You are here: Home - Archives for

Drag-queen divas dance for dollars

Panty hose and girdles helped men keep their girlish figures Friday night as Athens bars hosted the sixth annual Divas on Wheels traveling drag show.   Go, Tasty World, 283 and Boneshakers helped stage this year’s themed show, "Road Kill Rampage," which raised just under $700. Divas on Wheels serves as a precursor to Boybutante [...]

Different experiences enhance lifelong friendship

Radical feminism and traditional Islam — are these contradictory paths for similar women to take? As part of the ongoing celebration for Women’s History Month, the University will host today two female speakers who hope to deal with the answer to that question. Lois Banner and Noura Durkee will talk about their lifelong friendship in [...]

Funky Brass Monkey

A long-time fan of the Beastie Boys, I had to venture down to Brass Monkey on Clayton Street and drink one for the boys. The only thing I was left wondering as I entered the bar — is that monkey really funky? BRASS MONKEY 255 E. Clayton St. 354-0305 What’s in store? Brass Monkey is [...]

Shoki: Athens’ taste of Japan

"It’s only my second day," Bubba, the head chef at Shoki Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi Bar, says as he drops his spatula during his pre-food performance. "I just transferred from Waffle House." Bubba, who obviously is lying, knows, like my father always says, presentation is everything when it comes to food. And it doesn’t hurt [...]

Academic Building renamed

In a unanimous decision, the Board of Regents voted Wednesday to rename the Academic Building on North Campus after the first two black undergraduates to apply to the University, said Arlethia Perry-Johnson, spokeswoman for the Board of Regents. The new name for the building will be the Holmes-Hunter Academic Building in honor of Hamilton Holmes [...]

Committee to decide today about renaming the Academic building in honor of Holmes and Hunter

The committee selected to discuss the renaming of the University’s Academic Building recommended Tuesday that the Board of Regents approve the motion, said John Millsaps, spokesman for the Board of Regents.   The Board of Regents will decide today whether to rename the building the Holmes-Hunter Academic Building after Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter, the [...]

Building may be renamed

The University is awaiting a decision from the Board of Regents to name the Academic Building on North Campus in honor of the first black undergraduates admitted to the University 40 years ago, Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes. The Board of Regents will decide today at its monthly meeting in Atlanta if the building will [...]

Communiversity brings carnival ‘Into the Streets’

Communiversity, the largest volunteer organization on campus, is sponsoring a carnival at the Tate Student Center today from noon to 5 in an effort to raise money for Project SAFE, a local battered women’s and children’s shelter. The carnival will feature a dunking booth, a cottoncandy stand, a flowerpot painting station, a silent auction, a [...]

Voters face long waits at polls

The dismal weather could not keep voters from casting their ballots for the state and presidential elections Tuesday, with some left waiting up to two hours to get into the doors of voting booths.   Voters started the day early, some showing up as the doors opened at 7 a.m., but the eager were not [...]

Palestinian journalists visit the Grady school

Approximately 100 students and faculty attended a roundtable discussion Friday led by Palestinian journalists and Andy Kavoori, a professor in the Telecommunications Department.   The journalists, invited to the United States by the United Nations, are visiting Atlanta for two weeks before departing to Washington, D.C., and New York City, where they will be attending [...]

Next Page »