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Advocates: Fewer rules on tree-cutting could harm environment, culture

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By Skyler Baldwin

The grand oak trees draped in Spanish moss lining several Lowcountry roadways are shielded from cutting by several layers of municipal protections. But a proposal that weakens those restrictions that was rejected by Charleston County Council on Nov. 30 is set to resurface later this month. Environmentalists remain worried by the proposal. The initial proposal would have given the county’s Public Works Department an exemption from the county’s rules governing tree removal and planning approval processes. It was, however, sent back to the county Planning Commission for some amendments, including limited site plan reviews. It will be brought before the council again on Dec. 21. Some say the amendments don’t change the message. “I’m not sure it matters,” said county council member Larry Kobrovsky. “I just want to end it outright, nothing needs to be changed. … I have seen too much of what makes me love living here be changed or Kobrovsky removed, and I think I speak for many of us when I say I’ll do whatever I can to preserve what makes this place special and unique, these things that need to be treasured and revered.”

County council member Jenny Honeycutt said the proposal was not intended to undermine the county’s Board of Zoning Appeals, which currently governs tree-cutting or road and drainage projects. “We’re helping streamline the process,” she said at the Nov. 30 council meeting. “To create a better public process, we’re sending it back to the planning commission again with these revisions so that the public has the opportunity to [provide] input.”

Culture and climate

Charleston’s grand oaks have almost become as synonymous with the Lowcountry as its salt marshes, said Emma Berry, the Coastal Conservation League’s communities and transportation project manager. “When we’re thinking about the Lowcountry, and Charleston in particular, and the character it has, a lot of that is the salt marshes, but also the grand trees,” she said. “All of these are really important facets to Charleston and its culture. We see a lot of these trees along our roads, and a lot of people move here in part because of the beauty and character of these areas and corridors.” Kobrovsky agrees. “We lose a little bit every day,” he said. “I think I speak for most people that live here when I say what we love most and what makes the Lowcountry the Lowcountry is eroding — whether it be from development or something else. … The public needs to speak out, or this will just be one more thing put on a path for us to lose.”

But the trees offer more than just natural beauty, Berry said. “The trees are really crucial from an environmental standpoint,” she said. “Mature trees can soak up between 4,000 and 11,000 gallons of water per year, and that’s huge. Council says trees shouldn’t get in the way of drainage projects, but that’s totally backwards — if we had more trees, maybe we wouldn’t have so many drainage problems. “And that’s not to mention, of course, the native wildlife that relies on the tree canopies as well,” she added. “Live oaks specifically have a wide range of species dependent on them for survival.” Kobrovsky said the proposal being sent back to the planning commission, even if only for a couple weeks, gives the public a chance to speak out. “It’s not a done deal yet,” Kobrovsky explained. “I hope people come out and let their voices be heard on this issue. It will be a close vote. If people on the council feel that they can get away with this, they will. “People often wonder how things change so much — how things are always so overdeveloped and concreted over — this is how it happens,” he added. “This is just one such attempt. If people love our trees and our canopies and our natural landscape … I don’t feel I can allow this to happen.” The Charleston County Planning Commission is set to meet at 2 p.m. Dec. 11 at the North Charleston Public Services Building at 4045 Bridge View Drive. The next council meeting is on Dec. 21.

A new North Area commission will seek to improve education outcomes for North Charleston students, according to a Dec. 5 announcement by the city of North Charleston and the Charleston County School District. Outgoing North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey, Mayor-elect Reggie Burgess and Charleston County School District (CCSD) acting Superintendent Anita Huggins met Nov. 28 at North Charleston City Hall to plan the January launch of the program. The commission will include members selected by North Charleston city officials and CCSD, and led by Henry Darby, who serves as a Charleston County councilman and is principal of North Charleston High School. —Skyler Baldwin

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10 shot, killed across S.C. Nov. 29 to Dec. 6 Charleston police arrested Antonio Fludd, Jr., 18, of West Ashley and a 16-year-old suspect for murder and attempted armed robbery after a Dec. 2 shooting that killed Collinn Potter, 31, in the Ashley Oaks Apartment complex off Ashley Hall Plantation. Other S.C. shootings: Nine others died in Charleston, Richland, Greenville, Orangeburg, Spartanburg, Sumter, Pickens and Kershaw counties. Ten others were hurt in shootings across the state. Mass shootings: Eleven mass shootings in the U.S., totaling 630 for the year. Sources: gunviolencearchive.org; S.C. official and media reports.

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The Charleston City Paper reached out to the nine members of Charleston County Council for more information on their positions about funding the roadway versus anti-flooding strategies. Only five — Kylon Middleton of West Ashley, chairman Herb Sass of Mount Pleasant, Henry Darby of North Charleston, Robert Wehrman of North Charleston and Larry Kobrovsky of Sullivan’s Island — responded. Those who wouldn’t discuss the future of how the county spends its infrastructure money were council members Jenny Honeycutt of James Island, Brantley Moody of West Ashley, Joe Boykin of Johns Island and Teddie Pryor of North Charleston. Kobrovsky, who voted against the county’s $75 million initial share of the project, said he thought the state’s Dec. 5 decision to match the county’s funding was fiscally irresponsible, adding that money spent to build the expansion could be devoted toward mitigating flooding — and addressing alreadyexisting traffic concerns. “I’m the only council person who’s been a champion for climate change,” said Middleton, who missed the phase one funding vote due to illness. Wehrman noted he is not in favor of the I-526 expansion and that preventing flooding is about “the type of development patterns we encourage—particularly through road and infrastructure projects.” Sass, an advocate for the extension, said officials have claimed the expressway will “really increase the mobility for everybody

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Against a backdrop of growing flood risk, a committee of state lawmakers on Dec. 5 unleashed $75 million to the State Infrastructure Bank to fund the first phase of the controversial Interstate 526 extension. The project, now slated to cost at least $2.3 billion, was first proposed about a halfcentury ago. With the Joint Bond Review Committee’s nearly unanimous approval of preliminary funding, however, the eightmile long extension is moving forward. The $75 million unlocked by the state will match $75 million already pledged by the Charleston County Council toward the project, totaling $150 million directly from taxpayer dollars. “What bothers me about this is the fact that the voters have not signed off on this,” said S.C. Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, D-Orangeburg, who abstained from the motion. Indeed, some Charleston County residents say they’re concerned that lengthening the road, also known as the Mark Clark Expressway, because it might only exacerbate increased Lowcountry flooding at the expense of its ecosystem — and its people.

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else in West Ashley and on James Island.” Darby, who also opposed devoting taxpayer dollars to the highway, advocated for more public transportation, such as mass transit railway — and for the county to confront its growing flood risk. “$2.3 billion is more than enough to repair all the drainage problems within the entirety of Charleston County,” he added.

Ponying up

While the state has already pledged up to $420 million for the extension, it’s up to Charleston County taxpayers to come up with the rest, said Robby Maynor, communities and transportation program director at the Coastal Conservation League. As a result, county council has proposed a November 2024 ballot referendum asking voters to authorize another half-cent sales tax which funds the project’s remaining $2 billion. Currently, county taxpayers have approved two halfMaynor cent sales tax referendums, one of which is set to expire in two years. However, if the tax isn’t passed, the $150 million spent on the first stage of the extension will essentially be thrown away, Kobrovsky said. If the 2024 sales tax referendum passed, it would replace the expiring half penny tax, meaning the overall sales tax people would pay would be the same, explained council chairman Sass. The difference is that a significant portion of the new half-cent tax would go toward the expansion. “It’ll still be a full penny tax,” said Sass. Sales tax is considered regressive because it is largely shouldered by lower-income residents, who spend around 75% of their

income on items included in the tax. In contrast, wealthy individuals with more disposable income spend an average of about 17% of taxable income on items covered by tax. And Maynor noted that the road isn’t of equal value to everyone in the Lowcountry, either. The new half-cent tax would mean everyone across the county would be funding “one single special-interest road” in West Ashley and Johns Island, he said, regardless of whether they intended to use it. Furthermore, Maynor said the county hasn’t exactly been transparent about how funds have been used from the previous two referendums. Maynor also questioned why “voters would feel confident in reauthorizing an additional tax when [the county hasn’t] even shown how they’ve utilized the previous.” Nonetheless, Sass claimed the council did follow through on every project on the first sales tax-driven docket. He added that the county has “built a couple of those roads [funded by the second half-cent tax],” and a few are “under construction right now.” Even though a vote against the 2024 sales tax referendum would stop the extension, it might also come at a price: The half-cent replacement sales tax referendum also includes funding for green space projects and 50% of the Lowcountry’s mass transit funding for the Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA). Without the tax, CARTA “would have to cut services and curtail operations,” said Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments Executive Director Ron Mitchum during one county council meeting. In other words, killing the highway expansion could put mass transit and parks projects on the chopping block. Maynor said to combat this problem, the community should be investing in public transit as an alternative to highways. More mass transit, Maynor added, would address congestion and mitigate flood risk.

