Blog posts by Blake Aued, Editor
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UPDATED: Possibly Plagiarized Speech Inspires Georgia Tech Students to Even Greater Heights of Nerdiness
Blog: In the Loop
You have got to see Georgia Tech sophomore Nick Selby's welcome to the North Avenue trade school's 2013 freshman class (below the jump). It's like a battle speech from Braveheart re-enacted by Screech from "Saved by the Bell" and scored by Richard Strauss.
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Community Gardening Is About to Get Easier
Blog: In the Loop
The Athens-Clarke County Commission is poised to allow neighborhood residents to start their own community gardens and even sell some of the produce at local farmers' markets.
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Downtown Parking Ticket Amnesty
Blog: In the Loop
Got any unpaid parking tickets piling up in your glovebox? Next month might be the time to take care of them. Athens Downtown Development Authority Executive Director Pamela Thompson is proposing a ticket amnesty period Sept. 9 through Sept. 20.
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ABH: Armed Dog Terrorizes Athens
Blog: In the Loop
The world's most highly evolved dog is brandishing a gun at people in an Athens neighborhood, according to the Athens Banner-Herald.
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One Mama's Boy Cook Released from Hospital
Blog: In the Loop
One Mama's Boy employee is being released from Grady Memorial Hospital today after suffering second-degree burns on his arms in a Sunday kitchen fire, but another employee's burns are more severe, and he is still hospitalized.
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Movies Playing at the Tate Center this Fall
Blog: Culture Briefs
Dr. No plays Aug. 30 at the Tate Center.
As usual, the Tate Student Center Theater's fall movie lineup is a mix of classics like Nashville and recent hits like Iron Man 3.
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of Aug. 12
Blog: In the Loop
You picked a great time to repave Broad Street, GDOT.
Welcome to Athens Power Rankings. In the spirit of sports rating systems, through painstaking analysis, we rank the top movers and shakers in the Classic City each week. Who's hot? Who's not? Find out below.
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Two Burned in Fire at Mama's Boy
Blog: In the Loop
A fire at Mama's Boy Sunday burned two cooks badly enough that they were taken by helicopter to Grady Hospital in Atlanta.
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Rocket Salon Is Moving to Normaltown
Blog: In the Loop
Rocket Salon on Jackson Street downtown is closing up shop at the end of August and moving to Normaltown, owner Amber Hilton told Flagpole.
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Habitat ReStore Opening on Atlanta Highway
Blog: In the Loop
The new store will be at 4125 Atlanta Highway, a building between Commerce Boulevard and Athens Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram formerly occupied by AT&T and Lowe's. Starting Aug. 20 (Habitat's 25th anniversary), it will open Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
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UPDATED: New Watering Rules, Selig Plans and Downtown Parking Meters
Blog: In the Loop
As anyone who's gone outside or even looked out a window the past few months knows, the drought is over. It's safe to water your lawn again.
Mayor Nancy Denson officially lifted almost all outdoor watering restrictions July 25. The Athens-Clarke County Commission ratified the decision tonight, and it takes effect Thursday.
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UGA Is Not Partying That Hard
Blog: In the Loop
The University of Georgia finished just 11th in Princeton Review's rankings of the top party schools, down six spots from last year.
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GDOT Is Moving the Loop
Blog: In the Loop
Photo Credit: E.R. Snell
In what state Department of Transportation spokeswoman Teri Pope dubbed "Wild Work Zone Wednesday," workers will be moving the 10 Loop's intersection with Peter Street and Olympic Drive 700 feet to the south this week.
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UGA Wideout Chris Conley Plays Guitar, Loves John Mayer
Blog: Homedrone
Chris Conley. [credit: Blake Aued]
Flagpole is going to be experimenting with a little football coverage this fall. Gabe Vodicka and I went down to Butts-Mehre (huh huh) today to talk to Coach Mark Richt and a few of the players, among them Chris Conley, a junior wide receiver who's also writing an Athens Diet column for us later this month.
