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Antebellum trail a three week, DIY tour of Georgia

Close your eyes. Think back to the times that shifted your life into a new gear. Certainly these moments blossomed from something extraordinary, something new and capricious. Now, think about indulging in fresh, hand-picked strawberries as red as the car you dreamed of at the age of 15.

Events applaud winners, actors

The spirit at the historic inauguration of the first African-American president can be kept alive by taking part in two free programs this Black History Month offered by Lay Park and the University libraries.

Music, movie night to benefit national AIDS organization

Distinctive funk music rising from the ’70s, the possibility of flashy drag costumes and an iconic pop artist are all coming together this weekend.
Expect fun, but be aware of something big peeking out from beneath the surface.
The third annual AIDS benefit, which raises money for AIDS Athens and is promoted by the MAC AIDS Fund, will be a two day event held for the first time this year at Cine.

Thinking caps required for intellectual comedy

Ah, a play. A romping, theatrical, fun-filled time when actors delight their audiences with dramatic dialogue and punchy tunes. Although this is true of many stage shows, Tom Stoppard doesn’t allow audiences of his 1993 play, “Arcadia,” to merely sit back and relax.

Bar features a do-it-yourself touch

Conversations about Bloody Marys, the tomato juice and vodka-based cocktail can be as heated as the aftertaste of hot sauce on the tongue. Zach Day, a senior from Lawrenceville majoring in landscape architecture, said people are passionate about the drink because alcohol can be a controversial topic.

Band keeps it all in the family

Four siblings plus one first cousin, with ages ranging from 18 to 24, all living together in small town Alabama. This is the story of pop-folk-rock group The Bridges, minus the jokes about Southern relatives. But wait, there’s more. The members are preacher’s children as well.

‘Honeywood’ a wordy wonder

To be a good writer, sometimes the only solution is murder. Write every word down, and then strike out the parts that dazzle by themselves, but unbalance the work as a whole. After reading the first block of tiny text in 2003 University alumnus Darrell Kinsey’s first novella “Honeywood,” I wondered if any one had ever told him this well-known writing advice.

Annual festival offers activity

Spooky and smiling carved pumpkins decorate many doorsteps during October, but they weren’t the first vegetable in history to be carved and put on display.

Instead, the turnip was the original jack-o-lantern veggie of choice, said Peter Loose, a local artist.

Alumnus forms career hosting trivia nights

“Idiocy has no mechanism for self-diagnoses,” is a guiding statement of the Full Contact Trivia, run six nights a week in multiple cities by Bobby Nettles, a University broadcast journalism alumnus.
“Whining is like sunshine to my soul” is another.
His trivia – on display in downtown Athens Sundays at about 9 p.

Rugby inspires Irish pub

When Dustin Karr, a University alumnus, decided to quit his sports marketing job and open his own business, the first thing he did was sleep.

“I did nothing for a month in Athens but party and sleep all day,” he said. Karr recently opened the Landsdowne Irish Pub on the corner of College Avenue and East Washington Street.

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