North Charleston police on Dec. 4 reported a Rivers Avenue carpet store employee on a smoke break recently saw a human infant’s skull roll out of a plastic shopping bag. After looking into it, police said the skull was most likely used in a classroom setting and nothing to worry about. Tell that to the person on the smoke break, who must have felt a heart attack coming on. Just the wind Mount Pleasant police on Nov. 20 caught a Mount Pleasant man allegedly trying to break into a woman’s home through a partially broken laundry room window. The suspect told officers “the wind must have blown [the window] out,” and that he actually lived in the house in question. Police didn’t buy it, and he was arrested. December probing Charleston police on Dec. 1 spoke with a man about “illegal technology” being placed in his body and “radar beams” targeting him. Responding paramedics set up a telehealth conference for the man, and he was later transferred to a nearby hospital for observation. Someone get Nancy Mace on the phone, she loves talking about aliens nowadays. By Skyler Baldwin Illustration by Steve Stegelin The Blotter is taken from reports filed with area police departments between Nov. 20 and Dec. 4. Go online for more even more Blotter charlestoncitypaper.com SPONSORED BY

CAJM targets education for its annual research project The rise of the right-wing extremist group Moms for Liberty has pushed public education even higher among the community concerns for the Charleston Area Justice Ministry (CAJM). Moms for Liberty’s attempt to control what’s taught in the classroom “has triggered an uptick in engagement in education,” Raynique Syas, CAJM’s co-executive director, said before the group met Dec. 4 to launch a new season of research into local problems. CAJM members recently identified several education-related issues that should be investigated to narrow the list to a few topics that will be brought to the Charleston County School District (CCSD) on April 15 during the group’s annual Nehemiah Action Assembly. Since the fall of 2012, the group of about 40 racially diverse congregations of all faiths, the College of Charleston and the YWCA of Greater Charleston has pressured elected leaders to break barriers to equality. Syas These days, the coalition is concerned about the school board’s direction, including potential book-banning, a lack of a challenging curriculum, low teacher pay, retention and fears the board is not representing the interests of minority populations, Syas said. The school district’s problems, Syas said, stem from a lack of transparency. “Teachers feel misunderstood by the staff, and the staff feels misunderstood by the board so there is this environment of not communicating effectively,” she told the Charleston City Paper. “So, the students are not academically being challenged, and you see that in their behavior.” According to a draft of the education committee’s problem statement: “Charleston public schools struggle with an environment of negativity. District leadership is failing to support teachers and schools financially, emotionally, and developmentally. This leads to severe turnover, low staff morale and inadequate resources for the emotional and mental support that students need. This cycle of a lack of support is a driving

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The Rev. Charles Heyward (far right) gives the closing prayer at a recent meeting of the Charleston Area Justice Ministry (CAJM) at Mount Moriah Baptist Church in North Charleston. Nearly 150 CAJM members met to begin a research phase to determine which education-related problems the group will seek to solve next year. force behind lowered success rates seen throughout the district. “The recent actions of the board have led to people having experienced more of a feeling of a lack of transparency despite the work that we have already done to implement restorative practices throughout the district,” she said. “We are continuing to do research to see what are the most effective solutions to newer problems that our network members are expressing toward the district.”

he said. The percentage of college-bound and career-ready students is also up by more than three points, he said. He pointed to other improvements including expansion of mental health supports, restorative practices in schools, teacher raises and more planning time for teachers.

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The education committee, which is conducting the research, will narrow the concerns to one or more topics, said Rickey Dennis, CAJM’s director of communicaThe CCSD response tions. Those topics will be announced during School district spokesman Andy Pruitt said a March 18 rally at Mount Moriah, he said the district was honored to partner with The following month, CAJM will discuss CAJM over the last year. “We believe its education issues with the school district’s leaders’ voices have been beneficial to stuadministration during the Nehemiah dents and schools. There is more work to do, assembly. Syas said she did not know and we hope to continue to do it together. whether school board members would also “Do gaps still exist? Yes. be asked to make a comCan relationships with our mitment for change. Five communities improve? of the nine members of Of course. Should we the board were backed Teachers feel continue to collaborate by Moms for Liberty. with and improve condiCAJM has scored misunderstood tions for our teachers? some wins. The group by the staff, and Definitely,” he said in an recently secured two email to the City Paper. mobile units for the the staff feels “However, to state we are Fetter Healthcare not challenging students Network. Other sucmisunderstood academically or that we cesses include conby the board are failing to support staff vincing the school is simply not true.” district to add 300 so there is this School administrators, pre-K slots, and environment of not new he said, do not dispute negotiating with the city that historically the councils in Charleston communicating district has not served all and North Charleston effectively.” of its communities well. to conduct racial bias “There are improvements audits of their police —Raynique Syas and gains we must make departments. CARTA related to student outcomes, teacher reten- also has improved public bus transportation tion and support, and equitable resources services for underserved residents. for all communities,” he explained. CAJM’s face-to-face encounters with “However, by objective standards, the elected leaders during past Nehemiah district is showing progress related to stuassemblies sometimes created uncomfortdent outcomes” on the SC READY English able moments for public officials. It also has Language Arts assessment and the state prompted some conservative CAJM memreport cards, he said. From 2022 to 2023, bers to leave meetings. the district’s high school graduation rate improved by nearly three percentage points, Read the full story at charlestoncitypaper.com.

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Laura Lida Campbell, 76, born on Feb. 8, 1947, on Edisto Island to the late Jack and Margaret (Maggie) Campbell, transitioned on Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. Campbell was educated in the Charleston County School District and graduated from Baptist Hill High School in 1964. She later furthered her education, earning a bachelor’s degree from the College of New Rochelle in New York. After graduating high school, Campbell relocated to New York. She started working at the 1964 World’s Fair, followed by employment at New York City stock brokerages. In 1968, Campbell joined the New York City Comptroller’s Office where she worked in several positions until retiring in 2011. Campbell accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior in her early teens and became a member of Calvary African Methodist Episcopal Church under the leadership of the Rev. J. H. Baldwin. After moving to New York, she became a faithful member of Mount Hermon Baptist Church in the Bronx for over 20 years, serving as a member of the choir and missionary board, leader of the Junior Missionaries and cochair of the Trustee Board. In March 2012, Campbell returned to Edisto Island and reconnected to Calvary AME Church. Never far from core faith, serving her church was her primary calling. She sang in the Edisto District Choir and the Calvary Gospel Choir. She also served as a

trustee for a decade at Calvary AME Church and was a member of the missionary board. When Campbell returned to Edisto Island, she sought to install a headstone at the grave of Jane Edwards, the revered educator for whom the local school is named. Campbell also volunteered at Jane Edwards Elementary School until the Covid-19 epidemic caused its suspension. She also served as a member of the Edisto Island Historical Society Board of Directors and was a consultant on the museum’s new Gullah Geechee exhibit. Family remembers recall how Laura Campbell never lost her desire to share what she learned. She was certainly not shy when speaking in family circles or public places with directness, they said. Campbell leaves to cherish fond memories: Her companion, Fred Palm of Edisto Island; a son, Jeffery Campbell Scotchman of Orlando, Fla.; two grandchildren, Jelani Scotchman and Gabriella Scotchma, both of whom live in Charlotte, N.C.; three siblings, Arthur Campbell (Earnestine) of Edisto Island, Edgar (Sylvia) Campbell of Cambria Heights, N.Y., and Margie (George) Seabrook of Cayce, S.C.; and a host of devoted nieces, nephews and other loving family members and friends. She was preceded in death by parents Jack and Margaret Campbell and siblings Jack Campbell and Carl Campbell. A visitation will be 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Dec. 8 at Murray’s Mortuary Hollywood Chapel, 7173 Highway 162, Hollywood. A funeral will follow at 10 a.m. Dec. 9 at Calvary AME Church, 8318 Pine Landing Road, Edisto Island.

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On the games people play T he culture wars are alive and well in South Carolina. Just look at recent headlines that show how politicians eager to stay in the limelight are again politicizing cultural battles to whip up support and fan the flames of dissent. On Tuesday, GOP State Treasurer Curtis Loftis announced with great aplomb that he would stop investing state money in the Walt Disney Company. We say with “great aplomb” because he could have stopped without as much of a pip to squeak. But no, he had to draw attention to what should have been a nothing-burger. Loftis, who manages about $70 billion of the state’s investments per year as the state’s “banker,” announced he was going to let $105 million of past Disney debt investments mature as scheduled and wouldn’t replace them by reinvesting in Disney. A big stink was not needed. But Loftis had to bring in politics, opining that Disney has joined “far-left activist [sic] in boycotting legal, taxpaying, employment-creating corporations to further Disney’s political agenda.” Hogwash. But what’s more maddening is this: “Multibillion-dollar corporations should not engage in boycotts designed to silence legitimate debate. Since America’s founding, freedom of speech has been one of its core principles, and Disney should not engage in nefarious practices aimed at silencing those with less power and money.” But remember that Disney, as a corporation like others across the country, is considered a person for campaign finance purposes — something that Republicans like Loftis lauded when the U.S. Supreme Court fundamentally reinterpreted election law a few years back. Now he’s

criticizing what this corporate “person” is doing, which makes no sense at all. Speaking of flip-flopping, consider next what came last week from the mouth of U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, the Isle of Palms Republican who seems to be developing a habit of basing her positions on what’s politically expedient for her party, not people in South Carolina. In January, she made headlines about being offended by the ethical improprieties of freshman U.S. Rep. George Santos, the New York Republican expelled from the chamber last week. She told Business Insider then that she was not going to “have anything to do with somebody that can’t be trusted, and clearly defrauded the voters of New York. He literally pulled the wool over everybody’s eyes.” Fast forward to last week when Mace, who has been taking harder right positions in recent months to bolster her conservative credentials in the party, voted against expelling Santos. Fueling the culture wars, she said, “George Santos is an ass, who, like every other American, deserves the presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law. Charges are not a conviction. Today’s vote was not about accountability, which should have been in the hands of the courts and the people of NY-03. This was about shifting the balance of power in Congress, and I won’t play those games.” Oh, the games people play. From Loftis and Mace, they fill more than a day. Keep a lookout for more to come. Despite how they make America dumb. Let’s just hope they somehow soon pay.

CHECKLIST of community objectives

We encourage community leaders to act on these audacious priorities: 1. Deal with the water. Build a strong resiliency plan to harden infra structure and make smart climate change decisions about develop ment, roads and quality of life. 2. Fix roads, traffic. Repair and improve roads and reduce traffic. Speed up alternatives, including more public transportation. 3. Be smarter about education. Inject new energy into the broken Charleston County school board by focusing on kids, not national mantras. 4. Conduct public business in public. Be transparent in public business. Stop the secrecy. 5. Invest in quality of life. Build more parks. Have more festivals. Invest in infrastructure that promotes a broad sense of community. 6. Engage in real racial conciliation. If we embark on more conversations and actions on racial reconciliation, our community will strengthen and grow. 7. Develop fewer hotels, more affordable housing. Make Charleston a more affordable place to live for everyone. 8. Develop Union Pier at scale. Let’s not put ship-sized buildings on the coveted Union Pier property downtown. Instead, make what comes appropriate. 9. Build and follow a 50-year plan. Plan for the county’s long-term future and follow the plan. 10. Pay people more. Pay a living wage. Push South Carolina lawmakers to set a real minimum wage.

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America’s vigor is half-full, half-empty glass these days By Andy Brack The vitality of the United States heading into the 2024 elections seems to be a half-full, half-empty proposition. On the plus side, numerous indicators show the health and backbone of the country to be strong. But on the minus side, numerous indicators show big problems for most Americans. So let’s take a look at what’s happening.

