at 1 p.m. $20. “Artful Conversation: Emma Amos” on Mar. 17 at 1 p.m.

“Panel Discussion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Magic Realism” on Mar. 18 at 1 p.m. “Yoga in the Galleries” Mar. 18 at 6 p.m. “Morning Mindfulness via Zoom,” Mar. 19 at 9:30 a.m. “Toddler Tuesday To-Go: Look and Compare” on Mar. 23. “Teen Studio via Zoom: Color Odyssey” on Mar. 25 at 5:30 p.m.

“Art + Wellness Studio” on Mar. 28 at 2 p.m. www.georgiamuseum. org ATHENS FARMERS MARKET (Bishop Park) The 2021 season will run Saturdays through Dec. 18, 8 a.m.–12 p.m. www.athensfarmers market.com/vendors ATHENS SHOWGIRL CABARET (Multiple Locations) A virtual drag show will be presented on

Facebook and Twitch live from Hendershot’s on Mar. 14, 3 p.m.

The troupe returns with an in-person show at Sound Track Bar on Mar. 26 at 7 p.m. showgirlcabaret @gmail.com, www.athensshow girlcabaret.com AUTHOR TALK (Zoom) Kim Scott speaks on Just Work: Get Sh*t Done, Fast and Fair. Mar. 16, 7 p.m. Presented by Avid Bookshop. www.avidbookshop.com 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. DJ Osmose on Mar. 12 from 6–9 p.m.

Live music by Max Eve on Mar. 13 at 3:30 p.m. Live wrestling on Mar. 13 at 8 p.m. Outlaw Country Night Mar. 19 from 5–11 p.m. Live music

by Susto Mar. 20 at 5:30 p.m. www. sobrewco.com DEANA CARTER (Classic Center) The country music singer-songwriter performs a live acoustic set.

Mar. 27, 8 p.m. www.classiccenter. com DINNER AND A SHOW (Hendershot’s Coffee) Live music and dinner with The Plate Sale every Friday and Saturday. The lineup includes Jonathan Byrd on Mar. 12–13, CLOUDS on Mar. 19–20 and Grassland String Band on Mar. 26–27. Visit website to reserve your seat. www.hendershotsathens.com GLOBAL GEORGIA INITIATIVE EVENTS (Online) “Reading & Conversation with Leanne Howe and U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo,” Mar. 10 at 4 p.m. “Writing Socially Engaged Fiction” with Megha Majumdar, Mar. 18 at 4 p.m.

“Translation as a Literary Trope” with Jee Leong Koh, Mar. 25 at 4:30 p.m. “Conversation with Musician Val Jeanty and Author Renee Gladman” on Apr. 20 at 7 p.m. willson.uga.edu HANK WILLIAMS: LOST HIGHWAY (Elbert Theatre, Elberton) Encore Productions presents a show about the legendary songwriter, complete with a full live band. Mar. 12–14, 19–21. $9–16. 706-283-1049 LGBTQIA+ VIRTUAL ALPHABET FAMILY GATHERING (Online) This is a safe space for anyone on the LGBTQIA+/TGQNB spectrum.

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Daily, 2–9 p.m. www.athenslibrary. org VIRTUAL SUMMER CAMPS (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Camp themes include woodland fairy and gnomes, textile and fiber arts, circus, pen pals, mini museum, rebel girls, flower gardens and more.

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Grayson Hauser’s Lost Futures PLUS, MORE MUSIC NEWS AND GOSSIP

By Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com PUT ME IN, COACH: Nominations are now being accepted for

this year’s Vic Chesnutt Songwriter of The Year Award.

For 2021, there are two categories: Career and Play For Fun. The first is for career musicians (I mean, obvs), and the second is for those who don’t necessarily consider their craft a career. Nominees can pick whichever they want. The winner of each category gets $1,000, and all finalists will receive $250. The winner of the Play For Fun category also receives recording time, courtesy of Amplify at Nuçi’s Space, and the Career winner receives a promotional package from Team Clermont. Artists may nominate themselves, of course, but anyone may nominate an artist of their choosing.

The requirements are that the artist must live in AthensClarke County or one of our immediate neighbor counties (Oconee, Oglethorpe, Jackson, Barrow, Madison) , and the nominated song must have been released via some method in 2020. Could be on Bandcamp, YouTube, from an album, whatever. It just needs to be available to the public. There’s no formal limit on how many songs may be submitted from a single artist, but if a whole bunch of songs come in under your name, the award folks are gonna work with you to pare that down.

The deadline for nominations is Mar. 22, and this year’s awards event will be held May 6.

Please read closely and follow all instructions at vicchesnuttaward.com/nominations to make a nomination. The award was created by and is administered by the Rotary Club of the Classic City of Athens, and you can find all additional info about them and the good work they do at classiccityrotary.org.

which is decidedly metallic but not tinny or sharp. At times it reminded me of certain tones found from artists seemingly as disparate as John Fahey and even John Fogerty.

