February 2020 Volume 17, Issue 2 17, Issue Volume 2020 February February 2020 Visit us at 85southonline.com page 1 AboutOut February &FREE All About Chocolates Dining in Newnan Oscar Facts Wadsworth Week page 2 Visit us at 85southonline.com February 2020 February 2020 Visit us at 85southonline.com page 3 page 4 Visit us at 85southonline.com February 2020 February can be a dreary ([email protected]) and I want to hear from you by month. It’s mid-winter, Feb. 20. Tell us about yourself and your work so we can Readership & with plenty of rain and include you in the March issue! perhaps even ice or snow, Distribution and the occasional warm Plenty of us might ask these days, “Why even make art? spell just to play with our Why does it even matter, in these troubled times?” Years Area emotions before another ago, I, too, would’ve felt that way. But the longer I live, cold front rushes in to the more I realize that making art is what human beings East Point crush our hopes of an do—especially in times of distress and danger. Making art Hapeville early spring. We should makes us human. It gives us a vocabulary beyond words be used to it by now, but for what we experience, for what we see, for what we want College Park a lot of us often find ourselves looking out the window at a to change. Union City gray, drizzly sky and swearing a blood oath on that sorry groundhog and his predictions. (By the way, I’m not buy- Without art of all kinds, people would have little to keep Fairburn ing his “early spring” forecast.) them going. And I’m not talking solely about million- Palmetto dollar works hanging in museums, either. So much of But when I think about February in general—outside of what we produce is art. From children’s doodles to graffiti Chattahoochee Hills the often-dismal weather—I on the side of a boxcar to the way we dress and decorate Tyrone find plenty of hope. It’s such ourselves, human beings make art in ways both miniscule Fayetteville a short month, and this leap and majuscule. year it’s got an extra day, but Peachtree City it’s also packed with holidays If you’re still on the doubting side, think about it this way: Newnan and events. Groundhog Day, Did you listen to music today? Did you read a newspaper the Super Bowl, Valentine’s or magazine? Yep, those are art. Did you read a novel, or a Sharpsburg Day, and Mardi Gras all poem, or a verse of sacred scripture? Also art. The movie Senoia happen in February, and give you saw last night? Every last frame of it is art, whether Moreland us reasons to smile. There’s it’s a box office smash or a little-known niche favorite. The the gradual, creeping return of longer days, the promise of clothes you wore today? Somebody with an artistic eye, Grantville more daylight. On top of all that, the entire month is filled a talent for design, had to think up those styles, whether Luthersville with Black History Month events, exhibits and workshops. they’re regrettable fads or designs that last throughout the When I consider all this, February offers a lot of hope in decades. Art is all around us. Art matters. And so do you. Hogansville the midst of all the dreariness and cold. Greenville As always, thank you for reading 85 South. If you’ve got Speaking of things that give hope and bring happiness: news for our March Art Issue, let us know by Feb. 20. We LaGrange Next month’s edition of 85 South will be our 3rd Annual look forward to hearing from you. Pine Mountain Art Issue. In my two years with this publication, the art Warm Springs issues are by far my favorites. We’re currently reworking and adding to our listings. That means we need to discover West Point some more of our wonderful local artists. If you’re an artist who lives and works in the stretch of Interstate 85 between Rachael S. Williams Facebook.com/85 South Magazine East Point and West Point, art columnist Jenny Enderlin [email protected] www.85southonline.com February Cover Design: Ron Agam 85 South on Social Media 85 South Magazine wants to hear from its readers. Make sure to follow us on social media so you don’t miss out on anything Born in 1958, an ever-expanding constellation of individual works. throughout the month. With the help of social media, we regularly and raised From lenticular, optical experiments to distilled, saturated ask readers questions about living in the 85 South community. We between Paris color-fields, Mr. Agam’s work has, canvas by canvas, ex- want your feedback and opinions . and Rehovot, plored the process of seeing, all the while keeping an eye on We want to hear from you —and see you! Post a photo on Israel, painter the prize of metaphysical meaning. Facebook or Instagram of yourself reading the current issue of 85 Ron Agam South, and you might just get featured in the next issue. Be sure to only took up “I began this work as a leap, without knowing where it will tag us in your picture! the paintbrush go,” Mr. Agam explains. “And I don’t think about it now; I later in life, fol- just paint.” This wellspring of intuition seems to have tapped lowing a long a deep reservoir of inspiration. As his body of work has com- and successful pounded, growing to hundreds of individual pieces, it has Facebook.com/85southmagazine career as a fine cast into relief a central theme of Mr. Agam’s life itself: That art photogra- the questions one conceives as a child, considering the very pher. Yet, the abundance of stars in the sky, may yet animate an enduring robustness and curiosity in the mature soul. 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OUTTAKES page 6 Visit us at 85southonline.com February 2020 Small Bites By Patrick Terrail Escape to Atlanta hash, the eggs Benedict, the chicken and waffles, the lemon West Georgia Technical College will soon offer a Once in a while, we like to go to Atlanta to visit LEGO ricotta pancakes and the lemon cookies. culinary program at the Callaway Conference Center Land and Lenox Mall (Jackie always can use new shoes). on Fort Drive. Upcoming culinary events include Jeffery Most importantly, while in Atlanta, we like to eat. This Super Bowl Facts Tucker with JWT Catering (Mar. 1); Patrick Motte with time, we had dinner at F&B, one of our favorite bistros, in More than 1.3 billion wings are expected to be Brickhouse Grille (Mar. 9); Jamie Keating with Jamie Buckhead. Frenchman Fabrice Vergez runs his restaurant in consumed during Super Bowl weekend, according to Keating Culinary (Mar. 16); Devon White with C’Sons, the National Chicken Council, a trade association for Mare Sol & Beacon Brewing (Mar. 23); Tulla White with companies that raise broiler chickens and make chicken Tulla White Cuisine & Catering (Mar. 20); and Debbie products. That breaks out to about four wings for every Barronton with Cakes by Debbie (Apr.