Most powerful country on Earth

The United States continues to be the most powerful country on the planet in terms of its overall economy, military and prowess in fields of technology, education and research. Additionally, it is the world’s most culturally significant country with what a U.S. News & World Report ranking calls an “imprint [that] spans the world, led in large part by its popular culture expressed in music, movies and television.” Among its top rankings compared to dozens of countries across the world, the U.S. and its market with a $25.5 trillion in gross domestic product is ranked first in economic agility for, among other things, being economically dynamic, modern and progressive. It’s also first in entrepreneurship, power, education, international influence and being forward thinking, according to the rankings. It’s second for investing and being the best place to study abroad, and it’s third in cultural influence. Overall, it’s ranked the fifth top country when all factors are balanced. Ahead of the U.S. are Switzerland (1), Canada (2), Sweden (3) and Australia (4) in overall rankings.

But big issues drag us down

But across society, there are other big issues which keep our country from being first overall, including:

Business. While the country scores high for not being corrupt (95 on a 100 point score), it’s expensive to manufacture things (0.2 score) and scores low on having a favorable tax environment (17.2) and good government transparency (25). Quality of life. This overall metric is mixed with high scores for having a great job market (96) and being economically stable (82), but it is not considered affordable (8) or safe (12) and has a lot of income inequality (12). Compared to other countries, the United States ranks 23rd in quality of life. Adventure. The United States is ranked 33rd in adventure, which includes scores on a 100-point scale on being fun (66), friendly (41) and sexy (11 ). Social purpose. Perhaps of more concern is the discrepancy in how the nation scores on indicators of social purpose. It scores relatively high for religious freedom (85 of 100) and respect for property rights (71), but low on caring about the environment and climate (18) and racial equity (11).

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Democratic presidential candidate and author Marianne Williamson last week complained that negative factors the country faces on everything from gun violence to racial inequities and economic unevenness, has been hollowing out past advances. More than a million everyday Americans, she said in an interview last week, are rationing insulin to try to keep their health. A third of America’s workers live on less than $15 per hour, she said. And college costs are soaring. Forty years ago, for example, a full semester at a good public college cost less than $500 per semester. “The problem is that democracy is not delivering on its promises in such forms as universal health care, tuition, free college and so forth,” Williamson said, comparing the United States to other first-world democracies. “I think that the hollowing out of the American middle class over the last 50 years proves that that theory [of putting short-term profits over people] did not work.”

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Aquarium Aglow Only a few days remain for this year’s holiday celebration at the South Carolina Aquarium. From the icy starlight of the mountains to the neon lights of the coast, let wildlife lead the way to celebration this holiday season. Make memories to last a lifetime as you wave to Scuba Claus in the Great Ocean Tank and capture frameworthy moments at multiple photo ops. Dec. 8, 10 and 14. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ticket prices vary. South Carolina Aquarium. 100 Aquarium Wharf. Downtown. scaquarium.org

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Dew Drops Designs pop-up Discover artisanal treasures at The Mercantile’s pop-up with Dew Drop Designs this weekend. Shop exquisite leather goods, jewelry and more for unique holiday finds. Don’t miss this limited-time showcase of craftsmanship and the perfect chance to do some last-minute Christmas shopping for loved ones. Dec. 9. Noon to 4 p.m. Free to attend. The Restoration Hotel. 75 Wentworth St. Downtown. therestorationhotel.com SATURDAY

Holiday candle-making workshop Learn to make your own holiday-themed candles from scratch using festive vintage glasses, tea cups and tins. Go home with two candles mixed with your unique scent combinations from a variety of wintery fragrances like Christmas tree, gingerbread, crackling fire and more. Adorn your candle with special decorations like cinnamon sticks, holiday ribbons and candy canes. All materials are included. Dec. 9. 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. $75/members; $105/nonmembers. The Charleston Museum. 360 Meeting St. Downtown. charlestonmuseum.org SUNDAY

28th Annual Christmas Light Parade Brilliantly lit floats and community groups will march up West Coleman Boulevard as the Mount Pleasant Christmas Light Parade sets sail to the delight of thousands of residents and visitors. The festivities begin with a spectacular Pyrotecnico fireworks show, immediately followed by the start of the parade at Live Oak Drive traveling south. See the event page on Facebook for more info. Dec. 10. 5:30 p.m. Free. Live Oak Drive to West Coleman Boulevard. Mount Pleasant. experiencemountpleasant.com WEDNESDAY

Gullah Christmas Concert This year’s holiday season at Boone Hall will have more of a Gullah Christmas flavor with Gullah Christmas stories and songs performed by the Plantation Singers. Complimentary hot chocolate, cider and Christmas cookies will be available at the Cotton Dock ahead of the main concert later that evening. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Dec. 13. 7:30 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. $30/adult; $15/ages 3-17. Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens. 1235 Long Point Road. Mount Pleasant. boonehallplantation.com

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Decorative plaster, considered a nearly lost art in the U.S., is one of six majors offered at ACBA

LET’S TALK SHOP Women of ACBA discuss craftsmanship, community and gender stereotypes

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he stone and plaster workshop at the American College of the Building Arts (ACBA) is nothing less than aweinspiring. A handful of students chisel away at massive blocks of stone seated in front of them. They are intensely focused on the precise movements that transform their rough, blank blocks into pieces of art.

Stark white, ornately carved columns crafted by first-year students stand along the walls, a testament to the skills of even the newest additions to the school. Elaborately carved sculptures of the human form adorn the shelves and the nearly lost art of delicate, decorative plaster is, well, plastered throughout the room. Each workshop for the six major courses of study at ACBA shines in its own right, with projects scattered throughout and

dedicated students honing their crafts even outside regular class hours. Among the trades that students study are architectural carpentry, blacksmithing, classical architecture and design, plaster, architectural stone and timber framing. The ACBA, accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Careers and Colleges, offers a two-year associate’s degree program in four majors and a four-year bachelor’s degree program in all six.

Stereotypes of tradesmen skew toward burly tattooed men, but look around ACBA, and you’re greeted by students of all ages, backgrounds and genders working side-by-side. “The people here are really supportive,” said Grace Malcolm, a 20-year-old junior from Virginia who is studying classical architecture and design. “It’s cool — the women, there may be few of us, but we’re pretty close. Everyone knows who everyone is at the very least. … There are definitely more guys here than girls. As a result, a lot of my friends are guys, and they’re great, really supportive. It’s really just a good community.” Though only about a quarter of the student body is women, the school’s president Army Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Colby M. Broadwater III said during a Nov. 9 tour of the school

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Gender stereotypes aren’t rules, and there’s no good reason for anybody or any gender not to do what they love.” —Christina Butler

that about half the valedictorians have been female students, demonstrating how ACBA supports students typically left out or discouraged from attending trade school. “Gender stereotypes aren’t rules, and there’s no good reason for anybody or any gender not to do what they love,” said

A unique curriculum

ACBA is the only college in the United States that combines a liberal arts education with professional training in traditional building trades. “There’s no other program where you can get this much focused trade experience for a traditional trade and partner that with a normal liberal arts college education, so you still graduate with a college degree,” Butler Butler said. “I like teaching at a place where you’re combining two different kinds of education that have been historically divorced for no good reason. … I feel like students leaving here have a lot of different career paths because of Caban the kind of education we’ve created.” Though the curriculum spans traditional subjects such as world history, Butler said the general education classes are tailored towards the built environment. Her architectural history class, for example, is like “world history taught through architecture,” she explained. Angela Caban, professor of decorative arts and faux finishes, added, “The craftsmen have [traditionally] been kept separate from the academics, and I think that’s really wrong because craftspeople

ACBA junior Grace Malcolm hopes to become an architectural designer

need to have the history behind it. And I think the people who are writing about it need to know the process. “That’s why this place is different. It’s not your normal ‘trade school,’ right? We’re trying to also teach them languages and literature and art history and design and architecture. We’re bringing it all together.” This was a major factor that drew Malcolm to the school — she felt it incorporated her love of working with her hands and studying classical art and literature. “They have a big focus on making sure every project you do is heavily researched … it’s really extensive,” she said, “but you’re also learning those hands-on skills of rendering and drafting.” “I’m here to inspire,” Caban said. “I might not make you the best fresco artist or gilder in this limited time I have you, but I will expose you to the pu pu platter, right? So that you can find out … whatever it is that makes your heart sing and focus on that.”

Going pro

ACBA students have a lot of opportunities to experience the professional world before graduation. Every student is required to complete an externship with a professional company in their discipline each summer. This may sound like unwanted summertime homework to some outsiders, but the externship is one of the students’ most treasured parts of their education. “I love the externship,” said 27-year-old junior Linnea Carlson, a Texas native who is studying architectural carpentry. “Not only do you get actual experience, you also get to see what you do and don’t like.” Carlson has comCarlson pleted two externships thus far — one working for a small historic preservation business in Virginia and another working with the architects of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. “After my first externship, because I got to work one-on-one with the business owner, I got much more comfortable with power tools. I got a healthy, safe confidence around these machines that I didn’t have before,” Carlson said. “When I left that externship, I did feel empowered because I had learned so much. The next semester, I’d have guys in the shop be like, ‘Hey, how do I do this with the saw, like the panel saw? How do I set it up?’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah, I can show you how to do that.’ “It’s not just the professors here. I’ve learned so much from the other students who have come in with experience already. They definitely don’t make you feel less than for the fact that you’re here to learn.” Students throughout all majors gain valuable work experience in cities across the world.

“What [ACBA] has done in growing these externships and cultivating and working with people, it’s amazing,” said Joy Watson, a 60-year old second-year decorative plaster student. Watson, who’s interested in restoring frescos, completed her most recent externship in New York and hopes to find her next opportunity abroad. She cited other students who have taken externships in Japan, Italy and more. Across disciplines, ages and interests, the three students who talked with the Charleston City Paper agreed: The externship program is a vital part of attending ACBA and preparing them for their careers. “That was another thing that attracted me to school,” Malcolm said. “[The externships] kind of, in a good way, force you to get into the professional world. Sometimes people need that little extra encouragement.”

