Athens News

The Skinny: Terrapin Brewing started as a small brewery out of Athens, Georgia and rose to become one of the largest breweries in the Southeastern United States.

Blackberry Smoke is a hard-working Southern-rock band in perpetual motion. Over the last three years, the Atlanta-based group has opened for the likes of ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Shooter Jennings, Cross Canadian Ragweed, and the Zac Brown Band.

ATHENS, Ga. -- Germany's consul general to Atlanta is set to give a talk at the University of Georgia on the European common currency.

The relationship between Joseph Dinnan and Betsy Kingston's families span about 50 years; Dinnan's father knew Kingston's grandfather.

Sammy Mattox, left, and Frank Perry sit at a table for dinner at the Bigger Vision Shelter on Tuesday, January 31, 2012.

ATHENS, Ga. - In a verdant park tucked away in this southern college town sits a partially demolished railroad trestle.

Growing up, my parents pushed us a lot to have what they called "broadening experiences." That resulted in things like two families piled in station wagons to see the "Mona Lisa" at the High Museum in Atlanta, home visits from many visiting international Girl Scouts and musicians, and visiting historic sites in our limited travels.

Investigators not only found stolen electronics when they searched a home on Athens' Westside last week - they also stumbled onto a sophisticated movie-pirating operation.

Richard Hamm/Staff A large construction fence stand in front of empty retail spaces before construction begins on an expansion of the Kroger Grocery Store in the Alps Shopping Center in Athens, Ga.

Kevin Langston, the state deputy director of tourism, recently took his teenage son on the Athens Convention and Visitors Bureau's music history tour, which includes the clubs and DIY venues where bands like R.E.M., Pylon and the B-52s got their starts.

Tsu carves out time every day to rest her busy mind and ease her stress levels. She enjoys cooking and spending time with friends.

Editor's note: There's always so much going on everywhere in Athens: bands and classes and downtown shenanigans.

Veteran pop-rock group the B-52's are set to play their 35th anniversary gig in the same town where it all began: Athens, Georgia.

The Camp 97 Sons of Confederate Veterans will host a "mini-ramble" at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Oconee County Library in Watkinsville.

In a small neighborhood park in Athens, Georgia, is a large white oak with unprecedented legal status and a legendary epithet.

Richard Hamm/Staff Athens-Clarke County Police Chief Jack Lumpkin speaks during a Black History Month assembly at Oglethorpe Avenue Elementary School on Friday, Feb.

The first of many acts to cement the college town of Athens, GA, as a hotbed of alternative music, the B-52's took their name from the Southern slang for the mile-high bouffant wigs sported by singers Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson, a look emblematic of the band's campy, thrift-store aesthetic.

The general evaluation of burlesque everywhere you go is that Valentine's Day is indeed a burlesque high holiday.

A judge this morning sentenced 47-year-old Avery Christopher Bradford to life in prison without parole, two weeks after a Clarke County jury convicted him of preying on homeless women in Athens who he beat, raped and sodomized.

State officials have fired a correctional officer they say had an inappropriate relationship with an Athens teenager who was being held in the Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center.