U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff has written a letter to the head of the Department of Homeland Security pressing for details about a rumored Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility planned for a ...

Athens-Clarke County transportation officials are creating a new online dashboard tracking car crashes, injuries and deaths. Last year, 10 fatal crashes killed 14 people in Athens—a number exacerbated ...

The University of Georgia Performing Arts Center will host the truly spectacular Japanese drumming troupe Drum Tao. This performance, which mixes traditional Japanese drumming (wadaiko) with ...

Athens retro steel-guitar band Kinky Waikiki is heading up a benefit show for local mental health and musicians’ resource ...

Based in Oita Prefecture, Drum Tao is a wadaiko ensemble created on a foundation of Japanese tradition and blended with modern music and design. At the center of the performances are large taiko drums ...

A hearing requesting a retrial for Jose Ibarra, the immigrant convicted of killing Athens nursing student Laken Riley in 2024 ...

Woodcuts, lithography, screen printing, letterpress, etching, linocuts—all of these (and more) are printmaking, “the medium of the reproducible,” as Kayla Hall describes it. Hall is a member of the ...

With Gregory Frederick and Frank Russell behind the camera, Athens GA Live Music seeks to document local and touring bands ...

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Plenty of post-Billy Strings shows will be happening to accompany the picker’s visit to Athens, including Sicard Hollow at Live Wire after both shows and Captain Midnight Band at Nowhere Bar after the ...

Ad astra per aspera” is an ancient Latin phrase meaning “to the stars through hardships.” Forty years ago, the harrowing hardships of questing for the stars were seen in cold Florida skies when the ...

House Republicans have proposed a major property tax overhaul that they say will save Georgia homeowners money but eliminate a reliable source of revenue for counties, cities and schools. Under the ...