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Flicker Theatre & Bar

Athens is

n Legendary clubs – 40 Watt Club, The
Akins Ford Arena

Cross over the cheerful rainbow crosswalks downtown Foundry, and The Georgia Theatre
– shine their spotlights on bands.
The Classic Center Theatre and UGA
to visit more than 100 bars, restaurants, and locally Performing Arts Center are spacious
inspired shops. venues that host symphonies, Broadway
shows, and special performances.
ake a date with friends for and Of Montreal, to name a few, while WUOG 90.5 FM is UGA’s only student-
visits to area museums and providing packed venues for defining era
M attractions, performances, and bands like Nirvana, The Black Crowes, and run alternative media outlet. Perhaps
more, which make Athens a city known Pearl Jam in their formative years. you’ll find your own copies of favorite
both as the best place to be in school and songs the station is playing when
to retire! This is Athens, and it is On. The brand-new Akins Ford Arena you visit Wuxtry Records, a store that
elevates the scene with an 8,500-seat has been buying, selling, and trading
Athens is an oasis of musical inspiration. venue for music and sports. The inaugural vinyl records since 1976 in its “walk-in
It came to prominence in the late 1970s calendar welcomed audiences to museum of the greatest music of the
when the B-52s and R.E.M. emerged. enjoy performances by country stars last century.” Night clubs and area coffee
Athens keeps turning out renowned bands Riley Green, Parker McCollum, and shops round out the showcase of Athens’
like Widespread Panic, Drive-By Truckers, Megan Moroney. musical aptitude almost nightly.

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