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THE COMMUNITY ISSUE
DECEMBER 2012 | A PUBLICATION OF THE RED & BLACK
[ A M P E R S A N D ]
OUR GIFT GUIDE | MUSIC WITH A MESSAGE | HISTORIC STREETS
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C O N T E N T S
December
Mapping it Out
8 Breakout Bloggers
Team Sports
12 Arts Assembly
15 Food: Perfect Potlucks
Music: Old Bands, New Tracks
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28
Our Gift Guide
Music: Music with a Message
Fashion: Winter Wonderlands
Historic Streets
COVER SHOT
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2012 &ERSAND MAGAZINE
WHO: (from left to right) Meredith Thornhill of the Athens Fashion Collective, Aisha Yaqoob of the Muslim Students Association and Connor Reed of men’s club lacrosse
PAGES 12, 25 and 11: We wanted our cover to feature a group as diverse as Athens to represent just some of our distinct campus communities.
LET IT SNOW: An art student setting up a show loaned us some Styrofoam for a makeshift white winter in the Lamar Dodd atrium.
COVER PHOTO SHOOT BY MAURA FRIEDMAN
ON THE COVER
25 December Do-Gooders
IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN ATHENS NEIGHBORHOODS
HISTORIC STREETSPAGE 28
PHOTO BY FORREST AGUAR
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EXECUTIVE EDITORMAURA FRIEDMAN
MANAGING EDITORDARCY LENZ
DESIGN EDITORLOGAN PORTER
PHOTO EDITORLYRIC LEWIN
FASHION EDITORMARGARET HARNEY
RECRUITMENT EDITORJESSIE MOONEY
FOOD EDITORGINA YU
DESIGNERS
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
PHOTOGRAPHERSFORREST AGUARSHANDA CROWEKAITLYN FRIZZELL
ERSTA FERRYANTO EMILY SCHOONESAMUEL SUTLIVE
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COPY EDITORMOLLY BERG
PUBLISHERHARRY MONTEVIDEO
EDITORIAL ADVISERED MORALES
BUSINESS MANAGERERIN BEASLEY
ADVERTISINGADVERTISING DIRECTOR
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STUDENT AD MANAGERDANA COX
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COPYRIGHT 2012: NO PORTION OF THIS MAGAZINE MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE PUBLISHER. THE RED & BLACK RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REFUSE ADVERTISING FOR ANY REASON. THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED BY WRITERS DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE OPINION OF THE RED & BLACK OR THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA.
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EDITORIAL ASSISTANTLAURA HALLETT
ACCOUNT MANAGERWILL WHITE
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JAKE GREENSARAH LAWRENCE
KARLA SCHOTTKC SMITH
ANDY BARTONRYAN CHERRY
GRACE DONNELLYLORI KEONG BRITTINI RAY
ANNE RUTLEDGEGINA YU
HANNA YU
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For many, leaving hometowns and home cooking for campus was jolting. We were sans family, childhood friends and safety nets all at once. Although at first I focused on creating big memories, I’ve found quiet moments spent with others in Athens have proved the most meaningful: Sunday brunches, friends swapping stories sitting on the floor, night swimming. No matter the holidays you do or don’t observe, December is a month to reflect on the people with whom we share these moments. That’s why Ampersand wanted to give a nod to community in this issue.
In your time here (no matter how long or short) you’ve hopefully found where and how you fit into the Classic City. For you all, this month we’ve brought you ways to link your groups even closer with recipes to share (pg. 15) and our local suggestions for granting wish-lists (pg. 7).
Maybe you’re still searching for community. Setting down an anchor in a sea of so many isn’t easy, but we’ve highlighted some niches. Whether you’re an athlete looking for the true meaning of a team (pg. 11), an artist searching for creative collaboration (pg. 12) or just want to reach out by giving back (pg. 25), there’s a place for you here.
I have a few communities in Athens– my colleagues at my Grady College job, my environmentally minded peers from the Sierra Student Coalition, the characters in my downtown neighborhood (Read about them on pg. 28). And then there’s this magazine.
Ampersand is a special community not just for the people involved, but for our purpose as well. Our community is here to tell the stories within yours. Who are you and where do you belong? Connect with us at Facebook.com/ampersand.uga or @ampersand_uga. Reach out and tell us because we want to hear.
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Salted Caramel Sauce:3/4 cup packed light brown sugar3 tablespoons bourbon1 1/2 tablespoon unsalted butter6 tablespoons half-and-half1 teaspoon –vanilla extract1/8 teaspoon salt
1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Arrange bread in a single layer on a baking sheet. 2 Bake at 350° for 8 minutes or until lightly toasted. 3 Combine the rest of the bread pudding ingredients in a large bowl; stir with a whisk. 4 Add toasted bread cubes. 5 Let it sit 20 minutes, occasion-ally pressing on bread to soak up.
