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‘Natural creativity’ the focus of two new museum exhibits

Who says you have to be a professionally trained artist to make remarkable art?

Starting Saturday, visitors at the Georgia Museum of Art can view two new exhibitions that demonstrate how people from America’s past and present used their natural talent and creativity to create truly original and useful works of art.

University alumnus publishes historical novel

Although he knows exactly how it ends, writer and historian Bill Copeland said he still tears up when he reads his first published novel, “Ashes to the Vistula.”

Much of the intensity comes from the real tragedy that serves as the novel’s historical backdrop.

Taste of Atlanta is fantasy for foodies

Dale Gordon DeSena has always been a fan of festivals. So after working in the festival business for many years and helping to start Atlanta’s Music Midtown, she decided to do something different. “I wanted to have my own festival,” DeSena said. From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. this Saturday and Sunday, Taste of Atlanta, [...]

Texas murder prequel bleeds more gore and guts on screen

Poor Leatherface. It’s not his fault that his deranged, hillbilly, adopted family encouraged him to hack off everyone in sight so that they can put food (i.e. human stew) on the table. Well, actually it is, but that’s usually the case when your best friend is a rusty chainsaw. Directed by Jonathan Liebesman, “The Texas [...]

Play recreates Upper West Side

Hustlers, hookers and junkies – oh, my! These are just a few of the attention-grabbing, hard-edge characters found in the University Theatre’s production of “Balm in Gilead,” a post-modern drama by playwright Lanford Wilson that focuses on the lives and personal stories of a number of people who frequent a seedy New York City diner [...]

‘Last Kiss’ fails to inspire, frustrates

Is it possible to be so overwhelmed with what seems to be a happy, successful future with the person you love that you’re willing to throw it all away? This is the main question raised in “The Last Kiss,” a dramedy that questions whether the term “domestic bliss” is accurate. Michael (Zach Braff) is nearly [...]

Nationally recognized live radio show coming to campus

For those who plan to spend this Sunday evening moping around and dreading another Monday, there is a more exciting alternative involving diverse music and perhaps even a few familiar faces. Six musicians – three of whom are from the Athens area – will perform Sunday at Hodgson Concert Hall for Mountain Stage, a nationally [...]

Gay community to host Pride Weekend

For members, family and friends of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendercommunity, this weekend is certainly one to mark on the calendar as the first-ever Pride Weekend kicks off in Athens. Starting Saturday afternoon with the Second Annual Lavender Graduation, there will be a number of events in Athens celebrating gay and lesbian pride. These [...]

Textual’s sound rewrites the rules

When members of the post-rock quartet Mercury Program found it difficult to mesh two different styles of music, the band decided to try out an ambitious solution – split up and stay together at the same time. So far, things seem to be working out for both. Saturday night at Caledonia Lounge, Dave LeBleu (of [...]

Glee club reunion to honor Hodgson

Hugh Hodgson, the renowned musician and founder of the University’s School of Music, has a birthday celebration coming up. And although the would-be 113-year-old isn’t around to see it, there will be plenty of music-making in his honor. As part of the 10-year opening celebration of the Performing Arts Center, the University’s Men's and Women’s [...]

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