The songs themselves are quiet but not pastoral. Indeed, there’s a heaviness here that seems deeply reflective (“I can’t tell a threat from what’s benign/It feels so permanent/my own hostile design,” from “Presence of a Storm”) but doesn’t lead the listener to despair. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it straddles a line between moods, but it also never collapses under its own weight. In short, it holds its own quite well. Check it out at lenarayneallen.bandcamp.com.

DIGGIN’ YER SCENE: It’s been nearly two years since there was a new release from multifaceted guitarist Grayson Hauser, but now there is, so you can stop holding your breath. His new album is named Lost Futures, and, yet again, Hauser STACEY-MARIE PIOTROWSKI

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Register to attend the drive-in Ripple Effect Blue Carpet Premiere.

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Mar. 11–13, 8 p.m. American Fiesta tells the story of a same-sex couple unable to get married in the place they call home. Mar. 15–17, 8 p.m. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, four young lovers take to the forest and become entangled in a marvelous mix-up of desire and enchantment. Mar. 25–27, 8 p.m. www.ugatheatre.com UUFA VIRTUAL EVENTS (Online) Catherine Mills of Behavioral Advantage speaks on “Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)—What Is It?” on Mar. 14 at 9:30 a.m. “Art of UUFA” is a virtual art exhibit, hosted by Mark Hodges, that includes photography, painting, pottery and weaving. Mar. 21, 9:30 a.m. www.uuathensga.org/ stay-connected WEST BROAD FARMERS MARKET (300 S. Rocksprings St.) The market is open for shopping each week from Sunday at 5 p.m. to Thursday at 1 p.m., with a drive-through (or walk/bike-through) pick-up on Saturdays from 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. wbfm.locallygrown.net 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 ZINE NIGHT (Finley Light Factory) This zine and art market features local artists. Follow @finleylight factory on Instagram for participating artists and updates. Mar. 13, 5–9 p.m. $2.

REST IN PEACE: Former Athens guitarist,

recently of Los Angeles, Dave Phillips passed away at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Grayson Hauser on Feb. 22. Phillips had been a member of Redneck GReece Deluxe and Little shows himself to be talented enough to explore different Debbie and, most famously, was part of Liquor Cabinet styles within a single set of songs and maybe a bit stubborn and featured on bandmate Jack Logan’s critically acclaimed 1990s albums. He moved to L.A. in 1997 and joined former as well. OK, sure, lots of folks try this, but let’s admit right now that most of them sound like wet spaghetti hitting a member of The Replacements Tommy Stinson’s band, and wall, with the thrower hoping something will stick. Hauser he would go on to become a key member of both ex-Pixie Frank Black’s band Frank Black and the Catholics as well skips seemingly effortlessly among whatever styles suit a particular song. From the jazzy Lou Reed sing-speak as Guided by Voices frontman Robert Pollard’s combo The of opening song “Mirage” to the full Hendrix buzzsaw of Ascended Masters. By all accounts, Phillips was a beloved “Journey Inside Your Mind” to the funky yacht-rock groove friend and was known for his sweet nature as well as his of “Golden State,” he’s got it covered. I’m not entirely sure incredible and reliable talent. why I’m personally taken with Hauser as an artist, because NEW STUFF: Songwriter and musician (guitar and drums) I’ll be the first to admit that what I’ve written above Lena Rayne Allen released lastweek a new three-song EP, wouldn’t necessarily sell me on it. But I know from experiBoo Hoo, recorded at The Glow Recording Studio. Allen has ence what an ear-wormy kind of writer he is. All of which a strong vocal presence that, although generally soft and is to say: Take this with a grain of salt and stream the new subtly delivered, has a distinctive vibrato that appears at record and the rest of his catalogue over at graysonhauser. the end of select lines. I was taken by her guitar tone, too, bandcamp.com. f

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SUMMER STAFF (Athens, GA) The Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services Department is now hiring for approximately 120 summer positions including camp counselors, lifeguards and pool clerks. www.accgov.com/jobs VIC CHESTNUT SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD (Athens, GA) The Classic City Rotary is now accepting nominations for local musicians in the categories of “career” and “play for fun.”

Deadline Mar. 22. Awards event May 6 at Creature Comforts. www. vicchesnuttaward.com f

Sloping: Completed Songs (Sound as Language) Currently residing in Atlanta, JJ Posway made his mark on Athens as the lead songwriter of indie outfit Scooterbabe, as well as through his work supporting the music community over the years within his roles at WUOG 90.5 FM and Tiger Bomb Promo. Completed Songs, his debut album under the new moniker Sloping, was primarily written, performed and recorded on his own, with the exception of brief appearances by Scooterbabe bandmates Anna Staddon (vocals on “Treading”) and Zach Spires (drums on “Fir” and “Trail”). Introspective and quietly brooding, the songs are grounded by gentle, twangy, acoustic plucking. Subtle echoes, compounded with the inclusion of found sound samples such as the rainfall on “Nudge,” establish atmospheric chambers for intimate listening that feel direct and in-the-moment. Driven by a lyrical mixture of non sequiturs and confessional reflection, these tracks stand collectively as a melancholic rumination that circles among memory, reconciliation and atonement. [Jessica Smith]

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