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Black Belt Patriots offering up free CDs (w/MP3)

Tasty World will experience a flash flood of albums and alcohol tonight as the Black Belt Patriots release a new record and bust out the brew in celebration. “At our show there will be free CDs and all-you-can-drink beer. I never said the beer was free,” Hampton Vernon, drummer and vocalist of the Black Belt [...]

Brock Butler flying solo tonight at Farm 255

Known for their psychedelic light shows and guitar riffs, Perpetual Groove has hit the Athens music scene with a bang for the past few years. However, Brock Butler of the popular band has released a different-from-P Groove album on his own as a way to release his musical creativity. Butler will play a solo show [...]

Novelist alumna returns to guide aspiring authors

The publishing industry encompasses many genres making it difficult for aspiring novelists to find a direct path to success. Amy Jackson Pearce, a 2007 UGA English department graduate, is returning to her alma mater for a question and answer session about how to succeed in the industry. The Q & A will follow her book [...]

Redcoats host benefit concert with local bands

The Athens music scene is competitive and diverse, which sometimes makes it difficult for new bands to prosper, especially in the first year. However, this was not the case for local rock band Come What May. The band created its own opportunity to shine and to give back to the community at the same time. [...]

Artist manipulates ‘stunning’ nature photographs

Photographers have captured landscape images for years, but none have turned the images into stunning and unique works of art like Beth Thompson has. As a local artist, Thompson has designed many beautiful images of photography in the forms of tarots, kaleidoscopes, and fractals. Thompson describes her works as being interconnected since each one bounces [...]

Yeah, Baby! Thespian students counter conventional themes in new play

So long to the Shakespearean days with all-male casts. The University Of Georgia Thalian Blackfriars’ newest play, “The Well Of Horniness,” turns the tradition on its head with an all-female ensemble performing both male and female characters. The play follows the experience of Vicky, an ex-lesbian, who is framed for her future sister-in-law’s murder at [...]

Corduroy Road to record live album at 40 Watt

Having spent most of 2009 touring across the entire Southeast, The Corduroy Road, a local Americana band, will return to Athens to play its first recorded show tonight at the 40 Watt with the hopes of releasing it as a live album. Now, with new goals for the new year, The Corduroy Road’s acoustic guitarist [...]

Conscious Alliance hosts benefit at New Earth

Conscious Alliance, a year-old organization on campus, aims to combine music and the arts with raising money for the Northeast Georgia Food Bank.

Tyler Brunam, president and co-founder of the Conscious Alliance chapter at the University, describes the founding of the organization as a fantastic coincidence.

Friday 13th fears stem from history

About 21 million Americans suffer from paraskevidekatriaphobia, the fear of Friday the 13th, or Black Friday.

They avoid daily activities that could potentially put them in harm’s way and some are too afraid to get out of bed in the morning.

But why? Where did the superstition come from?

One theory suggests 12 is the most complete number.

Poet Dorianne Laux inspired by the outside world

Many consider poetry to be an art of the past, but there are many successful modern poets who continue to influence our world. Dorianne Laux is one such poet. She will host a poetry reading in the Classic City from her collection of published poems, including works from her latest book “Facts about the Moon” and several new poems from her upcoming book “The Book of Men.

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