Local Roots

Eat on the Street at CED’s Food Cart Festival!

The students of the UGA College of Environment and Design (CED) encourage you to “Mobilize Your Appetite” as they stage a Food Cart Festival celebrating local and regional food production. An outgrowth of the CED’s CounterSPACE project, the street food festival is designed to raise awareness of the many benefits of mobile food vending for the Athens community. The event will feature food trucks from Atlanta as well as Athens food vendors, including an empanada cart, FarmCart, La Fonda Dawgs, and King of Pops.

Film Flam

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A few months ago, I was sitting outside of a local coffee shop with a close knit group of family and friends. Fueled by libations and hookah smoke, the discussions covered a wide range of topics. Since one of the persons at the round table was friend and film aficionado Blaine Whittle, the conversation was bound to land on the subject of movies. As it happened before, a mind-blowing coincidence landed in my lap when Blaine had asked if I had ever seen the 1973 film O' LUCKY MAN! directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Malcolm McDowell.

Get Moving

How to Catch the Running Bug

Running is a way of life. It is a way to keep you going, to challenge yourself physically and mentally, and to stay fit. It is the perfect way to explore Athens, especially while the colors of spring are blooming.

Anyone can catch the running bug and experience the runner’s high that morphs running into a life-long commitment.

Pedal Power

Tis the Biking Season… Bike While Watching Your Budget

As March rolls in, so does the beginning of bicycling season and additional group bicycle rides. Of course, Athens cyclists have enjoyed unseasonably warm weather throughout the winter; but with the start of daylight savings time, the group bicycling opportunities will increase by 500%.

To Your Health

Fighting the Battle, Winning the Game

Soon after moving to Athens, I landed a job at Earth Fare. I found myself surrounded by foods foreign to me. I was determined to not only learn how to cook these foods but also to discover the benefits they could provide me.

After years of poor eating and not being active, I was anxious to change my lifestyle and ready to make the transformation. Every week after

Bertis Downs

“When I came out of law school, my goal was to get a job in legal services, poverty law. I’d worked at a prison in North Carolina and a jail in Atlanta. All through college I was really interested in issues like the death penalty and legal aid. But the year I got out of law school happened to be the year that Ronald Reagan had just been elected, and all the budgets were very much in jeopardy, nobody was hiring. Companies were laying people off, there were hiring freezes.”