Learning from the best

In 2024, the ACBA will celebrate 20 years of educating artisans and growing the school. Though the school opened inside in the Old City Jail in 1999 as the School of the Building Arts, it wasn’t until 2004 that it became a degree-granting institution under its current name. In 2016, the school relocated to 649 Meeting St. with more workspaces. The first graduating class in 2009 included seven students, according to ACBA’s website. This year, the school welcomed 36 freshmen, bringing its student body total to 139. “It’s really cool that they keep people engaged,” Watson said. “This is a university where I see the president of the college almost on a daily basis. … He probably knows what every single trade is doing currently, so he’s very, very active, and that’s really cool. … We really are a family.” Despite the growing popularity of this uniquely craft-centric college, Butler points out some stigmas around trade work remain, including the notion that trade work

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Students Maggie Botticelli (top) and Joy Watson (above) practice traditional plaster techniques is somehow lesser than other professions. “Trade work takes critical thinking that most people in the modern world are incapable of and the kind of trade training we do, you know, every day is different,” she said. Though Butler acknowledged that the stigma against women in trades seems to be fading some, it hasn’t gone away completely. The supportive environment and confidence taught at ACBA empowers female students to choose their own path. “Be prepared. Know your stuff. Know your trade,” Caban said when asked what advice she would give women entering male-dominated trades. “Sometimes we’re held to a higher standard — be able to hold your own when you walk in. Don’t undersell yourself. Don’t allow yourself to be intimidated. Know your sources, get into the library. Take as many classes as you can once you leave here, [and] continue studying with different people. This is just the beginning of the rest of your life.”

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Christina Butler, professor of historic preservation and chair of general education. “I think it’s always still challenging to do something different, but it’s the best time to do it. I mean, if not now, when?”

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Klein finds spiritual meaning in making art

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Charleston artist Susan Klein has spent the last two decades developing a symbolic visual language. Her paintings and sculptures deal with cycles of birth and death, question the relationship between image and object and show how artmaking can serve as a conduit between the physical and metaphysical. Klein, who is a 2020-2021 recipient of the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, received her master’s degree in fine art from the University of Oregon in 2004. Since then, she’s honed in on a multimedia practice that results in large-scale paintings on silk, glazed ceramic stoneware and more. Now in her 40s, the artist and College of Charleston (CofC) studio art professor said she’s finding a new sense of freedom in her work. “I can’t speak for everyone, but I think something happens when you turn 40, where you start to care less about your work looking smart or hip. You get this confidence to do what you really want to do.” Abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning is quoted in 1963 comparing this phenomena to yogurt. He said in making art over a lifetime, “You’ve developed a little culture for yourself. Like yogurt, as long as you keep something of the original microbes, the original thing in it will grow out. So I had — like most artists, this original little sensation.” Looking on the archive section of Klein’s website and her 20-plus years of artistic expression, it’s clear that the original sensations of Klein’s creations — a play between abstraction and representation, a blurry line between painting and sculpture, and a dance from image to object and back again — continues to exist in her current work. Klein shares de Kooning’s sentiment, though she sees it more like a spiral. “It starts out really wide, and as you get older, that spiral gets tighter and tighter. So there’s always that core, but you’re circling it and circling it … I feel like my spiral is starting to get tighter.”

Early influences

Growing up in Morriston, N.J., just 35 miles from New York City, Klein said she was exposed to art at an early age and took dance lessons as a child. Her

Susan Klein’s work revolves around a symbol system that references artifacts and more

father was a jazz musician. She was initially more interested in dancing than drawing and said the first time she was “awestruck” by a work of art was seeing the New York City Ballet under the direction of George Balanchine as a child. “Looking back, I can see that what I liked was how it was this movement that wasn’t about anything but the movement and the music—how that created its own language.“ And though she put her dancing shoes away a long time ago, Klein’s sense of physicality is still important in her visual work. “I don’t like to sit and work. I need to move around a lot. What I loved about dance is that it’s something that you’re doing with your body in real time and taking up space. That interest in the physical is definitely part of the work for me.”

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Hand-built ceramic sculptures are a staple in Klein’s multifaceted practice After obtaining her master’s degree, she started teaching at Portland State University in 2005, followed by a stint in Philadelphia and then a three-year-long position as a visiting professor at Grand Valley State in Michigan. In 2014, she moved to Charleston and started teaching at CofC. “Teaching definitely influences my work, I think because it makes me stay open, it makes me stay critical,” Klein said. “I have to be really aware of what’s going on in art, and I have to know my art history. And I think it does keep me open to experimentation, because I always want to learn new materials or new things. I’m sure my studio practice influences my teaching, too.”

Developing a symbolic language

Klein said the “original sensation” of her artistic yogurt was born in graduate school when she started to create sculptures and make paintings from them. “In grad school, I was really interested in making abstract work, but I didn’t really know how. I began making abstract sculptures out of foam and house paint and cut CONTINUED ON PAGE 16

Three people (alive or dead) you’d like to dine with: Louise Bourgeois, Lee Krasner, Toni Morrison. But also, I really want David and Amy Sedaris there. Something that you have too much of at home: Magazines (I am very behind on The New Yorker and Art Forum!) Guilty pleasure: Why feel guilty about pleasure? Maybe: going for a beach walk when I should be working. Favorite musicians: David Bowie, Brian Eno, Laurie Anderson, most anything synth. Describe your best day in 50 words or less: Slow breakfast, long beach walk, studio, lunch, studio, yoga, dinner, walk, read, bed. Childhood hero: I don’t recall having one but probably any Broadway star or NYC Ballet dancer. Maybe Judy Blume. Pet peeve: Loud chewing and people who take up the whole sidewalk and drivers who don’t signal. I could go on. Philosophy: Of life? I think it is constantly changing, but maybe: just try to be a decent person and think critically about everything. Your advice for better living: Walk more! Enjoy your food. Enjoy your friends.

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Klein said working on silk instead of a stretched canvas reminds her of “that feeling when you take your bra off at the end of the day”

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mylar and different things. Then I made paintings of the sculptures. Throughout my 20s, I continued that practice of making sculptures and painting the sculptures.” This back and forth helped her develop her voice, Klein said, “and eventually, I was able to take out a piece of paper and start just generating abstract images. But it took a really long time to develop that language.” When she was 38, she decided to learn how to build ceramic sculptures by hand. It is now a staple in her studio practice. Each body of work informs the next, Klein said. “My work is really intuitive, but I also think intuition is connected to intellect. I don’t think it’s separate. Like when we have an intuitive gut feeling, it’s based on something, things we’ve already experienced or knowledge we already have … Every body of work feeds into the next body of work.” And sometimes, creative decisions are led by necessity, Klein said. She’s spent the last year and a half painting on silk, so that she could transport it easily, from a residency in Wyoming to an exhibition in Berlin, for example. A 13-foot-by-18-foot painting on the floor of her studio at CofC is filled with phallic and yonic shapes and flows with watery marks of color. It’s an offering, she said, “to the gods of creation.”

Devotional objects, offerings to the divine

Klein’s most recent work uses her symbolic language to channel ideas of creative energy and the ritualistic utility of art. In her paintings, she references ancient Egyptian

and Roman funerary objects. One such object, which she found during a visit to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, included a finger-like shape, which Klein has since incorporated into her work for its “slippery meaning.” “It’s sort of like a finger, but also a figure. And they could look phallic. I really like that with a symbol system, things can mean really specific things. But then there’s also like a slippage, where the meaning can slide. So I started to play with that form a lot — as a way to think about the relationship between fingers and making … creative energy and its relationship to sexual energy, that kind of great creative force that’s in all of us.” And so like the ballets she enjoyed as a child, where movement was made about movement, Klein makes about making. “I keep coming back to the sensorial, the tactile; what does it feel like to move through the world? How do we make sense of the world? How do we learn through touching? “That’s where the ritual comes in, in the repetition of creation to serve some other purpose. Making becomes a sacred act, one that’s in reverence to the sensorial. It becomes a spiritual practice. It’s something I come back to again and again — to understand, translate, search and discover.”

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Flower arranging classes give the gift of time to flex those creative muscles

Thoughts about that perfect gift We call our Roadside Blooms retail shop a “magical mercantile” because it is filled with not just flowers but indoor plants, funky hand-made jewelry, crystals and all kinds of unique gifts from small makers. We continually ask our customers about things they’d like to see in the shop, what they are looking to give to others and what kinds of things they’d like to receive. We use this feedback to curate the items we carry and the services we offer each season. Our clientele is interested in gifting things that are “different,” “experiential,” “meaningful” and “has a good maker story.” This has been the sentiment ever since Covid forced us to take a good look at what’s important in life. In speaking Reale with other shop owner friends across the country, this sentiment isn’t unique to our community. Here are a few considerations and ideas as you make your way through your giftgiving list this year: It’s more than the thought that counts! Research described in a 2021 Washington Post article challenged the idea that how much a recipient likes a gift is related to the amount of thought that went into it. Turns out that although the efforts and sentiments are appreciated, what determines how much a recipient enjoys their gift is how much they like it and how much use they have for it. You don’t have to be a fortune teller to nail down a good gift. You can ask directly or simply listen in conversation for their interests. Our shop, for example, has a wish list box where people can list the things that they like and gift givers can come and review the lists for ideas.

The gift of time to flex creativity is impactful. Many of those who have taken flower-arranging or plant classes with us have said that not only did they have a great time creating something, but they’ve really enjoyed the time away from their neverending to-do lists. In a culture that values busyness, giving an experience allows the recipient to relax and use creative muscles that get overlooked. Recently, we had a new mom in our class whose partner gifted it to her for a much-needed break from caring for her newborn. She said her cup was full following the class and that she could go back home feeling more like herself. She was also able to connect with others in the class with similar experiences. Gift cards are always welcome but don’t stop there. Give the gift card to a favorite plant or crystal shop and make a date to go with the recipients. Let them share all of their knowledge and enjoy their excitement as they discover things they love. The gift card is the gateway in creating an opportunity to connect. We all love a good story. If you purchase something handmade or from a company that has good business ethos, include that in your gift by writing it. For example, we carry Seattle Chocolate, a company that is 100% woman-owned and carbon neutral with 10% of all net profits going to Girls Inc. It offers programming in 350 cities in the U.S. and Canada that inspires girls to be strong, smart and bold leaders of tomorrow. However you approach your gift-giving this year, don’t overthink and stress about it. Think of ways to use your gift as a way to connect rather than just checking a box and you’ll be off to a great start. Toni Reale is the owner of Roadside Blooms, a unique flower, plant, crystal, rock and fossil shop in Park Circle in North Charleston. roadsidebloomsshop.com

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SNOB celebrates 30 years in Charleston

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Lost Isle, a fire-to-table concept, is opening soon on Johns Island. From the team behind Folly Beach’s Lowlife Bar, Lost Isle features small and large format dishes from chef Josh Taylor served to diners in an exclusively outdoor setting. Both the seating area and bar are covered with large sails to accommodate all weather conditions. In addition to a rotating menu of specials and small dishes — think woodfired oysters with chili butter — Lost Isle will feature an extensive cocktail list as well as a curated list of wines, fine rums and tequila. Bearcat, from chef/restaurateur George Kovach, is now open in Avondale. Located at 25 Magnolia Road, the “neighborhood restaurant serving modern American fare,” per OpenTable, is open for dinner Tuesday through Saturday. Head to Bearcat’s Instagram, @bearcatrestaurant, to check out dishes from Berkshire pork tenderloin to smoked maitake mushroom.

