Welcome to Athens Power Rankings. In the spirit of sports rating systems, through painstaking analysis, we rank the top movers and shakers in the Classic City each week. Who's hot? Who's not? Find out below.

Patterson Hood

1. Kate Pierson

The B-52s singer swings through Athens this Saturday for a headlining Georgia Theatre show in support of her debut solo record. Check this week's Flagpole for a feature preview.

2. Danielle Beverly

Old South, Beverly's documentary about a UGA fraternity moving into a historically black Athens neighborhood, screens locally next week. See this week's paper for a Q&A with the director.

3. Patterson Hood

The Drive-By Truckers frontman recently wrote a powerful piece for New York Times Magazine on Southern heritage and the Confederate flag.

4. AthFest Educates

The local nonprofit was awarded a $5,000 grant from Georgia Council for the Arts, making it all but a certainty that the endangered festival will indeed happen in 2016—its 20th anniversary.

5. Athens Transit

Sunday bus service is coming soon, and it'll be free (for a little while).