To prepare sauce, combine brown sugar, bourbon, and butter in a small saucepan over medium-high heat; bring to a boil. 2 Simmer 2 minutes on medium heat or until sugar dissolves, stirring frequently. 3 Stir in 5 table-spoons half-and-half; simmer 10 minutes or until reduced to about 1 cup. 4 Remove pan from heat. 5 Stir in remaining 1 tablespoon half-and-half, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and 1/8 teaspoon salt. Keep warm.
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THE BEST SONGS YOU’VE NEVER HEARD FROM ATHENS BANDS YOU ALREADY KNOW
”Three Weeks”
Perpetual Groove displays is unforgettably rich ambient sound in “Three Weeks”. The guitar and keyboard parts are so memorable and melodic that it is hard not to continue listening for hours. Interest-ingly, the band relies on im-provisation for their jazzy sound. Originally from Savan-nah, Georgia, the band has since relocated to Athens.
52 Girls
The B-52s show their true colors in this vintage-rock ballad. Catchy guitar and intricate drums, matched with the trio of voices – Cindy Wilson, Kate Pierson and Fred Schneider – make this an infectious tune. Although they left the Athens scene in 1979 after signing to Reprise Records, according to their website, the band “formed on an October night in 1976 following drinks at an Athens, Ga. Chinese restaurant.
“Wraith pinned to the mist of other games”This song from the band’s album “Sunlandic Twins” starts with a dynamic baseline that keeps the song working rhythmically throughout and doubling the vocals gives a full sound. The upbeat melody makes this a great song for long drives. of Montreal have signed with different labels over the years but are most memorable for their appearances at the 40 Watt.
“Bumper Car”
Modern Skirts are another Athens-based band that has found success in the music in-dustry. Bumper Car shows the band’s tasteful use of harmony and rhythmic electric-rock sound. The band has toured the country as well as had a European tour in which they opened for R.E.M.
”Sebastian”
This tune off of the band’s debut album with Vagrant Records, “Body Faucet,” has an intriguing percussive quality – the drums and bass line—that just seem to jump off the speakers. The keyboard the creative vocal melody of Graham Ulicny, lead singer and guitarist, soothes. The ambience of the sound make this song stand out.
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A University graduate student merges music and mental health
Individuals suffering from mental illness and those who wish to offer support often struggle to communicate with one other, but one man is making it a little bit easier to talk about mental health in Athens.
Luke Johnson will be the first to tell you he’s not shy. Johnson, who took time off from teaching at the University to finish writing
his doctoral thesis, apologized for talking too much as he downed a cup of coffee.
What this graduate student in philosophy lightheartedly apologized for, though, is exactly what has made Emergent Heart a reality.
Johnson had been developing an idea for a recording project involving a rotating cast of musicians since 2004. The only issue was finding creatively compatible musicians.
He met a strikingly like-minded musician, Samuel Kim, at a 2005 Broken Social Scene concert in Washington D.C. “I struck up a conversation with this random guy. And in that short interaction, that ten minute interaction, we sort of got the vibe that…if events ever conspired that we were ever close to one another, we would actually probably be pretty good friends,” said Johnson.
Johnson and Kim’s friendship flourished with distance. When Johnson left Virginia for a graduate program and Kim moved to California to work at a church, the two encouraged each other’s musical ventures from afar for years. Johnson finally approached Kim in 2008 with the idea for Emergent Heart.
“The new caveat to this idea was that one of the ways that we would incentivize people to be a part of this project and to take a chance on this was [to]
attach it to a philanthropy,” said Johnson. Events that had transpired in Johnson’s personal life made the decision to attach the project to Nuci’s Space a no-brainer. The Athens organization is dedicated to providing mental health services to local musicians.
Others followed Johnson’s lead, and after developing a handful of songs and sending tracks back and forth between states, Emergent Heart recorded and released their debut EP, “One.”
The four songs, which Emergent Heart has made available for download off its website in exchange for a donation to Nuci’s Space, feature over ten individual musicians from the Athens and D.C. areas, including Graham Ulicny and Ryan Engelberger of Reptar. And the project keeps growing.
A slew of local musicians have since approached Johnson and Emergent Heart has already recorded enough material for a proper full-length album.
Solo artist Ryan Monahan, singer/guitarist Ethan Payne of Easter Island, guitarist Nathan Goodman of Wild Nothing and countless others have offered their talents to raise money for musicians in their community suffering from mental illness—money that goes towards ensuring their fellow musicians can afford necessities like counseling and prescription refills.
