January 2009
17 posts
Congrats to Jared Bailey and AthFest
Around these parts, if you know anything about AthFest, you know it’s gotten off the ground lo these 11 years and counting thanks in no small part to AthFest director Jared Bailey.
Bailey just nabbed national recognition for his years of work and service to the event by way of ConventionSouth, which named him one of the Best Event Organizers in the country “for exhibiting outstanding...
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Meant to post this earlier but I’ve been in a car the last two days. Glad to be back in Athens, but feel really fortunate to have had the opportunity to meet some great people in D.C. at such a special time. Melissa Hanna back at the ABH did an aweseome, awesome job with this video, to boot in just a couple of hours and had it posted the next day. Thank you Melissa!
As for the people I...
WatchThis is the raw footage from my interview with Joya Green and Anita Rollins — Anita was excited to be interviewed and such a cutie, so I feel so bad she was left out of the final edit.
WatchThis is the raw footage from the video that was posted here. I wanted to include this because Nia Wronski, the other interviewee, was left out of the final edit.
This message just came in
The following letter was written by my wife about the trip. We will be departing from the Kmart Parking Lot on Gaines School Road around 12:30 am Sunday Night/Monday morning. If you have any questions, please contact me at one of the numbers below.
Pastor Mark A. Weaver from Ebenezer Baptist Church, East of Athens Ga. Has chartered a bus to travel to Washington, D.C.. We will have to stay in...
Women of inspiration
juliephillips:
It’s hard to find many politicians you can believe in, who aren’t posturing so much for the people they represent as they are because they love the sound of their own voice so much. But yesterday in Washington, D.C., I had the good fortune to volunteer for an organization called EMILY’s List, which supports and helps elect pro-choice, female democratic candidates. I got hooked up...
Doughnuts and abortion
This isn’t Athens-related specifically, but came in from Women’s Studies at UGA and I feel compelled to share:
Krispy Kreme announced that they are going to give away doughnuts on Inauguration Day in celebration of “Americans’ sense of pride and freedom of choice on Inauguration Day.” The American Life League responded thusly: “The unfortunate reality of a...
Mental Health Benefit celebrates 19th year
Got a note today from Eddie Whitlock, director of the Mental Health America of Northeast Georgia today, about the upcoming Mental Health Benefit, set for Jan. 25-31.
If you lived in Athens in the 1990s, you might remember the MHB was started by the amazing work of Hans-Peter Dietrich, who made it a banner event every year. In a press release, Eddie talks about Hans-Peter’s awesome...
A sad note for two Athens-connected musicians --...
Name: Arthur Crowe
Obituary: Arthur Lyons Crowe, Jr. 84, died on January 13, 2009. Crowe was a life-long resident of Cobb County. Service will be held 4:00 pm Sunday at Mayes Ward-Dobbins Funeral Home and Crematory in Marietta. Arthur Crowe, son of the late Arthur Lyons Crowe and Edith Hudgins Crowe, was born at Creatwood Farms in Smyrna, GA, on February 25, 1924. A veteran of WWII, Crowe...
So maybe now's a good time to go into the film...
An article in the Georgia Film, Music & Digital Entertainment quarterly ’zine (the one in my mailbox today is marked Fall 2008) says thanks in part to Georgia’s new 30% tax incentives, the state produced 10 new feature films, six TV shows and a TV pilot last year — creating more than 1,700 jobs. Overall, it says, 2008 likely will see a total of more than 300 film, television...
