Correction appended Editor’s Note: This is the first in a two-part series examining the history of gay culture in Athens. Look out for the second, which heads on campus. Once a month, Athens comes out. Smokers lounge on the patio, hopping through conversations, while inside patrons at the bar watch a younger crowd dance to [...]

Bass rumbles through the floor and walls of the small sweatbox of a venue. The DJ shouts into a microphone to rev up the crowd as he tweaks the knobs of an interface and scrolls through his MacBook Pro. Teenagers and 20-somethings grind and thrust to the beats with glow sticks and beers in hands [...]

Editor’s note: Athens is full of the smell of American Spirits and the sound of Bon Iver and the sights of too much American Apparel. But what is a hipster, really? Jason Flynn spent a week downtown — and gave us this. Spots to frequent: Jittery Joe’s The Globe Trappeze Two Story Transmet RPM MAX [...]

Editor’s note: for the last in our living cheap series, we look at students who microgrow — and brew. Some students are saving a little green by growing some. Brandon Siler, a senior from Athens majoring in horticulture, has been growing vegetables his whole life. He is the groundskeeper of his mother’s Athens home, where [...]

Engaging in intimate relations with more than one partner may be a rare experience for some, but for the LGBT community, polyamory — or having multiple partners at the same time — is becoming an increasing college trend. Rachel Kaplan, a sophomore and organizer of “Let’s Talk About It!: Big Love,” understands the appeal of [...]

Upon arriving at the University, we are given a marvelous playground: lights wink in friendly fashion from the fronts of Broad Street, and invite us to sing a song, down a pint, have a laugh, see a movie. We all love downtown. And in hopes of aiding those who wish to make their own downtown [...]

Courtney Messerschmidt started as a joke. The author of foreign policy blog “Great Satan’s Girlfriend,” Messerschmidt claimed to be a 21-year-old University socialite who sought knowledge between parties. She came to The Red & Black’s attention as a hip informant to the “highest ‘diplopolitary’ levels of American, Allied and Enemy Commands.” Among her claimed readership: [...]

Hilary Hogg has a fever — and the only cure is more thrifting. “All my friends say I have shopping fever,” said Hogg, a sophomore from Macon majoring in journalism. “People are like ‘Where do you shop’ and I’m like ‘Uhhh, Goodwill.’” What began as a hobby has become a habit and, to some, a [...]

Stop throwing away money to stand around at some bar. Stop paying for friends at fraternities. Hit up a house party. Ed Edderson of the Creature Castle pointed out many hip homes that often host ragers. “Plush Palace, Addieville, Thrash Castle, and any other fools out there bold enough to host awesome events in their [...]

As a practicing Jew, Breanne Robbins, a graduate student in landscape architecture, is committed to the tenets of her faith. Except one. “I do think that Judaism influences my view on abstinence and sex,” Robbins said. “But I’ve personally found that it’s not so much your religious orientation, but your friends. And I’ve found that [...]