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Fabric design transcends fashion

To wear or not to wear. Fabric is no longer a means to a fashion end – it can be the art itself. Lamar Dodd offers fabric design as a major in the art school. Students intrested in designing fabric for clothing can choose this concentration; however, students can also choose to design fabric as [...]

UGAnda Tour to raise awareness

Invisible Children United at UGA will host the UGAnda Legacy Tour tonight in Tate Grand Hall. The event is part of a larger national tour organized by Invisible Children, Inc. UGAnda Legacy Tour will work to heighten students’ awareness of the wars and struggles occurring in Uganda.  The event will feature two speakers from Uganda [...]

Muslim Student Association holds cultural festival

The Muslim Student Association is bringing Islam to Athens in a festival to celebrate the diversity of Muslim culture. Zaina Hashmi, vice president of MSA, said ethnic foods from different regions of the world will be served at the festival as well as a calligraphy table where people can get their names written in Arabic.  [...]

Local site celebrates b-day, steps into spring

With two years under its fashionable belt, UGAstyle.com will be launching theCampusStyle.com, a new site which will serve as a central hub for other campus fashion blogs around Georgia and expand throughout other states.   To celebrate the syndication of the once solely local blog, UGAstyle.com is throwing its Spring Scene party this weekend to [...]

‘Blackbird’ incorporates viewer tweets

Amoeba Arts’ newest theatre production, “Blackbird,” is going to be a hot Twitter talk, especially since the audience will tweet during the show. According to Alicia Corts, media designer and dramaturg for Blackbird, twitter is a unique incorporation to the show.   “With such a complicated storyline as in ‘Blackbird,’ people will want to respond [...]

‘Beauty Shop’ primps Classic Center

The Classic Center is about to experience the most heated, curled and freshly-manicured entertainment straight from the hit stage play “Beauty Shop.”  Shelly Garrett, the “Godfather of Black Theatre,” is bringing his sixth installment of the most successful African American stage play in history to Athens for the first time. “People love the show because [...]

Vox poetry reading focuses on familial love

Valentine’s Day isn’t just about roses and romance. It’s also about caring for and nurturing the ones you love. On Feb. 13, ATHICA will host its third VOX Reading Series event themed “Blood Lines: Stories & Poems of Love & Family” to emphasize the importance of family, parenting and nurturing. At the event, eight local [...]

Bite into Athens’ ‘Meat Week’ festivities

Meat Week is here in Athens with open arms welcoming every empty bellied, finger-licking and barbecue-loving meat enthusiast. Meat Week began as nothing more than a randomly-generated word from a Web site by two bored co-workers in Tallahassee, Fla. “It was a sign from God,” Joshua Skelton, captain of the Athens chapter for Meat Week, [...]

Ciné storytellers turn potluck to plotluck

Ciné is putting the cap on awkward dinner conversation. Its new “plotluck” night is skipping polite introductions and getting straight to the point: hilarious stories. Plotluck Nite at Ciné,  a weekly storytelling event starting tonight, is intended to offer an open and community-based opportunity to share stories and meet others. According to organizer David Noah, [...]