Culture Briefs
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ACHF Walking Tour of Pulaski Heights Leads to New Mural by Art Rosenbaum
The home of David and Tracy Stroud was once again full of friends, family and visitors on a recent evening, but this time the focus wasn’t the modern architecture of their newly built and much admired house. People were there for a special unveiling of a new work by Art Rosenbaum.
Two years ago their house was in the framing stages when the Strouds decided to take an Athens Clarke Heritage Foundation walking tour of their new neighborhood. Led by neighbor David Bryant, the tour deeply inspired the couple. According to David Stroud, “We were really taken with the whole story of how everything came to pass here.”
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A Local Company Will Be on 'Shark Tank' Tonight
Umano co-founder Jonathan Torrey designs T-shirts with a group of Peruvian children.
A business started by two UGA graduates will be featured on the reality TV show "Shark Tank" tonight.
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Gaspar Noé's Controversial Love Screens at Ciné Through Thursday
After watching the repugnant monster man in I Stand Alone, the brutal rape scene inIrréversible and the psychedelic weirdness of Enter the Void, one might expect Gaspar Noé’s latest film to be another assault on the eyeballs. But though the movie has been marketed as a gimmicky 3D porno, Love offers some softcore tenderness amidst its many hardcore scenes.
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Updated With Statement: Bombs Away Books Has Closed
Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones
As quickly as it arrived, it has gone away: Bombs Away Books, the local anarchist book store, DIY music venue and community space has closed, according to the Athens Banner-Herald.
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Jerry Seinfeld Is Coming to Athens
Jerry Seinfeld is coming to the Classic Center. (Best Seinfeld voice) What’s up with that?
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Photo Gallery: Wild Rumpus Parade and Spectacle
The Wild Rumpus Parade and Spectacle took over downtown Athens on Halloween night. Below, a gallery of some of the action:
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Thought-Provoking Photographs by Five-Eight’s Sean Dunn at UNG
Visual artists have it tough in this town. Musicians get all the glory (not to mention the girls, drinks and swag). So some might be inclined to have doubts when a member of one of the most esteemed bands in Athens starts acting like he’s an artist, too. Oh, really?
Ditch the doubts, forgive him for being doubly talented and go see guitarist Sean Dunn’s show at the University of North Georgia’s Watkinsville campus before it closes on Thursday, Nov. 5. His photographs are pretty—and powerful.
When You Cut Into the Present (the future pours out), Dunn’s first solo show, is a group of large-scale photographs, most of which were taken by the artist while on the road with his band Five-Eight.
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New Theater Offerings Coming Up Fast
Photo Credit: Myles Haslam
Drew Mancini (above) and Jamie Ascher (below) portray two women bonding over an unwanted pregnancy in Dry Land.
Dry Land
Two teenage girls in a locker room grow close attempting to undo an unwanted pregnancy, trying to find a safe place in a world that seems small and dangerous to them at that moment in time. This play shows that bodies can be frightening, especially to young women lacking true ownership over their bodies and their sexuality. One of the girls says to the other about her sexual experience, “It was sexy, but also really ugly, because sex is ugly.”
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