• Grub Notes: Weaver D's Is Closing for Real

  By Hillary Brown | November 4, 2013 12:20pm

  

  This post could stand with just its title. The details are almost beside the point. When you've already threatened to close and then put your business up for sale officially, the announcement that you really, really are closing this time (which came today via owner Dexter Weaver's Facebook page) isn't a surprise, even if it is a sadness after 27-plus years.

  The announcement, after the jump.

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• In the Loop: Athens Transit Might Raise Bus Fares

  By Blake Aued | October 28, 2013 3:41pm

  

  Athens Transit will hold a public hearing on the proposed fare increase from 2–3 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29 at the Multimodal Center.

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• In the Loop: How Paul Broun and a Handful of Tea Party Congressmen Shut Down the Government

  By Blake Aued | October 3, 2013 12:39pm

  

  Last week, The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza wrote about 80 Republican congressmen who forced House Speaker John Boehner into the politically disastrous course of demanding the repeal of the Affordable Care Act or else shutting down the government. Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer dubbed them "the suicide caucus."

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• In the Loop: Surprise, Surprise: A Historic Buena Vista House Has Been Torn Down

  By Blake Aued | September 12, 2013 4:07pm

  As predicted, a century-old cottage that was left out of the Buena Vista historic district last year has been demolished. Homebuilder Jared York took down the cottage at 167 Park Ave. today.

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• Homedrone: R.I.P. Birdhouse Collection

  By Gabe Vodicka | July 25, 2013 2:21pm

  

  It's better to burn out… Well, you know the rest. Word has come down from several members of local musicians' collective the Birdhouse Collection (read our recent feature story on the group) that the group has all but dissolved. The Birdhouse Bandcamp page features a message that reads, "The end. The music that is here will stay, new music will be elsewhere. This is not abandonment, it is progression."

  But, according to some members of the collective, the dissolution is less amicable than that statement would seem to indicate.

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• In the Loop: Downtown Traffic Is About to Get Worse

  By Blake Aued | July 24, 2013 1:06pm

  

  For the next six to eight weeks, workers will be repaving almost five miles of West Broad Street, Oconee Street, Oak Street and Lexington Road, aka U.S. Highway 78 and State Route 10.

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• In the Loop: Fourth of July, I Mean Star-Spangled Classic, Canceled

  By Gabe Vodicka | July 3, 2013 1:36pm

  

  Nope.

  First my barbecue, and now this? Another day of bummer summer weather, another holiday casualty. This just in from ACC:

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