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‘Twilight’ showdown: ‘New Moon’ face-off with fangs

FAN I was disappointed by the Twilight fans on the movie’s premier night. Maybe it was my own fault for getting so hyped up by the media attention, but I thought that my “New Moon” midnight premiere experience was going to make me laugh with ludicrous costumes or fake blood.

Hoop Girls support team

Who are the Hoop Girls?

“We aren’t water girls, we aren’t groupies,” Gabriella Baetti, a Hoop Girl and sophomore from Roswell told The Red & Black. “Some people think we do this just to get in with the team, but it’s not like that at all.”

Hoop Girls, the promotional organization for the men’s basketball team, has been around since in 1993.

DJ training work and fun at WUOG

Do you have what it takes to be a radio DJ for WUOG? Probably.

When hiring disc jockeys for the University’s radio station, Ellen Bagwell must consider the reputation that WUOG has to uphold.

“I’m the final word in the DJs that we hire, so I have to make sure we have the best DJs on air,” she said.

Contra dancing offers ‘learning and laughing’

Are you ready to do-si-do? Then grab a partner and head over to the Athens Folk Music and Dance Society for the contra dances that are held once a month. “When people hear contra dancing and they have no idea of what that is, I tell them it’s kind of like square dancing done in long lines,” said Susan Staley, coordinator and host of AFMDS.

Brothers create Grape Soda

“Poppy like soda pop, but also dark and weird,” Ryan Lewis said of Grape Soda’s sound. “It’s like hidden behind layers of something else . sugar and carbonation . high fructose corn syrup.” Lewis and his half-brother Mat comprise Grape Soda, but this is not their first project together.

Dance majors hold their senior exit show

For the past four years, a select group of women have been working with their feet and in studios instead of textbooks and lecture halls. The women of the dance department have chosen a major that becomes a like commitment far before they see graduation. This Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evening, they will get to display self-choreographed and designed pieces that are the culmination of their time here at the University.

Rank ‘Em unveils brand new features

Having trouble deciding what songs by a band are truly worth listening to? Try visiting Rank ‘Em, a Web site constructed in 2007 by University graduate Adam Wexler and designed purely for the love of the music. “Others have said that we don’t have features that others [iTunes, Amazon] do,” Wexler said.

New band steers clear of sappy love ballads

Jake Ward is an Athens musician: he moved to town in 2007 and started a band three weeks later. “The Complete Adventurer existed for about a year,” he said. “I just got tired of being in this ‘me-without-you’ band and wanted to do something different.” Out of the ashes of The Complete Adventurer rose Eureka California.

‘Awkward kids’ Chrissakes play rock ‘n’ roll

Chrissakes is a group of three University students – Rob Thomason (drums), Helen Rhinehart (bass) and Drew Smith (guitar) – who classified their band as “serrated astronomy class,” raising some questions. Thomason obliged.

Q: How did your band start and why do you play this type of music?

A: Well we got started in a pretty organic way, which might be why we have been able to stay together for a while now.

Mama’s Love band brings classic sound to Tasty World

Being a called a “mama’s boy” is seldom flattering, but, according to Thomas Galloway, it definitely should be – even for rock musicians.

“A mother’s love is the highest form of unconditional love,” he said. “You can definitely print that.”

Galloway’s band, Mama’s Love, based their name off of a sandwich from a store in Auburn, Ala.

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