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    49 Winchester bringing its Virginia-style alt-country music to Athens
    Classic City News
    • Apr 28
    • 1 min

    49 Winchester bringing its Virginia-style alt-country music to Athens

    Southwest Virginia based alt-country outfit 49 Winchester will be performing at Southern Brewing Company on Thursday, May 5th with...
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    Week of Athens Pride festivities to begin this evening
    Classic City News
    • Nov 8, 2021
    • 3 min

    Week of Athens Pride festivities to begin this evening

    By Joe Johnson Athens PRIDE today begins weeklong festivities to celebrate the local LGBTQ+ community. “We’re just encouraging everyone...
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    Athens first-ever poet laureate to make first public appeance Saturday
    Classic City News
    • Sep 23, 2021
    • 1 min

    Athens first-ever poet laureate to make first public appeance Saturday

    The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission (ACAC) announces the inaugural Poet Laureate, Jeff Fallis, in a new program funded and...
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    Whitehall roundabout sculpture to be dedicated
    Classic City News
    • Sep 23, 2021
    • 1 min

    Whitehall roundabout sculpture to be dedicated

    A new public artwork, funded by TSPLOST 2018, by local artist Joni Younkins-Herzog, has been installed in the Whitehall roundabout...
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    The Red & Black Launches Art for Athens 2 Fundraiser
    Classic City News
    • Apr 9, 2021
    • 2 min

    The Red & Black Launches Art for Athens 2 Fundraiser

    By The Red & Black Staff With the anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Red & Black is offering a way for consumers and...
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    Carl Holty: Romantic Modernist work on display at Georgia Museum of Art
    Classic City News
    • Sep 8, 2020
    • 1 min

    Carl Holty: Romantic Modernist work on display at Georgia Museum of Art

    Throughout a career spanning more than five decades, the artist Carl Holty investigated the evolving language of 20th-century modernist...
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    East Athens Educational Dance Center continues fall program registration
    Classic City News
    • Aug 26, 2020
    • 1 min

    East Athens Educational Dance Center continues fall program registration

    Get to the pointe and enroll in a dance class offered by the East Athens Educational Dance Center. A wide selection of classes, for the...
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    ACC Library to hold online class on checking out and downloading books
    Classic City News
    • Jun 11, 2020
    • 1 min

    ACC Library to hold online class on checking out and downloading books

    The Athens-Clarke County Library will be hosting a free online class about RBDigital on Tuesday, June 16, at 10 a.m. RBDigital is the...
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    Georgia Museum of Art receives large gift of ‘cutting-edge’ contemporary art
    Classic City News
    • Mar 6, 2020
    • 3 min

    Georgia Museum of Art receives large gift of ‘cutting-edge’ contemporary art

    By Hillary Brown/UGAToday The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia received a major gift from John and Sara Shlesinger...
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    Athens PRIDE to host 5th annual Queer Prom
    Classic City News
    • Mar 5, 2020
    • 1 min

    Athens PRIDE to host 5th annual Queer Prom

    "When Stars Align" is the theme of this year's Queer Prom, hosted by Athens PRIDE. The event, scheduled to be held March 21 at Little...
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    Lost painting by Cecilia Beaux finds new home in Georgia
    Classic City News
    • Feb 28, 2020
    • 2 min

    Lost painting by Cecilia Beaux finds new home in Georgia

    By Keyonna Brannam/UGA The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is launching a new series of long-term exhibitions...
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    Youth workshop to be offered on art of writing 'Thank You' notes
    Classic City News
    • Feb 28, 2020
    • 2 min

    Youth workshop to be offered on art of writing 'Thank You' notes

    A special thank-you note writing workshop for young people will be offered at 3 p.m. March 1 to benefit Family Promise (formerly...
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    UGA research: Warnings can alert consumers to ‘fake’ news
    Classic City News
    • Feb 5, 2020
    • 3 min

    UGA research: Warnings can alert consumers to ‘fake’ news

    By Sarah Freeman/UGAToday Being reminded about the existence of misinformation disguised as legitimate news can boost news readers’...
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    ACC Library to host Athens author Noel Holston
    Classic City News
    • Jan 26, 2020
    • 1 min

    ACC Library to host Athens author Noel Holston

    The Athens-Clarke County Library will host Noel Holston on Sunday, Feb. 9, at 3 p.m., as he shares his critically acclaimed memoir, Life...
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    Film Series: Alfred Hitchcock in Color
    Classic City News
    • Jan 7, 2020
    • 2 min

    Film Series: Alfred Hitchcock in Color

    This series features three films in which Hitchcock uses color to further the meaning and ideas of his films. Each screening will be...
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    African-American music heritage in Athens: an evening of presentations
    Classic City News
    • Jan 3, 2020
    • 2 min

    African-American music heritage in Athens: an evening of presentations

    In celebration of the upcoming launch of the downtown Athens Music Walk of Fame, the Lyndon House Arts Center and the Athens Cultural...
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    Tiffany glass exhibition to be on display at UGA
    Classic City News
    • Jan 2, 2020
    • 4 min

    Tiffany glass exhibition to be on display at UGA

    Although best known for his work in glass, Louis Comfort Tiffany worked in nearly all the media available to artists and designers in the...
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    Georgia Museum of Art to feature Italian Renaissance drawings
    Classic City News
    • Dec 17, 2019
    • 3 min

    Georgia Museum of Art to feature Italian Renaissance drawings

    When we think of Renaissance art, we usually think of paintings, but from the 16th century on Italian artists focused on drawing just as...
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    Acrocats to perform at Morton Theatre
    Classic City News
    • Dec 12, 2019
    • 1 min

    Acrocats to perform at Morton Theatre

    The Amazing Acro-cats Featuring Tuna and the Rock Cats are a troupe of rescued house cats that will be providing a one-of-a-kind...
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    "The Monsters Are Due on Broad Street: Patrick Dean"
    Classic City News
    • Nov 21, 2019
    • 3 min

    "The Monsters Are Due on Broad Street: Patrick Dean"

    If you lived in Athens between 1997 and 2006, you saw the cartoonist Patrick Dean’s work weekly in Flagpole magazine, whether on a cover,...
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