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Eloise & Pee wee Yes, it’s time for the annual Flagpole Pet Issue. Thanks to all who sent in pictures of your near and dear. See more about pets, starting on p. 10.

This Modern World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Pet Photo Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Pub Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Animal Rescue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Nature’s Pets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Bulletin Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Art Around Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Adopt Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Sudoku . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Crossword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Threats & Promises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Record Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Hey, Bonita! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Curb Your Appetite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

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ambulance-contractor National EMS and forcing callers to explain the emergency twice. The plan could be paid for by eliminating raises for assistant district attorneys and deferring police-car purchases, or a 120-day hiring freeze, Parker said.

The ACC Police Department currently has 320 employees, including 254 sworn officers. The county spends about 16% of its budget on police—$22 million this year.

As officers resign or retire—”We 76% of absentee voters preferred him over don’t intend to fire anyone, ever,” Parker Johnson. said—funding for their salaries would be What happened lately that would have reinvested in areas like housing, homeless changed people’s minds? Well, there were services, domestic violence and jobs protwo massive demonstrations protesting grams to address the root causes of crime. police violence against African Americans Instead of sending armed police to break in the 10 days preceding Election Day. up a fight at a party, a mediator would be Police tear-gassed peaceful protesters early dispatched to talk to kids about the conon the morning of June 1, angering many flict. This would also free up armed police residents who didn’t hesitate to let their elected officials know. And on June 6, thou- to respond to more dangerous situations, rather than force them to act in roles as sands of demonstrators at a family-friendly psychologists or social workers, for which event were unnerved by the even heavier they’re not trained. “This plan takes into law enforcement presence. Public opinion account how stressful it is to be a police offiabout race and police is shifting rapidly cer,” Parker said. “I view this as supporting in Athens and all over the country. If the them in their necessary election had been held a month from now, This plan acknowledges functions.”

Some constituresults might very well the need for a more ents—angered by have been different. police violence nationThis theory doesn’t compassionate response to wide and tear-gassing explain, however, community safety. at a recent local prohow ACC police Sgt. test—want to move John Q. Williams faster and cut half the police force immewas able to unseat five-term Sheriff Ira diately, but “taking a cautious approach Edwards. Williams’ small margin of victory is smarter,” Parker said. Crime has been (51%–49%) was consistent no matter when declining in Athens since the mid-1990s; or how people voted. But Edwards had his if that trend reverses, ACC could reverse own political problems that long predated course and hire more police.

George Floyd’s death. For example, a 2019 The budget is scheduled for a vote on county audit revealed staffing shortages June 25 and takes effect July 1. and low morale at the jail Edwards runs.

Unfortunately, Parker had to turn to He accepted campaign contributions from the police herself recently after at least bail bondsmen at a time when the cash-bail two people posted threats against her on system is widely unpopular locally and in social media. She said she was “thrilled” by the process of being dismantled. He also the way ACCPD responded, although she cooperated with Immigration and Customs is concerned that an officer in the ACC fire enforcement to hold undocumented immidepartment “liked” one of the threats. grants for deportation, only stopping after Adding to what’s been a rough few public pressure. weeks, Parker also tested positive for coroLast but not least, the Board of navirus recently. She briefly went to the Education’s District 2 will finally have some stability after going through three representatives in the past year and a half. Parent and activist Kirrena Gallagher defeated Mary P. Bagby 54%–46% in the county’s only contested school board race.

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hospital last week after experiencing symptoms, but they turned out to be a panic attack rather than COVID-19. Parker said she is planning to get tested again soon and, if she’s negative, end her self-quarantine.

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Chief: ACCPD Will Release Protest Video

By Blake Aued news@flagpole.com

The ACC Police Department will issue a report on its response to the recent demonstrations, Chief Cleveland Spruill said in an interview with Mayor Kelly Girtz.

“We’re going to do our best to [do] a fair and impartial investigation, and when we’re wrong we’re going to say we’re wrong,” Spruill said. “We’ll share that report with the public; we’ll share that report with the manager, and they’ll have a chance to lay eyes on it and decide whether they’re in agreement with us or not.”

Spruill also said he will release footage this week from officers’ body cameras related to the May 31 World Without Cops protest, where police tear-gassed demonstrators who violated a curfew order. “Folks should have an opportunity to see it and make a decision on what their position is,” he said.

Transparency is a priority, Spruill said, noting that he has quickly released bodycam videos when officers shot civilians. “I want to be as transparent as I possibly can and get information out so that people can see what we’re doing,” he said. The chief said he’s a big fan of body cameras because officers wearing them tend to use less force, and they make it easier to hold officers accountable.

In addition, Spruill discussed Gov. Brian Kemp’s visit to Athens during another protest June 6, where the law enforcement presence included the National Guard blocking access to the UGA campus, as well as state troopers and state park police. (Kemp tweeted a widely shared photo of himself with Spruill at ACCPD headquarters.) Spruill said he had “no idea” Kemp was coming until he received a call that the governor was on his way and wanted to meet with him.

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Two years ago, Athens voters cleaned house, sweeping out two incumbent commissioners, two school board members and even a judge, and in virtually every race picking the candidate perceived as more progressive.

Voters pumped the brakes on the revolution last week, re-electing three incumbent commissioners by wide margins and choosing for an open seat a candidate with a long history of involvement in local government.

Out of 11 contested local races in 2018, the candidate preferred by the progressive group Athens for Everyone won 10. This year, A4E went two for six.

In Commission District 4, incumbent Allison Wright won 67% of the vote to challenger Michael Stapor’s 33%. That might not be much of a surprise, considering Stapor is a 22-year-old UGA student.

More surprising was District 10 incumbent Mike Hamby’s 40-point margin over Knowa Johnson, co-founder of the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement and a wellknown figure in the community. Hamby had never faced a challenger in three previous elections, and now we know why.

District 6 Commissioner Jerry NeSmith would have won a third term had he not died in a fall at his home three days before the election. He received 57% of the vote to progressive activist Jesse Houle’s 43%. Nevertheless, Houle will take office in January anyway. According to ACC Attorney Judd Drake, most states follow the “American rule,” under which a special election would be held. But not Georgia.

Georgia follows the “English rule,” calling for NeSmith’s votes to be declared void.

A special election will be held anyway, though—on Nov. 3, to fill the last two months of NeSmith’s term.

Moving on, in District 8—a seat that opened up when Commissioner Andy Herod opted not to run again—longtime transportation and environmental activist Carol Myers avoided a runoff by winning 55% of the vote to Kamau Hull’s 31% and Andrea Farnham’s 14%. Farnham was the favorite of progressive organizations, with endorsements from A4E and the United Campus Workers of Georgia union.

But a closer look at those results reveals that the ground may be shifting. Three quarters of voters—about 15,000 people— mailed in their ballots rather than show up in person, thanks to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Most of those people had likely postmarked their ballots at least a week or more in advance.

When those absentee ballots were finally counted and reported 20 hours after polls closed on June 9, it became obvious that absentee voters had different opinions from those who showed up on Election Day. At 11:30 p.m., when the last of the in-person results were posted, six votes separated NeSmith and Houle. At 3 p.m. the next day, when absentee results were added, NeSmith’s margin grew to 460. Likewise, Myers won 42% of in-person voters; she added 13 points with absentees. Hamby won 60% of the vote on Election Day, but

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Parker and Denson Reimagine Police Call it “defunding” if you want to.

