Blog Topic: In the Community
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In the Loop: UPDATE: Parents Are Upset About a New Athens Library Storyteller
Parents are "livid" that a popular storyteller at the Athens-Clarke County Library apparently is being replaced.
Rebecca Ballard reads to children ages 2–5 at 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. each Tuesday. Parent Amanda Cook says that Ballard is being replaced by her boss, Jonathan Dolce, who could not be reached for comment this afternoon.
Tomorrow morning will be Ballard's last story time, according to Cook. She said parents will be showing up at the library at story times to support Ballard.
Parents are circulating an online petition as well as a letter to library Executive Director Kathryn Ames (who retired in September, I believe, but is still listed as director on the library website) asking for Ballard to be reinstated. The text of the letter is below.
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Culture Briefs: Elephant 6 Provides Perfect Backdrop for Halloween Hijinks at ATHICA
Photo Credit: Barbette Houser
Danielle Miller, artistic director of Rose of Athens, with her family.
Works on display by founding members of the Elephant 6 Recording Company added to the slightly madcap feel of the ATHICA event, “Shake Your Rumpus!” The evening added to the likelihood that Athens may be the center of the Halloween universe, while it also celebrated the new relationship between ATHICA and Rose of Athens Theatre as roommates.
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Culture Briefs: Author Julia Elliott Intrigues at The Globe
Former Athenian and award-winning fiction writer Julia Elliott enchanted her audience on Friday, Oct. 24 at The Globe as she read from her new collection of short stories, The Wilds. The event was sponsored by The Georgia Review and the University of Georgia’s Creative Writing Program. L.S. McKee of Atlanta opened the evening by reading a selection of her poems. Stephen Corey, editor of The Georgia Review, introduced the writers. About Elliott, he admiringly noted that “She writes some crazy stuff.”
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Culture Briefs: A Visit to Artist Krysia Haag’s Home Benefits WUGA
Photo Credit: Barbette Houser
Joanne Kolbus and Heidi Davison in front of a painting of an Elvis impersonator by Krysia Haag.
Mosaic artist Krysia Haag opened her Athens home to visitors on Saturday, Oct. 18 to benefit WUGA. The event was part of the “Artists in Residence” series, an ongoing fundraiser for the station.
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Culture Briefs: Third Thursday Expands Thanks to Classic Center
This month’s Third Thursday event was enhanced by the addition of an opening at The Classic Center as well as a new shuttle service sponsored by The Classic Center Cultural Foundation. Vans circulated every 30 minutes, allowing attendees to visit the Lyndon House, Hotel Indigo, The Classic Center, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Ciné, and Athica with relative ease.
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Culture Briefs: Art Rosenbaum Draws a Crowd for First Folk Festival Fundraiser
Art Rosenbaum played two sets of lively old timey tunes at The World Famous on Sunday evening. Also on the bill were Hawk Proof Rooster. Rosenbaum’s wife, Margo, and son, Neil, joined him for a few songs, including “Old Bill Cheatham.”
The event was the first in a series of evenings sponsored by The World Famous to help raise funds for the upcoming North Georgia Folk Festival.
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Culture Briefs: Environmental Artist Patricia Leighton Speaks at GMOA; "Equations" Opens at Hotel Indigo
Art lovers in Athens were amply spoiled Thursday, Sept. 25 with two very different but engaging events.
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Culture Briefs: Artist Rebecca Wood Welcomes Visitors to her Colorful Home for WUGA
Photo Credit: Barbette Houser
Rebecca Wood
Beloved local artist Rebecca Wood opened up her home to the public on Saturday, Sept. 20 for the “Artists in Residence” series, an ongoing fundraiser for WUGA.
Wood is the creator and owner of R. Wood Studio, a successful pottery here in Athens which creates colorful earthenware serving pieces with a playful and organic quality. R. Wood pottery is carried in stores and catalogs across the U.S, including Sundance.
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In the Loop: Here Are Three People ACC Police Shot and Killed
With all the talk about Ferguson, MO, lately, here is everyone whom Athens-Clarke County police shot and killed in the past 20 years (or as far back as the Internet goes). While the cases led to varying degrees of tension in the community, in all three cases, the officer(s) involved were cleared of wrongdoing. Only one of the shooting victims was unarmed.
In 1995, Edward Wright, 20, who was black, was running naked around East Athens early one morning. Two white officers approached him. One, Sean Potter, told him to stop, then pepper-sprayed him when he didn't. Wright tackled and punched Potter. The other officer, Pat Mercardante, hit him with a baton. Wright got up, and Potter told him to get back on the ground. Wright yelled, "Kill me! Kill me!" and lunged at Potter again. Potter shot him once in the stomach, and Wright kept coming. Potter then shot Wright five more times before Wright knocked his gun loose.
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In the Loop: More Student Housing Proposed Downtown
Photo Credit: Niles Bolton Associates
At the top of the agenda for the Athens-Clarke County Planning Commission Thursday night was a plan for more student housing.
Campus Acquisitions, a company based in Chicago, wants to turn 165 E. Dougherty St. into a five-story mixed use development with retail spaces at ground level and student apartments above. Until recently, an office building on the property housed Advantage Behavioral Health Systems, and it's now occupied by the tech incubator Four Athens.
The biggest concern voiced by the public and the planning commission was the waiver for residential density. The plan would add 81 residential dwelling units, or 237 bedrooms, which is 27 bedrooms too many, according to the current zoning codes.
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