Culture coexists with the university students in creating an art scene, music scene and intellectual environment. The city has music venues, restaurants, bars, and coffee shops that cater to its creative climate.
Points of Interest
� The remaining one of two double barreled cannons produced during the American Civil War is located here.
� The "Tree That Owns Itself"-which now is an offspring of the original tree
� The Georgia Museum of Art, the official state museum of art
� The State Botanical Garden of Georgia
� The University of Georgia Campus Arboretum.
� The Globe bar was voted by Esquire magazine as the third top bar in America in 2007.
� Open since 1955, Allen's is Athens oldest bar and grill despite closing in 2004 and re-opening in 2007. Closed again in November, 2011.
� Network Translations, Inc. developed here. It produced the PIX firewall which was later purchased by Cisco Systems.
Music
The Athens music scene grew in the early 1970s and later during the 1980s with the Georgia Theatre and 40 Watt Club as the bands R.E.M. and the B-52's scored breakout hits. The original Allen's was one of the oldest bars in Athens. It closed in 2004 and re-opened in 2007 at a new location. Other notable bands were Widespread Panic, Dreams So Real, Indigo Girls, Matthew Sweet, The Method Actors, Love Tractor, Pylon, Flat Duo Jets, The Primates, Modern Skirts, The Whigs, and Corey Smith.
National acts that have come out of Athens include: Danger Mouse, Dreams So Real, alternative duo Jucifer, Vic Chesnutt, Drive-By Truckers, Elf Power, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Sunshine Fix, Bubba Sparxxx, Colt Ford, Brantley Gilbert, Corey Smith, Harvey Milk (band), The Olivia Tremor Control, of Montreal, Five Eight, Dead Confederate, Jet by