ACC Commissioner Mariah Parker calls it “reimagining.”

As cities across the country start to rethink the role of police in the wake of the massive protests over Georgie Floyd’s death, Parker and Commissioner Tim Denson recently released a plan to cut the number of Athens police officers in half over 10 years, replacing them with social workers, restorative justice mediators and mental health specialists. “This plan acknowledges the need for a more compassionate response to community safety,” Parker told Flagpole.

It starts in fiscal 2021 with eliminating five vacant police positions, hiring a social worker, adding a third mental health response team, raising public defenders’ salaries to bring them into line with prosecutors’, and following a police recommendation to bring all 911 dispatching in-house, rather than transferring medical calls to

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Davenport Letter Was ‘Anti-Black’ On May 6, 2020, Flagpole published a racist, anti-black letter written by AthensClarke County District 1 Commissioner Patrick Davenport with the following headline: “To My Fellow Black Folks: Stay at Home.” Simply publishing this letter is an act of anti-black racism, and writing this letter is worse. Davenport should immediately resign from the county commission and invest significant time studying anti-racist literature and, after considerable study, dedicate his energy towards dismantling racist systems of oppression. This person does not speak for black people and, obviously, cannot speak to black people. This anti-black rant should not have been published. Any black person writing this would be troubling enough, but a black elected official writing this is wholly unacceptable.

Environmental racism, unaffordable and unsafe housing, scant and unstable job opportunities, persistent poverty framed by the accrued disadvantages assigned to black life by slavery, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, inadequate health care solutions and the government’s failure to provide support and infrastructure to our communities have brought us to this moment and not, as Davenport asserts, “family reunions” and “barber shops.” Underlying social conditions, created by bad, racist, anti-black policies, have placed black people and their neighborhoods at risk.

The individual choices that have made black life the precarious trek that it is were made by commissioners, mayors, state representatives, governors, congresspeople, and presidents—not the black precariat.

Policymakers created the racist, anti-black environments that have produced the wealth inequality, the incarceration disparities, and the inadequate health care systems that are eating us whole.

Davenport asserts that black people are choosing to “murder” and “kill” each other

because they want to “hang out.” These racist, anti-black tropes are dangerous and must be rejected. Davenport should resign and open his seat so that an anti-racist advocate may take his place.

Davenport’s assertion that “COVID-19 doesn’t care if you are rich or poor, black or white…” is the product of ignorance. This statement, in context, is meant to imply that COVID-19, as a virus, does not discriminate and will, or could, equally affect all communities regardless of race or class.

This is a lie. Davenport’s lack of empathy aside, COVID-19, an actual virus, may not be racist, but America’s policies and policymakers sure are.

Davenport seems to believe that staying at home is a choice that black people, or their ignorant friends, simply refuse to make; this is a lie. Staying home is a privilege. White Americans are twice as likely as black Americans to have the option to work remotely. But let us look a bit deeper.

Nearly 80% of all private sector employment in America is in the service sector.

That is 129 million jobs and, of that, about 69% of those workers, who are disproportionately black, are low-wage workers. In fact, 58% do not have paid sick leave, and 61% have inadequate health insurance. In fact, black counties with higher unemployment actually had fewer coronavirus cases because black people are more likely to have jobs that increase exposure to COVID-19, including jobs deemed “essential.” For most black workers staying at home is not an option. We have kids; we need housing; and our tummies roar, too.

Davenport also seems to reference comorbidities, and, although underlying health conditions are serious risk factors, Davenport’s letter utilizes this serious issue as just another racist, anti-black trope.

Underlying health conditions, such as heart disease and diabetes, do not shoulder the primary blame. Modernhealthcare.com reports that doctors were less likely to

refer black patients for coronavirus testing when they visited clinics with COVID-19 symptoms, likely because of the tropes and myths that have contextualized Davenport’s understanding of black life.

So, let us review. Racism has made black people less likely to be insured (because of income and wealth inequality), more likely to have preexisting health conditions (because of environmental racism and food insecurity) and face racial bias that prevents black people from getting proper treatment (because of regular ol’ white southern racism). Davenport’s flippant tone and fullthroated promotion of these essentially racist, anti-black myths and tropes are dangerous. Moreover, this is the type of rhetoric that causes black people to disengage from a robust political life. Davenport’s rhetoric helps sustain the conditions that claim black lives. Davenport must go, and Flagpole should retract his letter and apologize for mistakenly publishing a racist, anti-black rant.

Travis A. Williams Athens Editor’s Note: Davenport responded that he stands by his comments.

Stop Polluting Madison County What does it take to be heard? I have been asking this question since last year, when Georgia Renewable Power began operations.

I began in a respectful manner, pleading with local officials to make it stop. The noise and the pollution was, and still is, unbearable. Being spoken down to, admonished and ignored was the response I received. As individuals, I like most of our county leadership. They seem to be nice folks. So why do my requests fall on deaf ears? I want to know my air and water are safe. I want to be able to go outside and enjoy peace and solitude. Why is that such an outrageous demand?

I can only assume it’s because of money.

With that in mind, money can’t buy what GRP, National Salvage and the response of our local leadership has taken from me. Air and water quality cannot be bought, but the assurance that I am not being poisoned

can. Trust has been broken, but it could be earned back. Talk is cheap, action proves the spirit.

The only reason that I have one ounce of hope is because of the action of Rep. Alan Powell. He came to one meeting, heard our concerns, and the very next day began writing a bill (HB 857) and bringing in Rep. Tom McCall and Sen. John Wilkinson to help us with our problem. This is the type of representation we should have, not the endless begging, pleading and protesting we have had to engage in to get attention.

We have received the opposite treatment from one of our own citizens, Sen. Frank Ginn. He brags about that fabulous water tank, yet it will never serve my home or offer fire protection as he says. It appears that he is not in the least bit concerned about our health and well-being, and adamantly defends a major source of pollution in our midst.

I publicly demand that the Madison County Board of Commissioners and Industrial Development Authority invest in the community that surrounds GRP. I demand regular well testing for the toxins they put into the ground with their runoff and accidents. I demand air testing for volatile organic compounds, particulate matter and all the other listed chemicals they emit.

This testing should be performed within a one-mile radius, the area that is suffering the most. I demand the BOC reverse the amendment to the noise ordinance and require GRP/Veolia to install silencers on all equipment that steals our sleep and wrecks our peaceful community during the day. I demand that National Salvage be forced to cease operations until they can control their fugitive dust.

In conclusion, I want to remind everyone that for the last year, my community has endured water, land, air and noise pollution. GRP, National Salvage and Veolia are not our friends; they are a nuisance that is destroying our county.

Biomass is not green energy. It is not even cost-effective energy. If we allow this to continue, our state will become the dumping ground for the nation. And Madison County will pay the ultimate price.