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Sometimes in a long relationship, disenchantment sets in. But sometimes, a kind of magic keeps a relationship fresh and eternal. Charleston’s relationship with SNOB (Slightly North of Broad) seems to be an eternal one, as the restaurant prepares to celebrate its 30th year. Founder Frank Lee said the magic is that the restaurant has real relationships with its customers, not just transactional ones. Lee left SNOB in 2016 to care for his wife, who’d developed dementia, but kept in touch with many SNOB guests, many of whom became friends. “That’s what SNOB is all about. It’s a restaurant, sure, but the busiLee ness of the restaurant should be about the guest, not about the owner or the chef,” he said. “So many of us at SNOB have developed friends and families out of our interactions with our guests, and they come back again and again because it’s a place Moore that radiates warmth and hospitality.” Chef Russ Moore took the reins from Lee, and noted that it is rare for one restaurant to have had only two executive chefs for 30 years, but that the consistency is part of what makes SNOB what it is. “It brings continuity when you don’t have a bunch of chefs trying to reinvent the wheel,” Moore said. The restaurant has become known for its shrimp and grits, made lighter than most with a tomato-shrimp stock base, as well as its Reuben; beef carpaccio, barbecued tuna; and sour cream apple pie. Many classic dishes are in rotation during

For its 30th anniversary, SNOB is pulling classic recipes back out of the vault, like the smothered chicken burrito (right) the week of Dec. 4, when the restaurant celebrates its anniversary.

Trust in the tweak

Despite SNOB’s longtime traditions, Moore said the restaurant gets tweaked every year. In 2015, Halls Management Group took over the restaurant. Moore said they meet annually to discuss how to reinvest in the restaurant, including buying new kitchen equipment and refreshing the dining room. “It’s very easy to have a restaurant for 30 years and say, ‘It is amazing, don’t change a thing,’” Moore said. “It’s almost riskier to say let’s tweak it a little bit or refine it a little bit.” Moore said the loyal customer base is the main reason the restaurant survived both the real estate crash of 2008-2009 and the Covid pandemic. “When other restaurants were flickering, people trusted us,” Moore said. “People didn’t want to take risks, but they still had confidence in the restaurant.” Lee said Halls also takes care of its employees, offering immediate full or partial payment of their health care premiums, depending on position. But, the care began before Halls took over. Lee said he used constant two-way communication with his staff, and he hosted a “Culture Hour” every Saturday when the restaurant was closed for lunch, during which he’d introduce the staff to opera or great jazz. From Lee’s tutelage came a line of successful chefs. Moore is one Lee mentions as a special protégé, but he also trained the Grocery’s Kevin Johnson, Chris Stewart of the Glass Onion, chef Chelsey Conrad, who worked for a while at the former Butcher &

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Bee, and many others. Lee admitted he was wrong about the restaurant name, championed by his partners Richard Elliot and David Marconi. The East Bay Street restaurant stands where two restaurants in a row failed, and the location was considered slightly cursed. The last thing it needed was an offensive name. SNOB stands for Slightly North of Broad, a cheeky reference to the fact that the upper crust lived South of Broad Street. “The name was Dick Elliot’s idea,” Lee said. “I thought it would be the kiss of death. You know, those South of Broad, we affectionately called ‘The S.O.Bs.’ I thought it was a little much, but Charleston embraced it and found the humor in it and loved it. It also provides a catchy acronym.” Ultimately, though, Lee said it’s not the name or the location that made SNOB last 30 years. “It’s not just a transactional business,” Lee said. “It’s fun and sexy to make a profit, but a real restaurant is a place where your clients ... can relax and enjoy the civility of the table, put aside their differences and troubles and be taken care of.”

Hotel Bennett hosts Tea with Santa on Saturdays and Sundays through Dec. 24. Head to the hotel’s bar, Camellias, for tea, holiday treats and Champagne for adults during these ticketed tea times. Tickets are $58 for kids younger than 12 and $78 for adults. Reserve your spot online at hotelbennett.com. The Refinery, located at 1640 Meeting Street, presents the Bourbon, Blues and Bonfires Festival from 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 9. Complimentary bourbon tastings will be available from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. as well as a live performance from blues guitarist Selwyn Birchwood. Tickets start at $30 and are available online at ticketweb.com. The Heritage Fire tour comes to Kiawah River Dec. 10. The outdoor culinary experience features local chefs cooking over live-fire. All-inclusive tickets include access to food from over 20 chefs as well as beer, wine and cocktails. Participating Charleston chefs include The Darling Oyster Bar’s Derick Wade, Minero Mexican Grill & Cantina’s Cheyenne Bond and Herd Provisions’ Jeanne Oleksiak. The event takes place from 4:45 p.m. to 7 p.m., and tickets can be purchased online at heritagefiretour.com. —Connelly Hardaway

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The Daily brings New York-based restaurant loyalty app to the Holy City By Tiare Solis

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Head to Blackbird’s website to find all participating restaurants “[If] you sign up for Blackbird, and you check in, that coffee is free,” Shemtov said. “I kind of want people to feel like they’re getting something over our best. I want them to feel like they’re getting, like, too much,” he said. Shemtov explained that the first free coffee with check-ins could be anything, even a higher-priced item, like a latte. Following closely behind The Daily are Brooks Reitz’s restaurants, Little Jack’s Tavern, Leon’s Oyster Shop and Melfi’s, which will also soon use the loyalty program.

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Charleston’s renowned food and beverage scene brings a lot of tourists to the city, which is great for business but can be inconvenient for locals, who experience longer waits or higher prices. Welcoming new business while maintaining local patronage is an ongoing tightrope many restaurant owners must walk. Michael Shemtov, owner of popular coffee shop The Daily and Butcher & Bee (recently shuttered in Charleston but still open in Nashville), wants to try integrating a new solution — Blackbird, a loyalty app created by Ben Leventhal, the co-creator of Eater and Resy. The Daily, located on upper King Street and Morrison Drive, will be the first business outside of New York to use the app and already has patrons testing it out, said Shemtov. A launch like this has been a long time coming for Shemtov, a fan of Leventhal’s work since Resy was created. Blackbird works as a check-in function, allowing users to gain perks and accumulate points when they check in at participating restaurants. “[We’re] excited to be the first. We’re seeing 10 to 15-plus check-ins a day,” Shemtov said. “I mean, that’s a fraction of the hundreds of people that come through a day. But you know, it’s not a bad start,” he said. Shemtov has been trying to find ways to prioritize regular attendance since The Daily grew in popularity. These days, it’s not uncommon to see a line winding around the door and side of the building. Blackbird seemed like a happy medium.

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR- 08-2039

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NUMBER: 2023-CP-10-02461

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS

MEGAN B. DAVIES, MICHAEL WRIGHT AND KEVIN KINSEY, DEFENDANTS.

Belinda Frasier, Samuel Bell, DEFENDANTS.

Bessie Mae Cromwell, Wanda Zellous, Audrey Mae Cromwell, Alverez C. Bennett, Gene Dale Cromwell, Vera Mae Heyward and Vergene Cromwell, Plaintiffs, -versusWilliam Davis Jr, Martin Davis, Carl Davis, Curtis Henry Davis, Alaina Davis, Inez King, Janet Davis, Jelani Davis, Shantell Davis, and Terrell Davis; Janie Cromwell, Deceased and Eugene Cromwell, Deceased, and all persons claiming under or through the heirs or devisees of Eugene Cromwell collectively designated as JOHN DOE, and any such persons who are Minors or other disability, or members of the Armed Forces of the United States of America, as contemplated by the Soldier’s and Sailor’s Relief Act, 1940, as Amended collectively designated as RICHARD ROE, and all persons entitled to claim under or through Jessie Mae Cromwell and Eugene Cromwell, also all persons claiming any right, title or interest in the real estate described in the Complaint herein, Defendants.

IN THE INTERESTS OF: L.D., YOB: 2021, A MINOR CHILD TO DEFENDANTS: MEGAN B. DAVIES, MICHAEL WRIGHT AND KEVIN KINSEY YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Amended Complaint for Termination of Parental Rights in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County on August 25, 2023. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Berkeley County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Amended Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Sally Dey, Legal Department of the Berkeley County Department of Social Services, 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, SC 29461, within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court. Sally Dey, SC Bar # (67778), 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, SC 29461, (843) 697-7564 YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that a Final Hearing for Termination of Parental Rights has been scheduled for February 13, 2024 at 9:00 a.m., at the Berkeley County Family Court, located at 300 B California Ave., Moncks Corner, SC 29461. You must be present at the date and time of the hearing to assert parental rights to this child.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR-08-2159 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS JOHN DOE and JANE DOE DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 08/27/2023 TO DEFENDANT: JOHN DOE and JANE DOE YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Amended Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County on 12/1/2023. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Berkeley County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Sally C. Dey, Department of Social Services, 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, S.C. 29461 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. A final hearing regarding termination of parental rights will be held on January 31, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. at Berkeley County Family Court, located at 300B California Ave., Moncks Corner, SC 29461. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, and/or fail to appear at the final hearing noticed above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court. SC Bar #67778, Sally C. Dey, Dept. of Social Services, 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, SC 29461; (843) 697-7564

IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2006 TO DEFENDANT: Belinda Frasier YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County on 10/12/2023. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Berkeley County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Stacey L. Kaufman, Legal Department of the Berkeley County Department of Social Services, 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, S.C. 29461 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court. Stacey L. Kaufman, SC Bar # 12105, 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, SC 29461, 803-608-7417

COPYRIGHT NOTICE FOR THE STRAW AND ESTATE. This copyright notice informs the potential user of the name (ZAIDA RIVERA) any misspellings, abbreviations, any and all derivatives of that is intended as pertaining to me, (weeping-willow ata bey), an Aborigine American State National, In Propria Persona Sui Juris, Proprio Solo, Proprio Heredes, that any unauthorized use thereof without my express, prior, written permission signifies the user’s consent for becoming the debtor on a self executing UCC Financial Statement in the amount of $1,000,000 per unauthorized use of the name or Any non authorized electronic signatures,Images of ME, or any biologics (Human D.N.A, isolated cD.N.A. and/or un-isolated D.N.A Genes or any/and all parts of the D.N.A)including bodily fluids alike..,voice theft(unauthorized use of voice through Artificial Intelligence or recording or/and used with the intent of obligating me will be subject to.. plus costs, plus triple damages.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE FOR THE STRAW AND ESTATE. This copyright notice informs the potential user of the name (KALAHN SHAHED AMBLES) any misspellings, abbreviations, any and all derivatives of that is intended as pertaining to me, (el morya bey), an Aborigine American State National, In Propria Persona Sui Juris, Proprio Solo, Proprio Heredes, that any unauthorized use thereof without my express, prior, written permission signifies the user’s consent for becoming the debtor on a self executing UCC Financial Statement in the amount of $1,000,000 per unauthorized use of the name or Any non authorized electronic signatures,Images of ME, or any biologics (Human D.N.A, isolated cD.N.A. and/ or un-isolated D.N.A Genes or any/and all parts of the D.N.A) including bodily fluids alike..,voice theft(unauthorized use of voice through Artificial Intelligence or recording or/and used with the intent of obligating me will be subject to.. plus costs, plus triple damages.

