Blog Topic: This Weekend

Culture Briefs: Organizers Cancel Athens Spring Fling

By Gabe Vodicka | May 3, 2019 10:50am

The Athens Spring Fling, scheduled to take place Saturday at Southeast Clarke Park, has been canceled by organizers due to the threat of bad weather, according to a post on the event's Facebook page.

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Homedrone: Friends Host Medical Benefit Sunday for Local Musician Ty Manning

By Gabe Vodicka | May 2, 2019 3:25pm

Ty Manning is an established and beloved Athens songwriter and guitarist known for his work with several local bands, including the Bearfoot Hookers and, more recently, Ty Manning and the Slawdog Biscuits—a nominee for this year's Flagpole Athens Music AwardsFolk/Americana category.

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Homedrone: 'Run It Up' Podcast, Ep. 4: Ad·verse Fest

By Gabe Vodicka | February 26, 2019 9:30am

Photo Credit: Savannah Cole

AC Carter

In "Run It Up," Flagpole's new podcast, we take a deeper look at some of the stories from the current issue. In this week's episode, Gabe Vodicka welcomes AC Carter, the local artist behind Ad·verse Fest, a music, drag and performance event happening Mar. 1–2 in downtown Athens. As Lambda Celsius, Carter explores sex and gender fluidity through a dance-tastic electropop lens. Their festival highlights similarly minded solo acts and duos from around the country.

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In the Loop: 9d's Bar Will Be Closed This Weekend After Reaching Agreement on Discrimination Complaint

By Blake Aued | December 14, 2018 2:41pm

Photo Credit: Blake Aued/file

Kendrick Bullock (left) and his brother, Broderick Flanigan, discuss a discrimination complaint they filed against 9d's Bar at a May 2017 news conference,

The East Clayton Street bar 9d's will be closed today and Saturday while its alcohol license is suspended after agreeing to a consent order with the Athens-Clarke County attorney's office on an April 2017 discrimination complaint.

Kendrick Bullock alleged that 9d's denied him entry for a dress-code violation in April 2017 in spite of the bar not having a dress code publicly posted as required by a local anti-discrimination ordinance passed in 2016 in response to numerous complaints that student bars downtown were unfairly using dress codes to keep out black customers.

In addition to closing for two days, 9d's agreed to go on probation for 12 months, pay a $350 fine and:

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Homedrone: Flagpole Premieres: 2018 Wild Rumpus Mixtape

By Gabe Vodicka | October 23, 2018 9:03am

This weekend, the Wild Rumpus Parade and Spectacle returns to downtown Athens for a 10th annual edition, inviting Athenians of all stripes and all ages to dress up, howl at the moon and celebrate Halloween for a good cause. (See The Calendar for a full schedule of events.)

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Culture Briefs: Psychedelic Nic Cage Stunner Mandy Screens at Ciné This Weekend

By Stephanie Rivers | October 3, 2018 1:51pm

Cage gonna Cage.

After watching director Panos Cosmatos' Mandy, my friend Kris Deason described it as "a baking-soda-infused, water-soluble, completely smokable concentration of Heavy Metalmagazine… like a nightmare where the worst monster you can imagine comes for you and you stomp its dick."

That's really the only review you need, but here are a few more words of praise.

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Homedrone: Q&A: The Rock*A*Teens Talk Cabbagetown, a Double Double-Cross and Black Flag

By Chad Radford | September 19, 2018 4:15pm

Photo Credit: Brett Falcon

After 18 years, Atlanta's Rock*A*Teens returned this summer with Sixth House. While the group’s sixth album doesn’t throw any surprise punches, songs such as “Billy Really,” “Lady Macbeth” and “Crystal Skies” rise above the signature haze of reverb and distortion layered over singer and guitarist Chris Lopez’s haunting tales of heartache in the Deep South.

Flagpole caught up with the band's Chris Lopez and T. Ballard Lesemann in advance of their show at the 40 Watt Club this Saturday. This interview has been edited for length.

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Homedrone: Palace Doctor Releases 'There You Go' Video

By Gabe Vodicka | March 30, 2018 11:25am

After putting in work for nearly a decade with Athens rockers Modern Skirts, Phillip Brantley debuted his new trio, Palace Doctor, with last year's Mangled LP. In contrast to the Skirts' sunny indie-pop, Palace Doctor—consisting of Brantley on guitar and vocals, plus Nick Robbins (Velveteen Pink) on bass and Jeremy Wheatley (Crooked Fingers) on drums—deals in a moody, muted brand of rock that incorporates strains of grunge, doo-wop and Americana.

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Grub Notes: Rashe's Fundraiser, Athens Farmers Market and More Food News

By Hillary Brown | March 22, 2018 3:06pm

Photo Credit: Marilyn Estes

Athens Farmers Market

If you still miss Rashe's Cuisine, and its delivery option isn't enough for you, you might want to know that Rashe Malcom is launching an Indiegogo to purchase a food trailer. It kicks off tomorrow, Friday, Mar. 23, from 11 a.m.–2 p.m. at the Jittery Joe's Roaster on Barber Street. The AthensMade-sponsored event will offer free samples of Rashe's food and lunch plates for $10, with profits going toward the food trailer.

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Grub Notes: The Lil' Ice Cream Dude Is Getting His Own Store

By Hillary Brown | November 22, 2017 3:10pm

Photo Credit: file

Beau Shell in 2014.

Unlike most kids, who tend to be interested in something for about five minutes after you've paid for it, Beau Shell (aka the Lil' Ice Cream Dude) has spent the past five-and-a-half years building his small business.

He started off with a little cart, out of which he sold popsicles and frozen novelties at events around town, eventually becoming the youngest member of the Athens Chamber of Commerce. More recently, he upgraded to a heavy-duty food-truck-style trailer after a successful crowd-funding campaign. He works nearly every weekend in the hot months and fairly frequently even in the cold ones. He's also only 13 years old.

On Small Business Saturday, he'll open Cool World, a proper brick-and-mortar store, in the Shops of Ansonborough, on Gaines School Road on the Eastside.

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