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In all the finger pointing following the May employer to liability for denying them 31 demonstration downtown, one of the their rights under Georgia’s open carry law. responsible parties is getting a pass. That’s The order to disperse has to be enforced the Georgia General Assembly. against everybody or nobody. And if, in When I read the memo that AthensChief Jones’ estimation, the threat level is Clarke County Police Chief Cleveland Spruill too high, the crowd too big, and compliance submitted to ACC Assistant Manager too spotty, out comes the tear gas, sponge Deborah Lonon, the sentence that jumped projectiles and other persuaders, aborting out at me was the one about the armed the demonstrators’ exercise of their First demonstrators asserting their rights under Amendment right to peacefully assemble.

Georgia’s open carry law when police conI have no idea whether any of this fronted them. The police couldn’t extract crossed Chief Spruill’s mind. But as a them from a potentially volatile situation as conscientious, dedicated public servant, long as they weren’t pointing their weapons fictional Chief Jones thought about all of it at anyone. In Georgia, that’s a felony that and realized fully that Georgia’s open carry can send you away for up to 20 years. But law backs him into an unenviable corner. He as long as you resist the impulse to do that, has to choose between waiting for armed you’re good. Pictures posted on Facebook rowdies to threaten or shoot somebody, showed that these guys were savvy enough on the one hand, and disbanding a largely to keep their weapons pointed at the peaceful crowd to get the gun slingers off ground. the scene, on the other.

Spruill’s account has been widely disI had a hard time following the Facebook puted, but no one disagrees that armed theorists’ arguments that Chief Spruill is demonstrators were in the crowd for some a willing agent of white supremacy, rather period that day. I’m not going to re-litigate than a dedicated public servant like Chief the performance of the police that night.

Jones. But if I convert Jones into a tool of Absolutely nothing qualifies me to do that. I white supremacy, or even a well-meaning wasn’t there, and even bumbler looking to if I had been, I still his failures, Georgia’s open carry law excuse wouldn’t be qualified, Georgia’s open carry is a twofer, a perverse not knowing what law, a headache for they knew or having good-guy Chief Jones, incentive for both good cops been trained to do becomes, for bad-guy and bad cops to gas people. what they do. But I Chief Jones, a conthink it’s worth calling venient pretext for attention to how Georgia’s open carry law shutting down a protest. So Georgia’s open raises the odds of police conduct like what’s carry law is a twofer, a perverse incentive outraged much of the community. for both good cops and bad cops to gas I’m going to leave Chief Spruill out of people. this and talk about how the imaginary Does it have to be this way in an open Chief Jones, whom I just made up, might carry state? No, it doesn’t. see things as he surveys a scene featuring For example, Alabama, which Georgians armed demonstrators. As a dedicated publike to disparage, prohibits possession lic servant, he understands his mission of firearms by civilians within 1,000 feet as protecting life and property while also of a public demonstration. But what’s a protecting the protestors in the exercise of no-brainer in Alabama is a bridge too far in their First Amendment right of peaceful Georgia. assembly. Although it’s possible for him to Even Mississippi, which, like Georgia, do all that in the presence of people armed generally bars local governments from regwith serious weaponry like assault rifles, he ulating firearms, makes an exception for thinks that his odds are dramatically better weapons at a “political rally, parade or offiif he can reduce the threat level by extractcial political meeting.” Several cities in the ing the gunslingers from the tinderbox, state avail themselves of that exemption. leaving everybody else in peace to march, In North Carolina, another open carry chant, sing and whatever other benign purstate, it’s a common-law offense to “go suits they’re moved to. armed to the terror of the public.” North Trouble is that Georgia’s open carry law Carolina courts have recognized that as leaves Chief Jones only two ways of dealing an offense as far back as the early 19th with armed demonstrators, both of which Century, and its Supreme Court upheld it as suck. One is to keep a wary eye on them recently as 1968. A Fort Bragg soldier found until they threaten or, God forbid, shoot out a few years ago how it works there. somebody, which does nothing to improve He walked through a shopping mall in full the tone of the proceedings by lowering dress uniform carrying his service weapon the threat level in a situation where emoto have his picture taken at a photo studio. tions are already running high. The other Alarmed shoppers called 911, the police is to invoke whatever emergency powers cleared the mall, and he was charged with are available to him, order the crowd to “going armed to the terror of the public,” a disperse and arrest those who refuse to misdemeanor in North Carolina. comply.

Meanwhile, Georgia’s romance with guns But if he goes that route, he has to be is a gift to the tear gas industry. One of very careful not to give even the appearthe world’s largest producers is Combined ance of singling out the gun enthusiasts for Systems, tucked away in Jamestown, PA, this treatment, exposing his government population 617. f

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Is Privacy Dead? Part 2 OUR DEVICES CONSTANTLY SHARE OUR DATA

By Samantha Wohlfeil This is the second in a three-part series examining the effects of the coronavirus on privacy. A version of this article first appeared in the Inlander, a weekly based in Spokane, WA.

“MixPanel is the kind of startup that’s omnipresent, yet mostly invisible to people who don’t work in tech; it’s used by everyone from Uber and Airbnb to BMW,” Jezebel reports. “Its basic concession is producing monetizable data out of literally any human behavior: By tracking and cataloguing people’s habits and desires, the theory goes, companies can figure out how to best encourage their users to open an app again and again.”

The implications of health-information sharing could go far beyond the apparent desire to target highly personalized ads.

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Currently, the United States lacks comprehensive legislation to protect the vast amounts of personal data created on personal devices every day, from the type of pictures you like to the number of steps you walk.

A patchwork of federal privacy protections outline rules for sharing information such as healthcare data, banking information, credit reports and information collected on children under 13. Plus, the Federal Trade Commission enforces consumer protection cases against companies using unfair or deceptive practices.

“But we don’t have what we think of as a comprehensive law, just a baseline law that would apply to personal data, who collects it and why they collect it,” says Stacey Gray, senior counsel with the Future of Privacy Forum, a nonpartisan think tank that provides information on commercial privacy issues for policymakers.

For example, while health care information collected by your doctor and other health care professionals is protected by HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), the law doesn’t apply to many technologies you may use to track your health.

“People are realizing the same or similar information can be collected from your Apple watch and other devices, which can see your health or mental state—that is not protected by HIPAA because it is not collected from a health care professional,” Gray says. “There are mobile apps that will let you track your pregnancy, your period, dieting.”

In 2019, advocacy group Privacy International published a report on period-tracker apps Mia Fem and Maya, showing that the apps were sharing information with Facebook and third parties. They shared things like whether users were keeping track of their menstruation or fertility, when they last had sex, whether they drank caffeine or alcohol and when they last masturbated. Even users without a Facebook account had their data shared with the tech giant, the report found.

Similarly, the Jezebel website reported in February that the therapy app Better Help, which is heavily advertised on Facebook and offers therapy sessions with licensed health care professionals, tells Facebook when users are in the app, effectively sharing when they’re in therapy sessions. What’s more, the app passed along users’ intake forms by assigning them a number instead of a name—a method that’s approved by HIPAA, Jezebel notes—giving a research and analytics firm called MixPanel intimate detail on a user’s self-reported sexuality, beliefs and mental health.

enough about you to direct relevant ads your way.

“Most of what we see is tracking, it’s profiling, mostly by persistent identifiers,” he says.