TMS #428-07-00-092 NOTICE OF HEARING It appearing that this matter has been referred to the Honorable Mikell R. Scarborough, Master In Equity for Charleston County, South Carolina, to make appropriate findings of fact and conclusions of law with authority to enter a final judgment; PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a hearing in this matter has been scheduled and will be held on January 10, 2024 at 11:00 a.m., at the Charleston County Courthouse, Courtroom 2A, 100 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina. BRUSH LAW FIRM, P.A. s/ Thomas H. Brush Thomas H. Brush tbrush@brushlawfirm.com J. Chris Lanning clanning@brushlawfirm.com Attorneys for Plaintiffs 12 Carriage Lane, Suite A Charleston, SC 29407 (843) 766-5576 - Phone (843) 766-9152 - Fax Charleston, South Carolina December 1, 2023

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2023-CP-10-03764 County of Charleston, Condemnor, vs. The Estate of William Ford, Landowner, and The Estate of Clarence Ford, Larry Ford as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Clarence Ford, Gail Ford, Larry Ford, Nicole Ford Jennings, Jacqueline Middleton, Barbara Ford Morrison, Terri Porter, and Antionette Snipes, Other Condemnees, and JOHN DOE and MARY ROE, fictitious names used to designate all other condemnees whose names are unknown, and persons in the military service within the meaning of Title 50, United States Code, commonly referred to as the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act of 1940, as amended, if any, and the unknown heirs at law, devisees, widows, widowers, executors, administrators, personal representatives, successors and assigns, firms or corporations of any of the Landowner(s), Other Condemnee(s) or Unknown Claimant(s) who may be deceased, and any and all other persons

claiming any right, title, interest in or lien upon the real estate or other property described in the Condemnation Notice or any part thereof; Unknown Claimant(s). SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING TO: LANDOWNERS, OTHER CONDEMNEES, AND UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS NAMED ABOVE YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED, advised and notified, that pursuant to the South Carolina Eminent Domain Procedure Act, S.C. Code Ann. § 28-2-10, et seq., the within Condemnation Notice and Tender of Payment, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, has been filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina. The purpose of this action is to enable the Condemnor County of Charleston to acquire certain real property for its public purposes, as is more fully stated in the attached Condemnation Notice and Tender of Payment. Responsive pleadings to the Condemnation Notice and Tender of Payment are not necessary. LIS PENDENS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Condemnor County of Charleston, pursuant to the South Carolina Eminent Domain Procedure Act, S.C. Code Ann. § 28-2-10, et seq., has brought an action against Landowners, named above, to acquire a thirty-five (35ʹ) foot wide permanent and exclusive drainage easement (the “Easement”), consisting of 18,173.63 square feet (0.42 acre), more or less, over, on, through, and burdening the real property described as follows: 751 Hughes Road Johns Island, South Carolina 29455 TMS #287-00-00-136 The size, shape, location, and butting and bounding of the Easement are depicted more particularly on the plat attached hereto at Exhibit A, reference to which is hereby made for a more complete description. The County’s acquisition of the Easement is necessary for public purposes, more particularly for, or in connection with, the construction, operations, maintenance, and/ or reconstruction of a stormwater drainage system in the Red Top community of Charleston County. NOTICE OF ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI TO: UNKNOWN CLAIMANT(S) NAMED ABOVE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Order appointing George E. Counts, Esquire, Counts & Huger, LLC, P.O. Box 80399, Charleston, South Carolina 29416, (Telephone: 843-573-0143), as Guardian ad Litem Nisi, for all persons whomsoever herein collectively designated as John Doe and Mary Roe, Condemnees herein, names and addresses unknown, including any thereof who may be minors or under other legal disability, whether residents or non-residents of South Carolina, has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County. YOU WILL FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that unless the said minors or persons under other legal disability, if any, or someone on their behalf or on behalf of any of them, shall within thirty (30) days after service of notice of this order upon them by publication, exclusive of the day of such service, procure to be appointed for them, or any of them, a Guardian ad Litem to represent them for the purposes of this action, the Condemnor will apply for an order making the appointment of said Guardian ad Litem Nisi absolute. CHARLESTON COUNTY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE Kevin M. DeAntonio, Esquire Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Services

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2023-CP-10-03763 County of Charleston, Condemnor, vs. The Estate of Clarence Ford, and Larry Ford as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Clarence Ford, Landowners, and Gail Ford, Larry Ford, Nicole Ford Jennings, Jacqueline Middleton, Barbara Ford Morrison, Terri Porter, and Antionette Snipes, Other Condemnees, and JOHN DOE and MARY ROE, fictitious names used to designate all other condemnees whose names are unknown, and persons in the military service within the meaning of Title 50, United States Code, commonly referred to as the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act of 1940, as amended, if any, and the unknown heirs at law, devisees, widows, widowers, executors, administrators, personal representatives, successors and assigns, firms or corporations of any of the Landowner(s), Other Condemnee(s) or Unknown Claimant(s) who may be deceased, and any and all other persons claiming any right, title, interest in or lien upon the real estate or other property described in the Condemnation Notice or any part thereof; Unknown Claimant(s). SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING TO: LANDOWNERS, OTHER CONDEMNEES, AND UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS NAMED ABOVE YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED, advised and notified, that pursuant to the South Carolina Eminent Domain Procedure Act, S.C. Code Ann. § 28-2-10, et seq., the within Condemnation Notice and Tender of Payment, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, has been filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina. The purpose of this action is to enable the Condemnor County of Charleston to acquire certain real property for its public purposes, as is more fully stated in the attached Condemnation Notice and Tender of Payment. Responsive pleadings to the Condemnation Notice and Tender of Payment are not necessary. LIS PENDENS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Condemnor County of Charleston, pursuant to the South Carolina Eminent Domain Procedure Act, S.C. Code Ann. § 28-2-10, et seq., has brought an action against Landowners, named above, to acquire a thirty-five (35ʹ) foot wide permanent and exclusive drainage easement (the “Easement”), consisting of 5,271.23 square feet (0.12 acre), more or less, over, on, through, and burdening the real property described as follows: ALL that piece, part and parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the St. Andrews Parish, Charleston County School District No. 10, County of Charleston, State aforesaid, measuring and containing five (5) acres, more or less, as shown on a plat of A.L. Glenn, Registered Land Surveyor, surveyed April ____,1954, titled “Plat or tract of land situated in the County of Charleston, South

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Carolina, near Red Top, Owned by Mary Williams and about to be conveyed to Clarence Ford”, and being identified as Plaintiff’s Exhibit #12, in Charleston County Court of Common Pleas Civil Action No. 94-CP-10-3944. The contents of which are being incorporated herein and made a part hereof by reference. MEASURING AND CONTAINING the measurements, courses, buttings, boundaries, and distances as delineated and shown on the aforementioned plat, as will more fully and at large appear when reference is made thereto. Being bounded on the Northern side by lands formerly said to be of Mary Ford Williams, and now of Ford, W.M. Estate, and assigned Charleston County TMS #287-0000-136; on the Eastern side by a local road known as “Hughes Road or Red Top Road” and formerly known and referred to as “Bulow Mines Road”; on the Southern side by lands formerly said to be of Johnnie Brown, now of James Green, and assigned Charleston County TMS #278-00-00-137; and on the Western side by the abandoned Right of Way of Bulow Mines Railroad, as shown on the aforementioned plat, and now the marshes of Rantowles Creek, TMS #287-00-00-180, said to be owned by the City of Charleston. BEING the same property conveyed to The Estate of Clarence Ford by Master’s Deed dated March 1, 1999, and recorded March 5, 1999, in Book T321, Page 665, in the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County, South Carolina TMS #287-00-00-215 The size, shape, location, and butting and bounding of the Easement are depicted more particularly on the plat attached hereto at Exhibit A, reference to which is hereby made for a more complete description. The County’s acquisition of the Easement is necessary for public purposes, more particularly for, or in connection with, the construction, operations, maintenance, and/ or reconstruction of a stormwater drainage system in the Red Top community of Charleston County.

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TO: UNKNOWN CLAIMANT(S) NAMED ABOVE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Order appointing George E. Counts, Esquire, Counts & Huger, LLC, P.O. Box 80399, Charleston, South Carolina 29416, (Telephone: 843-573-0143), as Guardian ad Litem Nisi, for all persons whomsoever herein collectively designated as John Doe and Mary Roe, Condemnees herein, names and addresses unknown, including any thereof who may be minors or under other legal disability, whether residents or non-residents of South Carolina, has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County. YOU WILL FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that unless the said minors or persons under other legal disability, if any, or someone on their behalf or on behalf of any of them, shall within thirty (30) days after service of notice of this order upon them by publication, exclusive of the day of such service, procure to be appointed for them, or any of them, a Guardian ad Litem to represent them for the purposes of this action, the Condemnor will apply for an order making the appointment of said Guardian ad Litem Nisi absolute. CHARLESTON COUNTY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE Kevin M. DeAntonio, Esquire Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Services Building 4045 Bridge View Drive North Charleston, South Carolina 29405 (843) 958-4010

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR-10-2080 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS TAKYMAH RICHARDSON, DEMAR BACON, AND ROBERT COAXUM IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN 2016 AND 2022.                 TO DEFENDANT: DEMAR BACON YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint for Intervention in this action, filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on July 13, 2023, at 9:11 a.m. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint for Intervention will be delivered to you upon request, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the Charleston County South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Regina Parvin, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, S.C. 29405 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court. Regina Parvin, SC Bar #65393 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101 North Charleston, SC 29405 843-953-3713.

