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Category: Athens
The Day Kurt Died
Han Vance on American music: I was working in a coffeehouse, the original such of the nationally so-called first-wave of indie coffeehouses in Athens, Ga., the day Kurt Cobain died: April 5th, 1994. I was in a bit of a malaise. Waiting around the town for my felt-like-a-very-long-time at the time on, then off for… Continue reading The Day Kurt Died
Clayton Brookshire’s Creative Blasts
Lucy Holly on American art: hecklehammer was the first thing we all discussed, after Angelo. Clayton Brookshire is a multi-hyphenate artist-rocker-craftsman out of Athens, Ga. He had apparently introduced us, here at American Culture Reporter, to creative Angelo T. Robinson, of Senoia, Ga., and we featured Angelo’s visual art in an article by editor-in-chief Han… Continue reading Clayton Brookshire’s Creative Blasts
Angelo’s Angles: ATR-Art for the Love of Color
HAN on American artists: Angelo T. Robinson creates from a sprawling home studio in Senoia, Ga. Around 30 miles outside Atlanta, he’s near enough to the city to use its energy and resources, yet far enough removed for tranquility. He describes himself as a self-taught creative, feeling that he can learn to do too many… Continue reading Angelo’s Angles: ATR-Art for the Love of Color
Hail Neopsychedelia
AMERICAN CULTURE REPORTER (Han Vance, inside an Anish Kapoor piece at the HIGH Museum Atlanta) On Music: All hail the psychedelic musical vibes still brewing in these United States of America, a nation who could desperately use a dose of counterculture as a break from all the bad news we continue to regularly make.… Continue reading Hail Neopsychedelia
Ripley Takes on Slingshot
Davis Ripley Keller for American Culture Reporter: Have you been to Athens, GA on a cool spring Saturday night? Flowers have bloomed and trees sway in the wind as shadows dance on the sidewalk around you to music that seeps and spills from rooftops and doorways. The streets are palpably excited and drivers cuss and… Continue reading Ripley Takes on Slingshot