“It’s hard to say how many lives do you save. I don’t know how you develop a metric for that. But I think the biggest thing is normalizing these
mental health struggles. I think what I learned in my own experience is that the most troubled people are really hard to identify,” said Johnson. “There’s a lot of people who suffer inside, and so what I hope to do through the Emergent Heart project [is] make a conversation, a local/national conversation, about mental health issues so that we can talk about it in the same way that we talk about other diseases.”
He’s done just that, and he continues to raise awareness by sponsoring a new student club at the University. Life Preservers at UGA, which began this semester, addresses for students the same issues that Emergent Heart does for musicians. Club member Stacie Austin said that individuals suffering from mental illness reach out, but their pleas for help often go unnoticed or unrecognized. “You find that there were signs,” Austin said.
With the continued development of Life Preservers at UGA and the release of Emergent Heart’s first full-length album, Johnson hopes to get more people talking about an issue that many communities find particularly tough to discuss. “It’s a combination of making the victims of these things feel more comfortable, but also inspiring the people around us to take better care of one another,” Johnson said.
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Luke Johnson (left) and Suny Lyons (right) at work in the Popheart Media Productions studio. Johnson unites musicians with mental health advocacy through his organization Emergent Heart.
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All over campus, all-nighter study sessions were turning into holiday daydreams. But instead of a Nutcracker and his Kingdom of Sweets, a
Redcoat drumliner played tour guide on our sartorial romp around the Classic City. Get a taste of this season’s red hot trends to brace for icy cold winter bluster, starting with Big City Bread and comfy sweaters before moving to Cali n’ Tito’s for a splash of ethnic prints. And with a finish at the glittering scene awaiting at the Tree Room, we fully expect visions of sugarplums dancing in your head.
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Top from left: On Braeden: Cream sweater, $28, Dynamite. On Ashley: White knitted toboggan hat, $16, navy and red sweater, $24, Dynamite. On Maria: Ice skater cardigan, $24, Dynamite. Honey Punch cream dress, $32, Pitaya. On Amanda: Jersey fringe scarf, $38, Fab’rik. Printed sweater, $28, Dynamite. On Cameron: Red scarf, $16, navy and red sweater, $28, Dynamite.
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Top from left: On Braeden: Cream sweater, $28, Dynamite. On Ashley: White knitted toboggan hat, $16, navy and red sweater, $24, Dynamite. On Maria: Ice skater cardigan, $24, Dynamite. Honey Punch cream dress, $32, Pitaya. On Amanda: Jersey fringe scarf, $38, Fab’rik. Printed sweater, $28, Dynamite. On Cameron: Red scarf, $16, navy and red sweater, $28, Dynamite.
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hether it’s the comforting warmth of your favorite sweater, familiar holiday tunes stuck in your head or
the glimmer of tinsel in storefronts, something has likely alerted you to the arrival of the holiday season in Athens.
Accompanying winter’s chill comes a heightened sense of comradery and generosity, and groups on campus aren’t foregoing the opportunity to spread goodwill to fellow students and Athenians alike while working across their communities.
Although the last major Islamic holiday of the year occurred in October., the Muslim Student Association will devote one December. day to renovating and rejuvenating the Sunday school building at the local Mosque. “Our major religious holidays bring about a similar atmosphere to Christmas or Hanukkah with people gathering to worship and eat together,” said Aisha Yaqoob, President of MSA. “Being involved with MSA allows Muslims from many backgrounds to celebrate with one another even in the absence of our families.” Yaqoob says their organization will also participate in events the Abraham Alliance has planned for the holiday season.
The Abraham Alliance is a newly formed student coalition aiming to foster a sense of community between Jews, Christians and Muslims on campus by promoting similarities between these groups that are often overlooked.
Religious and secular campus orga-nizations come together every De-cember to unite the University and its surrounding community. Many focus on giving a positive holiday experi-ence to underprivileged children.
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“Most people don’t tend to venture outside their religious bubble,” Kaytlin Butler, the president and founder of the organization, said. “Not because they don’t want to, but because opportunities don’t often present themselves.”
Every other week the Abraham Alliance hosts a wide range of activities including book clubs, speakers and community service opportunities.
“We want to open up a dialogue by educating people about holy texts and allowing for interreligious friendships to be formed so our generation can have a better understanding of one another when it’s our turn to inherit the problems on the global stage,” Butler said. “MSA, Hillel and Wesley have been instrumental in getting the group off the ground.”
The organization plans to celebrate the holiday season with a collective Christmas and Hanukkah party at the end of the year. The group will also organize a skate night fundraiser to benefit the Shop with a Bulldawg program, which connects University students with underprivileged children around Athens-Clarke county to encourage mentoring as well as a joyous holiday experience.