A persistent identifier is a unique number that can be tied directly to your device, such as a number tied to your sim card, and another known as the IMEI, or the International Mobile Equipment Identity.

You can think of that like a license plate for your phone, Engleman says.

“By itself, the license plate number is a pretty meaningless piece of information, but if you start recording every place you see it, you can learn a lot about the user’s activities and preferences,” he says. “That’s all made possible by linking that number to the user’s actions and activities. It’s the same way a cookie works.”

But unlike cookies, which similarly track your internet browsing but can be cleared from your browser history, there wasn’t an equivalent option to clear history for mobile phones until about 2013, he says.

Now, Google and Apple allow users to reset

for employees, with the promise of a discount on their insurance for using the tools. However, privacy advocates warn that insurance companies could eventually charge you more based on your health behaviors, and your employer could see health details like when you’re trying to get pregnant or whether you struggle with certain health conditions.

Is My Phone Listening to Me? Many people who use social media have had the experience of opening an app and seeing an ad for something they were just talking about with their friends, followed by the odd feeling that their phone has been listening to them..

“People are convinced their microphones are being used or pictures being taken, but by and large those things generally aren’t happening,” explains Serge Engelman, the chief technology officer for App Census, a company that tests apps to see what information they collect, how they collect it and who they share it with.

Engelman also directs the International Computer Science Institute research lab at University of California, Berkeley, and explains that, truly, advertisers know just

their advertising ID, but if that is still collected alongside a persistent identifier like the IMEI, companies can still track your behaviors across platforms.

Through App Census, Engelman and other researchers have used Android phones to test tens of thousands of apps.

What they found is that even after the changes meant to allow users to reset their temporary IDs, most apps were still sending the persistent identifiers with information they collected.

“The problem is, from the consumer standpoint, there’s no way of knowing when this is happening and when it’s not,” he says. “The average user is not writing their own version of Android to analyze what data is being sent.”

Companies typically defend this type of data collection—using advertising IDs or persistent identifiers—as they claim that the number “de-identifies” the information from a user’s name, and therefore protects their privacy.

“That’s utter bullshit,” Engelman says.

“They collect these explicitly so they can augment information about you over time.

They’re using it explicitly to identify you.”

You, the single 30-something woman who often buys shoes and cat litter. You, the 40-something married man who wants

a riding lawn mower. You, the 60-year-old retiree with an open line of credit at a midlevel retail store who collects Coca-Cola memorabilia.

Entire companies are devoted to tying your depersonalized data with identifying information that can be found elsewhere, which many people don’t realize, Engelman says.

“The problem is, most regulatory agencies, at least in this country, are complaint-based. They rely on consumer complaints,” Engelman says. “How can you open an investigation based on consumer complaints when consumers don’t even know what’s happening?”

Are Privacy Policies Enough?

So how could people be more protected?

The 2018 General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, in Europe requires that companies allow people to opt out of having their data shared, and that companies have a legal basis for collecting information.

But broad language in privacy policies often covers types of data sharing that users can’t fully comprehend, experts say.

“In the consumer area broadly there are like zero restrictions there,” says King, the privacy expert at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society. “I can track you across multiple platforms, I can track your data and sell it, as long as I tell you in the policy, which people don’t read, and are not written to be read.”

The majority of Americans (79 percent) say they’re concerned about how companies use their data, yet the same Pew Research Center data from late 2019 showed that only about one in five Americans usually read through the privacy policies that grant companies broad use of their data.

King says she’s often asked what individuals can do to protect their privacy, but there’s very little you can do as one person to protect yourself against the biggest threats.

“It’ll probably require industry-level solutions or legislated solutions, as opposed to flipping some knobs on your cell phone.

That’s the fundamental problem,” King says.

Plus, for users to opt-out, they need to know the companies that have their data, Engelman says.

“The dirty secret for that is the companies themselves don’t know who they’re sharing the data with,” Engelman says.

Advertisers collect information so dynamically, in the very moment that people are using apps, that many companies would likely have a hard time qualifying how that data was shared, he says.

It’s important to recognize the limitations that exist for consumers, and push for informed consent, he says.

That includes knowing the full context of how the data you choose to share may be passed on. If a consumer agrees to share their location with a weather app, they likely only expect that location to be used to pull up their local forecast. Any secondary use of that location information should require consent, and not just fall under an umbrella privacy policy that no one is actually going to read, he says.

“What I would like to see is that people have enough information to make informed decisions,” Engelman says. f This is part two of a three-part series.

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The Loyal Muse PETS INSPIRE PORTRAITS BY LOCAL ARTISTS

By Jessica Smith arts@flagpole.com With social distancing and limited contact to the outside world, it only makes sense for the role of a pet to elevate from faithful companion to beloved muse. Pet portraits may seem like a whimsical luxury to some, but the steady income they bring in can be crucial to artists’ careers, especially to those whose livelihoods have recently felt the impact of the pandemic through canceled exhibitions and markets, decreased online sales and closures of second jobs.

“During the COVID-19 pandemic, painting rapidly changed from something I did after work to a skill I leaned on to afford stability while indefinitely unemployed and also quarantined,” says Jessie Lamay, who has not been able to return to her apprenticeship at Pageboy Salon yet. “Without commissioned portraits, I would not have been able to afford rent, groceries or bills.”

Lamay first began creating portraits by using her own pets as models, then branching out to friends’ pets, and then friends of friends’ pets, and so on. Before beginning each piece, she prepares by asking about unique markings, favorite toys, weird quirks and other details that make the portraits feel distinct and personal.

Through her solid coloring and caricature style, Lamay excels in capturing the squishy wrinkles, Portrait by Will Eskridge underbite smiles and gentle humor of animals.

“The days spent painting in my apartment beside my own pets during COVID-19 have been tender,” she says.

“Making and sharing portraits provides me with a way to feel connected despite quarantine.”

The first step to commissioning artwork is simply to ask.

Variations in materials, size, detail, demand and time make it challenging for artists to publicly advertise rates, but most welcome the opportunity.

“If you have the means and are wanting to support artists affected by COVID-19, please consider commissioning

or donating to a black artist,” says Lamay. “Black people have been disproportionately affected by this pandemic.”

Painter Marisa Leilani Mustard has also been particularly busy lately with pet portraits and other various commissions not limited to murals, mailboxes and guitars. After the death of her dog, Rayquan, two years ago, she painted a portrait of him, which quickly caught the attention of friends. Like Lamay, she first collects photographs and anecdotes of her subjects to better understand the personalities.

“I really enjoy hearing stories about people’s animals,” says Mustard. “I love it when they want me to add fun things to the painting that mean something to them—a special bandana, sunglasses. Whatever it is, they’ve all got a great story that goes with it.”

It feels more than appropriate that one of the first new in-person gallery exhibitions to occur post-sheltering in place will pay homage to the furry quarantine pals who have received so much extra attention, and taken so many extra walks over the past few months. Donating a portion of sales to the Athens Area Humane Society, Will Eskridge’s

solo show at tiny ATH gallery, “Dogs of Athens,” is a collection of 25 canine companions.

