> Griffinite Kristen Fountain Davis owns and operates KFD Designs, an Atlanta-based interior design and decorative painting company. She spends her days decorating clients’ homes, painting furniture, and gathering inspiration by reading home design blogs. This job description warrants KFD to be The Grip’s first feature in “Kick @$$ Jobs.” For more pictures of her […]

>If you want to skip the trip to Atlanta and stay in Griffin or close by for New Year’s Eve, you have several great dining and event choices: Sixth Street Pier is featuring a New Year’s Eve surf and turf special.  One four-ounce filet with blue cheese and white wine sauce and crab-stuffed shrimp with  caper dill sauce.  Served with […]

> Young Hines, 34, has toured the U.S. and world with various bands, including Beatles tribute bands The Roaches and American English, and local bands Bailey Jester and Deadwood. Though he now resides in Nashville, Tenn., he says he’s never quit calling Griffin “home.” During his most recent trip home, he performed “Happy Christmas (War […]

> The Flint River Regional Library book club meets monthly at the public library on Memorial Drive every second Tuesday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Their next meeting will be on January 13, 2011.  Evans Millican, public services librarian, says club will discuss A Chesapeake Shores Christmas by Sherryl Woods.  Millican says that the club includes all types […]

> The Griffin Ballet Theatre will perform its annual production of “The Nutcracker” November 26-28 at the Griffin Auditorium. Though the company has performed “The Nutcracker” for the last 16 years, GBT director Mitch Flanders makes sure audiences always have a reason to return year after year. “Every year we add something new to the […]

>A local favorite country band, The Ben Ratliff Band, will take their show on the road to Wild Bills in Duluth tonight. Doors will open at 8 p.m. Band members include Jerry Walker on guitar and vocals; Matt Mcdaniel playing the banjo, piano and other various instruments; Mike Natale on drums; Mike Williamson on bass […]

>Freedom Chicken Whirligig, Chicks n’all, and Ms. Nosey are some of the titles of creative and fascinating folk art works arriving at Thomaston Upson Arts Council for the October 9 Folk Art Village Sale and Reception. Bluebird Artisan Guild and TUAC have teamed up to bring Southern and Georgia Folk Arts to Thomaston this weekend […]

> Starting this Friday, October 8, local musicians that sing and write their own music will finally have an outlet. David Fountain, organizer of the showcases, hopes it will give the artists in the Griffin area a chance to perform some of their own music, instead of being “exploited to play covers at local bars […]

> Fall and cooler weather has officially arrived, which means it’s time for a Kiwanis corndog and a ride on the Ferris Wheel.  The 64th annual Spalding County Fair will be open October 7-16 and in addition to all of your favorite rides (some of which didn’t make it last year, but L.V. Skipper assures THE PAPER that everyone’s favorites […]