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and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the Charleston County South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Regina Parvin, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, S.C. 29405 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court. Regina Parvin SC Bar #65393 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101 North Charleston, SC 29405 843-953-3713

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR-10-3005 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS SHAKEYVA LEE AND RONDOSHIA HOLMES IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2018. TO DEFENDANT: SHAKEYVA LEE YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on October 6, 2023, at 9:55 a.m. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the Charleston County South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Regina Parvin, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, S.C. 29405 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court. Regina Parvin SC Bar #65393 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101 North Charleston, SC 29405 843-953-3713.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR-10-2384 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court. Regina Parvin SC Bar #65393 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101 North Charleston, SC 29405 843-953-3713.

RECYCLE THIS PAPER ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES All persons having claims against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on Form #371ES with Irvin G. Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401, before the expiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors or one year from the date of death, whichever date is earlier, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred. Estate of: BROCK ALAN CECUTTI 2023-ES-10-2096 DOD: 9/24/23 Pers. Rep: MEGAN L. CECUTTI 3175 STANYARNE DR. CHARLESTON, SC 29414 Atty: JAMES E. REEVES, ESQ. 400 N. CEDAR ST. SUMMERVILLE, SC 29483 ************ Estate of: JOHN A. LARISEY 2023-ES-10-2102 DOD: 8/22/23 Pers. Rep: DEBORAH J. LARISEY 4134 DUCK CLUB RD. RAVENEL, SC 29470 Atty: BARRY C. HOLDEN, ESQ. 916 PALM BLVD., #7 ISLE OF PALMS, SC 29451 ************ Estate of: MARY LOU POWELL 2023-ES-10-2105 DOD: 7/17/23 Pers. Rep: JOHNIE JOHNSON, JR. 719 MASON ST. LINCOLNVILLE, SC 29485 ************ Estate of: LEROY GIBBS, JR. 2023-ES-10-2130 DOD: 9/13/23 Pers. Rep: SHAKIMAH BIASSEY 1870 JF KENNEDY BLVD., #1-F JERSEY CITY, NJ 07305 Atty: JONATHAN S. ALTMAN, ESQ. 575 KING ST., #B CHARLESTON, SC 29403

VERSUS STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR-10-2582 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS MICHAEL WALL AND HOLLY MOISE IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2007. TO DEFENDANT: MICHAEL WALL YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on August 25, 2023, at 4:24 p.m. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request,

OLYMPIA JENKINS AND BRANDON MCLAUGHLIN IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2023.                 TO DEFENDANT: OLYMPIA JENKINS YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint for Removal in this action, filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on August 10, 2023, at 8:09 a.m. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint for Removal will be delivered to you upon request, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the Charleston County South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Regina Parvin, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, S.C. 29405 within thirty (30) days of

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES All persons having claims against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on Form #371ES with Irvin G. Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401, before the expiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors or one year from the date of death, whichever date is earlier, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred. Estate of: CAROLE WATSON BURBAGE 2023-ES-10-0879 DOD: 4/20/23 Pers. Rep: CHRISTY LEIGH VILLEDAS 5577 E. SHIRLEY DR. NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29418

Atty: DAVID W. WOLF, ESQ. 748 D ST. ANDREWS BLVD. CHARLESTON, SC 29407 *********** Estate of: LEWIS COAKLEY, JR. 2023-ES-10-0919 DOD: 3/29/23 Pers. Rep: REBEA COAKLEY 101 W. RESPITE LN. SUMMERVILLE, SC 29483 ************ Estate of: JENNIE C. GOODMAN 2023-ES-10-1815 DOD: 7/3/23 Pers. Rep: ANNETTE GOODMAN SPIVEY 1908 BAIRDS COVE CHARLESTON, SC 29414 Pers. Rep: JAY WESLEY GOODMAN, JR. 5725 STELLATA CIR. CUMMING, GA 30028 Atty: THOMAS H. BRUSH, ESQ. 12 A CARRIAGE LN. CHARLESTON, SC 29407 ************ Estate of: KATHLEEN JOAN TEMPLER 2023-ES-10-2068 DOD: 9/12/23 Pers. Rep: NICOLETTE S. WALDON 24 S. BATTERY ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401 Pers. Rep: THERESA E. SANDERS 50 LAURENS ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401 Atty: EUGENE PARRS, ESQ. PO BOX 1107 BEAUFORT, SC 29901

Summerville, SC. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, and/or fail to appear at the final hearing noticed above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

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ABANDONED BOAT To all persons claiming an interest in: 1975-12’-Monark-1232-10518, James Clevenger will apply to SCDNR for title on watercraft/ outboard motor. If you have any claim to the watercraft/outboard motor, contact SCDNR at (803) 734-3699. Upon thirty days after the date of the last advertisement if no claim of interest is made and the watercraft/outboard motor has not been reported stolen, SCDNR shall issue clear title. Case No:20230526950410

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF DORCHESTER IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR-18-1457 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS JOHN DOES, 1-4, DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: C.L. BORN 10/9/2023 TO DEFENDANT: JOHN DOES 1-4 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Dorchester County on 11/8/2023. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Dorchester County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Sally C. Dey, Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Ave., No. Chas., SC 29405 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. A final hearing regarding termination of parental rights will be held on Jan. 11, 2024 at 1:30 p.m. at Dorchester County Family Court, located at 212 Deming Way,

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pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity/Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case with appeal only to the South Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to Rule 203(d)(1) of the SCACR, effective June 1, 1999. TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff immediately and separately and such application will be deemed absolute and total in the absence of your application for such an appointment within thirty (30) days after the service of the Summons and Complaint upon you. NOTICE OF FILING OF SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing Summons, along with the Complaint, were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court on November 1, 2023.

Movement Mortgage, LLC, PLAINTIFF, vs. Santonio S Miller; William L Hall and if William L Hall be deceased then any child and heir at law to the Estate of William L Hall distributees and devisees at law to the Estate of William L Hall and if any of the same be dead any and all persons entitled to claim under or through them also all other persons unknown claiming any right, title, interest or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint herein; Any unknown adults, any unknown infants or persons under a disability being a class designated as John Doe, and any persons in the military service of the United States of America being a class designated as Richard Roe, DEFENDANT(S) SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT (NON-JURY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE) C/A NO: 2023-CP-10-05381 DEFICIENCY WAIVED TO THE DEFENDANTS, ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, or otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscriber at his office, Hutchens Law Firm LLP, P.O. Box 8237, Columbia, SC 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, or otherwise appear and defend, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference of this case to the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee for this County, which Order shall,

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF ATTORNEY FOR DEFENDANT(S) IN MILITARY SERVICE TO UNKNOWN OR KNOWN DEFENDANTS THAT MAY BE IN THE MILITARY SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ALL BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS RICHARD ROE: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED that Plaintiff’s attorney has applied for the appointment of an attorney to represent you. If you fail to apply for the appointment of an attorney to represent you within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you Plaintiff’s appointment will be made absolute with no further action from Plaintiff. THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY. Hutchens Law Firm LLP

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2023-CP-10-04914 CONNERY PROPERTIES, INC., Plaintiff, v. S GERLEAN YLETHEA HEMINGWAY, and if she may be deceased, her heirs-at-law, personal representatives, successors, and assigns and spouses if any they

have and all other persons with any right, title or interest in and to the real estate described in the Complaint, commonly known as: 40 Athens Court Charleston County, South Carolina TMS Number: 463-12-03-086 and also any unknown adults and those persons as who may be in the military service of the United States of America, all of them being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, Defendants. SUMMONS & NOTICE To the Defendants above-named: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at his office at: 925 Wappoo Road, Suite B, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days, after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive if the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to answer the foregoing summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master-in-Equity or Special Referee for this County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rule of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity or Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case. NOTICE OF FILING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Notice, Complaint and Lis Pendens were filed on October 5th, 2023, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on October 5th, 2023 and the Order of Publication was filed on November 17th, 2023 in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, State of South Carolina. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN AD LITEM FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that Carl B. Hubbard, Esquire of 2201 Middle Street, Box 15, Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina 29482 has been designated as Guardian ad Litem for all Defendants who may be incompetent, under age, or under any other disability or in the Service of the Military by Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Charleston County, dated October 5th, 2023 and the said appointment shall become absolute 30 days after the final publication of this Notice, unless such Defendants, or anyone in their behalf shall procure a proper person to be appointed Guardian ad Litem of them within 30 days after the final publication of this Notice. THE PURPOSE of this action is to clear the title to the subject real property described as follows: ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, parcel or lot of land, with the buildings and improvements, thereon, if any, situate, lying and being on Athens Court, in the City of Charleston, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and being more particularly designated as Lot Twenty Eight (28), on a plat entitled “Plat of Property situate in the City of Charleston, S.C., owned by Southgate Construction Company, Inc. and P. Duke Warren, surveyed February 26, 1971 by W. L. Gaillard, L.S. #453,” said plat is recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book Q at Page 29, and being shown as Athens Court; reference being made to said plat for a more

TMS # 463-12-03-086 s/Jeffrey T. Spell Jeffrey T. Spell 925 Wappoo Road, Suite B Charleston, South Carolina 29407 (843) 452-3553 Attorney for Plaintiff November 21st, 2023 Date

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2023-CP-10-04782 Sidney Murray and Ernestine Murray, Plaintiffs, v. Sam Murray, Samuel Murray, Jr, Ernest J. Murray, Sally Murray, Juanita Murray, William Lee Murray and Vanessa Elaine Youngblood, all being deceased persons and their heirs, distributees, personal representatives, successors and assigns and spouses, if any they have and all other persons with any right, title or interest in and to the real estate described in the Complaint, commonly known as: 6.14 acres 7709 White Point Road In the Town of Hollywood Charleston County, South Carolina TMS Number: 244-00-00-129 and also any unknown adults and those persons as who may be in the Military Service of the United States of America, all of them being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe and Ruth Murray, Vaughn Maurice Murray, Trinka Sinae Murray, Ernest John Murray, Jr., Tamara Tynese Wright, Craig Michael Murray, Louis D. Murray, Jacqueline Yvette Watson, Betty Gene Murray, Ka’Denna Middleton, Khurrann Middleton, T.S. (a minor under the age of 15 years), Samantha Murray, Travis Murray, William L. Moultrie and Telca Corbett, Defendants.