Painted with his signature wide, gestural brushstrokes, the dogs appear against gold leaf backgrounds, a nod to traditional iconography.

“I know Athens is a dog-loving town, but I honestly wasn’t sure of the response when I first posted on social media asking for photos of everyone’s furkids. I am definitely going to have to break this up into different parts,” says Eskridge, who adds that he also plans to do a separate “Cats of Athens” series in the future.

After receiving an overwhelmingly large pool of online submissions, he gravitated towards high-quality photographs that he knew would Portrait by Jessie Lamay make strong references while painting. Several of the subjects are popular pups about town, such as Marilyn Estes’ Bucky (@buckyrocksathens on Instagram), and Amanda Burke and Randy Smyre’s Dottie (@dottie_waffles).

“Pet portraiture started for me about 20 years ago when I was fresh out of art school and my mom’s beloved cockapoo passed away unexpectedly,” says Eskridge. “I could see how upset she was, and I wanted to do something for her.

All I could think to do was make her art, and so I decided to paint a portrait of Bibb.”

Since then, Eskridge has made countless portraits over the years, finding joy in observing the bonds between animals and their human guardians. Though not the main focus of his career—which typically uses art as a platform for animal advocacy—he loves being able to offer portraits that serve as lasting tributes, whether celebratory or memorial, to best friends.

Tiny ATH gallery reopened earlier this month for Broderick Flanigan’s exhibition, “Threads of Connection,” and will observe similar safety precautions again during Eskridge’s opening reception on Friday, June 19 from 6–9 p.m. Guests are encouraged to bring masks, gloves and hand sanitizer, and Tiny ATH will use one-way entry and six-foot markers. Though only three-to-four visitors will be allowed in the gallery at one time, the exit leads out into a back porch area where there’s room to mingle at a distance.

“Dogs of Athens” will remain on view through June 28, and viewing appointments can be set up by emailing tinyath gallery@gmail.com. f

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A Dog’s Life NOT EVERYBODY CAN AFFORD A PET ANYMORE

By Pete McCommons pete@flagpole.com

vaccination up at the courthouse, where Doc Durham would set up shop on a Saturday, for the convenience of the public.

This was in nearby Greensboro, an even smaller town then, long before Richland Creek and the Oconee River lay beneath the lake.

Dogs hung around the house or, if they felt like it, roamed free. They occasionally got hit by cars, but they never got lost, because everybody knew whose they were.

That rabid dog Atticus shot out there in the street in Maycomb? Everybody knew its name was Tim Johnson.

Maybe Tim’s owner was too poor to think about paying Doc Durham for the vaccination.

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My beloved Uncle Lawton was smart, handsome and charming, but he never amounted to much. Whatever job he had he left when hunting season rolled around. He took to the fields and the woods, hunting quail and rabbits, with dogs as likeable and sorry as he.

One of them was a pointer named Pelham.

Once when we were young, my sisters and I spent a night with Unc and his beautiful, long-suffering wife, Sarah. They lived out on the Siloam Road in what had previously been a country store, with one enormous linoleum-floored room and a smaller area behind it, which contained their bedroom and the kitchen. It was there after supper that Unc scraped all the leftovers from everybody’s plates into Pelham’s bowl for his supper. We children stared as Pelham happily ingested potatoes, carrots, lettuce, meat scraps and bread crusts. Ever since that evening, a meal that combines dribs and drabs of several different leftovers has been known in our household as a “Pelham supper,” and I enjoy it with the same enthusiasm as the eponymous mutt.

At that time, although he did get occasional This is what Pelham aspired to be, but this pointer doesn’t subsist on table scraps. scraps from the table, our rat terrier, Tippy, was accustomed to a steady diet of canned Red Heart from the store, and all he had to do to earn it was I remember being at an Athens-Clarke County hang around.

Commission meeting one night when a man spoke during Tippy had a long and healthy life, and his only exposure the public comment period, objecting to the fine he to the veterinarian I recall was his annual 25-cent rabies received for keeping his dog on a chain in his unfenced

backyard. His crime boiled down to law and economics. He was required to keep his dog in his yard, but he couldn’t afford to build a fence to keep it in. What nobody said but was painfully clear: That man could not afford to own a dog.

In a town where 37% of our people are poor, there are a whole lot of folks who cannot afford to own a dog, though I’m sure our local vets do what they can to accommodate less-well-off clients.

Think about it. When folks can hardly afford to feed their families, even table scraps won’t sustain a dog, and Red Heart costs an awful lot more than what we used to pay. Dogs get sick, and vets can accomplish miraculous cures, but they do it with high-priced equipment, and those costs must be passed on. Dog ownership, like so many of life’s amenities we take for granted, has become a luxury. There’s even a considerable cost to adopting a dog from the animal shelter, and you’ve got to show proof of a fenced-in yard. Once a dog becomes a member of your family and you love it and care for it, you’re liable for what could become catastrophic expenses to keep it alive when illness or accident strike.

So, let’s add one more index to the calculus of poverty. Do you own a dog? Can you afford the comforting presence of a friend who loves you unconditionally, asking naught but food and shelter, happy to be with you no matter your station in life? You who are poor, who need more than anybody the loving companionship of a dog, must be denied even this simple pleasure.

All the more reason that in this period of renewed social conscience, we as a city must engage our resources in a War on Poverty that drills down to the tangled roots keeping so many of our people in financial subjection. At the minimum, we need to figure out how everybody can at least have access to a living wage, even the aspiration of owning a dog, instead of living like one. f

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Many adoptable animals are pulled by rescue groups such as Circle of Friends, Three Paws or Athens Canine Rescue, which are networks of foster homes. The Athens Area Humane Society has a private shelter, which will soon have a new home on Mitchell Bridge Road.

