Blog Topic: Breaking News

In the Loop: Habitat ReStore Opening on Atlanta Highway

By Blake Aued | August 8, 2013 12:02pm

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.

Read More...
Homedrone: Wuxtry's Sidecar to Sell Discount Vinyl Starting This Weekend

By Gabe Vodicka | August 7, 2013 2:02pm

The storefront on the northwest corner of Clayton Street and College Avenue downtown was once home to Wuxtry Records, until the record store moved into the larger space next door in 1989. Most recently, the former location served as an eat-in area for Ike and Jane's nearby stand. Now, Wuxtry is again reclaiming the teensy space (the store housed its used-CD selection there for a brief stint), reopening it as a spot to buy bargain-priced used vinyl.

Read More...
In the Loop: UPDATED: New Watering Rules, Selig Plans and Downtown Parking Meters

By Blake Aued | August 6, 2013 9:00pm

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.

Read More...
Culture Briefs: Athens Slingshot Festival Plans to Expand

By Blake Aued | July 29, 2013 3:11pm

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.

Read More...
Grub Notes: Normaltown Cafe Reopens in Danielsville, Hugh Acheson Hooks Up with Live Nation

By Hillary Brown | July 29, 2013 4:57pm

Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood

Once upon a time, before Normaltown had cute hipster printing shops and doughnuts and there wasn't a big hole in the air where Allen's once was, there was a modest restaurant there called Normaltown Cafe. Then it operated on Tallassee for a while, in the space that's now Sr. Sol. Old Athens folks will appreciate that it is reopening, although this time in Danielsville, at 200 General Daniels Rd., near the Hardee's.

Read More...
Culture Briefs: Apply for an AthFest Music and Art Grant

By Blake Aued | July 26, 2013 11:01am

The application period for AthFest Educates mini-grants for music and arts starts Thursday, Aug. 1 and runs through Friday, Aug. 9.

Read More...
Grub Notes: Athens' New Mobile Eatery: Wingspan

By Hillary Brown | July 25, 2013 2:57pm

If you're still mourning the loss of Uncle Jerry's, the tasty little trailer that served biscuits and burgers on Chase Street, then you will be as excited as I was to hear that a new mobile eatery, Wingspan, has moved onto its spot, at Chase and Oneta, in the parking lot most famous for containing Twice the Ice.

Run by Alicia and Daniel May of Blazer's in Madison County, Wingspan isn't expecting business to boom for a while. Rather, the Mays hope to iron out the kinks before football season, like a lot of restaurant folks in this town. They rent the space and the certified commissary from the folks who own the lot (and ran Uncle Jerry's) and don't have plans to move around for now, but, as Alicia May pointed out, that is the advantage of a food truck: the ability to pick up and move elsewhere should business not be great.

Read More...
Homedrone: R.I.P. Birdhouse Collection

By Gabe Vodicka | July 25, 2013 2:21pm

It's better to burn out… Well, you know the rest. Word has come down from several members of local musicians' collective the Birdhouse Collection (read our recent feature story on the group) that the group has all but dissolved. The Birdhouse Bandcamp page features a message that reads, "The end. The music that is here will stay, new music will be elsewhere. This is not abandonment, it is progression."

But, according to some members of the collective, the dissolution is less amicable than that statement would seem to indicate.

Read More...
In the Loop: Goodbye, Pauldoe

By Blake Aued | July 25, 2013 4:27pm

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.

Read More...
Grub Notes: home.made Starts Lunch, Zoe's Kitchen Opens Aug. 1 and More

By Hillary Brown | July 25, 2013 10:26am

Photo Credit: Image via Facebook

home.made

As my nemesis (and buddy) Andre Gallant reported over on the Banner-Herald's site, Mimi Maumus's home.made catering is set to start serving lunch out of its Baxter Street space in mid-August. It's welcome news. Maumus has built a following through her excellent catering, which is southern-influenced but refined and always beautifully presented.

Read More...