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LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL: Community, competition form roller derby

Editor’s note: For the next in “two hours with” — a series of reported encounters between variety editor Adam Carlson, senior reporter Julia Carpenter and everyone else — a set of morning warriors. This is how you avoid a hit: you don’t. Sunday mornings are for battles. Or “bouts,”as they’re called in the world of [...]

About last night… (April 24): Behind the crime notebook

Editor’s note: There’s always so much going on everywhere in Athens: bands and classes and downtown shenanigans. How to keep it all straight? Welcome to “About last night…,” hosted by variety editor Adam Carlson: a weekly podcast which hopes to review and digest the Week That Was and the Week Ahead. For this special edition: crime reporters Josh Johnson and [...]

Surviving the road to success

Correction appended Fame haunts Athens. The Elephant 6. Pylon. Widespread Panic. The Drive-by Truckers. The B-52s. R.E.M. Their histories persist in the walls of the venues filled with the bands all over town all playing, all hunting for their break. But the music doesn’t matter. Ask anyone. Ask everyone: the matter of music is only [...]

Chick-fil-A addiction takes precedent over protest

I will never ever ever ever ever stop eating at Chick-fil-A. I am a gay man, and Chick-fil-A doesn’t really like me too much, at least not in theory: the company’s charitable arm, the WinShape Foundation, gave almost $2 million to anti-gay groups in 2009, according to The Huffington Post [“Chick-Fil-A Fast Food Chain Donated [...]

Now Showing! — ‘Pina’

“Pina” is, I suspect, sublime. Not in the face-melting-swallowed-up-by-a-mountain sort of sublimity, you understand. More like butterfly-in-a-hurricane or blind-man-on-a-tight-rope. “Pina” is also a German documentary about modern dance directed by Wim Wenders. Although — and I mean this, really really — don’t let that stop you from seeing it. Wenders’ film has almost no lines [...]

PODCAST: About last night… April 22

Editor’s note: There’s always so much going on everywhere in Athens: bands and classes and downtown shenanigans. How to keep it all straight? Welcome to “About last night…,” hosted by variety editor Adam Carlson: a weekly podcast which hopes to review and digest the Week That Was and the Week Ahead. For this week: staff spotlights and general structural [...]

University competing for advance screening of ‘The Avengers’

Athens could be avenged. Allied-THA, the marketing firm behind Marvel Studios’ “The Avengers” is hosting a special College Fan Event for the film, said Natalie Brigman in an email to The Red & Black. As part of the contest, colleges across the country can compete to earn an exclusive advance screening of “the ultimate comic-book [...]

15 MINUTES WITH: Clitoris Jackson

Editor’s note: if journalism is dead, at least stories aren’t. In support of that, this: “15 minutes with…” — a running series of encounters between variety editor Adam Carlson and everyone else. First, in honor of last night’s Boybutante Ball: Clitoris Jackson. Clitoris Jackson lost her first talent show. But Jackson — aka Lacie, aka [...]

A satirical open letter from the gay pornographers of America

Dear Rick Santorum,   We — the gay pornographers of America — are offended. Rumors spread last month that you had been quoted saying things like, “Gay pornography is the reason people choose the gay lifestyle or what I call the deathstyle,” and, “If we got rid of [gay pornography], homosexuality would be gone within a matter [...]

Live Blog: SGA debate

Elections for the University’s Student Government Association run throughout the week, ending on Thursday. To promote awareness and education, The Red & Black is co-sponsoring a debate with Grady NewSource which begins at 8 p.m. tonight and runs for an hour. Candidates from all four tickets — Ignite, YOUnited, The Blueprint and reDefine — will [...]

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