Sometimes, shelter staff may perceive that animals are frightened upon impound and give them a quiet space to see whether organizations cooperate to move as many or not they will relax. The shelter also has animals into adoptive homes as possible a network of 50 foster homes that accept and reduce the need to euthanize them. animals that have remained at the shelter Many animals are brought to the shelter for a long time or are not adapting well to as “owner surrenders,” often because of shelter life. financial or housing issues. Animal Services Unadoptable cats with behavior probofficers will impound animals they receive lems face a different fate. In the past, cats complaints about, mainly roaming or with little tolerance for close exposure to neglected dogs. Occasionally, neighbors will humans were almost immediately euthatrap cats that have homes, but the homenized. Linda Wistrom, an Athens animal owner doesn’t want the animals roaming welfare advocate who has partnered with on their property. The shelter serves as an the Campus Cat/Cat Zip Alliance, has develanimal lost-and-found, since owners will oped a new “barn cat” program that slowly phone the shelter first when missing an introduces these unsocialized but otherwise animal. Animal rescue healthy cats into a farm groups such as the setting, giving them a Humane Society are chance to become accliprohibited by law from mated and learn that accepting found anithey will be fed regumals for this reason. larly. Wistrom placed Animal Services 338 cats in more than Director Kristall Barber 100 barns in 2019, says the officers field keeping these cats off up to 2,000 calls per “death row” and giving year, with roaming them productive work. dogs as the most freBarn cat owners praise quent complaint. Once the cats for their zealanimals enter the shelous approach to their ter, they are evaluated jobs and appreciate for health or behavioral not having to use toxissues and are checked ins to control rodent for ID or microchips populations. to find out if they have Campus Cats/ homes. Cats are tested CZA has a different for FIV and leukemia, approach to reducing and dogs for heartanimal euthanasia: Don’t let the cuteness fool you—feral “barn cats” like this one are stone-cold killers. worms. They are then TNR, or trap-neuvaccinated. If an aniter-return. An ACC law mal is microchipped, the staff will call the of animals posted on Athenspets have been lobbied for by Campus Cats/CZA founder owner to let them know they have their cat adopted, rescued by an animal welfare Kelly Bettinger allows volunteers to trap or dog. If not, the shelter holds the animals group or reclaimed by their owners after stray cats who may have been abandoned or for five days in the event their owners call, people have seen them on Athenspets. The are completely feral, and have them spayed a process called “stray hold.” Most animals, organization’s volunteers take pictures, or neutered. They are then returned, with including those held as stray holds are then write stories and publicize the animals on their ears “tipped,” readily showing their photographed and their photos placed on athenspets.net. Volunteers also closely neutered status, to the same place where the athenspets.net website. Some are feamonitor the well-being of animals at the they were trapped. Campus Cats has many tured in the Adopt Me section of Flagpole. shelter. Thanks to many improvements at volunteers who help feed the “community Often animals, particularly dogs, will be the shelter over the last six months, Milot cats.” The group also trains individuals who reclaimed by their owners. says Athenspets will begin shifting its miswant to trap feral cats they are caring for, During this process, shelter staff will sion to focus on animals in the community and will lend out traps. learn about the animal’s nature. Friendly, that need help.

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housands of Athens dogs and cats relax in imperial luxury in their homes, where they can expect regular meals, warm places to sleep and lots of companionship from their humans. Other animals don’t have it so easy, and these otherwise domestic dogs and cats—many of which were abandoned by their owners and are unaccustomed to living in the wild—are homeless and hungry, living desperate and dangerous lives.

Nationally, the numbers are stunning.

The Humane Society of the U.S. estimates that there are 70 million homeless cats and dogs, yet only about 10% of those animals enter animal shelters where many are adopted by loving families. The remaining homeless animals face multiple dangers, such as starvation and injury from cars or other animals.

Animal issues first attracted the public’s attention during the social reform era of the late 19th Century, prompting Henry Bergh, a wealthy New Yorker, to found the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The organization initially focused its attention on horses, which were routinely beaten and abused, even in public, and coaxed lawmakers to pass laws prohibiting animal cruelty. Later, the American Humane Association was formed with a similar mission, but also took on child cruelty and child labor issues. Both organizations began pushing for anti-cruelty legislation, and over the years every state has passed felony anti-cruelty laws.

Over the next century, these national organizations gave rise to more than 3,500 animal shelters around the country, mostly formed by local governments seeking to manage the homeless animal population.

The shelters hire animal control officers who look for instances of neglect, such as tethered dogs (an illegal practice in many communities, including Athens) and unleashed animals roaming free.

Locally, Athens Animal Services, a department of Athens-Clarke County government, sits at the center of a complex network of local and nearby shelters, and many private, non-profit animal rescue

cute animals are placed in the respective adoption rooms, one for cats and the other for dogs, where they can be adopted by either residents, for a fee, or animal rescue groups, first-come, first-served. Adopters interested in meeting cats and dogs must first complete an adoption application and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, must then make an appointment to visit the animal.

Barber was recently hired by the county to take over the newly created Animal Services Department—previously it was a division of another department—and has initiated a series of improvements to the shelter, paid for with a significant increase in the budget. These changes reflect a heightened involvement from the county after numerous animal welfare experts complained in 2019 about unnecessary euthanasias and other issues.

Athenspets, a local animal welfare organization run by Lisa Milot, set up a website to publicize adoptable animals in 2001 and then became a 501c-3 in 2015. Thousands

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with a scarlet red triangle under his black head, dominated the feeder for two days on his way north; and the small downy woodpeckers brought their young to the feeder— their visits broadcast by the excited chatter from the youths eager for an outing.

The crows come every day; dropping into the woods at one end of the creek, they match its serpentine turns as they glide to their bathing spot. Later, they dry their wings, sitting on sun-lit branches.

We keep a close eye on the sassy Carolina wrens, due to their tendency to build nests with an admirable lack of regard for human convenience. The year they nested on the

Weather-wise, it was a lovely spring in the Athens area, enticing us to spend more time outside. I’ve heard many say they felt a deeper appreciation for nature this year— valuing the solace and distraction of nature more than ever.

Good weather compels me to go camping, but this spring we stayed close to home and enjoyed what our backyard offered.

Deer mosey through our yard most days, grazing their way through the neighborhood. We note the twins from last year and their mom, who looks like she’ll give birth again this June.

Chipmunks scurry, and the squirrels chatter, but if you have a feeder, birds are the most constant companions.

Bird feeders that foil squirrels are preferable. They preserve seed for the birds and provide entertainment, as the squirrels cannot resist repetitive futile attempts. I became more sympathetic to squirrels this spring, when we saw one transfer babies by mouth from one tree to another. A wad of brown fur curled in her mouth, the squirrel picked her way carefully down a slope right past us, to climb up to the hollow in the black gum tree—twice.

The more you sit outside, the more you see, assuming you are quiet and House finches chose the top of a dust-collection system to really watching. Identifying birds is one way to pay closer attention. If you set up housekeeping. want to separate the nuthatches from the chickadees, or learn the types of woodgarage door mechanism we didn’t close the peckers, (three kinds come to our feeder), a door all spring. They’ve also used the vine good guidebook or app is essential. wreath on our front door and a basket on This spring, as we enjoyed the goldmy gardening cabinet. finches and cardinals, our attention We didn’t find a wren nest this year, diverted unexpectedly to something much but outside my husband’s industrial shop, larger. On a late afternoon in March, just as a pair of house finches chose the top level our home stay began, I saw a black vulture, of a dust-collection system for their home. (incorrectly referred to as a buzzard), cirEggs appeared, then babies—with their cling lower and lower, until it dipped down persistent gaping mouths, their parents into our woods, tipped its massive wings darting in and out. The nest is empty now to dodge the trees and settled on a thick and, we hope they all made it. branch. Another came and then another, Even more dramatic were the pair of until there were 10. They sat awhile, and Killdeers in the gravel parking lot, who then tree-hopped through the woods, compensated for their poor real-estate like they were playing high stakes musichoices with over-the-top acting. Anyone cal chairs, with strategy for position and nearing the back of the parking lot was partner. greeted by a bird hopping along, seemingly Their arrival unnerved me. Coinciding injured, one wing dangling, hoping to lead with the COVID outbreak, I couldn’t supthe potentially dangerous predator in the press the feeling that they were ominous opposite direction from their nest. Trying harbingers. I reminded myself their behavto safeguard the nest’s survival, my husior was about mating—they weren’t (just) band waited through the decoy act to watch waiting for something/someone to die. the parent return to the nest—nestled One early morning, I saw one perched just between old train tracks running behind outside my bedroom window. Apparently, the shop. we slept within 15 feet of each other. After Paying attention to the tenacity and that, I watched them fly out each morning beauty of small things that are both frail and waited for their return in the evening. and tough expands my world even as it narBy the end of March, they were gone, and I rows life into a sharper focus. missed them.

