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Wee Read Olympics brings books to children

When kids can’t read good, sentences just like this one can happen, so it’s a good thing the Olympics were founded in Athens. On Saturday the preliminary round of the “Wee Read Olympics” kicks off with the goal of raising money for the Wee Read program for increasing childhood literacy. “What we do is we [...]

Budding debaters welcomed to Oxford standoff

The British are coming! The British are coming! And so are the fifth graders. Hosting the fourth in a triannual series of debates between the University and Oxford University of England, the UGA at Oxford study abroad program welcomes four members of the Oxford Union Society today.   Joining the audience is a group of [...]

THE GATEKEEPER: Art sculptor fuses ironwork with nature

Andrew Crawford walks with a swinging gait toward his artwork — which happens to be a swinging gate. “Making artwork is like a muscle; you’ve got to keep it going,” said Crawford, founder of Andrew T Crawford Ironworks Inc. of Atlanta, a business he started after graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in [...]

UGA Idol features talented students

Turn off the TV — Idol is coming to Athens. Sigma Delta Tau’s ninth annual UGA Idol, a campus-wide singing competition, is back to raise more money for children in need. “The cool thing about this year is a lot of the people are playing their own instruments or have live accompaniment, which is something [...]

Author calls mountain cabin ‘home’

You never know where author Josh Weil will be. “I’ve lived a pretty peripatetic life, bounced around a lot,” Weil said. Born in southwest Virginia, Weil moved to east Africa and experienced his earliest memories in Malawi, where his father, a professor of soil science at the University of Maryland, conducted research. At the age [...]

Festival relies on donations

Break out the popcorn — or matzo balls — for the Athens Jewish Film Festival opening this weekend. Running Saturday through Wednesday at Ciné, the festival promises a fun debut, replete with food, live music and, of course, a film. “The experience will be one of a party followed by a movie,” said Abraham Tesser, [...]

Flicker gets ‘Kinky’:Bar offers ‘lovers luau’ with band

Flicker Theatre & Bar is getting Kinky for Valentine’s Day, and one thing will definitely be on its agenda. “Relaxation is the idea — a brain massage — however you want to put it,” said guitar and ukulele player Allen Owens. “It’s basically lap steel cocktail music.” Athens’ own Hawaiian band, Kinky Waikiki, will be [...]

Artist receives coveted honor from Lamar Dodd

David Humphrey sits in his studio at the Lamar Dodd School of Art on a sofa he has pulled in from the hallway — he is sitting comfortably. “I think maybe it’s been used in life drawing classes, so I think there’s been a lot of nudes on this couch,” Humphrey said. But Humphrey, this [...]

Artist pursues solo effort after signing

Kuroma frontman Hank Sullivant is no new kid on the block. “I formed The Whigs with Parker [Gispert] and Julian [Dorio] my freshman year at UGA, and we played all through college,” Sullivant said. “Towards the end of college, we finally got around to making our first album, and we self-released that and got signed [...]

Sandy Creek Park to host viewing of three planets: Sight is out of this world; Jupiter eclipses visible

Between Uranus and the moon, plenty will be on display in tonight’s sky — hopefully. “This’ll be the fall star watch, in which we’ll be looking at craters on the moon, the large planet Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, provided that the weather cooperates,” said Maurice Snook, a self-described “dedicated amateur astronomer.” Snook is a member [...]

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