Blog Topic: This Weekend

Homedrone: Win Tickets: Dungen and New Madrid Play 40 Watt Saturday

By Gabe Vodicka | June 9, 2016 3:30pm

Dungen

Swedish psych-rockers Dungen and local favorites New Madrid share a bill at the 40 Watt Club Saturday, and we've got a pair of tickets to give away. To enter, tell us why you deserve to go for free in the comments below. We'll choose a winner Friday at 1 p.m.

Oh, and here's this week's feature on New Madrid.

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Grub Notes: Good Food Good Beer Block Party Returns Saturday

By Blake Aued | June 3, 2016 1:11pm

Photo Credit: Samantha Ruggieri

A rib is consumed at last year's Good Food Good Beer Block Party.

Get your buzz on for a good cause Saturday from 1–4 p.m. at the 6th annual Good Food Good Beer Block Party at Creature Comforts.

In addition to the regular $12 tours (which includes six six-ounce samples), attendees can sample food from Heirloom Cafe, Last Resort, Pauley’s Crepe Bar, The National, Five & Ten, The Branded Butcher and Three Porch Farm by buying $1 tickets. Click here for the full menu. All dishes are under $10.

Proceeds will benefit Wholesome Wave Georgia, which doubles SNAP benefits on purchases at the Athens Farmers Market.

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Culture Briefs: What's Happening in Local Theater This Weekend

By Dina Canup | June 2, 2016 12:15pm

Photo Credit: Dina Canup

Friendly's Fire

Our Town It’s the final weekend of an American classic at Winder Barrow Community Theatre, directed by Léland Downs Karas. Thornton Wilder’s Our Town won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938; when it was revived in 1989 it won a Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award. The masterfully metatheatrical script sets the play in a theater rather than a place, though the theater stands for a fictional town called Grover’s Corners.

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Grub Notes: The Fresh Food Bus Is Back This Weekend

By Hillary Brown | May 18, 2016 12:38pm

A farmers market that says it wants to serve lower-income people is all well and good, but words are just words if they can't actually get there.

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Culture Briefs: Classic City Rollergirls Host Atlanta Men's Roller Derby Saturday

By David Eduardo | May 11, 2016 12:00am

We didn't learn much from the No. 148 Classic City Rollergirls' recent 226-54 demolition of the visiting No. 137 Tragic City Rollers in the Akins Arena at the Classic Center on Apr. 16. The 007-themed high school prom being held in the facilities atrium provided more tension and drama.

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Grub Notes: Creature Comforts' Second Anniversary Is Saturday

By Blake Aued | April 15, 2016 3:09pm

Tomorrow is G-Day, so good luck parking, but Creature Comforts—which opened on Twilight weekend in 2014—will celebrate its second anniversary Saturday with tours featuring a bunch of special one-of beers (in addition to the old standbys).

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Homedrone: Ludacris Will Perform a 15-Minute Set Before the G-Day Game

By Gabe Vodicka | April 14, 2016 1:40pm

After first saying there would be no musical performance at Saturday's G-Day game, explaining that all the (country) acts they wanted to book were otherwise engaged, the UGA Athletic Department has announced that Georgia-based megastar Ludacris will perform just prior to Saturday's inter-squad matchup.

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Homedrone: Athens-Music Doc Premieres at Atlanta Film Festival Saturday

By Gabe Vodicka | April 1, 2016 10:39am

Photo Credit: Matthew MacCarthy

Jorge Torres-Torres

A Peculiar Noise, a free-flowing documentary about the Athens music scene, will have its official premiere Saturday, Apr. 2 at the Atlanta Film Festival, when it screens at 7 Stages Theatre at 7:30 p.m.

Directed by onetime Athenian Jorge Torres-Torres, the film takes its name from an Olivia Tremor Control song and "documents the past and present of DIY underground music in Athens, GA," according to the festival's blurb.

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Homedrone: Win Tickets: Faust and Muuy Biien Play 40 Watt Friday

By Gabe Vodicka | March 24, 2016 2:31pm

Photo Credit: Petra Glaeser

Faust's Werner "Zappi" Diermaier and Jean-Herve Peron

German avant-garde rock outfit Faust and local goth-punks Muuy Biien play the 40 Watt Club Friday, and we've got a pair of tickets to give away.

To enter, tell us why you and a friend deserve to go for free in the comments below. We'll choose a winner Friday at 2 p.m.

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Homedrone: Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins Has No Time for Nostalgia

By Maria Lewczyk | March 22, 2016 10:50am

All artists want to make their music memorable and meaningful. On Apr. 8, 1997, an alternative rock band called Third Eye Blind released the track “Semi-Charmed Life” and expected nothing to come of it. Over the next few years, the song became one of the most recognizable tunes in the world.

But the '90s were a long time ago, and Third Eye Blind frontman Stephan Jenkins is not a nostalgic person. Although “Semi-Charmed Life” brought Third Eye Blind into the public eye, it also brings Jenkins back in time when all he wants to do is move forward.

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