What did you notice this spring? What My attention returned to the usual pursuits are helping you endure this time? characters at the feeder, with some new Send your observations, projects, and sugobservations: the rose-breasted grosbeak, gestions to editor@flagpole.com. f

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FREE! “Brush Lettering” is offered June 20 at 1 p.m. $25. hello@ kaartist.com, www.kaartist.com BREAD FOR LIFE (Athens, GA) Bread for Life is seeking students for a new session that begins July 6. Applicants must be unemployed, living in Clarke County and 18 years old or older. Must meet one or more barriers to employment: criminal or addiction history (one year clean and sober), victim of domestic violence, or receive SNAP benefits. Bread for Life provides an eight-week training program to help improve lives and begin careers in the hospitality industry. 706-357-4405, contact@ breadforlifeathens.org DEDICATED MINDFULNESS PRACTITIONERS (Online) Weekly Zoom meditations are offered every Saturday at 8 a.m. Email for details. jaseyjones@gmail.com DRAWING WITH HEATHER JOSHI (OCAF) Classes cover outlining, contouring, hatching, crosshatching and scumbling techniques.

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Auditions THE ODD COUPLE (Elberton Arts Center, 17 W. Church St., Elberton) The Elbert Theatre Foundation hosts auditions for The Odd Couple on July 20–12, 6–8 p.m. Looking to cast a mid-sized group of adult men and women ages 25–50. Be prepared to read excerpts from the script. Performances held Oct. 2–4 and Oct. 9–11. 706-283-1049

art around town AMICI (233 E. Clayton St.) Jennifer Wallens Terry is a medium, pet psychic and spiritual coach. Her abstract paintings focus on texture and color, while others feature celestial and symbolic imagery. Through June.

CITY OF WATKINSVILLE (Downtown Watkinsville) “Public Art Watkinsville: A Pop-Up Sculpture Exhibit” consists of sculptures placed in prominent locations around downtown. Artists include Benjamin Lock, William Massey, Stan Mullins, Robert Clements, Harold Rittenberry and Joni YounkinsHerzog. • “Artscape Oconee: The Monuments of Artland” features a total of 20 paintings on panels installed around town. Artists include Claire Clements, Peter Loose, Andy Cherewick, Lisa Freeman, Manda McKay and others.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART (90 Carlton St.) “Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection” features over 60 objects spanning over 30 years of the famous stained glass artist’s career. • “Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates Exhibition” is an annual exit show for the graduating master of fine arts students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. • “Rediscovering the Art of Victoria Hutson Huntley” contains approximately 30 lithographs and two paintings. Through June 21. • “Drama and Devotion in Baroque Rome” celebrates Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s influence. Through Aug. 23. • “Altered Landscapes: Photography in the Anthropocene” includes images that demonstrate humanity’s impact on the natural world. Through Sept. 27. • “Recognizing Artist Soldiers in the Permanent Collection” includes artists who served in conflicts from the Revolutionary War through World War II, as well as those who served in the 1950s. Though the museum is temporarily closed, many of the exhibitions, as well as the permanent collection, are currently available to view online at georgiamuseum.org. In celebration of International Museums Day, over 160 high-resolution works from the museum are available through Google Arts and Culture at artsandculture.google.com/partner/georgia-museum-of-art.

GLASSCUBE@INDIGO (500 College Ave.) “Supple Moments, Dark Corners” is a site-specific installation by Eli Saragoussi that is accompanied by a soundscape by Max Boyd called “Jungle Drone.” Saragoussi recently incorporated additional set pieces built for Ad•Verse festival.

SAVE YOUR STORY (ACC Library) (Online) A digital preservation series focuses on saving documents, photos (June 25), audio (July 9) and video (July 23). Classes are held at 6:30 p.m. www.athenslibrary.org/ athens/departments/heritage SPANISH CLASSES (Athens, GA) For adults, couples and children.

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Classes are held over Zoom. $15. www.kaartist.com GARDEN EARTH EXPLORERS (State Botanical Garden of Georgia) Families can choose one of six 90-minute programs and enjoy their own private garden adventure with the garden’s education staff. Box lunches available. Themes include sensory garden, really remarkable rainforest, eco health, stream ecology, Georgia discovery quest and treasure hunt. $50/three participaints, $10 per additional person. botgarden.uga.edu/garden-earth-explorers-summer-expeditions VIRTUAL SUMMER CAMPS (Treehouse Kid and Craft) Each camper will receive a bundle of supplies to keep, organized projects, play dough, home rules, art

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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 RECOVERY DHARMA (Recovery Dharma) This peer-led support group offers a Buddhist-inspired path to recovery from any addiction.

Meetings are currently held through Zoom at zoom.us/j/2465753412.

Thursdays, 7–8 p.m. FREE! Find “Recovery Dharma Athens GA” on Facebook W&A ENGINEERING LOCAL BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP (Krimson Kafe) Visit Krimson Kafe June 15–20 as part of W&A’s 20th anniversary Local Business Partnership. W&A will make a donation of up to $500 to NEGA’s food bank program, Food 2 Kids. www. waengineering.com/corporate-citizenship

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LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART (270 River Rd.) “Amiko Li: The Purpose of Disease” presents the Dodd MFA Fellow in photography’s explorations into acupuncture, palm reading, psychogenics, herbal supplements, antibiotics and the regeneration of limbs. • “KITCHEN” is a new animation by New York-based artist and former Athenian Michael Siporin Levine, inspired by his quarantine experience. • In “Mors Scena,” photographer Rachel Cox documents the viewing rooms and visitation spaces of funeral homes, drawing attention to how we mourn and memorialize the dead in America.

Exhibitions are available online at art.uga.edu.

LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER (293 Hoyt St.) The “45th Juried Exhibition” presents 199 works by 144 local artists. Through July. • Collections From Our Community presents “Hue and Carole Henry’s Banana Peels,” a photo series documenting a morning ritual in which Hue eats a banana and arranges the peel in a glass for Carole, who uses it as still-life material. • The Lyndon House is currently open to the public, with precautions in place. Daily installments of artwork and activities are also available on Instagram and Facebook, using the hashtags #45JuriedShowOnline and #ArtsCenterOnline.

OCONEE CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION (34 School St., Watkinsville) Juried by Chris Clamp, the 25th annual “SouthWorks” exhibition features a juried show of works in all media submitted from across the country. The 2020 Director’s Choice exhibit presents “Inside and Outside,” a solo show

by Tom Stanley of Rock Hill, SC. Both shows are available online at ocaf. com.

TINY ATH GALLERY (174 Cleveland Ave.) Will Eskridge’s solo show, “Dogs of Athens,” celebrates some of Athens’ finest canine companions through 25 paint and gold leaf paintings. Opening reception June 19, 6–9 p.m. Through June 28.

