Flagpole Magazine

07/25/2025

To better serve those in need, the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia has increased its capacity.

In Northeast Georgia, 91,000 people don’t know where their next meal is coming from, and one-third of them are children. The Food Bank of Northeast Georgia has a mission to assure that every neighbor has enough food every day. Who is a neighbor? Anyone needing help.  With 35 full-time employees, ...

07/23/2025

Sheriff John Q. Williams addressed the source of fentanyl entering the jail last week.

The synthetic opioid fentanyl contributed to at least two of four recent inmate deaths at the Athens-Clarke County Jail and two nonfatal overdoses, Sheriff John Q. Williams said last week. Autopsies have not yet been completed, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, but Williams said at a...

07/22/2025

This week's recap from Athens GA Live Music features Beer P**s, Real Wow, KIT, Violent Violet, UDDER 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...

07/21/2025

Listeners have a few weeks to settle in with the album ahead of its release show on Aug. 2 at The Rialto Club.

The Deadwood Guitar Sessions: Volume I has two stories to tell: one of the instruments themselves, repurposed from fallen trees within Georgia, and one of the close bonds between longtime friends who view music as a second language with one another. Rick Fowler, Michael Doke and Greg Veale first rec...

07/18/2025

Our Back-to-School issues on August 13th & 20th will feature previews of what's happening in Athens this fall. We've got a special deal for advertisers, too! Contact [email protected] for details.

07/17/2025

The Athens Pride & Q***r Collective recently named its first-ever executive director, and the Firefly Trail has received a grant.

The most recent count of homeless individuals in Athens, conducted on Jan. 29, found 543 people living outdoors, in shelters or in various types of supportive or transitional housing, down from 585 last year. And officials hope that a new “coordinated entry” tool can help them bring that number ...

07/17/2025

The Georgia Museum of Art will hold an opening reception for the exhibition tomorrow evening.

In the early 20th century, Paris presented something America couldn’t: independence. For a generation of women, the City of Light offered liberation from the constraints of gender, race, class and convention—and the chance to remake their lives on their own terms. A new exhibition at the Georgia...

07/16/2025

Limited time ice skating at the Akins Ford Arena is happening this week.

Akins Ford Arena is offering a fun way to beat the summer heat by opening up its indoor ice skating rink to the public. The arena opened last December and has since housed Rock Lobsters hockey games, monster truck shows, a music history collection and more. Its state-of-the-art rink offers the perfe...

07/16/2025

Both local organizations are working on modernizing their facilities.

The two organizations are unrelated, but the YWCO and YMCA share similar missions, play similar roles in the Athens community, and both are embarking on capital campaigns to expand and modernize their facilities. The YWCO recently sold a 22-acre parcel it had purchased in 2007, when a senior housing...

07/16/2025

Listen to the album ahead of its official release this Friday.

Today, Real Wow shares the upcoming Hello, I Hope This Finds You Well debut album in its entirety ahead of its official Bandcamp release on Friday, July 18. The “noisy, kinda proggy” post-rock band is led by Kemp Stroble on guitar and vocals joined by Mat Lewis, Kris Deason and Charlie Estes. He...