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Athens Congressman Calls Himself 'Anarchist'
Blog: In the Loop
U.S. Rep. Doug Collins (R-Gainesville) is fundraising off a recent New York Magazine article that accuses him and other tea party Republicans of intentionally sabotaging the federal government.
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Athens Slingshot Festival Plans to Expand
Blog: Culture Briefs
Eric Marty
In hopes of expanding after the inaugural festival last year, the Athens Slingshot festival is applying for a $15,000 state economic development grant.
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Apply for an AthFest Music and Art Grant
Blog: Culture Briefs
The application period for AthFest Educates mini-grants for music and arts starts Thursday, Aug. 1 and runs through Friday, Aug. 9.
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Goodbye, Pauldoe
Blog: In the Loop
And hello, Columbia Brookview.
The Athens Housing Authority and its partner, private developer Columbia Residential, started tearing down Jack R. Wells Homes off Hawthorne Avenue on Wednesday to make way for mixed-income apartments and townhouses.
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Downtown Traffic Is About to Get Worse
Blog: In the Loop
For the next six to eight weeks, workers will be repaving almost five miles of West Broad Street, Oconee Street, Oak Street and Lexington Road, aka U.S. Highway 78 and State Route 10.
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Democrat Michelle Nunn Launches Senate Bid
Blog: In the Loop
After better-known candidates like U.S. Rep. John Barrow (D-Athens Savannah Augusta) took a pass, Democrats may have finally found someone who has even an outside shot at taking Sen. Saxby Chambliss' seat.
Michelle Nunn, 46, is a political novice who, until yesterday, ran the nonprofit Points of Light, which was inspired by Republican President George H.W. Bush's call for community service. Her father is the legendary Democratic former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn. Judging by this morning's announcement, Michelle Nunn plans to run as a moderate like her daddy:
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In the Loop | August 22, 2013 8:43pm
UPDATED: Possibly Plagiarized Speech Inspires Georgia Tech Students to Even Greater Heights of Nerdiness
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In the Loop | August 22, 2013 8:32pm
Community Gardening Is About to Get Easier
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In the Loop | August 20, 2013 5:48pm
Downtown Parking Ticket Amnesty
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In the Loop | August 16, 2013 11:33am
ABH: Armed Dog Terrorizes Athens
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In the Loop | August 13, 2013 3:06pm
One Mama's Boy Cook Released from Hospital
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Culture Briefs | August 12, 2013 3:09pm
Movies Playing at the Tate Center this Fall
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In the Loop | August 12, 2013 11:02am
Athens Power Rankings for the Week of Aug. 12
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In the Loop | August 11, 2013 8:06pm
Two Burned in Fire at Mama's Boy
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In the Loop | August 8, 2013 1:03pm
Rocket Salon Is Moving to Normaltown
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In the Loop | August 8, 2013 12:02pm
Habitat ReStore Opening on Atlanta Highway
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In the Loop | August 6, 2013 9:00pm
UPDATED: New Watering Rules, Selig Plans and Downtown Parking Meters
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In the Loop | August 6, 2013 11:22am
UGA Is Not Partying That Hard
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In the Loop | August 5, 2013 2:28pm
GDOT Is Moving the Loop
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Homedrone | August 1, 2013 3:07pm
UGA Wideout Chris Conley Plays Guitar, Loves John Mayer
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In the Loop | July 30, 2013 4:29pm
Athens Congressman Calls Himself 'Anarchist'
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Culture Briefs | July 29, 2013 3:11pm
Athens Slingshot Festival Plans to Expand
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Culture Briefs | July 26, 2013 11:01am
Apply for an AthFest Music and Art Grant
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In the Loop | July 25, 2013 4:27pm
Goodbye, Pauldoe
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In the Loop | July 24, 2013 1:06pm
Downtown Traffic Is About to Get Worse
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In the Loop | July 23, 2013 11:07am
Democrat Michelle Nunn Launches Senate Bid