March 2011
89 posts
2 tags
This is Sweet Southern Wind by the Holman Autry...
2 tags
2 tags
Magazine covers: R.E.M. →
TMZ - Danny McBride barhops in Athens, GA →
maggielaughs:
He was in town last night for a screening of “Your Highness” at UGA and apparently went barhopping and got mobbed by students. Welcome to Athens.
2 tags
3 tags
Update on officer shootings
Updated 3:29pm): Clarke County school leaders have placed all schools on lockdown. Authorities swarmed a neighborhood off Atlanta Highway around 1:30, sealing off the area of Sycamore Drive, about midway between Alps Road and the Middle Oconee River. Police and other law enforcement officers were searching house-by-house for Jamie Hood, 33, a black man who weighs about 175 pounds and is 5 feet, 9...
“It went like this:
The buildings tumbled in on themselves
Mothers clutching...”
– Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Yep.
One officer killed, another wounded in shooting... →
Yikes.
Something serious is going down on the police scanners right now.
“The hate mail was of a much higher caliber back before email. I honestly believe...”
– Good To Know | Slog (via thesunshinekate)
2 tags
TREEHOUSE Kid & Craft: being a tourist in your own... →
treehousekidandcraft:
your friends might be having a ball at disney world, but that doesn’t mean you have to sit around the house.
here’s an idea! go sight seeing in your own town or city! i love the idea of getting some disposable cameras and exploring the places that you don’t often go to. try out a new…
“In the cultural stew that is Athens, there has to be something that sticks to...”
– editorial page editor Jim Thompson, waxing poetic on a band that shall remain unnamed here.
The Future of Energy Special Report →
theatlantic:
After lying dormant for a year, energy is back in the news. Oil prices are rising and there are new questions about nuclear reactors in the wake of the massive earthquake in Japan. And as always, the structural issues in energy remain: we’re putting ever more CO2 into the air and we’re dependent on foreign sources for oil.
The good news: there is no shortage of ideas about how...
DC 101 found our Bar Madness to be copy-able →
And right now it’s looking like the 40 Watt might go down to Walker’s (way to round up the votes, Walker’s!); Melting Point is looking to go down to The Globe; Normal Bar to Max Canada and Manhattan to Allgood.
Y’all need to vote! Voting’s just through 5 p.m. today for Round 2.
Applications Being Accepted for AthFest Artist...
The application period for this year’s AthFest Artist Market is now open. Booths feature fine arts and crafts for sale. Exhibited work may include ceramics, drawings and watercolor, paintings, folk art, furniture, photography, glasswork, handmade musical instruments, jewelry, mixed media, prints, woodwork, or sculpture. No commercial “kit” products, factory-made items, or found objects...
1 tag
1 tag
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
“Jeff Grant is an ER technician and a paramedic. He lives in Waldoboro, Maine. He...”
– From “How Gas Prices Are Eroding the American Dream.” Read more at The Atlantic. (via theatlantic)
3 tags
2 tags
Funeral service arrangements set for Chimon Davis...
Funeral service arrangements for Chimon Davis aka FIGARO, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 12, at Gardenview Funeral Chapel, 605 Olympic Drive, Athens.
Viewing of body will start at 9 a.m. Saturday March 12. Burial will take place at Eastlawn Cemetary, 825 Winterville Road, Athens, and repass will take place at Browns Chapel Baptist Church, 1030 Brown Chapel Road, Bishop.
1 tag
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
WatchHere’s a video shot about a month or so after the Georgia Theatre fire from the talented Mr. Don Chambers.
Visit his musings about music and life and whatnot here.
