This article explores how Athfest brings the city together and cements the Athens music culture to our identity as a city. The article is interesting and relevant because Athfest is still a major festival each year, though the bands change. Music is a huge part of Athens lifestyle and entirely important to this beat.
This article is from the AJC and centers around a specific fashion boutique in Atlanta that dares to usurp the standard fashion motifs of the early 2000s. Though the article is about a specific store in a different city than Athens, it remains relevant as fashion and lifestyle is all about coming up with the new and daring and opposing the norm.
This somewhat comically written article from the AJC in 2005 is hitting on a then unknown trend of marking up common articles of clothing. A $100 tee shirt was unheard of when the article was put out, but is now common-place, if not still laughable, in today’s culture. With every celebrity starting their own fashion line and putting out exorbitantly priced basics, this article is a touchstone to the beginning of a major trend.