Culture Briefs
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Avid Bookshop Hosts The Local Stranger and Bloodkin
Avid Bookshop’s main entrance next to Fire Hall No. 2 on Prince Avenue was blocked off with amps, guitars and music stands last Friday night. The backdoor, however, was wide open and beckoned visitors in with a warm glow, a table of food, smiling employees who appear to genuinely like their jobs, and the tentative sound of guitars in the background. A cozy, truly local experience was offered as one of the last remaining independent bookstores hosted a reading by writer James Calemine.
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Classic City Rollergirls Off-Season Update
Photo Credit: Bill Ruhsam/Flickr
It has been a busy off-season for the Classic City Rollergirls. The team has elected a new captain (Louis Strongarm) and once again endured attrition, losing important members of the 2014 squad to retirement (Amy T. Ville) and the Division I league in Atlanta (Human Missile Crisis and High Jinxx). Those are tough skates to fill.
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Beauty Everyday and Condor Chocolates Visit BMA at Home
In what seems like an ongoing quest to bring a little creativity and local color into the sometimes staid Five Points neighborhood, BMA at Home hosted yet another party on Thursday, Nov. 20. This time the guests of honor were other small, local businesses: Beauty Everyday and soon to open Condor Chocolates.
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Yawn. Athens Made Another Best-Of List
Another day, another list.
This time, it was Travel & Leisure that named Athens one of "America's Best College Towns." in an attempt to get poor saps like me to reblog it and reap the clickbaity benefits. Here's their totally generic description of our city (R.E.M. blah blah Bulldogs blah blah lotsa bars) that could have been written by anyone with 15 minutes and an Internet connection.
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'BFA Exit 1' Entertains and Even Unsettles
While strolling through the halls of the Lamar Dodd School of Art on the evening of Friday, Nov. 14 during the well-attended opening reception for the "BFA Exit 1" show, it occurred to me that the perfect date for this type of event really would be my therapist.
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Landscape Painter Philip Juras Lends his Home for Fundraiser
When asked by a visitor whether he was working to preserve, document or save the locations depicted in his landscapes, painter Philip Juras said he was “more concerned with depicting the experience of the place.” On Sunday, attendees of WUGA’s latest installment in the “Artists in Residence” series got to experience lots of these places, as well as the actual home of the artist.
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Opening in Athens: Dumb and Dumber To, Birdman and More
Birdman
Here's what's new on the big screen in Athens this week:
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Tonight in Athens: BFA Exit I Show at Lamar Dodd
“Paradise Sux” by Peter B. Samuels
The Lamar Dodd School of Art at UGA will host an opening reception for “BFA Exit 1” tonight from 6–8 p.m., celebrating the work of exiting undergraduate students in the areas of art education, painting and drawing, photography and printmaking. If you miss the reception, the show will continue to be up on the walls through Friday, Nov. 21, and the galleries are open every Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
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