UGA OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY (1180 E. Broad St.) “The Earth Day (Art) Challenge” is a virtual exhibition of works commemorating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Visit sustainability.uga.edu/earthday-art-challenge-exhibit.

UGA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIES (300 S. Hull St.) Online exhibitions include “Steele Vintage Broadcast Microphone Collection,” “Foxfire on Display at UGA: 50 Years of Cultural Journalism Documenting Folk Life in the North Georgia Mountains, September–December 2016,” “Covered With Glory: Football at UGA, 1892–1917” and “Fighting Spirit: Wally Butts and UGA Football, 1939–1950.” Visit digilab.libs.uga.edu/scl/exhibits.

In response to Black Lives Matter, the Dodd Galleries are revisiting Michi Meko’s 2017 exhibition, “One Last Smile Before the Undertow,” a suite of works addressing black life in America post-Obama. See the full exhibition at art.uga.edu. and facilities including the Lyndon House Arts Center, Sandy Creek Nature Center, community centers and athletic parks are now open under regular hours with restricted use and limited public access.

Check online for specificiations. www.accgov.com/leisure ACRONYM (Athens, GA) ACRONYM is a new website compiling COVID19 aid for Athens-based live music venues and artists. Check the website for updated listings on funding and financial opportunities, mental health guides, organizational support, community resources and more. Visit acroynym.rocks ATHENS FARMERS MARKET (Bishop Park) The market is open with safety precautions in place.

Wear a mask, pre-order when possible, keep your family home and use cashless payments. Saturdays, 8 a.m.–12 p.m. www.athensfarmers market.net COMMUNITY COVID STORIES (ACC Library) The Athens Regional Library System is collecting COVID19 experiences from the community.

Submissions can be written journals, photos, videos, oral histories and saved social media posts.

Stories will be permanently archived through The Heritage Room. Fill out the form at athens library.org.

LIVE WIRE SUMMER EVENTS (Live Wire Athens) Wedding Industry Happy Hour, every Wednesday from 5–6 p.m. Darts, every Wednesday from 5–10 p.m. Fresh Garden Jam with live jamming, every Thursday from 5–10 p.m. Love Music Live Stream offers bands streamed from the main stage, every Friday 5-10 p.m. livewireathens.com/calendar MOVIES BY MOONLIGHT DRIVE-IN MOVIE (Sandy Creek Park) Kick off summer with a drive-in viewing of Hook on a large outdoor inflatable screen. Limit to 75 vehicles. One ticker per vehicle required. June 20, 9 p.m. 706-6133800, www.accgov.com/leisure SELF-GUIDED TOURS OF ATHENS (Athens, GA) The Athens Welcome Center is offering self-guided tour brochures of their popular walking or driving tours. Read about some of the most iconic Athens landmarks and locations. Options include an African-Amercian Driving Tour, Downtown Athens Tour, Athens Music History Tour and more. There are also narrated Athens Podtours

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Collective) is within a hair’s breadth (hare’s breadth?) of being able to move the long-running Rabbit Hole Studios from its location on Commerce Road to a new building on Winterville Road. The studio has hosted innumerable musical performances and happenings, cultivated a judgment-free place for creative expression, and offered classes and recording sessions, as well as provided rehearsal space.

In order to get compliant with certain health code regulations—the space is slated to feature a commercial kitchen and bar—there are a handful of specific upgrades the new property, located at 1001 Winterville Road, will need, such as a new septic system, grease trap and aerobic digester. To this end, a fundraiser has been launched, and Bradfield has set it up so that anything you donate will be converted into a gift card for Rabbit Hole services and events. So, it’s basically just buying early for you. The proposed closing date on the new property is June 26. Please consider donating what you Thomas Kim of Waltz can, as any amount will help.

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SLOW DANCING: The brand new four-song self-titled EP from post-punk hardcore rockers Waltz came out last week.

Significantly, the band excels at building tension without providing any relief. The most obvious instance where they build, then breathe, is the opening song “Cult Cut,” which grinds intermittently along a choppy guitar riff before exhaling into a full-fisted, sing-along chorus. The rest of the EP slowly descends into musical bleakness even when the lyrics are defiantly self-preservationist, such as the swooning scream-hymn “Joy Confusion.” From there, “Red Line” pummels the listener with the twin fists of a Jesus Lizardworthy bassline and a non-stop howling guitar. Ending with “Darby Meets 3,” which destroys its own Slint-isms via wave after wave of torrential guitar, the track swells and recedes through multiple passes of loud and quiet before taking a minute at the end to flood the listener with melody and, through this, a sense of semi-resolution. Kind of wishing a lyrics sheet had arrived with this, but I suppose that’s part of the adventure. So, check it out at waltzbrand.bandcamp. com, and carry the banner at facebook.com/WALTZbrando.

12 TRACK GARAGE: As threatened a couple of weeks ago, the full-length album from The Searchin’ Destroyers, The Misery Hang, is now out. Drawing from a deep well of pop and rock tradition, the band manages to sidestep simple categorization and appears dedicated to nothing so much as songcraft itself. That said, there are notable touchstones in the band’s heady mix of classic psych-pop and garage MIKE WHITE · DEADLYDESIGNS.COM

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rock, but they twist them into their own language. To wit, the hyper-melodic “You Never Believed Me” could easily be a rearranged mid-period Husker Du track; “We’re Goin’ In” punches out The Avengers at their own game, and the doowop surf of “Tomorrow Could Be A Sunny Day” could be The Muffs doing a tribute to The Eels. Again, though, I had to really dig to paint this picture, and only did so for your convenience. The Searchin’ Destroyers may stand on the shoulders of (relative) giants, but mostly they just stand on their own. Forget everything you know and plug in to thesearchindestroyers.bandcamp.com to choose your own adventure.

BIT O’ HONEY: While there are loose plans to release a new full

length album toward the end of summer, Little Gold has let one song slip out this month. The last time we heard any new music from the band, which even broke up for a period following its release, was 2014’s Spectral Sight. On the new song, “Rear House,” Little Gold delivers the Replacements/ Tom Petty/Springsteen flavors we’ve known and loved them for. The new album is titled Wake Up & Die Right, so hopefully that’ll come along before the season is out. For now, stream this at littlegold.bandcamp.com. f

record review Vincas: Phantasma (Learning Curve Records) Vincas—the Athens-based postpunk, deathrock band—released their third full-length album on May 29.

Phantasma, seemingly a nod to forerunners like The Birthday Party or These Immortal Souls, is unique in its bewilderments. The album’s title is nothing short of epitomizing the sounds pouring out of my speakers and creeping up my leg like animated black tar. The album’s tracks blend together into a book that one could find on Edgar Allen Poe’s bedside table, surrounded by the dim glow from leftover embers in a nearby fireplace while ravens perch by the window croaking. Beginning with “Until It Rains Red,” the interplay of baritone vocals and doom and gloom guitar riff, percussion and synthy beats creates a tension that slowly builds into mayhem and distortion. It’s the kind of anxiety felt during a walk-through of narrow halls bound by smoke and mirrors, where I’m dripping blood, and it’s not my blood, and I don’t know whose blood it is, and I don’t care because somehow, someway I’m having a demented ball and not wanting to find my way out. [Amber Perry]

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