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This week's recap from Athens GA Live Music features Historic Athens Porchfest, The Vegabonds, Karma Kat and more!
10/22/2025

This week's recap from Athens GA Live Music features Historic Athens Porchfest, The Vegabonds, Karma Kat and more!

With Gregory Frederick and Frank Russell behind the camera, Athens GA Live Music seeks to document local and touring bands gracing stages across the Classic City. Explore the whole archive and subscribe to the channel here. Get up to speed with recent performances below, and remember to check Flagpo...

This Sunday Oconee Hill Cemetery is hosting a Beyond the Gates twilight walking tour.
10/22/2025

This Sunday Oconee Hill Cemetery is hosting a Beyond the Gates twilight walking tour.

If you wander into almost any old cemetery around Athens, you’ll find yourself surrounded by not only the past, but also by an outdoor art gallery of sorts—funerary art, to be specific. Just what is funerary art, you might ask? It’s the carvings and symbols that are etched or marked into grave...

A new surveillance hub has opened that will greatly expand the ACCPD’s monitoring capabilities.
10/22/2025

A new surveillance hub has opened that will greatly expand the ACCPD’s monitoring capabilities.

The Athens-Clarke County Police Department opened a new surveillance hub last month called the “Real Time Crime Center,” which will greatly expand the department’s monitoring capabilities. Police believe the new center may lower crime rates by helping bring criminals to justice more quickly an...

The weathered cleared on Sunday just in time for a lovely afternoon of music on porches across the historic neighborhood...
10/21/2025

The weathered cleared on Sunday just in time for a lovely afternoon of music on porches across the historic neighborhoods.

Historic Athens Porchfest took over the historic neighborhoods near downtown once again Sunday, Oct. 19 at homes and businesses across the Boulevard, Buena Vista Heights, Cobbham, Newtown, Normaltown, Pulaski Heights and Reese neighborhoods. Flagpole photographer Kat Wood got a glimpse of the 260 pe...

The Cult opened for itself with a set of Death Cult songs on Saturday in Atlanta.
10/20/2025

The Cult opened for itself with a set of Death Cult songs on Saturday in Atlanta.

Even when The Cult solidly occupied spots in the U.S. charts, it was always a bubbling-under phenomenon in the States. While never second-tier in the songwriting department, the band, nevertheless, never reached that point of being first-in-mind when audiences spoke of their go-to hard rock bands. O...

There's only one king, and that's Kirby.
10/19/2025

There's only one king, and that's Kirby.

While the Georgia football game precluded a traditional downtown demonstration for the nationwide “No Kings” day of protest on Saturday, an estimated 5,000 people attended at three locations in Athens and another in Greensboro, according to the progressive group Indivisible Georgia 10th. That fi...

Due to the Georgia game, Athens' No Kings protest won't be a typical downtown demonstration.
10/18/2025

Due to the Georgia game, Athens' No Kings protest won't be a typical downtown demonstration.

In Athens, college football is the undisputed king, and so the “No Kings” rally this Saturday will look a little different than last time. Normally, political demonstrations happen at the Arch, the Tate Student Center or City Hall. Downtown is where more than 2,000 people gathered in June for th...

This week's recap from Athens GA Live Music features Mab s-Ban, Tyler Ramsey, Lex Hayley, Organically Programmed and mor...
10/16/2025

This week's recap from Athens GA Live Music features Mab s-Ban, Tyler Ramsey, Lex Hayley, Organically Programmed and more!

With Gregory Frederick and Frank Russell behind the camera, Athens GA Live Music seeks to document local and touring bands gracing stages across the Classic City. Explore the whole archive and subscribe to the channel here. Get up to speed with recent performances below, and remember to check Flagpo...

Sick of high power bills? Through Nov. 4, you can vote for the people who set the rates.
10/16/2025

Sick of high power bills? Through Nov. 4, you can vote for the people who set the rates.

For the first time in five years, Georgians have the opportunity to vote on the people who set their utility rates. Early voting started this week for two of the five seats on the Public Service Commission. PSC members represent districts, but are also elected statewide, and a lawsuit challenging th...

Representatives speak on the decision to redevelop the area.
10/16/2025

Representatives speak on the decision to redevelop the area.

Last week, the University of Georgia announced an exciting plan to redevelop the Legion Pool and Legion Field area of our main campus. The plan follows the recommendation of a university working group that spent six months considering the best use of this important space, which is surrounded by resi...

Looking for ways to make the best of your spooky season? Check out what's happening in and around Athens the rest of the...
10/15/2025

Looking for ways to make the best of your spooky season? Check out what's happening in and around Athens the rest of the month.

October is one of Athens’ months to shine, packed full of fall festivities and Halloween activities for all ages. One of the city’s landmark events and its largest Halloween celebration is the Wild Rumpus Parade & Spectacle, which will take place on Saturday, Oct. 25 with a parade, four-block fe...

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