Culture Briefs
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AthFest Educates Issues Winter 2015 Grants
athfesteducates.org
AthFest Educates, a nonprofit dedicated to enhancing music and arts education for young people in Athens-Clarke County, has awarded its winter 2015 grants.
Among the winners of these awards is Didi Dunphy of the Lyndon House Arts Center. The $3,050 grant will be used to purchase equipment needed to create a stop-motion animation and video program for fourth and fifth graders. The students will create characters, scenes and stories, as well as experiment with lighting techniques and camera angles to produce two-dimensional and three-dimensional media products.
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Georgia Running Backs, Ranked*
Photo Credit: John Kelley
*Post-1980.
1. Herschel Walker
2. Nick Chubb
3. Knowshon Moreno
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Film Athens Presents Screenwriting Classes in January
Do you long to be the next Wes Anderson? Do you feel like the third Coen brother? Aspiring directors, writers and producers in the Athens area will want to check out filmathens.net and get the lowdown on a series of courses the nonprofit is offering in the coming weeks.
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Celebrate New Year's Eve Inside a Giant Flaming Party Dome
The fiery Mad Max-ian style Thunderdome is ready for two men to enter and… Well, actually, it’s ready for 1,000 people to party under its flaming metal structure for New Year's Eve.
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Jittery Joe's Releases Kishi Bashi's 'Royal Daark' Blend
As I wandered lazily towards Hendershot’s last Saturday morning, I assumed I would be able to score a seat for the 10 a.m. performance by Kishi Bashi. As it turned out, I was lucky to be able to even squeeze through the door. Hundreds of young Athenians had turned out for the performance by the experimental musician. The show was a celebration of "Royal Daark," a new collaboration between Bashi and Jittery Joe’s. The free coffee samples added to the attraction of the event.
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The Belk Bowl (?) and Why Georgia's Going There, Explained
Well, it beats Shreveport.
Georgia fans, of course, are complaining about having to go to scenic Charlotte, NC, to play what they feel is an inferior team, No. 21 Louisville, in the Belk Bowl, which is a thing I, like many, only found out exists yesterday.
The Belk Bowl, founded in 2002, doesn't really have a prestigious pedigree, with past matchups featuring such national powerhouses as Boston College versus Navy and Pittsburg versus North Carolina. But it gained new prominence this year when the NCAA instituted a four-team playoff. Under the new system, there are six top-tier bowls and six second-tier bowls.
So how did Georgia end up in this Belk Bowl? Like everything else in college football, it's illogical, arbitrary, arcane and complicated to the point of being incomprehensible.
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Athens Arcana Arrives at ATHICA
Thankfully, the Knight of Cups landed on the table as Sarah Pattison did a tarot reading for me at the recent opening for "Athens Arcana: A Contemporary Tarot" at ATHICA. The knight and a glass of wine made it a little more palatable when death showed up a couple of cards later. “Oh, that can just mean the end of a life cycle or a relationship,” Pattison cooed reassuringly. She was one of three "mystics" at the event offering divine futures.
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Check Out Photos and Video from the Parade of Lights
The Downtown Parade of Lights last night featured more than 60 floats, among them Monsoon rockin' out on the Flagpole/40 Watt Club/AthFest Educates: Athens Music float. But the talk of the town was Victory Chapel's rappers and crucified Jesus. (The church is best known for its legendary "rotisserie Jesus" float a few years back.)
Here are more photos from Flagpole intern Randy Schafer:
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