Blog Topic: Great Job

In the Loop: Need Legal Advice? Two Free Clinics Are This Week

By Blake Aued | November 29, 2017 2:06pm

Superior Court Judge Regina Quick has organized a free legal clinic Saturday.

The Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement will host a "Know Your Rights" workshop at 5:30 p.m. today at the Athens-Clarke County Library to educate people on how to file complaints under the city's anti-discrimination ordinance.

Speakers will include lawyers Nancee Tomilson on civil rights and John Beasly on workplace discrimination, and ACC Attorney Bill Berryman on the "bar admittance" ordinance, which bans bars from denying entry based on factors like race, gender identity or sexual orientation.

Saturday, newly sworn-in Superior Court Judge Regina Quick will host the first of several "Access to Justice Pop-Up Clinics" from 9–11 a.m. at the Rocksprings Community Center.

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Culture Briefs: Photo Gallery: 2017 Wild Rumpus Parade

By Jason Thrasher | October 30, 2017 1:45pm

A little rain couldn't keep Timi Conley or his Wild Rumpus Parade and Spectacle down on Saturday. Check out photos from the parade below, courtesy of contributor Jason Thrasher:

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Culture Briefs: UGA Kicker Rodrigo Blankenship Gets His Own Hype Video Ahead of Florida Game

By Gabe Vodicka | October 27, 2017 12:57pm

Photo Credit: Philip Williams / UGA Athletics

Of all the bright spots on this year's 7-0 Georgia Bulldogs football team, none has been more meme-worthy than Rodrigo "Godrigo" Blankenship, the bespectacled redshirt sophomore kicker from Marietta whose unkempt-Clark-Kent appearance and swaggy demeanor have made him a fast fan favorite.

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Culture Briefs: Classic City Rollergirls Close Out the Season With an Inspiring Road Victory

By David Eduardo | August 23, 2017 10:21am

Those in charge couldn’t agree on a single tint, style or wattage of lightbulb, so the overhead illumination in Exhibit Hall C at the Chattanooga Convention Center is scattershot and mildly psychedelic. The beer selection at the concession stand is less interesting.

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Grub Notes: Soul-Food Restaurant Peaches Is Back

By Hillary Brown | August 9, 2017 10:37am

Photo Credit: Peaches/Facebook

If you arrived in Athens after 2012, you probably don't know what I'm talking about, but once upon a time there was a wonderful Southern restaurant called Peaches, on the spot where Saucehouse built its palace of barbecue.

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Culture Briefs: Photos: ACC Library Rewards Summer Readers

By Blake Aued and Richard Hamm | July 31, 2017 1:25pm

Photo Credit: Richard Hamm

Daisy Gerow, 9, celebrates winning a stack of books during a Willy Wonka-themed end-of-the-summer party at the Athens-Clarke County Library on Wednesday, July 26.

Hundreds of Athens-area children received a free book this month, thanks to a $3,000 grant from Zombie Donuts & Coffee via the First Book UGA program.

The Athens-Clarke County Library's Summer Reading program invites children from birth to age 11 to attend special events and fill out reading logs to win prizes. Children who read at least 50 books or log at least 25 hours of reading can choose a book as a prize.

"Super readers"—those who read at least 100 books or 50 hours—also received a golden ticket to a Willy Wonka-themed party July 26. Flagpole contributing photographer Richard Hamm was there.

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In the Loop: Photo Gallery: Independence Day in Athens

By Blake Aued and Richard Hamm | July 5, 2017 4:33pm

Photo Credit: Richard Hamm

In spite of a storm that leveled dozens of trees and left thousands without power on Saturday, the Star-Spangled Classic went on. Entertainment included a fireworks show downtown, and Flagpole contributing photographer Richard Hamm was there:

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Homedrone: Check Out This Year's Flagpole Athens Music Award

By Gabe Vodicka | June 21, 2017 12:13pm

If you pick up a copy of this week's print Flagpole—and you really should!—you'll get a first glimpse at this year's Flagpole Athens Music Award, which stands proud and tall on the new issue's cover, surrounded by a bunch of its action-figure friends.

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Homedrone: Twenty Athens Bands Contribute Songs to Anti-Trump Compilation

By Gabe Vodicka | June 16, 2017 1:28pm

Artwork by Graham Shirley.

In February, not long after President Trump was inaugurated, two area recording studios—engineer Mike Albanese's Espresso Machine in Athens and Jay Rodgers' Full Moon in Watkinsville—invited 20 local groups over for a marathon weekend-long recording session, during which the bands laid down new songs inspired by the election and its aftermath.

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In the Loop: ACC Is Making Crosswalks Safer All Over Athens

By Blake Aued | April 18, 2017 2:47pm

Photo Credit: Austin Steele

Workers install a pedestrian refuge island on Prince Avenue at Piedmont College Tuesday morning.

Athens-Clarke County workers are installing two pedestrian refuge islands on Prince Avenue this week, and similar improvements will be coming to other parts of the city within the next couple of months.

The Transportation and Public Works Department is installing the islands at mid-block crosswalks at Pope Street and Piedmont College. They give pedestrians a place to pause safely after crossing two lanes of traffic before crossing the other two.

"They're small, but they do provide some protection for the pedestrian," TPW Traffic Engineer Steve Decker said.

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