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Music Midtown: ‘Band’ wagon full

and CRAIG PHILLIPS The Red & Black With the onset of more pleasant weather and the possibility of some really good music, some University students are planning to travel to Atlanta this weekend to check out the Midtown Music Festival. With such prominent names as Willie Nelson, Widespread Panic and Branford Marsalis scheduled to appear, [...]

Toot your own horn!

The Red & Black For members of the University Jazz Band, the hills are alive with the sound of music. The group travels to Montreaux, Switzerland, in June to participate in the Montreaux Jazz Festival. Comparable to the Lollapalooza music festival for rock music, the Montreaux festival is a gathering of the best of the [...]

University alumni tackle the ups and downs of NASCAR

The Red & Black TALLADEGA, Ala. — When NASCAR driver Ernie Irvan wrecked his Pontiac on lap 49 at Talladega Superspeedway Sunday, the upbeat and jovial attitudes of three University alumni were eradicated in one simple twist of the steering wheel. The wreck lasted mere seconds, but for Read Morton, Nelson Bowers and Tom Beard, [...]

Diamond Dogs sweep Southern

The Red & Black The Bulldogs helped Georgia Southern’s two-game road trip go south yesterday with a 7-5 victory. Georgia mowed down 13 Eagle batters, with freshman Rob Morevek accounting for five strikeouts in only two innings worth of work. Still tearing it up is junior Josh Dorminy, who went 2-for-4 with a double and [...]

Dogs knock in 15-7 win against GSU

The Red & Black Georgia had something for the squatters parked outside Foley Field last night as the Bulldogs drove four home runs over the outfield fence and wrecked Georgia Southern in a 15-7 victory. A sloppily-played game didn’t overshadow the tear first baseman Josh Dorminy is on. The junior from Leesburg drove in 6 [...]

Mind over mater

The Red & Black You won’t need a barf bag for the most recent version of the Jim Rose Circus. He’ll tell you so. The new show, called “Secrets of the Strange,” will showcase, explain — and debunk — the myths of the human mind. He has become such a master of mind control that [...]

One woman’s memory becomes her cause

The Red & Black The night before Tyanna Lynn O’Brian lost her battle with breast cancer, her daughter got to say goodbye, telling her everything she’d ever felt about her mother. As another way of honoring her mother, Sara O’Brian started Breast Fest. O’Brian, a senior from Haddon Township, N.J., was busy at work Thursday [...]

Spanks for the memories

The Red & Black Spank me, please. Offering one of the more blistering publicity stunts on campus, the guys behind the “Damn! Show” enticed students to purge themselves of guilt by receiving a spanking from area strippers. Some were timid, some were bold, but all were smacked. One student who partook of the public beating [...]

Brewfest: Charity, beer from all over on tap

The Red & Black Hey, wanna get a beer? The Classic City Brewfest, an annual fund raiser for the AIDS Coalition of Northeast Georgia, will have 150 beers from around the world for sampling. The event, kind of like a wine sampling, offers patrons 1.5-ounce samples of each brew. Last year, the event raised more [...]

Swing band comes to Athens

The Red & Black A Cherry Poppin’ Daddies show has swinging grooves, wicked ska and some piercing sounds. University Union brings the eclectic, swing-influenced ska band to the Classic Center tonight. In an ongoing effort by Union staffers, bigger bands of a more national caliber are being scheduled for performances at the University. Maya Shirley, [...]

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