Blog Topic: Tonight

In the Loop: CCSD: Keep Your Kids Warm on Thursday

By Blake Aued | February 18, 2015 8:48pm

The Clarke County School District will operate more or less as usual Thursday, but administrators are asking parents to take precautions to make sure their children stay warm as temperatures drop into the teens.

Says district spokeswoman Anisa Sullivan Jimenez:

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In the Loop: How Bad Will the Weather Get Tonight?

By Blake Aued | February 16, 2015 10:46am

Photo Credit: Daniel Case/Wikimedia Commons

Is Icepocalypse III: The Icepocalypsing coming to Athens? Probably not.

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Homedrone: Tonight in Athens: Drive-By Truckers, Moon Taxi, Spaceface

By Gabe Vodicka | February 12, 2015 1:45pm

Photo Credit: David McClister

Drive-By Truckers

It's a big night for live music in Athens, with three marquee shows to get you all hot and bothered on a cold and windy evening:

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In the Loop: Don't Drive Drunk Tonight (or Ever, but Especially Not Tonight)

By Blake Aued | January 16, 2015 2:27pm

Athens-Clarke County police will be setting up DUI checkpoints tonight. No, they didn't say where.

Police said they'll also be checking for child seats, seat belt and other traffic violations.

So, if you're thinking about downing some shots, throwing your baby in the back and getting behind the wheel of a car with no working brake lights, well, don't.

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Homedrone: Tonight in Athens: Ona, Semicircle, Waste Layer

By Gabe Vodicka | January 9, 2015 12:00pm

Photo Credit: Max Nolte

Ona

Several recommended shows to keep you warm tonight in the Classic Cold-Ass City:

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Homedrone: Monsoon Plays Flagpole's Parade of Lights Float Thursday

By Gabe Vodicka | December 4, 2014 10:25am

Monsoon

The annual Downtown Parade of Lights is tonight (Thursday, Dec. 4), and like always, you can count on the Athens Music Scene float—a co-production of Flagpole, the 40 Watt Club and AthFest—to bring the serious holiday jams.

This year, we've got local punks Monsoon set to kick 'em out from atop the moving stage, which rolls out at 7 p.m. from the corner of Dougherty and Pulaski streets and continues around the downtown loop.

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In the Loop: The UGA NAACP Is Marching for Michael Brown Tonight

By Blake Aued | December 2, 2014 3:00pm

Athens residents at a Ferguson solidarity rally at the Arch on Nov. 26. Credit: Randy Schafer

The University of Georgia chapter of the NAACP is planning a "peaceful march and vigil honoring" Michael Brown, the African American teenager who was shot and killed by white police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, MO.

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Culture Briefs: Tonight in Athens: BFA Exit I Show at Lamar Dodd

By Jessica Smith | November 14, 2014 11:40am

“Paradise Sux” by Peter B. Samuels

The Lamar Dodd School of Art at UGA will host an opening reception for “BFA Exit 1” tonight from 6–8 p.m., celebrating the work of exiting undergraduate students in the areas of art education, painting and drawing, photography and printmaking. If you miss the reception, the show will continue to be up on the walls through Friday, Nov. 21, and the galleries are open every Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

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Homedrone: Tonight in Athens: Lonesome Leash, Swarming Branch

By Gabe Vodicka | November 12, 2014 2:18pm

Lonesome Leash

It's relatively slim pickings tonight in live music land, but there are a couple notable gigs to get you hot and bothered:

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Homedrone: Tonight in Athens: The Deslondes, Charlie Megira

By Gabe Vodicka | November 10, 2014 2:38pm

Photo Credit: Sarrah Danzinger

The Deslondes

In addition to Creature Comforts' can-release party at the Georgia Theatre, there are a couple notable concerts happ'nin' in town tonight:

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