Blog Topic: ICYMI

In the Loop: Reminder: Several Athens Polling Places Have Changed Locations

By Blake Aued | November 7, 2016 10:49pm

As you go to vote today (and you are voting, right?), be aware that several polling places in Athens have changed.

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In the Loop: Drive-By Truckers Urge Democratic Party Unity

By Blake Aued | July 27, 2016 12:50pm

Photo Credit: Screenshot via MSNBC

MSNBC’s Kate Snow interviewed Athens-based band the Drive-By Truckers Tuesday afternoon at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

Co-frontman Patterson Hood addressed party unity, saying that he’s now backing the party’s nominee, Hillary Clinton, after supporting Bernie Sanders initially.

“It’s what needs to happen. The stakes are too high right now to sit around and cry because our first choice didn’t get to go on the way. I’m definitely totally on board” with Hillary Clinton, Hood said.

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In the Loop: Athens Is Overrun With High, Naked UGA Bros

By Blake Aued | July 12, 2016 2:22pm

"We're going streaking to the poke stop!"

As we say in the journalism business, “two is a trend,” and so it’s officially a trend that UGA bros are getting hella faded and running around in public without any clothes on.

Actually, “turnt” might be the better word to describe the 22-year-old UGA senior who jumped into the back of a garbage truck downtown while naked on May 29. (IDK, somebody look it up on Urban Dictionary for me; I’m old and don’t know how to use the Google.)

It took four police officers to drag Benjamin Abele out of the truck because he “violently fought them off, and… it was difficult to get a hold of him because he was extremely slick from being coated with a foul-smelling liquid,” according to the Athens Banner-Herald. He was shot with a Taser twice with no effect.

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Culture Briefs: Watch Ryan Seacrest's UGA Commencement Speech

By Blake Aued | May 16, 2016 11:45am

That’s Dr. Ryan Seacrest to you.

The “American Idol” host, media mogul and philanthropist—who dropped out of school after his freshman year to go to Hollywood—told graduates to follow their dreams during his UGA commencement speech Friday.

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Culture Briefs: Here Are the Five Bulldogs Drafted by the NFL

By Blake Aued | May 1, 2016 1:35pm

Photo Credit: Andy Harrison/UGA Athletics

First-round pick Leonard Floyd celebrates against Clemson.

Georgia’s lackluster 2015 season wasn’t for lack of professional-level talent. Five former Bulldogs were taken in the NFL draft, which wrapped up on Saturday.

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In the Loop: Actor Tituss Burgess Shames 'Shady' Georgia and UGA

By Blake Aued | April 11, 2016 10:50am

Photo Credit: "The Late Show" via Twitter

Athens native Tituss Burgess, star of Netflix’s “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” had some harsh words for his home state during an appearance on “The Late Show” Friday.

The Emmy-nominated actor, who graduated from Cedar Shoals High School and the University of Georgia, told host Stephen Colbert that he wants to give a commencement speech at UGA. The hypothetical speech, he said, would take aim at student apathy and the “religious liberty” bill passed by the state legislature but vetoed by Gov. Nathan Deal last month. He gave Colbert's audience a preview:

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In the Loop: UGA Law Professor: The 'Campus Carry' Bill Will Chill Academic Freedom

By Blake Aued | March 22, 2016 11:54am

Sonja West.

The “campus carry” bill allowing guns on most parts of the University of Georgia campus—including classrooms and professors’ offices—will have a chilling effect on academic freedom and debate, UGA law professor Sonja West argues in an article for the website Slate posted today.

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Grub Notes: Photo Gallery: The Downtown Athens Food Truck Festival

By Joshua L. Jones | September 14, 2015 1:28pm

Hundreds, if not thousands, of people congregated on College Avenue outside City Hall Saturday afternoon for the Athens Downtown Development Authority's food truck festival, which drew almost a dozen food trucks from Atlanta (as well as a local truck or two). Flagpole photographer Joshua L. Jones documented the scene.

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Homedrone: What's Up With that Neon School Bus Downtown?

By Evelyn Andrews | September 13, 2015 1:39pm

Photo Credit: Photo via Facebook

Sightings of a psychedelic school bus in downtown Athens this weekend prompted questions from locals about what it is.

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Grub Notes: Photo Gallery: The Classic City BBQ Festival Iron Chef Competition

By Joshua L. Jones | August 17, 2015 4:38pm

George’s Low Country Table pulls their bison spare ribs from a pot during an Iron Chef-style cooking competition.

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