Nov 29, 2024 · The Athens music scene suffered a huge blow over the Thanksgiving holiday as Will Cullen Hart of the legendary 1990s psychedelic pop band Olivia Tremor Control has died at age 53, according to his lifelong friend and collaborator Robert Schneider. Hart “passed away this morning of natural causes, suddenly, peacefully, and in a very happy mood around the release of the two new OTC songs ...

Jun 19, 2019 · RFK, the 42-year-old younger brother of assassinated President John F. Kennedy, served as U.S. Attorney General from 1961–1964 and was elected to the U.S. Senate to represent the state of New York in 1964.

Nov 6, 2024 · Independent candidate Kalki Yalamanchili defeated Western Circuit District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez in a landslide Tuesday with help from Athens Democrats. Yalamanchili and Gonzalez split the vote right down the middle in Clarke County, where 69% of voters cast their ballots for Kamala Harris. It appears that about 10,000 people voted for Harris, then against Gonzalez down-ballot. In heavily ...

Athens GA Live Music Presents: Beast Mode, Trepid, Killick Hines, The Ain’t Sisters and More

In addition to music and art, Athens is home to a variety of creative performance-based communities with regular monthly and seasonal events. There are opportunities for the curious to participate or entertainment seekers to simply watch.

Sep 16, 2024 · I don’t know that I’m ever going adjust to this new era of rock and roll that insists on getting to bed at a decent time. It’s happening everywhere and not just with legend-stacked bills like this that attract a decidedly older audience. So, I was laughing all the way to the Ameris Bank on Sept. 12 when my Flagpole compatriot Mike White and I were already in our seats as Cleveland, OH ...

Feb 19, 2024 · Elberton’s famous Georgia Guidestones were destroyed in 2022, and the investigation into who blew them up has gone nowhere. But a CNN reporter thinks he may have solved another mystery: Who built the guidestones in the first place? The man responsible for their construction in 1980 used the pseudonym Robert Christian or R.C. Christian. His real name, according to CNN’s Thomas Lake, was ...

Dec 27, 2024 · “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes mehappy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’ssomething stronger—something better, pushing right back.” —Albert Camus The first time I had COVID was in September 2023. To distract myself from the fiery throatburning, numbing fatigue and fear of ...

Jan 22, 2025 · Scroll down for a gallery full of the companions we received for this year’s pet issue! (Click to see each image in its full size.)...

Dec 26, 2024 · I first saw Mokah Johnson, the director of the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement (AADM), in action in 2016 when she organized a prayer vigil with Athens for Everyone to lament the recent deaths of Black men at the hands of the police and to mourn officers killed in Dallas around that time. She and the new police chief Scott Freeman warily approached one another because tensions were high ...