Although Shop with a Bulldawg only began in 2009, the program has undergone rapid growth and is swiftly becoming a holiday tradition in the Athens community. This year, the mentors and their young partners took to the stores on Dec. 1 to purchase gifts for the children and create lasting holiday memories.
Some organizations plan their holiday activities for even earlier in the season. Hillel hosted their fourth annual Uga’s Party on Nov. 28 at Memorial Hall. The event furnished a festive atmosphere filled with food, toys, crafts and Santa Claus to underprivileged children in the Athens area.
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provides a welcoming home away from home for the Jewish students at UGA, and because that sense of community is so important to us, we feel that it is imperative for us to reach out to others on and off campus.”
The wholesome effects of this mindset are felt by the children and volunteers alike. “Last year the little girl I took around to each station was so adorable.” Jacobs said fondly. “I still have the picture magnet of us making macaroni necklaces.”
Whether the organization is secular or religious, University communities are organizing to reach out to others all throughout this year’s holiday season.
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Characterized by extensive sidewalks and rustic open porches, Athens’ historic neighborhoods define the Classic City by reminders of its past. With block parties, barbeques and street competitions, the aged homes of each area preserve their colorful charm while welcoming new residents to embrace
abundant w opportunities to build community. Evelyn Reece, director of the Athens Welcome Center, believes the healthy mix of individuals living along these streets provides “an opportunity to learn how to be a good neighbor.” Each historic district instills its dwellers with a sense of local pride while teaching how to be in, and respect, their local sphere.
Rebecca Jones lives on Boulevard and views neighborhood dynamics as important.
Following the area’s population decline in the mid-20th century, homeowners and students of all types were attracted to Boulevard. “Artists were particularly attracted because they have an eye to see the beauty of the houses, regardless of the condition,” Reece said. “They started fixing houses up and there was just this resurgence.”
The community of artists that eventually helped bring the neighborhood back to life reflects the kindred atmosphere that presently flourishes. To linguistics sophomore, Rebecca Jones, it’s far more important to rehabilitate developed houses rather than focusing on building in new areas; this idea only added to her affection for Boulevard where she witnesses the principle put into practice.
“It’s a nice feeling to know your neighbors,” Jones said. “I like being able to sit on my porch and wave to people as they pass by walking dogs, running, doing whatever, whether I actually know them or not.”
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Pink parties, wig parties, bathtubs full of beer.To Paul Butchart, a former member of the band The Side Effects and current music
historian for the Athens Music History Walking Tours, this is what the notorious party street looked like in the 1980s. He recalls Men’s Club parties where the community’s male musicians and onlookers would get together to “smoke cigars and talk trash.”
Now, Barber still hosts a share of good-natured frivolity, and has further adapted a warm soul towards artists and musicians like singer, Andrew Kahrs. “People smile, wave, take their time and seem to be happy to live here,” Kahrs said. “Barber Street is like an artery for the heart of Athens.”
Backyard private shows, ep recordings, lawn movie nights... for musicians and artists of the Classic City, this community breathes an air of old and new, excitement and calm.
Barber St. has the musical energy of R.E.M., Pylon, the B-52s and many others literally ingrained into the neighborhood. “One night after this party [in 1981], a bunch of people walked onto the street and saw a wet cement sidewalk,” Butchart said. “You can still go there to the sidewalk and see that the people at the party wrote all the names of the bands that lived on that street.”
Barber St. has maintained its historical musical integrity over the years as home to numerous bands.
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Wedged between Normaltown and downtown, Pulaski Heights houses a diverse community-- from Georgia bulldawgs to businesses such as Pints and Paints and Shiraz Fine Wine and Gourmet. Tessa Harmon, a senior majoring in journalism, said she was drawn to the neighborhood by the “super original houses dripping with character.”
Often invited by neighbors for cups of coffee, glasses of wine and even private concerts, Maria Dondero, owner of Marmalade Pottery, feels that the community is “extremely friendly and real.”
“We have not met anyone we didn’t appreciate in the 3 years we have lived here,” she said.
Brendan Boyle, a senior in mass media arts, said he prefers Pulaski to “living in an anonymous apartment in a huge college residence somewhere on Riverbend or on the east side.” Boyle now resides in a house that one of his mother’s friends lived in during college as well as his sister two years before him.
“Even though it might not be the ‘safest’ of all neighborhoods I have never felt scared because everyone has everyone else’s back,” Harmon said. “We don’t let shit go down. I wouldn’t live anywhere else in Athens.”
Pulaski St. is home to businesses and residents alike. All appreciate the character of the area.
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