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Strawberry season in Georgia has arrived and local berries are ripe and ready for Athenians. The berry’s season in Georgia starts in April, and Sundance Family Farm is just one of many Athens area farms that began its harvest earlier this month. The organic farm is located just outside Athens in Danielsville in the rural part of Madison County. Turning into the farm, visitors will find a small patch of strawberries to the left, potentially with Uriel Hernandez harvesting the fruit. Hernande...

Updated / Thursday, 22 Apr 2021 14:34 To celebrate Earth Day, Ecolution, our climate action podcast, commissioned the animation students of Coláiste Dhúlaigh College of Further Education to create seven bespoke cartoons. Audio clips from Ecolution were given to the students and then they were allowed to create whatever visuals they thought fit the bill, Creature Comforts Style. What they delivered is a glorious celebration of nature, the outdoors and the place kids have found for play and re...

“We’re looking forward to some great spring weather and drinking some beer,” Watts said.  While local breweries such as Creature Comforts and Southern Brewing reopened their tasting room doors to customers last summer, Terrapin hasn’t been open to the public in more than 390 days while it has continued distribution and curbside service.  The brewery officially reopens its tasting room at 3 p.m. Friday for the first time since March 14 of last year when it shut down becaus...

In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic shut down businesses, leaving the streets of Athens empty and online businesses emerging. Since then, student entrepreneurs at the University of Georgia have had to get creative with the ways they run their businesses due to the pandemic. The businesses that have found the most success in the pandemic are those that became comfortable with working online, according to Forbes. As of February 2021, 10% of small business owners have shut down their businesses a...

Pete Docter Sets Animated Feature Category Record With Soul Nomination Everett Docter earned his fourth animated feature category nom as a director for the jazz-infused movie, while Wolfwalkers helmer Tomm Moore collected his third nom. Soul director Pete Docter earned his fourth nomination for best animated feature, a record for the category, which was first awarded in 2002. He won the category twice, for Up (2009) and Inside Out (2015), and was additionally nominated for 2001s Monsters, In...

Pete Docter Sets Animated Feature Category Record With ‘Soul’ Nomination Carolyn Giardina Soul Soul director Pete Docter earned his fourth nomination for best animated feature, a record for the category, which was first awarded in 2002. He won the category twice, for Up (2009) and Inside Out (2015), and was additionally nominated for 2001’s Monsters, Inc. in the category’s debut year. Docter has nine Oscar nominations in total, also having earned screenplay noms fo...

The Skinny Poppy Hillstead Enters Our Chat As series three of her podcast drops, Poppy Hillstead talks Pixar, mumblers, BTS fans and people’s enduring unease with the word ‘clitoris’ Feature by Louis Cammell | 10 Mar 2021 When the hugely popular  Gossipmongers podcast re-emerged in September 2020, people had just one question: Where’s Poppy? Poppy Hillstead, one of the pods original host trio, eventually broke her silence on Twitter to say that she’d been kicked off th...

Fortnite wraps the first-ever film festival hosted by a video game, Short Nite Bench by Rich Webber Fortnite has wrapped the first film festival hosted by a video game, Short Nite. The free-to-access, 24-hour event included 12 animated shorts, such as Rich Webbers Creature Comforts and the Gobelins lEcole de lImage project Oktopodi. Short Nite represented an unprecedented marketing opportunity, as the shorts were broadcast within a video game that, according to the figures provided by publis...

Creature Comforts and the Gobelins lEcole de lImage project Oktopodi. Short Nite represented an unprecedented marketing opportunity, as the shorts were broadcast within a video game that, according to the figures provided by publisher Epic Games, has over 350 million registered players. The event kicked off on Saturday 20 February at 2 pm ET. (The article continues below - Commercial information) Fortnite was released in July 2017 and is currently available in three distinct versions sharing t...

As Athens restaurants, bars and eateries adjust to social distancing requirements and changing state policies during the coronavirus pandemic, their operations change frequently. Here’s this week’s roundup of restaurant news. Don’t forget to stay up to date with our comprehensive restaurant guide. The Athens Farmers Market is starting early According to a press release, the market at Bishop Park is opening two weeks early this year on Saturday, March 6. Only 50 people can shop at...