‘Twilight’ showdown: ‘New Moon’ face-off with fangs
November 30, 2009 by JESSICA BROWN and MARIE UHLER
Filed under Books, Movies, Variety
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.
Jerry Fuchs, Maserati drummer and local music hero, will not be forgotten
November 9, 2009 by MARIE UHLER
Filed under Variety
To me he was a hero, to some he was a bandmate, but to many he was a friend. I never met Jerry, but a lot of my friends were his friends, and I know the world has lost a great man.
Bands get all spooky on All Hallows’ Eve
October 30, 2009 by MARIE UHLER
Filed under Variety
October concludes, Halloween approaches.
Football fans are flooding out of Athens today, leaving behind the craziest night of the year for this town.
Though bar windows lining downtown promise drink specials and costume contests, there is more to Halloween in Athens than the usual weekend bar crawl.
As close as it gets to Daft Punk
September 3, 2009 by MARIE UHLER
Filed under Out & About
Walking into a Very Disco: A Daft Punk Tribute show is like walking into an electric dance party dream. “It’s definitely a lot of Daft Punk,” said Alfredo Lapuz, Jr., one-half of Very Disco. “A lot of controlled [visual] surfaces.” “We think they do some really cool music, and we’re just playing it live and singing it with our voices and real instruments, like keytars,” Stanley Walker said.
Out & About presents Weekend Picks
April 30, 2009 by MARIE UHLER
Filed under Out & About
Thursday Middle Eastern Dance. 40 Watt. 7 p.m. $5 advance student, $8 at the door; $8 regular advance, $10 regular door. Fatina delivers her passion for Middle Eastern dance to her students and they bring it to the stage. Cocknap. 283 Bar. 10 p.m. Free. It’s like karaoke, but better: take the mic and sing your favorite tunes to a back-up Rock Band band.
Out & About presents… OUR WEEKEND PICKS
April 23, 2009 by MARIE UHLER
Filed under Out & About
The Out & About’s Marie Uhler picks her favorite things going on this weekend in Athens.
Professor examines anarchy
April 13, 2009 by MARIE UHLER
Filed under Variety
Simon Critchley of the New School of Social Research in New York City has enjoyed an internationally illustrious career in academia, having studied and taught on three continents. He has headed the British Society for Phenomology as well as the International Necronautical Society.
Out & About presents… OUR WEEKEND PICKS
April 9, 2009 by MARIE UHLER
Filed under Out & About
Thursday 9 – Sunday 12 Listings
Out & About presents… OUR WEEKEND PICKS
April 2, 2009 by MARIE UHLER
Filed under Out & About
Thursday 2nd – Sunday 5th Listings
Ghost tour part of plan to scare up Athens’ history
April 1, 2009 by MARIE UHLER
Filed under Variety
The grisly tales of the Joe Brown suicide and Susie Caruthers’ short trip to the end of a noose in the Alpha Gamma Delta house may not be news to anyone who has spent at least a few months on campus. But are those brave enough to spook freshmen with campus ghost stories brave enough to take on these locales in the dark? ATHENS GHOST TOURWhen: Starts tonight at 8 and every five minutes after that Where: Meet at the Arch Cost: Free “These are stories that are tied to murders on campus, suicides on campus,” Holly Stiles, a senior public relations and speech communications major from Murphy, N.
