Wired for art Noah Saunders bends his work to create human expression By John W. English “Wire is an untapped medium,” Noah Saunders began the conversation in his home-gallery-studio in Normaltown. “I like the way wire feels and that I can bend it into human expression.” Saunders’ living room walls are covered with his [...]
University of Georgia special education student Cassie Pickrell, 21, began bartending in November at Rye Bar, which in March earned bragging rights as the city’s best bar in the Athens Banner-Herald’s Bar Madness bracketed contest. Athens Magazine editor Don Nelson talked with Pickrell about her job. Name: Cassie Pickrell Hails from: Thomson Experience: Rye Bar [...]
By: Ivy Lee Julie Cannon, a member of the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation and the author of “The Homegrown Series” published by Simon & Schuster, moved to Clarke County from Tennessee as a child. “The girl in me still carries the memories of shelling butter beans out on the front porch during those hot, humid [...]
I’m not entirely sure what I was expecting as I first walked into the Chase St. Warehouses in search of Canopy. All I knew was that the studio offers Athens’ only flying dance and movement arts lessons, and I was about to become its newest pupil. Coming from a marginally athletic background, complete with [...]
Fine art photographer Mark Steinmetz thinks of his books as literary, because his photographs have a hint of visual narrative and he believes his pictures are full of subtle detail meant to be read, not just looked at. “My books are like modernist literature” he mused. “They present fragments rather than document.” Steinmetz’s five books [...]
Pure Pleasure Coleman Barks loves transforming Rumi’s poetry into English The punchline for Coleman Barks’ life was set up when he was only 7 years old. The Athens–based world–renowned poet and preeminent collaborative translator of Rumi was obsessed with geography, the way only children (and writers) can become consumed by a topic. He had memorized [...]
“The Thirteenth Summer” was written by a local author, the talented Elizabeth Laing Thompson, and boy, is it an adventure. Thirteen–year–old Crystal spends the summer with her somewhat–estranged father, rock–and–roll icon Rage Waters. Crystal is funny, self–deprecating, smart, and, like any teenager, hypersensitive and easily embarrassed. (Don’t let the cover design fool you — [...]
Mary Charles Jordan of Athens already knew she and her boyfriend would be married someday. After all, her boyfriend, Keenan Howard, had asked her parents’ permission for her hand in marriage during the Christmas holidays of 2009. Mary Charles just didn’t know the time and the place Howard would formally ask her. “I kept waiting [...]
