Blog Topic: Great Job

Grub Notes: Athens Named Next Great Craft Beer Town

By Blake Aued | April 9, 2014 10:55am

Adam Beauchamp of Creature Comforts.

The food website First We Feast calls Athens the next great craft beer town.

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Culture Briefs: Hugh and Carol Nourse, EcoFocus Film Festival Earn Alec Little Environmental Awards

By Larry B. Dendy | March 27, 2014 2:33pm

Hugh and Carol Nourse, who have chronicled Georgia wildflowers and other plants in stunning photographs, and the EcoFocus Film Festival, which has raised environmental consciousness in Athens through scores of high quality films, are recipients of the 2014 Alec Little Environmental Award.

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Homedrone: Here's the First Taste of the New Circulatory System Album

By Gabe Vodicka | March 26, 2014 11:34am

In our feature on the Slingshot Festival last week, we told you about the upcoming album from Elephant 6 mainstay Circulatory System. Mosaics Within Mosaics, the group's third LP, will be out June 24 via Cloud, and now you can hear the first single from the double-album via Pitchfork. (There's the cover art above.)

More after the jump.

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Culture Briefs: Eleanor Davis Creates Google's Spring Equinox Doodle

By Jessica Smith | March 20, 2014 10:49am

In celebration of today's vernal equinox, Google's homepage features a charming animated Google Doodle by local illustrator Eleanor Davis. In the piece, a boldly-outlined, smiling figure uses his watering can to help flowers grow into the shape of Google's letters. Way to go, Eleanor!

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Grub Notes: Athens Voted Top Foodie City in Southeast

By Blake Aued | March 12, 2014 11:05am

Heirloom Cafe, one of Athens's many great restaurants.

Athens is the best foodie city for groups in the Southeast, according to an online poll ofConventionSouth magazine readers.

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Homedrone: Watch Drive-By Truckers' Jay Gonzalez Play His 'Acoustic Keytar'

By Gabe Vodicka | March 7, 2014 12:22pm

Photo Credit: Jason Thrasher

Local musician Jay Gonzalez is a multi-talented fella—this much we know from his 2012 album Mess of Happiness, a headstrong blend of '70s AM Gold and rainbow-hued psych-pop, not to mention his instrument-swapping work with the Drive-By Truckers.

But who knew he would take it this far? In the video after the jump, you can watch Gonzalez play "Dios te Bendiga," Mess' striking instrumental closer, on what he calls his "acoustic keytar": a Casio keyboard attached to an acoustic guitar. Dude pulls it off beautifully, of course.

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Homedrone: Here Are the 2014 Athens Business Rocks Winners

By Gabe Vodicka | March 3, 2014 1:50pm

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In the Loop: Sunshine Cycles Accepting Donations for Tobias Smith

By Blake Aued | February 27, 2014 12:08pm

Sunshine Cycles is accepting donations for the family of Tobias Smith, the cyclist who was hit by a car and killed Saturday on Winterville Road, and is setting up a scholarship fund in his name.

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Homedrone: Watch This Senate Candidate Cover Jimi Hendrix

By Blake Aued | February 24, 2014 11:14am

Derrick Grayson represents everything the tea party is all about: sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.

Well, the latter one, at least. Grayson—a longshot Republican U.S. Senate candidate nicknamed The Minister of Truth—moonlights in a Jimi Hendrix Experience cover band called The AXIS Experience

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Homedrone: Here's Video of a Guy Playing Drums on a Sled During the Icepocalypse

By Gabe Vodicka | February 14, 2014 12:36pm

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