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Accidentals take third spot in nation-wide competition

Backstage at New York’s Lincoln Center last Saturday night, the UGA Accidentals waited anxiously for their turn to compete in this year’s International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella.  After taking third, they got texts from friends, family and, surprisingly, other acappella teams that were their enemies through the season.  “It’s been amazing — the amount [...]

Campus will celebrate Earth Day all week

In 1970 Senator Gaylord Nelson created Earth Day as an opportunity for environmental groups and activists worldwide to promote the benefits of consciously protecting the environment. This year at the University, ardent students have decided that Nelson’s designated 24 hours isn’t enough time and have lengthened the 40th anniversary of Earth Day into Earth Week. [...]

Spring Tigers pounce on UK

Ask any Athens musician about breaking into the local music scene and they’re sure to say that, when first starting out, getting booked never comes easy. In the case of the Athens-based Spring Tigers, the group formed when guitarist/vocalist Kris Barratt readily agreed to open for a friend at a show just weeks away without [...]

Nappy Roots plays 40 Watt with free pre-show at Tate

Each day at 2:30 p.m. a line of anxious children fling themselves down the stairs of the school bus and sprint through the front door of the Garnett Ridge Boys & Girls Club, a 600 square foot house, where 12 clustered homework-tables fill what would normally be a kitchen. It wont be long before these same [...]

Alumna returns to show the way to Hollywood

  She packed her bags, sold her textbooks, dropped out of school and made a name for herself, from scratch. University alumna Bonnie Gillespie left Athens for Hollywood just over 10 years ago to pursue a career in acting, leaving behind a half-finished doctorate and the majority of her possessions to be sold on eBay. [...]

Pete Yorn’s show at 40 Watt a disappointment

If sweat is a valid indicator of a musician’s effort to entertain, then Pete Yorn’s show at the 40 Watt was close to being a funeral as the band battled perspiration by remaining coldly stiff.

Accordingly, I dried off from the Tuesday evening tempests rather than working up a sweat enjoying the show.

Cover bands rock on Halloween

As most of Athens dressed up in costume this Halloween, local musicians decided to morph into their favorite bands. At the Caledonia Lounge on Saturday, a cover band extravaganza featured bands celebrating the music of Weezer, Andrew W.K. and Metallica. Hear You Me (Weezer cover band) The most confusing moment of the night came when guitarist Jace Bartet stepped on stage wearing only pink underwear and multi-colored streamers, which were draped and taped across his body.

The ghosts of Athens past: Enthusiast pieces together cemetery’s mysterious history

To her friends and family, she is known as Charlotte Thomas Marshall – but to the Athens public, she is known simply as “The Cemetery Lady.”

Such a name may sound macabre to some, but to the elderly woman, life only makes sense in exploring the lives and deaths (as she calls them, “stories”) of other people.

Ciné Club gathers film buffs to promote art cinema

Ciné Club members are more than movie enthusiasts. The student group uses Ciné as a meeting place for film screenings and lectures, but they have ambitious goals.

flick picks: Where the Wild Things Are

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE The most talked-about movie of the fall has finally arrived, and with it has come a huge wave of nostalgia. “Where the Wild Things Are,” originally written by Maurice Sendak in 1963, has now been adapted to film by Spike Jonze. Prior to the film’s release this weekend, over four decades’ worth of fans were both excited to see and skeptical of Jonze’s expanded version of Sendak’s masterpiece.

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