Blog Topic: Upcoming in Athens

Homedrone: Q&A With murk daddy flex, Playing ATHICA Tuesday, Apr. 4

By Gabe Vodicka | March 29, 2017 10:30am

Photo Credit: Anna Staddon

After dropping off the radar following 2014’s brilliant Genesis full-length, local psychedelic hip-hop producer murk daddy flex has returned with a triumphant new EP, Bring on the Major Leagues, which he will perform in its entirety Tuesday, Apr. 4 at the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art. Flagpole caught up with the man behind the murk, Terence Chiyezhan, for an interview.

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Homedrone: 'Georgia Reads' Series Kicks off Saturday With Party Out of Bounds Panel at Avid

By Gordon Lamb | March 14, 2017 11:32am

Avid Bookshop and the University of Georgia Press are teaming up with Georgia Public Broadcasting and National Endowment for the Humanities affiliate Georgia Humanities to launch a "virtual book club" called Georgia Reads. And they're launching it in the coolest possible way for us Athens music history buffs.

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In the Loop: Oconee Zoning Decisions Will Affect Athens Residents

By Lee Becker | March 6, 2017 3:10pm

The proposed convenience store and college campus are located near the point where Oconee, Athens-Clarke and Oglethorpe counties meet.

Oconee County commissioners on Tuesday night will be asked to decide whether to allow a convenience store, a ministry college campus and an expansion of a community-scale church, all on land zoned for agriculture.

Two of the rezones are in the only part of Oconee County east of the Oconee River—a triangle of land assigned to the county when it was split off from Clarke County in 1875.

The commission’s decision on the convenience store will have impact on Athens-Clarke County residents, who live across Bob Godfrey Road from the proposed old-fashioned general store.

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Grub Notes: Athens Is Getting Some More Chain Restaurants

By Hillary Brown | February 28, 2017 11:35am

Charlie Graingers

Chains!

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In the Loop: Shirley Sherrod Headlines First Thurmond Black History Lecture

By Blake Aued | February 23, 2017 12:46pm

Shirley Sherrod.

Shirley Sherrod, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official who was fired and reinstated during a bogus Obama Administration scandal, will be the first speaker in a new lecture series named for DeKalb County CEO and Athens native Michael Thurmond.

Sherrod was the Georgia state director for rural development at the USDA in 2010 when conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart posted a video online that purported to show Sherrod detailing how she refused to help a white farmer in a speech to the NAACP. Sherrod was fired; however, the video turned out to be misleading and selectively edited, and the Obama Administration apologized to her and offered her a new position, which she turned down.

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Homedrone: Kindercore Records to Open Vinyl Pressing Plant in Athens

By Gabe Vodicka | February 16, 2017 1:40pm

The rumor has swirled around town for months, and now it appears that it's true: Kindercore Records plans to open a vinyl record-pressing facility in Athens later this year.

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In the Loop: Memorial for Ex-UGA Player Quentin Moses Scheduled for Thursday

By Blake Aued | February 15, 2017 1:19pm

Photo Credit: UGA Athletics

Moses playing for the Bulldogs in 2005.

A memorial service for Athens native and former University of Georgia football player Quentin Moses will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at Cedar Shoals High School.

Moses, 33, was killed in a house fire in Monroe Sunday morning, along with Andria Godard, 31, and her 10-year-old daughter, Jasmine Godard.

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In the Loop: ACC Officials Propose Ban on New Bars and Apartments Downtown

By Blake Aued | February 6, 2017 6:57pm

Photo Credit: Randy Schafer/file

The Standard is one of several luxury student apartment complexes to open downtown in the past few years.

Athens-Clarke County commissioners will vote on a one-year moratorium on most new bars and apartment buildings downtown at its meeting Tuesday night.

The moratorium was added to the commission agenda late this afternoon. It would cover new bars—except those that open in spaces where another bar has closed in the past 12 months—with capacities larger than 49 people. New apartments of more than three units would be temporarily banned as well.

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Grub Notes: The Fish Shack to Open on West Broad in February

By Hillary Brown | January 27, 2017 2:00pm

Photo Credit: Hillary Brown

Monica Huff

The cute little building at Hancock and Broad that most recently housed Preserve is about to get a new tenant. Monica Huff will open The Fish Shack with her son, Julius, in February, although they're waiting on inspections to have an official date.

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Grub Notes: Terrapin's Wake and Bake-Off Happens Sunday

By Hillary Brown | January 16, 2017 1:41pm

Photo Credit: The Seed and Plate

The Seed and Plate, an online food-focused Athens magazine, is hosting an Athens location of a series of events called Empty Bowls South, not to be confused with the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia's annual Empty Bowls Luncheon, which will be held Mar. 1 at the Classic Center. The Seed and Plate's dinner happens tonight (Jan. 16), with seatings at 6 and 8 p.m. The former is sold out, but there are stll tickets available for the 8 p.m. seating, or you can make a donation on its website.

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