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Find holiday-themed improv at Theatre 99 Improv hotspot Theatre 99 hosts guest actors Amber Nash (voice actor from the animated show Archer) and Kevin Gillese in Y’allmark: An Improvised Holiday Movie at 6 p.m. on Dec. 9. Nash and Gillese will star in this one-nightonly holiday improv event — a loving homage to Hallmark movies. The actors will both poke fun at the tropes of the genre and acknowledge the undeniable joy of a romance during the holidays. Nash and Gillese will also perform with the rest of the Theatre 99 cast for the weekly 8 p.m. Take the Funny and Run performance. Tickets cost $15 at theatre99.com.

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Partners Mike Brown and Jordan Sprueill collaborated to write, produce and direct an original musical, The HipHop Grinch, which premieres at Fort Dorchester High School at 6 p.m. Dec. 9. “This is a perspective of the Grinch that you’ve never heard before,” Sprueill told the Charleston City Paper. “We only know about him being isolated and apart from his community, but we never really understand the depth of it and why he is so hurt. This musical actually approaches that story from a church hurt perspective.” “Church hurt” is a term referencing the pain, sadness and emotional scarring experienced in a church context — Sprueill said she and Brown both have strong backgrounds in church and ministry Sprueill and have witnessed firsthand how the church can sometimes make people feel isolated or ostracized. “This is really a reconciliation story, bringing people back together for the holidays, understanding that Christmas isn’t Brown just about the gifts. The Grinch is isolated for being different. And so in this musical, we explore that lens and celebrate our differences.” The story is based on the classic Dr. Seuss tale we all know and love — but with a musical twist. “It’s set in the town of Groovesville rather than Whoville. Everybody in the town is fascinated with their talents and their gifts, the way they look and how

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The show is two years in the making for the creative couple. Brown is a musician, who won City Paper’s 2020 Soul/R&B Artist of the Year, and a newly elected city of North Charleston councilman. Sprueill, the associate curator for contemporary initiatives at the Gibbes Museum of Art, has a background in musical theater. “We started writing it two years ago,” Sprueill said. “Mike was making a Grinch Christmas album. And I [thought] we have to do way more with this. So we started writing it into a musical, and then this summer we put out the casting call and began doing auditions and rehearsals.” The production features talent from all over the state, including Brown as the Grinch and Sprueill as “Martha Slay.” The Grinch’s dog Max is instead his best friend, played by Isaiah White. Nelson

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This is so much more than just an entertaining musical. The storyline will truly change lives and really bring reconciliation to people who have once felt isolated.” —Jordan Sprueill

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Buxton Books welcomes author Ed Gold at 5 p.m. Dec. 11 to celebrate his new poetry collection, Sundown. Gold will read from his collection and sign books at the King Street bookstore during this free event. Sundown takes the reader from Gold’s childhood to first love, loss, bewilderment, aging and acceptance. He employs many types of poetry and incorporates “classic haikus, lost Elizabethan words, Trumpian crazy talk and Neruda’s questions.” Email rsvp@buxtonbooks.com to reserve your space.

Flowertown Players stage Miracle on 34th Street Summerville’s community theater Flowertown Players now through Dec. 17 shows a stage adaptation of the beloved Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street. This modernized version of the classic holiday story follows Kris Kringle, an old man in a retirement home, who gets a job working for Macy’s as Santa. When Kringle surprises customers and employees alike by claiming he really is Santa Claus, it leads to a court case to determine his mental health and, more importantly, Santa’s authenticity. Tickets start at $24 and are available at flowertownplayers.org. —Chloe Hogan For daily updates from Charleston’s art and music world, check out the Culture section at charlestoncitypaper.com.

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Dangerfield returns home for live album recording By Kyle Peterson

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It’s been more than a year since Lowcountry native and promising country artist Drew Dangerfield made the time-honored and well-worn move to Nashville to pursue his music dreams, but he’ll never lose sight of where he’s from. In fact, he’s returning to The Windjammer next weekend on Dec. 16 to record a new live album. The Windjammer is a special place for Dangerfield — he grew up in Mount Pleasant going to shows at the storied venue, and he said he gave his first live performance here just a few years earlier. Although always a fan of country music, Dangerfield did not grow up playing guitar or doing any kind of performance. It wasn’t until a trip to Nashville in his early 20s that he was inspired to pick up a guitar and try his hand at songwriting. “I thought I would buy a guitar to play around the house,” he said. “I was actually pretty shy about showing my music to people at first.” But, as it turns out, he was a bit of a natural. With a thick, emotive drawl and penchant for rough-hewn country tropes that compares favorably to artists like Luke Combs or Jon Pardi but also to more left-ofcenter acts like Tyler Childers, Dangerfield clearly had potential. His guitar teacher, Scottie Frier (formerly of the Americana outfit Travelin Kine), clearly thought so. Frier ended up booking Dangerfield an opening slot at The Windjammer on the beach stage back in 2021. The formerly shy singer/songwriter — who says he shocked most of his friends when he announced the gig — went from playing in his bedroom to a crowd of 800. “I was definitely nervous going up there, but then once I did it, it was almost like a

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drug,” he said. “I was like, ‘When can I do this again?’ I started to play out as much as I could and really hone the craft of songwriting.”

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Dangerfield has been living in Nashville for just over a year now, steadily playing gigs and doing co-write sessions in the hopes of breaking through in the industry while juggling a full-time job. If you follow him on TikTok, you can see the fruits of his efforts almost in real-time as he documents his original songs along with the odd cover here and there. “I’ve written about 60 songs this year, and I’ve also focused on playing out live [too],” he says. “Social media is still probably the most important thing besides the songs. I was never one to post [much on] social media before, so there’s definitely a learning curve, and that’s definitely something that I’m trying to get better at.” As for his long-term goals in the industry, Dangerfield says he’s trying for both a publishing deal that could market his songs to others and to establish himself as his own artist. He looks to artists

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“The Charleston market has always been good to me. I have so many family and friends here,” he said. “Hopefully, we can pack it out. “I think where I’ve thrived is in a live setting, so I kind of wanted to showcase that through a live record, rather than something in the studio,” he said. “Growing up here, this place was always a special place for me. I think it’s one of the coolest venues to play, and obviously, Windjammer was my first show [as well].”

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“Every year is different,” said Brad Moranz, one half of the husband-wife duo who produce the annual Charleston Christmas Special at the Charleston Music Hall. “If you think you’ve seen it, you haven’t. You may have seen some version of it in whatever year you happened to see it, but it’s different every year. I can promise that.” The show returns to Charleston Music Hall for its 28th season and features a cast of 28 singers, dancers and musicians, including the Moranzes. Brad and Jennifer Moranz first came to Charleston in 1995 to perform at the Music Hall. A few years later, they inherited the Charleston Christmas Special from Calvin Gilmore, a South Carolina musician known for owning the Carolina Opry in Myrtle Beach. “Calvin put us in charge of everything creative … and now here we are,” Brad Moranz said. “Not only creating, directing, choreographing the show, we’re also in it, and living in Charleston. … We love this theater. We love what we’re doing.” Moranz said the inspiration for the variety-style show comes from the media he and his wife watched as kids. “Jenny and I are of that generation when television variety shows were designed for an entire family to be able to sit and watch and experience together. There will be something in there that, whether it’s a 6-year-old or a 90-year-old, that they would all share the same experience.” starts to hone in on the show in the summer and find the perfect songs, whether that be something they’ve never heard before or a New show with holiday classics new spin on an old favorite. Moranz admits he and his wife listen to Christmas music year-round. The duo CONTINUED ON PAGE 30

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gotten the most professional training that they’ve ever had. A lot of these kids are getting the opportunity to perform on a “With such a diverse cast, there will stage like this, which they’ve never done also be a diverse sound,” Sprueill said. The before, for free. musical influences for the show include hip“This is so much more than just an enterhop, R&B, jazz, rock and gospel. taining musical. The storyline will truly Sprueill and Brown have funded the change lives and really bring reconciliation musical independently, making costumes to people who have once felt isolated.” from thrifted clothing and using scrap For now, the production is one-night-only materials to build and paint sets. with tickets starting at $25. But Sprueill “We’re just really trying to show the said she and Brown would love to bring the young people involved in this producmusical to additional interested venues. tion that it’s possible without having the “We are still on the lookout to perform at resources to just go for your dreams,” churches or pop-up events. We would love Sprueill said. “The kids involved in this to find some more places to perform this musical, they didn’t pay a dime, but they’ve over the holidays.” CONTINUED FROM PAGE 26

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“Christmas is Christmas, you know, and the songs are the songs, but it’s kind of amazing how many different ways you can do songs from a style standpoint,” he said. The duo reinterpret songs across genres, from swing and big-band to country and pop, all to ensure the show remains new every year. “Every time we look at a song, or a version of a song or any idea, we judge it on a scale of ‘will this make people feel better in some way?’ ” Once they discover potential songs and numbers, they cast the show to highlight each performer’s specific talents. “We find people that are incredible at different things and have a multitude of styles,” Moranz told the Charleston City Paper. “Then once we solidify the cast, we actually try to choose songs that … allow them to do what they do best.

“There’ll never be a moment that is slow onstage or that is not kind of amazing. Because if it’s not amazing, we’ll literally cut it before the audience ever sees it. If we make a mistake or judge poorly in some way, we’ll change it until the performers are doing what is best for them.” This year’s cast features returning favorites, like Tiffany Parker and Matthew Billman, as well as new talent, including Matt Shingledecker, a Charleston native and Broadway performer. Shingledecker has performed in Broadway productions including Les Miserables, Rent and Wicked. “Every time somebody walks on stage, it has to be a highlight,” Moranz said of this year’s cast. For the Moranzes and the cast, the goal of the show is to raise people’s spirits during the Christmas season. “You can look at [Christmas] a whole lot of different ways, but when folks walk into the theater, we want them to be filled with joy.”

Jonesin’

By Matt Jones